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Delft University of Technology (TUD)

http://www.gdmc.nl

Delft University of Technology provides top-level technical and scientific education in a great number of disciplines amongst which geo-information. The research objectives of the Section GIS-technology are supporting technological developments and performing high-quality education and research in the field of Geographic Information Systems. The section GIS-technology deals with the technological aspects of processing large amounts of geo-information, 3D modelling, storage, querying, analysis, presentation and spatial computational models. The research programme concentrates on the theme geo-DBMS.

GIS-technological research is influenced by fast developments in many related disciplines: Internet, computer graphics, spatially-enabled databases, computational and dynamic models within geoscience disciplines. To be able to follow these developments, GIS technology has founded the Geo-Database Management Center (GDMC), which includes several industry partners (Oracle Spatial, Bentley, Intergraph, ESRI).

TUD as one of the leading research institutions within this topic will address together with FHG-IGD 3D GIS and geo-DBMS.

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Survey on the Geographic Information Market in Europe
The Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, as coordinator of the EU project HUMBOLDT, in cooperation with the Technical University Darmstadt prepared a survey on the European GI Market.
The main goal of this study is to deduce certain trends and future developments based on the opinions and expectations of market experts and decision makers and not to obtain a representative empirical study.