EDUCATION
| 1967 - 1972 |
Geodetisch Ingenieur, Delft University
of Technology. |
| 1981 |
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Delft University
of Technology.
Thesis: A Further Inquiry into the Theory of S-transformations and Criterion
Matrices.
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| KEY QUALIFICATIONS |
Geoinformatics.
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
Geodesy
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LANGUAGES AND DEGREE OF
PROFICIENCY
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Language
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Speaking
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Reading
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Writing
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| Dutch |
mother tongue
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| English |
excellent |
excellent |
excellent |
| German |
excellent |
excellent |
good |
| French |
fair |
fair |
fair |
EMPLOYMENT RECORD
| 2001 |
International Institute for Aerospace
Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC).
Rector
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| 1996 |
International Institute for Aerospace
Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC). |
| Position |
Professor in Geo-Informatics and Spatial
Data Acquisition |
| Description of duties |
Responsible for research, education and
consulting in geoinformatics, photogrammetry and remote sensing. |
| Other positions at ITC |
- Head of Division for Geoinformatics and Spatial Data Acquisition,
1996 to date.
- Member of the Management Committee, 1998 - to date
- Chairman of the Education Policy Advisory Committee 1998 - to date
- Member of the Scientific Council 2000 - to date
- Chairman of the Department of Geoinformatics 1997 - 1998
- Chairman inter-departmental Course Board for GIS, 1996 - 1999.
- Chairman of the Program Board of the Geoinformation Management Program
1998 - to date.
- Member of the Geoinformatics Program Board, 1998 - to date
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| 1983 - 1996 |
Wageningen Agricultural University,
The Netherlands |
| Position |
Professor in Geo-Informatics and Remote
Sensing (originally "Land-Surveying and Teledetection"). |
| Description of duties |
Lecturing and Research
Lecturing topics:
Geo-Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS), Land-surveying,
Photogrammetry.
Research:
Geo-Information Theory: data models for 2D and 3D applications, linking
scale or aggregation levels, uncertainty. Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry:
Data integration with GIS, knowledge based image interpretation, landscape
dynamics and monitoring, multi scale applications. Application GIS, RS
and Photogrammetry: environmental monitoring, land use surveys and monitoring,
regional soil science, monitoring of ecosystems, land use planning, forestry.
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| Other positions at the University: |
- Head of the department of Geo-Information and remote Sensing ( originally
"Land-Surveying and Teledetection") 1983 - 1996.
- Member of the board of the sub-faculty "Soil- and Land Use Sciences".
- Chairman of this board 1990 - 1994.
- Chairman of the Interdepartmental Working Group for Geo-Information
Processing and Remote Sensing, 1989 - 1996.
- Chairman of the Centre for Geo-Information Processing, CGI, 1989
- 1996.
- Coordinator of the university research programme VF89.24 on GIS and
Remote Sensing 1989 - 1994.
- Coordinator of the university research programme VF94.33 on GIS and
Remote Sensing 1994 - 1999.
- Member of the "C.T. de Wit" research school for production
ecology 1994 - 1996.
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| 1973 - 1983 |
International Institute of Aerospace
Survey and Earth Sciences, ITC, The Netherlands |
| Position |
Senior lecturer |
| Description of duties |
Lecturing and research.
Lecturing topics:
mathematics, statistics, adjustment theory, aerotriangulation.
Research topics:
adjustment and quality control of aerotriangulation and geodetic networks.
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| 1972 - 1973 |
Technical University Delft, The Netherlands |
| Position |
Researcher |
| Description of duties |
Research assistant at the faculty of geodesy |
| MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES |
- Netherlands Society for Earth Observation & Geoinformatics.
- Netherlands Geodetic Society.
- American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
- German Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
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OTHER ACTIVITIES
| Member of the editorial boards |
- ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Published by Elsevier,
Amsterdam, (1986 - 1997).
- Geo-Informations-Systeme Published by Wichmann Verlag, Heidelberg,
(1989- to date).
- ITC-Journal Published by ITC, Enschede, (1984 - to date).
- Zeitschrift für Photogrammetrie und Remote Sensing, published
by the German photogrammetric and RS society, 1996 - to date.
- Geomatics Info Magazine, GITC bv, Lemmer, the Netherlands, 1995- to
date
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Councils of Netherlands Societies: |
| 1998 - to date |
- President of Netherlands Society for Earth Observation and Geoinformatics
(NKAOG).
- Member of the Council of NKAOG since 1995.
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| 1988 - 1990 |
Chairman of the Netherlands Federation for Earth observation
and Geoinformatics (NFAG). Member of the board of this federation
1990 - 1995 |
| 1987 - 1992 |
Chairman of the Netherlands Society for Photogrammetry, since
1992 member of the board of this Society |
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International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing:
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| 1999 - to date |
Member of the International Scientific Advisory Council (ISAC)
of ISPRS |
| 1996 - to date |
Scientific Program Director of the XIXth ISPRS Congress in Amsterdam
2000 |
| 1996 - to date |
Chairman of ISPRS Working group IV/III.1 on 'Conceptual aspects
of GIS'. |
| 1992 - 1996 |
Chairman of ISPRS Working group III/IV on 'Conceptual aspects
of GIS' |
| 1988 - 1992 |
Chairman of ISPRS Working group III.1 on 'Geo-information theory' |
| 1984 - 1988 |
Chairman of ISPRS Working group III.1 on 'the combined adjustment
of Aerotriangulation blocks and geodetic networks' |
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The Netherlands Geodetic Commission
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| 1984 - to date |
Member of the Netherlands Commission of Geodesy (NCG):
- since 1988 member of the daily board of this commission;
- since 1992 Secretary of this commission;
- 1995-1996 acting president of the commission.
|
| 1996 - to date |
Member of the NCG working group on education. |
| 1989 - to date |
Chairman of the Subcommittee of NCG for 'Geo-information
Models'. |
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Other functions
|
| 1999 - to date |
Honorary Professor of Wuhan Technical University of
Survey and Mapping, Wuhan, China. |
| 1999 - to date |
Member Program Committee "Aardobservatie",
NWO - SRON |
| 1996 - to date |
- Dutch representative in OEEPE.
- Member of the Dutch advisory group of OEEPE, 1984 - to date.
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| 1996 - to date |
Chairman Program Advisory Group on "Land Applications
of RS" of Program Bureau BCRS |
| 1993 - 1996 |
Advisory member of the board of section "Spatial
Information" of the Netherlands Society for Computer Science |
| 1993 - 1998 |
Member of the board of the International Soil Reference
and Information Centre ISRIC |
| 1989 - 1996 |
Member of the Council for Earth Sciences of the Royal
Netherlands Academy of Sciences |
| 1988 - 1996 |
Vice chairman of the board of the Netherlands Expertise
Centre for Spatial Information NexpRI. |
| 1986 - 1998 |
- Member of the Board of Trustees of Geodelta Holding B.V., Delft.
- Chairman of this Board, 1994 - 1998
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| 1985 - 1995 |
Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Geodesy
of the Delft Technical University |
| 1984 - 1995 |
Member of the Scientific Council of the International
Institute for Aerospace Surveys and Earth Sciences ITC. |
CONGRESSES, WORKSHOPS AND SYMPOSIA
International
- member of the scientific program committee of the ISPRS Comm. III symposium, Rovianemi, August 19-22, 1986
- member of the scientific program committee of the ISPRS Comm. VII symposium, Enschede, August 25-28, 1986
- member of the scientific program committee of Comm. III of the XVIth ISPRS Congress, Kyoto, July 28- August 10, 1988
- convenor of the joint workshop of ISPRS working groups III/1, III/2 and III/4, Wageningen, September 25-27, 1989
- member of the scientific program committee of the ISPRS Comm. III symposium, Wuhan, May 22-25, 1990
- co-convenor and program coordinator of the joint workshop of ISPRS working groups III/1, III/2 and III/4, Fredericton (Canada), October 7-9, 1991
- member of the scientific program committee of Comm. III of the XVIIth ISPRS Congress, Washington, August 3-14, 1992
- Convenor of the international workshop on Multi source Data Integration in Remote Sensing for Land Inventory Applications, IAPR TC7, Delft, September 7-9, 1992.
- member of the scientific program committee of the ISPRS Comm. IV symposium, Athens, Georgia, May 31- June 3, 1994
- member of the scientific program committee of the ISPRS Comm. III symposium, Muenchen, September 5-10, 1994
- Convenor of the international workshop on Advanced Geographical Data Modelling, ISPRS WG III/IV and NCG Subcommission on GIS, Delft, September 12-14, 1994
- Member of the scientific program committee of COSIT, Vienna, 1995
- member of the scientific program committees of Comm. III and IV of the XVIIIth ISPRS Congress, Vienna, 1996
- Chairman of the scientific programm committee for the international symposium on Spatial Data Handling SDH, Delft 1996
- Member of the scientific program committee of COSIT, Vienna, 1997
- Member of the Scientific Program Committee of ISPRS Commission IV Symposium, Stuttgart, 1998
- Member of the Scientific Program Committee of ISPRS Commission III Symposium, Columbus, Ohio, 1998
- Co-convenor of the Workshop on Computational Cartography, Dagstuhl, 1999
- Member of the Scientific Program Committee of ISPRS Symposium on Spatial Data Quality, Hong Kong, 1999
- Member of the Scientific Program Committee of ISPRS Second International Workshop on Dynamic and Multi-Dimensional GIS, Beijing, 1999
- Scientific Program Director of the XIXth ISPRS Congress in Amsterdam 2000
National
- convenor and program coordinator of the GIS-Symposium of NFAG, September 29, 1989
- Program coordinator NVK-NFAG Symposium on "RS and Cartography", Utrecht, March-21-1995
- Program coordinator and convenor of NCG SubCie GIS workshop on "The Generalization of GIS-Data", December 7, 1995
- Co-convenor of Geo-Informatics- Netherlands, GIN-2000, Ede, februari, 2000.
SCIENTIFIC AND CONSULTING PROJECTS IN:
China, several visits, 1990 - to date.
Costa Rica, several visits, 1987 - 1993.
Egypt, 1999.
India, 1999.
Indonesia, several visits, 1982 - 1998
Iran, 2000.
Kenya, 1995.
Tunesia, 1989.
EXTERNAL LECTURING ACTIVITIES:
- Visiting professor at the Institute for Photogrammetry of the Technical University Muenchen, course on "Geodetic Network Adjustment and Quality Control, 4 weeks, May 1986
- Program coordinator and lecturer of the ISPRS tutorial on "Statistical concepts for quality control", 1 day, Rovaniemi (SF), August-18-1986
- Visiting professor at the Institute for Photogrammetry of the Technical University of Helsinki, course on "Geo-Information Theory" December 7-19, 1987
- Member of the program committee and lecturer of the Post Academic (PHLO) course on "Remote Sensing", 10 days, Wageningen May 1987 and June 1988
- Course director and lecturer of the Post Academic (PHLO) course on "Modern Mapping Techniques", 3 days, Wageningen June 1988 and April 1989
- Lecturer of the seminar on "Data models for GIS", Canadian National Atlas Service, EMR, Ottawa, October 24-26, 1989
- Program coordinator and lecturer of the ISPRS tutorial on "Geometric Structures for GIS", WUTSM, Wuhan (China), May 20-21, 1990
- Lecturer of the course "I Sistemi Informativi Territoriali", at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Udine (It), April 17-19, 1991
- Course director and lecturer of the Post Academic (PHLO-COVLAWA) course on "Geographic Information Systems", 3 days, Leuven October-1990 and Wageningen May-1991
- Program coordinator and lecturer of the EGIS tutorial on "3-D GIS", Muenchen, March 23, 1992
- Visiting professor at the Institute for Photogrammetry of the Agricultural University of Bonn, course on "Geo-Information Theory", June 1 to 12, 1992
- Lecturer of the COMETT post graduate course in GIS, topic "Modelling Reality in GIS", San Miniato (It), April-18, 1994.
- Member of the program committee and lecturer of the TEMPUS SWARP course on "GIS Application", Agricultural University Warschau, June-08-1995
- Lecturer of the ISPRS WG III/4 tutorial on "Basic Concepts of GIS", Budapest, June 12-13, 1995
- Lecturer of the tutorial of the GIS-ASIA'95 Conference on "Spatial object Models in GIS", Bangkok, August-21, 1995
- Program coordinator and lecturer of the ISPRS tutorial on "Conceptual Aspects of GIS Technology", Vienna, 1996.
- Guest lectures on "Spatial Data Modelling", Wuhan Technical University of Survey and Mapping, Wuhan, China, June 25-26, 1998.
PUBLICATIONS
Since 1973 about 130 publications in International referenced journals, books and conference proceedings on topics like: geodesy, photogrammetry, spatial data modelling, integration of GIS and remote sensing.
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