isprs ss2011 usa lecturers

8/7/2019 ISPRS SS2011 USA Lecturers

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Information about the Summer School lecturers

Topic: Airborne Lidar: Introduction, physical principles and data

processing

Prof. Dr. Dipl. Ing. Norbert Pfeifer

Vienna University of Technology

Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Gusshausstrasse 27-29

1040 Vienna, Austria

Tel.: +43-1-5880112201

Fax: +43-1-5880112299

Email: [email protected]

http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at

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Norbert Pfeifer is Professor at Vienna University of Technology where he also received in

2002 his Ph.D. with honours, focusing on 3D terrain modeling. Thereafter he went to TU

Delft, the Netherlands, where he became Assistant Professor later, working in airborne and

terrestrial laser scanning. In 2006 he moved to Innsbruck, Austria, to lecture in the geography

program at the University of Innsbruck and worked at alp-S, Centre for Natural HazardManagement, as senior researcher, studying the exploitation of airborne laser scanning data inrisk management. Later in this year he took the position of Professor of Photogrammetry at

Vienna University of Technology. His research topics are full waveform laser scanning,

orientation and calibration of range and radiometric imaging sensors, topographic modeling,

and applications of photogrammetry in environmental sciences. Norbert Pfeifer is lecturing

regularly in the curriculum of Geodesy and Geoinformation. His research is funded by the

European Union Framework and InterReg Program, by ESA (European Space Agency), by

the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, and by regional and national administrative

authorities and companies with international and/or Austrian background.
http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/


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Topic: Airborne Lidar: Introduction, physical principles and data

processing (practical exercises)

Dr. Gottfried Mandlburger

Vienna University of Technology

Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Gusshausstrasse 27-29

1040 Vienna, Austria

Tel.: +43-1-5880112235

Fax: +43-1-5880112299


http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at

CVGottfried Mandlburger went to the private sector (geodetic engineering company Stolitzka)

after his study of geodesy, and pursued an academic career thereafter, receiving his Ph.D. in

geodesy with honours on a work of DTM generation for hydraulic applications in 2006.

Since 1996 he is research assistant at Vienna University of Technology, Institute of

Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (I.P.F.). His research interests include Airborne Laser

Scanning, DTM technology in development and research, management of country-wide

topographic data, development of scientific software (SCOP++, TopDM, OPALS), DTM

generation and processing for hydrology and hydraulics. His articles were published in

internationally acknowledged journals like Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and

Geoinformation processing, Photogrammetric Record, ISPRS, River Research and

Applications, and HESS (Hydrology and Earth System Sciences), for which he also acts as areviewer. Gottfried Mandlburger is giving lectures and practicals in 'Topographic Models'

and he is coordinating the software development team at the I.P.F.
mailto:[email protected]://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/mailto:[email protected]


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Topic: Use of Airborne Lidar remote sensing technology for forestry

applications

Prof. Nicholas Coops

Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing

Department of Forest Resource Management

Forest Sciences Centre, 2424 Main Mall

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4

Tel.: +1-604-8226452

Fax: +1-604-8229106


http://farpoint.forestry.ubc.ca/FP/search/Faculty_View.aspx?FAC_ID=22700

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Prof. Nicholas Coops is a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Remote Sensing and leads theIntegrated Remote Sensing Studio (IRSS) at the Univeristy of Bristish Columbia, which

has 15 MSc and PhD students, with research assistnads and post doctoral fellows working

on a wide range of remote sensing projects. Nicholas obtained his PhD from the Royal

Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne Australia, and then worked at CSIRO,

the Australian government research labs, for 10 year prior to coming to UBC in 2004.

Nicholas research focuses on the application of remote sensing imagery to the monitoring

and mapping of forest and vegetation health and productivity. His research includes

advanced forest inventory techniques using high spatial resolution optical remote sensing

imagery and LIDAR, the use of remote sensing and spatial data modelling for ecosystem

and carbon accumulation modeling for biodiversity, production and greenhouse

calculations, wildfire, post fire severity and fuel hazard load mapping and detection ofdamaging agents in forests using spectral forest condition mapping. He has published more

than 150 refereed journal papers, including a number on LiDAR. Nicholas is the editor in

chief of the Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing (CJRS) and is an affiliate faculty

member at Oregon State University (OSU), Oregon, USA.
http://farpoint.forestry.ubc.ca/FP/search/Faculty_View.aspx?FAC_ID=22700http://farpoint.forestry.ubc.ca/FP/search/Faculty_View.aspx?FAC_ID=22700


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Topic: Lidar in the coastal zone: theory, techniques and applications

Thomas R. Allen, Ph.D. , Associate Professor

Department of Geography

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC 27858, USATel.: +1-252-3286624

Fax: +1-252- 3286054


http://personal.ecu.edu/allenth

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Dr. Allen took his B.S. in 1991 atOld Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia (with magna

cum laude) and Major in Geography and Minor in Geology. He achieved his PhD degree in

1995 at the Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is

since 2006, Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, East Carolina University,

Greenville, NC.

The research interests of Dr. Allen are: GIScience and technology; emphasizing GIS, remote

sensing, and environmental modeling of coastal and estuarine environments, geomorphology,

landscape ecology, and spatial techniques in environmental analysis.

His teaching activities include lectures on GIS, digital image processing, cartography and

visualization, geospatial field techniques; earth surface processes, coastal geography,

environmental systems and sustainability, and tropical field course.
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Topic: Practical aspects of Airborne Lidar and applications

Dr. Valerie Ussyshkin

Technology Group Manager, Airborne Survey Products

Optech Incorporated

300 Interchange Way, Vaughan, Ontario, Canada L4K 5Z8Tel.: +1-905-6600808x3600,

Fax: +1-905-6600829


http://www.optech.ca/

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Dr. Valerie Ussyshkin is a Technical Manager at Airborne Survey Product (ASP) business

unit, Optech Incorporated. She joined Optech Inc. in 2000 as a Project Scientist in Space and

Atmospheric division where she was involved in feasibility studies of airborne and

spaceborne lidar sensors for international space programs WALES and Phoenix. Her currentwork is focused on performance characterization and analysis of airborne laser scanning

systems. She is supervising a multi-disciplinary team of junior scientists, data analysts and

project managers serving as a technical lead on research studies running in the group and as a

part of cross-divisional projects. Dr. Ussyshkin also provides technical consulting to sales and

marketing teams promoting lidar technology at conferences and through publications in

scientific journals and professional magazines. Dr. Ussyshkin is a member of ASPRS PDAD

(Primary Data Acquisition Division) Working Group on lidar calibration and QA/QC. She has

presented and/or published over 50 articles at refereed international conferences and in

academic and technical journals.


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Topic: Airborne Lidar in real action: the helicopter-based Eagleeye

Mapping System

Bobby Tuck

President, Tuck Mapping Solutions Inc.4632 Aerial Way

P. O. Box 760

Big Stone Gap, VA 24219, USA

Tel.: +1- 276-5234669

Fax: +1- 276-5234673


http://www.tuckmapping.com

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Bobby Tuck attended Carson Newman College and received a BS in Pre-Engineering. Hethen graduated from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute with a BS in Civil Engineering. In

1985 Mr Tuck formed Tuck Mapping Solutions where he used his mining and civil

engineering background to provide the mining companies permitting and mine planning

services.

Bobby Tuck is a Civil Engineer registered as a Professional Engineer in four states,

Professional Surveyor in seven states, and a Certified Photogrammetrist. He is also a

commercial airplane and helicopter pilot. His love for flying and surveying has resulted in the

development of a mapping system that is recognized as the highest accuracy system in the

world. The eagleeye mapping system has averaged 0.11 feet vertical accuracy over the past

three years. The eagleeye mapping system has completed projects for the Air Force, Army,Marines, highway departments, developers, and utilities companies.
mailto:[email protected]://www.tuckmapping.com/http://www.tuckmapping.com/mailto:[email protected]


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Topic: Multi-sensor coastal mapping

Jennifer Wozencraft

Research Physical Scientist, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Engineer Research and

Development Center, U.S. Army Corps of EngineersDirector, Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise

7225 Stennis Airport Road, Suite 100

Kiln, MS 39553, USA

Tel.: +1-228-2521101


http://shoals.sam.usace.army.mil/

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Jennifer Wozencraft is a Research Physical Scientist in the Coastal and Hydraulics

Laboratory of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer Research and

Development Center, currently detailed as Director of the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry

Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX). At the JALBTCX, she coordinates operations

and research and development in airborne lidar bathymetry and complementary airborne

technologies in support of the USACE, U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, National Oceanic

and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. Geological Survey. In addition to her

directorial duties, she is manager of the USACE National Coastal Mapping Program, which

provides regional scale, engineering-accuracy elevation and imagery data to support USACE

regional sediment management, navigation, environmental restoration, regulatory

enforcement, asset management and emergency response activities in the coastal zone. The

NCMP also fosters development of new technologies for airborne coastal mapping and

charting, and under this portion of the program Ms. Wozencraft manages development of thelatest generation of airborne coastal mapping and charting systems, the Coastal Zone

Mapping and Imaging Lidar, or CZMIL. Ms. Wozencraft has worked in the field of lidar

bathymetry for the past 15 years, beginning with the USACE SHOALS program during her

college years. She earned her bachelors degree from the University of Alabama in

mathematics and dance and her masters in marine sciences from the University of South

Alabama.


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Topic: Advanced technologies of Airborne Lidar and practical aspects

Ronald B. Roth

Product Manager - Airborne LIDAR Leica Geosystems Inc.

13Park Drive Westford, MA 01886, USATel.: +1-978-6928500 x225

Fax: +1-978-6928510


http://www.leica-geosystems.com/en/index.htm

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Ron Roth is the product manager for Leica Geosystems airborne lidar product line. He hashad a 27-year career in the development, manufacture and marketing of high-performance

military and commercial electro-optic systems, including the past seven years associated with

all phases of development of Leicas line of airborne lidar products.
mailto:[email protected]://www.leica-geosystems.com/en/index.htmhttp://www.leica-geosystems.com/en/index.htmmailto:[email protected]


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Topic: Terrestrial and Mobile LiDAR Applications

James Van Rens

President, Riegl USA, Inc.

7035 Grand National Drive, Suite 100Orlando, FL 32819, USA

Tel.: +1-407-2489927

Tel.: +1-855-GO-Riegl

Fax: +1- 407-2482636


http://www.rieglusa.com/

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Van Rens has been with Riegl USA Inc. for over a decade. He joined Riegl USA in 1997 as

vice president and in 2009 Mr. Van Rens was promoted to president. Prior to Riegl he was

Principal of a specialty distributor, LDC, Inc that focused on measuring devices. James has a

combination BA/BS from the schools of Business and Liberal Arts at Marquette University.

He is a member of MAPPS, ASPRS, SPIE, USGIF, IAFSM and serves on the LiDAR

Subcommittee. In the past, Van Rens has also been an active member of the IEEE/AIAG, JIT

effort and was a contributor to the Packaging and Containerization Standards. Mr. Van Rens

has over 17 years of experience in the Laser Industry and over 31 years of successful sales

and marketing experience.


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Topic: LiDAR Data Acquisition A Case Study of Project Planning,

Management and Application in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

and Chattahoochee National Forest, USA

Marguerite Madden, Ph.D., Professor

Director, Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science (CRMS)

Department of GeographyUniversity of Georgia

Athens, Georgia 30602

Tel: 706-542-2379

Fax: 706-542-2010


http://www.crms.uga.edu/

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Dr. Marguerite Madden is the Director of the Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping

Science (CRMS) and Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia

(UGA). She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Biology from the State University of New

York at Plattsburgh and her Ph.D. in Ecology in 1990 from the University of Georgia. Her

research over the past 26 years at UGA has focused on geographic information science

(GIScience) and spatio-temporal landscape analysis with special emphasis on GIS,

optical/LiDAR remote sensing, geovisualization and object-based image analysis. Her areas

of application include mapping dynamic vegetation distributions, assessing landscape-level

human impacts on natural environments, LiDAR analysis of vegetation structure, tracking

animal behavior-navigation and ecological modeling of environment and disease. Dr. Madden

is Technical Commission President of the International Society for Photogrammetry and

Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Commission IV Geodatabases and Digital Mapping (2008-2012)

and Past President of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing(ASPRS) (2007). She is the recipient of ISPRS Willem Schermerhorn (2004), ASPRS Fellow

(2010) and ASPRS SAIC Estes Teaching (2011) Awards and Editor of the ASPRS Manual of

Geographic Information Systems (2009). At the Unviersity of Georgia she teaches courses in

remote sensing, image interpretation and geospatial tools in landscape analysis. She also

involves students in her externally-funded research at the CRMS including

LiDAR/Orthoimagery data acquisition for Southern Appalachian forests (USGS), MODIS

time-series analysis of climate effects on vegetation productivity (NASA), capuchin monkey

spatial cognition and route navigation (NSF) and environmental factors related to patterns of

Salmonella disease outbreaks (NIH).

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