Best Paper 1998
The U.V. Helava Award, sponsored by Elsevier Science B.V. and LH Systems, LLC, is a prestigious new ISPRS Award,
which was established to encourage and stimulate submission of high quality scientific papers by individual authors or groups to
the ISPRS Journal, 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, written in English and published exclusively in the ISPRS Journal during the
four-year period from January of a Congress year, to December of the year prior to the next Congress. The Award consists of a monetary
grant of SFr. 10,000 and a plaque. A five-member jury, comprising experts of high scientific standing, whose expertise covers
the main topics included in the scope of the Journal, evaluates the papers. 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.
The first U.V. Helava Award will be presented at the 19th ISPRS Congress, Amsterdam, 16-23 July 2000. The
five-member jury appointed by the ISPRS Council evaluated the 31 papers of 1998 and announced its decision for the Best Paper.
The winner of the 1998 Best Paper is:
Errors and Accuracy Estimates of Laser Data Acquired by Various
Laser Scanning Systems for Topographic Applications
E. Jeroen Huising , Luisa M. Gomes Pereira
Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, Rijkswaterstaat, Survey Department, P.O. Box 5023
2600 GA Delft, Netherlands
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| E. Jereon Huising |
Luisa M. Gomes Pereira |
Jury's rationale for the paper selection
The paper is a very well written, comprehensive, thorough, interesting and practical report on the timely subject of 3D surface data, and especially DTM, generation from airborne laser scanning data for an increasing number of applications. It is based on considerable experience with several laser scanning systems, providing a useful comparison based on real data. It also includes problems and errors encountered, as well as strategies for data collection/processing to improve the accuracy of the results. The authors come from an organisation (Rijkswaterstaat), which since 1994 has invested considerable resources in testing different airborne laser scanning systems for various applications, and which now constitutes one of the world's premier user on a large scale of this increasingly used technology.
In the name of the ISPRS and the U.V. Helava Award jury, I would like to congratulate the authors for this distinction and thank them for their contribution. I would also like to thank the sponsors of the Award, and the jury members for their hard work and thorough evaluation.
Emmanuel P. Baltsavias
Editor-in-Chief, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing