2016 Awards and Citations

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2016 Awards and Citations

Awards Presented at the Opening CeremonyISPRS Honorary Member ISPRS 3ISPRS Fellows ISPRS 4Brock Gold Medal Award ASPRS, US 8Otto von Gruber Award NGC, Netherlands 9U.V. Helava Award Elsevier, Hexagon-Geosystems 10

Awards Presented at Plenary SessionsPlenary 1Samuel Gamble Award CIG, Canada 12Willem Schermerhorn Award Geoinformation Netherlands 13Plenary 2Schwidefsky Medal DGPF, Germany 14Eduard Doležal Award OVG, Austria 16Plenary 3Wang Zhizhou Award CSGPC, China 17Karl Kraus Medal OVG, DGPF, SGPF 18

Awards Presented at the Gala Dinner Frederick J Doyle Award ISPRS 20Giuseppe Inghilleri Award SIFET, Italy 21Best Papers by Young Authors ISPRS 22

Awards Presented at the Closing Ceremony President’s Honorary Citations ISPRS 23CATCON Award ISPRS 24Best Poster Papers Congress 24Best Papers of Youth Forum Hexagon-Geosystems 24

Further Awards, Certificates and Travel GrantsIGI Africa Ambassador Award 1 TIF, IGI 24Certificates of recognition ISPRS 25ISPRS and Congress Travel Grants TIF, Congress 26White Elephants’ „Kennert Torlegård Travel Grant” TIF 27

1 The IGI Africa Ambassador Award will be announced at the Exhibitor’s reception


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ISPRS Honorary Member

An individual is elected as an HonoraryMember in recognition of distinguishedservicestotheISPRSanditsaims.HonoraryMembersshallbenominatedbyacommitteecomposedofmembersfromthecurrentandthreepreviousCouncils, andelectedby theCongress.Theremaynotbemore than tenliving Honorary Members of the Society at

anygiventime.TheCommittee hasnominated Orhan AltanforelectionasHonoraryMembersofISPRS.

Orhan Altanis nominatedfor HonoraryM e m b e r s h i pof ISPRS inrecognition of his

long and distinguished services to ISPRSanditsaims.OrhanAltanfirstmadehismarkonISPRSasCongressDirectorin2004andhassinceheldmanyrolesandresponsibilitieswithin the Society including President from2008-2012.Theyear2010wasthecentennialanniversaryofISPRSandOrhanAltanplayedamajor role inorganising thecelebrationofthisevent.

Orhan Altan has introduced a number ofimportant initiatives into ISPRSincludingtheestablishment of the Student Consortiumwhich laid the basis for attracting moreyoung scientists into the society; he wasinstrumental in setting up an agreement tohave the ISPRSproceedingspublished inaprofessionalwayandhas thusprovided thenecessaryqualityoftheseproceedingstobeincludedintomajorindexingdatabasessuchastheWebofScienceandSCOPUS;hehasworked with the Joint Board of GeospatialSocieties(JBGIS)andtheUNOfficeofOuter

Space Affairs to produce booklets on thevalue of geospatial information for disastermanagement.

OrhanAltanhasrepresentedISPRSonmanyinternationalbodiesincludingtheInternationalCouncil for Science (ICSU) and has servedon the Executive board of ICSU which hasraisedtherecognitionandstandingofISPRSinternationally.

Orhan Altan’s contribution has been notonlyasanofficeroftheSociety,hehasalsomade a significant research contribution toISPRS Commissions and Working Groupsthroughout his career, which has coveredmajordevelopmentsinbothphotogrammetryandremotesensing.

Outside of ISPRS, Orhan Altan has had adistinguishedacademiccareerasaprofessorofphotogrammetryat the IstanbulTechnicalUniversityandhasanextensivelistofrefereedpublications and conference papers. OrhanAltanisfluentinEnglishandGerman,aswellasTurkishandthishasenabledhimtobuildbridgesacrossEuropeandAsia.

His contribution to the development andlong term sustainability of ISPRS and hisdistinguished academic achievementscombined with his diplomacy and charm,makeOrhanAltanaverydeservingcandidateforelectionasanISPRSHonoraryMember.


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ISPRS Fellowships

An ISPRS Fellow iselectedby theSocietyin recognitionofsustained,excellentserviceto the ISPRS and its aims. The followingpersons have been selected to receiveISPRSFellowshipsin2016bytheFellowshipNominationCommittee.

Alain Baudoin (France)

Educated at ÉcoleP o l y t e c h n i q u e(1966-1969)andattheÉcoleNationaledes SciencesG é o g r a p h i q i e s(ENSG,1969-1971)Alain Baudoinwasa GeographicalEngineer servingon the FrenchMapping Agency(IGN, 1971-1989)

then on the French Space Agency (CNES,1989-2005)andlastlyontheFrenchMinistryofEnvironmentandSustainableDevelopment(CGEDD,2006-2010).

Since1972hehasbeeninvolvedinresearchand development of remote sensingapplications, using either airborne sensorsor satellite imagery. From 1978 to 1985he was the IGN Spot project manager,ensuring that the SPOT satellite, with itsstereoscopic capabilities, could be usedfor mapping purposes. When joining CNEShe participated, as “Mission Manager”,then “Program Manager” to CNES EarthObservationprograms,especiallyforSPOT5andPléaides.ParalleltotheseactivitiesAlainBaudoinwasateacheronimageprocessingatENSG.

Since1980,hehasbeen involved in ISPRSactivities, participating at all Congress fromHamburg to Melbourne. During the 1980

to 1984 period, he was the Secretary ofCommission VII, before acting as PresidentofCommissionIfrom2004to2008.HewasalsoChairmanofthe“MappingfromSpace”Working Group (1984-1988) and after thelaunchofSPOT-5, in2002,heproposed toISPRS,acooperationwithCNESforassessingthe quality and accuracy of DEM derivedfromthenewHRSinstrument.ResultswerepresentedattheIstanbulCongressin2004.

Alain Baudoin has been a member of theFrench Society of Photogrammetry andRemoteSensing(SFPT)since1972andwasits General Secretary from 1985 to 1993.At the European level he was the FrenchdelegateofEuroSDR(1993-1999).

Beforehis retirement in2010AlainBaudoincontributed to elaborate the SpaceApplications Plan of the French Ministry ofEnvironment and Sustainable Development,adoptedin2012atgovernmentallevel.

Jiang Jie (China)

JiangJiereceivedherB.Sc.andM.Sc.degreesin applied geophysics from the ChangchunGeology University,China,in1985and1988, respectively.In 2000 shereceived herPh.D. in surveyingengineering fromChina Universityof Mining andT e c h n o l o g y(Beijing). Shes u b s e q u e n t l yworked as a GISspecialist in the Municipal Urban Planningand Management Information Center ofChangzhou during 1989 to 1999, and tookcharge of the establishment of Changzhouurbangeodatabaseandapplicationsystem.ShejoinedtheNationalGeomaticsCenterofChinaintheendof1999andiscurrentlychief


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engineer and director of the Department ofGeo-information Service Platform. She wasresponsible for development of the nationalspatialdatabasefornavigationduring2000-2006. She took charge of establishing thenational spatial database for e-governmentduring2006-2008.

Since2008,shehastakentheleadingpositionforconstructionthenationalgeo-informationservice platform “MapWorld”. The platformhas integrated distributed datasets fromnational, provincial and municipal agenciesand made them easy access for users viainternetandintranet.

She was the secretary of ISPRS WG IV/3during 1998-2000, secretary of ISPRSCommission II from 2000-2004, chair ofISPRSWGIV/1from2004-2012,amemberof the International Scientific AdvisoryCommittee of ISPRS from 2008-2012,president of ISPRS TC IV from 2012-2016.ShewasExecutiveViceChairoftheScientificProgram Committee of the ISPRS 2008Congress.

She received the Eduard Doležal Award atthe ISPRS 2004 Congress, the President’sCitation at the 2012 Congress. She is thechairofWG3oftheRegionalCommitteeofUnitedNationsGlobalGeospatialInformationManagement for Asia and the Pacific, andchair of theTechnicalCommissiononGeo-informationServiceinChinaGISAssociation.Shehaspublishedmorethan80papers.

Franz Leberl (Austria)

Franz Leberl wasborn in Germanyin 1945 and fromthe age of 2, haslived inAustria.Hegraduated highschool in Graz,in 1963. In 1967,

he received his Diplom in engineering fromtheViennaUniversityofTechnology,andhisDr. technicae in1972. In1976,he receivedhis Habilitation at the Graz University ofTechnology.

Franz worked as a researcher and teacherfrom 1969-1974, at the InternationalInstitute for Geo-Information and EarthSciences (ITC) in Delft, and later in En-schede, Netherlands. From 1974-76, hewas a research associate at NASA’s JetPropulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, CA). Hisfirstprofessorship,inphotogrammetry(1976-1984)andhis second, incomputer science(1992-2013),werebothattheGrazUniversityof Technology, Austria. He was the founderof the Institute for Digital Image ProcessingandGraphicsatJoanneumResearch,1980,and of the Institute for Computer Graphics&VisionatGrazUniversityofTechnology in1992.Since2013heisProfessoremeritus.

UnderaleaveofabsencefromGrazUniversity,heservedasCEOoftheAustrianInstituteofTechnology,thenAustrianResearchCenters,Vienna,Austria,from1996-1998.

Franz Leberl was the founder of VexcelCorporation [1985,Colorado] andofVexcelImaging GmbH [1993, Graz, Austria]. Hewithdrewfrombusinesswiththe2006-saleofVexceltoMicrosoftandworkedatMicrosoftas Director of Virtual Earth and Bing-Mapsevangelistfrom2006-2007.

He has 377 publications and 15 patents,and has served as 1st doctoral referee to48 graduates. His honours include IEEE-Fellow 1996; Grand Decoration of Honourin Silver for Services to the Republic ofAustria [2006]; Outstanding TechnicalAchievement Award from the AmericanSociety of Photogrammetry and RemoteSensing [2012];BrockGoldMedal from theInternationalSocietyforPhotogrammetryandRemote Sensing [2012]; Friedrich-HopfnerGold Medal from the Austrian GeodeticCommission[2014];HonorarySenatoroftheUniversityofLjubljana,Slovenia[2015].


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Petros Patias (Greece)

Petros Patias is a Professor, Director ofLaboratory of Photogrammetry & RemoteSensing and ex-chairman at the School of

RuralandSurveyingE n g i n e e r i n g(2003-2007), TheAristotle Universityof Thessaloniki(AUTH), boardmember of theDepartment ofUrban Planning,AUTH (2004-2012)and Vice Rectorat the Universityof Western

Macedonia (2010-2015), Greece. HereceivedaDipl.-Ing.degree(1981)fromTheAristotleUniversity and his .Sc. (1985) andPh.D.(1987)bothfromtheDept.ofGeodeticScience and Surveying, The hio StateUniversity,US.

Petros Patias has a long history in ISPRSactivities:

•1992-2000:ChairmanoftheWG/2andWGV/5

•1996:RecipientofPresident’sHonoraryCitation

•2000-2004:PresidentofCommissionV

•2004-2008:ChairmanoftheFinancialCommission

•2008-2012:MemberoftheFellowshipsCommitteeandCo-chairofWGVI/6

Inadditionhehasbeen:

•1992-1996:PresidentoftheHellenicSocietyforPhotogrammetryandRe-moteSensing

•1998-2010:MemberoftheExecutiveBoardoftheInternationalCommitteeforArchitecturalPhotogrammetry(CIPA).

•2003-2007:PresidentofCIPA

•2013-forlife:HonoraryPresidentofCIPA

He was also visiting professor at variousEuropeanuniversities (TUDelft,ETHZurich,Universidad del País Vasco), Editor-in-Chiefof the “South-Eastern European Journal ofEarthObservationandGeomatics”e-Journal,scientific reviewer to 43 Journals, scientificresponsible,principalresearcherandmemberof research group to a total of 78 researchprojects funded by European or nationalorganizations.

His published work includes 6 books,9 chapters in 4 different scientific books, inEnglishlanguageand203papersinjournalsandconventionproceedings.

Ammatzia Peled (Israel)

Ammatzia Peled is a Professor for GIS&RSand the Director of the Center for SpatialInformationSystemsResearch(CSISR)attheUniversity of Haifa,Israel.

AmmatziaservedasPresidentofISPRSCommissionVIIIon“Remote SensingApplications andPolicies” (2004-2008) and servedon ISPRS Councilas the Treasurer(2000-2004) and2ndVicepresident(2008-2012). Inaddition,he served for two years (2004-2006) asa Member of the TIF Board of trustees. Heserved as co-chair and chair of relatedworkinggroups in ISPRSCommissionsIV, IIandVIII.

Also affiliated with the InternationalCartographic Association (ICA), he was amember and chair of ICA working groupsand also the Chair of ICA Commission on“Incremental Updating and Versioning ofSpatialDataBases”(2003-2007).


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At a National level, Ammatzia had a majorroleinthedecisiontakentoremapIsraelandtheestablishment&updatingoftheNationalSpatialDataBaseinIsrael.Thisprojectwaslaunched,underhissupervision,attheSurveyofIsrael,alreadyin1991anditservesasthebaseforalle-Govprojectsinthecountry.

Author of over 160 publications in Journalsand proceedings papers, and books withover260technicalreports,organizerofover60 sessions and workshops, Ammatzia isinterested in GIS, Remote Sensing, DigitalCartographyandMapping,focusingmainlyinautomaticChangeDetectionandAutomaticUpdating of Core Spatial Data Bases andissues of National GIS maintenance. Latelyhe is involved in projects dealing withautonomousspatialdecisionmaking.

In2010,Ammatzia PeledwasawardedtheEduard K. Tsiolkovsky 150 Years MemorialGOLD Medal by the Russian Academy forCosmonauticsfor:“OutstandingcontributiontoCosmonautics”.In2013,hewasawardedasaProfessorHonorisCausabytheSiberiaStateAcademyforGeodesy&Cartography,Novosibirsk.


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The Brock Gold Medal Award

TheBrockGoldMedalAward,donatedbytheAmerican Societyfor Photogram-metry andRemote Sensing,is awarded foran outstandingl a n d m a r kcontribution in theevolution of thephotogrammetry,remotesensingandspatial informationsciences, which

is a proven contribution to these sciencesandtechnologiesofwhateverform,whetheramajorcompletedprojectorprogram,somefundamentally new equipment, system orfundamentally new technique, or other newdeparture.

The 2016 awardee is Wolfgang Förstner,forhisoutstandingscientificachievementsinthe fieldsofphotogrammetryandcomputervision.Heisaninternationallyleadingexpertinphotogrammetry,computervision,patternrecognitionandmachinelearning.

After obtaining a degree in geodesy hestartedhiscareerat the Institute forPhoto-grammetry, University of Stuttgart. At thispoint of time, the institute, headed by Prof.Ackermann, was a renowned internationalcentre for photogrammetry, in particular inaerial triangulation. Inhisdissertation,whichhecompletedin1976,Förstnerconcentratedon blunder detection in photogrammetricblocks;hisresultsstillprevail.

Förstner then devoted his research to theproblem of image matching which washighly topical with the first-time availabilityof digital images. His work was pioneer indigital photogrammetry worldwide. Papers

onLeastSquaresMatchingpresentedatthe1984 ISPRS Congress and on an Interest-Operator,laternamedtheFörstnerOperator,at the1986 ISPRSSymposiumare, to thisday, recognizedasgroundbreaking.Almostallsystems,whichhaveproventhemselvesinthepracticalworld,arebasedoneitherLSM,the Förstner-Operator or variants thereof.AfterhisappointmenttotheprofessorshipofphotogrammetryatBonnUniversityin1990Förstner became interested also in patternrecognition and computer vision. Work onbuilding reconstruction from aerial imagesformedhis scientific focus for the followingyearsresultinginmanyscientificpublicationsbutalsointhecommercialprogramsysteminJect.

Many other areas of interest of WolfgangFörstnerandmanymoreofhisachievementscould be mentioned. Suffice it to say thatthroughout his exemplary career of nearly40yearsasaresearcher,inventor,innovatorand educator, he has made exceptionallysignificant scientific contributions inmany areas of Information from Imageryand mentored generations of mappingscientists and engineers. Although nowformally retired since 2012, he continueshisscientificactivities.


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The Otto von Gruber Award

TheOttovonGruberAward,whichisdonatedby the Netherlands Center of Geodesy andGeo-information (NCG),consistsofamedaland a monetary grant, and is presented totheauthor,under40yearsofage,ofapaperofoutstandingmerit in thephotogrammetry,remote sensing and spatial informationsciences published during the 4 yearsprior to the Congress. The recipient of theaward isWai Yeung Yanwith regard tohisgroundbreakingdevelopmentofradiometriccorrectionandnormalizationofLiDARsensordatapublishedinaseriesofpapers.

WaiYeungYanwasborn1980inHongKong.HereceivedhisB.Sc.(Hons)inSurveyingand

Geo- in format icsat Hong KongP o l y t e c h n i cUniversity in2002 and M.Sc.in BusinessI n f o r m a t i o nT e c h n o l o g yat MiddlesexUniversity, London,in 2006. He lateron moved toToronto,Canadato

pursue his Ph.D. in the Department of CivilEngineering, Ryerson University in 2008.Withhisexceptionalacademicandresearchachievements, he was presented with theprestigious Governor’s General AcademicGoldMedalduringhisgraduationin2012.HeiscurrentlyapostdoctoralfellowatRyerson,andcontinuestocarriesonresearchinLiDARremotesensing.

WaiYeungYanhasproposedanddevelopedradiometric correction and normalizationmodels to improve the quality of airborneLiDAR intensity data. His models considervarious system and environmental induced

distortions, and adjust the radiometricmisalignmentfoundintheoverlappingLiDARdata strips. His proposed algorithms cansignificantly improvethesignal-to-noiseratioandreducestripingnoiseswhenmosaickingmultipleLiDARdatastrips.Hehasalsodemon-strated how the corrected and normalizedLiDAR intensity data can aid in improvingthe classification accuracy in different landcover scenarios. His contribution, beinginterdisciplinary and of practical relevance,haslaidafoundationforthenextgenerationgloballandcovermapping,andcanbeseenasanessentialpre-processingstepprior toLiDARdataclassification.

TheseriesofpapersforwhichWaiYeungYanreceivedtheawardisgivenhere:

Yan, W.Y., Shaker, A., Habib, A., Kersting,A.P.2012. ImprovingclassificationaccuracyofairborneLiDARintensitydatabygeometriccalibrationandradiometriccorrection.ISPRS J. Ph&RS67,35-44.

Yan, W.Y., Shaker, A. 2014. Radiometriccorrection and normalization of airborneLiDAR intensity data for improving landcover classification. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 52(2),7658-7673.

Yan, W.Y., Shaker, A. 2015. Radiometricnormalizationof overlappingLiDAR intensitydataforreductionoflinestripingnoise.Int. J. Dig. Earth.Published:Nov.26,2015.

Yan, W.Y., Shaker, A., El-Ashmawy, N.2015. Urban land cover classification usingairborneLiDARdata:areview.Rem. Sens. of Environment,158,295-310.

Yan, W.Y., Morsy,S.,Shaker,A.,Tulloch,M.2015. Automatic extraction of highway lightpoles and towers from mobile LiDAR data.Optics & Laser Technology.Published:Sept.26,2015.


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The U.V. Helava Award

TheU.V.HelavaAwardisaprestigiousISPRSAward, which was established in 1998 toencourageandstimulatesubmissionofhighqualityscientificpapersbyindividualauthorsorgroupstotheISPRSJournal,topromoteand advertise the Journal, and to honourthe outstanding contributions of Dr. UunoV. Helava to research and development inphotogrammetryandremotesensing.

The Award is presented to authors of thebestpaper,written inEnglishandpublishedexclusively in the ISPRS Journal during thefour-yearperiodfromJanuaryofaCongressyear,toDecemberoftheyearpriortothenextCongress.

The award consists of a monetary grantof 10,000 SFr., certificates and a silverplaque. It issponsoredbyElsevierB.V.andHexagon Geosystems, while the Instituteof Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,

AaltoUniversity(theUniversitywhereHelavastudied)donateshalf thecosts for thesilverplaque. The plaque was designed by the1980-88 ISPRS Technical Commission IIIPresident,EinariKilpelä,previouslyprofessorattheHelsinkiUniversityofTechnology.

Afive-memberJuryevaluatesthepapers.Foreachyearofthefour-yearevaluationperiod,thebestpaperisselected,andamongthesefourpapers,theonetoreceivetheU.V.HelavaAward.Theawardwinningpaperforthe2012-2015periodis:

“Multiclass feature learning for hyperspectral image classification: Sparse and hierarchical solutions” by Devis Tuia2 , Rémi Flamary3 and Nicolas Courty4

published in vol. 105, July 2015, pp.272-285, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2015.01.006

2 UniversityofZurich,Switzerland3 UniversitédeNiceSofiaAntipolis,France4 UniversitédeBretagneSud/IRISA,France

DevisTuia RémiFlamary NicolasCourty


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Jury’s rationale for the paper selection

The winning paper addresses the problemof high dimensionality in hyperspectralimage classification. Presenting well theshortcomings of existing approaches, theauthors solve the problem of filter bankselection by choosing only those that con-tributetoimprovinglandcoverclassification.Theirworkfeaturesanumberof innovationsincluding the use of multi-class logisticregression, group-lasso regularization thatallowsinformationsharingbetweenthematicclasses and automatic filter selection. Theirnew approach was tested thoroughly onbothagriculturalandurbanscenes.TheJurywas impressed by the authors’ innovativemethodology,findingtheperformance-basedfeatureselection technique tobeverynovelyet still tractable. They felt this well-writtencontribution represents a genuine scientificadvanceinhyperspectralimageclassificationand, therefore, very deserving of the U.V.HelavaAwardfor2012-2015.

The Awardees of the three next-best papers during 2012-2015

For 2012:“CityGML–Interoperablesemantic3Dcitymodels”by Gerhard Gröger, and Lutz Plümer

Institute for Geodesy and Geoinformation,UniversityofBonn,Germany

For 2013:“Urbanaccessibilitydiagnosisfrommobilelaserscanningdata”by Andrés Serna and Beatriz Marcotegui

MINES ParisTech, CMM – Center forMathematical Morphology, Fontainebleau,France

For 2014:“Indoorscenereconstructionusingfeature sensitive primitive extraction andgraph-cut” by Sven Oesau, Florent Lafarge and Pierre Alliez

InriaSophiaAntipolis–Méditerranée,SophiaAntipolis,France


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The Samuel Gamble Award

TheSamuelGambleAwardissponsoredbytheCanadianInstituteofGeomaticsinhonourofDr.SamuelG.Gamble,formerPresidentofISPRS,andDirectorofthe1972Congress.Arecipientoftheawardshallbeapersonwho,likeDr.Gamble,hascontributedsignificantlytothedevelopment,organizationorprofessionalactivities of the photogrammetry, remotesensing and spatial information sciences,at the national or international level. Therecipient of the Award is Naser El Sheimy

inrecognitionofhisrole as a leadingi n t e r n a t i o n a lresearcher inGeomatics andMobileMapping.

Naser El Sheimyis Professor andformer Head ofthe Departmentof GeomaticsEngineering, the

UniversityofCalgary.HeheldaTierICanadaResearch Chair (CRC) in Geomatics Multi-SensorSystemsandisthescientificdirectorof TECTERRA Centre of Excellence forCommercialization and Research. His re-search expertise includes Geomatics multi-sensor systems, GPS/INS integration, andmobilemappingsystems.

Naser El-Sheimy published two books,6 book chapters and over 450 papers inacademicjournals,conferenceandworkshopproceedings, in which he has receivedover 30 national and international paperawards. He supervised and graduated over65 Masters and Ph.D. students. He is therecipient of many national and internationalawards includingtheASTech“Leadership inAlberta Technology” Award the Associationof Professional Engineers, Geologists,and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA)EducationalExcellence.

From2008-2012,El-SheimywasthepresidentofCommissionIon“SensorsandPlatforms”of ISPRS. He organized and participated inorganizing many national and internationalconferences and chaired many conferencessuch as the USA Institute of NavigationGlobal Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)andMobileMappingSymposium.

Naser El-Sheimy is currently a member oftheEditorialBoardof the Journal ofSurveyReview, the Journal of Applied Geodesy,the MDPI Journal on Sensors and onCoordinates.HeservedasamemberoftheAlbertaGeomaticsGroupBoardofDirectors,GeoideNCEBoardofDirectorsandchairedmany international working groups. Hecommercialized a number of multi-sensorsystemstechnologies throughtheUniversityof Calgary Commercialization office and isthe founder of three successful companieson sensors and platforms for mapping andnavigationapplications.


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The Willem Schermerhorn Award

The Willem Schermerhorn Award (1988),sponsored by Geo-Information Nether-lands isgranted toapersonwhohasmostsignificantlycontributed to theactivitiesofaWorkingGroupoftheISPRSduringthefouryearCongressperiod.TheawardconsistsofacertificateandhasbeenawardedtoUwe Stilla for organising extremely worthwhile

and successfulscientific meetingsofaveryhigh leveland in particularthe PIA workshopseries.

Uwe Stilla wasborn in Cologne,Germany, in 1957.He received theDiploma (Dipl.-

Ing.) degree in electrical engineering fromUniversity of Paderborn, Germany, theDiploma(Dipl.-Ing.)inbiomedicalengineeringandthePh.D.(DoctorofEngineering)degreein pattern recognition from the University ofKarlsruhe, Germany, in 1980, 1987, and1993, respectively. From 1990 to 2004, hewaswiththeResearchInstituteofOptronicsand Pattern Recognition (FGAN-FOM),Ettlingen,Germany.

Since 2004, he is Professor with theTechnische Universität München, Germany,and the Head of the Department ofPhotogrammetry and Remote Sensing.He was the Vice Dean of the Faculty ofCivil, Geo, and Environmental Engineeringand is currently the Dean of Studies of theBachelor’sandMaster’sProgramsGeodesyand Geoinformation, Earth Oriented SpaceScience and Technology (ESPACE) andCartography. His research interests includeimageanalysisinthefieldofphotogrammetry

and remote sensing. The publication list ofUweStillashowsmorethan350entries.

UweStillaistheChairoftheISPRSWorkingGroup III/VII “Pattern Analysis in RemoteSensing”, is a Principal Investigator of theInternational Graduate School of ScienceandEngineering (IGSSE), theVicePresidentof the German Society of Photogrammetry,Remote Sensing and Geoinformation(DGPF),amemberoftheScientificBoardofGermanCommissionofGeodesy(DGK),andamemberofCommission forGeodesyandGlaciology(KEG)oftheBavarianAcademyofScience andHumanities,Munich,Germany.Hehasbeen theorganizerand thechairofmany ISPRS and IEEE conferences andevents.


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The Schwidefsky Medal

The Schwidefsky Medal is sponsored bythe German Society of Photogrammetry,Remote Sensing, and Spatial Information(DGPF),inmemoryofProfessorDr.rer.techn.Dr.-Ing. e.h. Kurt Schwidefsky, HonoraryMember of the ISPRS. The Award is in theform of a medal made of porcelain. Therecipients shall bepersonswhohavemadesignificant contributions to photogrammetryand remote sensing, either through themediumofpublicationasauthororeditor,orin another form. The Schwidefsky Medal isawardedtoCharles K. Tothforhissignificantcontributionstothefieldofphotogrammetrictheory and practice in the last threedecades andClément Mallet for his manycontributionstophotogrammetryandremote

sensing as theeditoroftheRevueFrançaise dePhotogrammétrieet Télédétectionand as ProgramChair for theGeospatial Week2015 inLaGrandeMotte.

Charles K. Tothis a Research

Professor in the Department of Civil,EnvironmentalandGeodeticEngineering,atTheOhioStateUniversity(OSU).HereceivedaM.Sc.inElectricalEngineeringandaPh.D.inElectricalEngineeringandGeo-InformationSciences from the Technical University ofBudapest,Hungary.

His research interest and expertise coverbroad areas of spatial information sciencesand systems, including photogrammetry,multi-sensor geospatial data acquisitionsystems, LiDAR, high-resolution imaging,surface extraction, modelling, integratingand calibrating multi-sensor systems,georeferencing and navigation, 2D/3D

signal processing, and mobile mappingtechnologies.

He has published over 300 peer-reviewedjournal and proceedings papers, and is therecipientofnumerousawards, including the2009 APSRS Photogrammetric Award andthe United States Geospatial IntelligenceFoundation (USGIF) Academic AchievementAward2015.Acknowledgedinternationallyforhisvisionarycontributionstomobilemapping,hewasakeyarchitectoftheconceptdevelop-ment,andconductedsignificant research inareas of sensor georeferencing and digitalimagingtechnologies.Heiscreditedwiththeintroduction of the term “direct and indirectgeoreferencing” in the photogrammetriccommunity.

He is very devoted to education andmentoringthenextgenerationofthephoto-grammetric professionals, and has been amajorcontributortoannualSummerSchoolsonmobilemappingheldinternationally.

Charles is highly respected across theinternational mapping community and hasheld many senior leadership positions innational and international societies. He iscurrentlyPresidentoftheAmericanSocietyofPhotogrammetry and Remote Sensing, andservedastheISPRSCommissionIPresidentfrom2012to2016.

Clément Malletis a permanentresearcher at theFrench NationalInstitute of Geo-graphicandForestInformation (IGN)since 2005, wherehe is responsiblefor the researchteam on scenei n t e r p r e t a t i o nand reconstruction, with a focus on land-cover mapping. He received the Master ofengineeringdegreefromÉcoleNationaledes


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SciencesGéographiques,France(2005),theM.Sc. degree in physics in remote sensingfromUniversitéParis6,France(2005),andthePh.D.degreeinimageandsignalprocessingfrom Telecom ParisTech, France (2010), onfull-waveformlidardataprocessing.

ClémentservedasTechnicalCommission IIIsecretary (2008-2012), Chair of the ISPRSWorking Group III/3 (Image SequenceAnalysis, 2012-2016) and Program Chairof ISPRS Geospatial Week 2015. He co-organised ISPRS workshops in variousconferencessince2010andwillbetechnicalco-chair of JURSE 2017. He served as theEditor-in-Chief for the French Journal ofPhotogrammetryandRemoteSensing(RFPT)between2011and2015.Henowserves intheEditorialBoardofRFPT,PhotogrammetricEngineering & Remote Sensing, and in theEditorialAdvisoryBoardoftheISPRSJournalofPhotogrammetryandRemoteSensing.


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The Eduard Doležal Award

The Eduard Doležal Award is donated bythe Austrian Society for Surveying andGeoinformation to assist individuals orrepresentatives of institutions from deve-

loping or reformcountries toparticipate in theISPRS Congress.The 2016 recipientisP.V Radhadevi.

TheEduardDoležalAward is given toP.V. Radhadevi forher sustainablework on mappingtopography and

land cover from high resolution satelliteimagery. Her work impressively reachesfrom sensor modelling and calibration to3D reconstruction, always in considerationof practical applications. P.V. Radhadeviis a senior scientist at the Advanced DataProcessing Research Institute (ADRIN),DepartmentofSpace(GovernmentofIndia),where she heads the Digital Mapping Divi-sion.P.V.RadhadevijoinedADRINin1989.

She was a pioneer in conceptualizingsatelliteimaginggeometriesandusingsatel-lite photogrammetry as a prominent toolfor mapping. Her contribution to the Orbitattitudemodellingwith a singleGCPwasabreak through. This innovative idea madevalue addition in satellite imagery cost-effective,whichhadabigimpactonproductgenerationpractices.Sheprovedmanynewconcepts,suchasfullpassimagerectification,combinedCCDadjustment,geointegrationofsensors,tied-cameraapproach,multi-sensorbundleblockadjustmentetc.

The bundle block adjustment packagedesignedbyher,whichcanhandlehundredsof heterogeneous satellite/sensor imagessimultaneously, delivers end-to-end solution

withcompleteautomation.In-flightcalibrationofsensorsisanotherareaofherinterest.

She has over 40 technical publications inreputed journals,and isa recipientofmanyawards including the ISCA Young ScientistAward(1989),PresidentofIndiaCashAward(1989) from ISTAM, ASI Space Gold Medal(2000), ASI Woman Scientist Award (2009),ISROTeamAward(2009&2012),etc.Intheyear 2009, she was selected for the DLR-DAADseniorresearchfellowship.ShewasanInvitedSpeakerforIEEE-IGARSSconferencein2012.

P.V. Radhadevi has been actively involved,for the last 27 years, in the areaof satellitephotogrammetryandhasbeen instrumentalinbringingoutthepotentialofCartosatseriesofsatellitesforlargescalemappinginIndia.


ISPRS Awards

The Wang Zhizuo Award

The Wang Zhizuo Award is sponsored bythe Chinese Society of Geodesy, Photo-grammetry and Cartography (CSGPC)and consists of a medal and a monetarygrant. ItwillbegrantedateachquadrennialISPRSCongresstoapersonwhohasmadesignificant achievement or innovation in thespatial information sciences. The recipientof theAward isAndrew Hudson-Smithon

the basis of hiswork to developand promotethe Internet ofThings and hismajor internationalcontribution tospatial informationscience.

Andrew Hudson-Smith is ProfessorandDirectorof the

CentreforAdvancedSpatialAnalysis(CASA)at University College London. Andy holds aChairinDigitalUrbanSystemsandisEditor-in-ChiefofFutureInternetJournal;heisalsoanelectedFellowoftheRoyalSocietyofArts,a member of the Greater London AuthoritySmartLondonBoardandCourseFounderoftheM.Res.inAdvancedSpatialAnalysisandVisualisationatUniversityCollegeLondon.

Andy is also course founder of the MSc inSmart Cities and Urban Analytics and theM.Res.inSmartCitiesatCASA.

He oversees 20 research associate staff,is directly responsible for 7 lecturing staff,2 Professors and 12 Ph.D. students. Totalpersonal grant income from 2009 exceeds£15.5 million with projects across multiplesectorsanddisciplines.HeisalsoamemberoftheAllPartyParliamentaryGrouponSmartCities.

Witha focusonkey researcharoundsmartcities,smartspaces,3Dvisualisation,digitalcommunication and the Internet of Things,his work has featured widely in the mediaincluding, Sky Television, The New YorkTimes,TheGuardianandmostrecently,TheOneShow,Channel4News,NewScientist,Wired,ABCAustralia,TheJapanTimes,BBCRadio4andBBCRadio5.


ISPRS Awards

The Karl Kraus Medal

The Karl Kraus Medal, sponsored by theGermanSocietyofPhotogrammetry,RemoteSensing, and Spatial Information (DGPF),the Austrian Society of Surveying andGeoinformation(OVG),andtheSwissSocietyof Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing(SGPF), is awarded to authors of excellenttextbooks in the fields of photogrammetry,remote sensing, and spatial informationsciences,publishednomorethaneightyearsprior to the commencement of the ISPRSCongressatwhich it is tobeawarded.ThemedalisawardedtoIan Dowman, Karsten Jacobsen, Gottfried Konecny and Rainer Sandau for their textbook High ResolutionSatelliteImaging.

Thedecisionwasbasedonthepresentationand up-to-dateness of the material, itsstructure and accessibility for students, aswellasthethoroughtreatmentofthesubject.

Ian Dowman From 1964 to1967,IanDowmanwas employed asPhotogrammetristattheHydroelectricC o m m i s s i o nof Tasmania,Australia, and from1967 to 1969,he worked astechnical managerof Mapmakers, inSydney. He then

moved to London where he was Lecturer,Reader and Professor, at the UniversityCollegeLondonfrom1970to2009.

In 1981, Ian received his Ph.D. at theUniversityofLondon,andin1986hebecameaFellowoftheRoyalInstitutionofCharteredSurveyors (FRICS). From 1997 to 1999 hewas Dean of Engineering at the UniversityCollegeLondon.

From 1996 to 2000 Ian Dowman wasPresident of ISPRS Commission II, andfrom 2000-2012 ISPRS Council memberand ISPRS President. Since 2012, he is anHonoraryMemberoftheISPRS.

Ian Dowman is Emeritus Professor ofPhotogrammetry and Remote Sensing,UniversityCollegeLondon,since2009.

Karsten JacobsenIn 1971, Karsten Jacobsen received hisdiploma in Surveying Engineering, and wasemployed at the University of Hannover,Institute of Photogrammetry and Geo-information, from 1974. In 2009 Karstenretired as Academic Director, but he is stillactiveinthefield.

His doctor thesiswas on bundleblock adjustment,with his majortopics of researchin numericalphotogrammetry,e s p e c i a l l yorientation andcalibration of aerialandspaceimagery,DEM generationand analysis, andmappingwithaerialandspaceimages.HeisauthoroftheprogramsystemBLUH.

He has headed cooperation projects andgiventechnicalcourses inseveralcountries,andhasmorethan300publications.

Karsten Jacobsen was Co-chair of WG I/4“Geometric and Radiometric Modelling ofOptical Spaceborne Sensors”, Co-chair ofEARSeLSpecialInterestGroup“3D-RemoteSensing”, Co-chair of the Working Group“Sensors and Platforms” of the GermanSociety of Photogrammetry and RemoteSensing and is an Honorary member ofEARSeL.


ISPRS Awards

Gottfried Konecny

Educated asSurveyingEngineerat the TechnicalUniversity ofMunich, Germany,Gottfried Konecnycontinued hiscareer as aFulbright scholarat The Ohio StateUniversity from1954 to 1956. In

1959, he received his doctorate at theTechnical University Munich, and wasemployed by University of New Brunswick,Canada,wherehelaunchedthefirstEnglishlanguageprogram inSurveyingEngineering.In1971,heacceptedaprofessorshipattheUniversityofHannover,inGermany.In1975,KonecnymadetheproposaltoDLRandESAtolaunchaZeissMetricCameraontheFirstEuropean Spacelab Mission. From 1984 to1988 he was President of ISPRS and from1993to1997ChairmanofEARSeL.

GottfriedKonecnyisauthorofseveralbooks:on Photogrammetry 1984, in German, andonGeoinformation2003and2014.

Hehas fourhonorarydoctoratesandabout300 publications, and is Emeritus Professorsince1998.

Rainer Sandau

Retired from theGermanAerospaceCenter(DLR),RainerSandaucurrentlyactsasadjunctProfessoratBaylorUniversity, Texas,USA, and Directorof Satellites andSpaceApplicationsat the InternationalAcademy ofAstronautics (IAA).During his careerhe held variouspositions, includingDeputy Directorof the Institute ofSpace Research in Berlin, Germany, andDirectorR&DofLHSystems.

Hehasover30yearsofexperienceinairborneand spaceborne activities and has led andbeen involved in instrumentations of fourspace missions to Venus, Mars and Earth.His stereo camera, WAOSS (Wide-AngleOptoelectronic Stereo Scanner), developedfor the Russian Mars 96 mission, also fliesonDLR’smicrosatelliteBIRDandwasalsousedasthebasisforthetechnologytransfertodevelopLeica’sADS40.Hehas chairedthe ISPRS InternationalAdvisoryCommittee(IPAC)andhasrepresentedISPRSattheUNCOPUOS.


ISPRS Awards

The Frederick J. Doyle Award

The Frederick J. Doyle Award is awardedto an individual who has made significantaccomplishments in advancing thephotogrammetry,remotesensingandspatialinformation sciences and technologies.Arecipientoftheawardshouldtypicallybelessthan50 yearsof ageandhaveoutstandingstature within the ISPRS community.The award consists of a silver medal andamonetarygrant.

The Frederick J. Doyle Award 2016 goesto Wolfgang Wagner, TU Vienna, for

his outstandings c i e n t i f i ccontributions inactive remotesensing, combinedwith his strongl e a d e r s h i prole in sciencem a n a g e m e n t ,u n i v e r s i t yadministration andin internationalo r g a n i s a t i o n s .

WolfgangWagnerwasbornin1969inWels,Austria.AfterstudiesinPhysics,atTUVienna,hereceivedaPh.D.degreeinremotesensingin 1999. Following a short period at DLR,Germany, he was appointed to a profes-sorship of remote sensing at TU Vienna in2001.From2006-2011hewasHeadoftheInstitute for Photogrammetry before movingtohiscurrentpositionasDepartmentHead.

Wolfgang Wagner is one of the leadingscientists in physical modelling and geo-physical parameter retrieval from remotesensing data, in particular radar and lidarmeasurements. He was coordinator of theAustrian Christian Doppler Laboratory for“Spatial Data from Laser Scanning andRemote Sensing” for 7 years, initiated the

ESA Climate Change Initiative project onsoilmoisturein2011,andservesonvariousadvisory boards of international spaceprojects. He was also a co-founder of theEarth Observation Data Centre for WaterResources Monitoring (EODC), acting asheadofsciencesinceDecember2014.

Within ISPRS, Wolfgang Wagner wasPresident of Technical Commission VIIfrom 2008-2012 and initiated a number ofsignificant reforms and new activities withinthesocietyduringthattime,includingthenewopen source International Journal for Geo-Information, theestablishmentof the ISPRSArchives and Annals as an open accessseries,andtheestablishmentofmanagementfacilitiesfororganisersofscientificmeetings.Wolfgang Wagner was also instrumental inorganising the 100th anniversary of ISPRSwhich took place in Vienna in 2010. Since2012he is anactivememberof the ISPRSScientificAdvisoryCommittee.


ISPRS Awards

The Giuseppe Inghilleri Award

The Giuseppe Inghilleri Award (2012),sponsoredby the ItalianSociety forSurvey-ingandPhotogrammetry(SIFET)ispresentedtoapersonwhohassignificantly enhancedthe applicationsof photogrammetry, remotesensing or spatial information sciences inthe 4 years preceding the Congress. TheawardconsistsofSFr2,500andacertificate.The recipient of the award is Sander OudeElberink for his high quality and innovativeresearchin3Dlandscapemodellingthathassuccessfully been transferred to practice toservethesociety.

Sander Oude Elberink graduated asGeodetic Engineer from Delft University of

Technology in2000, and finishedhis Ph.D. on theAcquisition of 3DTopography inMarch 2010. Afterhismasterresearchontheclassificationof airborne laserscanner data, hejoined the SectionofPhotogrammetryand Remote

Sensing in Delft as researcher on 3Dreconstructionfromlinescannerimagery.

From2001till2005,heworkedasresearchconsultant and project manager at theSurvey Department of Rijkswaterstaat,Ministry of Infrastructure and Environ-ment. In September 2005, Oude Elberinkstarted his Ph.D. research on “Acquisitionof 3D Topography” at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation(ITC)attheUniversityofTwente.

Hereceivedayoungauthor’sawardforbestpapers at the ISPRS Congress in Beijing,

China,in2008.In2009,SanderreceivedtheITCresearchawardforajournalpaperon3Droadreconstruction,whichwasco-authoredby George Vosselman and published in thePhotogrammetricRecord.

Since September 2009, Sander holdsa position of assistant professor at thedepartment of Earth Observation Scienceat ITC. His research interests focus on 3Dmodelling and information extraction frompoint clouds. From 2012 to 2016, Sanderchaired ISPRSWorkingGroup III-2onPointCloudProcessing.


ISPRS Awards

Young Authors Awards

TheprizesforBestPapersbyYoungAuthorsaregivenbydonororganizationsandbyISPRStoauthorswhoarelessthan35yearsoldandarethe1stauthorofahighqualitypaperpresentedattheCongress.OneawardisgivenperTechnicalCommission.

Technical Commission I:Yuanxin YE,ChinaPapertitle:HOPC:ageometricstructuresimilaritymetricforautomaticmatchingofmulti-modelremotesensingimages

Technical Commission II:Christian Kehl,NorwayPapertitle:DirectImage-to-GeometryRegistrationUsingMobileSensorData

Technical Commission III:Andreas Ley,GermanyPapertitle:Reconstructingwhitewalls:multi-view,multi-shot3Dreconstructionoftexturelesssurfaces

Technical Commission IV:Constantin-Ioan Nandra,RomaniaPapertitle:Definingearthdatabatchprocessingtasksbymeansofaflexibleworkflowdescriptionlanguage

Technical Commission V:Ana Djuricic,AustriaPapertitle:3DCentralLineExtractionofFossilOysterShells

Technical Commission VI: Raechel Bianchetti,USAPapertitle:ACognitiveApproachtoTeachingaGraduateLevelGeobiaCourse

Technical Commission VII:Benson Kipkemboi Kenduiywo,GermanyPapertitle:MappingcropsfromasequenceofTerraSAR-Ximageswithdynamicconditionalrandomfields

Technical Commission VIII:Katalin Kiss,FinlandPapertitle:Comparisonofhighandlowdensityairbornelidardataforforestroadqualityassessment


ISPRS Awards

President’s Citation

The President’s Honorary CitationisacertificateofrecognitionpresentedbythePresidentofISPRStooneormoreofficers(chairperson,co-chairpersonorsecretary)ofoneWorkingGroupofeachISPRSTechnicalCommission.Thecitationistorecognizespecial,personalandmeritoriouscontributionstotheoperationoftherelevantTechnicalCommission’sactivitiesandadvancementofitsinterests,duringthequadrennialtermoftheSociety.

The 2016 recipients are:

Technical Commission I:Görres Grenzdörffer, Costas ArmenakisfortheiroutstandingleadershipofInter-CommissionWorkingGroup,ICWG,I/Vbon“UnmannedVehicleSystems(UVS):SensorsandApplications”andfortheirinvaluableassistancetoandsupportfortheobjectivesandmissionofTCI.

Technical Commission II: Monika SesterforheroverallcontributiontotheoperationoftheCommissionII’sactivitiesandadvancementofitsscientificgoals,aswellasherdemonstratedleadershipofWGII/8on“Mobility:Tracking,AnalysisandCommunication”.

Technical Commission III:Michael Yangforhisefforttofacilitateinteractionandcross-fertilizationbetweenISPRSandcomputervisionresearchers.

Technical Commission IV:Sisi ZlatanovaforhermeritoriouscontributionstotheoperationofISPRSWorkingGroupIV/7on“3DIndoorModellingandNavigation”.

Technical Commission V:Mark Shortisforhiseffortsinstrengtheningrelationshipswiththemetrologicalindustrialcommunityandforhisoverallcontributiontotheorganizationofscientificeventsrelatedtovisionmetrology.

Technical Commission VI:Anyana VyasforhertirelesseffortstosupportCommissionVIgoalsandforheroutstandingleadershipofWGVI/2on“E-DeliveryofEducationServices”.

Technical Commission VII:Batuhan OsmanogluforhismeritoriouscontributionstotheTechnicalCommissionVII’sactivitiesanditsscientificgoals,andinparticulartoWGVII/7on“SynergyinRadarandLidar”.

Technical Commission VIII:Fazlay FaruqueforhissignificantcontributionstoTechnicalCommissionVIIIandinvaluableleadershipofWGVIII/2on“Health”.


ISPRS Awards

CATCON Award

At theCongress,CATCON - theComputerAssistedTeachingContest -will beorganizedbyISPRS Technical Commission VI. It is funded by ISPRS. The main objective of the contest istopromotethedevelopmentanddisseminationofgood,user-friendlysoftwarepackages,webcontentanddatasetsforcomputerassistedteaching,whichpreferablyarenon-commercialandfree.TypicallytheprizesconsistofaGoldAward(SFr.3,000),aSilverAward(SFr.2,500),andaBronzeAward(SFr.1,500)andacertificate.

Best Poster Papers

AttheCongress,atotalof16BestPosterPapersAwardsaresponsoredbyISPRS.Ajuryforeachof theeight ISPRSCommissionsobserves theposterpresentationsandselects the twobestPosterPapersofeachCommission.TheawardconsistsofagiftandcertificatefromtheCongressDirector.

Youth Forum Awards

ThebestpaperattheYouthForumwillbeselectedfromthepapersoftheYouthForumTechnicalSessions.TheYouthForumBestPaperawardconsistsofacertificateandagiftsponsoredbyLeicaGeosystems,Switzerland.

IGI Africa Ambassador Award 2016

Ingenieurgesellschaft für Interfaces mbH (IGI), Kreuztal, Germany generously initiated theIGI Ambassador Award via The ISPRS Foundation (TIF) to be offered to young scientists inphotogrammetryandlaserscanningcomingfromregionallyunder-representedAfricancountries.Theawardconsistsof2,500Euros, visitsat IGI‘sCentralOffice,Kreuztal,Germany toobtainhands-ontrainingandactiveparticipationatISPRSWorkshops,Conferences,andSymposia.

Thefirst recipientofThe ISPRSFoundation IGIAfricaAmbassadorAward for2015-2016wasMs Muna Khamis Birra Ali, a Ph.D. Candidate in the field of Geoinformatics at the SudanUniversity forScienceandTechnology,Khartoum,Sudan.MsKhamisBirraAliholdsaMasterof Science in Computer Science and Information Technology from AlGezira University andaBachelorofCivilEngineeringfromKhartoumUniversity,Sudan.SheiscurrentlytheHeadoftheDepartmentofComputerScienceandInformationTechnologyandLectureratComboniCollegeforScienceandTechnologyinSudan.MsKhamisBirraAlivisitedIGIinKreuztalinMarch2016.

The2016-2017IGIAmbassadorAwardwillbeannouncedduringthePragueCongress.


ISPRS Awards

Certificates of Recognition for Excellence in Service to ISPRS during 2012 – 2016

Besidestheworkinggroupofficers,theTechnicalCommissionPresidentsandCouncilMemberstherearemanypeoplewhocollectivelycontributetotheactivitiesandthesuccessofISPRS.AttheCongressarepresentativenumberof themarehonouredfor theirdedicatedandexcellentworkandserviceforthesociety.AtthePragueCongressCertificatesofRecognitiongoto:

Ian Dowman Chair, International Science Advisory Committee

Gunter Schreier Chair, International Policy Advisory Committee

Franz Leberl Chair, International Industry Advisory Committee

Lawrence Friedl International Committee on Remote Sensing of Environment

Andreas Georgopoulos Chair, CIPA – Heritage Documentation

Ursa Kanjir Chair, Student Consortium

Dieter Fritsch Chair, Board of Trustees, The ISPRS Foundation

Marie-José Lefévre-Fonollosa Chair, Financial Commission

Hussein Farah Regional Representative for Africa

Mario Hernandez Regional Representative for South America

Nguyen Dinh Duong Regional Representative for South-East Asia

Derek Lichti Editor-in-Chief, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Qihao Weng Editor-in-Chief, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Wolfgang Kainz Editor-in-Chief, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Zhilin Li Book Series Editor

Markus Englich Web Master

Uwe Stilla Social Media Editor

Annette Radtke ISPRS Headquarters

Uwe Breitkopf ISPRS Headquarters

Michael Wright ISPRS Treasurer’s Office

Dan Brooking-Coker ISPRS Treasurer’s Office

Lindsey Earley ISPRS Treasurer’s Office

Chen Chen ISPRS Beijing Office


ISPRS Awards

The ISPRS Foundation and Congress Travel Grants

TheISPRSFoundationhasallocated$US30,000fortravelgrantstoassiststudentsandyoungscientiststoattendtheISPRSCongress.ThissupportwasgenerouslymatchedbytheCongressHostbywaivingalargenumberofregistrationfees.Thesegrantsrepresentamajorpartofthephilanthropic activities of the Foundation. A total of 187 applicants for the travel grants werereceived.Approximately50%oftheapplicantshavereceivedsomefinancialsupport.

The recipients for 2016 were (given are the names and the country of origin):

Pedro Marco Achanccaray Diaz Peru

Tri Dev Acharya Nepal

Adedayo Adeleke Nigeria

Mayank Agrawal India

Irene Aicardi Italy

Felicia Akinyemi Nigeria

Abdullah Ali Indonesia

Fatemeh Alidoost Iran

Tungalag Amar Mongolia

Reuma Arav Israel

Nagihan Aslan Turkey

Mohammed Amine Azzaoui Morocco

Adilson Berveglieri Brazil

Preeti Berwal India

Zalak Bhavsar India

Emily Burchfield USA

Wen Cao China

Xi Chen China

Paulo Costa Brazil

Sushma Reddy Devireddy India

Patricia Duncan South Africa

Nguyen Dinh Duong Vietnam

Ramji Dwivedi India

Hussein Farah Kenya

Pedro Martínez Fernández Cuba

Mohsen Ghamary Asl Iran

Sajid Ghuffar Pakistan

Salil Goel India

Mehmet Gündüz Turkey

Alexander Harvey Canada

Shiran Havivi Israel

Mario Hernandez Mexico

Nalani Hetti Arachchige Sri Lanka

Sahar Hosseinian Iran

Henry Ibitolu Nigeria

Syed Irteza Pakistan

Sivan Isaacson Israel

Justyna Jeziorska Poland

Jayren Kadamen South Africa

Sid Ali Kalem Algeria

Om Prakash Prasad Kalwar Nepal

Ursa Kanjir Slovenia

Candan Eylul Kilsedar Turkey

Cemal Özgür Kivilcim Turkey

Ferah Pırlanta Köksal Turkey

Tarun Teja Kondraju India

Julia Kravchenko Ukraine

Amit Kumar Verma India

Saket Kunwar Nepal

Houda Latreche Algeria

Maria Gabriela Lenzano Argentina

Alexander Liss Russia

Hope Koketsa Malema South Africa

Shimrit Maman Israel

Abhishek Manandhar Nepal

Sina Mehrdad Iran


ISPRS Awards

Marco Minghini Italy

Sultan Mohammed Ethiopia

Indranil Mondal India

Linda Moser Austria

Thembani Moyo Zimbabwe

Shaini Naha India

Elnaz Neinavaz Iran

Yogeswaran Nithiyanandam India

Newton Nyapwere Zimbabwe

Kyaw Sann Oo Myanmar

Genelin Ruth Pamplona-James Philippines

Miloš Pandžić Serbia

Maria Papadomanolaki Greece

Heema Patel India

Tatiana Peremitina Russia

Ni Made Pertiwi Jaya Indonesia

Christos Platias Greece

Gabriele Prestifilippo Italy

Andrei Pushkarev Russia

Alfiah Rizky Diana Putri Indonesia

Mahmudur Rahman Bangladesh

Aji Rahmayudi Indonesia

P L N Raju India

Darshana Rawal India

Caren Remillard USA

Haval Sadeq Iraq

Lal Samarakoon Thailand

Suryakant Sawant India

Roman Schultz Ukraine

Vivek Sengar India

Margarita Skamantzari Greece

Julian Smit South Africa

Vijaya Sunanda India

Laxmi Thapa Nepal

Hasan Tonbul Turkey

Maria Vakalopoulou Greece

Mikhail Vavulin Russia

Alexandru Visan Romania

Anjana Vyas India

Huai Yu China

Rongchun Zhang China

Mayra Zurbarán Colombia

White Elephants’ “Kennert Torlegård Travel Grant”

AWhiteElephants’“KennertTorlegårdTravelGrant”Fundhasbeenestablished inThe ISPRSFoundation to support young people to attend ISPRS events and especially the quadrennialISPRSCongresses.Thisrestrictedgrantcategorywillbefundedbyseniormembersof ISPRSwhoaremembersoftheWhiteElephantsgroup,andwhowishtodemonstratetheircontinuedcommitmenttotheaimsandgoalsofISPRS.ItisnamedafterthelateProf.Dr.KennertTorlegård,agreatSwedishPhotogrammetristandISPRSPresident1988-1992.

Grant Recipients 2016

Ayda Akkartal Aktaş Turkey

Ivan Detchev Bulgaria

Sheryl Rose Reyes Philippines


ISPRS Awards

Documents

2016 Awards and Citations