DLA Conference 2013 Guide - Hochschule Anhalt
DLA Conference 2013 Guide - Hochschule Anhalt
DLA Conference 2013 Guide - Hochschule Anhalt
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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)