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ГЕОМАТИКА РАСШИРЯЕТСЯ УПРАВЛЕНИЕМ ИНФОРМАЦИЕЙ И СМИ.
О КОМПЛЕКСНОМ ПОДХОДЕ В УНИВЕРСИТЕТЕ ПРИКЛАДНЫХ НАУК КАРЛСРУЭ
Кристоф Хупфер
Университет прикладных наук Карлсруэ, Германия, Moltkestr. 30, 76133 Karlsruhe, факультет управления информацией и СМИ, декан, зав. кафедрой, профессор, доктор-инженер, тел: +49(0)721 925-2626, факс: +49(0)721 925-2645, e-mail: christoph. hupfer@hs-karl sruhe.de, www.hs-karlsruhe.de
В Университете прикладных наук Карлсруэ с зимнего семестра 2012 г. программы высшего образования в области геоматики были переданы факультету управлению информацией и СМИа. На этом же факультете есть и программы для специальностей «Коммуникация и СМИ», «Культура», «СМИ и Технологии», а также «Управление транспортом». На первый взгляд это кажется совершенно несовместимым. Однако, эти специальности необходимы в повседневной жизни. Сегодня они хорошо дополняют друг друга, особенно в сфере управления мобильностью или сложной ситуации.
Сочетая информацию, коммуникацию и мобильность, Университет прикладных наук Карлсруэ надежно защищает и развивает геоматику как предмет и является единственным вузом в Германии, кто взял такой курс.
Ключевые слова: геоматика, управление информацией, СМИ, мобильность,
управление стихийными бедствиями.
GEOMATICS GOES INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND MEDIA -THE INTEGRATED APPROACH AT THE KARLSRUHE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
Christoph Hupfer
Faculty of Information Management and Media, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, MoltkestraBe 30, D-76133 Karlsruhe, Dean of the Faculty, Head of Transportation Management Department, Prof. Dr.-Ing., tel:. +49(0)721 925-2626, fax: +49(0)721 925-2645,
e-mail: christoph.hupfer@hs-karlsruhe.de, www.hs-karlsruhe.de
At Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, the degree programs in the field of geomatics have been transferred to the Faculty of Information Management and Media since the winter semester of 2012. This faculty also comprises the degree programs Communication and Media Management, Culture, Media and Technologies, as well as Transportation Management. This seems to be a strange mixture at first. However, these subjects mesh very well in everyday life. It is easy to see that these areas complement each other by regarding applications of mobility management in everyday life or in complex situation.
By combining the areas of information, communication and mobility, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences sustainably secures and develops the subject of geomatics, being the first higher education institution in Germany to take this way.
Key words: Geomatics, Information Management, Media, Mobility, Disaster Management.
Geomatics goes Information Management and Media
At the beginning of the winter semester 2012, the Faculty of Information Management and Media was founded at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. It offers the following degree programs:
- Geodesy and Navigation (Bachelor),
Geodesy and navigation are key technologies, without which many engineering projects and information systems could not be carried out, e.g. tunnel construction or the creation of navigation systems. Geodesists, who are in Germany also referred to as „survey engineers^, have the task of collecting, modeling, analyzing and interpreting geometry and space related data, as well as providing this data as information for different groups of users, by means of information systems.
Within the frame of the specialization in Geodesy, special knowledge and skills in the areas of geo-information systems, geodesy for engineers, and land management are taught, thus increasing the students’ decision-making skills in the area of traditional applied geodesy.
Modern sensor systems and high-capacity data processors allow to record spatial geometries and scenarios kinematically, that is, in motion. The methods, processes and possibilities of development used here are studied in the specialization in Navigation.
- Geo-Information Management (Bachelor),
Spatial information is generated and used in almost all fields of society, following technical development. The degree program in Geo-Information Management, with three specializations, satisfies this increased need.
The specialization in Geo-Marketing gives knowledge of economic and marketing matters, which can be applied in numerous areas. Thus, it becomes possible e.g. to find the optimum location for a company or to draw up distribution networks.
The specialization in Cartography and Geo-Media focuses on the attractive cartographic presentation, e.g. for print media (atlases, maps, travel guides) or digital media with numerous ways of output (smartphone, GoogleEarth, route planning software).
The specialization in Environment centers on the design and management of systems for environmental monitoring. Plans for risk and disaster management can be taken on the basis of the recording and evaluation of geo-data.
- Geomatics (international Master’s degree program)
The aim of the Master’s degree program is to provide students with extensive and detailed knowledge of the geomatics theory and methods on a high scientific level.
Intensive training in all core GI-disciplines let our graduates become versatile experts in the fields of geographic information systems and remote sensing, spatial visualisation and geomedia techniques, software engineering, GPS-based monitoring and navigation as well as in regard to industrial measurement technology.
Technologies of the future support online capture and modeling of geodata as well as automatic measurement and analysis. Here, integrated sensor systems combined with modern communication technology has given rise to new and revolutionary applications and interdisciplinary approaches. Only when adhering to the principles of cartographic communication as well as employing the new means,
interaction and dynamics, the potential of geo-information can be fully exploited. Here, sophisticated systems are to be judged regarding their usability of visual media.
- Communication and Media Management (Bachelor and Master),
The degree programs in Communication and Media Management unite, in an interdisciplinary approach, the fields of language, layout, IT and technology. Due to this broad basis of knowledge, graduates find jobs in almost all areas of communication of companies, either within or without, documentation and information logistics.
Their business cards bear job titles such as: Technical Writer, Information Developer, Information Architect, Content Strategist, Content Engineer, Usability Engineer, Manager for Language and Translation, Linguistic Administrator or Consultant for Public Relations.
Their tasks and competencies include:
- Analysing, designing and implementing processes in information logistics
- Information management: obtaining information and editing it for publication in different media
- IT-supported organizing and managing of a large collection of information
- Description and visualization of complex facts
- Editing results from science and research for maximum comprehension
- Language and translation management
- Design and realization of product information
- Developing educational and teaching material for numerous different meda and combinations of media
- Public Relations
Communication and Media Management graduates work at the interface between experts (engineers, scientists) and ordinary persons (customers, consumers, general public). Technical communication and related fields thus form an innovative and modern occupational profile of our information society.
- Culture, Media and Technologies (Bachelor)
The degree program Culture, Media and Technologies (KMT) connects culture and technologies for the production of media and links the degree programs journalism and new media sciences.
KMT offers an interdisciplinary education which contains cultural matters, journalism and the technologies of digital media.
Graduates of “Culture, Media and Technologies^ (KMT) have profound skills in the area of bi- and tri-media production. They work in the areas of TV/radio and multimedia production. They are qualified to take over tasks in public relations and press relations of companies.
- Transportation Management (Bachelor)
To get from A to B, and quickly, safely, comfortably and economically at that, concerns most if not all people. The network of roads, trains, routes, however, is limited, and the increase in transportation - which varies according to region and sector
- does not allow such benefit any more. Cities are practically bursting their seams. On the other hand, building new transport infrastructure is too time-consuming and expensive, in many cities it is even not possible. Transportation Management, which
means optimizing the interaction of supply and demand in transportation, here offers solutions and strategies.
The content and interplay of mobiliy and geomatics are analyzed, outside the frame of the traditional degree programs. These subjects are complemented with the necessary skills taken from technology and business. The specialization in Intelligent Transportation System focuses on the “on demand“ aspect of data acquisition in transportation, of the manipulation of transportation, and of communication. The specialization in Transportation Planning focuses on the possibilities to design changes in mobility, and the different time frames. The specialization in Public Transport concentrates on the special requirements of mass transportation, keeping in mind the users and the operating companies, an important aspect being legal and economic matters.
In the short term, a Master’s degree program will be created to provide specialization in the area transportation and mobility to graduates of related areas, which will continue at a later date to continue the bachelor program on a scientific level.
The Bachelor’s degree program in Transportation Management started in winter semester 2012 in cooperation with partners in industry and is, so far, the only program of its kind in Germany.
At a first or hasty glance, this seems to be a strange or even motley assortment of degree programs. In real life, however, these fields have already connected in many instances.
One example is the influence on mobility behavior. Navigation systems offer information about the available car infrastructure and its capacities. The route can be individually optimized to be short, quick or scenic. Sometimes the present traffic situation can be integrated in the decision, sometimes the predicted traffic situation based on experienced data. At this point already, different areas of geomatics interface, such as geodesy, navigation, cartography, and geo-information management.
If we wish to exert influence, other fields have to be added. Transportation management provides information for all available transportation capacities: Temporary capacity bottlenecks as well as possible alternative routes - up to and including the decision to use a different means of transportation than the car, to travel at another time, or to travel to another place. If therefore a solution implies that a thousand persons act differently, then these persons must know this and (!) do it. Which means communication and media, thus completing the range of subjects of the Faculty of Information Management and Media.
The interplay of information management and media gains special significance when applied during so-called complex incidents caused by natural disasters, accidents or crisis situations. In such a case, many thousands of people must be evacuated from the striken area, and at the same time the emergency services must be guided to their places of action. Such emergency situations are by their complex and multifaceted nature hardly predictable and projectable.
The method of using emergency planning is outdated when considering the current possibilities offered by geodata acquisition, communication and traffic
engineering. The better solution would be to use an optimized ad hoc organization for evacuations during complex incidents. This can be based on a combination of basic geo-data with real-time data on population, traffic flows, extent of damages and critical infrastructure.
Once the number of persons concerned and the infrastructure are known, an ad hoc traffic management for evacuation can be drawn up directing people by routes and means of transportation which provide the sum total of maximum capacity. Such a system can be updated online by means of various data, e.g. satellite photographs (traffic density), sensors in the infrastructure (traffic volume), information from navigation devices and mobile phones (velocity). By means of a traffic model, the traffic can be ad hoc optimally routed, the information being communicated via different media. The expected behavior and acceptance levels of the persons concerned can be included also in the decision-making and in the communication. At the same time, the emergency services can be coordinated optimally on the basis of this information. They can be directed to their places of action by the quickest possible way.
The availability and connection of the data is what makes it possible to transfer such a system. The Faculty of Information Management and Media of Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, together with various partners from research and business, has applied for a pilot project which will evaluate the requirements and possible applications of such a system. The best possible transferability is given when the available data, by interfaces and models, allow the management of complex incidents by optimal transportation.
Such a systems still is a vision, but it exemplifies how useful it is to merge the fields of geomatics with those of mobility, communication and media.
By establishing the Faculty of Information Management and Media at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, a combination of degree programs has been created whose interface between different fields of engineering is unique and trend-setting in Germany. Technology becomes alive, visions become decisions and decisions become realities. For this, the scientists are required to have the adequate professional understanding, as well as the users must have the appropriate skills and must know about the specific requirements.
Spatial data and decisions being now omnipresent, Geomatics has in addition already become indispensable part of everyday life and has found access to modern media and media technology. It is high time to realize this also in education, research and application. “Geomatics goes Information Management and Media” is the answer of Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences.
Links
http://www.hs-karlsruhe.de/en/faculties.html
Current papers (extract)
E and the City -
The electric car in the city - illusions, chances, duties
Architekturschaufenster Karlsruhe, 8 January 2013
Because I am your RED! -
Pedestrian Safety at Signalised (Streetcar) Crossings
24th ICTCT Conference in Warsaw , Poland, 28 October 2011
The new German Cycle Guidelines ERA 2010 - an overview Internal Seminar, Region of Waterloo (Government),
Canada, April 2011
Making pedestrian crossings safe with LaneLights SIEMENS Anwendertagung in Munich on 8 September 2010
Biographical notes
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Hupfer
Studies 1983 - 1990
Civil Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern
Doctorate
1994 - 1997
Computer-aided video image processing for the modification of traffic conflict techniques
Professional activity
1990 - 1996
Subject area Traffic Engineering, University of Kaiserslautern, Academic Assistant
Since 1990
Various engineering companies Since 2001
Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
Faculty of Architecture and Construction Engineering, degree program Civil Engineering
Professorship Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering Since 2012
Dean of the Faculty of Information Management and Media Director of the degree program in Transportation Management
© Ch. Hupfer, 2013
