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ISPRS monthly e-Bulletin: January 2011
 

ISPRS Monthly e-Bulletin
Issue No. 1 - January 2011

 

Highlights

Annual Reports of ISPRS Technical Commissions

Annual Report of ISPRS Technical Commissions I
Annual Report of ISPRS Technical Commissions II
Annual Report of ISPRS Technical Commissions V

Awards
U. V. Helava Award – Best Paper Volume 64 (2009)

The fourth U.V. Helava Award will be presented at the 22nd ISPRS Congress in Melbourne on 25 August - 1 September 2012. The jury appointed by the ISPRS Council evaluated the 68 papers of volume 64 (2009) and announced its decision for the Best Paper. The winner of the 2009 Best Paper Award is: ″SPIRIT. SPOT 5 stereoscopic survey of Polar Ice: Reference Images and Topographies during the fourth International Polar Year (2007–2009)″ by Jérôme Korona, Etienne Berthier, Marc Bernard, Frédérique Rémy, Eric Thouvenot.

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Kickoff of the OBSERVE EU Project      

Kickoff of the OBSERVE EU Project

The EU PF7 funded OBSERVE project started with a kickoff meeting 13-14 December, 2010. The Principal investigators form almost 15 universities and institutes met joined together at the beautiful city of Thessaloniki Greece. The meeting was chaired by Prof. Petros Patias from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Prof. Patias is a former president of ISPRS TC V (2000 – 2004) and the ISPRS Financial Committee (2004 – 2008). A former president of CIPA, he is also a member of ISPRS White Elephant Club and the initiator and director of the close to  1M OBSERVE Project. Three other ISPRS active members join the project that has surfaced already two new potential members for ISPRS.

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FOSS4G 2010      

FOSS4G 2010
By Songnian Li, Bert Veenendaal, Maria A. Brovelli, Suzana Dragicevic of ISPRS WG IV/5

FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) is the international annual conference of Open Source Geospatial Software. It is heralded as the international ″gathering of tribes″ of open source geospatial communities, where developers and users exhibit their latest software and projects. The FOSS4G2010 Academic Track acts as an inventory of current research topics, but the major goal is to promote cooperative research between OSGeo developers and academia. The academic track is the forum that highlights important research challenges and trends in the domain, and which becomes the basis for an informal OSGeo research agenda. It fosters interdisciplinary discussions in all aspects of the geospatial and free and open source domains.

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EuroCow      

ISPRS Joint Workshop on ″Pervasive Web Mapping, Geoprocessing and Services″
By Songnian Li, Bert Veenendaal, Maria A. Brovelli, Suzana Dragicevic of ISPRS WG IV/5

FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) is the international annual conference of Open Source Geospatial Software. It is heralded as the international ″gathering of tribes″ of open source geospatial communities, where developers and users exhibit their latest software and projects. The FOSS4G2010 Academic Track acts as an inventory of current research topics, but the major goal is to promote cooperative research between OSGeo developers and academia. The academic track is the forum that highlights important research challenges and trends in the domain, and which becomes the basis for an informal OSGeo research agenda. It fosters interdisciplinary discussions in all aspects of the geospatial and free and open source domains.

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Member News
ASPRS Honorary Members Selected

Alan R. Stevens and Jack Dangermond have been selected as the next Honorary Members of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). Their nominations were recently approved by the ASPRS Board of Directors. This is the highest award bestowed by ASPRS and there can be only 25 living Honorary Members of the Society at any given time.

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Obituary Prof. Dr. Ing. Jörg Albertz      

Obituary Prof. Dr. Ing. Jörg Albertz

On October 28, 2010 Prof. Jörg Albertz of the Technical University Berlin died unexpectedly after a short but severe illness. He has been Honorary President of the German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation. He left us at the age of 74. We will greatly miss him.

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GEO Beijing Declaration

The GEO Beijing Declaration was released on the occasion of Seventh Plenary Session of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO-VII) & Beijing Ministerial Summit on 5 November, 2010 in Beijing, China.

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Editorial

Dear friends of GeoImagary,

At the XVII Congress in Vienna during the general Assembly it was decided to launch a timely news bulletin. The first issue of the ISPRS Highlights has been published on October 1996 in a printed media. During the coming years, until the March 2006 Highlights was issued in printed version and distributed to several readers in the world. In 2006 Council has decided to publish it in electronic form in order to reach a wider reader community. With this issue the Highlight will be replaced by Monthly Newsletter in order to disseminate information more frequently. This aim can only be fulfilled with contributions from all of you.

In the last years we are experiencing different platforms of information exchange and sharing especially regarding Social Platforms. ISPRS will launch in near future a Blog to share different experiences and information. You will be informed very shortly.

I am confident that we will achieve, like we have done in the past, all goals we have set for the decision and hope that this platform will be a good opportunity to have a media, which reaches a wider reader community and please do not hesitate to send your critics on this publication.

Orhan ALTAN
ISPRS President


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New Events in the ISPRS Calendar

8-9 Mar 2011
EduServ 9 (2011) - Pre-course Seminar for four e-learning courses from EuroSDR
www.eurosdr.net/eduserv9/index.htm
Champs sur Marne near Paris, FRANCE
 
21-23 Mar 2011
From Space to Earth – Applications and Interoperability
www.space.corila.it
Venice, ITALY
 
3-4 Apr 2011
WG VIII/9 Workshop on Climate Change and Ocean Carbon - Field Observation, Remote Sensing and Modeling
http://mel.xmu.edu.cn/conference2011/General_Information.asp
Xiamen, CHINA
 
9-11 May 2011
Global Space and Satellite Forum
www.gssforum.com
ADNEC, Abu Dhabi, UAE
 
10-13 May 2011
GTC 2011 "Geomatics Technologies in the City"
www.geomaticsksa.com
Jeddah, SAUDI ARABIA
 
3-4 Aug 2011
1st Conference on Advances in Geomatics Research (AGRC2011)
http://tech.mak.ac.ug/survey/agrc2011/
Kampala, UGANDA
 
17-19 Aug 2011
WG V/2 Conference "Cultural heritage data acquisition & processing"quot;
http://areeweb.polito.it/ricerca/TCV_WG2/events.html
York, UK
 
23-25 Aug 2011
7th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE7)
http://www.isde7.net/
Perth, AUSTRALIA
 
17-18 Oct 2011
IC WG II/IV Workshop on Dynamic & Multi-dimensional GIS (DMGIS' 2011)
(web site not ready)
Shanghai, CHINA

 

Job Opportunities

07-Jan-2011: PhD Position in 3D/4D reality-based city modelling Singapore-ETH Zurich Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability (SEC)
12-Jan-2011: Applications are invited for a three year PhD studentship within the Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, UK. Power of digital imagery acquired using advanced information communication technologies

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More News

Travel Grants

Travel grants are available from The ISPRS Foundation (TIF) to attend the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment to be held in Sydney, Australia from 10th - 15th April 2011. Applications must be made by 11th February on the application form.
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Prof Polat Gülkan      

Prof Polat Gülkan has accepted to be Keynote Speaker at Gi4DM

Prof Polat Gülkan, President of the International Association of Earthquake Engineers has accepted to be the Keynote Speaker at the Geoinformation for Disaster Management Symposium to be held in Antalya, on the 3-8th of May. For further information and other Plenary Speakers, abstract submission please refer to the website of the event www.gi4dm2011.org

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Call for Papers

Call for papers for special issue "Urban Remote Sensing". Deadline for paper submission: 15 March 2011
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