Geographic Knowledge Lab
Steering Committee
We are very grateful to be able to call upon the advice, expertise, and insights of some of the most influential scientists and leaders in our field.
Steering Committee Member
Anita Graser
Author of a number of leading QGIS and map design books, Anita Graser is a senior scientist at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), specialising in spatial data science and mobility data analysis. She is also a QGIS project steering committee member, open-source GIS developer, and influential GIS blogger at https://anitagraser.com/.
Steering Committee Member
Ivana Ivánová
Currently a teaching and research academic at Curtin, Ivana has worked at several international universities in the field, including the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, University of Twente in the Netherlands, São Paulo State University in Brazil. Ivana has extensive expertise in ontologies, data quality, and associated standards. She currently leads development of ISO 19157-1 and ISO 19157-3 standards and co-chairs the OGC Data Quality Domain Working Group.
Steering Committee Member
Rob Atkinson
With over 25 years’ experience in the development of standards and ontologies, Rob is a true pioneer in the development and adoption of semantic approaches to spatial problems and a leader in their application to a wide range of different applications and user communities.
Steering Committee Member
Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse
Zaffar is recognised as one of the spatial industry’s global leaders. Vice President at Woolpert, he has over 25 years of experience in strategic planning and thought leadership in space and spatial for governments and companies around the world.
Research
The RMIT Geographic Knowledge Lab connects machine intelligence with human spatial decision-makers across all sectors of government, industry, and society.