Markus Neteler is a software engineer and businessman.

Biography

He received his degree in physical geography and landscape ecology from

Leibniz University Hannover Leibniz University Hannover (), also known as the University of Hannover, is a public university, public research university located in Hanover, Germany. Founded on 2 May 1831 as Higher Vocational School, the university has undergone six period ...

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, in 1999 where he worked as a researcher and teaching assistant for two years. From 2001 to 2007, he was a researcher at Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK) (formerly ITC-irst) in Trento, Italy. In the period 2005–2007, while still a FBK researcher, he worked for the Centro di Ecologia Alpina of Trento. From 2008 to 2016, he worked at the Edmund Mach Foundation (FEM) - San Michele all'Adige in Trento as the co-ordinator of the

GIS A geographic information system (GIS) consists of integrated computer hardware and software that store, manage, analyze, edit, output, and visualize geographic data. Much of this often happens within a spatial database; however, this is not ...

and

remote sensing Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an physical object, object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, in contrast to in situ or on-site observation. The term is applied especially to acquiring inform ...

unit. In 2016, he moved to Bonn, Germany, where he co-founded the Mundialis company. His main interests are remote sensing for environmental risk assessment and free software GIS development, especially

GRASS GIS ''Geographic Resources Analysis Support System'' (commonly termed ''GRASS GIS'') is a geographic information system (GIS) software suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, producing graphics and maps, spatial and ...

(of which he has been the co-ordinator since 1999). He is a founding member of the GRASS Anwender-Vereinigung e.V. (Germany), the Open Source Geospatial Foundation ( OSGeo, USA) and GFOSS.it the Italian association for geospatial free and open source software. In September 2006, he was honored with the Sol Katz award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) for his commitment to the

GRASS Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family (biology), family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and spe ...

project coordination. In 2010, he received his PhD in natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) in physical geography.

Publications

He co-authored two books on the use of the free and open source software GRASS GIS and several scientific papers on GIS. * * * * * * *

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External links

Recordings of Markus Neteler at FOSS4G-Conferences
in the AV-Portal of

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Neteler, Markus Free software programmers People in information technology Living people 1969 births

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