GIS and Remote Sensing

Dietrich Heintz worked in the past seven years in the field of Remote Sensing with spaceborne SAR data, precision farming and crop insurance. Until 2017, he was an employee of Allianz Re in Zurich where he was In-Charge for maintaining field-trials and reference data analysis to develop map products for crop insurance schemes and precision farming applications. In this time he worked in close cooperation with sarmap, which is a technical leader in SAR data processing and software development. He has worked in applied research institutes in the field of Agriculture and Forestry (1996–2008) as well as in the field of Environmental Monitoring, GIS and Remote Sensing with Optical Data. He passed a distance learning course at UNIGIS Salzburg (2001–2003). He is an experienced Organic Horticulturist in Vegetable Production (1983- 1987) and has worked as an employee, first in a home for retarded children (Michaelshof in Hepsisau) and later in Zambia in a development aid project (1990 -1994). There he introduced organic vegetable production, invented a scheme to fertilize with algas from a reservoir over the irrigation system and trained school-leavers.