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 journal, to promote and advertise the journal, and to honor the outstanding contributions of Jack Dangermond to research on and the development of 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 one of the topics included in the scope of the journal. The recipient(s) of the Jack Dangermond Award shall only receive the award once.

The Jack Dangermond Award 2017–2019
The Jack Dangermond Award 2020–2021
The Jack Dangermond Award 2022–2025

The Jack Dangermond Award—Best Paper 2022
A Forest of Forests: A Spatially Weighted and Computationally Efficient Formulation of Geographical Random Forests
By Stefanos Georganos and Stamatis Kalogirou
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2022, 11(9), 471;
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11090471

The Jack Dangermond Award—Best Paper 2023
Deep Learning Semantic Segmentation for Land Use and Land Cover Types Using Landsat 8 Imagery
By Wuttichai Boonpook, Yumin Tan, Attawut Nardkulpat, Kritanai Torsri, Peerapong Torteeka, Patcharin Kamsing, Utane Sawangwit, Jose Pena and Montri Jainaen
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2023, 12(1), 14;
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12010014

The Jack Dangermond Award—Best Paper 2024
Mining Spatiotemporal Mobility Patterns Using Improved Deep Time Series Clustering
By Ziyi Zhang, Diya Li, Zhe Zhang and Nick Duffield
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2024, 13(11), 374;
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13110374

The Jack Dangermond Award—Best Paper 2025
Development of a Fifteen-Minute City Index Using Walkability Scores and Age-Classified Population: The Case of Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines
by Carlo Angelo R. Mañago, Marielle G. Nasalita, Cesar V. Saveron, Ynah Andrea D. Sunga and Alexis Richard C. Claridades
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2025, 14(2), 78;
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi14020078