Stephan Winter

Dipl.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. habil.

Senior Lecturer

Teaching

Introduction to GIS, Digital Mapping, Applications and Development of GIS

Research

Ontology in wayfinding and route modeling, interoperability, cognitive engineering in the design of spatial information services, time geography.

Biography

Stephan Winter has been Senior Lecturer since 2003 at the Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne. Before he filled a position as Associate Professor at the Institute for Geoinformation, Technical University Vienna. He conducts research, teaches, advises graduate students, and is engaged in administrative tasks. His main research interest is in improving interoperability of GIS at the data model level. Recent research papers give an overview of his work. He has participated in European research projects, namely in GIPSIE, stimulating European participation in the OpenGIS process, and in preANVIL, preparing a virtual interoperability lab for Europe. The courses he teaches deal with applications and development of GIS, and with communication of spatial information. Dr. Winter is member of the Working Group in Interoperability in the Association of GI Laboratories in Europe (AGILE), of ACM, and of AAG. He has organized several workshops (among them the Chorochronos workshop in Vienna 1997 and the OpenGIS Consortium TC/MC meeting in Vienna 1998) and chaired the EuroConference on Ontology and Epistemology for Spatial Data Standards in France, 2000.

Dr Winter studied Geodesy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit ä t in Bonn (D), specializing in photogrammetry, statistics, and cartography. He received his diploma in 1990, with a thesis on automatic target location in digital images. Then he worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute for Photogrammetry in Bonn. During these years he developed with others a photogrammetric scanning and rectification system, and a web-based multimedia meta-information system for a geoscientific research project. In his Ph.D. thesis he focused on the quality of spatial data. He developed a stochastical decision model for topological relations between regions of known or estimated positional uncertainty, modeling the randomness of observations. Later he contributed to the unification of the vector and raster model of GIS; parts of his research results were included in the OpenGIS specifications. In 2002 he got the Venia Legendi (tenure) of the Technical University Vienna (A). Since then he focused on cognitive engineering and interoperability for wayfinding services, and time geography.

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Home page: www.geom.unimelb.edu.au/winter