WG VI/1 - EDUCATIONAL FRAMEWORKS AND METHODOLOGIES
WG VI/2 - E-LEARNING
WG VI/3 - INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND CAPACITY BUILDING
WG VI/4 - INTERNET RESOURCES AND DATASETS
WG VI/5 - PROMOTION OF THE PROFESSION TO STUDENTS
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP "TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER CARAVAN"

ISPRS STUDENT CONSORTIUM

Chair	Co-chair	Co-chair
Henrik Haggren Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing HUT Otakaari 1 F FIN 02150 Espoo Finland Tel: + 358 9 451 3900 Fax: + 358 9 465 077 E-mail: Henrik.Haggren@hut.fi Web: http://foto.hut.fi/~henrik	Anders Boberg KTH Infrastructure Geoinformatics and Photogrammetry SE-100 44 Stockholm Sweden Tel: + 46-8-790 7347 Fax: + 46-8-790 7343   E-mail: abg@geomatics.kth.se Web: www.geomatics.kth.se	Paula Curvelo Laboratório de Novas Tecnologias - LabNT ISEGI-UNL Campus de Campolide 1070-312 Lisboa Portugal Tel: +351 21 387 04 13 Fax: +351 21 387 21 40 E-mail: pcurvelo@isegi.unl.pt Web: www.isegi.unl.pt

WG VI/1 - Terms of Reference:

• Investigation, evaluation, and clarification of national and international frameworks of education in terms of legislation and accreditation
• Assessment of methodologies for optimizing various ways of education including school education, life-long education, re-education of senior engineers, and international exchange in education
• Promotion of scientific publications in our fields and collection and dissemination of respective bibliographic information
• Development of connections with international organizations such as FIG, ICA, UN for investigating and evaluating the international frameworks on education

Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary	CATCON Coordinator
Gerhard Konig Geoinformatics and Cartography Secretariat EB 9 Technical University of Berlin Strasse des 17. Juni 135 D-10623 Berlin Germany Tel: + 49- 30-314-23338 Fax: + 49-30-314-28991 E-mail:gerhard.konig@tu-berlin.de Web: http://www.fpk.tu-berlin.de/~gert/	Mark Shortis Science, Engineering and Technology RMIT University GPO Box 2476V Melbourne 3001 Australia Tel.: +61 3 9925 9628 Fax: +61 3 9925 2518 E-mail:mark.shortis@rmit.edu.au Web: www.geomsoft.com/markss	Christiane Katterfeld University of Hannover Appelstr. 9a 30167 Hannover Germany Tel: + 49-511-76219369 Fax: + 49-511-7622780 E-mail:christiane.katterfeld@ikg.uni-hannover.de Web: www.ikg.uni-hannover.de/	Shashikant Sharma BISAG Near CH-0 circle Indulal Yagnik Marg Gandhinagar - 382 007, Gujarat India Tel: + 91 79 23213090 Fax: + 91 79 2321 3091 E-mail:skant_65@yahoo.com Web: http://www.bisag.gujarat.gov.in/

WG VI/2 - Terms of references

• Collection, analysis, dissemination and promotion of material, software and data (hardcopy and/or softcopy) for e-learning including computer assisted teaching and distance learning.
• Investigation of the role of e-Learning in modern education and training such as material, methodologies and tools.
• Assessment and evaluation of highly interactive multimedia materials and their use in tertiary level courses in remote sensing, photogrammetry and SIS.
• Organization of the software contest CATCON for promotion and dissemination of free educational software.

Chair	Co-Chair
Sjaak J.J. Beerens Director External Affairs Int.Inst.for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation ITC P.O. Box 6, 7500 AA Enschede, The Netherlands Tel: + 31 53 4874225 Fax: + 31 53 4874200 E-mail: beerens@itc.nl Web: www.itc.nl	Xiaoyong Chen RS&GIS Field of Study, School of Advanced Technologies Asian Institute of Technology(AIT) Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand Tel: + 66-(0)2-524-6407 Fax: + 66-(0)2-524-5597 E-mail: xychen@ait.ac.th Web: www.aasu.ait.ac.th/

Regional Coord. - South America	Regional Coord. - Southern Africa	Regional Coord. - Middle Africa	Regional Coord. - Middle East
Osmar Gustavo Wohl Coelho UNISINOS Av. Unisinos, 950 Caixa Postal 275 93022-000 - São Leopoldo - RS Brasil Tel: + 55 51 590 3333 ext.1738 Fax: + 55 51 590 8177 E-mail: osmar@euler.unisinos.br Web: www.unisinos.br	Musisi Mkambwe University of Botswana Department of Environmental Science Private Bag 0022 Gaborone Botswana E-mail: musisin@mopipi.ub.bw	Olajide Kufoniyi Director, RECTAS P.M.B. 5545 Off Road 1, O.A.U. Campus lle-lfe Nigeria Tel: + 234-08037251141 Fax: + 234 8056168292 E-mail: kufoniyi@skannet.com Web: www.rectas.org	Sultan AlSultan Advisory committee Ministry of Higher Eduction Riyadh 11153 Saudi Arabia Tel: +966 14419918 E-mail: computer_305@yahoo.com   Qassim University Science &I.T. Saudi Arabia Tel: +966 63800050/4098 Mobile: +966 50 489 0977

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GEO Point of Contact	CEOS Point of Contact
Imraan Salojee GEO Secretariat 7 bis, avenue de la Paix Case Postale 2300 CH-1211 Geneva 2 Switzerland Tel: + 41 (0)227308429 Fax: + 41 (0)22 7308520 E-mail: isalojee@geosec.org Web: www.earthobservations.org	Chu Ishida Satellite Application Center Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA) 1-6-5 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, 100-8260 Japan Tel: +813 35169107/ +813 62219002 Fax: +813 35169160/ +81362219191 E-mail: ishida.chu@jaxa.jp Web: www.inpe.br

WG VI/3 Terms of references

• Development of connections with international organizations such as CEOS for wider promotion of education in the field of photogrammetry, remote sensing and SIS.
• Development of matrices of joint activities on capacity building, including technology transfer and training, with ISPRS Regional Members and other international organizations such as UN, especially for developing countries.
• Identification of channels for international cooperation in technology transfer and training and stimulation of international and regional organizations to support and fund activities promoted by ISPRS (in co-operation with the Council).
• Assessment of restrictions to international collaboration in capacity building resulting from national and regional legal educational frameworks (in terms of accreditation and certification) and ways to address them.
• Collaboration with WG I/6 on technology transfer related to small satellites

Chair	Co-Chair
Tuan-chih Chen China Institute of Technologyn 13-1, Lane 12, Yen-Ping Road Taoyuan 330 Taiwan Tel: +886-2-2786-4368#15 Fax: +886-2-2786-4403 Email: profchen@cc.chit.edu.tw Email: profchen@ms13.hinet.net Web: http://ce.chit.edu.tw/	Koki Iwao Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Grid Technology Research Center Tsukuba Central 2, Umezono 1-1-1, Tsukuba Ibaraki,305-8568,Japan Tel: +81-29-862-6710 Fax: +81-29-862-6601 Email: iwao.koki@aist.go.jp

WG VI/4 - Terms of references

• Identification, collection, evaluation and dissemination of information on Internet resources, and datasets which are useful for education in the field of remote sensing, photogrammetry and spatial information sciences.
• Identification, promotion, and organization (in cooperation with educational and research institutions) of educational material (courses, tutorials, glossaries etc.) in electronic form.
• Assessment and evaluation of the ISPRS web site for further enhancement.

Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Mojca Kosmatin Fras University of Ljubljana Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering Jamova cesta 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana Slovenia Tel: +386 1 4768552 Fax: +386 1 4768545 Email: mfras@fgg.uni-lj.si	Zhu Qing LIESMARS of Wuhan University P.O. Box C310 129 LuoYu Road, Wuhan, Hubei, 430079 P.R.China Tel: + 86-27-68778322 Fax: + 86-27-68778322 Email: zhuqing@mail.liesmars.wtusm.edu.cn Email: zhuq66@263.net Web: VRLab.whu.edu.cn/	Anka Lisec University of Ljubljana Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering Jamova cesta 2 SI-1000 Ljubljana Slovenia Tel: +386 1 4768560 Fax: +386 1 4250704 Email: anka.lisec@fgg.uni-lj.si Web: http://www1.fgg.uni-lj.si/

WG VI/5 - Terms of references

• Promotion and support of international student activities including the ISPRS Student Consortium.
• Encouragement of active participation of students, especially undergraduate students, in ISPRS events and promotion of reduced fees and stipend for their participation.
• Collection and maintenance of a database on persons who are involved in the promotion of the profession to students, including the members of ISPRS Student Consortium and educators.

Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Armin Gruen ETH Hönggerberg Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry CH-8093 Zurich Switzerland Tel: + 41-1-633 3038 Fax: + 41-1-633 1101 Email: agruen@geod.baug.ethz.ch Web: www.photogrammetry.ethz.ch	Shunji Murai I4-21-9 Mejirodai, Hachioji Tokyo 193-0833 Japan Tel: + 81-426-63-0858 Fax: + 81-426-63-0858 Email: shmurai@nifty.com	Lal Samarakoon Geoinformatics Center Asian Institute of Technology P.O.Box 4 Luang Klong, Pathumthani Thailand Tel: + 66-2-524 6487 Fax: + 66-2-524 6147 Email: lal@ait.ac.th Web: www.geoinfo.ait.ac.th

WG VI/4 - Terms of references

• Transfer of knowledge and technology by initiating and organizing seminars, tutorials and workshops with special consideration of the needs of developing countries.
• Development of teaching material for mobile, caravan-type teaching and training projects.
• Initiation and support of e-learning and remote teaching activities with focus on integration of high-tech elements in teaching and training.
• Support of events with strong participation of young scientists and students.
• Solicitation of support from potential sponsors (system manufacturers, government agencies, NGO/ NPOs, foundations etc.) for the projects and activities.