ISPRS Foundation - Grant Awardees 2009

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Grant Awardees 2009

HONOR ROLL of 2009 GRANTEES

With thanks to our Donors, event sponsors and grant evaluation committees we are pleased to announce that The ISPRS Foundation (TIF) funding for 2009 to-date has been provided in the three TIF grant categories of:

″Research Initiatives″ ″Travel Grants″ ″Tools & Literature″

GRANTS FOR RESEARCH INITIATIVES

Congratulations to the following successful applicants whose projects have been deemed worthy of financial grants to pursue their proposed projects.

CHINA -
	Prof. Jianya Gong – Wuhan University ″Integrating Virtual Globe and Web Service Technologies for ISPRS Higher Education Teaching and Research″

AUSTRALIA and UNITED KINGDOM –
	Dr. Andrew Hudson-Smith – University College London, and
	Dr. Chris Pettit – University of Melbourne ″Establishment of a blogging, forum and image sharing systems as part of the current ISPRS web presence″

CANADA –
	Dr. Derek Lichti – University of Calgary ″Compilation of an authoritative, on-line bibliography on Terrestrial Laser Scanning″ (methodology to be transferable to other topics)

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TRAVEL GRANTS

Funding provided for travel and related expenses for the following three grantees to participate in the ″33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment″ and the accompanying GEOSS Workshop ″Towards a Global Forest Carbon Monitoring System″ which convened in Stresa, Italy during 3 – 8 May 2009. Congratulations to the following Grantees:

MORROCO -
Mr. Noureddine Bijaber – Royal Centre for Remote Sensing

PAKISTAN -
Mr. Faisal Qamer – World Wildlife Fund

GERMANY -
Mr. Peter Wangai – Technical University of Munich

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TOOLS & LITERATURE GRANTS

Participants to the ″33rd International Symposium of Remote Sensing of the Environment″ in Stresa, Italy who made donations as part of their registration were entered into a blind drawing to win prizes. The ISPRS Foundation offers thanks to the In-Kind donors listed below and give congratulations to the following three prize winners.

USA -
	Mr. Rickey Petty	– Book-ESRI Map Book, volume 22 – In-Kind Donor ESRI www.esri.com
NORWAY -
	Mrs. Marte Indregard	– Book-A to Z GIS – In-Kind Donor ESRI www.esri.com
GERMANY -
	Mr. Sebastian Weide	– MS Office Visio Professional 2007 http://office.microsoft.com – In-Kind Donor Jim Weber, ICRSE