Tomaž Podobnikar

Tomaž Podobnikar is a research advisor at Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and an assistant professor at Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering at University of Ljubljana. He also worked at Delft University Technology (The Netherlands), University of Franche-Comté (France) and Vienna University of Technology (Austria). He holds a BSc in GIS and its applications in natural environment and archaeology, MSc in Monte Carlo methods and GIS, PhD in digital terrain modeling on the base of semantic integration of different type and quality data sources. He is the author of several publications on GIS, DTM and its applications, modeling of spatial quality fields, environmental archaeology and biology, paleo- and planetary environments, as well as historical cartography and analytical shading. He has been working on numerous projects, for example production of a national DTM that is currently widely available, on the base of his method.

Publications

Universal Ontology of Geographic Space: Semantic Enrichment for Spatial Data
Universal Ontology of Geographic Space: Semantic Enrichment for Spatial Data
Tomaž Podobnikar, Marjan Čeh. © 2012. 304 pages.
A universal approach to the ontology of geographic space has already been, and is going to be, a comprehensive task for establishing more effective spatial models. The concept of...