Marian Rybansky

Biography

Graduated at Military Academy in Brno in the field of geodesy and cartography in 1982. Senior editor (1982-84) and the head of the automated map production department (1984-86) at the Military Geographical Institute in Prague. Doctoral study at the Military Academy in Brno in the field of cartography (1986-89). Head of the cartography group at the Department of Military Information on the Territory, MA Brno (1994-2005). In 1996. Internship at CFB Borden, Ontario, Canada (1996). Professor of geodesy and cartography at the University of Defence in 2021. Main research area: analyses of the landscape in terms of its impact on the mobility and navigation of military vehicles. Main researcher, resp. co-investigator of 26 national and 7 international projects. Author or co-author of more than 200 publications including 4 books and 10 methodologies for industry. Member of the ICA Commission for Cartography in Crisis Management and Early Warning, member of the International Society of Terrain Vehicle Systems, member of the NATO panel focused on the development of the NATO Reference Mobility Model (NRMM). In 2021 - awarded for developing NRMM. Lectures at dozens of universities, research institutions and conferences. In 2018 - award for best contribution at the 9th IGRSM conference on Geospatial and Remote Sensing - Kuala Lumpur. Chair, org. board member of 20 conferences. Member of the editorial boards of 3 journals indexed in the SCOPUS database.