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UNIGIS Amsterdam student Vincent van Altena tied in 1st place UNIGIS International Accademic Excellence thesis award 2015

UNIGIS Amsterdam student Vincent van Altena, working at the Dutch Kadaster, has won this year’s UNIGIS International Academic Excellence Award, together with Rachel Antcliffe frorm UNIGIS UK. We congratulate Vincent on winning this very competitive award competition! Vincent’s thesis entitled

Minecraftprofessor richt Nederland in met Minecraft

HERWIJNEN – Heel Nederland nabouwen in de virtuele werkelijkheid, dat start vandaag in het GeoFort in Herwijnen. Het landelijke Minecraftproject is het initiatief van het GeoFort. Met behulp van echte gegevens van het Kadaster en Rijkswaterstaat kan iedereen vanaf vanmiddag

Prof. dr Henk Scholten receives Honorary Doctorate

On July, 22, Professor dr Henk Scholten (Dept. of Spatial Economics) received the title of honorary Doctor of Science from the Manchester Metropolitan University for his extensive contributions to GIS (Geographical Information Systems). Read more…

Minecraft planning op Zeeburgereiland

Zeeburgereiland (Amsterdam) is volop in ontwikkeling. De eerste bewoners zijn reeds gearriveerd. De eerste tijdelijke initiatieven krijgen langzaam maar zeker vorm. De bewoners van Nautilus denken na over een buurtpark, een drietal bewoners hebben zich verenigd en bouwen aan een

UNIGIS Amsterdam Network Day | Location & Smart Mobility

Friday June 12th at Automotive Campus Helmond the UNIGIS Network Day attracted interested students and professionals to talk about the role of geodata in the possibilities that Smart Mobility has to offer nowadays and in future. Keynote speakers presented their

Open Seminar Series Geoscience & Remote Sensing

Introducing a SuperGPS network You are kindly invited to the Open Seminar Series lecture: ‘Accurate positioning, timing and relativistic geodesy through optical clocks and telecommunication networks, by Jeroen Koelemij. Read more…

You can now register for another interesting UNIGIS Amsterdam Expert Webinar on Linked Data & Location Intelligence

How to create innovative applications with Linked Data and Location Intelligence? Our three experts on Linked Data & Geo will illustrate their visions and experience. Erwin Folmer kicks of this webinar with an overview of the concept of Linked Data

UNIGIS Amsterdam presents: Expert Webinars open to all

UNIGIS Amsterdam presents a series of Expert Webinars that are open to anyone interested in the particular topics presented. The first webinar scheduled on Wednesday April 8 at 5 pm (CET) is about the fascinating topic of Sensor Web &

EC-JRC meeting on integrated territorial policy assessment

The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (EC-JRC) invited a large delegation of SPINlab to contribute to their international workshop on integrated territorial policy assessment in Ispra, Italy. Together with, amongst others, researchers from the JRC units in Seville

Invitation: Public Defence MSc Examination Stefan Bruhlmann Friday 20th February

Students, staff, alumni and prospective students are cordially invited to join the Public Defense by MSc Graduate Stefan Bruhlmann who will defend this dissertation “Measuring and Mapping Light Pollution at a Local Scale”. Date: Friday 20th February Time: 12-12.30pm Location:

HERILAND - Cultural Heritage and the Planning of European Landscapes

VU campus

Geocoding using BAG-data

Urban Mobility Observatory

Waterstaatskaart