E017 - BalticGIT Conference 2022: Organizers' Interview With Edgar Sepp, Autonomous Driving Lab, University of Tartu

Edgar Sepp

I chose GIS and cartography as a specialization after entering geography studies at the University of Tartu in 1999. I got my bachelor’s and master’s degree from there and also ended up working there as a GIS specialist. I was also involved in teaching with a more recent focus on photogrammetry and remote sensing. The last activities were more related to UAV’s (drones) and UAV surveying. For a short period of time, I worked also for the Estonian Fund for Nature as a UAV remote sensing specialist.

In 2017 I entered the IT conversion master’s program at the University of Tartu and when searching for a practice position I ended up in Autonomous Driving Lab. Starting from October 2019 I have been working there as an autonomy software engineer with more focus on maps and mapping for autonomous driving.

Andres Kasekamp

Andres is a board member of the Estonian Geoinformatics Society. He has a master’s degree in Geoinformatics and Cartography from the University of Tartu. He currently works at Estonian Land Board, where his main responsibilities are LiDAR, satellite imagery, and 3D modeling. He is a recipient of the 2021 Esri Young Scholar Award.

Alex Kmoch

Alex is a Distributed Spatial Systems Researcher with many years of international experience in geospatial data management and web- and cloud-based geoprocessing with a particular focus on land use, soils, hydrology, and water quality. His interests include OGC standards and web-services for location-based data sharing, modelling workflows, machine learning, and interactive geo-visualisation. Alex has been involved with SDIs and the OGC for a long time and was recently elected board member of the Estonian Geoinformatics Society (EstGIS) and European Co-Chair for the OGC University Domain Working Group. He is based at the Chair of Geoinformatics and Cartography at Department of Geography of the University of Tartu.