Speaker Bio & Abstract

BiographyMrs Caroline Groot is Product Manager of the Cable and Pipeline Information Centre (KLIC) at the Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency in the Netherlands (Kadaster) and responsible for the national portal for digital information exchange of cable and pipeline information in the Netherlands. In the period 2006-2012 she was a senior consultant Strategy and Policy (2006-2012), focussing on topography, Spatial Data Infrastructures, subsoil, innovation processes and alliances. She was also involved in the design of the programme Public Services on the Map (PDOK), as part of the Dutch spatial data infrastructure. Her specialities include all areas of a (national) spatial data infrastructures including Topography data, Cadastre data, Cartography and Remote Sensing. She has been working at the Kadaster since 2000. Before joining Kadaster, she worked as a teacher at the International Agricultural College Larenstein in Velp, the Netherlands. Caroline Groot is a graduated Master of Science, Geo Information Systems at the University of Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit). She is an international workshop moderator and speaker at international conferences.Abstract