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ISPRSInternational Society for

Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Presented by Prof. Clive Fraser, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

Relevance of Information from Imagery

• Sustainable development

– Urban and rural, mega cities, energy , …

• Environmental monitoring

– Global warming, sea level rise, …

• Disaster mapping and monitoring

– Indonesian earthquake & tsunami, 2018, …

• Autonomous driving and navigation

– Mobility, safety, …

• Homeland security, …

ISPRS is …

• an international NGO with a focus on

– science and development

• in photogrammetry, remote sensing, spatial information

– cooperation between all relevant stakeholders

• academia, private industry, government, end users

– truly global cooperation

• education, technology transfer, capacity building

• more than 100 years old

• approx. 180 institutional members

Science and development

Raison d’être of ISPRS: far beyond topographic mapping

– Photogrammetry

• computer vision, autonomous driving, robotics, cultural heritage, industrial measurement

– Remote sensing

• constellations and swarms, “the whole earth every day” (in real time), multi-resolution monitoring and data continuity

– Spatial information science

• spatio-temporal modelling, crowd sourcing, social media, personal navigation, ubiquitous computing

Science and development

– The underlying concepts

• big data, big data platforms – also “big brother”

• parallel computing, cloud computing

• machine learning, semantic scene understanding

• The Internet of Things

• openX (software, data, access)

– to be adapted and integrated into our solutions

– to be further developed in cooperation with others

Information from Imagery:

Digitisation of our planet in real time

Cooperation with stakeholders

• From science to applications – the bridge to the outside world

• IPAC – ISPRS Int. Policy Advisory Committee

– to align policy issues with outside world

• I2AC – ISPRS Int. Industrial Advisory Committee

– to give commercial world a better voice in ISPRS

• Commercial exhibition at major meetings

• End user meetings (NMCA, Space Agencies, …)

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Global cooperation

• … with sister societies– ICA, IAG, FIG, IHO, IEEE-GRSS, … -> UN GGIM Geospat. Soc.

– ICSU, GEO, UN-GGIM, UN-OOSA, …

• Education– a Commission dedicated to education and outreach

– ISPRS Student Consortium

– special summer schools on locally relevant topics

– special sessions at scientific meetings

• Reg. rep’s in areas with less contact to ISPRS

• ISPRS Foundation, travel grants

Mission and vision

ISPRS Mission: why we exist

• … to advance the photogrammetry, remote

sensing and spatial information sciences

through international cooperation in research,

development and education for the benefit of

society and for environmental sustainability.

(from ISPRS Strategic Plan 2010)

ISPRS Vision: where we want to go

• … to be the foremost scientific society in its field and for Society at large,

• to speak for all people working in the field,

• to provide the necessary resources to develop the field.

(from ISPRS Strategic Plan 2010)

Development of ISPRS

The beginning

• founded on July 4, 1910 in Vienna on the initiative of Prof. Eduard Doležal

– International Society of Photogrammetry (ISP)

• oldest international umbrella organisationin its field

Eduard Doležal, a professor for practical geometry at Vienna University of Technology

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ISPRS beyond photogrammetry

• Name change in 1980 to include Remote Sensing

• Ad hoc Committee report in 1990:– ‘acquisition of spatial data by photogrammetry and

remote sensing cannot be divorced from subsequent processing and management’

– ‘recent developments … have seen ISPRS activities expand .. into a much wider range of topics’

• Today, ISPRS activities include acquisition, modelling, analysis, DB management and visualisation of geospatial data in different applications with a focus on imagery: Information from Imagery

ISPRS goes geospatial: Imagery is core to GIS

GIS brings value

Imagery brings value

GIS Imagery• Timely, rich

information • Measurements

and analysis • Authoritative

source

• Contextualrelationships

• Visualintegration

• Datamanagement

• Spatial analysis• Communication

ISPRS – XXIII Congress, Prague 2016

• a new research agenda (vision paper)* + 10 review/overview papers

* J. Chen, I. Dowman, S. Li, Z. Li, M. Madden, J. Mills, N. Paparoditis, F. Rottensteiner, M. Sester, C. Toth, J. Trinder, C. Heipke: Information from

imagery: ISPRS scientific vision and research agenda

Membership

ISPRS Membership

• Ordinary members (92)– representing a country or region as a whole

• Associate members (16)– representing a community not represented by the

Ordinary Member organization

• Regional members (15)– multi-national association promoting regional

cooperation

• Sustaining members (59)– connection to the commercial world

• Individual members (free, increasing daily)

ISPRS Membership

Regional Member

A multi-national association of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and/or Spatial Information Science organizations established for the purpose of considering issues of common interest, promoting regional cooperation, convening regional conferences, etc.

Pacific GIS & Remote Sensing Council (PGRSC) is one of the 15 Regional Members of ISPRS

The Pacific GIS & RS Annual Conference exemplifies

the type of multi-national conference envisaged under the auspices of ISPRS regional Membership

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• no fee

• annual renewal

• 378 IdM from 69

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• largest groups:

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- Nigeria

- US

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Internal structure

Council and Technical Commission Presidents (2016 – 20)

Prague 2016

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Technical Commissions (2016 – 20)

No. Commission title President / Vice-president

I Sensor SystemsStefan Hinz (Germany) / Raul Feitosa (Brazil)

II PhotogrammetryFabio Remondino (Italy) / Takashi Fuse (Japan)

III Remote SensingJiang Jie (China) / Ahmed Shaker (Canada)

IVSpatial Information Science

Sisi Zlatanova (Netherlands) / Suzana Dragićević (Canada)

V Education and OutreachA. Senthil Kumar (India) / P.L.N. Raju (India)

Commissions and Working Groups

• each Commission is responsible for approx. 10 working groups (approx. 60 in total)

• WGs cover dedicated topics– “this is where the actual work is done”, e. g.

• Benchmark tests• common theoretical and experimental investigations• editing of special journal issues• organisation of focussed workshops, tutorials, seminars• Inter-congress symposia

• Intercommission WGs ensure collaboration• new WG setup every 4 years

ISPRS Midterm Symposia 2018

No. Theme Date Location

IInnovative sensing – from Sensors

to Methods and ApplicationsOct. 9-12 Karlsruhe, GER

II Towards photogrammetry 2020 June 3-7Riva del Garda,

ITA

IIIDevelopments, Technologies and Applications in Remote Sensing

May 7-10 Beijing, China

IV Geospatial Information Science Oct. 1-5 Delft, NL

V Pixel to People - through Education Nov. 20-23 Dehradun, IND

ISPRS Committees

• ISAC - International Science Advisory Committee (Chair: Ian Dowman, UK)

• IPAC - International Policy Advisory Committee (Chair: Gunter Schreier, D)

• I2AC – International Industrial Advisory Committee (Chair: Christian Hoffmann, Trimble)

• ICORSE – International Committee on Remote Sensing of Environment (Chair: Guo Huadong, China)

• CIPA – Documentation of cultural heritage, joint with ICOMOS (Chair: Andreas Georgopoulos, GR)

ISPRS Student Consortium

• … the next generation leaders of ISPRS

• students and young professionals• SC founded in 2004,

Chair: Sheryl RoseReyes (Philippines)

The ISPRS Foundation

• ... organizes fund raising to help support the activities and to reach the goals of ISPRS

• … provides grants, scholarships, awards, training supplies etc. to qualified individuals and organizations, especially those in developing countries

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General meeting schedule

• ISPRS Congress for all, every 4 years in Summer Olympic Years (in 2000 event drew 3000 participants)

• ISPRS Geospatial Week in odd years

– approx. 500 participants

• One Symposium per Commission in “Soccer World Cup Years” (approx. 300 participants each)

• Smaller Workshops, organised by WGs

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Congress Prague

GSW Wuhan SymposiaGSW

EnschedeCongress

Nice

ISPRS proceedings: Annals and Archives

Annals: double blind peer-reviewed full paper proceedings Archives: proceedings based on abstract review

ISPRS publications: The flagship

... one of the top journals in

remote sensing and

photogrammetry worldwide,

impact factor 2016: 6.39

ELSEVIER Journal Metrics

ISPRS publications: The flag ship

2016

1 of 49

6 of

188

1 of 26

1 of 29

Impact factor

2016: 6.387

5yr: 6.457

ISPRS publications: Open-access journal in GI

ISPRS publications:Web site and eBulletin

www.isprs.org

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External relations

UN-GGIM: Geospatial Societies (formerly JB GIS)

• GSDI, IEEE-GRSS, IAG, ICA, FIG, IGU, IHO, IMTA, ISPRS, ISCGM

• … a coalition of leading international geospatial societies

• … to represent GI societies at international level, in particular within UN and UN-GGIM

UN-GGIM: United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management Initiative

UN OOSA- UN-GGIM Geospatial Societies Projects

approx. 3.000 experts from around the world

ISPRS – UN-GGIM National Mapping and Cadastre Agency Forum +

ISPRS – IAA Space Agency Forum

ISPRS – XXIII Congress, Prague 2016

Activities

ISPRS activities

• Research coordination• Commissions, WGs, benchmark tests, scientific initiative

• International scientific meetings• Congress, Geospatial Week, Symposia, Workshops

• Education and outreach• Student consortium, summer schools, education initiative

• Bridge into commercial world• Exhibitions, Sustaining member advisory committee

• Network of scientists and professionals• Scientific Publications, Web, eBulletin

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Scientific Initiative: Multi-platform benchmark

Nex et al. 2014

Education and Capacity Building Initiative 2018 (NEW)

Title Project Team TC/WG

GeoInformation Science Pedagogical Outreach Pilot

Program: 3S-4-Schools

Timo Balz et al. (China) TC I

Camera Calibration and Performance Database Mark R. Shortis (AUS) TC II

Spreading the Knowledge from ISPRS Educational

Events using a Dissemination Internet Platform

Marco Scaioni et a.

(ITA/NL/AUT/GER)

TC II and

III

Capacity Building for High-Resolution Land Cover

Inter-comparison and Validation

Maria Brovelli et al.

(ITA/China)

TC IV

Establishing an Open Repository and Catalogue for

Geospatial Educational Resources

Victoria Rautenbach et

al. (SA/AUS/US/F)

TC IV, ICA

Education and Training Resources on Digital

Photogrammetry

Grazia Tucci et al.

(ITA/IND)

TC V

MOTIVATE Learning: Making Opportunities to Ini-

tiate Valuable Alliance through Experiential Learning

Sheryl Rose Reyes et al.

(Philippines/Thailand)

ISPRS SC,

GISTDA

Priorities for 2016 - 2020

• Improve scientific excellence on internat. level

• Enhance public recognition of photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information science for benefit of humankind and sustainability of environment

• Increase relevance to members, expand membership

• Increase cooperation with sister societies

• Increase role in education and capacity building in collaboration with international partners

ISPRS Congress 2020Nice, France

Imaging today, foreseeing tomorrowJune 14 – 20, 2020www.isprs2020-nice.com

Summary:

benefits to members

Benefits of ISPRS membership

• Access to international scientific network

• Right to host Commissions and Congress and vote in GA

• Free electronic subscription of ISPRS Journal (for sustaining members)

• Online publications and other web-resources, in particular educational material

• eBulletin and other information

• Support from ISPRS Foundation

• … and many more …

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ISRPS

108 years of serving society with

information from imagery …

… and still going strong