VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Annually in December, Vienna University of Technology [Technische Universitaet Wien] recognizes about 10 to 15 of its graduates from 50 years ago in a festive ceremony, awarding Golden Diplomas. The selection of those 10 to 15 graduates from among perhaps 500 engineering and 50 doctoral graduates at the time, and across all fields, is somewhat mysterious. But the pomp is impressive, with the University President giving a speech and all Deans and Vice-Deans in attendance. My 1967 and then 1972 diplomas were transferred after a detailed laudatio by the Vice-Dean of the School of Mathematics and Geodesy. No question, the Golden Diplomas are larger, prettier than the original diplomas, and the ceremony impresses very much more than the original graduation event ever did in 1967 and 1972.

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2022
GOLDEN DOCTORAL DIPLOMA [GOLDEN PROMOTION]

Above: Doctoral promotion in March 1972 in the festive hall of Vienna University of Technology with about 10 graduates from various faculties [schools]. At that period, this ceremony occurred about 3 times per academic year. Currently the number of annual doctoral degrees awarded in Vienna is much larger. Below: The award ceremony for the Golden Doctoral Diploma with the University President presenting a speech and the University leadership in attendance.

2017
GOLDEN ENGINEERING DIPLOMA 

I i i I received the engineering degree of Dipl.-Ing. in late 1967. Fifty years later, in 2017, this picture shows the laudator, vice-dean Prof. Weber of the Faculty [school?] of Mathematics and Geodesy and me with the Golden Engineering Diploma.

VARIOUS OTHER HONORS, 2014-2017

2017
CONSUL HONORAIRE DE LA REPUBLIQUE COTE D’IVOIRE 2017

Award Ceremony in Vienna
Embassy of Ivory Coast
With Ambassador Gilbert Quattara
June 2017

Coat of Arms
Republic of Ivory Coast

Meeting Rose
The only student from Ivory Coast in Austria. Studying Agriculture at
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Bodenkultur) in Vienna, 2017

At the occasion of the quadrennial international congresses of the ISPRS, new fellows are being appointed. In 2016 the congress took place in Prague. To recognize excellence in photogrammetry and remote sensing, I was awarded a fellowship by ISPRS. Shown are the appointment diploma and the engraved ISPRS silver plate

Konrad Schindler’s laudation. Click on it to review the full pdf-text published in vgi, the Austrian Zeitschrift fuer Vermessung und Geoinformation

Konrad Schindler, professor of photogrammetry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zurich], traveled to Vienna for delivery of the laudation to his doctoral mentor.

HONORS BEFORE 2015

2005
RECEIVING AN AUSTRIAN PRESIDENTIAL AWARD
Carrying the Austrian Presidential Award around the neck with a white tie coattail suit attending the Techniker Cercle TC Ball at the Philharmonic’s Musikverein, Vienna 2007

How the award looks like close up. It is worn around the neck with a red-white-red band representing the national Austrian colors. Only worn at white tie events

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The festive award presentation was held in 2006 with Governor Voves of Styria [then our state of residence] on behalf of Heinz Fischer, the President of the Republic

Group photo of the entire Magellan Science Team, taken in front of the JPL main building in Pasadena [CA]

1991

NASA Group Achievement Award for the Science Team of the Magellan Project

1992

Development of digital topography around the North-pole of planet Venus from Magellan stereo SAR imagery. Publication in the high-impact Journal of Geophysical Research.

Microsoft’s Stephen Lawler [left], Vexcel’s John Curlander [right] and myself at the announcement of the Vexcel acquisition at the Annual ASPRS Convention in Reno, 2006

Farewell present after completion of my employment obligation with Microsoft, 2007. The present was given during a gathering in Seattle [see adjacent picture]

Farewell event upon completion of my employment obligation at Microsoft with Stephen Lawler and Eric Jorgensen, Microsoft Corporate VP, 2007 

Award of the Otto-von-Gruber Gold Medal for achievements as a young researcher in photogrammetry
1976

Recognition for the 4 years of ISPRS-service as President of  ISPRS Commission III on Photogrammetric Computer Vision and Image Analysis
2000-2004

Award

Best poster at ISPRS Symposium on Photogrammetric Computer Vision in Paris [France] with P. Meixner

2010

Award of the Brock Gold Medal, Int’l Soc. for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Melbourne, Australia. Orhan Altan, ISPRS-President; Bobbi Lenzcowski, ASPRS-President, 2012

Front and back of the Brock Gold Medal. Funded by the Arthur and Norman Brock Fund set up in 1954. They were pioneers in aerial photography with a first aerial camera built in 1916. This is the 14th such medal awarded

Outstanding Technical Achievement Award presented by ASPRS-President Gary Florence in Sacramento, California, at the 2012 Annual ASPRS Convention

Plaque of the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, specifically addressing the UltraCam Digital Aerial Camera accomplishment, 2012

Plaque & citation for the 1990 ASPRS Fairchild Award, presented at the annual ASPRS Convention in 1991.
Click for enlarged citation

Award of the rank of Fellow of the IEEE via its Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society IGARS, presented at the ICPR-1996 [Intl Conference for Pattern Recognition], Vienna

Cover of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience Remote Sensing with the paper receiving the Best Paper Award for 1986 [see also „Publications“]

Winning the „Best Paper“ award of the IEEE Transactions of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 1986 [see also „Publications“]

Award of Honorary Membership in the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition AAPR, 1988 in Innsbruck

Award of the Honorary Membership in the Brasilian Society for Cartography, 1977 in Fortaleza, Brasil

Best „Fast Forward“ presentation at the annual ACM-SIGSPATIAL conference, San Jose 2010 [with P. Meixner] 

Award by the Construction Innovation Forum for the development of Foto-G, a product for Close Range Photogrammetry
2003

Award of the Eurographics prize for best project in medical graphics
[see also „Publications“]
2003

Award, Best poster at the symposium on Photogrammetric Image Analysis, Munich [Germany], with P. Meixner
2011

At the occasion of reaching the status of Professor Emeritus, a lecture room was dedicated in the name of Franz Leberl

In the dedicated lecture room, this bust was placed. It was created automatically by 3D photogrammetry and a 3D printer

University Vice-President Bauer addresses the participants in the festive send-off  in the University’s Aula