Projects of Thomas Brinkhoff
Current Projects
There are hundreds of thousands of artefacts in German museums that were brought to Europe during the colonial era as a result of wars, looting or trade. The history of these objects - where they came from, what they were used for and who once owned ...
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The WorldPop project aims to produce grid-based population estimates up to 2030 broken down by sex and age groups. The overall project is led by Prof. Andy Tatem of the University of Southampton. With this framework, IAPG is responsible for the devel...
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The research network DiViAS brings together previously rarely interlinked methods and practices in the digitization, research and representation of collections from colonial contexts. The project will systematically combine expertise from museum stud...
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The objective of the project is to evaluate the driving data (time and speed) from a digital tachograph in order to determine the route driven by a vehicle. For this purpose, an application was developed that visualizes an interactively const...
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This is a joint project with the Institute for Photogrammetry and GeoInformation (IPI) and the Institute for Cartography and Geoinformatics (ikg), both from Leibniz University Hannover. It is the first project of the "Gauß Center...
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Transformation and structural change in rural areas mean changes in space and time. Such spatiotemporal data is to be managed and processed by our “Geo-Toolbox”. It uses digital technologies such as databases and geographic information systems ...
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Finished Projects
This interdisciplinary project aims to develop autonomous underwater and surface vehicles. One subproject focusses on the development of calibration procedures and algorithms for the special challenges of underwater photogrammetry. Another subproject...
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This project aims at the development of the capabilities for a to the greatest possible extent automated detection of small, non-metallic maritime vehicles with satellite-born Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Methods will be applied to the spe...
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This university project has the aim to investigate data and design algorithms for supporting web map applications.
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The aim of this Ph.d. project was the design and implementation of a system for monitoring of continuous phenomena by sensor data streams. A major focus was the use of methods from the field of geostatistics.
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Teaching Materials - Mobile on Tablet and Smartphone
2012-2013
In this project, we developed solutions that provide teaching materials via web for different devices like tablets and smartphones.