PRESENT EMPLOYMENT:
Prof. at Department of Geomatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering (FCE) of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU)
EDUCATION, ACADEMIC AND EDUCATIONAL APPOINTMENTS:
- 1980 engineer of the Water Management and Water Structures (Ing.), FCE of CTU (Two dimensional flow in open channels modelling for the Elbe River)
- 1989 Ph.D. FCE of CTU (Program for the 3D non-stationary flow in open channels)
- 2004 Assoc. Prof. FCE of CTU (Automated Classification of Black and White Aerial Photographs)
- 2019 Professor at FCE of CTU
OVERVIEW OF EMPLOYMENT:
- 1980 – 1985 Ph.D. at the Department of Hydrotechnics of the FCE of CTU in Prague
- 1985 – Department of Mapping and Cartography (now Department of Geomatics) of FCE of CTU in Prague
- 1994 – 1997 part time in KAP, s.r.o.
- 1997 – 1999 part time in MGE DATA, s.r.o.
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES:
- 2004 – Chairperson of the Czech Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- 2004 – 2008 member of the ISPRS Financial Commission
- 2008 – 2012 Chairperson of the ISPRS Financial Commission
- 2012 – ISPRS Council member Congress Director of the 2016 XXIII ISPRS Congress, Prague
- 2005 – 2015 Representative of the Czech Republic in EARSeL (European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories
- 2005 – 2008 Treasurer of the EARSeL Bureau
- 2008 – 2010 Secretary General of the EARSeL Bureau
- 2010 – 2014 Vice Chairperson of the EARSeL Bureau
- 2014 – 2016 Chairperson of the ISPRS Bureau
- 2016 – 2018 Vice Chairperson of the EARSeL Bureau
- 2016 – ISPRS Secretary General
RESEARCH AREAS:
- Land use/land cover using remote sensing
- optical and SAR remote sensing and GIS applications for water engineering, erosion, reclamations, detection of vegetation in urban areas, change detection in urban areas
LECTURES AND SUPERVISING:
- FCE of CTU in Prague, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem:
- Geographic Information Systems
- Remote Sensing, Digital Image Processing
