Terms of Reference

Alexander Reiterer (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)

Position: University Assistant  at the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Engineering Geodesy, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

Research Interests: Image Assisted Theodolites, Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Geodesy, Multi-Sensor-Systems, Sensor and Data Fusion.

Uwe Egly (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)

Position: Associate Professor at Knowlede-Based Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

Research Interests: Knowledge representation and reasoning, Automated reasoning.

Klaus Chmelina (Geodata, Austria)

Position: Area Manager of the Geodata Branch Office Vienna

Research Interests: Application of Knowledge-Based Systems and Expert Systems in Tunneling, Intelligent Control of Measuring Systems and Processes.

Dorota A. Grejner-Brzezinska (Ohio-State University, USA)

Position: Associate Professor at Satellite Positioning and Inertial Navigation (SPIN) Laboratory of Ohio-State University, USA

Research Interests: GPS/GNSS Algorithms, GPS/Inertial and other Sensor Integration for Navigation in Challenged Environments, Sensors and Algorithms for Indoor and Personal Navigation, Signal Processing in Integrated Navigation Systems using Kalman Filter and Non-linear Filtering, and Precision Orbit Determination for GNSS/LEO.

Michael Heinert (University of Technology Braunschweig)

Position: Research Assistant at the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, University of Technology Braunschweig, Germany.
Research Interests: System Theory, Time Series Analysis, Filtering,
Non-linear Optimisation, Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines and
Statistical Learning Theory adapted to Geokinematic Processes

Shahram Moafipoor (Ohio-State University, USA)

Position: Graduate Research Associate in the Satellite Positioning and Inertial Navigation (SPIN) Laboratory of Ohio-State University, USA

Research Interests: GPS/INS Integration, Integrated Navigation Systems, Personal Navigation Systems, Mobile Mapping Technology, Photogrammetry, Aerial Photography, and LiDAR Data Processing.

Susanne Schröder (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

Position: Research associate at the Ruhr Universität Bochum

Research Interests: 3D Cameras (TOF Cameras)

Jens-André Paffenholz (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany)

Position: Research Assistant at the Geodetic Institute at the Leibniz Universität Hannover.

Research Interests: Terrestrial Laser Scanning (Geo-referencing Tasks and Kinematic Laser Scanning), Industrial Measurement Systems, Automation of Measurement Processes and Robot Calibrations.

Peter Wasmeier (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

Position: Research Assistant at the Geodetic Institute of Technical University of Munich. 

Research Interests: Automated In-Door Deformation Measurement of Sacred Buildings, Development and Improvement of Camera-Based Levelling-staff Calibrators, Object Recognition Using Video Tacheometry, Deformation Measurement Using Tacheometric Scans