Keynote Speakers:
"Pavement surface distress capture: the research project RoadInspect"
Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn
Professor of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Geomatics, Computer Science and Mathematics, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Prof. Hahn joined the University of Applied Sciences (HFT) in Stuttgart in 1998 having held academic and research appointments at the Universities of Karlsruhe (1984-86), Stuttgart (1986-1996/8, including a four year-period as lecturing assistant and an eight-year period as senior lecturer) and Brisbane (where he was ARC Fellow and Guest Professor at QUT from 1996 to 1997). He obtained a PhD degree at Stuttgart University for his dissertation on “Image Sequence Analysis for Passive Navigation”. From 1999 to 2001 he was founding Director of the International Master Course programme Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics and from 2001 to 2007 Vice-President Science, Research and Internationalisation at HFT. In 2002 he has been appointed as an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Architecture.
Prof. Hahn’s research interests centre on the modelling of measurements from vehicle-based, airborne and spaceborne platforms, and the related data processing algorithms for platform orientation, spatial data acquisition, data fusion, image analysis, object recognition and modelling of 3D virtual cities. Current third party funded projects focus on multi-sensor mobile mapping, point cloud processing, road condition mapping and indoor mobile mapping.
"InSAR fingerprinting: exploiting big data in geodesy"
Prof. Dr. Ir. Ramon Hanssen
Head of Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Ramon Hanssen is Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor in Earth Observation. He studied aerospace engineering and geodetic engineering at TU Delft (M.Sc. 1993). He specialized in the geodetic use of radar interferometry (InSAR) and worked at Stuttgart University (1996), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), (1997) and Stanford University (1997-1998). In 2001 he received the PhD degree (cum laude) of TU Delft. His text book on Satellite Radar Interferometry is well known in the scientific community. He serves as an expert in various ESA panels for new satellite developments. He received a Fulbright Fellowship in 1997, the Innovational Research Award (NWO) and the Bomford Prize of the International Association of Geodesy in 2003. In 2008 he was awarded the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek chair at Delft University of Technology. In 2007 and 2008 he received the SBIR award for founding a spin-off company on radar remote sensing, now known as SkyGeo. Since 2012 he is visiting professor at Wuhan University, China. Hanssen is currently chairing the Department of Geocience and Remote Sensing and leading a research group on radar interferometry.
"Coseismic deformation mechanisms in sediments and
implications for the shallow slip deficit above blind faults"
Prof. Dr. Anke M. Friedrich
Professor of Geology, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany
Anke Friedrich is professor and chair of Geology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany. Her research interests are in active tectonics and earthquake geology. In particular, she works on the quantification of lithospheric deformation over multiple scales in plate boundary systems. She teaches various undergraduate and graduate courses in geology, such as global tectonics, neotectonics, geochronology, sedimentary basin analysis, and geological field mapping. Anke Friedrich received her PhD in geology from MIT in 1998. She then worked at the California Institute of Technology for four years on paleoseismology and tectonic geodesy of the Basin and Range Province, USA. She returned to Germany in 2002 and continued her research in tectonic geomorphology at the University of Potsdam and at the IPG in Paris. In 2005, she was appointed a professorship at Leibniz University of Hannover. Since 2007 she is full professor and chair of geology at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, and holds an adjunct professorship at the University of Utah (USA). For her work in active tectonics and earthquake geology of slowly deforming regions, she received the Hermann-Credner Award of the German Geological Society in 2005, and she was recently awarded GSA Fellowship. She served on numerous advisory boards and is currently appointed as board member of Munich GeoCenter, the Rachel Carson Center, the Institute of Geoinformation Research of the German Military, and elected as councilor of the Geological Society of America.
"New developments of TLS- and camera based multi-sensor-systems for indoor-mapping"
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Neumann
Professor of Geodetic Institute Hanover - Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Prof. Ingo Neumann received his Dipl.-Ing. and Ph.D. in Geodesy and Geoinformatics at the Leibniz Universität Hannover in 2005 and 2009, respectively. From 2009 to 2012 he was head of the Geodetic Laboratory at the University FAF Munich. Since 2012 he is Full Professor in the field of Engineering Geodesy and Geodetic Data Analysis at the Geodetic Institute of the Leibniz Universität Hannover. His research areas are: adjustment theory and error models, multi-sensor systems, quality assessment, geodetic monitoring, terrestrial laser scanning, and automation of measurement processes. He is active in national and international scientific associations and an official delegate of the German and International Organization of Standardization (DIN and ISO).
"Large earthquakes in plate interiors: the need for a new paradigm"
Prof. Eric Calais
Professor of Geosciences at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France
Eric Calais is Professor of Geosciences at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. He received his PhD at the University of Nice (France) in 1991. He was postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (U.C. San Diego) until 1995, research scientist at the CNRS (Nice, France) until 2001, then became professor of geophysics at Purdue University (USA) where he remained until 2012. E. Calais was nominated University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University in 2005. He received the Jacob-Fallot-Jérémine award from the French Academy of Sciences in 2008 and the Frank Press award from the Seismological Society of America in 2012. He was invited Professor at the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris in 2009 and at the University of Brest (France) in 2008. E. Calais' research interests concern the kinematics and dynamics of active tectonic processes. His main tools are space geodesy, in particular the Global Positioning System (GPS), and mechanical modeling of lithospheric deformation. E. Calais has been Head of the Geosciences department at Ecole Normale Supérieure since January 2014. He currently chairs the Scientific Council of the European Institute for Marine Studies at the Univ. of Brest, France and was elected on the Board of Directors of the Seismological Society of America in 2011.
" Space-based imaging spectroscopy for the monitoring of land surface processes: introduction to the EnMAP mission"
Prof. Luis Guanter
Leader of the Remote Sensing section at the Helmholtz Center Potsdam, German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ)
In 2007 Luis Guanter received his PhD in the field of Environmental Physics at University of Valencia, Spain. He held postdoc positions at GFZ, in the field of remote sensing, and FU Berlin, Institute for Space Sciences. He spent one year as EC Marie Curie Fellow at Oxford University, UK. Since 2012 he has been leading a DFG Emmy Noether junior research group at FU Berlin. His main research interest is the monitoring of land and atmospheric processes by imaging spectroscopy, focusing on the terrestrial carbon cycle, and the development of multi- and hyperspectral remote sensing in the frame of future earth observatory missions. Luis Guanter is the Scientific Principle Investigator of the EnMAP hyperspectral mission and member of the advisory boards of other satellite missions.
"GNSS Earth observations at GFZ: recent activities and results"
Dr. Jens Wickert
Head of the Research Groups in GNSS Atmosphere Sounding and GNSS Reflectometry at the Helmholtz Center Potsdam, German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ)
He is department head of the department “Photogrammetry and Image Analysis”, at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF) and holds a professorship for geoinformatics at the University of Osnabrück. He has more then 25 years of experience in image processing and remote sensing and over 200 publications in these fields. His main interests are in direct georeferencing, stereo-photogrammetry and data fusion of space borne and airborne data, generation of digital elevation models and interpretation of VHR data from sensors like WorldView, GeoEye, Pleidaes a.o. He is also engaged in using remote sensing data for disaster management and using high frequency time series of airborne image data for real time image processing and their operational use in case of disasters as well as for traffic monitoring.
“The seismic cycle at subduction zones: insights from simple finite element models”
Prof. Rob Govers
Associate Professor of Geophysics, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Rob Govers received his MSc in 1988 and PhD in 1993 both in Geophysics from Utrecht University, Netherlands. He did his Postdoctoral research in Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA from 1993 to 1995. His main research interests include Geodynamics of plate boundary regions, surface expressions of mantle processes, seismic cycle from Global Positioning System and other geodetic techniques, rheology and large-scale tectonics. From 2009, he is the Associate Professor of Geophysics in Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands.
"Applications of medium and high resolution satellite multi temporal interferometry in landslide investigations"
Dr. Janusz Wasowski
Research geologist at CNR - IRPI (National Research Council of Italy - Institute for Geohydrological Protection)
Janusz Wasowski received his MA and PhD degree in Geology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA (1980-1987). He has been the Visiting Professor at Research School of Arid Environment and Climate Change, Lanzhou University, Gansu, China from 2011. His research interests are generally in the domain of environmental change and geohazards. He is now a research geologist at CNR - IRPI (National Research Council of Italy - Institute for Geohydrological Protection) and also Science Officer of the Natural Hazards Group Programme, European Geosciences Union (EGU).
"Mobile Laser Scanning: Challenges and Potentials"
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Li
Xiamen University, China / University of Waterloo, Canada
Jonathan Li received his Ph.D. degree in geomatics engineering from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, in 2000. His research activities include information extraction from LiDAR point clouds and from earth observation images with special emphasis on machine learning, monitoring of urban environments using multi-sensor satellite images, and urban infrastructure inventory using mobile LiDAR. Since 2012, Dr. Li has been leading a joint research group comprising researchers and graduate students from both the University of Waterloo and Xiamen University to develop novel algorithms and software tools for automated extraction of geometric and semantic information from 3D point clouds acquired by two RIEGL VMX-450 mobile LiDAR systems. He is currently a Professor of Geomatics and Director of the GeoSTARS Lab at the Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Canada.
"Temporal GIS: Principles, issues and challenges in environmental and urban studies"
Prof. Christophe Claramunt
professor in computer science and chair of the Naval Academy Research Institute in France
Dr Christophe Claramunt is a professor in computer science and chair of the Naval Academy Research Institute in France. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Burgundy (1998) and an 'Habilitation' degree from the University of Rouen (2001). Before joining the Naval Academy Research Institute he has been a senior lecturer at the Nottingham Trent University and a senior scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Amongst other affiliations, he is also a visiting researcher at the Information Media Lab of the University of Hyogo, a research associate at the Centre for Planning Studies at the Laval University and a research fellow at the Joint Laboratory for Geographical Information Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research is oriented towards theoretical and pluri-disciplinary aspects of geographical information science and their application to urban and environmental systems. He has widely published in the domain of GIS and serves in the editorial boards of several international GIS journals.
“Usefulness of Volunteered Geographic Information for Land Cover Mapping"
Prof. Cidália Maria Parreira da Costa Fonte
Researcher in the Institute for Systems and Computers Engineering at Coimbra
(INESC Coimbra), Portugal
Cidália C. Fonte received her PhD in 2004 in Geomatic Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and is a Professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of this University. She is researcher and member of the board of Directors of the Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers at Coimbra; member of the management committee of the Information and Communication Technology COST Action TD-1202, entitled "Mapping and the citizen sensor"; coordinator of the work group 4 of this COST action dedicated to map validation; national delegate for Portugal at the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) Commission 2 (Professional Education) and coordinator of the Master Course of Geomatic Engineering and the Master course of Technologies of Geographical Information. Her main research interests are quality assessment of geographical information, land cover mapping and uncertainty modeling.
Special Presentations:
"Constraining tectonics and volcanic processes from space, in the new era of Sentinel-1"
Prof. Andrew Hooper
Professor of Geodesy and Geophysics at University of Leeds, UK
"Onset and Mechanisms of Surface Creep"
Prof. Ziyadin Cakir
Associate Professor in Istanbul Technical University, Department of Geology
"Regional gravity inversion and hydrological monitoring from sapce geodetic techniques"
Prof. Orhan Akyilmaz
Associate Professor in Istanbul Technical University, Department of Geodesy and photogrammetry
“4D Tomographic Urban Mapping Using meter-resolution SAR Data Stacks”
Dr.-Ing. Xiaoxiang Zhu
Scientific Researcher at Remote Sensing Technology Institute, DLR (German Aerospace Center) and Remote Sensing Technology, TUM
"Geodetic data series analysis: Theories and applications"
Dr. Alireza Amiri-Simkooei
Associate Professor in University of Isfahan, Department of Geomatics Engineering
"Multi-temporal remote sensing and GIS-based analysis for landslide hazard assessment"
Dr. Sigrid Roessner
Senior Scientist at the Remote Sensing Section at the Helmholtz Center Potsdam, German Research Center for Geosciences(GFZ)
"Operational applications of satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar data"
Dr. Paolo Pasquali
Co-founding owner, President and Technical Director at Sarmap, Switzerland
"Subsurface Soil Moisture Retrieval Using Low Frequency Electromagnetic Waves"
Dr. Alireza Tabatabaeenejad
Research Assistant Professor in University of Southern California
"The role of geomatics and satellite techniques in hazard monitoring"
Prof. Hakan S. Kutoglu
Director of Hazard Appl.&Res. Center in Bulent Ecevit University, Turkey
"Measuring deformations with radar: from sky to ground"
Dr. Oriol Monserrat
Head of Remote Sensing Department, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain
"Deep look into volcano craters: High resolution SAR and photogrammetry"
Dr. Thomas R. WALTER
Head of the Research Group “VolcanoTectonics” at GFZ Potsdam, Germany
"Glacial isostatic adjustment inferred from interferometric synthetic aperture radar, a challange"
Dr. Volker Klemann
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
“Deep Learning: a huge success in computer vision, an opportunity for remote sensing”
Gellért Máttyus
Photogrammetry and Image Analysis Department,
Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
“The generic processing system Catena – A variety of possibilities in preprocessing and thematic processing of satellite and airborne image data”
Mathias Schneider
Photogrammetry and Image Analysis Department,
Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR)