The ISPRS 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 to promote and advertise the journal and to honor 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. Please note that the purpose of the Jack Dangermond Award is to recognize unique candidates and, as such, it will not be awarded to previous recipients.

Candidates for the award should be authors of a paper written in English that was 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. For multi-authored papers, the grant will be split equally among the authors with a certificate given to each.

Members of the Jury and the Editor-in-Chief are not to be eligible to receive the Jack Dangermond Award or Best Paper Award.

The award will 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.

We are inviting applications for two Travel Awards (CHF 800 each)—one award for PhD students and one for postdoctoral researchers, to attend a conference in 2021. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Prof. Wolfgang Kainz.

Candidate Requirements:
– Applicants must be PhD students or postdoctoral researchers involved in the area of geographic information science and technology;
– Applicants will attend an international conference in 2021 to present their research (oral presentation or poster);
– Awardees are asked to acknowledge support from the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information in their presentations, and the presentations/posters related to the acknowledgement should be sent to the Editorial Office in advance.
– 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 they plan to attend and the work that will be presented;
4. Letter of recommendation from a senior scientist.

Please apply at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/awards by 20 December 2020. The winner will be announced in the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information after 10 February 2021.

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.

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 editing team is extremely grateful to reviewers for the time, energy, and dedication that they freely give to support their peers.

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.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced in February 2021 on the journal website.

How can I 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 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 Awards” 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.