Archaeological Remote Sensing
Michael Doneus
First Name:
Michael
Last Name:
Doneus
Title:
ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.
Position:
Deputy Director
Telephone:
+43 (0)1 4277 40486
Mobile:
+43 (0)664 60277 40486
Michael Doneus is deputy director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology and key researcher of Programme Line 1 - Archaeological Remote Sensing.
He has been employed at the Institute for Prehistory and Early Mediaeval History, University of Vienna. He is the director of the aerial archive at this department and has 15 years of experience in archaeological remote sensing. He is specialized in aerial archaeology, ALS, photogrammetry, surveying and GIS and has an international reputation as committee member of the Aerial Archaeology Research Group, and as Secretary General of the ICOMOS & ISPRS committee for the Documentation of Cultural Heritage (CIPA).
Recently he received the venia docendi at the Institute for Prehistory and Early Mediaeval History of the University Vienna on his postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) on landscape archaeology.
Christian Briese
First Name:
Christian
Last Name:
Briese
Title:
DI Dr
Position:
Senior Researcher
Mobile:
+43 (0)699 15206501
Christian Briese is researcher in the Programme Line 1 and post-doctoral scientific researcher at the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing of TU-Wien. He received his diploma (2000) and Ph.D. (2004) with honours at the IPF. He was working in many projects funded by the Austrian Science fund and is winner of the Ressel Prize of Vienna University of Technology. Since 2001 Christian Briese is research assistant at the IPF and since 2004 he collaborates in the Christian Doppler Laboratory “Spatial Data from Laser Scanning and Remote Sensing”. His main research interests are laser scanning, covering the whole data acquisition process up to the generation of final geometric models.
Michael Pregesbauer
First Name:
Michael
Last Name:
Pregesbauer
Title:
DI
Position:
Senior Researcher
Telephone:
+43 1 36026 3001
Mobile:
+43 676 44 50596
Michael Pregesbauer finished his studies of surveying science with concentration in geodesy and geophysics in 2001. After 2 years as a research assistant at the Vienna University of Technology he worked at the regional government of Lower Austria. Since 2005 he was responsible for the remote sensing activities within the government. His main focus was the data acquisition of LiDAR and digital imagery and the distribution to the end user. He also focused on 3D terrestrial Laserscanning dealing with the documentation of historic buildings as well as archaeological excavation mainly at the Archaeological Park Carnuntum (Aut). His scientific interest is in the integrated automatic classification and interpretation of geophysical prospection data and aerial remote sensing data.
Geert Verhoeven
First Name:
Geert
Last Name:
Verhoeven
Title:
Prof. Dr.
Position:
Senior Researcher
Mobile:
+43 (0)699 15206509
Geert J. Verhoeven (°1978) received his Masters degree in Archaeology from Ghent University (UGent, Belgium) in 2002. Since 2003, he has been working at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History of Europe, where he started his PhD research on archaeological aerial photography in September 2004 as a Ph.D. fellowship of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). In his PhD, Geert developed new technologies, methodologies, and data processing procedures for the benefit of aerial archaeological data acquisition and analysis. For this research, he obtained the Ph.D. degree in May 2009.
Besides his PhD work, Geert took (and still takes) care of the GIS, cartography, and aerial photography of several UGent-based archaeological research projects (such as the Potenza Valley Survey in Adriatic Italy and the Ammaia project in Portugal).
From 2010 onwards, Geert Verhoeven works as a part-time lecturer on archaeological excavation and prospection techniques as well as archaeological IT and geoarchaeology. His main activity is, however, as one of the principal researchers in the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection & Virtual Archaeology, where he will take care of the acquisition and analysis of archaeologically relevant hyperspectral datasets.
Geerts main research interests concern remote sensing technology and methodology, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), aerial and ground-based photography, geomatics, and archaeological computing.
Matthias Kucera
First Name:
Matthias
Last Name:
Kucera
Title:
Mag.
Position:
Researcher
Mobile:
+43 (0)699 15206505
After finishing the studies of Physics in 2003 Matthias Kucera became an associated member of the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science (VIAS) in 2004. During his studies he also attended courses in Pre- and Early History, Classical Archaeology, Agyptology and Philosophy with a focus on Archaeometry. As a preparation for his work at VIAS he had some additional education for Secondary Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analysis. His scientific interest is als set upon the theory of interdisciplinary work and the investigation of different scientific approaches in humanities and nature sciences, which is the topic of his doctoral thesis. Furthermore he participated in a workshop for remote sensing held in Lublijana in 2006 working with ArcGIS and ERDAS. His participation was initiated by the aerial archive of the University of Vienna, for which he worked during this time. From 2005 a main focus was also set upon 3d-Laserscanning dealing with the documentaion of heritage sites but also the documentation and virtual visualisation of archaeological excavations.
His main challenges within the LBI for Archaeological Prospections and Virtual Archaeology are the development of interpretational tools, the standardization of the used methods, Virtual Archaeology based upon 3d-Laserscanning and the embedded theoretical archaeological metatheory.
Agata Klimczyk
First Name:
Agata
Last Name:
Klimczyk
Title:
M.Sc.
Position:
Researcher
Email:
agaklimczykowa@gmail.com
Mobile:
+43 (0)676 4105817
Agata Klimczyk is a young researcher of Programme Line 1 - Archaeological Remote Sensing.
She has graduated with honors from the Warsaw University of Technology in 2009 as the Master of Science in Geodesy and Cartography. Her diploma thesis concerned creating photogrammetric documentation for archaeological sites.
She has been connected with Vienna for two years - Agata has attended the Erasmus Program at Vienna University of Technology, Leonardo da Vinci Internship Program at University of Vienna and currently she is an employee of LBI. Her main responsibilities there are: creating orthophotomaps, mosaics, digital terrain models, and analysis of Airborne Laser Scanning data.
Additionally she is studying further at the Vienna University of Technology and taking part in an Initiative College for Archaeological Prospection Program as an associate fellow. She also leads guest lectures concerning the basics of photogrammetry at the Institute of Archaeology, Warsaw University, with which she has been cooperating since 2008.
Her scientific interests lie in the filed of practical usage of photogrammetry and remote sensing in archaeology.