Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI) will be granting the Travel Award to two junior scientists. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Wolfgang Kainz.

This award will provide financial support for the winners to attend an international conference in the field of geo-information to be held in 2023, where they will hold a presentation, present a poster, or both.

Candidate Requirements:
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students.
– Plans to attend an international conference in 2023 (and hold an oral presentation or present a poster).

Required Application Documents:
– Information of the conference the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted.
– Curriculum Vitae and a list of publications.
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words).
– Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status as a postdoctoral fellow/PhD student.

The winners (two awardees) will each be awarded CHF 800 and an electronic certificate.

Please submit your applications for the IJGI 2023 Travel Award online by 31 December 2022. Prizes will be awarded before 31 March 2023 and announced on the IJGI website.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously give their time to review the papers submitted to IJGI by presenting awards to the reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for IJGI.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for these awards?
All of the reviewers for IJGI in 2022 will be automatically included.

Selection Criteria:
– Number of review reports (only first review reports are considered);
– Review quality based on the rating given in SuSy;
– Review speed.

What will the winners receive?
There will be five winners this year.

The top three winners will receive the following:
– 500 Swiss Francs (CHF);
– The chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2023;
– An electronic certificate.

A further two winners will receive the following:
– The chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2023;
– An electronic certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced on 28 February 2023 on the journal website.

How can I make myself eligible?

If you have not yet reviewed papers for IJGI but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Dear colleagues,

We have been receiving increasing interest from authors to submit their papers as cover stories in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. As such, there will be 24 cover stories in 2021 and 2022. Many cover stories thus far have reported important research results or innovative methods with impressive images. To reward those authors who have published important research results in IJGI, we are announcing the IJGI 2021–2022 Best Cover Awards.

Three cover stories will be chosen from the 2021 and 2022 cover stories and each will receive CHF 100. The criteria that will be considered for selection are as follows:
– Importance or innovation of the research;
– Impressive cover image.

We will randomly select 5 participants who vote to show our appreciation of your votes. The 5 selected participants will each receive a CHF 50 voucher. The vote will be open from 15 January 2023 to 15 February 2023.

You are welcome to vote here (we will add a link here).

The winners will be announced on the journal website based on the voting results by the end of March 2023.

Kind Regards,
IJGI Editorial office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI), I am pleased to announce the winners of the IJGI 2022 Travel Award.

The award has been granted to Mr. Jianwei Huang, a PhD student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Ms. Sevim Sezi Karayazi, a PhD student at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were incredibly challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On
behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Kind regards,
Prof. Wolfgang Kainz
Editor-in-Chief, IJGI

Award description

The winners of the award

The Jack Dangermond Award, sponsored by MDPI and ESRI, was established to encourage and stimulate the submission of high-quality scientific papers by individual authors or groups to the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information in honor of the outstanding contributions of Jack Dangermond toward research and development in geospatial sciences. The award, which consists of an ISPRS certificate and a grant of USD 10,000, will be presented every four years to the author(s) of an outstanding paper on any of the topics within the scope of the journal.

The Jack Dangermond Award 2017–2019 The Jack Dangermond Award 2020–2021 The Jack Dangermond Award - Best Paper 2020 Title: Cartographic Vandalism in the Era of Location-Based Games—The Case of OpenStreetMap and Pokémon GO Authors: Levente Juhász, Tessio Novack, Hartwig H. Hochmair and Sen Qiao https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9040197

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the IJGI 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The IJGI Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to IJGI. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Lemenkova Polina
Laboratory of Image Synthesis and Analysis, École polytechnique de Bruxelles (EPB, Brussels Faculty of Engineering), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Andrew Newton
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCJ), School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Dennis Edler
Geography Department, Cartography, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Lukáš Herman
Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Marcela Bindzarova Gergelova
Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Geographical Information Systems, Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnology, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia

Kind regards,
Prof. Wolfgang Kainz
Editor-in-Chief, IJGI

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of IJGI, I am pleased to announce the winners of the IJGI Travel Awards for 2021.

Junghwan Kim, a Ph.D. student of the Department of Geography and GIScience, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA; and Xuke Hu, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Citizen Science, Institute of Data Science, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Jena, 07745, Germany.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Wolfgang Kainz
Editor-in-Chief, IJGI

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the IJGI 2020 Outstanding Review Awards. The IJGI Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to IJGI. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

Prof. Christophe Claramunt
Naval Academy Research Institute, F-29240 Lanvéoc, France

Dr. Lars Bodum
Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Rendsburggade 14, DK-9000, Aalborg, Denmark

Dr. Kalliopi Kyriakou
Department of Public Health Sciences, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CM Utrecht, The Netherlands

Dr. Izabela Gołębiowska
Department of Geoinformatics, Cartography and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmiescie 30, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland

Dr. Johannes Scholz
Research Group Geoinformation, Institute of Geodesy, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria

The top three winners will receive the following:
– 500 Swiss Francs (CHF);
– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2021;
– A certificate.

A further two winners will receive the following:
– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2021;
– A certificate.

Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
Editor-in-Chief, IJGI

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the “IJGI 2019–2020 Best Cover Awards”. The winners of the “IJGI 2019–2020 Best Cover Awards” will receive CHF 100 each. The winners are as follows:

Volume 9, Issue 4 (2020, April)
Cartographic Vandalism in the Era of Location-Based Games—The Case of OpenStreetMap and Pokémon GO (doi:10.3390/ijgi9040197)

Volume 8, Issue 7 (2019, July)
City Maker: Reconstruction of Cities from OpenStreetMap Data for Environmental Visualization and Simulations (doi:10.3390/ijgi8070298)

Volume 9, Issue 7 (2020, July)
Multidimensional Visualization and Processing of Big Open Urban Geospatial Data on the Web (doi:10.3390/ijgi9070434)

Congratulations to the winners for their excellent research.

We selected five participants who will receive a CHF 50 voucher each:
Guan Li, Paulo Raposo, Dirk Hoffmeister, Francesca Matrone, and Ivana Semanjski.
Many thanks to everyone who participated.

IJGI Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the two winners of the 2020 IJGI Travel Awards:

Jesús Balado Frías is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Vigo - Applied Geotechnologies Research Group. His research interests include point cloud processing, laser scanning, urban modelling, machine learning, and deep learning.

Yang Zhang is a PhD student in the SpaceTimeLab for Big Data Analytics, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London (UCL), UK. Her PhD thesis is “Deep Learning Models for Network-based Spatio-Temporal Prediction and Optimisation”. Her research focuses on geoinformatics, spatial-temporal data mining, applied machine learning and deep learning, urban computing, and complex network and graph theory.

Each Travel Award consists of a certificate and 800 CHF to attend an academic conference of the recipient’s choice in 2020. Congratulations to the winners of this highly competitive Travel Award!

We would like to thank all the Scientific Committee members for their careful evaluation of the candidates and all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating research.

The 2021 IJGI Travel Awards will begin accepting applications soon in 2020. Please check https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/awards for more information closer to that time.

Dear Colleagues,

The IJGI Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to IJGI. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

The following referees have been selected to receive the “IJGI 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Award” for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2019.

The top three winners will receive the following:
–– 500 Swiss Francs (CHF);
–– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2019;
–– A certificate.

Levente Juhasz
GIS Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.

Waldemar Kociuba
Department of Geology Soil Science and Geoinformation, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 21-030 Lublin, Poland.

Timofey E Samsonov
Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia.

A further two winners will receive the following:
–– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2019;
–– A certificate.

Sara Migliorini
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy.

Amílcar Soares
Department of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 1W5, Canada.

 

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the two winners of the 2019 IJGI Travel Awards:

Taylor Anderson is a PhD student at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada. She is a research assistant at the Spatial Analysis and Modeling Lab, Department of Geography, SFU, working on various research-related tasks, including conducting literature reviews; handling GIS data; and developing, programming, and implementing complex systems models.

Jue Wang is a PhD student in the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. His research focuses on creating a robust and reliable resource for accessing, sharing, and analyzing confidential geospatial research data, overcoming obstacles to replicating NSF research. His work is about evaluating and implementing masking and encryption capabilities for the GVDE, and he is responsible for experiment design, data collection, data processing and analysis, and the writing of papers for publication.

Each travel award consists of a certificate and 800 CHF to attend an academic conference of the recipient’s choice in 2019. Congratulations to the winners of this highly competitive travel award!

We would like to thank all the Scientific Committee members for their careful evaluation of the candidates and all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating research.

The 2020 IJGI Travel Awards will begin accepting applications at the end of 2019. Please check https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/awards for more information closer to that time.

Dear Colleagues,

The IJGI Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to IJGI. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

The following referees have been selected to receive “IJGI 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of their reviews in 2018:

The top three winners will receive the following:

–– 500 Swiss Francs (CHF)
–– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2019
–– A certificate

Vít Pászto
Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, 77146 Olomouc, Czech Republic

Andrew Newton
Department of Criminology, The University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7QA, UK.

Robert Jeansoulin
emeritus CNRS, LIGM, Université Paris-Est Marne (UPEM), Champs sur Marne, 77454 Marne-la-Vallée Cedex 2, France

A further two winners will receive the following:
– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2019
– A certificate

Miguel-Angel Manso-Callejo
MERCATOR Research Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ETSI en Topografía, Geodesia y Cartografía Mercator St #2 Madrid 28031, Spain

Dapeng Li
Department of Geography, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the two winners of the 2018 Travel Awards sponsored by ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information:

Travel Awards have been granted to Dr. Yanbiao Sun from University College London (UCL), London, UK and Dr. Marco Minghini from Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.

Dr. Yanbiao Sun joined UCL from Tianjin University in 2017 as a postdoctoral researcher in the Light Controlled Factory Project. He works in the field of digital mapping photogrammetry and industrial photogrammetry, with notable research in non-linear optimization methods used for photogrammetric applications. His current work includes two aspects: photogrammetric optimization and coded target design. He has always been looking for efficient and robust algorithms to address problems faced in images-based navigation and position. Dr. Yanbiao Sun, working with Prof. Stuart Robson, designed new planar coded targets, in which each coded target includes five fixed circle dots and another three coded circle dots. Now, the coded targets have been successfully used in robotic tracking and positioning in the UCL project. In the future, Dr. Yanbiao Sun will focus on accurate and real-time tracking of industrial photogrammetry.

Dr. Marco Minghini’s research spans the domains of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing. He is an early career scientist working on Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) mapping and education. He is also a Charter Member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo, https://www.osgeo.org) and GeoForAll (https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all). He has addressed several aspects of this field: the development of platforms for VGI collection (mainly from mobile devices) and management; the role of VGI to increase public participation; the analysis of VGI data to understand contribution patterns and contributors' motivations; the assessment of VGI quality, in particular positional accuracy and completeness; the relevance of protocols to guide data collection in VGI projects; VGI applications to disaster response; the role of VGI in education; and the exploitation of VGI in deriving scientific datasets such as LULC maps.

The awards consist of 800 Swiss Francs each to attend an academic conference in 2018.

We would like to thank the Selection Committee members Tao Cheng, Bin Jiang and Sisi Zlatanova for their evaluation of candidates.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
Editor-in-Chief

As Editor-in-Chief of the ISPRS Inte rnat ional Journal of Geo-Informat ion (IJGI), I am pleased to announce the recipient of the 2017 Travel Award:
The 2017 IJGI Travel Award goes to Dr. Hongchao Fan of the GIScience Research Group, Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Dr. Fan’s research focuses on volunteered geographic information and data quality. With the help of this grant, he will present findings of a recently granted research project at the International Cartographic Conference in Washington, DC, in July 2017.
We would like to thank the Selection Committee members Tao Cheng, Bin Jiang, Marguerite Madden and Sisi Zlatanova for their evaluation of candidates.