Robert Kostka
Robert Kostka (born November 29, 1935 in Graz ) is an Austrian mountaineer , geographer and cartographer as well as a university lecturer in Graz. He is best known for his mountain cartography in some remote high mountains in Asia and America. He has published several books on these activities and results.
One of the first of these works, mostly co-authored , was a research and illustrated book about the Afghan Wakhan , the previously almost unexplored high valley of the Pamir in the border triangle between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. Since this multi-year, interdisciplinary project by around 10 scientists in the 1970s, Kostka has been concerned not only with satellite remote sensing , mountain surveys and cartography, but also with the history and anthropology of the regions visited. They also include mountains in the Middle East, Africa and especially the Andes of South America.
In 1970 Kostka made photogrammetric recordings of Bamiyan's Buddha statues on glass plates. These photographs represent an important basis for the possible rebuilding of the statues that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 .
Kostka teaches at the Technical University of Graz a . a. History of remote sensing.
Individual evidence
- ↑ R.Senarclens de Grancy and Robert Kostka: Big Pamir: Austrian research company in 1975 in the Wakhan Pamir, Afghanistan. 400 pages and bag with 5 cards, Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1978
- ↑ Employee page ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of TU Graz, accessed on November 1, 2012
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| SURNAME | Kostka, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian mountaineer, cartographer and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |