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Jan Oliver Wallgrün

photo of Jan Oliver Wallgrün
Credit: J. O. Wallgrün

E-mail: Please use the course e-mail system on Canvas. I check e-mail and the course forums at least once per weekday and once on weekends unless I notify you otherwise. If Canvas is down you can try wallgrun@psu.edu [2].

Office hours: By appointment.

Bio: I have been working as a researcher and instructor at the Penn State Geography department, but a little while ago moved back to Germany where I am originally from. I am a computer scientist by training, with my master and Ph.D. both being in Informatics. However, I have been working in the areas of GIS and GIScience for more than a decade now. In my residential courses at Penn State, I have been teaching introductory courses to GIS and GIScience, geospatial data management and spatial databases, and object-oriented programming for GIScience. I am still conducting research in affiliation with the Penn State GeoVISTA Center [3] focusing on problems of spatial and spatio-temporal modeling and reasoning, as well as the interpretation and processing of human descriptions of spatial knowledge such as natural language descriptions or sketch maps. I am also interested in algorithmic problems of spatial data integration, matching, and query processing as a basis to build "intelligent" spatial retrieval and assistance systems. My most recent work also involves the application of immersive technologies (virtual and augemented reality) for spatial data analysis and GIScience education.

In the Penn State online geospatial education programs I am teaching:

  • Geog 485: GIS Programming and Automation
  • Geog 585: Open Web Mapping

Source URL: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog585/instructor

Links
[1] http://personal.psu.edu/sdq107/quinn-CV-website.pdf
[2] mailto:wallgrun@psu.edu
[3] http://www.geovista.psu.edu