New Webinar Series by ISPRS TC IV
ISPRS TC IV will offer a webinar series 'State-of-the-art in Spatial Information Science' until the 2022 Congress, which will be presented by a different working group each month. More information on the series can be found here. The first webinar in this series is:
Ken Arroyo Ohori and Stelios Vitalis
CityJSON, a JSON-based encoding for storing 3D city models
Thursday, 01.07.2021 at 16:00 UTC
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Call for Proposals
ISPRS Educational and Capacity Building Initiatives 2022
In accordance with the statutory mission and activities of ISPRS, the Society shall provide funds to support educational and capacity building initiatives, which will further improve its international status in education and training in the field of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences, and will therefore benefit all ISPRS members. For 2022, the ISPRS Council is making up to SFr. 70,000 available to support winning projects under the educational and capacity building initiatives. The maximum funding assigned to any one project shall be SFr. 10,000 per annum. Projects should commence on January 1, 2022 and typically last up to 12 months. In exceptional cases, applications for projects lasting up to 24 months will be considered. Projects of greater than one-year duration will be subject to annual review before subsequent funding will be released.
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Last Call for Papers
Special Issue "GIS in Healthcare"
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
The entire healthcare sector, including health businesses, academia, and policy makers, is facing a challenge to become more efficient by reducing costs while reaching out to a broader range of communities. GIS is a proven tool for improving efficiency and planning in different areas of healthcare. From non-critical applications, such as primary care or preventive care, to critical situations, such as emergency care or organ replacement, GIS is increasingly being utilized to develop better business models and make lifesaving decisions. This Special Issue of IJGI is expected to serve as a knowledge exchange platform presenting the latest advancements in GIS applications in a dynamic healthcare landscape.
Visit the following link to submit your manuscript.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/gis_health
2021 Virtual Keynote Speaker Series
Monika Sester
Capture and Interpretation of Mobility Data
Tuesday, 29.6.2021 at 14:00 CEST(12 p.m. UTC)
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GSW 2022 in Dubai postponed
The ISPRS Geospatial Week (GSW) was planned to be organised by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in March 2022 under the leadership of GSW Director Saeed Al Mansoori. Due to the pandemic and subsequent postponement of the ISPRS Congress to June 2022, the GSW must also be postponed, and ISPRS Council has consulted MBRSC about whether a meeting in 2023 would be possible.
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Jack Dangermond Best Paper Award 2020
The winners of Jack Dangermond Best Paper Award 2019 are Levente Juhász, Tessio Novack,Hartwig H. Hochmair & Sen Qiao for their paper:
Cartographic Vandalism in the Era of Location-Based Games – The Case of OpenStreetMap and Pokémon GO.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9040197