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supporting partner of all political decision-makers in
favour of a healthy environment.
2 Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf
Referring to Remote Sensing Activities, the institute
carried out the following projects (Com. VII):
a) Land Use Map of Pannonian Area
aim: mapping the spatial distribution of agri-
cultural crops
data: Landsat TM quarter-scenes (May, July,
September 1991)
area: eastern part pf Lower Austria, northern part
of Burgenland
method: hierarchical classification approach
using multitemporal index images
result:digital land-use raster map (30x30m cell
size), 8 crop classes, 15 classes in all
application: modelling local impact of agricultural
land-use on natural areas.
duration: 1993 - 1994
partners: international research project
b) Change Detection in urban areas
aim: developping a fast method for detecting
new built-up areas in urban environments
data: Landsat TM quarter-scenes (1986, 1991)
area: metropolitan area of Vienna (Austria)
method: linear mixture modelling
result:change detection map of Vienna (1986/91)
application: basis for updating the land use
vector-coverage of Vienna.
duration: 1994 - 1995
partners: municipal council Vienna, Austria
c) Land use/land cover map of Austria
aim: establishment of a land-use/land-cover
map of Austria
data: Landsat TM mosaic of Austria (1991)
area. entire area of Austria
method: multispectral classification/spatial post-
classification / integration of GIS layers
result: digital raster map of Austria (100x100m
cell size), 15 land-use/land-cover maps
(related to CORINE land-cover nomen-
clature)
applications: input to a number of environmental
modelling approaches
duration: 1994 - 1995
partners: Institute of Photogrammetry and
Remote Sensing, Technical University,
Vienna, Austria; Federal Environment
Agency, Vienna, Austria
d) Pan European Land Cover Monitoring
aim: Development of a consistent methodology
to derive land cover information from
remote sensing for environmental moni-
toring on a European scale
data: multitemporal NOAA/AVHRR imagery
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area: Europe
method: testing and validation of different
classification algorithms
applications: applying the best suitable classi-
fication method to derive a small scale
land cover map of Europe
duration: 1996 - 1999
partners: Winard Staring Centre (the
Netherlands); Institute of Remote Sensing
Applications of the Joint Research Centre
(Italy); Geodan (the Netherlands); Centre
Nationale de Recherche Meteorologique
(France); National Institute for Public
Health and the Environment (the Nether-
lands); Swedisch Space Co-operation
(Sweden); University of Venice (Italy); (this
project is funded by the EU within the 4
framework programme)
e) Participation in the "MOMS-MISSION"-project
E. UNIVERSITIES
In Austria four universities provide full or partial
ISPRS-relevant education (Com. VI). At the two
universities with full education (TU Graz and TU
Vienna) between 20 and 30 students take up their
respective studies each year. The whole study
comprises five years and leeds to the degree of a
"Dipl.-Ing.". This title corresponds with the MSc. of
English speaking universities. Apart from education
a lot of research work is done at the respective
institutes. In the following, a brief representation
should give an appropriate impression of this
matter:
1 Technical University Graz (TUG)
1.1 Institute for Applied Geodesy and
Photogrammetry, Department of Remote
Sensing, Image Processing and Cartography
Theoretical research (Com. Ill): Algebroprojective
Photogrammetry (= projective evaluation of
complete non-metric mono- and stereo images);
Digital stereo correlation by means of local
descriptors.
Applied investigations (Com. Il / V / VII): Imple-
mentation of a digital photogrammetric workstation;
Morphometric observations at block glaciers in the
"Hohe Tauern” national park; Mapping in the "Franz
Josef Land” archipelago from photogrammetric
spaceborne imagery; Reconstruction of sacral
objects from non-metric stereo images.
2.1 Institute of Computer Graphics and Geometry
Theoretical research (Com. ll / lll / V): Image
understanding; Parallel computing algorithms;
Radargrammetry.
Applied investigations (Com. Il / IV / V): Imple-
mentation of a digital photogrammetric workstation;
3D-restitution/rendering; X Multiple-image-data-sets;
Data-networks.
