Open Call for Paper Submissions, Tutorials and Special Sessions at the
ISPRS 2020 Congress,
June 14-20, 2019
by Nicolas Paparoditis
ISPRS Congress Director
The ISPRS Congress is the largest scientific event of the geospatial community which takes place every four years. The 24th ISPRS Congress will be held in the city of Nice, France, from 14-20 June 2020. This Congress will gather leading specialists, researchers, engineers, practitioners and students in the field of photogrammetry, remote sensing, and spatial information sciences, from universities and research organisations, mapping and cadastre agencies, space agencies, private companies, and end-users. A rich program will enable participants to obtain an overview of the state-of-the-art in current trends in science and technology, and to meet and network with a very large number of experts.
Since the last ISPRS Congress in Prague in 2016, new major developments and trends have emerged in the fields of photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences. Throughout the Congress, participants will present scientific and technical contributions in the scope of the technical commissions of ISPRS in five parallel scientific tracks (sensor systems, photogrammetry, remote sensing, spatial information science, education and outreach). In addition, a special sessions track will be dedicated to new topics and application fields. We aim at favouring emerging themes and cross-fertilization between communities.
Call for papers
Prospective authors willing to present results of their scientific and technical developments in the 6 tracks described above are invited to submit their contribution in the form of an extended abstract (2-3 pages) or under the form of a full paper of 6-8 pages (following the ISPRS guidelines).
The deadline for submission is February 3,2020.
Full papers and extended abstracts are to be submitted through the submission platform on the ISPRS 2020 Congress website: http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/index.php/participate-submit/. The full papers will go through a double blind peer-review process; extended abstracts will be reviewed as well. If the contribution is accepted for presentation at the Congress, the authors will be asked to submit camera-ready full papers of 6-8 pages that will be published in the ISPRS Archives or Annals, the series of peer-reviewed proceedings published by ISPRS. Only full camera-ready papers will be published.
All authors may optionally upload videos showcasing the proposed approach and the main results when submitting their initial submission and/or when submitting their camera-ready papers. These videos will help the reviewers to take their decision and the International Science Committee of the Congress to assign papers to long oral, short oral and interactive sessions. They will also be available for the participants of the Congress to better appreciate the contribution.
Topics of interest include:
Foundations of photogrammetry (camera calibration, orientation, bundle block adjustment etc.) and lidargrammetry
Synthetic Aperture Radar
Calibration and use of sensor networks for geospatial data
Multi-modal, multi-temporal, and multi-resolution data fusion
Image sequence analysis
3D point cloud analysis
Hyperspectral image analysis
3D reconstruction and 3D scene analysis
Multi-sensor and image-based localization
Deep learning for geospatial data analysis
Geospatial data analysis for Sustainable Development Goals
Big data techniques and technologies for massive data processing
Autonomous navigation and vehicles
Augmented reality and aided navigation
Geovisualisation and big data analytics
Indoor/outdoor location-based services
BIM and GIS
Environmental analysis with the Sentinel satellites
Social media and geospatial data
Extraterrestrial remote sensing
Underwater photogrammetry
Call for special sessions
Special sessions are selected on the basis of an open call. Applications can be submitted by any researcher or professional in the geospatial field. Proposals should gather 5 to 10 potential papers covering the topic and showing its importance and complexity. Each application must include a title, keywords, a short abstract of the topic (1/2 page) stressing its importance and its relation to the ISPRS missions, the name and CV of the applicants, as well as a preliminary list of full papers and authors that agree to submit papers to the Congress and to give a presentation during the session.
The deadline for proposing a special session is October 1, 2019. Proposals should be sent to sessions@isprs2020-nice.com in a single PDF file. An acceptance/rejection decision for special sessions will be taken by November 15, 2019. Then, all invited papers composing the selected sessions will go through the regular submission and review process for papers. The number of presentation slots allocated for a special session will eventually depend on the number and quality of the accepted papers, as well as the complementarity with regular sessions of the scientific tracks.
Call for tutorials
Short courses and tutorials will be held on Sunday June 14, 2020 before the beginning of the scientific tracks of the Congress. Tutorials should give a comprehensive overview or a basic understanding of a specific topic related to photogrammetry, remote sensing, and spatial information sciences. The topic should be sufficiently relevant and important to attract significant interest from the ISPRS community: graduate students, researchers, and practitioners from both academia and industry.
We invite proposals for both half-day and full-day courses. An equal share between oral presentations and programming exercises per tutorial is encouraged. Each submission must include a full course description, the name and CV of the lecturers, the expected target audience, a description of the resources that will be needed (e.g., digital projector, computers), and a list of recent tutorials related to the proposed topic (at any past ISPRS, GIS, robotics or computer vision event).
The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2019. Proposals should be sent to tutorials@isprs2020-nice.com in PDF format (a single document).
More information is available on the ISPRS 2020 Congress website: www.isprs2020-nice.com. Looking forward to meeting you in Nice. Nice is nice!
The ISPRS Foundation (TIF) News
TIF Travel Grant Recipients Reports
TIF awarded 26 Travel Grants to worthy applicants to take part in the GSW 2019. Read the following reports:
The ISPRS Foundation Travel Grants to participate in the PIA19 conference - Photogrammetric Image Analysis 2019, Sep 18-20, 2019, Munich, Germany
The ISPRS Foundation provides travel grants to enable young authors, distinguished speakers, and officially designated Delegates, especially from developing countries, to participate in ISPRS sponsored events and in forums promoting international cooperation, advancements and benefits of the P&RS&SI sciences. Click here to complete your travel grant application online.
Jack Dangermond Best Paper Awards 2017 and 2018 presented in Enschede
For the very first time, the Jack Dangermond Best Paper Award was presented at the GSW 2019, in June, for the years 2017 and 2018.
In 2017, the winners were Lei Ma, Tengyu Fu, Thomas Blaschke, Manchun Li, Dirk Tiede, Zhenjin Zhou, Xiaoxue Ma and Deliang Chen, for the paper:
Evaluation of Feature Selection Methods for Object-Based Land Cover Mapping of Unmanned AerialVehicle Imagery Using Random Forest and Support Vector Machine Classifiers https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi6020051
The winners for 2018 were Ilke Demir, Forest Hughes, Aman Raj, Kaunil Dhruv, Suryanarayana Murthy Muddala, Sanyam Garg, Barrett Doo and Ramesh Raskar for the paper:
The Jack Dangermond Award, sponsored by MDPI and ESRI, consists of a grand prize of USD 10,000 and an ISPRS certificate presented to the author(s) of the most outstanding paper published exclusively in the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information during the four years preceding the Congress, and three runner- up prizes of a Journal subscription and certificate, presented to the author(s) of the best papers published in each of the other three years preceding the Congress year.
Jan Willem van Eck, Chief Research Officer ESRI Nederland, Aart van Wingerden, General Manager ESRI Europe, Lei Ma, first author of the 2017 Best Paper, Wolfgang Kainz, Editor-in-Chief ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information,Suzanne Ji, MDPI and Lena Halounová, ISPRS (from left)
U.V.Helava Best Paper 2018 Award presented at the GSW2019
At the opening of the GSW in Enschede, the U.V. Helava Best Paper 2018 Award was handed over for From Google Maps to a fine-grained catalog of street trees by Steve Branson, Jan Dirk Wegner, David Hall, Nico Lang, Konrad Schindler, and Pietro Perona.
The fifth U.V. Helava Award will be presented at the 24th ISPRS Congress in Nice, France, 14-20 June 2020. The Award consists of a monetary grant of SFr. 10,000 and a plaque.
Representing his co-authors, Nico Lang receives the U. V. Helava Best Paper 2018 Award from Hartmut Rosengartner, Director Airborne Sensors EMEA at Hexagon Geosystems and ISPRS 2nd Vice President, Charles Toth.
Impact Factor of ISPRS Journals
International Journal of Geo-Information
We are very pleased to inform you that the latest Impact Factor of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information is 1.840, increased from 1.723 in 2017.
5-Year Impact Factor (2018): 2.022
CiteScore (2018): 2.58
Ranking in Q1 (78/629) in the category 'Geography, Planning and Development', Scopus
Ranking in Q2 (22/86) in the category 'Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)', Scopus
Ranking in Q3 (31/50) in the category 'Geography, Physical', Web of Science
Ranking in Q3 (19/30) in the category 'Remote Sensing', Web of Science
Call for Proposals - ISPRS Educational and Capacity Building Initiatives 2020
In accordance with the statutory mission and activities of ISPRS, Council is making up to SFr. 70,000 available to support winning projects under the Educational and Capacity Building Initiative 2020. The maximum funding assigned to any one project shall be SFr. 10,000 per annum. Projects should commence on January 1, 2020 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.
ISPRS Working Group Officers are invited to submit applications to their respective Technical Commission President by the deadline below, using the template provided (download the template here as MS-Word / PDF). The submission must be compiled in one PDF document. Further details, including information on the topics and the application process, are available in Appendix 9 of the Orange Book at:
ISPRS Ordinary Member, Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) is shortly to release an international Request for Tender (RFT) to select aerial survey companies to obtain LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) elevation datasets.
2019 EuroSDR Award for the best PhD Thesis related to Geoinformation Science
In order to enhance collaboration between European academia and NMCAs, as well as to engage young scientists in its research endeavours, EuroSDR, an ISPRS Regional Member, is pleased to announce its 2019 competition. Since 2016, EuroSDR has recognised contemporary PhD theses that have significantly contributed to the development of geoinformation science in the context of national mapping and cadastral agencies (NMCAs).
International Scientific Societies meet in Hannover for the Day of Geodesy
During the Day of the Geodesy on May 24, 2019, the leaders of four international scientific societies in the field of geodesy and geoinformatics met in Hannover, Germany, for talks on possible collaboration. What is remarkable about this meeting is that all four representatives come from Germany; an unprecedented constellation in the, for some of the societies, more than 100-year history.
Impact of the ARSET Program on Use of Remote-Sensing Data
Prados, Ana I., Carleton-Hug, Annelise, Gupta, Pawan, Mehta, Amita, Blevins, Brock, Schmidt, Cynthia, Barbato, David G., McCullum, Amber Jean, Hook, Elizabeth, Podest, Erika, Follette-Cook, Melanie, Hudson-Odoi, Selwyn, Kinsey, Tom
No: 261
13-14 Jul 2019
CEW&CM Workshop
DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (DRR) CHALLENGES FOR CARTOGRAPHY IN BIG DATA ERA
website not yet available
Tokyo and Tsukuba, Japan
26-30 Aug 2019
ISPRS WG IV/1, WG V/5, Student Consortium Summer School
Geospatial technologies for natural environment management and monitoring http://isprs.pwr.edu.pl/
Wroclaw , Poland
03 Sep 2019
Gi4DM Radar Training Tutorial
An Inter-Union URSI-ISPRS Cooperation
‘Advanced Radar Methods and their Application in Disaster Management'
website not yet available
Prague, Czech Republic
14-15 Nov 2019
PhilGEOS X GeoAdvances 2019
Joint Philippine Geomatics Symposium and 6th International Conference on Geoinformation Advances http://geoadvances2019.org/
Manila, Philippines
19-20 Nov 2019
ISPRS and GEO workshop on Geospatial-enabled SDGs Monitoring for the 2030 Agenda http://www.geoinfobar.com/gi4sdgs
Changsha, China
23-27 Mar 2020
LAGIRS 2020 – the Latin America GRSS & ISPRS Remote Sensing Conference https://2020.lagirs.org/
Santiago de Chile, Chile
07-09 May 2020
GISTAM 2020
6th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management http://www.gistam.org/
Prague, Czech Republic
Researcher position
Geomatics Division – Geodesy and Navigation Department, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Castelldefels – Barcelona, Spain
6-Jun-2019
Co-visualization and Visual Analytics of climate/weather-prediction simulation & spatial data. (Postdoc – 16 months)
IGN-France, LaSTIG, GeoVIS Team, Saint-Mandé (close to Paris), France
23-Jun-2019
Assistant Professorship in Remote Sensing of Global Environmental Change
Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC,USA
Deadline: 30-Aug-2019
23-Jun-2019
Post-Doctoral Researcher Position in Ocean Color Remote Sensing
Masdar Institute Campus, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi (UAE)
23-Jun-2019
Post-Doctoral Researcher Position in Ocean Color Remote Sensing (2nd open position)
Masdar Institute Campus, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi (UAE)
23-Jun-2019
Postdoctoral Fellow (Oceanographer)
Masdar Institute Campus, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi (UAE)
28-Jun-2019
Head of Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
29-Jun-2019
Intelligent integration of acoustic and optical sensors for underwater automatic navigation and surveying with small ROV
LIS, Laboratoire d’Informatique et des Systèmes, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
6-Jul-2019
Postdoc contract at the Geomatics Division of CTTC
Geomatics Division of the CTTC (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya), Castelldefels – Barcelona, Spain
Deadline: 26-Jul-2019
11-Jul-2019
Tenure track position "Geohealth"
University of Twente, Faculty ITC – Enschede, the Netherlands
Deadline: 30-Aug-2019
11-Jul-2019
Assistant Professor Photogrammetry
University of Twente, Faculty ITC – Enschede, the Netherlands
Deadline: 28-Aug-2019
