New Sustaining Member
ISPRS welcomes Geomakani from Egypt as new Sustaining Member.
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The 2020 edition of the XXIV ISPRS Congress
A very successful preliminary digital event in preparation for the Congress in Nice in July 2021
The ISPRS XXIV Congress was initially planned from 14-20 June 2020. Due to the COVID-19 situation and its impact on international travelling, the ISPRS Council decided to postpone the Congress to 4-10 July 2021. Nevertheless, the paper submission and reviewing process was nearly completed when the decision was taken. As it seemed scientifically impossible for an innovative scientific community to present and publish papers submitted in February 2020 in a Congress taking place 18 months later, ISPRS decided to create two editions of the XXIV Congress:
- a digital 2020 edition with a 3-day virtual event, which began on the 31 August 2020, enabling authors to present their work to a large audience; this edition also includes a published version of those works in the ISPRS proceedings, and
- a 2021 edition taking place in July 2021 in the Nice Congress with the presentations of papers, for which a new submission and reviewing process will start in December 2020 with a deadline in early 2021.
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Sherman Shou-Chou Wu
1928 - 2020
Sherman Shou-Chou Wu, born on April 9, 1928, died at 92 years of age on August 22, 2020 with family by his side.
Astrogeologists know him as Dr. Mars for the integral role he played in creating the first topographical map of Mars and other interstellar bodies. The asteroid (2075), discovered on October 9, 1980, is named after him for his influential contributions. Even in his "retirement," his expertise was highly regarded. He moved to Las Vegas from Flagstaff to work as a consultant with the U.S. Department of Energy.
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New MoU between ISPRS and OGC signed
At the beginning of July, ISPRS President, Christian Heipke and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) CEO, Nadine Alameh signed a new Memorandum of Understanding, continuing the collaboration of the past years between the two organisations.
All MoUs, along with other ISPRS inter-organisational activities, can be found at:
https://www.isprs.org/society/interorganization.aspx
ISPRS organises virtual event for the XXIV Congress edition of 2020
Nearly everything goes digital during the COVID-19 crisis, so does ISPRS. While the next physical Congress will be held in July 2021, many of the contributions submitted for the 2020 edition will be presented in the XXIV ISPRS Congress – Virtual event of the 2020 presentations which will take place on-line from August 31 to September 2nd, 2020, see http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/index.php/virtualevent-2/ for details.
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Call for Proposals
ISPRS Scientific Initiatives 2021
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, the ISPRS Council is making up to SFr. 70,000 available to support new scientific initiatives. The maximum funding assigned to any one scientific project shall be SFr. 10,000 per annum. Projects should commence on January 1, 2021 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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Call for Participation
UAVid Competition
Semantic segmentation has been one of the leading research interests in photogrammetry and computer vision in recent years. The fast development of semantic segmentation attributes enormously to the large scale datasets, especially for the deep learning related methods. We introduce our UAVid dataset, a new high-resolution UAV semantic segmentation dataset, https://uavid.nl.
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Special video session on the occasion of the 90th birthday of Prof. Gottfried Konecny
Dear all,
Thank you very much for your interest in the special video session on the occasion of the 90th birthday of Prof. Gottfried Konecny. Here is the link you need in order to register for the session: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p2DU_QyiSSCD5lfx0t0FAQ.
Note that clicking on this link brings you to the ISPRS Student Consortium Virtual Room “Wisdom of the Elephant”. You will then need to fill in a small form (name, address, e-mail etc.) and then you will receive the actual link to take part in the session next Wednesday, June 17 at 1 pm GMT from the ISPRS Student Consortium, which acts as webinar host. Note that this will be a personal link, therefore you cannot share it with others.
The system we will be using is Zoom. Your connection may be more stable, if prior to the session you download and install a Zoom client. From Germany, you can do so at https://zoom.us/download., there will probably be other sites for our international participants, e.g. for China the web site is https://www.zoomvip.cn/download.html. However, this software is not necessary for the session (and it does not work in connection with smartphones).
Note that if you have a personal Zoom account, you can connect through this account. But such an account is not mandatory.
We have also created a digital greetings card at https://www.kudoboard.com/boards/irptKRvF
where you can upload personal wishes for Gottfried Konecny. If you want to do so, it would of course be great to do so before June 17.
All the best, Christian Heipke.
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New ISPRS Fellows nominated
The ISPRS Fellows Nomination Committee selected 5 individuals from the 11 worthy nominations for Fellowships to be elected by the General Assembly. They are:
- Kohei Cho
- Songnian Li
- Marguerite Madden
- Charles Toth
- George Vosselman
Council is also very pleased to congratulate these five individuals!
New ISPRS Honorary Member nominated
Chen Jun, current Past President, Director of the 2008 ISPRS Congress in Beijing and long-standing ISPRS representative, has been nominated as Honorary Member for his dedication to the aims and the activities of the Society to be elected by the General Assembly.
Chen Jun is a most deserving choice! Congratulations!
ISPRS announces Awards to be presented at the XXIV ISPRS Congress in Nice
The ISPRS Council wholeheartedly congratulates all awardees to their splendid success! We also want to thank all nominators, jury members and everybody else who had a part in selecting the awardees. More information on ISPRS awards can be found at https://www.isprs.org/society/awards.aspx.
Unfortunately, due to the current situation, the awards can only be presented at the ISPRS Congress in Nice in July 2021.
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Jack Dangermond Award 2017-19
The winning paper for the Jack Dangermond Award for the 2017-19 period has been selected by the award committee. Congratulations go to Florent Poux and Roland Billen for their paper:
Voxel-based 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation: Unsupervised Geometric and Relationship Featuring vs Deep Learning Methods
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8050213
Two new special issues of ISPRS IJGI have been initiated
New Dates XXIV ISPRS Congress: 4 - 10 July 2021
The dates for the postponed XXIV ISPRS Congress to be held in Nice, France, have now been set at 4 - 10 July 2021.
We hope that this information will enable you to move any hotel booking and flights you may have already booked, and thus reduce costs.
ISPRS XXIV Congress postponed
March 26, 2020
ISPRS officially announces that due to the corona virus crisis, the XXIV ISPRS Congress to be held in Nice, France, has been postponed to 2021. Council is aware that this decision has many consequences, but the very real health risks and the capacity to travel for the Congress participants did not leave us with any other alternative.
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ISPRS 2020 – 2024
The following bids and nominations for positions have been received for the 2020-2024 term. Elections will take place in the General Assembly during the ISPRS Congress in Nice. Detailed documents will be made available to the Ordinary Member in due time.
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Invitation Webinar – March 25 – Practical Experiences from P.R. China and the Republic of Korea with COVID-19 -- Save the date !
We would like to invite you to participate in the UNDRR ONEA & GETI webinar series. For this first webinar you can register here
You can also share the registration link with your colleagues https://bit.ly/3dhCgCr
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WHU-TLS Benchmark
Background
Deep learning-based methods have become the de-facto baseline for image registration task in the field of computer vision, but due to the lack of large benchmark datasets, they have not yet led to a true milestone for 3D point cloud registration. The large-scale benchmark datasets would promote the benchmarking of state-of-the-art algorithms in this field, and provide better comparisons and insights into the advantages and disadvantages of different registration methods on a common base.
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ISPRS Congress 2020 - Important News
Dear Colleagues, dear Friends,
I believe you have all heard of the COVID-19 latest situation and developments in Europe and in France.
The situation could indeed be better 😊 but the good news is that the French authorities like several other European authorities have decided for hard containment measures of the population following the successful Chinese example. France thus expects to go back to a normal situation in two months. A good indicator of this is that the French government has decided to postpone the second round of the French important local elections from the 22nd of March to the 21st of June.
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Jack Dangermond Best Paper Award 2019
The winners of Jack Dangermond Best Paper Award 2019 are Florent Poux and Roland Billen for their paper:
Voxel-based 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation: Unsupervised Geometric and Relationship Featuring vs Deep Learning Methods
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8050213
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ISPRS Congress 2020 - Important News
Dear Colleagues and friends,
The ISPRS 2020 Congress is planned to take place in Nice from the 14th to the 20th of June 2020. The congress starts in a little more than three months from now and the situation will have hopefully settled by then.
The good news is that the reviewing process of the 1780 submitted contributions is running smoothly (and is on time!). The proceedings of the ISPRS 2020 Congress will be published in the Archives and in the Annals on the first day of the Congress whatever the situation will be at that time. We remind you that the papers will be included in the proceedings only if the registration is duly paid by April 13.
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ISPRS 2018-19 Biennial Report published
The ISPRS 2018-19 Biennial Report with reports from Council, Technical Commission Presidents, ISPRS Committees and other Society activities, and listing publications and events from that period can be found here….
ISPRS awards Prof. Li Deren with the Brock Gold Medal in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Photogrammetry
The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) announced today that Prof. Li Deren, of Wuhan University, China, will be presented with the 2020 Brock Gold Medal for his outstanding scientific achievements in the photogrammetry, remote sensing and geospatial information sciences.
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In memoriam
Prof. Gabriele Fangi – Distinguished Executive Member of CIPA Heritage Documentation
It is with deep sadness and grief that the family of CIPA Heritage Documentation announces the demise of Prof. Gabriele Fangi, former Geomatics Professor at the Università Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona, Italy, and former member of CIPA Executive Board. Gabriele passed away on January 17th, 2020 after a brief illness at the age of 75.
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The ISPRS Foundation Travel Grants to participate in ISPRS Congress 2020, June 14-20, 2020, Nice, France
The ISPRS Foundation provides travel grants to enable young authors, distinguished speakers, and officially designated Delegates, especially from developing countries, to participate in ISPRS sponsored events and in forums promoting international cooperation, advancements and benefits of the P&RS&SI sciences. Click here to complete your travel grant application online.
Deadline for applications is February 7, 2020.
Information on ISPRS Congress 2020 can be found here http://www.isprs2020-nice.com
Education and Capacity Building Initiatives 2020
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 2020, four Education and Capacity Building Initiatives projects were selected and approved by the Council for funding.
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