Wolfgang Förstner

Wolfgang Förstner (* 1946 ) is a German geodesist and professor of photogrammetry at the University of Bonn .

Life

Förstner studied geodesy until 1971 and received his doctorate in 1976 from the University of Stuttgart as Dr.-Ing. He then worked for three years in the North Rhine-Westphalian surveying department in Bonn before returning to the University of Stuttgart as a research assistant . In 1990 he was appointed to the University of Bonn, where research on building reconstruction from aerial photographs formed the scientific focus of his work. Förstner has described an interest operator for searching for prominent places in digital images , which was named after him.

Awards

• 1987: Carl Pulfrich Prize
• 2000: Gino Cassinis Award from the ISPRS
• 2005: Fairchild Award from the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
• 2011: Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy at the University of Hanover
• 2011: Honorary doctorate from Graz University of Technology

Fonts

• with E. Gülch: A Fast Operator for Detection and Precise Location of Distinct Points, Corners and Centers of Circular Features , in: Proceedings of the ISPRS Intercommission Workshop on Fast Processing of Photogrammetric Data, 1987, pp. 281-305
• with Thomas Länke: Automatic relative orientation of images. In: Proceedings of the 5th Turkish-German Joint Geodetic Days, March 29th - 31st, 2006 . Berlin, ISBN 3-9809030-4-4 ( online )
• with Christian Beder: Direct determination of cylinders from 3D points without using surface normals , 2006

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Förstner in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jessica Lumme: Honorary doctorate for Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Förstner , press release from Leibniz Universität Hannover, in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from March 4, 2011, accessed on March 8, 2011
2. ↑ Pioneer of photogrammetry becomes honorary doctor at TU Graz