GA II - Wednesday, July 13, 13:30 - 18:00

Agenda

• 11. Roll Call, election of Members to host Commissions 2016-2020
• 12. Reports from the Regional Representatives
• 13. Report of Council
• 14. Report of Financial Commission
• 32.1 Report of IPAC
• 15. Nominations for Council 2016-2020
• 16. Nominations for Financial Commission
• 17. Nominations for the Fellows Committee
• 18. Results of Commission Elections
• 19. Discussion of Amendments to Statutes and Bylaws
• 20. Report on Journals

Minutes

11. Roll Call, election of Members to host Commissions 2016-2020

Following the roll call, the election took place. The Swiss delegate, Armin Gruen, and the Austrian delegate, Norbert Pfeifer, were elected by the General Assembly to count the ballots, and Jon Mills from Council was appointed to observe the counting.

The following Ordinary Member delegates were present:

12. Reports from the Regional Representatives

Reports were given from the Regional Representatives for the respective regions:

12.1     Africa - Hussein Farrah

12.2     South East Asia - Nguyen Dinh Duong

12.3     Latin America - Mario Hernandez

13. Reports of Council

The following Council members reported on the past four year period:

9.3       1st Vice President

13.1     Secretary General

13.2     Treasurer

14. Report of Financial Commission

Marie-José Lefèvre-Fonollosa, Chair of the Financial Commission presented the 2012-16 report.

32.1 Report of IPAC

Gunter Schreier, IPAC Chair, reported on the events of the past four year term of the committee.

15. Nominations for Council

The following nominations were received

• Christian Heipke (Germany) for President
• Lena Halounová (Czech Republic) for Secretary General.
• Songnian Li, (Canada), Petros Patias, (Greece) and Charles Toth, (USA) for 2nd Vice President.
• Songnian Li, (Canada), and Charles Toth, (USA) for Treasurer.

The three candidates for the 2nd Vice Presidency gave a presentation on their views for the future direction of the society.

16. Nominations for Financial Commission

This item was revisited in GAIII.

17. Nominations for the Fellows Committee

The UK delegate, Ian Dowman nominated Costas Armenakis (Canada), and the Swiss delegate, Francois Gervaix nominated Manos Baltsavias (Switzerland) for the Fellows Committee.

18. Results of Commission Elections

Secret elections for the hosts of the Technical Commissions I, II and V were held. As there was only one application for Commissions III and IV, the candidates were voted in by acclamation.

The results of the elections were:

• Com. I             Sensor Systems                     

                                    Germany / Brazil (120 out of 160)

                                    President: Stefan Hinz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

                                    Vice President: Raul Feitosa, Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Com. II           Photogrammetry       

                                    Italy / Japan (99 out of 160)

                                    President: Fabio Remondino, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

                                    Vice President: Takashi Fuse, University of Tokyo, Japan

• Com. III          Remote Sensing                     

                                    China / Canada

                                    President: Jiang Jie, National Geomatics Center of China, China

                                    Vice-president: Ahmed Shaker AbdElrahman, Ryerson University, Canada

• Com. IV          Spatial Information Science  

                                    The Netherlands / Canada

                                    President: Sisi Zlatanova, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

                                    Vice President: Suzana Dragicevic, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby,                                     Canada

• Com. V           Education and Outreach

                                    India / India (96 out of 160)

                                    President: A. Senthil Kumar, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, India

                                    Vice President: P.L.N. Raju, North East Space Application Centre, India

19. Discussion of Amendments to Statutes and Bylaws

The amendments were discussed.

20. Report on Journals

20.2     Derek Lichti, Editor-in-Chief, reported on the status of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

20.1     Wolfgang Kainz, Editor-in-Chief, reported on the status of the ISPRS Journal of Geo-Information.

The Netherlands delegate and former editor-in-chief of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, George Vosselman, as well as Marguerite Madden and Chen Jun on behalf of Council, expressed their gratitude for the positive resonance achieved through the hard work of the Editors-in-Chief, Derek and Qihao Weng as well as Wolfgang Kainz, and their teams.

21. Report on Book Series

Zhilin Li, Editor of the Book Series reported on the Series.

Chris Gold presented his new Book Series publication: Spatial Context: An Introduction to Fundamental Computer Algorithms for Spatial Analysis.

22. Report on Website

The Web Master, Markus Englich, reported on the status of the web site.

Chen Jun expressed his thanks, on behalf of the ISPRS, to the Stuttgart University for the continuing support by hosting the Web Master and the server.

The meeting was closed at 18:00.