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    ISPRS SCNewsLetter

    Editor-in-Chief:

    G r e g o r S T A V B A R

    Tehnical Editor:

    U r a K A N J I R

    Editorial Board:

    Dr. E m m a n u e l B A L T S A V I A SDr. M o j c a K O S M A T I N F R A SDr. A n k a L I S E C

    K r z y s z t o f S T E R E C Z A KC e m a l z g r K I V I L C I M

    Proof-Reading:M a r t i n S O M E R S

    Contributors:

    A l e L A Z A RV a s i l e i o s K A L O G I R O UK a j a K A N D A R E

    To join our members area visit

    www.isprs-studentconsorum.org

    This PDF version ofSC Newsleer is licensedunder a Creave Commons Licence.

    For more informaon about the licence visit:

    hp://creavecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

    Frontpage designed by Ayda Akta

    Table of Contents

    2 NEWS FROM STUDENT CONSORTIUM

    SPOTLIGHTS

    Interview with Prof. Dr. Mojca Kosman Fras

    3 THE USE OF LASER SCANNING The Use of Laser Scanning in Monument and

    Building Documentaon

    4 CRYOSTAT - 2 Cryosat-2: Reloaded

    5 A COORDINATORS EYE ISPRS SC Presence in South America

    IT NEWS OGC 3D Standards and Photomod 5.0

    6 INTERESTING LINKS

    OTHER INFO

    7 STUDIES AND PRACTICAL WORK

    FUTURE ISPRS RELATED EVENTSCalendar of Forthcoming Events

    SC Newsleer (ISSN Y506-5879) is published every threemonths by ISPRS Student Consorum.

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    NEWS FROM STUDENT CONSORTIUM

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    Dear SC Follower,

    Since Student Consorum is in preparaon for dierent ISPRS Technical Sympo-siums, we have begun intensively publish SC promoonal materials to be deliveredduring the symposiums. All these ISPRS TC events that are about to happen innext months are a precursor to the upcoming Melbourne Congress in 2012 (youcan nd more details under the rubric Future ISPRS related events on page 7).With the cooperaon of the Technical Commissions there will be young authors`sessions organised at the selected symposiums. We hope this will also lead to newinnovaon and that ISPRS Symposiums will aract more young professionals.SC will also present its acvies and outputs at the celebraon of the 100th an-niversary of ISPRS in Vienna in July.Dont forget that among all these events there is also ISPRS SC Summer Schoolplanned for Autumn this year! All the details of the 5th SC Summer School will beavailable soon.We are all looking forward to meeng you at one of the ISPRS events this year!

    Best Regards,Cemal zgr KIVILCIMSC Chair

    Interview with Prof. Dr. Mojca Kosman Frasby Ura Kanjir

    In this interview we are hosng dr. Mojca Kosman Fras, pro-fessor at the Faculty of Civil and Geodec Engineering at Uni-

    versity of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has been acve in the ISPRSwaters for a long me, being co-chair and chair of WG VI/3from 1996 to 2004 and chair of WG VI/5 in next quarter. Shemakes great eort to promote the profesion among studentsand is one of the main reason that Student Consorum standswhere it is today.

    1. Dear prof. Mojca Fras, can you explain to us what your re-

    search eld/professional work is at the moment?

    My work is related to photogrammetry and remote sensingand because we are a very small team I have to follow a variety

    of areas. However, our priories in research work are digitalimage processing (objects detecon), high resoluon satelliteimages (topographic data acquision) and lidar (aerial and ter-

    restrial). We try to smulate our students to parcipate in research work alreadyduring their graduate study, whereas for post-graduate students research work isessenal. We also cooperate with other instuons and private companies to shareinfrastructure and knowledge.

    2. Why did you decide for this profession in the rst place (maybe you can tell us

    something more about your rst steps)?

    I decided for photogrammetry during my university study (I graduated in 1985), sim-ply because I liked photography. In that me I was an enthusiasc amateur photog-rapher, having my own laboratory for developing lms and for producing hardcopieson paper. At the faculty we learnt the analog photogrammetry which I did not likevery much. Analog instruments were very large and complicated devices and forme it was dicult to understand in detail how they worked. On the contrary, I likedmathemacs and physics, so analycal photogrammetry was close to that, but un-fortunately, in the lectures we only heared lile theory. Accidentally, I found a paperin an internaonal professional journal about using amateur cameras for photo-grammetric applicaon, and this immediately aracted my interest. I started to in-

    vesgate this topic and made my diploma work about on-the-job camera calibraonmethods and from that I stayed with photogrammetry. In my rst job I developed aprototype on a personal computer for digital orthophoto producon (in years 1986-88), and later took part in many important naonal research and developmentalprojects, in topography and close range applicaons. I experienced the transionof the technology from analog to analycal and digital, and found this extremelyinteresng and challenging.

    3. What advice would you give to students and young professionals to be success-

    ful in their future career?

    My advice is simple: they should always strive for professional excellence and, not

    being less important, also develop their own personality with addional acvies(reading good literature, pracce sports, contribute to the society etc.). They shouldnd work they really like, only then they can be successful and sased.

    4. In your opinion, how important is parcipaon of young people to internaonal

    professional events like Congresses, workshops, etc? What do you think are the

    benets of such acvies to youth and to profession?

    For young people it is very important to enter the internaonal society as soon aspossible, although they might not be aware of that. They can get a lot of informa-on from textbooks, professional journals, Internet and other sources, but personalacquaintances and social networks can be gained only by aending events. There is

    SPOTLIGHTS

    more on next page...

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    5. How do you see the future of spaal informaon sciences (remote sens-

    ing, photogrammetry, GIS, and related elds)? What would you propose

    to young sciensts as the most challenging elds and research problemsin the profession?

    It is really dicult to answer this queson. I oen ask myself where we aregoing to. Based on recent state-of-the art, the near future is in highly inte-grated and automated technologies (digital aerial or satellite imagery, lidar,posional orientaon systems) and high quality end-products. But, if welook a lile bit out of our profession, there are so many crazy discoverieson the horizon (bio and quantum computers, nano technologies etc.) thatmight thoroughly redirect our work. I think the future of our profession isnevertheless excing.

    6. As one of the main foundaon leaders of the Student Consorum how

    The Use of Laser Scanning in Monument and Building Documentaonby Thanasis Moysiadis (University of Thessaly)

    Terrestrial laser scanners have been widely used in monument and building documentaon,mainly because a precise three dimensional point data can be generated at over a relavelyshort me. Due to the high point density, not only three dimensional surface models can be

    generated, but also surface images, provided that intensity data are available. The resulngpoint cloud data in standardized format (ascii, iges, stl) can be easily imported for furtherprocessing into a soware that handles laser scanning data. Laser scanning instruments gainappreciaon in architectural and cultural heritage documentaon applicaons, because sur-faces with both smooth and highly decorave features can be recorded and modelled.According to the principles of operaon, laser scanning instruments can be divided into twocategories:1. Ranging scannersi) Time of ight of a laser pulseA laser pulse is sent to the object from the scan-ner and the distance between transmier and

    the surface is computed from the me the sig-nal takes to be transmied and received andthe known speed of light. The accuracy of theseinstruments depends on how well they can re-solve the me interval to be calculated.ii) Phase comparison methodThe transmied beam is modulated by a har-monic wave and the distance is calculated us-ing phase dierence between the transmiedand received wave. Due to the fact that a verywell dened signal is needed for a correct rangedeterminaon, erroneous points may be pro-duced.2. Triangulaon scanners

    i) Single camera soluon

    A laser beam is transmied to the object at dened incrementally changed angle from oneend of a mechanical base and the other end from a CCD (charged coupled device) camerawhich detects the laser beam.ii) Double camera soluonIt is a variaon of the triangulaon principle that uses two CCD cameras at each end ofthe base. The spot is generated by a separate projector which does not have any measur-

    ing funcon. The operaon of a laser scanner instrument is largely aected by the surfaceproperes being scanned. The main accuracy consideraons for laser scanner instrumentsare described on next page:

    Moysiadis, University College London

    do you see our organizaon

    aer 6 years of acvity?

    I am really happy to see theStudent Consorum growand I appreciate every eortof students and young pro-fessionals they give for thispurpose. I would especiallylike to thank the team ofthe SC Newsleer for theirhard work, producing fourissues a year, as well as theStudent Consorum board,regional coordinators andother acve members thatcare for the beer future ofour profession.

    Thank you very much for

    your answers!

    a lot of informaon and useful material we can receive in such events, wealso can nd friends, experience new cultures, learn languages etc. If I lookback to the beginning of my career, I am sure that my early involvement intothe professional society was essenal for achieving my recent posion.

    SPOTLIGHTS THE USE OF LASER SCANNING

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    Angular accuracy - The laser pulse is deected by a small rotang device and is sent to the object.A second angle perpendicular to the rst may be changed using another opcal device. The 3Dcoordinates are computed by reading these angles. Therefore, any deviaons will result in errorsperpendicular to the laser path.Range accuracy - Using ranging scanners, errors may be observed when known distances in rangedirecon are measured with the scanner.Resoluon - Resoluon refers to the smallest distance that can be dened between two objects in

    the point cloud. In other words, the smallest increment angle between two successive points andthe spot size of the laser beam.Edge eects - The laser spot of a laser scanner has a certain size which is dependant of the range.Part of the laser beam may be reected from an adjacent surface, a dierent surface or not at all.This means that edges of a surface cannot be accurately modelled.Surface reecvity - Surface reecvity is another key factor that inuences laser scanners ac-curacy and data quality. The strength of the signal is dependent on the surface roughness and thesurface colour. As electromagnec energy from a laser hits the faades surface, it must be reect-ed, absorbed or transmied. Each proporon of the above depends on the nature of the surface,the wavelength of the energy and the angle of illuminaon. The performance of laser scanners

    and many other opcal instruments is aected and limited by the physical laws of reecon andthe opcal properes of materials. White surfaces give good reecons whereas poor reeconis produced by dark surfaces. Shiny surfaces are not easy to record and coloured surfaces dependon the spectral characteriscs of the laser beam.

    In conclusion, laser scanning is suitable for rapid dataacquision and can be used in monument and build-ing documentaon providing a quite well producedand accurate 3D model.

    In thenext Newsleer issue, a comparison is made be-tween Close Range Photogrammetry and Laser Scan-

    ning in monument and building documentaon.

    Useful Links

    3D Scanners, Digizers, and Soware for making 3D Modelsand 3D Measurements, hp://www.simple3d.com/

    A free non biased forum discussing all 3D Laser Scanningdevices and techniques, hp://www.3dlaserscanning.org/

    3D Laser Scanning for Heritage hp://www.english-

    heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/3D_Scanning_accessible.pdf?1270996586

    Moysiadis, University College London

    Cryosat-2: Reloaded

    by Vasileios Kalogirou (RSAC c/o ESA)

    My rst course in SAR interferometry, I cannot forget: wet af-ternoon in London, Prof. Duncan Wingham (Lead Invesgator ofCryosat mission) enters the room, wearing a nice dark blue coatwith the Cryosat logo on it. He speaks with a characterisc calm

    voice about SAR interferometry, explaining the basic principles.Then he speaks about ESAs rst Earth Explorer mission, calledCryosat, and its importance. I remember thinking about all thoselucky PhD students and sciensts that would have the opportu-nity to work on Cryosats data. And then, a couple of weeks aer,I was reading the shocking news: Cryosat fails to reach orbit. Itwas October 2005.

    Since then, almost 4.5 years have passed and the need for ac-curate satellite data is more crucial than ever, in order to under-

    stand the changes that are taking place in the Earths climate. Asa sensive component of the climac system, cryosphere is ofparcular importance. Recently Ive seen an amazing animaonmade with ASAR me-series, showing a 97-Km long iceberg thatcollided with a Glacier Tongue, which nally broke (hp://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMUD27K56G_index_0.html).Dynamic phenomena are taking place down- (and up-) there andwe are able to catch them on-tape with earth observing satel-lites. Nevertheless, what we clearly need is data, that will enableus to precisely measure ice extend(is extend the technical ex-tension beer) and thickness, as well as snow quality.

    Driven by this need, ESA decided to prepare a Cryosat replace-ment mission. At the me of wring Cryosat-2 is in the desertsteppes of Kazakhstan, in Baikonur Cosmodrome, waing for itsapproximately 700-Km trip into orbit. The li-o is scheduled for13.57 UTC on Thursday 8 April 2010. So at the me you are read-ing those lines, Cryosat-2 (ngers-crossed) has been launched.And my mind goes again to all those lucky students and scienststhat will have the opportunity to work with Cryosat-2 data andprovide us with some more scienc proofs and answers.

    THE USE OF LASER SCANNING CRYOSAT - 2

    http://www.simple3d.com/http://www.3dlaserscanning.org/http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/3D_Scanning_accessible.pdf?1270996586http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/3D_Scanning_accessible.pdf?1270996586http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/3D_Scanning_accessible.pdf?1270996586http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMUD27K56G_index_0.htmlhttp://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMUD27K56G_index_0.htmlhttp://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMUD27K56G_index_0.htmlhttp://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMUD27K56G_index_0.htmlhttp://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMUD27K56G_index_0.htmlhttp://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/3D_Scanning_accessible.pdf?1270996586http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/3D_Scanning_accessible.pdf?1270996586http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/3D_Scanning_accessible.pdf?1270996586http://www.3dlaserscanning.org/http://www.simple3d.com/
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    ISPRS SC Presence in South America

    The V Workshop on Lidar measurements in Lan Americaby Elena Lobo and Carlomagno Soto

    As part of our eorts to expand the ISPRS SC range of acon andnd partners and members in regions where representaon is low,

    the Regional Coordinators for Central America aended the V Work-shop on Lidar measurements in Lan America held on Dec 2009 atBuenos Aires, Argenna. The event contained a range internaonaldelegates and a great deal of South American representaves.

    This was a unique opportunity to interact with individuals and or-ganizaons that rarely parcipate with events in Central or NorthAmerica. We were glad to nd great interest and enthusiasm forISPRS SC and we hope to that the contacts we established will bestrengthened and further improved in the future. The South Ameri-can students and young professionals were very excited about the

    possibility of collaborang and organizing events in Central Americaand establishing a stronger link between the two regions.

    We were very impressed with some of the technology and sciencresearch that was presented and the certainly the creavity in adapt-ing and creang instruments that addressed their scienc needs.

    Lastly, we are extremely grateful to the organizing commiee thatprovided us with funding to make our aendance possible and dis-played impressive organizing abilies. We hope the seeds that were

    planted by our interacons at this meeng will grow to become closecollaboraons between the individuals and organizaons that wemet.

    A COORDINATORS EYE

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    IT NEWS

    OGC Releases New Candidate 3D Standards

    OGC, The Open Geospaal Consorum, has introduced three new sets of candidate 3D standards.These are a revised version of the Web 3D Service (W3DS) and Web View Service (WVS). An ex-tension prole of the Symbology Encoding Specicaon for 3D (SE 3D) has been added that canbe used with the both services. These establish a new family of 3D portrayal services focusing on

    virtual 3D maps, 3D cartographic visualizaon, and interacve virtual environments.Web 3D Service (W3DS)The purpose of the W3DS is to supportinteracve 3D web applicaons. TheW3DS can be used in two ways. Firstly togenerate a complete 3D map with all thegeospaal content. The second way is touse the W3DS as a streaming server anddownload all geospaal content le-by-le and layer-by-layer.Web View Service (WVS)

    The WVS is an interacve image-based 3Dportrayal service that provides a dierentapproach of how to visualize 3D city and landscape models based on server-side rendering.3D Symbology Encoding (3D SE) is compable with the convenonal Symbology Encoding oeringall opons for visualizing 2D geometries, text and also themcal, geometric and topologicals selec-ons based on the OGC Filter Encoding.

    Source : hp://www.opengeospaal.org/standards/dp

    Photomod 5.0

    Racurs Photomod 5.0 provides a response to the challenges oered by the rapid development

    of sensor acquision technology and the need of customers to process huge volumes of remotesensing (RS what does it mean) data. The new package is the result of the eort by qualiedteams of mathemacians and soware engineers to implement the wishes of Photomod users.Main PHOTOMOD 5.0 characteriscs are: 20,000-image project size Unlimited image size Full support of 16-bit images Mulchannel images processing Unlimited DEM size New level of automaon and reliability in aerial triangulaon measurements Uniform program environment for seamless workow Powerful distributed network processingSource: hp://www.racurs.ru/?page=553

    http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/dphttp://www.racurs.ru/?page=553http://www.racurs.ru/?page=553http://www.racurs.ru/?page=553http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/dp
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    INTERESTING LINKS

    Mappamondo GIS

    More info here

    Planet Geospaal

    More info here

    EDUCATION

    Eduspace

    More info here

    RESOURCES

    GIS Wiki

    More info here

    TUTORIALS

    Videos of the 5th gvSIG Conference

    More info here

    JOURNALS

    EOmag - Earth Observaon Magazine

    More info here

    Journal of Geology and Mining Research (JGMR)

    More info here

    FREE SOFTWARE

    Basic Radar Almetry Toolbox (BRAT)

    More info here

    RELATED ORGANIZATIONS

    Internaonal Academy, Research and Industry Associa-

    on (IARIA)

    More infohere

    OTHER INFO

    Websites that indicate the users real-me geographical locaonAnalyzing your trac. Read more...Determining the geographic locaon of a network device (Patent). Read more...Geolocaon API Specicaon. Editors Dra 10 February 2010. Read more...McIDAS (Man computer Interacve Data Access System). Version 2008. Read more...Real-Time Geo-Locaon Based Contact Service System (Patent). Read more...Firefoxs plug-in called LOKI. Read more...

    Census Parcipaon RatesUnless you never check your mail, those liv ing in the United States have probably received more than one re-minder (Ive received two postcards and one leer so far) that youre required by law to ll out and mail backin your census form. Even with that legal requirement, only 72% of households returned their census forms,with averages ranging greatly from state to state. As part of an eort to encourage census parcipaon, theU.S. Census has partnered with Google Maps to on their Take 10 Map which shows updated census parci-paon rates across counes.Read more...

    For Vegetaon Management, All LiDAR is Not Created EqualThe massive August 14, 2003, electrical power blackout was the largest outage ever experienced in NorthAmerica, yet power-related disturbances connue to cost $25 - $180 billion annually. To reduce the likeli-hood of future system blackouts, the North American Energy Reliability Commission (NERC) created FAC-003,stringent standards governing how ulity companies are to manage vegetaon throughout their transmissiongrids.The federal mandate for vegetaon management is clear, and potenally harsh. Ulity companies must elimi-nate the occurrence of all power outages caused by vegetaon interference in power lines. Failure to meetthis zero-outage mandate can result in nes of up to $1million per occurrence per day.

    Read more...

    Dynamic Line Rang and Aerial LiDAR Surveys Provide Crical Benets to NERC Standards

    and the Smart GridNaonal Energy Reliability Corporaon (NERC) Reliability Standard FAC-008 will require ulies to providemethodology to determine normal and emergency facilies rangs. New technologies such as Dynamic LineRang (DLR) and aerial LiDAR surveys allow monitoring of transmission line characteriscs and environmen-tal condions, enabling calculaon of real-me line rangs and represent key enabling technologies for theSmart Grid by increasing the reliability of Bulk-Power System and improving its economy.Read more...

    http://www.mappamondogis.com/http://planetgs.com/http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_EN/http://wiki.gis.com/http://jornadas.gvsig.org/comunicaciones/reportshttp://www.eomag.eu/http://www.academicjournals.org/JGMR/http://earth.eo.esa.int/brat/html/data/toolbox_en.htmlhttp://www.iaria.org/http://buildingfindablewebsites.com/d/chapters/13_BFW.pdfhttp://www.freepatentsonline.com/7673032.htmlhttp://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.htmlhttp://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas/doc/learn_guide.htmlhttp://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2010/0057481.htmlhttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=skyhook&cat=allhttp://2010.census.gov/2010census/take10map/http://2010.census.gov/2010census/take10map/http://gislounge.com/census-participation-rates/http://www.energydimensions.net/2009/04/22/for-vegetation-management-all-lidar-is-not-created-equal/http://www.energydimensions.net/2010/03/11/dynamic-line-rating-and-aerial-lidar-surveys-provide-critical-benefits-to-nerc-standards-and-the-smart-grid/http://www.energydimensions.net/2010/03/11/dynamic-line-rating-and-aerial-lidar-surveys-provide-critical-benefits-to-nerc-standards-and-the-smart-grid/http://www.energydimensions.net/2009/04/22/for-vegetation-management-all-lidar-is-not-created-equal/http://gislounge.com/census-participation-rates/http://2010.census.gov/2010census/take10map/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=skyhook&cat=allhttp://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2010/0057481.htmlhttp://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas/doc/learn_guide.htmlhttp://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.htmlhttp://www.freepatentsonline.com/7673032.htmlhttp://buildingfindablewebsites.com/d/chapters/13_BFW.pdfhttp://www.iaria.org/http://earth.eo.esa.int/brat/html/data/toolbox_en.htmlhttp://www.academicjournals.org/JGMR/http://www.eomag.eu/http://jornadas.gvsig.org/comunicaciones/reportshttp://wiki.gis.com/http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_EN/http://planetgs.com/http://www.mappamondogis.com/
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    STUDIES AND PRACTICAL WORK

    This column serves as a guide for the students who are thinking or are willingto go studying or doing praccal work abroad. We have searched for new op-portunies in dierent facules, schools and other learning programs all overthe world in order to encourage as many students as possible to take new stepstowards new horizons.

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    FirstSTEP: The purpose of this programme is to provide students and trainees with anopportunity to discover the geodec pracce within dierent European countries andconcurrently gain experience in their eld of study, past or present. CLGE acts as a bridgebetween the working world and the academic world enabling companies to post a no-ce of any vacancies, and for students willing to gain experience in a dierent Europeancountry as to where they are currently living or studying. FirstStep is a meeng point forstudents and trainees that are in search of work and for companies that are in search ofstudents and/or trainees. For further informaon visit our website or mail us on First-

    [email protected].

    The Centre for Geo-Informaon at Wageningen University, Nederlands, is oering aPhD posion in land remote sensing. Work will be based on combining terrestrial LI-DAR measurements and new remote sensing algorithms for monitoring of vegetaonstructure and biophysical variables, with focus on forest areas. A full-me PhD posionis open for 4 years. More informaon you can nd on this page.

    Estellus, a service company in atmospheric and environment science, is searching foran Early Stage Researcher for the period of36 months (from 1 October 2010) in Paris,France. Candidate will work on a project entled Constraints on surface temperatureand terrestrial hydrology using remote sensing. The objecves of the thesis is to pro-

    duce satellite-derived soil moisture esmates for model comparison, validaon, analy-sis, and improvement, with the nal goal of providing more reliable hydrological predic-

    ons under a changing climate. More info here.

    EuroSDR (Spaal Data Research) is launching in Summer/Autumn 2010 distant shortcourses (e-learning) oftwo week duraon each. Courses will include following topics:Laserscanning for tree extracon (May 17 28, 2010), Assessment of the quality ofDigital Terrain Models (June 7 18, 2010), The INSPIRE Direcve and its ImplemenngRules. How to understand and apply them? (August 30 September 10, 2010), Schemamatching, mapping and transformaon for INSPIRE (September 20 October 1, 2010)

    and others. For more info check this page.

    14th Internaonal Symposium on Spaal Data Handling

    Hong Kong, 26-28 May 2010For more info visit: hp://isgis.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk/

    GISCA 2010

    Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, 27-28 May 2010

    For more info visit: hp://gisca10.aca-giscience.org/30th EARSeL Symposium - Remote Sensing for Science, Educaon,

    and Natural and Cultural Heritage

    Paris, France, 31 May 3 June 2010For more info visit: hp://www.earsel.org/symposia/2010-sympo-sium-Paris/

    100 Years ISPRS - Advancing Remote Sensing Science

    Vienna, AUT, 5-7 July 2010For more info visit: hp://www.isprs100vienna.org/tc-vii-sympo-sium/

    ISPRS Commission VI Symposium Educaon & Outreach

    Enschede, The Netherlands, 2-4 June 2010For more info visit: hp://www.itc.nl/isprscom6/symposium2010/

    ISPRS Commission V Technical Symposium - Close Range Image Mea-

    surement Techniques

    Newcastle, UK, 22-24 June 2010For more info visit: hp://www.isprs-newcastle2010.org/

    IC WG II/IV 7th Internaonal Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams in Sci-

    ence & Engineering (ISVD2010)

    Quebec City, Canada, 28-30 June 2010For more info visit: hp://isvd2010.scg.ulaval.ca/

    ESA Living Planet Symposium

    Bergen, Norway, 28 June - 2 July 2010For more info visit: hp://www.esa.int/LivingPlanet2010/

    ISPRS Commission VIII Symposium Remote Sensing Applicaons &

    PoliciesKyoto, Japan, 9-12 August, 2010For more info visit: hp://www.isprscom8.org/

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