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DLA Conference 2013 Guide - Hochschule Anhalt

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21<br />

Thomas H. Kolbe<br />

Prof. Dr Thomas H. Kolbe is the Chairman of Technical<br />

University Munich TUM also director of the institute for<br />

Geodesy and Geoinformation Science. He studied computer<br />

sciences from 1988 to 1993 and received his PhD in 1999 on<br />

the automatic extraction of building information modeling;<br />

3D GIS; spatial data infrastructure; WEB GIS; information<br />

theory; and object recognition. Prof Kolbe is initiator and<br />

one of the principal developers of the CityGML standard in<br />

the Open Geospatial Consortium (www.citygml.org).<br />

Since 2008, he has been the co-chair of a big European<br />

science network with 22 participating member states (EU<br />

COST Action TU 0801 on “Semantic enrichment of 3D city<br />

models for sustainable urban development “). He is<br />

currently the vice president of the German Society for<br />

Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and Geoinformation<br />

(DGPF)

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