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
Within the ARDINI project, we developed and evaluated a system of decentralized mobile devices and central GIS applications to increase the quality, efficiency and attractiveness of species collection in the field especially for volunteers.
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Geo Business Network (GEOBIZNET) - International Research Marketing in Poland and Croatia
2008-2010
Aim of Geo Business Network was to prepare international research and technology transfer cooperations in the field of spatial technologies.
Spatial Data Infrastructure Lower Saxony
2007-2008
Within this project we cooperated with the University of Osnabrück in order to evaluate the spatial data infrastructure of the State of Lower Saxony.
Within the WEBBOS project, we developed a system that measured the soil moisture in different depths and provides early warnings for floodings.
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Organisation und Auswertung großer georeferenzierter und spatio-temporaler 2D- und 3D-Messwertdatenbanken
2007-2008
In diesem Vorhaben wurden Techniken zur Organisation großer georeferenzierter und spatio-temporaler Messwertdatenbanken entwickelt und erprobt.