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Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fellnhofer

Gerhard Fellnhofer

Activities at FHNW

Director FHNW School of Architecture, Construction and Geomatics

Further Information

Education & Professional Experience

Education

  • Management Courses (Management Circle, Public Management, Media Training, etc.) (CH),
    2011-2020
  • Hermes project management method (with certificate) (CH), Requirement Engineering Course (CH), 2010
  • Ph.D. (Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry), ETH Zurich / EPF Lausanne (CH), 2009
  • Exchange student in Computer Vision / Cornell University (USA), 2006
  • Postgraduate course in Computer Graphics / ETH Zurich (CH), 2005
  • Postgraduate course in Computer Vision / Surrey University (UK), 2004
  • Diploma (Master of Science) Surveying (Geomatics Engineering) / Technical University of Graz (AT), 2002

Professional experience

  • President of Swiss Organization of Geoinformation (SOGI)
    2019 - till now
  • ETH Research Program Manager
    2017 -Sabbatical
  • Director of Geomatics (GeoZ) – Public Administration of Zurich:
    May 2011 - till now
  • Schrotter Consultants - Technology Transfer:
    2009 – 2017
  • Project Leader - GIS Competence Center – Urban Planning Department - City of Zurich:
    June 2009 - to May 2011
  • Head of Core Development / International Project Leader:
    March 2006 - June 2009
Research

Research Work

  • Dissertation and Research Assistant (Prof. Armin Gruen, Prof. Pascal Fua, Prof. Christophe Girot), ETH Zurich
    August 2003 - March 2007
  • Research Assistant (Prof. Hans Sünkel), Graz University of Technology
    January 2003 - July 2003
  • Research Assistant and Staff at Vexcel Imaging Austria (Prof. Franz Leberl), Graz University of Technology
    November 2001 - December 2002

Research Awards

  • Selected for the first "European success story" of the "Google Maps API", CH, 2009
  • Invitation for research to the University of Cornell, USA, 2005
  • Invitation for research to the University of Surrey, UK, 2003
  • Best Paper Award (Surrey University), GB, 2003
Publications
  • Schrotter, G., Hürzeler, C. The Digital Twin of the City of Zurich for Urban Planning. PFG 88, 99–112 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41064-020-00092-2
  • Schrotter, G. Towards a Reliable Map of Subsurface Utilities in Singapore Digital Underground (2020). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340828635_Towards_a_Reliable_Map_of_Subsurface_Utilities
    _in_Singapore_Digital_Underground

  • Grün A., Schrotter, G. , et al. An Operable System for LoD3 Model Generation Using Multi-Source Data and User-Friendly Interactive Editing Virtual Singapore R&D Program -Towards Automatic Acquisition of 3D City Models for Virtual Sing apore (2020).
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343098753_An_Operable_System_for_LoD3_Model_Generation_
    Using_Multi-Source_Data_and_User-Friendly_Interactive_Editing_Virtual_Singapore_RD_Program_-
    Towards_Automatic_Acquisition_of_3D_City_Models_for_Virtual_Sin

  • Yan, Jingya & Jaw, Siow Wei & V. Son, R & Soon, Kean & Schrotter, G. (2018).
    THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA MODELLING FOR UNDERGROUND UTILITY NETWORK MAPPING. ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. XLII-4. 711-715. 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-711-2018.
  • van Son, R & Jaw, Siow Wei & Yan, Jingya & Khoo, V & Loo, R & Teo, S & Schrotter, G. (2018).
    A FRAMEWORK FOR RELIABLE THREE-DIMENSIONAL UNDERGROUND UTILITY MAPPING FOR URBAN PLANNING. ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences.
    XLII-4/W10. 209-214. 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W10-209-2018.
  • Jaw, Siow Wei & Van Son, Rob & Khoo Hock Soon, Victor & Schrotter, Gerhard
    & Loo Wei Kiah, Richard & Teo Shen Ni, Sandy & Yan, Jingya. (2018).
    The Need for a Reliable Map of Utility Networks for Planning Underground Spaces.
    1-6. 10.1109/ICGPR.2018.8441625
  • Li, Jiaqiang & Xiong, B & Biljecki, Filip & Schrotter, G. (2018). A sliding window method for
    detecting corners of openings from terrestrial LiDAR data.
    XLII-4/W10. 97-103. 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W10-97-2018.

Further publications: https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/discover , keyword: Schrotter or https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gerhard_Schrotter/research

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Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fellnhofer

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fellnhofer

Director FHNW School of Architecture, Construction and Geomatics

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+41 61 228 54 63

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gerhard.fellnhofer@fhnw.ch

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FHNW School of Architecture, Construction and Geomatics Hofackerstrasse 30 4132 Muttenz

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