Harmonizing Earth Observation Data for Enhanced Spatial Analysis

Tomaž Podobnikar is a geospatial information expert, currently work as lecturer at Faculty of Information Studies, and as undersecretary at Ministry of Spatial Planning, both Slovenia. He has experience in the areas of geospatial, environmental, natural and social sciences, EO, hazard and risk management, etc. from academic, governmental, international and consulting organizations. Career highlights include fieldwork in ecological, archaeological, anthropological and geomorphological mapping, geodetic survey and humanitarian, in resource-limited settings. Documented methods: [1] spatial data integration/conflation with semantic enrichment to reduce the cost of DEM up to 25-times, realized for the National DEM and implemented into the EU and Google Earth models; [2] geomorphometry based index for feature detection and recognition, used in the Esri World Topographic Map; [3] methodology to process geospatial data with special tools to make them ‘analytics ready’, realized for the spatial data infrastructure. Awarded with over 25 competitive grants including Skolkovo Innovation Center and Fulbright.

• 1. Earth Observation Data Quality Aspects2. Interaction and Integration of Earth Observation Data3. EO Data Downsampling, Generalization, and Upsampling4. Cut Down Uncertainty Through Harmonization of EO Data5. Multidimensional EO Data Harmonization6. EO and Geospatial Data for Spatial Analysis7. Comprehensive Workflows and Tools for Advanced Spatial Analysis of EO Data