TartuGeo is a podcast about geography and geoinformatics related fields along with education, research, history, philosophy, ground breaking ideas and innovation. Hosts Alexander Kmoch and Tahmin Sitab talk about different topics in the fields. The show hosts guests from different sectors who share insight about their research and work. We try to bring up new episodes every 2-3 weeks with exciting and newer topics of geoinformatics and geography. Stay tuned and happy listening.

Alex Kmoch

Alex Kmoch

Tahmin Sitab

Tahmin Sitab

Latest Episode

Today we talk Martin Loidl from the University of Salzburg about Sustainable Urban Mobility and GIS.

In this episode we continue to introduce the Chair of Human geography and regional planning to you and we will talk about the two main research aspects and collaboration activities related to the Chair of human geography. And at the end we will talk with Kadri Leetma, who is a senior researcher in human geography in a short interview.

E005 - Interview with Professor Tiit Tammaru

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 26, 2020

We are now moving towards Human Geography. In this episode we interview Professor Tiit Tammaru, member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and head of the Chair of Human Geography and Regional Planning.

We talk with Barabra Hofer, who is Associate Professor at the University of Salzburg in the Department of Geoinformatics - the famous Z_GIS - about teaching, EO4GEO and curriculum development.

We are introducing the Chair of Geoinformatics and Cartography. We present an overview of the Chair and the activities and we managed to get three representatives, which we interview during the episode: Professor Tõnu Oja, who is the Head of the Chair of Geoinformatics and Cartography, senior researcher Dr Evelyn Uuemaa, who is leading the Landscape Geoinformatics Lab, and also became recently head of the Department of Geography, and the PhD student Bruno Montibeller. We apologise for the sound quality during some of the interviews, we promise to improve that in the next episode :-)

We interviewed Topi Tjukanov from Gispo Finland about the pros and cons of Free and Open Source GIS software vs commercial GIS Software