International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol XXXV, Part B6. Istanbul 2004
3.5 Address
University of Gävle
S-801 76 Gävle, Sweden
Home page: www.hig.se
3.6 Publications
Johansson, M. "Exploration into the Behaviour of Three
Different High-Resolution Ground-Based Laser Scanners in the
Built Environment", Proceedings of the CIPA WG 6
International Workshop on Scanning for Cultural Heritage
Recording, September, 1-2, 2002, Corfu, Greece.
Ljungberg, S-À, Jónsson, Owe. Infrared Thermograpy-A tool to
map temperature anomalies of plants in greenhouse heated by
gas fired infrared heaters. Thermosens XXIV, SPIE Vol 4710,
Bellingham, Washington, 2002.
Ljungberg, S-A, Jonsson, Owe. Passive gas imaging-
preliminary results from gas leak simulations — a field study
performed during real world conditions. Thermosense XXIV,
SPIE Vol 4710, Bellingham, Washington, 2002.
Nislund, M, Schussler, H, Ljungberg, S-A, Jonsson, O. ”Gas
based infrared radiant heating in greenhouses. Aspect of energy
use and plant development”, World Gas Centre Symposium, 29
Maj 2003, Tokyo.
4. LULEA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
4.1 Organisation
Lulea University of Technology was established in 1997, when
the former university college in Luled attained the status of
university of technology. The university conducts research
within the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences. The university also provide education in the spheres
of engineering, the social sciences, the humanities, teaching, the
health sciences, music, media education, and drama. It has
about 11300 students enrolled and a staff of 1400. In addition to
the main campus in Luleä, the university have campuses in
Piteä, Kiruna, Boden and Skellefteä. The university has
currently 14 departments, one of them being the department of
environmental engineering.
The department of environmental engineering is one of the
larger departments of the university. It has a staff of 90-100
employees and is divided into 8 divisions, representing different
scientific fields such as waste science and technology,
renewable energy, geographic information technology, applied
ore studies, applied geophysics, applied geology, traffic
engineering and sanitary engineering. The department is
responsible for several educational programs, such as the MSc
program in environmental engineering and the BSc program in
environmental and quality management.
The division of geographic information technology was
established in 1993. It has a staff of around 10 employees,
mainly teachers and PhD students. The division is responsible
for providing GIS-related courses within the university and to
conduct research in GI science.
4.0 Developments in teaching and education
During the last 4 years, the conditions for higher education in
Sweden have changed considerably. The income for giving
courses is nowadays based on the number of students attending
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the course and the number of students completing the courses.
In addition, the students now have the possibility to design their
own study plan, which means that they can freely select any
course given at the university. As a consequence, each
department and division has to pay an increasing amount of
attention on student satisfaction, within this new
competitive environment.
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In 1998, the GIT division was giving 10 different Gl-related
courses, with an average of 22 students per course. Since then,
the education has moved away from cartography and surveying
courses to courses related to software engineering, system
development and web services. One course has been removed
(photogrammetry) and 7 more courses has been added. The
total number of courses is now 16, with an average of 43
students per course. The total number of students has been
tripled, which is an indication of the interest and attention
current students pay modern geographic information
technology. Today, the following courses are given
e Geographic information technology, basic course
e Remote sensing
e Spatial analysis
e Cartographic Visualization
e Geodesy, calculation techniques
e Geographic real-time systems
e Basic programming
e Basic course in database systems
e System construction on the technology front
e System development in geographic information
technology
e Introduction to VB.NET and Windows based
application development
e Introduction to Web Services NET
e. Web mapping
e Geographic database technology
e Implementation of geographical information systems
e Metadata and XML
Another major change during the last four years is the
introduction of net-based learning. Today, all courses above are
given on the Internet, the lectures as well as the exercises. To
facilitate this, investments have been made in a central Citrix
server. Using this concept, the students only need a PC with a
web browser and a fair internet connection, to have access to all
lectures and exercises including software and data. Most of the
courses are also given in English.
4.3 Research
The research at the division of geographic information
technology is mainly performed by PhD students. During the
period 1999-2002, the research activities have increased by
71% (in person months), with an average of 54 person months
per year as an average. During the period, three PhD students
has been awarded a licentiate degree with the following thesis’s
Magnus Ástróm - Implementing artificial neural networks in
microsimulation.
Johan Esko - Synthetic microdata.
Christian Lundberg - Geographic information in internet related
technologies.
The current research activities are based on the use of Web
services. Standardized Web services as defined by the Open
