Springer Handbook of Geographic Information

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Wolfgang KresseWolfgang Kresse is a Professor for Geographic Information Systems and Photogrammetry at the University of Applied Sciences in Neubrandenburg Germany. As a visiting professor he was affiliated to the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing in Ottawa (2002/2003) and to the University of Maine USA (2008/2009). Formerly he worked as a software developer and customer trainer for Carl Zeiss Company with focus on graphics photogrammetry and data exchange. Wolfgang Kresse is the leading author of the book ISO Standards for Geographic Information published by Springer. He is the project leader of the ISO 19159 Calibration and validation of remote sensing imagery sensors and data in the ISO/TC 211 Geographic information / Geomatics.  He has been involved in the development of ISO 19130 Imagery sensor models for geopositioning and in standardization activities of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) as well asin the German Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.Wolfgang Kresse holds a Diploma Degree in Geodesy and a Doctor-Degree in Digital Cartography both of the University of Bonn Germany.David Danko David Danko is a Senior Consultant for GIS standards.  In this capacity he ensures that ESRI software and services are interoperable and comply with the appropriate national international and industry standards. He represents ESRI on the OGC Planning Committee ISO TC 211 and INCITS-L1. As a senior consultant for GIS Standards Mr. Danko has provided workshops on standards metadata and spatial data infrastructures in the United States Japan South Africa Italy Chile Saudi Arabia Ethiopia Central America and China and has participated in an advisory role in several regional and national spatial data infrastructures. As a physical scientistsenior standards manager with DMA he was responsible for developing and managing agencypolicies and programs to ensure standardization and interoperability between DMA imagery and geospatial systems U.S. DoD agencies U.S. civilian agencies and the military and civilian geospatial information communities of other nations. He previously served as Project Manager for an international research and development initiative that resulted in the development of the vector product format (VPF) military standard and the digital chart of the World (DCW); the DCW was the first in a new series of digital vector products on CDROM.  Earlier in his career he worked in the areas of remote sensing analytical triangulation imagery data extraction and cartographic production. In his ISO Standardization activities he has been Project Leader in the Technical Committee (TC) 211ISO 19115 Metadata Revision (2009present) Chair of the Metadata Working Group in the Open GIS Consortium (2001present) and a Technical and Planning Committee Representative in the Open GIS Consortium (2001present).