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

SVG-Viewer für mobile Endgeräte

2003-2005
Funded by Arbeitsgruppe Innovative Forschungsprojekte (AGIP)
In diesem Projekt wurde eine Darstellung von Karten als SVG-Dokumente auf mobilen Endgeräten untersucht. Dazu wurde ein SVG-Viewer entwickelt, der auf mobilen Geräten einsetzbar war.

Teleteaching

1999-2000
Im Rahmen dieses Projekts wurde ein multi[-]medialer Vorlesungs[-]raum mit Video[-]kameras, Funk[-]mikrofonen, Mischpult, Laut[-]sprechern, Beamer und White[-]board eingerichtet.