George Vosselman
Environmental Science
ENVIRON
Germany
Biography
George Vosselman (1963) was born in Ommen, the Netherlands. He graduated with honours from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, in Geodetic Engineering in 1986 with an M.Sc.-thesis on the precision of digital camera's. After his graduation he worked as researcher at the Institute of Photogrammetry of the Stuttgart University, Germany, until 1992. In 1991 he obtained his Ph.D.-degree with honours from the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University of Bonn, Germany, on the topic of relational matching. After a year as visiting scientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A., he was appointed professor of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at the Delft University of Technology in 1993. In 2004 he joined ITC as professor of Geo-Information Extraction with Sensor Systems while keeping a "zero-appointment" at the Delft University of Technology. In 2005 he was also appointed as professor of Geo-Information Extraction and Remote Sensing at the Twente University. George Vosselman is recipient of the Hansa Luftbild Award (1993), the ISPRS Otto von Gruber Award (2000), the ISPRS Schwidefsky Medal (2012), the ISPRS Karl Kraus Medal (2012), and the ASPRS Photogrammetric (Fairchild) Award (2015). From 2005 until 2012 he was Editor-in-Chief of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
Research Interest
In the last ten years the main focus of research has been on laser altimetry. Quality analysis of laser altimetry data, strip adjustment, segmentation and classification of point clouds, and semi-automatic building extraction have been the major topics. Besides, some projects on industrial photogrammetry and building reconstruction from aerial photographs were executed. In the first few years at the Delft University of Technology, research focussed on semi-automated mapping and updating of road networks. At the University of Washington George Vosselman participated in a project on the quality performance of OCR systems, whereas in Stuttgart the topic of his research was relational matching.
