Call for Proposals
ISPRS Scientific Initiatives 2023
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 2023, the ISPRS Council is making up to 70,000 Swiss francs (CHF) available to support new scientific initiatives. The maximum funding assigned to any one scientific project shall be CHF 10,000 per annum. Projects should commence on January 1, 2023 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.
» Read more details
Partnership between ISPRS and SCO
During the Nice Congress, ISPRS then President, Christian Heipke, signed for ISPRS, in presence of Frédéric Bretar, representative of SCO International, the charter for the Space for Climate Observatory (SCO) organising a non-binding international partnership with the goal to promote and facilitate the use of space technology for climate action by making available to interested users information, expertise, tools and applications related to monitoring, tracking and mitigating or adapting to impacts of climate change.
» Read more details
10th Anniversary of IJGI
The year 2022 marks the 10th anniversary of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, a peer-reviewed open-access journal on geo-information. It is a journal of the ISPRS (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) and is published monthly online by MDPI. ISPRS IJGI has published more than 3900 papers from more than 12,000 authors. More than 6000 reviewers have submitted at least one review report. We value the contributions made by the authors and reviewers. To celebrate this 10th anniversary, a series of special content and events will be arranged.
Read more »
New Officers for 2022 – 2026 Inter-Congress Period
At the General Assembly in Nice, the officers of the Council, the Technical Commissions, the Financial Commission and the Regional Representatives were newly elected or appointed.
» Read more details
ISPRS XXV Congress 2026 Toronto Canada
Toronto, Canada, will host the XXV ISPRS Congress in 2026! At the XXIV Congress in Nice, France, the ISPRS General Assembly elected Canada to host the Congress and Derek Lichti was elected as Congress Director.
» Read more details
ISDE and ISPRS signed MoU
During the Nice Congress, ISPRS then President, Christian Heipke, and Alessandro Annoni, ISDE President signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between ISPRS and the International Society for Digital Earth, to further develop cooperation in the areas of Digital Earth, photogrammetry, remote sensing, spatial information, data science and other activities that they deem mutually beneficial.
» Read more details
Impact Factors Reflect the Success of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
The huge efforts of the ISPRS Editors-in-Chief, the associate editors, many reviewers, and the authors of papers published in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing were so successful that the journal has now reached an Impact Factor of 11.774.
Impact Factor for ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information exceeds 3 for the first time
We are pleased to inform you that the latest Impact Factor for ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information is 3.099, which exceeds 3 for the first time. The CiteScore has also been increased from 4.6 to 5.0.
» Read more details
ISPRS Congress News, Thursday 9 and Friday 10 June 2022
During the Plenary Session on Thursday, the following ISPRS Awards were handed over:
The Giuseppe Inghilleri Award
Marc Pierrot Deseilligny
Cheng Wang
Two recipients of the award have been chosen for 2020: Marc Pierrot Deseilligny, for his long-term development of the open source software MicMac; and Cheng Wang, for his work in 3D point cloud processing.
The Frederick J. Doyle Award
Konrad Schindler
for his outstanding scientific achievements and his exceptional contribution to connecting the areas of photogrammetry and computer vision.
» Read more details
ISPRS Congress News, Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 June 2022
During the Plenary Session on Tuesday, the following ISPRS Awards were handed over:
The U.V. Helava Award 2016 – 2019
to Davide Antonio Cucci, Martin Rehak and Jan Skaloud
for the paper
Bundle adjustment with raw inertial observations in UAV applications
» Read more details
ISPRS Congress News, Monday, 6 June 2022
Chen Jun (China), 2012– 2016 ISPRS President, was elected as ISPRS Honorary Member by the Congress Opening Ceremony participants.
During the ceremony, Li Deren (China) was also remotely presented the 2020 Brock Gold Medal, sponsored by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
» Read more details
Remote participation to the ISPRS XXIV Congress, 6-11 June 2022 is now open
Considering that colleagues coming from some regions of the world will still have difficulties to join the ISPRS XXIV Congress meeting in Nice, a remote participation has been organized and is now open.
» Read more details
2022 Virtual Keynote Speaker Series
Juha Hyyppä
Use of mobile laser scanning for forest field reference
Tuesday, 31.05.2022 at 14:00 CEST
» Read more details
New Fellows nominated for 2022
Due to the extended ISPRS period 2021-2022, Council decided to ask the Fellows Nomination Committee to select 2 further Fellows to be elected at the General Assembly.
Of the seven worthy candidates, Council is very pleased to congratulate Jon Mills and Sisi Zlatanova who were chosen to be elected in 2022.
Bids and Nominations for the 2022 – 2026 Inter-Congress Period
- Bids for the XXV ISPRS Congress 2026
- Bids for Technical Commissions 2022-2026
- Nominations for Council Positions 2022-2026
» Read more details
Call for demo booths at the XXIV ISPRS Congress, 6-11 June 2022
A limited number of “non commercial” demo booths of 6 square meters will be made available free of charge for one or two days during the Congress to allow colleagues of our community to present and promote :
- the results of their research or R&D projects
- research or R&D platforms benchmarks
- or any other interesting material
Please E-mail a short proposal (one page max) describing what you propose to demonstrate at sponsorship@isprs2020-nice.com.
The deadline for submitting proposals is May 13, 2022.
A priority will be given to multi-partner contributions.
You will be notified by May 15, 2022. Please note that only registered participants can submit a proposal.
Nicolas Paparoditis
Congress Director, ISPRS
The Jack Dangermond Award Best Paper 2021 and the Jack Dangermond Award 2020-2021.
Together with the sponsors, MDPI and ESRI, and due to the postponement of Congress, ISPRS Council also decided to award the Jack Dangermond for the best paper in the period 2020-2021.
» Read more details
The U. V. Helava Award 2020 – 2021
As the COVID-19 global pandemic has resulted in the postponement of the XXIV ISPRS Congress to 2022, together with the sponsors, Elsevier B.V. and Leica Geosystems AG, Council decided to select a best paper for the 2020-2021 period.
The U. V. Helava Award - Best Paper for the period 2020 – 2021 is awarded to
“Cloud removal in Sentinel-2 imagery using a deep residual neural network and SAR-optical data fusion”, by Andrea Meraner, Patrick Ebel, Xiao Xiang Zhub, and Michael Schmitt
published in Volume 166, August 2020, Pages 333-346.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.05.013
» Read more details
ISPRS announces Recipients of additional Awards to be presented at the XXIV ISPRS Congress in Nice, June 6-11, 2022
See details ...
» Read more details
Donation from Indian Society of Remote Sensing
The ISPRS Foundation (TIF) is delighted to announce that it has received a generous donation of $10,000 (US dollars) from the Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS). This will be added to TIF funds and used in the future to support grants, for example for travel to ISPRS-sponsored events. Stewart Walker, chair of the board of trustees of TIF, commented, “We are thrilled to have received such a major donation. We are extremely grateful to president Shri Nilesh Desai, his Executive Council and the members of ISRS. This will help us towards our goal of expanding TIF’s activities to support more students and early-career professionals in the future.”
Call for participation to the CATCON Software Contest at the XXIV ISPRS Congress, 6-11 June 2022
You are invited to participate in the eight edition of CATCON (CATCON 8), the Computer Assisted Teaching CONtest, that will be organized during the XXIV ISPRS Congress, Nice, France, June 6-11, 2022.
The main objective of CATCON, initiated by the Japan Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, is to promote the development and dissemination of effective and user-friendly, open-source and preferably non-commercial software designed and used specifically for computer assisted teaching for:
- multimedia courses and tutorials for e-learning,
- simulations and virtual environments,
- web information packages or datasets
in one of the areas of interest of ISPRS.
» Read more details
2022 Virtual Keynote Speaker Series
Bruno Vallet
Creating digital twins of cities: from data acquisition to 3D modeling
Friday, 01.04.2022 at 14:00 CEST
» Read more details
Call to present a “late poster” at the XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice
The unprecedented pandemic situation of the last two years has drastically limited our capacity to network and share our experiences. We have decided to open a late call for posters to allow for our worldwide community to meet again in person, and to meet the high demand for presenting scientific results at the Congress.
Authors interested in this call need not submit a paper, as these posters will not be accompanied by by a full paper or abstract.
» Read more details
U.V. Helava Best Paper Award 2021
The U.V. Helava Award, sponsored by Elsevier B.V. and Leica Geosystems AG, is a prestigious ISPRS Award, which was established in 1996 to encourage and stimulate submission of high quality scientific papers by individual authors or groups to the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, to promote and advertise the Journal, and to honour the outstanding contributions of Dr. Uuno V. Helava to research and development in photogrammetry and remote sensing.
The Award is presented to authors of the best paper, published in the ISPRS Journal during the four-year period. The Award consists of a monetary grant of SFr. 10,000 and a plaque. For each year of the four-year evaluation period, the best paper is selected, and among these four papers, the one to receive the U.V. Helava Award is selected.
» Read more details
Jack Dangermond Best Paper Award 2021
The Jack Dangermond Award, sponsored by MDPI and esri is a prestigious ISPRS Award, which was established in 2017 to encourage and stimulate submission of high quality scientific papers by individual authors or groups to the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, to promote and advertise the Journal, and to honour the outstanding contributions of Jack Dangermond research and world promotion in geospatial science.
The Award is presented to authors of the best paper, published in the ISPRS Journal during the four-year period. The Award consists of a monetary grant of SFr. 10,000 and a certificate. For each year of the four-year evaluation period, the best paper is selected, and among these four papers, the one to receive the Jack Dangermond Award is selected.
» Read more details
Webinar Series by ISPRS TC IV
Advanced geospatial applications based on 3D urban digital twins
Date/Time: April 7th, 2022; 9:00 CEST, 10:00 EEST, 15:00 SGT, 16:00 KST
» Read more details
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing statement on Ukraine
(this statement is very similar in content and wording as the statement issued by the International Science Council ISC, https://council.science/current/news/isc-statement-ukraine/. ISPRS is a member of ISC).
In concert with ISC and many other scientific bodies, the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) expresses its shock and deep dismay at the incursion by Russia into the sovereign state of Ukraine. Violation of a sovereign nation is unacceptable. This conflict has already generated a grave humanitarian crisis.
» Read more details
ISPRS Congress will be Hybrid in 2022
The largest scientific event of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information science field will be held in Nice (6-11 June 2022).
The Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing is normally held every four years. This rhythm has only been disrupted 3 times since the ISPRS was born in 1910: during the two world wars and during the covid-19 pandemic.
» Read more details
Webinar Series by ISPRS TC IV
Derya Akkaynak
Key role of photogrammetry in color reconstruction of underwater images
Date/Time: March 4th Friday, 3pm CET / 9am EDT
» Read more details
2022 Virtual Keynote Speaker Series
Costas Armenakis
Geospatial information extraction from EO images using deep learning approaches
Friday, 25.02.2022 at 15:00 CET
» Read more details
Webinar Series by ISPRS TC IV
Geospatial Knowledge Representation and Analytics (approximately 1.5 hours)
Date/Time: February 17th, 2022; 9:00 PCT, 12:00 EST, 17:00 UTC, 18:00 CET
» Read more details
Webinar Series by ISPRS TC IV
Network SpaceTime AI: Concepts and Applications (approximately 1.5 hours)
Date/Time: Thursday, February 3, 11am CET (UTC +1)
» Read more details
Reminder | EuroSDR 2022 series of e-learning
Dear colleagues,
The 2022 series of e-learning courses from EuroSDR is open for registration (deadline Feb 8, 2022):
» Read more details
Call for Applications - ISPRS SC Board of Directors (2022 - 2024)
The ISPRS Student Consortium (ISPRS SC) is seeking for suitable candidates to fill all the Elective Officer positions: The President, Vice President, Newsletter Editor-in-Chief, Website Administrator, Social Media Coordinator and Newsletter Designer. If you would like to develop your organizational skills in an international environment, become an official representative of the ISPRS SC, and meet young researchers, professionals, and students from all around the world, then this is a great opportunity.
» Read more details