Geo-information, that is spatial-related information, is the centre of a rapidly growing market. This information is the raw material for new IT products and services in fields like estate and location marketing, insurance industry, agriculture and forestry as well as traffic telematics and interior safety.
Geo-information industry in Berlin-Brandenburg
- Close distance to the decision makers of many corporate fields
- Comprehensive geo-data stock at high technological and organisational level
- Extremely efficient research surroundings with the Geo-Research Centre Potsdam (GFZ) as a core
- Nowhere else in Germany are there so many faculties, chairs and research institutions dealing with geo-information. (Geo-Research Centre, Potsdam (GFZ), Potsdam University:
Hasso Plattner Institute for Software-Systems Technology (HPI), Potsdam Research Institute for Climatic Effects (PIK), Technical University Berlin: Institute for technical informatics and microelectronics, Faculty for electronics and informatics, area: computer vision and remote sensing, Humboldt University Berlin: Geomatics department, topics: geo-information systems (GIS), cartography and geo-remote sensing
- Around 600 predominantly small and medium-sized businesses with ca. 2,200 employees
- The spectrum of business fields: from surveying engineering firms to internet-based service providers of geo-data.
- Annual turnover of the branch at almost ca. 120 mio. Euro
- Special expertise: catastrophe management and application centres for the European satellite navigation system GALILEO.
Cooperation network in the capital region
The geo-information industry association GEOkomm fosters the network of local players. Federal and state funds support the establishment of a cooperation network between 13 enterprises and research institutions in the region Berlin-Brandenburg.
This will improve the existing relations and increase the growth potentials of Berlin-Brandenburg’s geo-information industry.