December 2011: Irena Turlay has been employed in the post graduate program of the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies.

August 2010: Our colleague Matthias Stöckl has successfully completed his PhD at the University of Innsbruck in Social and Economic Sciences. Congratulations!

New sensor technologies providing image information of increasing detail and complexity require adequate methods for processing and information extraction. The Z_GIS research field ?Integrated object-based GIS/image processing? investigates and applies methods of semi-automated image analysis utilizing GIS functionality.