Internationale Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung
Société Internationale de Photogrammétrie et de Télédétection
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ISPRS Scientific Initiatives: Announcement of 2014 Funding
In accordance with the statutory mission and activities of ISPRS, the Society shall provide funds to support scientific and other initiatives, which will further improve its international status in the field of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences, and will therefore benefit all ISPRS members. To this end, a call for new Scientific Initiatives was issued in September 2013 with a 2014 budget of 40,000 Swiss Francs. By the call deadline, 11 teams of researchers across six of the eight Technical Commissions had submitted cases for support. Comment was sought from the relevant Technical Commission Presidents, and a sub-committee of three Council members was convened to independently review the proposals on the basis of scientific excellence. The sub-committee then convened at the recent SSG Conference in Antalya to draw up a ranked list of projects to be funded. The sub-committee’s recommendation to fund the following projects was then accepted by ISPRS Council at its meeting in Antalya:
| Title |
PI |
Affiliation |
WG |
Benchmark on High Density Image Matching for DSM Computation |
Norbert Haala |
University of Stuttgart |
I/2 |
| TIC - The Tracking and Imaging Challenge 2015 |
Stephan Winter |
University of Melbourne |
II/8 |
| ISPRS Benchmark on Urban Object Detection and 3D Building Reconstruction |
Markus Gerke |
University of Twente |
III/4 |
| Status of Global Geospatial Information |
Gottfried Konecny |
Leibniz University Hannover |
IV/2 |
| A new benchmark dataset for multi-platform very high resolution photogrammetry |
Francesco Nex |
FBK Trento |
ICWG I/Vb |
| Development of a curriculum for
The African Geospatial Sciences Institute (AGSI) |
Ian Dowman |
University College London |
VI/3 |
ISPRS Council would like to thank all scientists who submitted proposals, and to congratulate the successful applicants. The decision to allocate more funding than originally budgeted reflects the high quality of the proposals received, and ISPRS Council’s desire to support and pump-prime scientific endeavours across all Commissions that submitted proposals to the call. Council looks forward to hearing of the future success of the funded projects and reporting the outcomes through this and other media in due course.
Jon Mills
ISPRS Treasurer 2012-16
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