Dr. Daniela Carrion

Daniela Carrion is Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano, teacher of GIS and Geospatial data processing and mapping for crisis management. She acquired expertise in crisis mapping during a two-year experience as post-doc at the Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy) of the European Commission, where she performed technical and scientific validation of Emergency Services and Crisis Maps. She is co-chair of the Commission on Ubiquitous Mapping of the International Cartographic Association. Her main research activities are: use of Volunteered Geographic Information for environmental applications and Crisis Mapping, database design and implementation, map readability, geoid computation, height datum problem and gravity field interaction with levelling measurements.