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