[geovrml] doctor's degree

[Martin Reddy <reddy@AI.SRI.COM>]

I received this message from someone looking for advice on GIS research. I
tried to reply but his mail server is blocking all mail from our server for
some reason. So I thought I'd pass his query on to the GeoVRML list in case
any GIS people here want to respond to him.

Thanks,

Martin.


On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Nico Van de Weghe wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> 
> I am a geographer and I am candidate for a doctor's degree in
> cartography: G.I.S. The title of my research-object is: Development of an
> operational conceptual datamodel for digital spatio-temporal geographical
> information and its cartographic visualization, with application to
> several themes and geographical information systems.
>  I am still in the early stadium of my research. For the moment I am
> working on a project of the local government concerning: creating a
> central database where the various departments of the local government
> can store data and look for information. An important part of this
> project is the updating of the data and the integrating/upkeeping of the
> old (historical) data, so that it will be possible to ask for a snapshot
> at a certain moment in time.
>  This project is an interesting start for my doctor's degree. In the
> future, I will try to work out an operational (most likely in ARC INFO)
> datamodel for temporal geographical data. Important aspects are without a
> doubt the visualization, the semiology, object-oriented data bases, ...
> 
> I presume you have a broad knowledge concerning this object. Therefore I
> would like to ask if you could give me some more information about my
> studie-object: literature (books, periodicals, articles, ...), events
> (meetings, workshops, international, national, ...), organizations,
> scientists who are working on this object, ...
> 
> Thanking you in anticipation.
>  
>  
> Nico Van de Weghe
> Department of Geography
> Ghent University   
> Krijgslaan 281 Gebouw S8 (B.2.71)
> 9000 Gent
> Belgium
> 
> Tel.: +32 (0)9 264 46 96
> Fax.: +32 (0)9 264 49 85
> 
> E-mail: nico.vandeweghe@rug.ac.be

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