Radio interview with Nico Van de Weghe

Interview with Nico Van de Weghe in "Ochtendpost Radio 2 Oost-Vlaanderen" (Belgian Radio) about Bluetooth-tracking on Light Festival in Ghent (24/01/2012, 6h40)

» Click here to listen to the interview (.mp3; 5MB).

RSAI Dissertation Award 2011 for Tijs Neutens.

This prestigious prize recognizes the best doctoral dissertation in the area of regional science, awarded by the Regional Science Association International, October 2011. An overview of previous winners of the award can be found here.

Prestigious price for best scientific contribution on the World ITS-congress for Koen De Baets.

CartoGIS researcher Koen De Baets received the Best Paper Award for his scientific paper 'How Sustainable is Route Navigation? A Comparison between Commercial Route Planners and the Policy Principles of Road Categorization'.

» Click here for the official certificate.

Exhibition "U bevindt zich hier"

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Geomatics at the Faculty of Sciences (Ghent University) the Museum of Sciences organizes a temporary exhibition 'U bevindt zich hier', a collaboration between the Geography Department (UGent) and the city of Ghent.

» Visit the exhibition website.

Liber Floridus. Cartography around 1100. (Stam)

900 years ago the world was different... Or is that just what we are led to believe? How did an eleventh-century man of learning view the world? We find answers to that question in the Liber Floridus, a world-famous encyclopaedia preserved in Ghent's university library.

In it Lambert of St Omer describes the cosmos. Four centuries before cartography came into its own, he was drawing maps. Pictures of the world - which was round, of course...

» Visit the exhibition website.

2 articles in September issue of UGent magazine

"Het Liber Floridus in het STAM" (p.8-9) and "Verkeersinformatie nauwkeuriger dan ooit dankzij UGent en Be-Mobile" (p.30-31)

» Read the articles (in Dutch)

2011 Summer School and Young Researchers Forum "Moving objects and knowledge discovery"

On 23-27 August 2011, the International Summer School on Moving Objects and Knowledge discovery was held at the Department of Geography (UGent). Participants of this four-day event included 30 students and 8 tutors from around the world. The Summer School focused on various aspects of spatio-temporal database design, movement pattern detection, tracking technologies, visualization of movement data etc...

» Pictures of this event
» Visit the Summer School website.

Article with Mario Vanlommel and Philippe De Maeyer in "De Innovatiekrant"

'Be-Mobile levert verkeersinformatie in realtime' ("De Innovatiekrant" - nr 23 - July 2011)

» Read the article (in Dutch)

Touring Scientific Award for Geography

Touring Scientific Award for Geography 2011, awarded to Frederik Van Bossche for his master thesis "Wireless local positioning met Bluetooth" (Supervisor: N. Van de Weghe; co-supervisor: Ph. De Maeyer).

» Read the abstract (in Dutch).

25th International Cartographic Conference

In 2011, France will host the 25th Conference of the International Cartographic Association, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the first General Assembly of the Organization. During these fifty years, the ICA has skilfully remained true to its two fundamental objectives, namely, to maintain its position as the benchmark international conference for cartography and geomatics, thanks to its solid and progressively updated scientific content, whilst remaining a conference which is open to a variety of participating groups: researchers, decision-makers in the field of geomatics, teachers and lovers of cartography.

Visit the conference website: http://www.icc2011.fr/

TGSG Dissertation Award

PhD Dissertation Prize for outstanding research in the field of transport geography, awarded to Tijs Neutens by the Transport Geography Specialty Group (TGSG) of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), April 2011, for "Space, time and accessibility: Analyzing human activities and travel possibilities from a time-geographic perspective."

'Onderzoeksproject rond overstromingen legt nadruk op emotionele schade.'

» Read the article published on the UGent web site.

Barbara Petchenik Children's world map competition 2011 - 'Living in a globalizing world'

» Read the announcement and more about this drawing competion in Dutch

» Read the announcement and more about this drawing competion in French

Find out more on ACI (Commission on cartography and children) and Barbara Petchenik children's World map competition websites.

UPDATE 186 submissions from 31 countries arrived in Utrecht for the Barbara Petchenik Children's Map Competition 2011. They are photographed and put on a website for the jury members and other people interested. Selected drawings for Belgium are below (click to enlarge):

Less than 9 years old

Between 9 and 12 years old

Older than 12 years old

Article "Bluetooth-tracking heeft economisch potentieel"

Article "Bluetooth-tracking heeft economisch potentieel" (in Dutch) in February edition of journal "Ondernemers".

» Read the article (in Dutch)

Geography Department shows the way.

» Read the article published in 'UNIVERSITEIT GENT JANUARI 2011' (in Dutch)

Interview with Yi Qiang in Clickx about his research activities at Ghent University.

» Read the article - in Dutch, text & photos: Bart Goossens (www.mbargo.be) for Clickx (www.clickx.be).

Parc National des Viranga chosen map of the month by the International Cartographic Association

Click here for all details.

First price for map 'Parc National des Virunga' (24th ICC)

At the International Cartographic Conference 2009 in Chile, an international jury of the ICA (International Cartographic Association) awarded the first price in the category "Maps Based on Satellite Images and Remote Sensing" to the map "Parc National des Virunga 1 : 200,000", produced by our department in cooperation with UCL and ICCN (DR Congo). The map was funded by the Belgian Science Policy, UNESCO,...

Journée d'étude en histoire de la cartographie

'Cartographie et société urbaine' (4/12/2009, Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines de l'Université Paris XII-Créteil)

België in kaart - INTERNATIONAL MAP TRADE ASSOCIATION - GOLD AWARD - BEST ATLAS 2007

» http://www.ngi.be/NL/NL1-13-1.shtm (DUTCH) | http://www.ngi.be/FR/FR1-13-1.shtm (FRENCH)