Gottfried Konecny: involvement of spatial information sciences in ISPRS disciplines

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Shunji Murai

Shunji Murai was born in Tokyo, Japan on the 19 September 1939. He graduated from Civil Engineering Department, University of Tokyo in 1963 and he was awarded Doctor of Engineering in 1972. He became full professor at Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo in 1983 and resigned in 2000 when he was offered Professor Emeritus. His professional careers include mainly photogrammetry and remote sensing. He was elected as President of International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) from 1992 to 1996. Currently, he is Honorary Member of ISPRS as well as Japan Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (JSPRS). He is engaged in research on the prediction of earthquakes for 17 years since 2002. He established a private company: Japan Earthquake Science Exploration Agency (JESEA) in 2013 which distributes “weekly MEGA earthquake prediction” to about 50,000 subscribers.