In 2014 ISPRS has introduced the so called Scientific Initiative to support projects of interest to the ISPRS community. Call are normally launched in autum of evenly numbered years. Details of the regulations an be found at http://www.isprs.org/documents/orangebook/app9.aspx.
Reports of previosu calls are available at
ISPRS Scientific Initiatives: Announcement of 2017 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. For 2017, the following seven projects were selected and approved by the Council for funding.
| Title |
PI(s) |
TC/WG |
Benchmark database for tropical agricultural remote sensing application |
Ieda Del’Arco Sanches |
TC I |
SVSC – The UAV Semantic Video Segmentation Challenge 2017 |
Michael Ying Yang and Alper Yilmaz |
WGII/5 |
ISPRS Benchmark Challenge on Large Scale Classification of VHR Geospatial Data |
Ribana Roscher |
WGII/6 |
Benchmark for Multi-Platform Hyperspectral Image Processing |
Konstantinos Karantzalos |
WG III/4 |
ISPRS Benchmark on Indoor Modeling |
Kourosh Khoshelham |
WG IV/5 |
An ISPRS contribution to Transforming our World: Integration of GlobeLand30 with additional geospatial and socio-economic data for monitoring United Nation Sustainable Development Goals |
Jon Mills and Hao Wu |
ICWG IV/III |
Development of Educational Content: "Small UAS in Civil Engineering Applications" |
Roman Shults |
WG V/7 |
Brief summary of the above-awarded projects together with the information of their principle investigator(s) and co-investigator(s) you will find »here