IJGI Awards

We are inviting applications for two Travel Awards (800 Swiss Francs each) for PhD students to attend a conference in 2019. The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information: Prof. Wolfgang Kainz.

Candidate Requirements:

• Applicants must be PhD students involved in the area of geographic information science and technology;
• Applicants will attend an international conference in 2019 to present their research (oral presentation or poster);
• Applicants must submit the following documents:

1. Abstract of their current and future work (500 words);
2. Short CV with a complete list of publications;
3. Conference you plan to attend and the work that will be presented;
4. Letter of recommendation from a senior scientist.

Please send the applications here: (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/awards) by 15 February 2019. The winner will be announced in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information by 25 March 2019.

The publisher of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (herein referred to as ‘the Journal’), MDPI AG and ESRI, have agreed to jointly present “The Jack Dangermond Award”* to encourage and stimulate submission of high quality scientific papers by individual authors or groups to the Journal, to promote and advertise the Journal, and to honour the outstanding contributions of Jack Dangermond to research and development in Geospatial Sciences.

Regulations

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 one of the topics included in the scope of the Journal. The recipient(s) of the Jack Dangermond Award shall receive the award only once.

Candidates for the award shall be authors of a paper written in English, and published exclusively in the Journal during the four-year period from 1 January of a Congress year, to 31 December of the year prior to the next Congress (referred herein as ‘the evaluation period’). For multiple authored papers, the grant shall be split equally among the authors; certificate will be given to each.

Members of the Jury and the Editor-in-Chief shall not be eligible to receive the Jack Dangermond Award or ‘best paper’ award.

The Award shall be presented to the recipient(s) by the President of ISPRS and a representative of each sponsor at a plenary session of the Congress.

* The name "Jack Dangermond" is used with kind permission from Jack Dangermond.

To acknowledge our reviewers who so generously give their time to review papers submitted to IJGI, on behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz, we plan to dedicate an award to reviewers who prove their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for IJGI.

Although anonymous peer-reviewing is one of the cornerstones of publishing high quality comprehensive manuscripts for the advancement of science and engineering research, it is also often one of the most underappreciated of the many requests and demands made of subject experts. It is for this reason that the IJGI editorial office is extremely grateful to reviewers for the time, energy and dedication that they freely give to support their peers.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?
All the reviewers for IJGI in 2018 will automatically be included.

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

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

A further two winners will receive the following:

–– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2019
–– A certificate

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced early in 2019 on the journal website.

How to be in with a chance to win?
For those of you who have not yet reviewed papers for the journal, but would like to do so, you can easily register as a reviewer at: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit

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