Best Paper 2009
The U.V. Helava Award, sponsored by Elsevier B.V.and Leica Geosystems AG, is a prestigious ISPRS
Award, which was established in 1996 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 fourth U.V. Helava Award will be presented at the 22th ISPRS Congress in Melbourne, 25 August-1 September 2012. The jury appointed by the ISPRS Council evaluated the 68 papers of volume 64 (2009) and
announced its decision for the Best Paper.
The winner of the 2009 Best Paper Award is:
″SPIRIT. SPOT 5 stereoscopic survey of Polar Ice: Reference Images and Topographies during the fourth International Polar Year (2007–2009)″
by Jérôme Korona1, Etienne Berthier2, Marc Bernard1, Frédérique Rémy2, Eric Thouvenot3
(1) Spot Image, 5 rue des Satellites, BP 14359, F31030 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
(2) Université de Toulouse; UPS (OMP-PCA); LEGOS; 14 Avenue Edouard Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France and
CNRS; LEGOS; 14 Avenue Ed. Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France
(3) CNES, 18 Avenue E. Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
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Jérôme Korona |
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Etienne Berthier |
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Marc Bernard |
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Frédérique Rémy |
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Eric Thouvenot |
Jury's rationale for the paper selection
This paper deals with a highly relevant project in
support of the International Polar Year that will be
critical in understanding climate change. The authors
provide a thorough evaluation of SPIRIT DTM's and
analyse the potential for mapping elevation changes over
glaciers for selected sites in Greenland. The results are
highly interesting as they solve very hard problems like
stereo matching on snow and DSM evaluations using two
different satellite sensor systems. The paper is written
excellently and will extend our understanding of the
world around us.
On behalf 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 thorough evaluations.
George Vosselman
Editor-in-Chief
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
ITC, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands