Cristoforo Abbattista
Position in Planetek Italia: Geospatial Systems Unit manager.
Other committments: Professor of “GIS and GeoWEB” at Urban & Regional Plannning course, Venice University Institute of Architecture (IUAV).
Training: Degree in Electronic Engineering at Poltecnico di Bari, specialized in "numeric treatment of the images". He has produced several publications in the field of Geograhic Information System on the Web.
Background: in 1999 worked at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche IESI (today ISSIA) di Bari for a research in "Procedure per la rilevazione della posizione della palla in una sequenza video di una partita di calcio"; from 2000 to 2002 worked at Accenture SpA for the development of Customer Relationship Management for a big telecom company, growing his experience in the development and realization of "fault tolerant complex sistemi". From 2002 he works in Planetek Italia as a Geospatial Systems Unit manager, with main activity in the design and development of systems for Spatial Data Infrastructures on the Web, for satellite missions Ground Segment data processing units and real time Fleet management. From 2009 he is professor at IUAV.