scholarly journals CREATIVE STRATEGIES IN NAVIGATING THE NEW NORMAL: ADVANCING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE ISPRS STUDENT CONSORTIUM AS AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION

2021 ◽  
Vol V-5-2021 ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
S. R. Reyes ◽  
C. Cruz ◽  
M. Üstüner ◽  
C. Jjuuko ◽  
S. Guliyeva
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
International Student ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Summer Schools

Abstract. The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Student Consortium (ISPRS SC) is an international student organization representing the youth in the ISPRS. The COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected students and young professionals around the world because of country-wide lockdowns and comprehensive quarantine and social distancing measures. This situation led to the implementation of distance learning and remote work. The Consortium organized different activities in support of students and young professionals during the global health crisis. Despite the challenges and necessary adjustments, the unprecedented situation helped the organization adapt to change and encouraged us to revisit our roles as an international organization. The ISPRS SC hosts and coordinates activities and events both in person and online, including the Webinar Series, the publication of the SpeCtrum and the summer schools. During the pandemic, we improved our existing activities to provide support to our members and to the scientific community in general as we navigate major lifestyle changes and become more adept in using technology in our day-to-day lives. We also introduced new initiatives such as the Virtual Rooms and the GeoMixer, and continued to work in partnership with different organizations in remote sensing, photogrammetry and spatial information science. Moreover, we continued to strengthen our connection to the ISPRS through a collaboration with the ISPRS White Elephant Club and for a special event honouring one of the most important figures in the Society and in the profession. With all these activities organized during this challenging time, the Consortium experienced growth in terms of organizing and improving its activities, our roles as an international organization, and our online presence. The Consortium has also taken steps for continuity and sustained relevance to both the youth and ISPRS.

scholarly journals THE ISPRS STUDENT CONSORTIUM: SUSTAINING RELEVANCE AND CREATING SHARED VISIONS FOR THE YOUTH

2020 ◽  
Vol V-5-2020 ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
S. R. Reyes ◽  
A. K. M. Jaojoco ◽  
C. Cruz ◽  
C. Jjuuko ◽  
M. Üstüner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Space Technology ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Summer Schools

Abstract. The ISPRS Student Consortium (ISPRS SC) continues to engage the youth in many activities aligned with the mission and vision of ISPRS. For the term 2016 – 2020, the ISPRS SC strengthened its foundations through collaboration within the ISPRS Council and Technical Commission V, and increasing its presence in various ISPRS events. The Consortium Board introduced several changes in the organization: (1) re-designed the official logo, which was used in different communication and media, (2) revision of the Consortium’s Statutes, (3) continued the legacy of the summer schools through a new set of guidelines that coordinated all summer schools organized within ISPRS, (4) launched the Webinar Series, (5) repackaged the Newsletter into SpeCtrum, (6) introduction of two new awards, (7) hosting of a three-day Youth Forum in the ISPRS Congress and (8) the introduction of the ISPRS SC Student Chapters. A total of 13 issues had been published under SpeCtrum, two of which featured the ISPRS and an outstanding special issue on Women in Remote Sensing and Geospatial Information that received over 500 reads overnight. The SpeCtrum continued to seek experts, professors and contributors who willingly shared their work and inspire the youth. SpeCtrum had been publishing high quality articles and had been featuring outstanding scientists and researchers in the fields of remote sensing, photogrammetry and spatial information science. The Consortium also launched the Webinar Series and kicked off with an introduction on Google Earth Engine and followed by the applications of deep learning in remote sensing in 2020. For this term, a total of 16 summer schools were hosted across the globe, including one hosted under the ISPRS Education and Capacity Building Initiatives in 2018. The Consortium also partnered with international organizations such as Geo-informatics and Space Technology Development Agency, ASEAN Research and Training Center for Space Technology and Applications and the local chapters of the IEEE – Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society Young Professionals (IEEE – GRSS YP) in Brazil. The members of the Consortium had been increasing in the past year, especially with its increased presence in various social media platforms. The Consortium envisions a future, where the younger generation takes the lead and engages in relevant social and global issues and contributing significantly to the scientific community. As a student and youth organization, it aims to continue to develop more ways of knowledge transfer, capacity building and establishing professional networks to prepare students and young professionals for a future of collaboration and cooperation.

scholarly journals The ISPRS Student Consortium: From launch to tenth anniversary

2014 ◽  
Vol XL-6 ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
U. Kanjir ◽  
I. Detchev ◽  
S. R. Reyes ◽  
A. Akkartal Aktas ◽  
C. Y. Lo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Social Media ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Summer Schools ◽  
Information Sciences

The ISPRS Student Consortium is an international organization for students and young professionals in the fields of photogrammetry, remote sensing, and the geospatial information sciences. Since its start ten years ago, the number of members of the Student Consortium has been steadily growing, now reaching close to 1000. Its increased popularity, especially in recent years, is mainly due to the organization's worldwide involvement in student matters. The Student Consortium has helped organize numerous summer schools, youth forums, and student technical sessions at ISPRS sponsored conferences. In addition, the organization publishes a newsletter, and hosts several social media outlets in order to keep its global membership up-to-date on a regular basis. This paper will describe the structure of the organization, and it will give some example of its past student related activities.

scholarly journals LATEST DEVELOPMENTS OF THE ISPRS STUDENT CONSORTIUM

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B6 ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
I. Detchev ◽  
U. Kanjir ◽  
S. R. Reyes ◽  
H. Miyazaki ◽  
A. F. Aktas
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Experiential Content ◽  
Summer Schools ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Share Information

The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Student Consortium (SC) is a network for young professionals studying or working within the fields of photogrammetry, remote sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and other related geo-spatial sciences. The main goal of the network is to provide means for information exchange for its young members and thus help promote and integrate youth into the ISPRS. Over the past four years the Student Consortium has successfully continued to fulfil its mission in both formal and informal ways. The formal means of communication of the SC are its website, newsletter, e-mail announcements and summer schools, while its informal ones are multiple social media outlets and various social activities during student related events. The newsletter is published every three to four months and provides both technical and experiential content relevant for the young people in the ISPRS. The SC has been in charge or at least has helped with organizing one or more summer schools every year. The organization's e-mail list has over 1,100 subscribers, its website hosts over 1,300 members from 100 countries across the entire globe, and its public Facebook group currently has over 4,500 joined visitors, who connect among one another and share information relevant for their professional careers. These numbers show that the Student Consortium has grown into a significant online-united community. The paper will present the organization’s on-going and past activities for the last four years, its current priorities and a strategic plan and aspirations for the future four-year period.

scholarly journals Geo Information Systems &Remote Sensing: Applications in Environmental Systems & Management

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
P.K. Paul ◽  
P. S. Aithal ◽  
A. Bhuimali ◽  
K.S. Tiwary ◽  
R. Saavedra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Physical Content ◽  
Gis And Remote Sensing ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
Database Technology ◽  
Remote Sensing Applications

Geo Informatics is an interdisciplinary field responsible for spatial information related activities. Geo Informatics is close to the Geo Information Science, Geo Information System, Remote Sensing, etc. Geo Informatics is a combination of Geo Science and Information Science and here different kinds of IT and Computing tools are being used such as Database Technology, Network Technology, Web Technology, Multimedia Technology, etc in the spatial data management. Remote Sensing is considered as a component of Geo Information Science dedicated in gathering of information on the different types of objects without physical content and applicable in different areas of the geography, survey of land and different type of geo related areas viz. Hydrology, Ecology, Meteorology, Oceanography and Geology, etc. The term remote sensing is also called as GIS & RS due to their relationship and their importance. The applications of the IT in Geography and allied areas are called as Geo Informatics or Geo Information Science. Similarly, the applications and utilization of IT, Information Science and Computing in Environment and allied areas are known as Environmental Informatics or Environmental Information Science. The GIS and Remote Sensing applications in the environment and ecological areas are increasing rapidly and it includes various existing and emerging applications. This paper talks about the applications of the GIS and RS in Environmental Applications and Management.

scholarly journals CYBERNETIC BASIS AND SYSTEM PRACTICE OF REMOTE SENSING AND SPATIAL INFORMATION SCIENCE

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W7 ◽  
pp. 143-148
Author(s):  
X. Tan ◽  
X. Jing ◽  
R. Chen ◽  
Z. Ming ◽  
L. He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Efficient Operation ◽  
Loop Control ◽  
Sensing Platform ◽  
Spatial Information Science ◽  
Sensor Control ◽  
Processing Control

Cybernetics provides a new set of ideas and methods for the study of modern science, and it has been fully applied in many areas. However, few people have introduced cybernetics into the field of remote sensing. The paper is based on the imaging process of remote sensing system, introducing cybernetics into the field of remote sensing, establishing a space-time closed-loop control theory for the actual operation of remote sensing. The paper made the process of spatial information coherently, and improved the comprehensive efficiency of the space information from acquisition, procession, transformation to application. We not only describes the application of cybernetics in remote sensing platform control, sensor control, data processing control, but also in whole system of remote sensing imaging process control. We achieve the information of output back to the input to control the efficient operation of the entire system. This breakthrough combination of cybernetics science and remote sensing science will improve remote sensing science to a higher level.

scholarly journals LATEST DEVELOPMENTS OF THE ISPRS STUDENT CONSORTIUM

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B6 ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
I. Detchev ◽  
U. Kanjir ◽  
S. R. Reyes ◽  
H. Miyazaki ◽  
A. F. Aktas
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Experiential Content ◽  
Summer Schools ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Share Information

The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Student Consortium (SC) is a network for young professionals studying or working within the fields of photogrammetry, remote sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and other related geo-spatial sciences. The main goal of the network is to provide means for information exchange for its young members and thus help promote and integrate youth into the ISPRS. Over the past four years the Student Consortium has successfully continued to fulfil its mission in both formal and informal ways. The formal means of communication of the SC are its website, newsletter, e-mail announcements and summer schools, while its informal ones are multiple social media outlets and various social activities during student related events. The newsletter is published every three to four months and provides both technical and experiential content relevant for the young people in the ISPRS. The SC has been in charge or at least has helped with organizing one or more summer schools every year. The organization's e-mail list has over 1,100 subscribers, its website hosts over 1,300 members from 100 countries across the entire globe, and its public Facebook group currently has over 4,500 joined visitors, who connect among one another and share information relevant for their professional careers. These numbers show that the Student Consortium has grown into a significant online-united community. The paper will present the organization’s on-going and past activities for the last four years, its current priorities and a strategic plan and aspirations for the future four-year period.

scholarly journals Editorial for the Special Issue on Selected Papers from the “2019 International Symposium on Remote Sensing”

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1947
Author(s):  
Fuan Tsai ◽  
Chao-Hung Lin ◽  
Walter W. Chen ◽  
Jen-Jer Jaw ◽  
Kuo-Hsin Tseng
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
International Symposium ◽  
Optical Sensors ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Radiometric Calibration ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Machine Leaning

The 2019 International Symposium on Remote Sensing (ISRS-2019) took place in Taipei, Taiwan from 17 to 19 April 2019. ISRS is one of the distinguished conferences on the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences, especially in East Asia. More than 220 papers were presented in 37 technical sessions organized at the conference. This Special Issue publishes a limited number of featured peer-reviewed papers extended from their original contributions at ISRS-2019. The selected papers highlight a variety of topics pertaining to innovative concepts, algorithms and applications with geospatial sensors, systems, and data, in conjunction with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine leaning and advanced spatial analysis algorithms. The topics of the selected papers include the following: the on-orbit radiometric calibration of satellite optical sensors, environmental characteristics assessment with remote sensing, machine learning-based photogrammetry and image analysis, and the integration of remote sensing and spatial analysis. The selected contributions also demonstrate and discuss various sophisticated applications in utilizing remote sensing, geospatial data, and technologies to address different environmental and societal issues. Readers should find the Special Issue enlightening and insightful for understanding state-of-the-art remote sensing and spatial information science research, development and applications.

scholarly journals HRCNet: High-Resolution Context Extraction Network for Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Zhiyong Xu ◽  
Weicun Zhang ◽  
Tianxiang Zhang ◽  
Jiangyun Li
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Feature Extraction ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Context Information ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Boundary Information ◽  
Extraction Stage

Semantic segmentation is a significant method in remote sensing image (RSIs) processing and has been widely used in various applications. Conventional convolutional neural network (CNN)-based semantic segmentation methods are likely to lose the spatial information in the feature extraction stage and usually pay little attention to global context information. Moreover, the imbalance of category scale and uncertain boundary information meanwhile exists in RSIs, which also brings a challenging problem to the semantic segmentation task. To overcome these problems, a high-resolution context extraction network (HRCNet) based on a high-resolution network (HRNet) is proposed in this paper. In this approach, the HRNet structure is adopted to keep the spatial information. Moreover, the light-weight dual attention (LDA) module is designed to obtain global context information in the feature extraction stage and the feature enhancement feature pyramid (FEFP) structure is promoted and employed to fuse the contextual information of different scales. In addition, to achieve the boundary information, we design the boundary aware (BA) module combined with the boundary aware loss (BAloss) function. The experimental results evaluated on Potsdam and Vaihingen datasets show that the proposed approach can significantly improve the boundary and segmentation performance up to 92.0% and 92.3% on overall accuracy scores, respectively. As a consequence, it is envisaged that the proposed HRCNet model will be an advantage in remote sensing images segmentation.

scholarly journals Remote Sensing for Land Administration

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 2497
Author(s):  
Rohan Bennett ◽  
Peter van Oosterom ◽  
Christiaan Lemmen ◽  
Mila Koeva
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Terrestrial Lidar ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Vertical Development

Land administration constitutes the socio-technical systems that govern land tenure, use, value and development within a jurisdiction. The land parcel is the fundamental unit of analysis. Each parcel has identifiable boundaries, associated rights, and linked parties. Spatial information is fundamental. It represents the boundaries between land parcels and is embedded in cadastral sketches, plans, maps and databases. The boundaries are expressed in these records using mathematical or graphical descriptions. They are also expressed physically with monuments or natural features. Ideally, the recorded and physical expressions should align, however, in practice, this may not occur. This means some boundaries may be physically invisible, lacking accurate documentation, or potentially both. Emerging remote sensing tools and techniques offers great potential. Historically, the measurements used to produce recorded boundary representations were generated from ground-based surveying techniques. The approach was, and remains, entirely appropriate in many circumstances, although it can be timely, costly, and may only capture very limited contextual boundary information. Meanwhile, advances in remote sensing and photogrammetry offer improved measurement speeds, reduced costs, higher image resolutions, and enhanced sampling granularity. Applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), laser scanning, both airborne and terrestrial (LiDAR), radar interferometry, machine learning, and artificial intelligence techniques, all provide examples. Coupled with emergent societal challenges relating to poverty reduction, rapid urbanisation, vertical development, and complex infrastructure management, the contemporary motivation to use these new techniques is high. Fundamentally, they enable more rapid, cost-effective, and tailored approaches to 2D and 3D land data creation, analysis, and maintenance. This Special Issue hosts papers focusing on this intersection of emergent remote sensing tools and techniques, applied to domain of land administration.

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