Aalto University School of Engineering

Professorship in Environmental Informatics

We develop methods and technologies for civil and environmental engineering and environmental planning and management, often focusing on geospatial. 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 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Aalto University School of 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 an enabling technology for research projects.

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

Distributed Environmental  Modeling

PaITuli

Mallinnusseminaari

FIUGINET

iEMSs

OSGeo

Suomen hydrologian yhdistys

lahti-eis.aalto.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
Urban Laboratory for
Sustainable Environment
1.1.2012 - 30.6.2014
276
Information infrastructure (storage and services for measurement data, baseline data, and associated models and planning tools) for urban environmental research
EU regional development funds, Päijät-Häme region
Ari Jolma

Previous projects

Resources (some require authentication)

WebDAV
Password management
Our trac
IBAM: knowledge base repository
OILRISK: species map
Climate change impact on lakes
PgAdmin

Lecture notes (in Finnish)

Ympäristösuunnittelun tietotekniikka
Ympäristötietojärjestelmät


Contact: ari.jolma[at]aalto.fi