New company: Geographic Resource Analysis & Science A/S - GRAS

DHI and University of Copenhagen establish new company - Geographic Resource Analysis & Science A/S (GRAS)

DHI has recently founded the company Geographic Resource Analysis & Science – GRAS A/S in collaboration with the Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen. The company’s aim is to promote technical-scientific development and competence in Denmark within the areas of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

The company model is the operational tool, which makes it possible to communicate the unique knowledge and competence available at the Geographic Institute within these areas, through the sale of service and technology to private and public customers in Denmark and internationally. In order to ensure a sensible consolidation the company’s profit will be used to promote research and thus research-based teaching within the mentioned areas.

This construction is a new concept and at DHI we have seen it as an exciting possibility to contribute to the transfer of technology between universities and the private sector. As an approved technological service institute, we have, with our traditional position in the Danish know-how and innovation system, special possibilities to contribute to this and also obligations as recently highlighted in the government’s new industrial policy. DHI’s desire to collaborate with the Geographic Institute stems from the wish to strengthen our more informal 15 years of cooperation, to create an improved data basis for our advanced mathematical models of water’s cycle in nature.

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The combination of remote sensing, GIS and mathematical models opens new possibilities to improve the understanding of the interaction between water, soil, vegetation and human activities and thereby create an improved basis for decision-making for an integrated and viable management of the earth’s land and water resources – one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. The combination of remote sensing and mathematical modelling opens new possibilities with regard to operational warning systems for surface water and marine areas.

Michael Schultz Rasmussen, associate professor from the Institute of Geography, has been appointed as managing director of GRAS A/S. For further information please contact: