ISPRS Brock Gold Medal for Dr Franz Leberl
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ISPRS Brock Gold Medal for Dr Franz Leberl

The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is pleased to announce that O. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.Ing. Dr. Techn. Franz Leberl, chair of the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision at Graz University of Technology, Austria, is the winner of the ISPRS Brock Gold Medal for 2012.

The medal is donated by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and is awarded quadrennially for an outstanding landmark in the evolution of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences.

Franz Leberl has been awarded the Brock Gold Medal in recognition of his achievement of landmark developments in the fields of photogrammetry and remote sensing over the past 30 years. He was a pioneer in the development of radargrammetry and the applications of imaging radar and published a definitive textbook on the subject, a part from over 330 scientific papers and holds 15 patents. He played a major role in projects on mapping the planets using radar images Leberl was an early innovator in ISPRS with the commencement of the Working Group Mathematical Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis from 1976 to 1984. He developed and marketed a photogrammetric precision film scanner, the UltraScan from 1998 with over 600 units sold, and a digital large format aerial camera UltraCam from 2003, with about 250 sold.

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