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GUNNAR MISUND

CURRICULUM VITAE

Full name Gunnar Misund 
Position Associate Professor, Østfold University College, Halden, Norway 
Date of birth January 7th, 1958
Nationality Norwegian

 

EDUCATION

87-93 Cand. Scient. Mathematical Modeling, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo 
 (including courses from Department of Geography, UiO, Telemark College and Østfold University College). 
Specialization: Spatial Data Handling. 

 

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

01 - Associate Professor, Østfold University College, Halden
99 - 01 Assistant Professor, Østfold University College, Halden
97 - 99 Scientific Assistant, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo
96 - 98 Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF Applied Mathematics
94 - 96 Research Scientist, SINTEF Applied Mathematics
89 - 94 Computer Consultant, Freelance, Oslo
80 - 88 Studio Photographer,  Ulefoss
78 - 80 Film Assistant, The Norwegian Film Institute, Oslo
77 - 78 Photographers assistant, Military Service, The Norwegian Air Force
76 Production Worker, LV Døren AS, Lunde

 

PROJECT WORK AT SINTEF

(Project management and/or
major contribution during
initialization and/or main project)
 
93 PL of SAGIS (Geodata in oil and gas exploration, Saga Petroleum) 
93 Initial work: Nasjonal Handlingsplan for GIT (Norwegian 
Research Council) 
93 - 94 Initial work towards Sysdeco Innovation (Geographic Information Systems, GIS)
94 - 95  Member of the SINTEF "Transport and Logistics'' working group
94 - 95  PL of MobilDisplay Project (GIS and Fleet Management)
94 - 95 Initial work and Preproject "GEOLOK'' (Data integration in municipalitites) 
94 - 97 PL of ''Tools and Methods for Geographical Information Systems'' 
 & (Norwegian Research Council, partners: SINTEF, CMR, NR
94 - 97 PL of ECOPLAN (Decision Support in Forest Management)
95 - 95 Initial work and Preproject "GEOLOK'' (Data integration in municipalitites) 
96 PL of SINTEF Internal Project MULTIBED (Multiscale GIS models)
96 Preproject: DynaMap (Proposal, "New Initiatives in GIT'', Norwegian Research Council) 
96 Initial work, FLEXIM, including initiation of project (GIS vendor)
97 The BLOM/SINTEF Indonesia project (Mapping company)
97 Initial work and project proposal, Metaphor (Next generation weather forecast systems)
97 The NORSKOG-INDONESIA project (Sustainable management of rain forests)

''Tools and Methods for Geographical Information Systems", GEOLOK, ECOPLAN and DYNAMAP were large scale projects. i.e. at least 5 man years and of more than 3 years duration.


VARIOUS ACTIVITIES

87 Teachers Assistant, Østfold University College
93 Member of organizing committee of the "Holmenkollen GIT Symposium''
94 Participation on NCGIA Summer Institute 
94 Referee, EUROGRAPHICS 94
95 Referee for Norwegian Journal of Geography, special issue on GIS (97)
95 Member of Norwegian Research Council strategy committee "New Initatives in GIS R&D''
96 Chairman, 3rd International Symposium on Integration of Environmental Modeling and GIS
96 Main responsible for the "GIT '96'' workshop, Leangkollen
96 External supervisor for visiting student from Simon Fraser University, Ca. 
96 - 98 External supervisor for master students at the University of Oslo 
96 Participation on the Udine workshop: "Algorithmic Foundations of Geographic Information Systems'' 
96 Guest lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Oslo 
03 Organizer, 4. GEOMATIKK KOLLOKVIUM, Ostfold University College 
02, 03, 05 Jury member, Rosing Student Prize
05 Referee, SCANGIS '05

 

LECTURING AND SUPERVISING

99 - 04 Lecturing: Algorithms and Datastructures, Østfold University College
03 - Lecturing: Digital Maps (Master level), Østfold University College
00 - Project Supervision, Østfold University College:
  • Design and Implementation of Web Based Scientific Courses, 2000
  • Virtual Terrains With Moving Objects, 2000
  • Simulation of Human Interaction, 2001
  • XForms and Applications, 2002
  • Managment of Featuretype Hierarchies With Native XML Data Bases, 2004
  • Implementation of an Online Gazeteer Service Based on OpenLS, 2005
2001 - MSc Supervising, Østfold University College:
  • Liv Hovland: 3D Visualization of Sonar Data, 2004
  • Harald Vålerhaugen: Working with Generic GML through Schema Analysis, 2004
  • Morten Granlund: Perspective Based Level of Detail Management of Topographic Data, 2004
  • Herman Kolås: 3D visualisering av kartdata (in Norwegian), 2004
  • Knut-Erik Johnsen: Hierarchical Networks for Visualization and Analyses, ongoing
  • Mats Lind: Collaborative Mobile Localbased Applications, ongoing
  • Linda Kjeldsen: Combining Range Queries and Line Simplification, ongoing
  • Hilde Steinheim: Interactive Geodata Portal for Teachers, ongoing
  • Bjørn Håkon Horpestad: Semantic Integration of Heterogenous Geospatial Data, ongoing
  • Kristian Lunde: Geometric and Syntactic Integration of Heterogenous Geospatial Data, ongoing
  • Therese Røsholdt: Syndication of Georeferenced Documents, ongoing
  • Christer Stenbrenden: 3D Mobile Collaborative Location Based Gaming, ongoing
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