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After presentation of basic activities of the Chair a lecture about results of some applications of remote sensing technique followed. Excursion to the St.Wenceslaus cathedral, examples of eye-tracking and 3D printer applications have completed the interesting programme prepared by Jakub Miřijovský.

September 7-11, 2015
Stuttgart, Germany
Website: www.ifp.uni-stuttgart.de/phowo/index.en.html

Dear colleague, friend and long-time participant of the Photogrammetric Week Series,

It is with great pleasure to send you together with the final program the

Invitation to the 55th Photogrammetric Week in Stuttgart, September 7-11, 2015

This regular event was initiated by Carl Pulfrich as a “Vacation Course in Photogrammetry” in 1909; since 1973 it has been held at the University of Stuttgart. Today, the Photogrammetric Week Series enjoys international recognition as an upgrading seminar and a platform for the exchange of knowledge and experience. It attracts since many years more than 500 participants from more than 50 countries. Its proceedings are well documented since 1975 on the Web ( www.ifp.uni-stuttgart.de/phowo/index.en.html) and represent one of the best set of paper collections in the field of photogrammetry and related geospatial sciences.

The Photogrammetric Week Series is unique – the single track scientific program in the mornings is conducted by internationally recognized Keynote and Invited Speakers only, the well-selected OpenPhowo Partners demonstrate their latest technologies in Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics in the afternoons.

This year the lectures by experts from academia in Germany and abroad will be focusing on “Excellence in Photogrammetry, Computer Science and Geoinformatics”. It is one of the best programs of the PhoWo series, and will deal with the following topics:

•    Remotely Sensed Data Acquisition – An Update
•    Advanced Modelling in Photogrammetry, Computer Vision and Computer Graphics
•    Excellence in Geoinformatics

The presentations will be in English. Sufficient time will be allocated for discussions. The scientific program and the demonstrations will be supplemented by fringe events in the evenings to
offer sufficient opportunity for personal contacts and to renew friendship.

A special event is embedded in this year’s conference – the “Open Farewell of Dieter Fritsch”. He will officially retire from being the Director of the Institute for Photogrammetry end of September 2015, but will stay onboard for R&D research projects until the middle of 2019. All long-time friends and PhoWo participants are kindly invited to this event as well, to be held on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, 16.00.

In addition, a tutorial on “Excellence in Photogrammetry – From UAV Data Collection and Data Processing to Advanced 3D Modelling” will be organized by the Institute for Photogrammetry (ifp), University of Stuttgart, on Sunday, September 6, 2015.

Please come to Stuttgart and convince yourself about “Excellence in Photogrammetry, Computer Science and Geoinformatics”. It will be a milestone in your professional life maintaining nice memories. Looking forward to meeting you in September.
Best regards
Yours Dieter Fritsch
Prof Dr Dieter Fritsch
Inst Photogrammetrie
Univ Stuttgart
T +49 711 6858 3386
F +49 711 6858 3297
dieter.fritsch@ifp.uni-stuttgart.de

The 2015 International Workshop on Image and Data Fusion (iwidf2015)
Website: iwidf2015.casm.ac.cn
Date: 21-23 July 2015
Venue: Kona, Hawaii, USA

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Important Dates

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Automatic registration or other geometric aspects of fusion with images from different spatial, spectral, and temporal resolutions, or acquisition modes
• Pixel-, feature- and decision-level fusion algorithms and methodologies
• Multi-source classification and information extraction
• Integration of images and products from satellite, airborne, and terrestrial sensor systems, as well as in-situ measurements
• Change detection and dynamic analysis based on remote sensing images
• Image and data mining from multi-platform, multi-source, multi-scale, multi-temporal data sets (e.g. geometric information, topological information, statistical information, etc.)
• Data fusion applications in the fields of mapping and monitoring natural resources, natural hazards, and environmental security
• High performance computing techniques in remote sensing data fusion
• Others

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Special Session

Characterization of volcanic hazards through image and data fusion

This special session invites innovative image and data fusion methods and applications on characterizing various aspects of volcanic hazards, including ground surface deformation and topographic change mapping, lava and pyroclastic flow mapping, thermal anomaly mapping,  and volcanic gas and ash mapping, etc.
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General Chair

Jixian Zhang (President of Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, Chair of ISPRS WG VII/6)
Zhong Lu (Southern Methodist University, Co-chair of ISPRS WG VII/6)

Co-chair

Qian Wang (Deputy Director of Department of Science, Technology and International cooperation and Director of UN Project Management Office, National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, China)
Lan Wu (Vice president of Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, China)
Ruizhi Chen (CBI Endowed Chair of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA)
Judith Fox-Goldstein (Administrative Director of University of Hawaii at Hilo – Conference Center, USA)
Christina Neal (USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, USA)

Steering Committee

Deren Li (Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, China)
Jun Chen (President of ISPRS, National Geomatics Centre, China)
Christian Heipke (Secretary General of ISPRS, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)
Bronwyn Harch (President of International Environmetrics Society, Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Milan Konecny (Vice President of International Society for Digital Earth, Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

Scientific Committee

Orhan Altan (First Vice President of ISPRS, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Marguerite Madden (Second Vice President of ISPRS, University of Georgia Athens, USA)
Lena Halounová (Congress Director of ISPRS, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)
Filiz Sunar (President of ISPRS TC VII, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Guifei Jing (National Remote Sensing Center, China)
Armin Grün (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland)
Jon Atli Benediktsson (University of Iceland, Iceland)
Peter Caccetta (CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia)
Salim Chitroub (University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria)
Mihai Datcu (Paris Institute of Technology, France)
Manfred Ehlers (University of Osnabrueck, Germany)
J.L. van Genderen (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
David L. Hall (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Wolfgang Kainz (University of Vienna, Austria)
Nada Milisavljevic (Royal Military Academy, Belgium)
Zhilin Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Jie Shan (Purdue University, USA)
Xinming Tang (Satellite Surveying and Mapping Application Cente of National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, China)
Thierry Toutin (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Canada)
Yun Zhang (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Alfred Stein (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Paolo Gamba (University of Pavia, Italy)
Bhekisipho Twala (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
Mazlan Hashim (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia)
Dengsheng Lu (Michigan State University, USA)
Peter Reinartz (German Aerospace Center, Germany)
Christine Pohl (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia)
Guoqing Zhou (Guilin University of Technology, China)
Qiming Zhou (Hong Kong Baptist University, China)
Jarkko Koskinen (Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, Finland)
Xiaolin Meng (University of Nottingham, UK)
Xiaoli Ding (HongKong Polytechnic University, China)
Wenzhong Shi (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Pingxiang Li (Wuhan University, China)
Zhihong Sun (Taiwan Geographic Information Center, China)

For any queries, please contact iwidf2015@casm.ac.cn

UAV-g 2015
International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomatics
sUAS: a disruptive technology for geomatics

August 30 – September 2, 2015
York University, Toronto, Canada
www.uav-g-2015.ca

Dear colleagues,
This is a kind reminder about the upcoming UAV-g 2015 International Conference.

Important dates for contributions

Keynote speakers

• Kimon Valavanis, University of Denver
  Challenges in Unmanned Aircraft Systems: autonomy, sense-detect-and-avoid, and formation control
  
• Michael Jenkin, York University
  Flying underwater: some results with an amphibious robot
  
• David Bird, McGill University
  Applications of unmanned vehicle systems to wildlife research and management in the 21st Century

Tutorials / Workshops
Details for submitting Proposals for Tutorials / Workshops can be found on the conference web site.

Sponsorships
Various sponsorship packages are available that will provide excellent opportunities to promote your company and organization and ensure a high degree of exposure to the conference delegates. For details please see the Prospectus for Sponsors on the conference website.

Exhibition
The Exhibition will provide an opportunity for companies and organisations to highlight their products and services, and promote their interest to professional delegates. For details on the exhibition and the exhibitor’s benefits please see the Prospectus for Exhibitors on the conference website.

Registration
The Conference registration is open. Please take advantage of the early bird registration fees.

We look forward to seeing you in Toronto.

With best regards,
Costas Armenakis

Conference Chair
www.uav-g-2015.ca
uavg2015@yorku.ca

For any queries, please contact < uavg2015@yorku.ca>