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 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 - |
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Prof. Jianya Gong – Wuhan University ″Integrating Virtual Globe and Web Service Technologies for ISPRS
Higher Education Teaching and Research″ |
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| AUSTRALIA and UNITED KINGDOM – |
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Dr. Andrew Hudson-Smith – University College London, and |
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Dr. Chris Pettit – University of Melbourne ″Establishment of a blogging, forum and image sharing systems as part
of the current ISPRS web presence″ |
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| CANADA – |
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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
We are pleased to announce that eight (8) Travel Grants were awarded to deserving grantees from eight (8) countries for their participation in the events listed below.
Congratulations to the following Grantees:
33rd ISRSE Symposium & GEOSS Workshop
3-8 May – Stresa, Italy
MORROCO -
Mr. Noureddine Bijaber – Royal Centre for Remote Sensing
PAKISTAN -
Mr. Faisal Qamer – World Wildlife Fund
GERMANY -
Mr. Peter Wangai – Technical University of Munich
GEOSS Workshop & Africa GIS 2009
23-25 October & 26-29 October – Kampala, Uganda
(Grants sponsored by the Trust Fund Amsterdam 2000)
GHANA -
Mr. Kweku Eshun – University of Cape Coast
TANZANIA -
Mr. Onesmo Kivuyo – FARM Africa
Africa GIS 2009
26-29 October – Kampala, Uganda
(Grants sponsored by the Trust Fund Amsterdam 2000)
CAMEROON -
Mr. Takem Bienvenu – Cartography
KENYA -
Mr. Moses Chege – UNEP
NIGERIA -
Mr. Olutoyin Fashae – University of Ibadan
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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
congratulates the following three prize winners and offers thanks to the In-Kind donors
| USA - |
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Mr. Rickey Petty |
– Book-ESRI Map Book, volume 22
– In-Kind Donor ESRI www.esri.com |
NORWAY - |
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Mrs. Marte Indregard |
– Book-A to Z GIS
– In-Kind Donor ESRI www.esri.com |
GERMANY - |
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Mr. Sebastian Weide |
– MS Office Visio Professional 2007 http://office.microsoft.com
– In-Kind Donor Jim Weber, ICRSE |