Main Responsibilities

• Research fellow at the department of remote sensing focusing in the fields of forestry and natural disasters
• Currently working in the projects HANNIBAL and KLEO and coordinating the group of natural hazards and risk research
  
  

Career

Klaus Granica was awarded a Msc by the Karl-Franzens University in Graz for his studies in Geography and History. He was employed as managing director for 3 years at the SALE-Steiermark.

Since 1992, Klaus Granica works as a senior scientist and project manager with JOANNEUM RESEARCH at the Institute of Digital Image Processing. His areas of experience and interest comprise the digital classification of remote sensing data mainly in the fields of forestry and natural disasters.

From 1995-1996 he was engaged within an EU Project (Landslides and Mudflows, Development of Operational Remote Sensing Tools for Mapping, Monitoring, and Mitigation of Mass Movements) at the University of Technology in Dresden/Germany. During this period he visited the University in Bristol, UK, Centre of Remote Sensing, und the ITC (The International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences) in Enschede/NL. 

• ERASTAR GMES-DSL
• Eufodos - European Forest Downstream Services Improved Information on Forest Structure and Damage
• GNU
• Hannibal
• KLEO
• PRERISK
• SEMEFOR
• Wald & Wasser

• "Wald & Wasser“ Managementgrundlagen zur Erhaltung und Verbesserung der Wasserressourcen durch gezielte Waldbewirtschaftung im Grenzgebiet der östlichen Karawanken / Kärnten: Endbericht des Interreg III A Projektes, Landesforstdirektion Klagenfurt, 228 p.
• "Water & Forest” – Management of Water Resources by Forest Cultivation Practices and Usage of Satellite Remote Sensing Imagery
• ASSIST, Alpine Safety, Security & Informational Services and Technologies
• Characterization of Alpine Treeline Ecotones: an Operational Approach
• Digital Terrain Models and their Usability to Landslide Risk Assessment and Visualisation
• Generation and WEBGIS representation of landslide susceptibility maps using VHR satellite data
• Geoinformation for Disaster Management
• Information Services to Support Disaster and Risk Management in Alpine Areas
• LANDSLIDE DETECTION AND SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING USING INNOVATIVE REMOTE SENSING DATA SOURCES
• Representation of an alpine treeline ecotone in SPOT 5 HRG data
• Representation of an alpine treeline ecotone in SPOT HRG data
• SMALL SCALE FOREST CLASSIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF WOOD RESOURCES IN THE UKRAINIAN CARPATHIANS
• The Derivation of Indicators for Landslide Detection Using Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery