BOCHER Erwan

Erwan Bocher is GIS (Geographical Information Systems) scientist interested in climate and environmental studies with an emphasis on open data, open source, open standards and citizen participation.

He completed his PhD in Geography in 2005 at Rennes 2 University. In 2019, He accomplished an habilitation to conduct researches in GIS delivered by the University of La Rochelle.

Since 2008, he leads the OrbisGIS tools (http://orbisgis.org/). He has co-developed and participated to several open source software :

• H2GIS spatial extension (http://www.h2gis.org/)
• https://noise-planet.org/ tools
• GeoClimate (https://github.com/orbisgis/geoclimate)

Co-author of the Symbology Conceptual Model standard at Open Geospatial Consortium , he is co-chair of the Style and Symbology Encoding Standard Working Group at Open Geospatial Consortium.