Lorenz Hurni
Professor
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Lorenz Hurni has been Associate Professor of Cartography at the Institute of Cartography and Gepinformation of ETH Zurich since November 1996 (Full Professor since October 2003). He is managing editor-in-chief of the "Atlas of Switzerland", the Swiss national atlas. He was born in 1963 in Biel-Bienne/BE and studied geodesy at ETH Zurich. As assistant at the Institute of Cartography, he implemented a digital cartographic information system for teaching and research purposes. In connection with his doctoral thesis, he developed methods allowing the entirely digital production of topographic and geologic maps and derived 3D visualisations. Thereby, he developed the first programme for automatic generation of cartographic cliff drawings. In 1994 he took up a position at the Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) in Wabern. As project leader for computer-assisted cartography, he worked mainly on the implementation of an interactive graphics system for the digital processing of national maps, which replaced the former analogous map production.
Research Interest
Cartographic data models and tools for the production of printed and multimedia maps; Interactive, multidimensional multimedia map representations.
