Projects of Thomas Brinkhoff

Current Projects

Funded by State of Lower Saxony and VolkswagenStiftung, zukunft.niedersachsen
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 them - is often incompletely d... more
Funded by State of Lower Saxony and VolkswagenStiftung, zukunft.niedersachsen
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 studies, history and cultural stud... more
Funded by Federal Acency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG)
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 for Geodesy and Geoinformatio... more
Funded by Niedersächsisches Vorab
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 (GIS) for tasks of the e... more

Finished Projects

Funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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 development and scientific evaluati... more
Funded by Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK)
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 special use case of refugee rubbe... more
Funded by Niedersächsisches Vorab
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 realizes a distributed data m... more