Professor Tahsin Yomralioglu obtained his Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. and was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Surveying Engineering at Karadeniz Technical University (KTU) in 1994. He became a full-time Professor in 2001, and in 2009, he was appointed as a professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering Department of ... Read moreGeomatics Engineering at Istanbul Technical University (ITU). In 1994, he became the Deputy Chairman of the Department, and the Head of the both Cartography and the Land Management divisions at KTU. He was also appointed as the General Secretary of KTU, and an adviser to the Rector of KTU in Trabzon and the Rector of ITU in Istanbul. Professor Yomralioglu has served as member on various commissions at TUBITAK, Higher Education, and also worked as a project manager and consultant at several public and private institutions. He supervised about thirty research and development projects. He established the ITU-GeoIT graduate program and the first national GIS R&D innovation center in Turkey, and has published numerous international and national scientific research publications in the fields of Geographical Information Technology, Land Management, and Property Valuation.  Dr. John McLaughlin is a Professor of Engineering and President Emeritus at the University of New Brunswick. He also studied for his doctorate at the Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin. Professionally, Dr. McLaughlin has been a leader in building the North American geomatics industry and has worked extensively in more than 40 countries on the de Show Less