Post on 09-Aug-2020
ISPRS International Society for
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Best greetings …
… from ISPRS Council and Technical Commission Presidents (2016 – 20)
ISPRS is …
• an international NGO with a focus on
– science and development
• in photogrammetry, remote sensing, spatial information
– cooperation between all relevant stakeholders
• academia, private industry, government, end users
– truly global cooperation
• education, technology transfer, capacity building
• more than 100 years old
• approx. 180 institutional members
The Netherlands and the ISPRS
• ISPRS President: W. Schermerhorn (1938 – 48)
• Honorary member: W. Schermerhorn
• Congress: The Hague 1948, Amsterdam 2000
• ISPRS Symposia: Delft 1962, 1970
Enschede 1986, 2006, 2010
• Schermerhorn Award
• Editor-in-Chief, ISPRS Journal: G. Vosselman (2005-12)
City plan of Delft
Willem Blaeu (1648)
Technical Commissions (2016 – 20)
No. Commission title President / Vice-president
I Sensor Systems Stefan Hinz (Germany) / Raul Feitosa (Brazil)
II Photogrammetry Fabio Remondino (Italy) / Takashi Fuse (Japan)
III Remote Sensing Jiang Jie (China) / Ahmed Shaker (Canada)
IV Spatial Information Science
Sisi Zlatanova (Netherlands) / Suzana Dragićević (Canada)
V Education and Outreach A. Senthil Kumar (India) / P.L.N. Raju (India)
ISPRS Midterm Symposia 2018
No. Theme Date Location
I Innovative sensing – from Sensors
to Methods and Applications Oct. 9-12 Karlsruhe, GER
II Towards photogrammetry 2020 June 3-7 Riva del Garda,
ITA
III Developments, Technologies and Applications in Remote Sensing
May 7-10 Beijing, China
IV Geospatial Information Science Oct. 1-5 Delft, NL
V Pixel to People - through Education Nov. 20-23 New Delhi, IND
ISPRS Midterm Symposia 2018
ISPRS publications: The flagship
... one of the top journals in
remote sensing and
photogrammetry worldwide,
impact factor 2017: 5,994
ISPRS publications: Open-access journal in GI
ISPRS – Research Agenda
Calls for state-of-the art papers in both journals coming up for Nice 2020
J. Chen, I. Dowman, S. Li, Z. Li, M. Madden, J. Mills, N. Paparoditis, F. Rottensteiner, M. Sester, C. Toth, J. Trinder, C. Heipke: Information from imagery:
ISPRS scientific vision and research agenda – 2016 Congress, Prague
Education and Capacity Building Initiative 2018
Title Project Team TC/WG
GeoInformation Science Pedagogical Outreach Pilot
Program: 3S-4-Schools
Timo Balz et al. (China) TC I
Camera Calibration and Performance Database Mark R. Shortis (AUS) TC II
Spreading the Knowledge from ISPRS Educational
Events using a Dissemination Internet Platform
Marco Scaioni et a.
(ITA/NL/AUT/GER)
TC II and
III
Capacity Building for High-Resolution Land Cover
Inter-comparison and Validation
Maria Brovelli et al.
(ITA/China)
TC IV
Establishing an Open Repository and Catalogue for
Geospatial Educational Resources
Victoria Rautenbach et
al. (SA/AUS/,US/F)
TC IV, ICA
Education and Training Resources on Digital
Photogrammetry
Grazia Tucci et al.
(ITA/IND)
TC V
MOTIVATE Learning: Making Opportunities to Ini-
tiate Valuable Alliance through Experiential Learning
Sheryl Rose Reyes et al.
(Philippines/Thailand)
ISPRS SC,
GISTDA
New ISPRS services
• Keynote speaker programme for Ordinary Members
• Support for authors of developing countries
– help with APC for accepted open access papers
• Harmonization of meeting organisation
– ConfTool free of charge for ISPRS events
• Re-organisation of Council
– to better prepare ISPRS for future challenges
ISPRS Geospatial Week 2019
June 10 – 14, 2019
ISPRS Congress 2020 Nice, France
Imaging today, foreseeing tomorrow
June 14 – 20, 2020 www.isprs2020-nice.com
TIF - The ISPRS Foundation
• ... organizes fund raising to help support the activities and to reach the goals of ISPRS
• … provides grants, scholarships, awards, training supplies etc. to qualified individuals and organizations, especially those in developing countries
TIF Travel grants Delft 2018
Ido Massad
Maki Kishimoto
Gorica Bratic
Alex Smith
Elaine Jesus
Srishti Srivastava
Patricia Ferreira-Lopes
Michael Niestroj
Inder Mohan Chauhan