Position Available: The ISPRS Foundation (TIF) Operations Officer
The ISPRS Foundation (TIF) is seeking a replacement for Emeritus Professor John Trinder, who has served as chair of the Board of Trustees of TIF from 2004 to 2006 and as operations officer from 2006 to the present. He has done wonderful service for the organization and TIF’s success has been dependent on his conscientious work.
Please refer to the description of the post and contact Dr. Stewart Walker, current chair of the Board of Trustees, at foundationchair@isprs.org if you are interested or if you know someone who may be.
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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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2021 Virtual Keynote Speaker Series
Derek Lichti
New Network Design Processes to Support 3D Reality Capture with Terrestrial Laser Scanners
May 27, 2021 at 3 PM CEST (1 PM GMT)
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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
2021 Virtual Keynote Speaker Series
In 2019, the ISPRS Keynote Speaker Programme was initiated to provide an opportunity for ISPRS Ordinary, Associate, and Regional Members to enhance the scientific quality of their events and to attract more participants by inviting top quality international experts to speak.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, the programme has unfortunately come to a halt. Therefore, ISPRS has decided to host a monthly virtual Keynote Speech, and invites you to attend. The first Keynote Speaker is Jan Dirk Wegner, from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, who will talk about Deep learning for global vegetation analysis on Tuesday April 27 at 8-10 am EDT, 2-4pm CEST.
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New Members for ISPRS Financial Commission
In view of the continuing ISPRS term and due to other commitments, ISPRS farewells another two trusted officers.
Jon Mills, Chair of the Financial Commission, and Financial Commission member, Manos Baltsavias have stepped down. Both Jon and Manos have dedicated many years to ISPRS in various offices, for which Council, on behalf of the Society, gratefully thanks them and wishes them well for the future.
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Change in TC II Leadership
As a consequence of the continuing ISPRS term due to the ongoing pandemic, and for perfectly understandable reasons, Fabio Remondino and Takashi Fuse have decided to stand down from the Commission II leadership for the remainder of this period.
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The U. V. Helava Award – Best Paper 2020 announced
Congratulations go to Andrea Meranera, Patrick Ebelb, Xiao Xiang Zhub and Michael Schmitt for their paper Cloud removal in Sentinel-2 imagery using a deep residual neural network and SAR-optical data fusion which was chosen as the 2020 Best Paper for the new evaluation period.
Seeking Associate Editors for the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
10 years after the appearance of its first volume, the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, the open access journal on geospatial sciences of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) published by MDPI introduces a new publishing process and is seeking a total of 11 Associate Editors.
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ISPRS WEC Kennert Torlegård Travel Grant
ISPRS and TIF have estabished a new award, the ISPRS WEC Kennert Torlegård Travel Grant. The purpose of the Award is to support attendance at an ISPRS congress by a young scientist. The Fund from which the Award is financed is known as the White Elephant Restricted Kennert Torlegård Travel Grant Fund (TIF).
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Special Issue "Upscaling AI Solutions for National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies (NMCA)”
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI)
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/AI_solutions
Dear all,
we are happy to invite you to submit a paper for the ISPRS IJGI Special Issue about Geo-Information and Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods. The Special Issue wants to raise awareness and understanding of AI methods applied to large geospatial data and to collect ongoing research activities, best practices and applications showing innovative uses of AI within the context of NMCAs.
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ISPRS Congress 2021 digital - Physical Congress now 2022
Dear all,
As you will see from the links (postponement note & postponement rationale ), Council has decided to run the 2021 edition of the XXIV Congress digitally only, and to organise a physical meeting in 2022. It was also decided to postpone the General Assembly and the hand-over of all officer positions until June 2022, and to shift the ISPRS meeting cycle by two years. This means that the next Symposia are now planned to take place in 2024, and the Congress following the one in 2022 will be organised in 2026. A rationale for these decision can also be found here.
We would like to thank you all for what you have done for ISPRS during the current term, and we hope to meet you in person in Nice in summer 2022.
Yours sincerely,
Christian Heipke, ISPRS President & Nicolas Paparoditis, ISPRS Congress Director
ISPRS announces 2021 Scientific Initiatives Projects
In accordance with the statutory mission and activities of ISPRS, the Society shall provide funds to support scientific and other initiatives, which will further improve its international status in the field of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences, and will therefore benefit all ISPRS members. For 2021, seven Scientific Initiatives projects were selected and approved by the Council for funding.
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