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      Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schrotter

      Gerhard Schrotter

      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 Schrotter

      Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schrotter

      Director FHNW School of Architecture, Construction and Geomatics

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      +41 61 228 54 63

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      gerhard.schrotter@fhnw.ch

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

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