Curriculum Vitae

Heinz H. Burger

Mathematical Geology

1. Education

• 1970 - Graduated in Mathematics
• 1980- PhD: "Classification of Rock Types Based on Spectral and Textural Features of Landsat Imagery" (in German)
• 2006 - retired
• since 2006: Research & teaching cooperation; Consulting

2. Professional Areas of Interest

• Geostatistics
• Favorability Analysis for Mineral Deposits
• Environmental Risk Analysis
• Digital Image Analysis & Remote Sensing

3. Invited Talks & Courses

• La Paz, Bolivia: Short Course on Geostatistics
• Sommer-Universität Bremen: Geostatistics & Time Series
• BEB-Hannover: One-week Course on Multivariate Statistics & Geostatistics
• Washington Univ. Cont. Educ.: An Introduction to Digital Image Analysis
• Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe: Introduction to Geostatistics

4. Activities & Professional Experience

• Brazil ((2000-2009) 3D-Modelling of Santa Terezinha Coal Mine & Estimation of CBM-Reserves (UFRGS, Porto Alegre)
• Spain: (1988-2009): Research work on Compositional data (with V. Pawlowsky) at the Universita Politecnica de Catalunya (Barcelona)
• India: (1981-1995) Research in Civil Remote Sensing
• Bolivia (1995): Cooperacion Geologica Boliviano-Alemana
• Canada ((1994): Research project on coal bed methane (Geol. Surv. of Canada, Calgary)
• Greece: ((1993): Cruise of the German Research Vessel METEOR in the Mediterranean: Evaluation of bathymetric data
• Turkey: (1986-87) Fieldwork and data sampling for favorability mapping (Pb/Zn deposits)
• Aegypt: (1984) Field campaign on Sinai (spectral measurements of rock surfaces)
• Peru: (1981) Geostatistical evaluation of a porphyry copper deposit (Coop. with Geol. Surv.of Germany)

5. Professional Societies

• Int. Ass. Math. Geology
• Int. Ass. Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing
• Deutsche Gesellsch. f. Math. Geologie

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