ISPRS seeks Social Media Manager
The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS: www.isprs.org) is a non-governmental organization devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences and their applications. Its activities include managing events of various sizes such as conferences, symposia, and workshops, publishing journals, and encouraging research in the geospatial sciences. As a result, its success hinges on communicating effectively with a community of students as well as post-docs, early-career researchers, and established professionals in academia, government and the private sector, who are heavy users of information technology and use social media continually.
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IJGI 2023 Young Investigator Award
Nomination deadline: 30 September 2023
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Dear Colleagues,
The nomination deadline for the IJGI 2023 Young Investigator Award is extended. Entries will be accepted until September 30th 2023. We are looking forward to nominations from all over the world.
We are pleased to announce that ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI) is now inviting nominations for the IJGI 2023 Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to one young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the field of geo-information. All nominations will be assessed by an Award Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz.
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Call for Proposals
ISPRS Educational and Capacity Building Initiatives 2024
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 2024, the ISPRS Council is making up to CHF70,000 (70,000 Swiss francs) available to support winning projects under the educational and capacity building initiatives. The maximum funding assigned to any one project shall be CHF10,000 per annum. Projects should commence on January 1, 2024 and typically last up to 12 months. In exceptional cases, applications for projects lasting up to 24 months will be considered. Projects of greater duration than one year will be subject to annual review before subsequent funding will be released.
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ISPRS Technical Commission II launches online speaker series
First talk is on Sep 20th, 4 pm CET, by Dr. Federica Arrigoni
The ISPRS Technical Commission II <Photogrammetry> has launched an online speaker series, that aim to foster collaboration, networking and mentoring among professionals and academics in our community. The seminar series will feature experts presenting on technical topics as well as fellow colleagues providing career advice. The invited speakers will sharing knowledge on the latest research in both academics and industry context. Speakers will be internationally represented and ISPRS considers diversity and inclusion when extending invitation to speakers.
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First announcement of the XXV ISPRS Congress
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Please find here the first announcement of the XXV ISPRS Congress, From Imagery to Understanding, to be held in Toronto, Canada, 4-11 July 2026.
Best regards,
Derek Lichti
Congress Director
isprs-cd@isprs.org
The Fritz Ackermann Award – Best Paper 2022 announced
Automatic orientation of historical terrestrial images in mountainous terrain using the visible horizon, by Sebastian Mikolka-Flöry, Camillo Ressl, Lorenz Schimpl, and Norbert Pfeifer, has been selected from papers published exclusively in the ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing as the winner of the 2022 Best Paper. It will be included in the final selection for the newly established Fritz Ackermann Award, to be presented at the 2026 ISPRS Congress in Toronto.
Congratulations to the authors!
Read the announcement here…
Latest Impact Factor for ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
We are pleased to announce that the 2022 Impact Factor (IF) of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing is 12.7.
We are proud that our journal ranks among the top positions in the all four SCI categories.
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Latest Impact Factor for ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
ISPRS and MDPI are very pleased to announce that the latest IF is 3.4, increasing from 3.099 in 2021.
The IJGI Impact Factor has sustained growth for 7 years!
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Obituary for Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Stilla
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Stilla, Professor of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at the Technical University of Munich until March 2023, passed away in Munich on 10 May 2023 after a long and serious illness, at the age of 66. With him, a friend, mentor and colleague has left us far too early.
An obituary by Christian Heipke, Ludwig Hoegner, Thomas H. Kolbe and Uwe Sörgel you will find here »
Geospatial Week 2025
Council is pleased to announce that the contract for the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2025 (GSW 2025) has been signed between ISPRS and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRS).
The event will be held in Dubai from 16-21 February 2025.
ISPRS Technical Commission II Symposium
June 11-14, 2024, Las Vegas, Nevada
Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel, https://www.caesars.com/flamingo-las-vegas
ISPRS Technical Commission II "Photogrammetry" focuses, at various scales, on geometric, radiometric, and multi-temporal aspects of the image- and range-based 3D surveying, mapping, and modeling in the age of Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality.
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information Citescore announced
ISPRS, together with MDPI, is pleased to announce that the 2022 Scopous CiteScore for IJGI has come out:
https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100427639
The CiteScore, which has increased from 5.0 to 6.2, has sustained growth for 5 years!
- CiteScore (2022): 6.2;
- Ranking in Q1 (98/779) in the category 'Geography, Planning and Development', Scopus;
- Ranking in Q1 (22/141) in the category 'Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)', Scopus;
- Ranking in Q1 (15/72) in the category 'Computers in Earth Sciences’, Scopus;
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Travel Grants by the ISPRS Foundation for GSW’2023, 2-7 September 2023 - deadline extended
The ISPRS Foundation (TIF) will be offering travel grants to deserving applicants, especially from developing countries, to participate in the Geospatial Week (Egypt GSW’2023), September 2023, Cairo, Egypt. The following are the important dates for the applicants.
Extended deadline and dates for applicants for travel grants sponsored by The ISPRS Foundation.
Deadline for submission of travel grant applications : June 16, 2023
Decision and notification of successful applicants : July 15, 2023
Notification of acceptance of travel grant to Operations Officer : July 30, 2023
Applications can be done through below link,
https://www.isprs.org/foundation/forms/Travel_Grants.aspx
Jack Dangermond Best Paper Award 2022
The winners of Jack Dangermond Best Paper Award 2022 are Georganos S. & Kalogirou S. for their paper:
A Forest of Forests: A Spatially Weighted and Computationally Efficient Formulation of Geographical Random Forests. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2022; 11(9):471.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11090471
ISPRS SC Webinar Series 2023 on May 23, 2023
ISPRS SC is proud to provide you with the first webinar of this year 2023, where Dr. Franz Meyer will present to us SAR-based monitoring of global ice masses, the analysis of permafrost change, and the assessment of natural hazards related to volcanoes, earthquakes, and flooding. The presentation will also include a summary of the Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF)’s training and capacity building activities, aimed at improving the capacity of the science and applications communities to leverage SAR data. This is a hot topic today (see abstract) brought to you by a great scientist (see speaker bio) and we encourage you all to join us in this free event!
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The U. V. Helava Award – Best Paper 2022 announced
Congratulations go to Libo Wang, Rui L, Ce Zhang, Shenghui Fang, Chenxi Duan, Xiaoliang Meng and Peter M. Atkinson for their paper UNetFormer: A UNet-like transformer for efficient semantic segmentation of remote sensing urban scene imagery which was chosen as the 2022 Best Paper for the new evaluation period.
Travel Grants by the ISPRS Foundation for GSW’2023, 2-7 September 2023
The ISPRS Foundation (TIF) will be offering travel grants to deserving applicants, especially from developing countries, to participate in the Geospatial Week (Egypt GSW’2023), September 2023, Cairo, Egypt. The following are the important dates for the applicants.
Important dates for applicants for travel grants sponsored by The ISPRS Foundation.
Applications for travel grants “live” on TIF web site : March 31, 2023
Deadline for submission of travel grant applications : May 18, 2023
Decision and notification of successful applicants : June 3, 2023
Notification of acceptance of travel grant to Operations Officer : July 3, 2023
Applications can be done through below link,
https://www.isprs.org/foundation/forms/Travel_Grants.aspx
Collaboration between the ISPRS Journal and the ISPRS Open Journal
Dear ISPRS Readers, Authors, and Members,
We would like to take this opportunity to remind you of the close collaboration between the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (hybrid journal) and the ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (gold Open Access journal).
Over the past years, our hybrid journal has experienced continuous success, as evidenced by the increasing number of submissions and its Impact Factor of 11.774. Given its undisputed prestige and power, this journal is proud to support its younger counterpart. The close collaboration of the two editorial teams is key to further success of the two journals.
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XXV ISPRS Congress Contract signed
During the recent Council Meeting, held in Denver, Colorado, the contract for the XXV ISPRS Con-gress was finalised. ISPRS President, Lena Halounovà, Canadian Remote Sensing Society Presi-dent, Ahmed Shaker, and Congress Director, Derek Lichti signed the contract at the ISPRS Con-gress booth during the Geo Week.
ASPRS & ISPRS Session: What’s Now & and What’s Next in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
ISPRS Council took part in the ASPRS Annual Conference during Geo Week in Denver, USA, 13-15 February 2023. The conference is combined with a very large exhibition of Geospatial technologies which are using hardware and software for an increasingly wider range of practical applications, and thus greatly enlarging the group of users in the world.
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Seven Projects win ISPRS Scientific Initiatives 2023 (SI2023) Awards
The ISPRS Scientific Initiatives are defined in the ISPRS Orange Book, Appendix 9a (https://www.isprs.org/documents/orangebook/app9a.aspx). Every two years applications are invited for proposals and a total of up to CHF70,000 is awarded.
A number of strong applications was received for the SI2023s. These usually come up through the Working Groups, then the Technical Commission Presidents, who endorse them. Finally, a small panel chosen from ISPRS Council makes the final decisions.
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Travel Grants by the ISPRS Foundation for CIPA, 25-30 June 25-30 2023
TIF travel grants will be offered to enable deserving young authors, especially from developing countries, to participate in the CIPA Symposium, 25-30 June 2023, Florence, Italy.
Important dates for applicants for travel grants sponsored by The ISPRS Foundation.
- Applications for travel grants “live” on TIF web site : February 12, 2023
- Deadline for submission of travel grant applications : April 12, 2023
- Decision and notification of successful applicants : April 28, 2023
- Notification of acceptance of travel grant to Operations Officer : May 12, 2023
Applications can be done through below link,
https://www.isprs.org/foundation/forms/Travel_Grants.aspx
ISC Distinguished Lecture Series: “Basic Sciences For Sustainable Development”
In order to promote the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development and to highlight the importance of basic sciences for the ISC community, the ISC GeoUnions have initiated the “Distinguished Lecture Series on Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development”. ISPRS is a member of GeoUnions.
Join us for the first two online events in this series: