
petr.rapant@vsb.cz
(+420) 597 325 470
office A927
Department of Geoinformatics
VŠB – TU Ostrava
17. listopadu 2172/15
Ostrava – Poruba
70800
Czech Republic
Education
- 1984: Ing. – VŠB Ostrava, FMG, study branch Mining Geology and Geological Exploration
- 1989: CSc. (PhD.) – VŠB Ostrava, FMG, study branch Deposits Geology and Geophysics. Thesis: Computer processing of data obtained by Geoservice.
- 1998: doc. (assoc. prof.) – VŠB-TU Ostrava, FMG, study branch Geological Informatics and Geostatistics. Habilitation thesis: Geographic information systems.
Proffesional Interests
- system approach in geosciences
- spatial resoning
- GIT applications in crisis management
Academic Employment
- 1984 – 1988: VŠB Ostrava, FMG, PhD. student
- 1988 – 1990: Moravian Oil Company, Hodonín, independent expert
- 1990 – 1994: VŠB Ostrava, FMG, Department of Geological Engineering, researcher
- 1994 – 1998: VŠB-TU Ostrava, FMG, Department of Economics and Management Systems, assistant professor
- 1998 – 2002: VŠB-TU Ostrava, FMG, Department of Economics and Management Systems, associate professor
- 2002 – 2006: VŠB-TU Ostrava, FMG, Department of Geoinformatics, Head of the Department
- 2006 – 2010: VŠB-TU Ostrava, FMG, Vice-Dean
- 2008: Business English Certificate Vantage, Council of Europe level B2
- 2014: First Certificate in English, Council of Europe level B2
Teaching of subjects
- Fundamentals of geoinformatics
- Geoinformation technology
- Computational Aspects of Geoinformation Technologies
- Fundamentals of system analysis in geosciences
- Spatial reasoning
- Project management
- Object Oriented Technologies
Professional stays and courses
- 1991: 3 weeks exchange study stay at Faculta polytechnical Mons
- 1992: 3 days Introductory Course of Geostatistics held by Freek D. van der Meer (ITC Enschede, NL), VŠB of Ostrava
- 1992: 1 week GIS Course held by prof. A. G. Fabbri (ITC Enschede, NL), VŠB of Ostrava
- 1993: 2 weeks course English Terminology of GIS, UK Bratislava
- 1993: 1 week GIS Course, Technical university of Denmark, Lyngby
- 1993: six-month study stay at Technical university of Denmark, Lyngby, Department of Surveying and Photogrammetry
- 1993: 2 weeks Remote Sensing Course held by prof. van der Mehr-Mohr (ITC Enschede, NL), VŠB of Ostrava
- 1993: 1 week GIS Course held by prof. A. G. Fabbri (ITC Enschede, NL), VŠB of Ostrava
- 1992: 1 week GIS&EIA Course held by prof. A. G. Fabbri (ITC Enschede, NL), VŠB of Ostrava
- 1995: 2 weeks study stay at Technical university of Denmark, Lyngby, Department of Surveying and Photogrammetry, TEMPUS project
- 1995: 2 weeks study stay at Technical university of Denmark, Lyngby, Department of Surveying and Photogrammetry, TEMPUS project
- 1996: 2 weeks study stay at Technical university of Denmark, Lyngby, Department of Surveying and Photogrammetry, WELL-GIS project
- 1997: 1 week study stay at Technical university of Denmark, Lyngby, Department of Surveying and Photogrammetry, WELL-GIS project
- 1999: 2 weeks study stay at Technical university of Denmark, Lyngby, Department of Surveying and Photogrammetry, invited lectures
- 2005: 1 week course Technology Foresight for Practitioners, TC AS CR, Praha
- 2007: 1 week course GPS/INS Multisensor Kalman Filter Navigation, Paris, France
- 2011: 2 weeks educational stay at TU of Zvolen, Slovakia, ERASMUS program
- 2012: 1 week educational stay – summer school Geoinformatics in the Disaster Risk Management, TU of Zvolen, Slovakia, LLP Erasmus project
Best mentored PhD students
- Michal Šeliga: In 2009, he defended a dissertation on the subject “Architecture of Real-time GNSS Differential Correction Systems“. Today he works at T-Kartor Group AB in Sweden.
- Milan Lazecký: In 2011, he defended a dissertation on the topic “Monitoring Changes in Terrain Relief by Radar Interferometry“. Today he works at IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, VŠB-TU of Ostrava, Czechia.
- Michal Kačmařík: In 2012 he defended his dissertation thesis “Studying the Distribution of Water Vapor in the Atmosphere Using GNSS“. Today he works at the Department of Geoinformatics of the VŠB-TU of Ostrava, Czechia.
- Juraj Cirbus: In 2014, he defended a dissertation on the subject “Cellular Automaton for Simulating the Spread of Liquid on the Earth’s Surface Using Geoinformation Technologies“. Today, he works at Norconsult Informasjonssystemer AS in Norway.
- Antonín Orlík: In 2017, he defended a dissertation on “Predictive Analytical Procedures for Selection and Pre-Processing of Geodata“. Today he is owner of the private company and the operator of the globally successful service https://mygeodata.cloud/.
Professional Activities
- member of the Czech Association for Geoinformation (CAGI), Prague (1997 – present)
- member of the Coordination Council of the Minister of Transport for ITS (2019 – present)
- chairman of the CAGI Expert Committee on Standardization (1997 – 2004)
- member of the Geospatial Information & Technology Association, Aurora, USA (1997 – 2004)
- member of the doctoral board of doctoral study program Applied Geoinformatics, MENDELU Brno (2007 – present)
- guarantee of Geoinformatics in Bachelor’s Studies (1999 – 2017)
- guarantee of Geoinformatics in Master’s Studies (1999 – 2020)
- guarantee of Geoinformatics in Doctoral Studies (2000 – present)
- full member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Mining and Geology, VSB-TU of Ostrava, Czechia (2000 – 2009)
- member of the Doctoral Board of Doctoral Studies of Geoinformatics at Faculty of Mining and Geology, VSB-TU of Ostrava, Czechia (2000 – present)
- Chairman of the Doctoral Board of Doctoral Studies of Geoinformatics at Faculty of Mining and Geology, VSB-TU of Ostrava, Czechia (2004 – present)
- member of the Terminological Commission of the Czech Office of Surveying and Cadastre (2000 – present)
- member of the Czech Cartographic Society (2001 – present)
- member of the Intelligent Transport Systems and Services Association, Prague (2002 – 2012)
- member of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) Commission on SDIs and Standards, 2001 – to date)
- Member of the National Geographic Committee (2014-2015)
- Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Science at the Palacky University in Olomouc, Czechia (2014-2018)
- expert at the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (2017 – so far)
- member of the Expert Thematic Group Transport Horizion 2020 at the Ministery of Transport of the Czech Republic, (2015 – so far)
- representative of VŠB-TUO in the Platform for fully autonomous vehicles at the Ministery of Transport of the Czech Republic, (2017 – so far)
Selected Publications
Journals with Impact Factor
- Rapant, P., Struhár, J., Lazecký, M.: Radar Interferometry as a Comprehensive Tool for Monitoring the Fault Activity in the Vicinity of Underground Gas Storage Facilities. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 271.
- Kolejka, J., Rapant, P., Zapletalová, J.: The Multiple Data and Geographic Knowledge Approach to a Liquid Toxic Road Accident Mitigation – The Two Blocks GIS Data Processing for an Operative Intervention. Geographia Technica, 2019, Vol. 14, No. 1, str. 49-64. DOI: 10.21163/GT_2019.141.04.
- Szturcova, D., Rapant, P.: Enhanced Methodology for Ontology Development. Computing and Informatics, 2013, vol. 32 (5) str. 1038–1054.
- Cooper, A. K., Moellering, H., Hjelmager, J., Rapant, P., Delgado, T., Laurent, D., Danko, D. M., Abad, P., Düren, U., Coetzee, S., Iwaniak, A., Rajabifard, A., Huet, M., Brodeur, J.: A spatial data infrastructure model from the computational viewpoint. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2013, 27 (6), str. 1133-1151.
- Hjelmager, J, Moellering, H., Cooper, A., Delgado, T., Rajabifard, A., Rapant, P., Danko, D., Huet, M., Laurent, D., Aalders, H., Iwaniak, A., Abad, P., Düren, U., Martynenko, A.: An initial formal model for spatial data infrastructures, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Volume 22, Issue 11 & 12 2008 , pages 1295 – 1309.
- Rapant, P.: Prostor v multiagentových systémech modelujících prostorové procesy. Acta Montanistica Slovaca, Košice, Ročník 12(2007), číslo 2, 84-97. http://actamont.tuke.sk/pdf/2007/n2/2rapant.pdf
Monographies, chapters
- Coetzee, S., Steiniger, S., Köbben, B., Iwaniak, A., Kaczmarek, I., Rapant, P., Cooper, A., Cooper, A., Behr, F.-J., Schoof, G., Katumba, S., Vatseva, R., Sinvula, K., Moellering, H.: The academic SDI—Towards understanding spatial data infrastructures for research and education (2017) Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Part F2, pp. 99-113.
- Kolejka, J., Rapant, P. a kol.: Scénáře podpory krizového řízení geoinformačními technologiemi Optimalizace aktivit při bleskové povodni, při ohrožení svahovými pohyby a toxické havárii na silnici a železnici. Ústav geoniky AV ČR a Vysoká škola báňská – Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2015. 210 str.
- Cooper, A., Coetzee, S., Rapant, P., Laurent, D., Danko, D. M., Iwaniak, A., Peled, A., Moellering, H., Duren, U.: Exploring the Impact of a Spatial Data Infrastructure on Value-Added Resellers and Vice Versa. In Buchroithner, M., Prechtel, N., Burghardt, D. (eds.): Cartography from Pole to Pole. Selected Contributions to the XXVIth International Conference of the ICA, Dresden 2013. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography 2014, str. 395-404.
- Rapant, P., Cirbus, J.: Celulární automaty a multiagentové systémy – jiné paradigma přístupu k modelování a simulaci prostorových procesů. In Voženílek, V., Dvorský, J., Húsek, D. (eds) (2011): Metody umělé inteligence v geoinformatice. Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 184 s. ISBN 978-80-244-2945-8. Str. 57-68.
- Rapant, P.: Geoinformatika a geoinformační technologie. VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2006. 500 str. ISBN 80-248-1264-9. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40387847_Geoinformatika_a_geoinformacni_technologie.
- Rapant, P., Horakova, B., Ruzicka, J.: Czech Republic Standard ISVS pro strukturu a vymenny format metadat informacnich zdroju Standard for Structure and Transfer Format of Metadata on Geo-data Sets. In Moellering H., Aalders H. and Crane A. (Eds.): World Spatial Metadata Standards. ICA, Elsevier Science/Pergamon, 2005. Pp. 257-275.
- Rapant, P.: Družicové polohové systémy. VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2002. 200 str. ISBN 80-248-0124-8, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310378256_Druzicove_polohove_systemy