University of Muenster
The institute for geoinformatics of the University of Münster (ifgi) has a long history in developing and implementing standards for the exchange of spatial and spatio-temporal data. Large parts of the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards have been designed at ifgi. Members of the institute have been executive editors of the Sensor Planning Service, the Sensor Alert Service and the Web Notification Service specifications. Furthermore, they currently (2010) chair the Sensor Observation Service 2.0 standards working group and the Web Processing Service 2.0 standards working group of the OGC. The research group of Prof. Dr. Edzer Pebesma is largely involved in spatio-temporal modelling, quantifying uncertainties in modelling chains, statistical evaluation of monitoring networks, and the development of standards and reference software implementations for this. The ifgi has a spin-off company, 52°North, for the dissemination of open source software implementations.
Edzer Pebesma
Prof. Dr. Edzer Pebesma leads the research lab on spatio-temporal modelling at ifgi. He has a publication record in statistical modelling and evaluation of environmental monitoring networks, geostatistical software design and implementation, visualisation of spatio-temporal data represented by probability distributions, and integrated health assessment. He is an active member of the special interest group on geospatial data analysis of the open source R project for statistical computing. He leads the geostatistical community at 52°North.
Cristoph Stasch
Christoph Stasch holds a diploma degree in geoinformatics, and specialises in geospatial Web services and service chaining as well as in spatial-temporal transformations of sensor data. He has been involved in several national (e.g. SoKNOS) and international research projects (e.g. EU FP6 project OSIRIS) which addressed developments in Sensor Web Enablement (SWE). He is also involved in the specification process of the SWE standards at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and committed to the development of the Sensor Observation Service (SOS) which is distributed as part of the open source SWE software offering from 52°North, a spin-off company of ifgi.
Lydia Gerharz
Lydia Gerharz holds a diplom degree in landscape ecology. She specialised in the field of indoor and outdoor air pollution assessment and has extensive knowledge and experience in application of GIS in environmental health studies. She is currently active in the EU FP6 project HEIMTSA, where the aim is to map uncertainties that arise when health assessment is derived from uncertain environmental data.
Benjamin Pross
Benjamin Pross holds a diploma degree in geoinformatics. He specialises in geospatial Web services and service chaining. He has been involved in several national projects (e.g. SoKNOS) as well as in the OGC testbed OWS-7, where he worked on a WPS for feature and statistical analysis.