Course Focus
The M.Sc. course aims at educating future decision makers and senior engineers of information and land management projects, national authorities for mapping, photogrammetry, land consolidation, cadastre, forestry, agriculture, rural and urban planning or environment monitoring. The postgraduate course offers scientific and practice-oriented education and training in the fields of photogrammetry, remote sensing and geoinformatics. An important objective is the transfer of up-to-date techniques to practice under different technological conditions. Photogrammetric technology is trained on modern digital workstations including sophisticated analytical systems. Focus is on processing aerial photographs, from scanning, automated aero triangulation and acquisition of digital elevation models, to orthoimage generation and topographic and thematic mapping. Gaining experience in working with alternative data sources of increasing importance, like high resolution remote sensing satellites and radar and airborne laser scanning, round off modern photogrammetric education. The main topics focused on in the field of geoinformatics are the acquisition, storage, analysis, retrieval and display of spatial related data, concerning both earth’s physical features and the man-made environment. Studying the methods for data modelling in geoinformation systems, design and handling of diverse databases, GIS-data formats, GIS customisation including programming, all accompanied by intensive training are important parts of the postgraduate course. Most recent developments like world wide web technologies, 3D-visualisation and integration of GIS and photogrammetry prepare course participants for the future. A full-time research project aiming at the elaboration of a Master’s the- sis within six months concludes the programme.
Target Group
The course is designed for all kinds of professional producers or users of geo-data (e.g., in photogrammetry, geodesy, civil engineering, land surveying, agriculture, cartography, forestry, geography, geology), in particular from developing countries, who are involved as decision makers or project engineers in the acquisition, administration and use of geo-data in the context of geoinformation systems, photogrammetry and remote sensing.