Ruben Maddens

• Ghent University

The goal of this research is to design, use and evaluate a set of web lectures, specifically tailored to the needs of students in higher education who follow geographic information system -related courses. Since education in geographic information system includes theoretical concepts and practical experience, both of these teaching strategies will...

Geomatics plays an increasing role in the management of cultural heritage and archaeological sites. Total station measurements and digital imagery are well known techniques for the generation of 2D archaeological maps and the combined use of both techniques is frequently applied for 3D reconstructions in heritage management applications. Especially...

In the last decades, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have shown their potential to uncover spatio-temporal relationships between various objects and layers. Although archeologists have more and more utilized these techniques to analyze and interpret relationships between features on site, a full understanding of the possible advantages of th...

The UGent Geography Department (GD) (ca. 200 students; 10 professors) has been teaching GIS since the mid 90textquoteright s. Ever since, GIS has evolved from Geographic Information Systems, to GIScience, to GIServices; implying that a GIS specialist nowadays has to deal with more than just desktop GIS. Knowledge about the interaction between diffe...

Combining research from the fields of qualitative spatial reasoning and spatial cognition and linguistics, this paper gives a first insight in the validation of the adequacy of qualitative calculi for moving point objects, in particular the qualitative trajectory calculus. The focus is on one-dimensional movements of point objects and their verbali...

This paper introduces a qualitative approach to the analysis and comparison of the shape of polygons

1 Het onderzoek In het verleden waren waterbeheerplannen vaak waterbeheersingplannen waarbij men trachtte het water in de rivieren zo snel mogelijk af te voeren. Stroomafwaarts kan dit echter voor problemen van wateroverlast zorgen. Het doel van de nieuwe waterbeheerplannen is om, volgens de principes van Integraal Waterbeheer, bescherming te biede...