ISPRS's role in promoting international cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences has expanded significantly over recent years. There are three categories of organisations with which ISPRS is associated:

• Organisations of the United Nations
• General international organisations
• International geospatial organisations
• Memorandums of Understanding

ISPRS reports periodically through the ISPRS eBulletin on its relationships and activities with the organisations listed below. In addition, relevant documentation on specific events is often available through our liaison officer listed with each organisation.

 

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ORGANISATIONS OF THE UNITED NATIONS

COPUOS - Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
ISPRS has Observer status in COPUOS.
Liaison responsibility: Lena Halounová

OOSA - Office for Outer Space Affairs
OOSA is responsible for the COPUOS and as such liaises with UN members as well as the UN Secretariat on all matters relating to space activities.
Liaison responsibility: Lena Halounová

UN-GGIM - United Nations Initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management
Liaison responsibility: Lena Halounová

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GENERAL INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

GEO - Group on Earth Observations
Liaison responsibility: Jiang Jie

ISC - International Science Council
ISC (former ICSU) is a non-governmental organisation, founded in 1931 to bring together natural scientists in international scientific endeavour. ISPRS joined ISC in 1994.
Liaison responsibility: Lena Halounová

ISC GeoUnions

• IAU - International Astronomical Union
• IGU - International Geographical Union
• INQUA - International Union of Quaternary Research
• ISPRS - International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
• IUGG - International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
• IUGS - International Union of Geological Sciences
• IUSS - International Union of Soil Sciences
• URSI - International Union of Radio Sciences   (Contact Info)

• DRR - Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction

Liaison responsibility: Lena Halounová

ISO - International Standards Organization
The ISO is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies.
ISPRS representative - Stewart Walker

OGC - Open Geospatial Consortium
Liaison responsibility: Stewart Walker

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INTERNATIONAL GEOSPATIAL ORGANISATIONS

CEOS - Committee of Earth Observation Satellites
Liaison responsibility: Lena Halounová

CIPA - Comité Internationale Photogrammetrie Architecturale
ISPRS and ICOMOS manage CIPA together. A CIPA international conference is held every two years, where the most recent developments in architectural photogrammetry are presented.
Liaison responsibility: Lena Halounová

IAA - IAF - International Academy of Astronautics - International Astronautical Federation
Liaison responsibility: Lena Halounová

IAPR - International Association for Pattern Recognition
Liaison responsibility: Nicolas Paparoditis

ICOMOS - International Council on Monuments and Sites
Liaison responsibility: Andreas Georgopoulos

ICORSE - The International Committee On Remote Sensing of Environment
Liaison responsibility: Christian Heipke

OSGeo - Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Liaison responsibility: Nicolas Paparoditis

SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering
Liaison responsibility: Stewart Walker

UN GGIM Geospatial Societies - Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies
The Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies comprises representatives from

• FIG - International Federation of Surveyors
• GSDI - Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association
• IEEE-GRSS - IEEE-Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society 
• IAG - International Association of Geodesy
• ICA - International Cartographic Association
• IGU - International Geographic Union
• IHO - International Hydrographic Organization
• IMTA - International Map Trade Association
• ISPRS - International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
• ISCGM - International Steering Committee for Global Mapping

The JB GIS meets on an annual basis to discuss collaboration on activities related to geospatial information.
Liaison responsibility: Lena Halounová

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Memorandums of Understanding

AARSE / ISPRS MoU - Memorandum of Understanding between the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment - 28 October 2010

EIS-AFRICA / ISPRS MoU - Memorandum of Understanding between the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and the Environmental Information Systems-AFRICA - 27 October 2010

EuroSDR / ISPRS MoU - Memorandum of Understanding between the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and EuroSDR - 11 September 2013

IAA / ISPRS MoU - Memorandum of Understanding between the International Academy of Astronautics, Paris, France and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) - 23 March 2017

IEEE-GRSS / ISPRS MoU - Memorandum of Understanding between the IEEE-Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (IEEE-GRSS) and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) - 10 October 2018

ISDE / ISPRS MoU - Memorandum of Understanding between the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) - 6 June 2022

LASAC / ISPRS MoU - Memorandum of Understanding between the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and the Chinese Ministry of Natural Resources, (LASAC) - 14 May 2024

OGC / ISPRS MoU - Memorandum of Understanding between the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and the Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. - 1 July 2020

OSGeo / ISPRS MoU - Memorandum of Understanding between the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation - 20 July 2016

SELPER / ISPRS MoU - Memorandum of Understanding between the  International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and the Sociedad Latinoamericana en Percepción Remota y Sistemas de Información Espacial (There are both an english and a spanish version of this MoU) - 29 October 2016