drs. B.J. Köbben (Barend)

I hold an MSc in Geography, specialising in Cartography, from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. I worked for 9 years as a Lecturer in Cartography at that university and then moved to the International Institute for Geo-information Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC) in 1997. The ITC was an international school providing courses on GIS and Remote Sensing to students from all around the world, ranging from short courses, through 2 year  MSc degree courses, as well as a PhD programmes. Since 1 January 2010, ITC is a Faculty of the University of Twente. Currently I am Senior Lecturer -Researcher in cartographic visualisation and GIS in the Department of Geo-Information Processing ( GIP) at ITC.

My teaching subjects include Cartographic Theory, WebCartography and WebGIS, Geo-webservices, web application building and Visualisation Pipelines. Furthermore, I supervise MSc theses. I also am coordinator of the thesis semester of the Erasmus Mundus Joined Master in Cartography that UT-ITC runs together with the Technical Universities of Munich, Dresden and Vienna. 

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I hold an MSc in Geography, specialising in Cartography, from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. I worked for 9 years as a Lecturer in cartography at that university and then moved to the International Institute for Geo-information Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC) in 1997. The ITC is an international school providing courses on GIS and Remote Sensing to students from all around the world, ranging from short courses, to 2 year MSc degree courses, as well as a PhD graduate school.

Since 2010, ITC is a Faculty of the University of Twente. Here I am at present Senior Lecturer/Researcher in GIS and cartographic visualisation, in the Department of Geo-Information Processing (GIP). I also teach in ATLAS, the Honours BSc programme of the University College Twente. 

Publications

Other contributions

Maps & Infographics
Apart from scientific and other papers, in the last few years I have published over 500 maps & infographics, mainly in the Dutch journal "Geografie". You can find them in this  searchable list, with PNG previews ...

Research profiles

My teaching subjects include Cartographic Theory, WebCartography and WebGIS, Geo-webservices, web application building and Visualisation Pipelines. Furthermore, I supervise MSc theses. I also am coordinator of the thesis semester of the Erasmus Mundus Joined Master in Cartography that UT-ITC runs together with the Technical Universities of Munich, Dresden and Vienna. 

Affiliated study programs

Courses academic year 2024/2025

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Courses academic year 2023/2024

I have been involved in various consultancy projects in The Netherlands, India, Iran, Italy, Malaysia, Namibia, South Africa, Thailand and Zambia. For a full list see this page.

Address

University of Twente

Langezijds (building no. 19), room 1311
Hallenweg 8
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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