The young scientist award 2008 of the Association of Geoinformatics in Northern Germany (GiN) will be awarded to Dipl.-Ing. Jan Dirk Wegner, who currently is a PhD student at IPI. His master thesis, entitled Automatic Fusion of SAR and Optical Imagery, was carried out in close cooperation of IPI and the French Space Agency CNES during a 12 month research stay in Toulouse. The supervisor was Prof. Uwe Soergel from IPI. On the French side, the thesis was supervised by Dr. Jordi Inglada and Dr. Céline Tison. The complete report of the master thesis can be found here.
The award will be presented to Dipl.-Ing. Jan Dirk Wegner during the opening ceremony of the conference “Geoinformatik 2009” in Osnabrück on March 31, 2009