The Application for Scholarships project focuses on methods for remote sensing monitoring of habitats Natura 2000 as develop pan-European multi-approach to the specific requirements of the various (administrative) levels on the state of biodiversity. MS.Monina and reflects the characteristics and diversity of habitats in different biogeographical regions. Application for Scholarships Geoinformatics section of the TU Berlin is involved in any work of tools of geometric and semantic interoperability test cases for three different scales and applied in Germany, Belgium and Greece for the indicators of NATURA 2000. Also, the spatial modeling of potential habitats in biogeographic part of the project tasks.
Tasks:
- Development of scale-dependent ontologies for the three test cases in accordance with pre-defined NATURA 2000 indicator sets, including the transfer between test cases.
- Development of a geometric and semantic interoperability tool
- investigating the possible up-and downscaling of the test classes
- spatial modelling of potential habitats at the biogeographical level with pre-defined European geodata-sets
- Dissemination of methods and results at conferences and in scientific journals
Requirements:
- University degree (MA / Diploma) in geoinformatics, geography, geo-ecology, environmental sciences or comparable with focus on interoperability of spatial data.
- keen interest and knowledge in techniques and methods of ontology building with basic knowledge of semantic web language (OWL / RDF)
- strong skills in GIS software (especially ArcGIS) and knowledge of at least one related computer language (preferred Python)
- preferably acquaintance with spatial modelling and statistics
You will be an enthusiastic and self-motivated person who meets the academic requirements for enrolment for the PhD degree. Good team-working, observational and communication skills are essential.
Start: As soon as possible
Duration: 2 years + 1 year possible extension
Position: PhD student
Application Deadline: Review of applications begins May 6, 2011 and continues until position is filled
Application for Scholarships Applications and further requests should be directed to:
Technische Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr. Brigit Kleinschmit (++49-30-314-72847; birgit.kleinschmit at tu-berlin.de)
Dr. Michael Förster (++49-30-314-72798; michael.foerster at tu-berlin.de)
Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur und Umweltplanung
Str. d. 17. Juni 145 (EB5)
D-10623 Berlin
Our institutions are committed to equal opportunities and to employing
individuals with disabilities.
Applications via Email are possible.
Application Deadline : 6 May 2011
http://www.geoinformation.tu-berlin.de/
