About

Alex is a Distributed Spatial Systems Researcher with many years of international experience in geospatial data management and web- and cloud-based geoprocessing with a particular focus on land use, soils, hydrology, and water quality. His interests include OGC standards and web-services for location-based data sharing, modelling workflows, machine learning, and interactive geo-visualisation. Alex has been involved with SDIs and the OGC for a long time and was recently elected board member of the Estonian Geoinformatics Society (EstGIS) and European Co-Chair for the OGC University Domain Working Group. He is based at the Chair of Geoinformatics and Cartography at Department of Geography of the University of Tartu.

I am also teaching (in) following courses:

  • Geospatial Analysis with Python and R (LTOM.02.041) 6 ECTS
  • Spatial Data Studio (LTOM.02.011) 1 (15) ECTS - Introduction to OGC data standards and metadata
  • Spatial Databases (LTOM.02.040) 1 (6) ECTS - Introduction to GeoPackage and sqlite/spatialite; Postgresql/PostGIS admin
  • Spatial Data Infrastructures (LTOM.02.043)
  • Geospatial Data Processing (LTOM.02.052) 6 ECTS - Geographical Data Science
  • Hydrology (LOOM.02.143) - assisting in GIS and water balance practical session

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