Aalto University School of Engineering

Professorship in Environmental Informatics

The group develops methods and technologies for civil engineering and environmental planning and management, often focusing on geospatial. The research group is based in civil engineering but we collaborate with specialists in environmental science, biology, geography, and various branches of computer science. The idea is to carry out research in the emerging area of distributed and multi-disciplinary problem solving where old and new modelling tools and methods meet rapidly developing information technology and methods.

The official name of the professorship is "environmental planning and management information technology, in particular applied geoinformatics". Previously (2003-2008) the official name of the professorship was "geoinformatics, in particular development of geographic information systems for civil engineering".

The group works in the Aalto University Lahti Center and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Members

Ari Jolma, Professor
Anas Altartouri, Doctoral student
Ioan Ferencik, Doctoral student

Publications

Software

Geoinformatica is a continuing research project that develops a geospatial software platform using existing free and open source software as much as possible but also developing and publishing some (see the link to our trac below). The platform is used as enabling technology for research projects focusing on environmental modeling and management.

Documentation for Geo::GDAL (the GDAL Perl bindings).
Geoinformatica: käyttäjän opas: HTML PDF
Geoinformatica developers guide HTML PDF

Distributed Environmental  Modeling

PaITuli

Mallinnusseminaari

FIUGINET

iEMSs

OSGeo

Suomen hydrologian yhdistys

eis.ltk.hut.fi

Projects

Project
Duration
Funding for our group [k€]
Description
Main funding source
Contact
OILRISK 1.12.2009 - 30.11.2012
82
Applications of ecological knowledge
in managing oil spill risk
EU Central Baltic Interreg IV A
Ari Jolma
NISE
1.1.2011 - 31.12.2013
67
Interoperable and standards-based web information system for water resources and environmental data and models
Maa- ja vesitekniikan tuki
Ari Jolma

Previous projects

Resources (some require authentication)

Our trac
IBAM: knowledge base
OILRISK: species map
Climate change impact on lakes
PgAdmin

Lecture notes (in Finnish)

Ympäristösuunnittelun tietotekniikka
Ympäristötietojärjestelmät


Contact: ari.jolma[at]aalto.fi