Peter van Oosterom

Delft University of Technology

Peter van Oosterom obtained a MSc in Technical Computer Science in 1985 from Delft University of Technology. In 1990 he received a PhD from Leiden University for this thesis "Reactive Data Structures for GIS" (updated version published by Oxford University Press, 1993). From 1985 until 1995 he worked at the TNO-FEL laboratory in The Hague, The Netherlands as a computer scientist. From 1995 until 2000 he was senior information manager at the Netherlands’ Kadaster, were he was involved in the renewal of the Cadastral (Geographic) database. Since 2000, professor Peter van Oosterom is head of the section ‘GIS Technology’ at the Delft University of Technology. His main research themes are spatial database management systems, GIS architectures, generalization, spatial analysis, querying and presentation, Internet/interoperable GIS and cadastral applications.
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