Klaus Hanke

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Klaus Hanke (* 1954 in Innsbruck ) is a university professor at the Faculty of Technical Sciences at the University of Innsbruck and former head of the surveying and geographic information department.

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Klaus Hanke began studying surveying in 1973 at the newly founded Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the University of Innsbruck. In 1976 he moved to the Technical University of Graz to continue his surveying studies with renowned university lecturers such as Karl Rinner , Peter Meissl , Hans Sünkel and Franz W. Leberl and to successfully deepen himself in the emerging and exciting areas of digital photogrammetry and cartography .

The opportunity offered to return to the University of Innsbruck as a university assistant gave Klaus Hanke the opportunity to do a dissertation on methods of interpolating digital terrain models in mountains.

Scientifically fruitful years of collaboration with Albert Grimm-Pitzinger in the numerical analysis and optimization of engineering geodetic networks followed. a. for dam monitoring and tunneling, which were honored in 1986 with the prize for scientific research of the state capital Innsbruck.

After Wilhelm Embacher's retirement and the associated reorientation and the discontinuation of the surveying course in Innsbruck, Klaus Hanke was able to devote himself more to his favorite field, photogrammetry , and completed his habilitation in 1994. He also succeeded in permanently anchoring the courses of architectural image measurement and photogrammetry as well as digital terrain models and remote sensing data in the curricula of architecture and civil and environmental engineering .

Klaus Hanke was able to realize his research interests both within the University of Innsbruck and internationally as an active interdisciplinary cooperation. His scientific and social commitment to the surveying documentation of the world cultural heritage led him on the one hand to the board of the "International Scientific Commitees for Cultural Heritage Documentation (CIPA)", jointly founded by ISPRS and ICOMOS , in which he was Secretary General for four years and vice-president for two periods was allowed to work and on the other hand to numerous, also EU-funded projects in the field of cultural heritage surveying with photogrammetry and laser scanning .

In addition to the internationally recognized FWF's transdisciplinary HiMAT special research area for research into the history of mining (spokesperson: Klaus Oeggl ), the 3D measurement of Maximilian I's tomb in Innsbruck's court church and the virtual reconstruction of the “Valkenau monument” in the cathedral are to be carried out here zu Speyer from laser-scanned fragments for the Salzburg Museum .

The computer models of the last two projects also form the digital data basis for several museum exhibitions and installations in 2019. a. on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the death of Emperor Maximilian I in the Innsbruck Hofburg and Ambras Castle .

Klaus Hanke worked for almost four decades in national and international bodies, advisory boards and commissions of the academic self-government for the University of Innsbruck . In 1997 Hanke was appointed associate professor for applied geodesy and in 2010 as a full member of the Austrian Geodetic Commission . Until his retirement in 2019, he headed the surveying and geoinformation department at the Faculty of Technical Sciences at the University of Innsbruck.

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SURNAME Hanke, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian surveying engineer, professor for surveying and geoinformation
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck