Dr. Jacek M. DRACHAL

Instytut Geodezji i Kartografii

ul. Modzelewskiego 27.

02 - 679 Warszawa,

Poland

Tel: 0 4822 329 1981             Fax: + 0 4822 329 1950

[email-masked]

POLAND

Jacek Drachal was born in 1954, graduated in 1978 from the Warsaw University of Technology with a Master of Science in Photogrammetry and Cartography. Since 1978 employed at the Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, Warsaw, Poland, first at the department of Remote Sensing then at the department of Cartography. In 1991 PhD degree for digital image processing applied to cartography. Experience in Cartography, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry and Digital Image Processing. Software Expertise in Intergraph Microstation and image processing systems of OVAAC8, Intergraph, Adobe, PCI and Erdas. Publications, mainly in Polish scientific journals, concern scanning and processing of satellite images, the resolution and legibility of remote sensing digital images and the application of cartographic design to photomaps. Author and co-author of several satellite image maps of Warsaw at scales 1:25000, 1:50000 (two awarded for innovative technology and design), road atlas of Poland at scale 1:250000 (5 editions), tourist photomaps of Slowinski National Park and Polish Tatra at scale 1:20000. Member of ICA commissions on Mountain Cartography and Mapping from Satellite Imagery. Consultant in several international projects in Algeria (1985), Iraq (1985), Belgium (1992, 1993, 1994) and China (1997). His research interests include digital cartography, application of remote sensing to natural resource mapping, photographic maps..