Guests of TartuGeo

Martin Loidl

Martin leads the Mobility Lab at the Department for Geoinformatics of the University of Salzburg, Austria.

https://mobilitylab.zgis.at/en/home-2/

Martin particularly interested in the digital representation of the mobility system, as well as in integrating domain knowledge from different fields (such as health, planning, transport engineering, psychology etc.) for a better understanding of the interdependencies between the physical and social environment on the one and mobility behaviour and patterns on the other side.

Tõnis Kärdi

Tõnis keeps himself busy as a freelance-GIS-person under the name LonLat OÜ. Most often you’ll find him offering services under the auspices of UEC OÜ to bring you spatial awareness in IT consultancy.

Tõnis is an OSGeo Charter Member and has helped co-organize FOSS4G conferences over the last years. He tries to do some writing up on the things he is doing with (mainly) FOSS4G software on his website: https://tkardi.ee/writeup/post/ in the hope it’ll be useful.

Terje Trasberg

Terje Trasberg did her undergraduate studies in geography at University of Salzburg and postgraduate studies in GIS at UCL in London. She wrote her PhD Thesis about the potentialities and challenges of working with mobile location data. COVID-times brought her back to Estonia where she now works at Statistikaamet / Statistics Estonia as team lead for the Population Statistics team.

Lisett Luik

Lisett Luik is the co-founder of Arbonics, a climate-tech company helping European landowners store more carbon and protect biodiversity. Before Arbonics, Lisett ran ops for a D2C company backed by Index Ventures, helped American Express acquire startups as part of the strategy team, and invested in tech companies with Plural’s Taavet Hinrikus and Sten Tamkivi.

She first got into forestry by helping Taavet build a forest portfolio with thousands of hectares across the Baltics. With a background in economics and a business degree from Yale, she is most excited about the opportunity to help carbon markets become more transparent and fair for all.

Jaan Saar

Jaan has managed processes and IT in the construction industry for over 15 years. He joined the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs & Communications in 2018 with the goal to digitally transform construction in Estonia. He is currently working on developing the “e-construction platform” which will provide the backbone for data sharing throughout the building lifecycle and the national digital twin.

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.

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.

Guests of Tartu Geo Podcast