ISPRS Annals included in Web of Science

After the ISPRS Archives where accepted for inclusion into Thomson Reuters’ Conference Citation Proceedings Index (CPCI), one of the indices of the Web of Science, in August 2014, it was more a question of time, when the ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences would follow. This is now the case, Thomson Reuters has announced today that the first Annals volumes have also been included into the CPCI. According to the rules of CPCI, all Annals volumes published since 2012, when the series first started, will most probably be included into CPCI upon successful evaluation. It should be noted, however, that previous, and also each future volume will be evaluated individually.

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, www.isprs.org/publications/archives.aspx is the series of proceedings published by ISPRS based on abstract review. The ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, www.isprs.org/publications/annals.aspx contain selected full paper double-blind peer-reviewed scientific contributions of ISPRS Congresses, Symposia and a number of Conferences and Workshops.

This success is a new proof of the quality of the work presented in ISPRS events and published in the ISPRS proceedings. The flag ship journal, the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, has long been considered one of the leading journals in the area. the Since April 2015, the new ISPRS International Journal on Geo-Information is also part of the Web of Science, and both the Archives and the Annals are also listed in DOAJ, the Directory of Open Access Journals. In addition, the Archives are part of SCOPUS, while the application for the Annals has been submitted late last year. Finally, applications for inclusion into the Engineering Index EI are in preparation. All the listings of ISPRS proceedings were initiated with the help of the ISPRS publisher, Copernicus GmbH of Göttingen, Germany.

Christian Heipke
ISPRS Secretary General 2012 – 16

48th Meeting of Prague photogrammetrists and members of the Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing took place on June 2, 2015 at the Faculty of Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague. Mrs Matoušková reported about prepanig the „summer school“ of students 5 days before the XXIII. ISPRS Congress.

Mr. Haloun presented the detailed daily programme of the Congress and informed about next meeting of ISPRS Council in Prague. Mrs Halounová- president of the Congress in 2016 – explained the new structure of five ISPRS Technical Commisions.

In the second part Mr. Haloun presented his expert curriculum vitae and gave a lecture about design of water main, water treatment and sewage plans. Follow-up discussion applied to water catchment on territory of municipalities, geodetic documentation of real state of sewage systems, quality of geographic information systems and ownership registration as well, introducing of 3D documentation, impact of sewage system capability on the development of municipalities and to other topics.

„Application of photogrammetry to judicial expertise“ was the topic of a workshop and 47thmeeting of Prague photogrammetrists and members of SPRS with experts of the Institute for Judicial Expertise at the Faculty of Transportation of the Czech Technical University in Prague, organized on May 15, 2015.

Functions of the Institute were presented by assoc. prof. Tomáš Mičuněk, Ph.D. Activities of the Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (SPRS) including preparations of the XXIIIrd Congress of ISPRS in Prague, 2016 were presented by assoc.prof. Lena Halounová, Ph.D., president of the SPRS.

Then 3 lectures were presented:

• Zdeněk Svatý, MSc. : „Application of photogrammetry to judicial expertise“
• Luboš Nouzovský, MSc. : Measurements of riding dynymics of a cyclist“
• Kateřina Mičunková , MSc., Bc. : „Methods for non-contact mearuring of road surface“

Living discussion followed after presentation of each lecture.

after the session of local programming committee of ISPRS Congress 2016 in Prague.

4 papers were presented:

• P. Dvořáček Activities of the Land Survey Office in 2015,
• H. Olešovská: Use of photogrammetry to creating of Fundamental Base of Geographic Data (ZABAGED®)
• V. Hron: Use of photogrammetry to updating of ZABAGED®
• V. Hron: Use of image correlation of aerial metric photographs to improving of position and form of buildings in ZABAGED®.

In the course of subsequent discussion Mr Brázdil, director of the Land Survey Office, presented some examples of conflicts between content of cadastral maps and recent Orthophoto of the Czech Republic.