Institute record of Centrum voor Cartografie en GIS

Information

Type

Organization

Type

https://marineinfo.org/ns/institutes/types#Scientific

Name

Centrum voor Cartografie en GIS

Name

Centre for Cartography and GIS@en

Acronym

VUB-CCG

Parent institute

Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Geografie

Address

, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel, Belgium

Contact numbers

Telephone

+3226293382

Email

fcanters@vub.ac.be

Location

latitude

50.8225315

longitude

4.3910980

Description @en

Research activities at the Centre for Cartography and GIS focus on map projection issues, error modeling and error propagation in GIS, and land-use/land-cover mapping from remotely sensed data. Presently the Centre is coordinating a research project on spatial information extraction for local and regional decision makers, using very-high-resolution remotely sensed data (SPIDER). The project is a collaboration between five Belgian university laboratories. The aim of the project is to investigate how present-day EO-technology can support local and regional decision-making, and to develop value-added products that respond to the information needs of Belgian local and regional authorities.