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Page 2 • Special Publications

Page 3 • Congress Award

Page 4 • Technical Commission Report

Page 5 • Poster Session

Page 6 • Program Highlights

Page 7 • International News

Page 8 • Social Calendar

Speakersat the firstplenary sessiononFridaymorning addressed a full house.Executivedirectorandsecretariatof theGrouponEarthObservations (GEO), JosAchache,presentedhispaper,Co-operationtoBuildaGlobalEarthObservationSystemof Systems (GEOSS). An initiative ofGEO an intergovernmentalorganisationwith 74 members and 51 participatingorganisations GEOSSwillbecomposedofco-ordinatedandsustainedobservationsystemstoprovideeasierandmoreopenaccesstodata.

Mr JuergenDold, fromLeicaGeosystemsin Switzerland, presented a paper on

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Who's Who of the Opening Ceremony

On 3 Ju ly, Prof. Yang Kai, presidentof the Chinese Society of Geodesy,PhotogrammetryandCartography,declaredtheXXIISPRSCongressopen.

This event was reported by ChinesebroadcasterCCTVandanumberofnationalnewspapers including China Daily andBusinessDaily.

TheVice-MinisterofLandandResourcesandDirectorGeneralof theStateBureauof Surveying andMappingof China,MrLuXinshe,and ISPRSPresidentProf. IanDowmandeliveredopeningspeeches.

A l l ISPRS counc i l members were inattendance:SecretaryGeneralProf.OrhanAltan, CongressDirectorProf. Chen Jun,First Vice-President Prof. John Trinder,SecondVice-PresidentDr.ManosBaltsavias,TreasurerProf.StanMorain.ISPRShonorary

memberswerealsopresent.

SBSMDeputyDirectorsWangChunfeng,LiWeisen,MinYirenandLuoLanattendedtheceremony.

Chinesegovernmentofficersattendedthecongress,including:XuGuanhua,ChairmanoftheNationalSteeringCommitteeoftheCongress&Chairmanof theCommitteeof Education, Science, Culture, Healthand Sports, CPPCC, Weng Mengyong,Vice Minister of Transportation, WangTiehong,ChiefEngineeroftheMinistryofHousingandUrbanandRuralDevelopment,Cheng Donghong Secretary of ChineseAssociationof Science and Technology,YuanShuyou,DirectorGeneralofSurveyingand Mapping Bureau of the Army, YinChaomin,DeputyDirector of the ChinaEarthquake Administration, Yu Rucong,ChinaMeteorologicalAdministration,and

WangFei, StateOceanicAdministration,aswellas representatives fromtheStateDevelopment and Reform Commission,MinistryofEducation,MinistryofScienceandTechnology,MinistryofCivilAffairs,Ministry of Finance, Ministry of LandandResources,StateBureauofForestry,Legislative Affairs Office of the StateCouncil,ChineseAcademyofEngineering,National FoundationofNatural SciencesandtheBureauofScienceandIndustryforNationalDefense.Academicians inrelatedfields also joined theevent including LiDeren,ChenShupeng,Chen Junyong,YeJia'an,XuHouze,TongQingxi,Liu Jingnan,LiuXianlin,Ning Jinsheng,WangRenxiang,andZhangZuxun.

Directorsofnationalmappingagencies,includingGermany,IsraelandPakistan,andofficialsfromBritishandTurkishembassies,alsoattendedtheceremony.

the evolution of LIDAR systems in thegeospatialandsurveyingmarket.

ProfessorLiDerenofStateKeyLaboratoryof InformationEngineering inSurveying,MappingandRemoteSensing(LIESMARS),WuhanUniversity, reportedontheroleofspatial information intherapidemergencyresponse to theWenchuanearthquake.Deren described how photogrammetry,remote sensing and spatial informationtechnologies were applied to disasterresponse operations including the co-ordinationof rescueefforts, combatingsecondarydisaster, damageassessmentandreconstruction.

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Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in China

Since its reformandopeningup to theworld, China has made great progressin photogrammetry, remote sensingand spatial information science. It hasmade advancements in socio-economicdevelopment, resource investigation,env i ronmenta l protect ion , d isasterprevent ion and reduct ion, nat iona lsecurity and living standards. Chinahasalso been active in academic exchangeand international cooperation.Thebookprovides an overview in both Chineseand Eng l ish of the country 's majorachievementsinthisfield.

Thisbookhasnine chapters. Chapter1introduces the longhistoryof surveyingand mapping . Chapter 2 summarisescivilapplicationsofair-borneandspace-borne remotesensing systems forEarthobservation. Chapter 3 describes keytechnological achievements inanalyticalphotogrammetry,digitalphotogrammetry,remote sens ing image process ing ,dig ita l mapping and data updating .Chapter 4 presents the research on

Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in China

Publishedontheoccasionof theXXICongressof the InternationalSociety forPhotogrammetryandRemoteSensing(ISPRS)inBeijing,China, in2008,Advancesin Photogrammetry,RemoteSensingandSpatial InformationSciences:2008ISPRSCongressBook isacompilationof34contributions from62 researchersactivewithin the ISPRS. The book covers state-of-the-art developments inphotogrammetry,remotesensingandspatialinformationsciences.Itisdividedintosixparts:

•Introduction•Sensors,PlatformsandDateAcquisitionSystems•DataProcessingandAnalysis•DataModelling,ManagementandVisualisation•Applications•EducationandCo-operation

AdvancesinPhotogrammetry,RemoteSensingandSpatialInformationSciences:2008 ISPRSCongressBook providesacomprehensiveoverviewof theprogressmadeintheseareassincetheXXISPRSCongressheldin2004inIstanbul,Turkey.Thevolumewillbeinvaluablenotonlytoscientistsandresearchers,butalsouniversitystudentsandpractitioners.

spatial information science, such asmulti-dimensional spatio-temporal datamodelling,uncertainty inspatialdataandanalysisandGIS-basedprocessanalysisand simulation. Chapter 5 reviews keyapplications of photogrammetry andremotesensing in topographicmapping.Chapter6describestheindustrialisationofmapping,remotesensing,GISandsatellite-basednavigation.

An introduction is given to the scale,distribution, products, and services ofphotogrammetryandremotesensing.Theeducationand international co-operationin this field are briefly summarised inChapters7and8.Anoutlookabout thefuturedevelopments inphotogrammetryand remote sensing inChina is given inChapter9.

This is a rich and informative book fordomesticandforeigncounterpartswantingto know about China's progress andaccomplishments in peacefully applyingspatialinformationtechnology.

Advances in Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences: 2008 ISPRS Congress BookAdvances in Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences: 2008 ISPRS Congress Book

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Recognising Gold in ChinaProfessorChrisGoldbecametheinauguralwinneroftheWangZhizhuoAwardattheCongressopeningceremonyon3July.

“ I’ve told many Chinese friends thatwinningthisaward is ‘doublehappiness’,”says Prof. ChrisGold,whobecame theinaugural recipientof theWangZhizhuoAwardattheCongressopeningceremonyon3July.

“ I ca l l i t th is because I ’ve receivedrecognition formy scientificwork, andalso because it was from the Chineseassociation. It isa verygreathonour tohaveaforeigner receiveanawardfromaChineseagency,particularlyformebecauseI'vehadastrong loveofChina formanyyears.”

Prof.Goldhasbeenactive formorethan3 0 y e a r s i n t h edevelopmentofspatialdatastructures,spatialmodelsofperceptiona n d a d j a c e n c y ,g e o - i n f o r m a t i c sa p p l i c a t i o n s a n dalgorithms.

“Mymain interesthasbeen‘whatisspace?’,”says Prof. Gold. “ Idon’tmeanstarsandnebula, I mean howthings relate in thespacewe live in.Theotherhalf is, howdo youput this in acomputer?”

Gold is known in the geo-informaticscommunity forhisworkon spatial datastructures, Voronoi diagrams, dynamicmappingand3Dmodelling.

“The implicationsofourworkwill be inthenextgenerationofGIS.Oneexampleofsomethingwe’reworkingonisrealtime

navigationwithshipdatathatallowsustodocollisionavoidance,coastlinenavigationandchartprojectionontothe3Dmodelofthe landandthesea. It’s likea ‘computergames’viewoftherealworld.

“Thebiggestchallenge ishowtoextractandrepresentdata inawaythatwecanusetoaskquestions,”saysGold.“GIShasnumerousapplications,buttheunderlyingtechnologiesarebasedonthepapermapidea.Theninthecomputergamesindustrywehavelotsofbeautiful3D,butwereallydon’tknowwhat theseobjectsandtheirpropertiesare–wedon’tknowthekindsofquestionswewanttoaskinacomputerdecision-makingsystem.”

P ro f. G o l dsays he i sverypleasedtohave theopportunityto return toChinafortheCongress.

“ I t ’ s v e r ys p e c i a l tos e e h o wm u c h w e

areworkingtogether. It’svery reassuringtoseehowmany friends Ihave inChinaandhowmuchgenuinecollaborationandfriendshiptherereallyis.”

The Wang Zhizhuo Award is sponsoredby the Chinese Society of Geodesy,Photog rammet ry and Ca rtog raphy(CSGPC). It is awarded toapersonwhohas made significant achievement orinnovation in the spatial informationsciences.

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5 July 2008 - Saturday

◆ General Assembly 3

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◆ YF-Opening Ceremony

Time:08:30-10:00

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◆ YF-White Elephant Session

Time:14:00-15:30

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◆ YF-Student Consortium Assembly

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◆ YF-Closing and Award Ceremony

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Time:17:00-18:00

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◆ SE-5: Beijing Night Show

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Couldanyone imagine10yearsagothatwewouldbe able to virtually visit anyplaceonEarth?ImageSource:GoogleEarth

Technical CommissionI I in its present formwas introduced at theIstanbulCongress2004toexpresstheincreasedfocus of the ISPRS onG I S and geog raph i cinformationscience.

Togetherwith Technical Commission IV,both commissions concentrate on thetheoretical (TC II) and practical (TC IV)aspectsofgeo-information.

TechnicalCommission II comprisessevenworkinggroupsandoneinter-commissionworkinggroupwithTCIV.

The work ing groups address ma jorissues ingeo-informationscience.Theseincludespatio-temporalmodelling,spatialreasoning, analysis and data mining,multiple representations, visualisation,s p a t i a l d e c i s i on s u pp o rt , s y ste mintegrationandinteroperability,qualityanduncertaintyof spatial dataandmodels,and3Danddynamicdatahandling.

The penetration of GIS technology inan increasing number of areas leadsus to believeweneedmore theory onspatial modelling, interoperability andvisualisation. This is evident from thetremendous riseof services likeGoogleEarthandMicrosoftVirtualWorld.Theseservices have a widespread impact onsocietyandthewaywedealwithspatialinformation.

Could anyone imagine 10 years agothatwewouldbe able to virtually visitany placeon Earth?3D visualisation isbecomingmore common, but there aremany issues and challenges. Qualitypropagation through spatial analysis,spatial decision support with highlycomp l e x dat a , i n te rop e rab i l i t y o fheterogeneous systemsandgeo-sensornetworksareseveralexamples thatposeinteresting questions of ontology anddata-handling.

Over the last four years the workinggroups of TC II have addressed manyof these questions in symposia andworkshops.

These issues were also considered attheTC II SymposiumGICON2006,which

wasorganisedasa jointeventof IndianSociety foRemoteSensing, InternationalCartographyAssociationand InternationalGeographicalUnion.

Three volumes of proceedings werepublished – one for each society. Oneof theWGsymposia resulted inVolume5of the ISPRSbookseriesonAdvancesinSpatio-TemporalAnalysis,editedbyX.Tang,Y.Liu,J.ZhangandW.Kainz.Severalof theWGofficerswrote contributionsto the2008 ISPRS Congress Book.Ourfindingsarealsoavailable inthecongressproceedings.

Aftera thorough review,processpapershave been selected for oral or posterpresentation. Nearly 200 papers arepublished in the archives. M. Kokla,secretaryofWG II/6,will receivetheBestPaperbyYoungAuthorsaward.

ItisexpectedthatunderthenewTCP,thecommissionwillcontinuetheworkstartedin the first four yearsof strengtheningthe ISPRS in the fieldofgeo-informationscience.Itwillcontinuetoraisetheprofileof the ISPRSasasociety thatspans thewhole rangeofspatialdatahandlingandaddressestheneedsofmodernsociety.

WolfgangKainzPresident,TechnicalCommissionIIDepartmentofGeographyandRegionalResearchUniversityofViennaAUSTRIA

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◆ Acrobatic Show

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YouthForumTourtotheGreatWall

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With over 1700 posters featured throughout theCongress,thepostersessionisagreatplacetofindoutaboutthemanyresearchprojects,applicationsandcasestudiesbeingdonebyscientistsfromaroundtheworld.Featuringmorethan200posterseachday, thepostersession isdefinitelysomethingyoudon’twanttomiss!

Thepostersessionisscheduled4-10July.

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1.Canada–Dr.NaserEl-sheimy–CommissionI2.HongKong–JohnShi–CommissionII3.Germany–MonikaSester–CommissionII4.France–NicolasPaparoditis–CommissionIII5.Japan–Prof.RyosukeShibasaki–CommissionIV6.U.S.A.–Prof.MargueriteMadden–CommissionIV7.China–GongJianya–CommissionIV8.U.K.–JonathanPhilipMills–CommissionV9.Taiwan–TianYuanShih–CommissionVI10.TheNetherlands–MartienMolenaar–CommissionVI11.Austria-WolfgangWagner–CommissionVII12.Italy-PieroBoccardo–CommissionVIII13.Japan–HaruhisaShimoda–CommissionVIII14.India–JiaSinghParihar–CommissionVIII

Thefirstgeneralassemblywasheldinthemorningof3July.

Delegateswereinformedthat,sincethe2004Congress,Nigeria,ZimbabweandSenegalhavebeenadmittedasordinarymembers.ColombiaandChineseTaipeihavebeenadmittedasassociatemembers.

Candidatesforhostingthenextcongresspresentedtheirproposals.

Candidatesfortechnicalcommissions in2008-2012deliveredtheircampaignspeeches.

◆ TS WG IV/6 & ThS-8: Location Based Services Time:08:30-10:00 Room:(ConventionHallNo.2A)

◆ TS SS-15: Future of Geographic Information Science Time:08:30-10:00 Room:(ConventionHallNo.2B)

◆ TS WG VIII/2 (1): Public Health Time:08:30-10:00 Room:(ConventionHallNo.2C)

◆ TS ICWG I/V: Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Time:08:30-10:00 Room:(201AConferenceRoom)

◆ TS WG II/2: Spatial Reasoning, Analysis, and Data Mining

Time:08:30-10:00 Room:(201BConferenceRoom)

◆ TS WG I/2 (2): Full-waveform and Multi-pulse LiDAR Time:08:30-10:00 Room:(307ConferenceRoom)

◆ TS WG VIII/8: Polar and Alpine Research Time:10:30-12:00 Room:(ConventionHallNo.2A)

◆ TS WG I/5 (1): Sensor Orientation of Optical Spaceborne Sensors Time:10:30-12:00 Room:(ConventionHallNo.2B)

◆ TS ThS-9: Realtime and Incremental Updating of Core Databases Time:10:30-12:00 Room:(ConventionHallNo.2C)

◆ TS WG VI/6: Special Interests Group "Technology Transfer Caravan" Time:10:30-12:00 Room:(201AConferenceRoom)

Program of the Day

◆ TS WG IV/5 (1): Web-based Geo-information Services and Applications

Time:10:30-12:00 Room:(201BConferenceRoom)

◆ TS WG II/7 (2): Quality of Spatio-temporal Data and Models Time:10:30-12:00 Room:(307ConferenceRoom)

◆ TS WG ICWG V/I: Integrated Systems for Mobile Mapping Time:16:00-17:30 Roomzz(ConventionHallNo.2A)

◆ TS WG VIII/11 (1): Sustainable Forest and Landscape Management Time:16:00-17:30 Room:(ConventionHallNo.2B)

◆ TS WG VIII/12 (1): Geological Mapping, Geomorphology and Geomorphometry Time:16:00-17:30 Room:(ConventionHallNo.2C)

◆ TS WG VII/4 (1): Advanced Classification Techniques Time:16:00-17:30 Room:(201AConferenceRoom)

◆ TS ThS-18: Change Detection Time:16:00-17:30 Room:(201BConferenceRoom)

◆ TS SS-7: Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)

Time:16:00-17:30 Room:(201CConferenceRoom)

◆ TS WG V/3 (1): Terrestrial Laser Scanning - Orientation Time:16:00-17:30 Room:(307ConferenceRoom)

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Alumni GatheringA largedelegationof the International Institute forGeo-InformationScienceandEarthObservation(ITC),Enschede,theNetherlands,isattendingtheISPRSCongressinBeijing.Some30staffandPhDstudentsarepresent.Wearealsorepresentedatbooths307and308oftheexhibition.OnTuesday8July,anITCalumnigatheringwillbeheldattheWesternRestaurant,Celebrity InternationalGrandHotel inBeijing.ITCalumniareinvitedtopickuptheirinvitationattheITCbooth.

Tragic End to Indonesian Aerial Surveillance MissionAnIndonesianairforceplanehascrashedduringanaerialsurveillancemissionnearJakarta.

ACasaN212-200flightcrashednearMountSalak,40km(60miles)southofJakartaon26June.

BBCNewsreportedon28 Junethatall18passengerswerekilled.

AmongthedeceasedwereMochtarMahendraKumarofIndia,KwongPingAnthoniofBritain,TanHookofSingapore,SusikaMurdhayantiof Indonesiaandemployees fromSingapore-based geo-information technology provider, CredentTechnology.MajorMurdhayantiwascompletingaMasterofGISattheUniversityofMelbourne.

According to reports, the flight departed Jakarta on anaerial surveillancemission to testnewdigital surveillanceequipment.

Officialsbelievethatheavyfogmayhavecausedtheaccident.

AllpassengerswerekilledinaplanecrashinIndonesiaonthe28June.Theflightdepartedonanaerialsurveillancemissiontotestnewdigitalequipment.

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Plans for the Weekend

◆ SE-5: Beijing Night Show

Date:Saturday,5July2008 Wednesday,9July2008 Time:19:00-21:20 DepartfromBICCat18:00 Place:BeijingNightShowTheatre Cost:RMB750

BeijingNight Show is the firstofitskindtooffervisitorstoBeijingarareopportunity toenjoyclassicalChinese art performances andtraditional Chinese cuisine. Theshow features a wide range ofChineseartisticperformances,fromtraditionalartandmusictodancing,opera, acrobatics and traditionalcostumeshows.

◆ SE-6: Laoshe Tea House

Date:Saturday,5July2008 Tuesday,8July2008 Time:19:50-21:20 DepartfromBICCat18:00 (DinneratFangshanRestaurant) Place:LaosheTeaHouse Cost:RMB330

Located just oppos i te to theTian'anmen Square, Laoshe TeaHousewasfoundedin1988,namedafter renownedartistMr. Laoshe.It offers a Beijing-style antiquedatmosphere where the audiencew atc h e s d ra m a a n d m u s i c a lperformances while enjoying teaandsnacks.Performances includeunique traditionalmusic recitals,folkdancing,acrobaticsandoperaspectacles.

◆ SE-3: Acrobatic Show

Date:Sunday,6July2008 Wednesday,9July2008 Time:19:15-20:15 DepartfromBICCat18:00 (mealboxtobeprovided) Place:TianDiTheater Cost:RMB240

The Chinese Acrobatic Troupeshave travelled tomany countriesandamazedaudienceseverywhere.TowatchChineseacrobatics isanexperience at once fanciful andinspirational.

5-9July2008

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BeiJingHuanYingNi!(BeijingWelcomesYou!)

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