Volker Coors
Professor in Geoinformatics and Computer Science
University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart
Germany

Biography
Professor in Geoinformatics and Computer Science at HFT. His research is focused on 3D Geographic Information Systems and Information Logistics, in particular data management and visualisation of large 3D urban models. From 1997 to 2002 he worked as a researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics. He was involved in several national and European research projects on 3D urban modelling, location based computing and augmented Reality. He is chairing the 3D Portrayal Service Standard Working Group, is member of the CityGML Standard Working group at the OpenGeoSpatial Consortium (OGC) and represents the OGC in the Web3D consortium.