Organisation
Bundesamt für Eich und Vermessungswesen
Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying

Country
Austria

Role and position of the organisation
National authority of metrology and surveying of the Federal Republic of Austria, subordinated to the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs

Activities:
• Fundamental and legal metrology

• Provides the national standards for the legal units of measurement

• administers the cadastre of real estate of the whole territory of the Republic

• produces the topographic and cartographic infrastructure of the whole territory of the Republic

• provides ground related data for applications on Geoinformation Systems by remote sensing

• topographic mapping and cartographic elaboration on different scales and thematic issues

• produces aerial photographs for surveying and documentation

• keeps an archive of aerial photographs with a stock of 400.000 images

• keeps an archive of historical maps and charts

SERVICES:
Verification and calibration service in the fields:
length and dimensional quantities, mass, time and frequency, acoustics, electricity, ionising radiation and radioactivity, thermametry, photometry and radiometry, flow measurement, pressure, force and hardness.

Basic Data - Georeferenced topographic & cartographic models, aerial images, orthophotos

Real Estates - Informations derived from the Real Estate Database

Topographic Database - Landscape Model (different Layers), 3D-Terrain Model
of Austria

Cartographic Database - Cartographic Models, thematic versions, military
applications

Postal address
Bundesamt für Eich und Vermessungswesen
Schiffamtsgasse 1-3
A-1025 Wien
Austria

Website
http://www.bev.gv.at/

Contact Details
Name: Dipl-Ing Gerda Schennach
Telephone number: +43 (0) 512 5884 1160
Facsimile number: +43 (0) 512 5884 1161
Email: gerda.schennach@bev.gv.at

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