Dirk Burghardt
Dirk Burghardt (born February 16, 1969 in Karl-Marx-Stadt , GDR ) is a German cartographer .
Life
After completing his physics - studying at the Technical University of Dresden in 1995 concluded Dirk Burghardt, a qualification course for the doctorate at the Department of Mathematical Methods in Geodesy and Cartography of the Institute for Planetary Geodesy of the Technical University of Dresden, which he in May 2000 with his dissertation on the subject of automation of cartographic displacement by means of energy minimization . He then took up a position as a product manager at the Swiss company Maptech AG, for which he had been working as a software developer as part of a 50% job since May 1998 . Here he worked until the company's bankruptcy in September 2001 in the area of research and development for products for the production of topographic and thematic maps .
From January 2002 to February 2009 Dirk Burghardt was senior assistant at the Geographical Institute, GIScience Center of the University of Zurich and headed the Cartographic Visualization research group with three doctoral students and two post-doctoral students . At the same time, from October 2005 to March 2006, he was a substitute professor (W3 professorship) at the Institute for Cartography and Geoinformation at the University of Bonn , where teaching , research and administration were among his tasks. On May 29, 2008, Dirk Burghardt completed his habilitation on "Automated generalization in digital and mobile cartography" in Zurich and on March 1, 2009 he took up the professorship for cartographic communication at the Institute for Cartography at the Technical University of Dresden , which he still holds today.
The company's main his research activities mainly include the automation of production - and update processes in the field of topographic and thematic mapping, the mobile developing methods and multimedia teaching of space- time information and bidirectional communication involving user-generated content and Empirical Studies about the suitability of different cartographic display techniques and methods depending on the context of use.
Dirk Burghardt has been chairman of the Commission on Generalization and Multiple Representation of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) since 2011 .
Dirk Burghardt is married and has two daughters and a son.
Main publications
- Cartographic displacement using the snakes concept . In: Wolfgang Förstner, Lutz Plümer (editor): Semantic Modeling for the Acquisition of Topographic Information form Images and Maps ; Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1997 (together with Siegfried Meier); Pages 59-71
- Generalization Services on the Web. A Classification and an Initial Prototype Implementation . In: Cartography and Geographic Information Service 32 (4), 2005 (together with Moritz Neun and Robert Weibel); Pages 257-268
- Mesh Simplification for Building Typification . In: International Journal of Geographical Information Science 21 (3), 2007 (together with Alessandro Cecconi); Pages 283-298
- Relation Modeling within Multiple Representation Databases and Generalization Services . In: The Cartographic Journal 47 (3), 2010 (together with Ingo Petzold and Matthias Bobzien); Pages 238-249
- Investigation And Development Of Mobile Touristic Applications . In: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. 8th International Symposium on Location-Based Services ; Springer 2011 (together with Eva Hauthal); Pages 267-282
- Comparison of evaluation methods for field-based usability studies of mobile map applications . In: Proceedings of 25th International Cartographic Conference ; Paris 2011 (together with Karolin Wirth)
- Bibliography Dirk Burghardt
Web links
Other sources
- Dirk Burghardt: CV
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burghardt, Dirk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cartographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th February 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karl-Marx-Stadt , GDR |