Curriculum vitae
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.
George Vosselman is recipient of the Hansa Luftbild Award (1993) and the ISPRS
Otto von Gruber Award (2000).
As of 2005 he is Editor-in-Chief of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing.
Education
Over the years George Vosselman taught many courses in photogrammetry,
remote sensing and laser altimetry, both at undergraduate and graduate level.
He gave guest lectures, tutorials and courses at universities and conferences
in Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Saudi-Arabia,
Turkey, and U.S.A..
He has been supervisor of about 40 MSc students. From 1999 till 2002 he was
programme director for the study in Geodetic Engineering at the Delft University
of Technology. He is author/editor of chapter 6 of the ASPRS Manual of
Photogrammetry (5th edition).
Research
In the last five 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.