Wolfgang Gold

President, Treasurer


Short biography

Wolfgang is head of Surveying Services at the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying (BEV). He studied geodesy at the Technical University of Vienna and received his diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) in 1986. He worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Vienna in the field of geodesy.

In 1991 Wolfgang started at BEV in the control survey department and was engaged in precise leveling and computation of the Austrian gravity base network and height system. In 2000 he moved to the remote sensing department as head of data acquisitions and became head of this department in 2013. In June 2022 Wolfgang became director of the division Surveying Services.

 

About the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying (BEV)

BEV - The Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying is a subordinate authority of the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs. The metrology service consists of the National Metrology Institute (NMI) and the national legal metrology authority of Austria with 9 Verification Offices all over Austria. The main tasks in the field of Surveying and Geoinformation are Control Survey, Remote Sensing, Landscape Information and Cartography with a central office in Vienna and administration and maintenance of the cadaster mainly executed through more than 40 Cadastral Offices in Austria.