Work address:
Institute of Physical Geography and Environmental Planning,
Adam Mickiewicz University,
Dziegielowa 27, 61-680 Poznań, Poland
Phone: (+4861) 8296236
Fax: (+4861) 8296230
E-mail: skrol @ amu.edu.pl

EDUCATION
2002 - Faculty of Geography and Geology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland Ph.D. degree in Earth Sciences, Dissertation title: "Brightness changes of the sand surfaces on the aerial photographs"
1994 - Faculty of Geography and Geology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland Master of Science in Geography

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1993 to present
Current place of employment: Department of Soil Science and Remote Sensing of Soils, Institute of Physical Geography and Environmental Planning, Faculty of Geography and Geology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. 

•   1993-1994 - technical position,
•   1994-2003 - assistant, PhD studies (1997-2005),
•   2003- present - assistan professor.

DIDACTICS:
Lectures on: Geographical Infromation Systems, Earth from Space, Calibration and advanced remote sensing data  interpretation, Digital image processing of remote sensing data.
Classes on: remote sensing of enviroment, digital image processing, digital photogrammetry, digital image processing of remote sensing data, remote sensing platforms and products evaluation,.
Field classes on: soil science, remote sensing. 
Most activities are carried out with the support of elearning Moodle platform hosted by Adam Mickiewicz University 
(http://elearning.amu.edu.pl/wngig).

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:
*Influence of bidirectional reflectance phenomena and optical properties of the camera's lens on remote images in optical domain and its interpretation, image formation and transformation.
*Close-range photogrammetry with digital photography and laser scanning application in soil surface roughness computaion
*Radiometric calibration of remote sensed data (especially all Landsat sensors, ASTER, HYPERION, QuickBird, IKONOS, World View II),
*Digital image processing of remote sensed data,
*Spectral properties of soils, field and labolatory methods of spectral properties measurements,
*Digital cartography and Geographical Information Systems, spatial references of analog maps in digital format and accurancy estimation of spatial references 
*Translation geospatial terms from English to Polish in connection with localization of the user interface for TNTmips (from MicroImages, Inc),

TECHNICAL SKILLS

GIS/remote sensing/photogrammetric software: TNTmips (20 years of experience), PCI Geomatica (with OrthoEngine), Photoscan Pro, E-Cognition, ArcGIS, ENVI, IDRISI, QGIS, WASE, SPRING, ILWIS, GRASS, TAS, OziExplorer; administration of Internet servers (Apache, PHP, MySQL, e-learning Moodle system, ftp servers), creation of www pages (HTML, SVG, PHP, Geomashups, Google API), graphical software: Photoshop, XNview, COREL X3 Suite, Canon Proffesional Software, statistical software; Statistica, Unscrambler, programming with SML (TNTmips); computer desktop and workstation harware configuration; network services configuration; spectral measurement with FieldSpec 3 Pro and goniometer, albedo measurements, geodetic measurement (Topcon GTS series), GPS precision measurements (Topcon Hiper Pro), shape and roughness measurements with Konica Minolta VIVID laser scanner;

HOBBY

Four children can fill any free time, but when they are far away I like flying with hot-air balloon or going for long walks (with my wife of course). Good film is also good idea for free time....

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