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Eötvös Loránd University

Budapest, Hungary

Unit: Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics

The ELTE is a top-tier university in Hungary. There is a Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics under the School of Information. This department offers MSc and PhD degree courses, of which MSc is taught in English, with a two-year academic calendar; the PhD program has options in both English and Hungarian, with a 4-year academic calendar. The founder of the department is Laszlo Ilmedi Morna, a famous European cartographer. Until today, the training objectives of the department’s graduate programs are mainly in the area of cartography. The main directions include thematic maps, mathematics in cartography, web mapping, theoretical cartography, and history of cartography, etc.

Professors:

  • Zentai László: digital cartography, web mapping, orienteering maps, history of maps;
  • Elek István: topological maps, applied GIS, modeling, spatial database, geophysics, raster-vector algorithms;
  • José Jesús Reyes Nuñez: digital mapping, cartography, visualization, map education;
  • András Jung: remote sensing, geoinformatics, image processing;
  • Albert Gáspár: cartography, 3D GIS, geomorphology, geological modeling;
  • Kovács Béla: navigation, geoinformatics, spatial data, operating system;
  • Kerkovits Krisztián: map projection, distortion algorithm, map scales, geodesy;
  • Gede Mátyás: geodatabase, cartography, map projection, web mapping.