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Dear delegates, we would like to announce, that the General Assembly has voted for the next ISPRS Congress organizational cityand the congress will be held in NICE, France in 2020. If you want to keep up with innovations in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, we cordially invite you to CIPA OTTAWA 2017, Digital Workflows for Heritage Conservation Symposium. You will find all necessary information here. We kindly remind you, that we update our photo gallery and you can find the ISPRS Congress Daily here or visit ourfacebook. We wish you a pleasant stay in Prague.

HIGHLIGHTS:  ISPRS COUNCIL | PHOTON LIDAR | STUDENTS | DUBAI Photon Lidar Airborne Lidar has matured over the last two decades into a mapping technology routinely used for 3D modelling of urban areas, capturing boreal forests, seabed mapping and many other applications all over the world. The speed with which the laser pulses are fired continues to soar and for a number of commercial systems it has reached the impressive number of one million pulses per second. Multiple pulses in air and (full) waveform digitisation are other developments which found their way to the users in recent years. Read on... 16 Years’ Experience on the ISPRS Council (By Orhan Altan)Looking back, I have been able to carry out the priorities set at the beginning of my term. In 2000, when I was elected as Congress Director, my priority was to organise an excellent event that would be memorable in the minds of people for a long time and I can confess that I have achieved this goal, as I still meet many people around the world who thank me for the wonderful congress in 2004. Another interim goal that arose during my time as congress director was the request of young scientists to have their own programme at the congress, which resulted in the establishment of youth sessions and, after the congress, a summer school for more than 80 students. This became a sustained tradition at many ISPRS events and congresses and led to the establishment of a student consortium.…

Fresh info: how to be still in the game We are in the middle of ISPRS 2016 Prague Congress and we hope that you enjoy every minute of it. If you have missed any news, interviews or daily videos, you can find a little overview below. Congress Daily newspapers Every morning you can find news and points of interest in our newspapers available on ground zero. You can also read it online at ISPRS website in PDF format here http://www.isprs2016-prague.com/download/ DAY 3 – read now DAY 2 – read now DAY 1 – read now Congress Daily videos We thank our video team for daily summary and interviews. Come to ISPRS YouTube channel and subcribe yourself or read morning newsletters in your inbox. DAY 3 report – watch now DAY 2 report – watch now DAY 1 report – watch now In the interview room was Paul Arthur Berkman, Heide Hackmann and Shailesh Nayak. If you have missed an interesting lecture, you can find Congress Video Presentations of our keynote speakers here http://www.isprs2016-prague.com/gallery/congress-video-presentation CATCON Contest winners! We are happy to introduce you the winners of the CATCON Award 1) Learning Photogrammetry with Interactive Software Tool PhoX Author: Thomas Luhmann 2) The e-foto Software: A free, Digital Photogrammetric Workstation for Educational Purposes Authors: Jorge Luis Nunes e Silva Brito, et al 3) GeoSquare: a collaborative online geospatial information sharing and geoprocessing platform for education and research Authors: Huayi Wu, et al   Congratulations! Facebook channel Every day we update facebook galleries, congress information and add…

HIGHLIGHTS:  CAPACITY BUILDING | EDUCATION | 3D | CADASTRE Open Science Matters! The second day of the ISPRS Congress in Prague kicked off with a highly relevant keynote presentation by Ms Heide Hackmann of the International Council for Science (ICSU). She told the audience passionately about the urgency of open science.  The world faces great challenges and the society expects science to solve these problems. On the other hand, science itself is under pressure to reinvent itself and to re-energize its contact with the society. Hackmann calls for a global response and a significantly enriched collaboration within and between the scientific community. And beyond that, as the world of policy and business, and the public at large are also involved. Read on here The Next Steps for 3D… 10 years from now, a semantic-rich 3D virtual model of our environment will be available and continuously updated by citizens, companies and governments as well as by sensors that monitor air quality, temperature, noise, etc. With the up-to-date 3D virtual model, governments will be well-informed on the current state of our environment and will be able to accurately predict the impact on flooding, energy, safety, etc. in the case of an intervention (whether planned or not). In addition, citizens will be able to experience the impact of new infrastructures or a windmill using serious gaming. 3D building permits can automatically be checked against the 3D zoning plans and 3D city models, and the submitted 3D design data can be used to keep…