team Spatial Knowledge Systems

team Spatial Knowledge Systems
Alterra Wageningen UR

Organisation type: 
Research institutions
Research organisations
Advisory organisation
ICT provider
Country: 
Netherlands
Short name: 
Alterra
Description: 

ALTERRA is the leading Dutch research institute for environmental sciences. Alterra combines a multitude of disciplines in applied and scientific research on many national and international topics related to the natural environment and the sustainable use of our living environment.
Alterra’s research domain includes among others regional development and spatial use, climate change, adaptive land and water management, and sustainable agricultural systems. Alterra has broad expertise and experience in the ICT domain (for instance geo-information and remote sensing, geo-visualisation, usability evaluation, interaction design and expert systems and modelling)

Alterra employs 50 specialists in the field of Information infrastructures, GIS & Remote Sensing, environmental modelling and software engineering. The work of this group focuses on integration of complex data activities such as data collection, data management and data processing, but also data dissemination and linking of data. The centre covers both national and global issues in the field of development of information infrastructures, visualisation and communication of (geo-) information.