Best Paper for the period 2004-2007
The U.V. Helava Award, one of the most prestigious ISPRS awards, was established in 1996 and first presented in 2000 to encourage and
stimulate submission of high quality scientific papers by individual authors or groups to the ISPRS Journal, to promote and advertise
the Journal, and to honour the outstanding contributions of Dr. Uuno V. Helava, a leading photogrammetrist and developer of analytical
and digital systems, to research and development in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. The Award is presented to authors of the best paper
published exclusively in the ISPRS Journal during the four-year period from January of a Congress year to December of the year prior to the
next Congress. The recipients of the Award may receive it only once.
The award consists of a monetary grant of 10,000 SFr., certificates and a silver plaque. It is sponsored by Elsevier B.V. and Leica Geosystems
GIS & Mapping, LLC, while the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Prof. Henrik Haggrén), Helsinki University of Technology (
the University where Helava studied) paid half the costs for the silver plaque. The plaque was designed with care and enthusiasm by the
1980-88 ISPRS Technical Commission III President, Einari Kilpelä, previously professor at the Helsinki University of Technology.
A five-member jury, comprising experts of high scientific standing, whose expertise covers the main topics included in the scope of the
Journal, evaluated 121 papers for the period 2004-2007. For each year of the four-year evaluation period, the Best Paper was selected and
has been announced in the ISPRS Journal, ISPRS Highlights, the ISPRS page in GIM, and on the websites of ISPRS and Elsevier. From these
four papers, the one to receive the U.V. Helava Award was selected. The winner is the paper (published in volume 62, issue 5, pp. 366-381)
Time geography for ad-hoc shared-ride trip planning in mobile geosensor networks
by Martin Raubal1,3, Stephan Winter2 Sven Teβmann3,4 and Christian Gaisbauer2
(1) Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara, 5713 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060, U.S.A.
(2) Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
(3) Institute of Geoinformatics, University of Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany
(4) German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Wessling, Germany
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Jury's rationale for the paper selection
The paper provides an excellent discussion of an original simulation model for shared-ride trip planning. It is very interesting to read,
well written, and provides a good overview on the usage of agents for trip planning. The most innovative theory development is solid and will
open a new application area for spatial-temporal data analysis. Practical significant to transportation planning is demonstrated. The authors
evaluated their developed system with a real street network and showed impressive results, confirming their theoretical results.
The U.V. Helava Award has been presented at the Opening Session of the 21th ISPRS Congress on July 3rd in Beijing, by Ian Dowman, ISPRS
President, and representatives of the sponsors.
On behalf of the ISPRS and the U.V. Helava Award jury, I would like to congratulate the authors for this distinction and thank them for
their contribution. I would also like to thank the sponsors of the Award, and especially the jury members for their thorough evaluations of
all papers published in the last four years.
George Vosselman
Editor-in-Chief
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,
ITC, Enschede, the Netherlands