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International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Internationale Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung Société Internationale de Photogrammétrie et de Télédétection S D R A W A S R Melbourne, Australia P S August 2012 I Citations Awards Presented at the Opening Ceremony ISPRS Honorary Members ISPRS 2 ISPRS Fellows ISPRS 4 The Brock Gold Medal Award ASPRS 7 The Otto von Gruber Award ITC 9 The U.V. Helava Award Elsevier, Hexagon 10 Awards Presented at the Gala Dinner The Frederick J Doyle Award ISPRS Foundation 11 The Eduard Dolezal Award Austria 13 The Karl Kraus Medal Austria 14 The Schwidefsky Medal Germany 15 The Willem Schermerhorn Award The Netherlands 16 The Samuel Gamble Award Canada 17 The Wang Zhizhou Award China 18 The Guiseppe Inghilleri Award Italy 19 Awards Presented at the Closing Ceremony President’s Citations ISPRS 20 Best Poster Papers 1 Congress Director 22 CATCON Prize 2 ISPRS Foundation 22 Awards Presented at Plenary Sessions Best Papers by Young Authors ISPRS 23 Best Papers at Youth Forum 3 Leica Geosystems 23 1 Awards for the best posters will be decided at the Congress. 2 The CATCON competition will be held at the Congress. 3 The best papers from the Youth Forum will be presented at the closing of the Youth Forum. ISPRS Awards Booklet, Melbourne 2012 ......................................................................................................Page 1 ISPRS Honorary Member An individual is elected as a Honorary career at University College London (UCL). Member in recognition of distinguished He gained his formal academic qualifications services to the ISPRS and its aims. Honorary at UCL, completing a BSc in Geography, and Members shall be nominated by a a Diploma and PhD in Photogrammetry. committee, chaired by the most recent After a short period working as a survey Honorary Member and composed of practitioner in Australia, he returned to UCL members from the current and three where he has held many academic positions previous Councils, and elected by the including Dean of Engineering. From 1991 to Congress. There may not be more than ten 2008 he was Professor of Photogrammetry living Honorary Members of the Society at and Remote Sensing, a clear mark of the any given time. The Committee has University authorities’ recognition of his nominated Ian Dowman (United Kingdom) ability as a teacher as well as his contribution and (China) for election as Honorary to the international research community in Members of ISPRS. these fields. Besides a sustained involvement with ISPRS, Emeritus Professor Ian Ian has found time to make a significant Dowman is nominated for contribution to organisations in the UK Honorary Membership of Including the Royal Institution of Chartered ISPRS in recognition of his Surveyors (RICS), the Photogrammetric long and distinguished Society he was President, and he was services to ISPRS and its elected an Honorary Member in 1999. Ian aims. Ian has held many roles has also been Chairman of the Scientific and responsibilities within the Committee of the Organisation Européenne Society, up to and including the office of d'Etudes Photogrammétriques President. Ian’s contribution has been not Expérimentales (OEEPE, now EuroSDR, a only as an Officer of the Society; he has also Regional Member of ISPRS). He has been made a significant research contribution to awarded many honours for his work. Such a diverse ISPRS Commissions and Working distinguished and sustained international Groups throughout his career, which has contribution in support of the activities and covered major developments in both aims of the International Society for photogrammetry and remote sensing and in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing is the synergy between them. He has also presented as being worthy of Honorary participated in many other events in which Membership of ISPRS. he had no direct leadership role. Ian’s proactive approach has ensured that the Society has turned many of these changes to its advantage. Ian has had a very distinguished academic ISPRS Awards Booklet, Melbourne 2012 ......................................................................................................Page 2 ISPRS Honorary Member Professor Dr. Li Deren , 170 PhD students and 18 postdoctoral scientist in photogrammetry candidates. He has published over 709 and remote sensing, holds papers and 11 books. He won one prize of dual membership in both the the National Great Invention Award, three Chinese Academy of prizes of the National Science and Sciences and the Chinese Technology Progress Award, one prize of the Academy of Engineering, is National Excellent Textbook Award and one member of the Euro-Asia prize of the Award of the Excellent International Academy of Science, and Educational Achievements. honorary doctor of ETH Zürich. At present, Professor Li Deren served as President of he is Professor and PhD supervisor of Wuhan ISPRS Technical Commissions III and VI from University, Vice-President of the Chinese 1988-1992 and 1992-1996 respectively. He Society of Geodesy, Photogrammetry and worked for CEOS in 2002-2004 and was the Cartography, Vice-president of Hubei first President of Asia GIS Association (2003- Association for Science and Technology 2006). He received the Samuel G. Gamble (HAST), Chair of the Academic Committee of Award at the ISPRS XXI Congress in 2008 Wuhan University and the State Key and received an award in appreciation and Laboratory of Information Engineering in recognition of the outstanding contribution Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing to the success and achievements of the (LIESMARS). MOST/ESA Dragon Programme 2004 to In the 1980s, Professor Li Deren was mainly 2007. Since 2010 he is ISPRS Fellow. engaged in the studies of observation errors Li Deren is nominated as an Honorary and processing methods in geodesy and Member for distinguished service to ISPRS photogrammetry. In 1985, he completed and for his contribution to the science of theoretical research in the separability of photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial model errors, which advanced the reliability information science in China and theory to the separability phase. The result internationally. of this study received the 1988 Best Paper Award of the German Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and Hansa Luftbild Award. From 1990 up to now Professor Li has concentrated on the research and education in geo-spatial information science and technology represented by remote sensing (RS), global positioning system (GPS) and geographic information systems (GIS). Since 1989 Professor Li Deren has supervised ISPRS Awards Booklet, Melbourne 2012 ......................................................................................................Page 3 ISPRS Fellowships An ISPRS Fellow is elected by the Society in 2004 to the present and holds other recognition of sustained, excellent service to positions in commercial and academic the ISPRS and its aims. organisations. Since 1992 he has been The following persons have been selected to organizer of the biennial symposium “The receive ISPRS Fellowships in 2012 by the Photogrammetric Week Series. He is Author Fellowship Nomination Committee. of 16 books and more than 300 publications. Dieter Fritsch (Germany) Martien Molenaar (The Netherlands) Professor Dr Dieter Fritsch Professor Dr Martien received his Dipl.-Ing. Molenaar is with the Surveying from the University Department of Geo- of Bonn in 1977 and his PhD Information Processing in Signal Processing, also Faculty of Geo-Information from Bonn, in 1982. He Science and Earth received his Habilitation in Observation (ITC) University Geographical Information of Twente. He has a Doctors Systems (GIS), from the Technical University degree in Geodesy of Delft Technical of Munich. Since 1992 he has been Full University. He was a senior lecturer at ITC Professor and Director of the Institute for (1973-1983) and a professor of GIS and Photogrammetry, University of Stuttgart. Remote Sensing at Wageningen University Dieter Fritsch has chaired or co-chaired (1983-1996). In 1996 he returned to the ITC various WGs of the International Society for as a full professor in Geoinformatics and Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Spatial Data Acquisition. From 2001 to 2009 (ISPRS) and from 1996-2000 was President he was Rector of the ITC, the International ISPRS Technical Commission IV “Mapping Institute for Geoinformation Science and and GIS”. He is a member of the ISPRS ad- Earth Observation. He is President of the hoc Committee “Knowledge Transfer” and Netherlands Geodetic Commission. He was Chairman Board of Trustees The ISPRS also President of the Netherlands Foundation (TIF). He has been active in IAG Photogrammetric Society and later of the and EuroSDR in which he is Vice President of Netherlands Society for Earth Observation Research and Geoinformation. He has been active in ISPRS since 1976 in many different positions, Dieter Fritsch has held senior position in the as chair of several working groups, as University of Stuttgart, including being Director of the technical program of the President from 2000-2006. He was the Amsterdam 2000 Congress, as co-founder of academic co-Founder of the German the Amsterdam 2000 Trust Fund, as trustee University in Cairo (GUC), Egypt, and of The ISPRS Foundation, as member of Member GUC Board of Trustees; 2002-2005: ISAC and for the term 2008-2012 as He is a member Board of Directors Leica President of ISPRS Technical Commission VI Geosystems, Heerbrugg, Switzerland from ISPRS Awards