ISPRS SC Newsletter No2 Vol4

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ISPRS SCNewsLetter

Editor-in-Chief:

G r e g o r S T A V B A R

Technical Editor:

G r e g o r S T A V B A RU r a K A N J I R

Editorial Board:

Dr. E m m a n u e l B A L T S A V I A SDr. M o j c a K O S M A T I N F R A SDr. A n k a L I S E CK r z y s z t o f S T E R E C Z A KC e m a l z g r K I V I L C I M

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Dear Friends,

In the year of 1909, on the day ofJuly 4th, a passionate scienst Profe-sor Dolezar founded the ISPRS, therst umbrella organizaon within its

elds. Since that day, the society en-larged its mission of scienc acvi-es for the benet of man and nature,

adapted itself to the new scienc and technological de-velopments and needs. In the year of 2004, the youngestpart of the society, Student Consorum was establishedto introduce ISPRS to the new generaons and integratethem to the society in the beginning of their career. SCbecame a focal point with several technical and socialacvies dedicated to youth within the last years. Since

2008 it became a global network with almost 400 mem-bers from 69 countries. This year in June, SC presentedits midterm report of 2008-2012 during the ISPRS TC VISymposium in Enschede, the Netherlands. The currentprogress was evaluated with outlines of future issuesand perspecve as well as a podium discussion of par-cipants for a sustainable structure.There is a lot of volunteer work and sacrice behind SC.We produce more and more together. In the next years,SC will enlarge its structure; however it is also necessar-ily important to keep the quality and high numbers ofacvies with a dream of next generaons to celebratethe next milestone of ISPRS achievements. From SC per-specve with well established network there is the fu-ture imagery of ISPRS

On Behalf of Student Consorum,Cemal zgr KIVILCIM

ISPRS SC Chair

Table of Contents

2 SPOTLIGHTSInterview with Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Baltsavias

3 Seeking a New Generaon of Geomac Engineers to Meet the Challenges of the Future

4 ANNOUNCEMENTS Karl Kraus Award

5 ISPRS Congress 2012

A COORDINATORS EYE

Monitoring an Acve Volcano in Costa Rica

6 MAP KIBERA7 MONUMENT AND BUILDING DOCUMENTATION Photogrammetry or Laser Scanning?

9 PAST EVENTS REPORTS Annual Student Meeng RSPSoc 2010

Student Consorum Acvity in ISPRS TC VISymposium

10 FUTURE ISPRS RELATED EVENTS

STUDIES AND PRACTICAL WORK

11 IT NEWS

INTERESTING LINKS
http://www.isprs-sc.org/


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Interviewby Ura Kanjir

SPOTLIGHTS

Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Baltsavias

Its not easy to describe life, work and all achievements of dr. Manos Baltsavias in just few sentences. If we outline a few things, we can say that he is currently a pro-

fessor at the Instute of Geodesy and Remote Sensing at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, chairman of the ISPRS WG VI/5 and a grandfather. He has been acvely involved,

not just in ISPRS (being former second Vice President of ISPRS) for many years, but also in many other photogrammetric/remote sensing like organisaons. He is an

(co-)author of many publicaons, performs teaching, researches for shorter periods of me at dierent universies and has won several presgious awards. Thosewho know him personally all agree that he is a remarkable person outside his unocial part of l ife also.

Can you explain us what is your research eld/profes-

sional work at the moment?

I have been working since 26 years at the Photogram-metry and Remote Sensing group of ETH Zurich. Weare currently in an important transion phase with thererement of Prof. Armin Gruen and the appointmentof Prof. Konrad Schindler from next September. This in-

Sorry, the success or not, lies in your

hands, dont ask others for a soluon.

volves quite some

work, trying tobuild up a newgrowing team, im-proving teaching, geng funds, developing new re-search direcons. My research interests were always inthe automaon of informaon extracon from images.I had focused mainly on geometric aspects, but I feelits important to extend our work towards themac as-pects, which are closely linked to geometric ones.

Why did you decide for this profession in the rstplace (maybe you can tell us something more about

your rst steps)?An interesng queson. I did not decide about myprofession, I guess many other people had similar ex-periences. I was dried there by life and somemes ac-cidental events. Actually, as a kid I was fascinated bystories and wanted to be a discoverer like Magellan andothers, I loved geography, history and archaeology, andnally I landed to Photogrammetry and Remote Sens-ing, or beer say trying to get-out useful informaon

from images, an extremely challenging and broad topic.I do not regret it!

What would you advice to students and young profes-

sionals to be successful in their future career?

I have made many mistakes in my life and thus do notwish to give advices. Not to menon the unclear topicwhat successful means. Thus, I would never give sug-gesons or instrucons for success. If I dare give a sug-geson, I would say live in happiness with yourself and

your beloved ones.

If in this world,there is anythingsubstanal beyond

rates, derivaves, swaps, CDS and whatever else the -nancial markets instruct. But regarding our profession(or any other profession in general) the lines are clear:be honest, hard-working, innovave, open-minded,with knowledge and care for the persons next to you.The alternave is to become a so-called polician, work

My feeling for students is that they should have very solid theore-cal, especially math, foundaons, but also try to nd praccal solu-

ons to real problems, not just do academic research.

in the media, arts, sports and sim-

ilar and become rich and famous.Sorry, the success or not, lies inyour hands, dont ask others for a

In your opinion how important is parcipaon of

young people to internaonal professional events like

Congresses, workshops, etc? What do you think are the

benets of such acvies to youth and to profession?

It is clear, young sciensts are the locomove of the sci-enc work within ISPRS. They develop most of the newideas, and realize them. Unfortunately this is not prop-

erly recognized, see for example the sll high registra-on fees, limited amount of nancial support from or-ganisers, sponsors etc. However, I think that slowly our

colleagues withinISPRS understandmore and morethat parcipaonof young people insuch events is veryimportant and takesupport measures.

Parcipaon is not important just for scienc reasons.Social aspects, geng to know other people, young andold, networking, learning how ISPRS funcons are alladdional gains for young people. I think ISPRS shouldtake clear and permanent measures that would makeeasier the parcipaon of youth in its events, takinginto account also the nancial aspects of this.

Regarding the fact that ISPRS is celebrang already100th anniversary, how do you

see the future of spaal infor-maon sciences (RS, photo-

grammetry, GIS, etc.)? What would you propose to

young sciensts as the most challenging elds and

research problems in the profession?

This is a hard queson. Spaal informaon scienceshave undoubully an excellent future. Spaal and tem-poral geo-informaon will inuence more and moreour life down to its very details. However, if we look atthe tradional educaon in Geomacs (coming fromSurveying, Geodesy etc.) we see that many depart-

ments worldwide are closing or fused with others.

soluon.

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SPOTLIGHTS

Oen the number of students drops, while other disciplines get involved in our tra-dional work, and oen with success.This can be alarming, and may change soon the face of our profession. I believewe should increase a lot our PR towards the society in general, and especially thehigh school students, making clear what our contribuon in the society is. Challeng-ing elds and research problems exist in abundance, e.g. extracng in automated

fashion informaon from images, can keep us busy at least for decades. My feelingfor students is that they should have very solid theorecal, especially math, founda-ons, but also try to nd praccal soluons to real problems, not just do academicresearch. Another important aspect is the combinaon, integraon, fusion of theconnuously increasing amount of data and informaon. Which cant be done with-out the proper quality characterizaon and uncertainty propagaon.

Seeking a new generaon of geomac engineers to meet the challenges of the future.

Ian Dowman,Emeritus professor of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,University College LondonFirst Vice President of ISPRS

I have wrien already in GIS Development on my perspecve on 40 years in photo-

grammetry, half of that acve in ISPRS. I have also given an interview to GIM Inter-naonal and discussed the technical developments in photogrammetry and remotesensing over that period. My message in both of these arcles has been that themost important challenge for the profession, and for ISPRS, is to ensure the futureof the profession by training young people in the use of imagery and by educanga wide spectrum of professionals and decision makers in the importance of usinggeospaal data for the benet of society at large. Orhan Altan, current President ofISPRS, was very percepve in iniang student acvies at the ISPRS Congress inIstanbul. He has been shown to be right by the speed at which the Student Consor-um has become established with dynamic leaders. This augurs well for the future,but the challenges must not be underesmated. Our profession is very dependent

on the global market. The producon and generaon of geospaal data is not uni-versally recognized by governments and funding agencies as being a priority, so wemust be creave in linking with sciensts in other disciplines, and with decisionmakers, and by showing them how geospaal data can benet their acvies.

The shi from analogue photogrammetry to digital photogrammetry, which includesthe development of satellite data, and the development of new soware, has pro-vided tools which allow the rapid exploitaon of imagery for mapping and monitor-ing; and the internet has made imagery widely accessible. And here we can makea really important input in promong the use of imagery and geospaal data and at

the same me stress the importance of understanding the accuracy of informaonand the limitaons on its use.

The new technology has generated excing research topics to aract young peopleinto the profession, but the new challenge is to make sure that the results of thisresearch are understood and used in the wider scienc and commercial communi-es. The areas of computer science, medical physics and archeology have a parcu-lar interest in three dimensional data and in visualizaon. The use of mobile map-ping systems and airborne lidar generang dense point clouds, oer a real potenalfor generang models which could be of very wide applicaon. It is my experience

that students from dierent disciplines mix more than academics at a later stage intheir development, so there is a real opportunity for students to establish links withother disciplines early on and to maintain these throughout their career.

One driver of promong the relevance of photogrammetry and remote sensing,now being embraced by governments and internaonal agencies, is that scienceand technology should benet society. This is very much promoted by the Group onEarth Observaons (GEO). The United Naons Millennium Development Goals areset up as targets for governments; of parcular interest to ISPRS are the goals tocombat diseases and to ensure environmental sustainability. Although health maynot immediately be seen as relevant to the use of geospaal data, the way in which

disease spreads and the environmental factors which inuence the development ofdisease, depend on spaal analysis and several studies on air polluon and epide-miology, for example, have demonstrated this. These applicaons are most relevantin developing countries and I hope that the Student Consorum will soon be able toexpand its acvies to Africa and Lan America, where the requirement to supporteducaon is very important.

Photogrammetry and remote sensing is at a crical stage of development. We havesolved many of the problems of handling digital data, and of realizing its enormouspotenal; now is the me to maintain momentum by applying the data and the

processing techniques to real problems and to engage with the world outside of thisdiscipline. I look forward to seeing these challenges being met and to see a newgeneraon of outward looking professionals emerge.


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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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WEVE GOT IT COVERED

NO MATTER THE LOCATION...

KARL KRAUS AWARD

The ISPRS Karl Kraus Medal is a prize to honour the authorship of excellenttextbooks in the scienc elds of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and Spa-al Informaon Sciences. The prize is dedicated to the memory of Professor KarlKraus, a passionate teacher and author of a number of textbooks.

In order to present the ideas of the students for the best book, Student Consor-um Chair was also appointed as one of the jury members of the jury formedof disnguished academicians. The chairman of the jury reported that . the 7nominated and reviewed books- with an impressive overall volume of some 4500pages - were all of very high quality and made the decision of the Jury no simpletask.The winner of the award for 2010 is Close Range Photogrammetry:Principles,Techniques and Applicatons by Professor Thomas Luhmann, (Ins-tute of Applied Photogrammetry and Geoinformacs, University for Applied

Sciences,Oldenburg, Germany), Professor Stuart Robson, (University CollegeLondon), Dr. Stephen Kyle, (Consultant; Hon. Research Fellow, University Col-lege London),and Professor Ian Harley, (Emeritus Professor, University CollegeLondon).Published by Whiles Publishing, Dunbeath, Scotland. The award willbe presented at the ISPRS Centenary Celebraon in Vienna on 4 th July 2010. Thewinner of the Karl Kraus award will be presented in the centenary celebraonsof ISPRS.
http://www.isprs100vienna.org/


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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Monitoring an Acve Volcano in Costa Rica

by Carlomagno SotoOrganizaon for Tropical Studies,La Selva Biological Staon GIS Lab.

As part of the Pacic Ring of Fire, Costa Rica is characterized by intense volcanicacvity, which is aecng human producve acvies. One of the volcanoes that thisyear has increased its acvity is the Turrialba, located in the area of the same name,where the main acvies are cale ranching and agriculture.

Turrialba Volcano

Save the Date! Great Opportunies for ISPRS Congress 2012

The XXII ISPRS Congress is going to take place between 25th August and 1st of Septem-ber 2012 in the city of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria State of Australia. The prep-araons are well under way to make a fabulous meeng Down Under. The brandnew eco 6-star rated Melbourne Congress Center is a perfect venue locaon for the

ISPRS Congress with the moo of imaging a sustainable future. Several technicalsessions oral presentaons, digital poster and workshops are scheduled. The Con-gress will be the meeng point of the new scienc and technological developmentswithin the last four years. Among the other acvies, the Youth Forum and beyondwill be organized for the next generaon of the society. Student Consorum ChairCemal . Kvlcm and Melbourne Congress Director Cli Ogleby met in Melbourne

Congress Director and SC Chair aer the

meeng in Melbourne University.

on April 23rd of this year to evaluate theroles of Student Consorum to ensurethe maximum benets of students andyoung professionals to aend to the Con-gress. There will be several dierent typesof supports to increase the parcipaon

of the youth to the Melbourne Congress.Ogleby addresses Student Consorumhas the full support of the Congress Di-rector. Save the date!More info is available on congress website:hp://www.isprs2012-melbourne.com

A COORDINATORS EYE

Currently, the Gas Sensing Lab, School ofPhysics of the University of Costa Rica,together with researchers from variousdisciplines and NASA, are working togenerate and analyze data from remotesensing and in-situ, to help monitor andunderstand the volcanic acvity.Among the instruments used, is themass spectrometer ULISSES (Ulizaonof Lightweight in situ Sensors and re-mote sensing to study acve volcanic

Sites Emissions), which due to its small size will be used on UAV plaorms as well asin eld measurements.

Time series of ASTER images onboard theTERRA satellite from 2000 unl today, pro-vided by the AVA (ASTER Volcano Archive)at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, willalso be used in order to determine the ar-eas aected by volcanic gases, and to eval-uate the change of the temperature duringperiods of moderate and high acvity.Preliminary studies have demonstratedthat ULISSES is able to characterize the vol-canic emissions, for measurements in theField work

eld and airborne, especially with helium and SO2. This allows to correlate thesemeasurements with data from remote sensors such as ASTER.Within the future plans of the project is the integraon of this instrument, to-gether with a mulspectral camera onto an UAV plaorm designed and built byMaryland Aerospace Inc., in order to achieve a constant monitoring of the acvityof the volcano, perming a rapid response in case of emergency.


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MAP KIBERA

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Map Kiberaby Primo Kovai and Mark Il ie

Open Street Map, Ground Truth Inc.

The Kibera slum in Nairobi is a melng pot of life, commerce and culture. A place

where populaon esmates range from 500,000 to 1,000,000 people living in anarea of 2,5 square kilometers. Its landscape is one of the most researched placeson earth, a bellwether for Kenyan polics and is representave of slums throughoutAfrica. This urban landscape has great relevance to the people who inhabit Kibera,government, non-governmental organizaons (NGOs) and researchers. However itremained a blank spot on the map. Missing from Google Maps and presented asa forest on government maps, thus making the people living there invisible to theoutside world.

Kibera mappers

Map Kibera was started in October of2009 by Erica Hagen and Mikel Maron,

with inial funding of the rst phase byJumpstart Internaonal, and the secondphase by UNICEF. The Map Kibera pilotis the rst project by GroundTruth Inia-ve, LLC, established in March 2010. Theproject is trying to address invisibility ofup to one million of Nairobis populaonand their absence from mass communica-on, as well as policy decisions. The Map Kibera project has since produced the rstcomplete, free and open map of Kibera, worked with local media and communityoutlets, created online tools and built a plaorm for collecng and sharing informa-

on and reporng back via SMS.Technology and Methodology

Local movated young people learned to create maps using OpenStreetMap tech-niques (hp://josm.openstreetmap.de) which included surveying with GPS, digi-zaon of satellite imagery and paper based annotaon with Walking Papers. TheOpenStreetMap project, grounded in community driven mapping, is an ideal basefor Map Kibera. Where OpenStreetMap is designed to map the world, the Map Kib-era project is designed to map a dense, concentrated area, mapping the character-iscs important to the residents of Kibera. Individuals from the blossoming Nairobi

tech scene helped train and make connecons with the larger community. Data

consumers were consulted for their needs, to help add direcons to feature typescollected, and aided in immediately making use of the map data.

In the second phase, mapping was expanded to acquire greater detail, focusing onhealth, security, educaon water and sanitaon, seeking to create not only a usefulmap, but a tool that can lead to improved services for the most marginalized com-munity members.

Data without a story has lile life.Map Kibera trained 20 Kiberan youth in the use of the Flip cameras and simple edit-ing soware, using a form of geo-located cizen journalism to provide a comprehen-sive picture of the local reality and support the achievement of community goals.An Ushahidi (Swahili for tesmony or witness; see also hp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushahidi) instance was launched at hp://kibera.ushahidi.com called Voice ofKibera to allow community members to contribute community news to the map viaSMS. This crowd-sourced feedback mechanism allows Kibera residents to commenton the map as well as use this informaon to advocate for beer service provisions.Through parcipatory mapping, people gain new awareness about their surround-

Voice of Kibera plaorm

ings, enabling and empow-

ering them to amplify theirvoices on crical issues.

Outputs

This has resulted in a sus-tainable group of engagedcizens and journaliststrained in data collecon,mapping techniques andstorytelling. Printed maps,

SMS reporng, Ushahidi

Kibera in OpenStreetMapData collecon with GPS and Walking Papers


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MONUMENT AND BUILDING DOCUMENTATION

Photogrammetry. The use of non-metric digital SLR cameras is common due to theirsucient quality, ease-of-use, low cost and increased resoluon. Camera calibra-on is a main factor before the photogrammetric processing. Using a dense imagenetwork geometry or stereopair conguraon, as analysed in the rst report part,a full 3D coverage of a monument can be provided. However, more camera posi-ons are necessary due to the cameras smaller eld of view compared to the one

of laser scanners. Photogrammetric processing includes automac stereo match-ing algorithms, which provide dense 3D informaon compared to standard manualplong. Except for geometric informaon Photogrammetry also provides colourinformaon, which can be used for a more realisc model.

Figure 2: Comparison between a laser scanning model (le) and an image taken from a similar viewport (right).

Moysiadis, University College London

The main advantages and disadvantages of Photogrammetry and Laser Scanningare described below:

PHOTOGRAMMETRY

Advantages:The correct image geometry and increased resoluon of photographic imagingproduces an accurate and consistent model.Digital Photogrammetric packages with automac processes can be used bynon-photogrammetrists. However, deep theorecal background is needed inorder to use them in such applicaons.Cheap digital non-metric cameras are widely used in Close-Range Photogram-metry.Automac stereo matching algorithms provide rapid and dense 3D informaonof complex surfaces compared to manual stereopair digising.

Disadvantages:Can be me consuming.Special soware for such applicaons.Cameras eld of view is by far smaller than the laser scanners. Thus, morecamera posions are needed compared to a laser scanner.

LASER SCANNING

Advantages:Large amount of 3D data in relavely short me.Increased accuracy.Instrument levelling ability permits automac data georeferencing.

Disadvantages:High cost.

Need of manual or semi-automated techniques where there are data gaps. Edges can not be accurately dened in the laser point cloud.Surface reecvity causes systemac errors.

All in all, Close-Range Photogrammetry and Laser Scanning have been widely usedin monument and building documentaon. Each of them has advantages and limita-ons, however both are complementary to each other, therefore they can be usedin combinaon for such applicaons.

References:Baltsavias, E., Gruen, A., van Gool, L., Pateraki, M., (Eds.) 2006. Recording, Model-ling and Visualizaon of Cultural Heritage. Taylor & Francis, London, 528 p.

Kraus, K., 1997. Photogrammetry Vol. 1, fourth edion. Dummler, Bonn, 397 p.

Luhmann, T., Robson, S., Kyle, S., Harley, I., 2006. Close Range Photogrammetry:Principles, Techniques and Applicaons: Principles, Methods and Applicaons.Whiles Publishing, 528 p.

Vosselman, G., Maas, H., 2010. Airborne and Terrestrial Laser Scanning. Whiles

Publishing, 336 p.


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PAST EVENTS REPORTS

Annual Student Meeng RSPSoc 2010by Mahias KunzISPRS SC, UK Representave

This years RSPSoc (Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society) Annual Student Meeng was heldfrom 15.3. to 17.3.2010 in the Mount Baen Centre in Plymouth, UK. Over 30 students from across theUK came together in the sunny south of England to present their current work on posters and in oralpresentaons. Ranging from master level to nal year PhD students the conference was held in a niceand relaxed atmosphere. It gave students a great opportunity to discuss their work with peers and fornetworking. A wide range of interesng research has been presented including mobile mapping systems,airborne and terrestrial lidar, radar applicaons and the use of modern earth observaon satellites. Eachday of the conference also included a keynote talk. Furthermore, an introducon to the ISPRS StudentConsorum and the UK Polar Network has been given to get more students involved in naonal and in-ternaonal student driven organisaons. The very enjoyable social events included water sports, a visit ofthe Naonal Aquarium and a Pub Quiz with some really tricky quesons.

Student Consorum Acvity in ISPRS TC VI Symposium

ISPRS Technical Commission VI Symposium with the topic Cross Border Educaon forthe Global Geo-informaon was held in ITC, Enschede-the Netherlands between 2 - 4June. The symposium focused on several educaon topics specically on, web-based

educaon, e-delivery of educaonal services, frameworks for cross-border educaon,joint educaonal programs and promoon of the profession to students. Among theother session a discussion forum was carried on right aer the presentaons of theStudent Consorum papers. In addion to the ocial program, a meeng betweenthe student representave bodies of ITC and ISPRS Student Consorum with TC VIwas organized to discuss the role of local student bodies and possible relaons ofpromoon and know how transfer in various cases. The two day event was a goodopportunity to establish new contacts, increase the presence of SC among academi-cians from dierent parts of the world. It also played a signicant role to integrate thegeneraons within the ISPRS. Student Consorum is looking forward to having more

inputs and parcipaon in the next TC VI Symposiums.

This great student conference was organised by Bob Brewin (Plymouth University), the current RSPSoc student representave. Bob will hand over to Rob Parker (Durham

University) who will be the next years student rep and bring the conference to the north of England in 2011. The best poster prize was awarded to Mahias Kunz (New-castle University) and the best presentaon was awarded to Susan Kay (University of Exeter).


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The Internaonal Masters Program (Master of Science, M.Sc.) in Geospaal Tech-nologies is a cooperaon of the University of Mnster (Germany), University Jaume I(Spain) and New University of Lisbon (Portugal). It has been selected within the Eras-mus Mundus Program of the European Commission (2007-0064/001 FRAME MUNB123).Regarding the 2010/2011 edion, for students not applying for an Erasmus Mundusgrant but for regular admission to the Masters program, the deadine for applicaonwill be July 31st, 2010. Read full announcement at: hp://geotech.uni-muenster.de/index.php?opon=com_content&view=arcle&id=29:call-for-applicaons-applicaon-system-open&cad=1:news

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy invite applicaon on dierent posions

(Jobs, PostDoc posions, Traineeship, etc.). The mission of the JRC is to provide cus-tomer-driven scienc and technical support for the concepon, development, imple-mentaon and monitoring of European Union policies. They provide scienc and tech-nical assistance in a wide range of elds, including those relang to the environment,consumer protecon, energy, nuclear safety and security, agriculture and external re-

laons. For more info visit hp://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm?id=3720

A full-me posion is available from 1st September 2010 at the Photogrammetry andRemote Sensing group (Prof. Dr. Konrad Schindler) of the Instute of Geodesy and Pho-togrammetry, ETH Zurich. The main task will be the parcipaon in current research

projects and teaching dues of the group within the curriculum Geomac Engineeringand Planning. The successful candidate will undertake independent high-level sciencresearch in photogrammetry, remote sensing and computer vision aiming at a Ph.D. the-sis within approximately 4 years. The teaching dues include support and supervision ofstudents in lectures, exercises and labs, seminar projects as well as Master- and Bache-lor-Theses, and exams. Candidates should hold a university degree (Master/Diploma inEngineering or equivalent degree) in Geomac Engineering or related disciplines (e.g.Computer Science, Electrical or Electronic Engineering, Mathemacs, Physics). Furtherrequirements are a high degree of iniave, good mathemacs and programming skills,and prociency in English (wrien and spoken). Knowledge of German is an addionaladvantage. For addional informaon about the posion and the tasks, please contact

Prof. Konrad Schindler, +49-6151-163413, [email protected]. Full announcement athp://internet5.reine.ch/845721/1041/++publicaons++/1/index.html

FUTURE ISPRS RELATED EVENTS STUDIES AND PRACTICAL WORK

The ESA is organising POLinSAR 2011, the 5th Internaonal Workshop onScience and Applicaons of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferom-

etry, which will be hosted in ESRIN, Frasca, Italy on 24-28 January 2011For more info visit: hp://www.polinsar2011.com/

9th Internaonal NCCR Climate Summer SchoolGrindelwald, Switzerland, 29 August 3 September 2010For more info visit:hp://www.nccr-climate.unibe.ch/summer_school/2010/

ISARA 9th Internaonal Symposium on Spaal Accuracy Assessment in Nat-

ural Resources & Environmental Sciences

Leicester, UK, 20-23 July 2010For more info visit: hp://www.le.ac.uk/geography/accuracy/

5th ESA/ENVISAT Earth Observaon Summer School on Earth System Moni-

toring & ModellingFrasca, Italy, 2-13 August 2010

For more info visit: hp://envisat.esa.int/envschool/

GIslands 2010 - Internaonal Summer School 2010Ponta Delgada, Azores Islands, Portugal, 7-12 August 2010For more info visit: hp://www.gislands.org/

GeoWeb 2010

Vancouver, Canada, 28-30 July 2010For more info visit: hp://geowebconference.org/

ISPRS Commission VIII Symposium Remote Sensing Applicaons & Poli -

ciesKyoto, Japan, 9-12 August 2010For more info visit: hp://www.isprscom8.org/

ISPRS Commission III Symposium Photogrammetric Computer Vision &

Image Analysis

Paris, France, 1-3 September 2010For more info visit: hp://pcv2010.ign.fr/

This column serves as a guide for the students who are thinking or are willingto go studying or doing praccal work abroad. We have searched for new op-portunies in dierent facules, schools and other learning programs all overthe world in order to encourage as many students as possible to take new stepstowards new horizons.
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IT NEWS

INTERESTING LINKS

ArcGIS.com Portal

hp://www.arcgis.com/home/

OpenAerialMap Project

hp://openaerialmap.org/

Geospaal Revoluon Project

hp://www.geospaalrevoluon.psu.edu/

RESOURCES

Annotated GIS Bibliographies

hp://dusk.geo.orst.edu/gis/bibs.html

FREE SOFTWARE

BEAM is an open-source toolbox and devel-opment plaorm for viewing, analysing andprocessing of remote sensing raster data.http://www.brockmann-consult.de/cms/web/beam/welcome

JOBS, CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

GetGISJobs

hp://www.getgisjobs.com/

GeoSearch

hp://www.geosearch.com/

JOURNALS

Earth Magazine

hp://www.earthmagazine.org/

RELATED ORGANIZATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS

Online Access to Research in the Environ-

ment (OARE)

hp://www.oaresciences.org/

SuperGIS Desktop 3, the desktop geographic informaon system of SuperGIS 3 seriesproducts, has plenful GIS tools to oer GIS experts a GIS professional plaorm for

SuperGIS Desktop 3

geoprocessing and displaying, eding, managing, querying

and analyzing geographic data. SuperGIS Desktop 3 greatlyenhances the performance in eding, displaying and geopro-cessing and strengthens the data interoperability with variousdatabases and supports ofOGC standards.

Source:hp://www.supergeotek.com/store_SuperGIS_3.aspx

Geomagic 12

Geomagic Studio transforms 3D scan data and polygon meshes into accurate 3D digital models for reverse engineering,product design, rapid prototyping and analysis. A fast way to convert 3D scandata into parametric models, Geomagic Studio directly integrates with lead-ing mechanical CAD packages. Geomagic Studio oers parametric modelingcapabilies as well as features for capturing exact geometry, giving you thepower and exibility to choose the modeling method.Geomagic Qualify enables fast, accurate, graphical comparisons betweendigital reference models and as-built parts for rst-arcle inspecon, pro-ducon inspecon and supplier quality management. Delivering best-in-class reporng capabilies, Geomagic Qualifys powerful yet simple report

designer allows you to design and customize inspecon reports to meet the requirements of your organizaon.

Source: hp://www.geomagic.com/

STUDIES AND PRACTICAL WORK

The Norwegian Centre for Internaonal Cooperaon in Higher Educaon (SIU) is a knowledge- and service organisaonwith the mission of promong and facilitang cooperaon, standardisaon, mobility, and the overcoming of culturalbarriers to communicaon and exchange within the realm of higher educaon on an internaonal level. The goal of theQuota Scheme is to give students from developing countries in the South, Central- and East-Europe and Central-Asia,relevant educaon that would also benet their home countries when they return aer graduaon. The Norwegiangovernment provides scholarships for students from developing countries in the South and countries of Central- andEast-Europe and Central-Asia under the Quota Scheme. The deadline for appling is December 1st each year.For all the applicaon procedures, Instuons that are under the Quota Scheme and all other info please visit:hp://siu.no/en/Programme-overview/Quota-Scheme

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