President's Report

The year 2010 has seen the completion of all eight midterm Symposia, which Technical Commissions are required to hold. All Symposia were successful and all Technical Commission Presidents deserve congratulations for their major contributions to the scientific work of ISPRS. Council was very pleased with the conduct of the Symposia, and I am sure that they have led to good preparations for the Congress in Melbourne in August 2012. In July 2010, the Society celebrated the Centenary of its founding and the major contributions of the many professionals who have played a role in its development over the past 100years, at its birthplace, Vienna University of Technology. A series of events marked the historic occasion.

The year 2011 is an important one for the preparations for the Congress. The Second Announcement document will be distributed early this year. Other documentation for the Commercial and Scientific Exhibits has already been circulated. Presenters of papers at the technical sessions must submit their papers by 24 October 2011. This commences the process for the selection of papers for the technical sessions and interactive sessions. The Congress Director Professor Cliff Ogleby and his team are taking great care in the preparation of the Congress and excellent technical and social programs are guaranteed. The year 2011 will also be a big year for ISPRS events, with many Working Groups planning workshops. I hope to meet with many of you in 2011.

Orhan ALTAN
ISPRS President

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Annual Reports of ISPRS Technical Commissions

	Annual Report of ISPRS Technical Commissions VI
	Annual Report of ISPRS Technical Commissions VII
	Annual Report of ISPRS Technical Commissions VIII

Annual Reports of ISPRS Regional Representatives

	Annual Report of Latin American
	Annual Report of Africa

ISPRS VIII/5 Workshop Report
By Dr Thomas Cudahy, Chair ISPRS WG VIII/5, Energy and Solid Earth

A group of 28 primarily government geoscientists from five countries met up in Alice Springs in September as part of the 15th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference (www.15.arspc.com) to discuss the possibility of generating global-scale, web-accessible geoscience maps from current and future remote sensing imagery. This discussion was led by the ISPRS Working Group VIII/5, Energy and Solid Earth. Two invited papers provided catalyst for the discussion, including one by Trude King from the USGS who presented the first country-scale hyperspectral imaging survey. This survey was conducted over Afghanistan with the data, products and software to soon be released publicly. The second invited paper was by Matilda Thomas from Geoscience Australia who showed how the current archive of ASTER satellite imagery can be processed to yield country (global) scale geoscience maps. One of the outcomes of this meeting was that development of a coordinated plan was agreed by those Australian geosurveys present to generate an ASTER geoscience map of Australia which could serve as a demonstration for a similar suite of products at a global-scale.

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ISPRS Workshop on Digital Preservation of Archaeological Heritage
By Dr. Bharat Lohani, Co-Chair WG-V/2

The Workshop on Digital Preservation of Archaeological Heritage was jointly organized by IIT Kanpur, ISPRS WG V-2 and University of Allahabad during 18 – 19 October 2010 at IIT Kanpur, India. The workshop attracted participants from India and neighbouring countries. In total there were around 40 participants. The workshop was structured on the line of presentations by experts so the participants can learn new technologies and their use for archaeological investigation, documentation and preservation. Currently, in India not many archaeologists are employing modern tools in their work and, therefore, this mode of workshop fitted well to the need of the country.

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Member News
2011 ASPRS Fellow Award Winners

Paul D. Brooks and Kass Green have been named the 2011 ASPRS Fellow Award winners. The ASPRS designation of Fellow is conferred on active Society members who have performed excep-tional service in advancing the science and use of the mapping sciences (photogrammetry, remote sensing, surveying, geographic information systems, and related disciplines). The designation of Fellow is awarded for pro¬fessional excellence and for service to the Society. Candidates are nominated by other active members, recommended to the Fellows Committee, and elected by the ASPRS Board of Directors. Up to 0.3 percent of the Society's active members may be elected as Fellows in any one year. The nominees must have made outstanding contributions in a recognized Society specialization whether in practice, research, development, administration, or education in the mapping sciences. Members of the Fellows Committee and the Executive Committee are ineligible for nomination. This year's awards will be given in May at the ASPRS 2011 Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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1st Announcement of Joint-WG workshop on
′Geospatial Data Infrastructure: from data acquisition and updating to smarter services′

The ISPRS joint-WG workshop on 'Geospatial Data Infrastructure: from data acquisition and updating to smarter services' will be held during October 20-21, 2011 in Guilin China. The workshop is co-organized by ISPRS WG IV/1, IV/2, IV/4, IV/5, IV/7, ICWG IV/VIII. The workshop will focus on hot topics of recent achievements and trends of SDI, such as data acquisition and updating, database creation and maintenance, smarter geo-spatial services and applications, standards and liaison, etc. The extra-attraction of the workshop is the beautiful city Guilin, whose name means "forest of Sweet Osmanthus", owing to the large number of fragrant sweet osmanthus trees blooming in October every year. For detail information please visit the workshop website at http://isprs-wg41.nsdi.gov.cn/.

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