Newsletter Vol3 No3 September

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ISPRS SCNewsLetter

Editor-in-Chief:

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

Tehnical Editor:

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

U r a K A N J I RA l e L A Z A RA h m e t E N G LV a s i l e i o s K A L O G I R O U

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Table of Contents

2 NEWS FROM STUDENT CONSORTIUM Website Bullen

SPOTLIGHTSInterviw with Prof. Dr. Orhan Altan

3 FOREST FIRES IN ATTICA, 2009 How Remote Sensing Techniques Applied in

Fire Management?

4 DISASTER RESPONSE The Earth Observaon Perspecve (part I)

5 A COORDINATORS EYE

Collaboraon for Simultaneous Lidar Acquision at Two Research Staons in Panama andCosta RicaALOS Satellite Images Compliance with GCPDatabase

6 PAST EVENTS REPORTS 4th ISPRS WG VI/5 and SC Summer School in

Warsaw, Poland

FUTURE ISPRS RELATED EVENTS

Calendar of Forthcoming Events

7 IT NEWS

INTERESTING LINKS

8 STUDIES AND PRACTICAL WORK

OTHER INFO

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

SPOTLIGHTS

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Interview with Prof. Dr. Orhan Altan

by Ura Kanjir

Because the centenary of the ISPRS society is approachingvery fast, in this issue we took the opportunity to inter-view the current president of the ISPRS, prof. dr. OrhanAltan. He has been head of Division of Photogrammetryat the Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey, since 1989,and works as professor at the Department of Geodesyand Photogrammetry of Istanbul. He is acvely involved

in many naonal and internaonal organizaons, and was elected president of theISPRS organisaon in 2008, in Beijing, China.

Click here to read the enre interview.

Dear Friends,

The 4th SC Summer School with theme ofobserving the nature was successfully or-ganized in Warsaw. The interest and parcipaon to the event showed how the nextgeneraon of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society is eager to play rolesfor a sustainable World. Similar to the previous summer schools, young scholarsfound a great opportunity to meet and learn from well known lectures, experts and

leading technologies. The posive feedback and suggesons from the parcipantsmovated us to work harder and produce more. We are grateful to the local organiz-ing commiee and all volunteers for their work, event sponsors for their supports.Within the ISPRS family, the logo designed by SC for 100 th year anniversary ofISPRS was appreciated a lot and became the ocial web logo of the 2010 IS-PRS 100th year celebraons. More, the collaboraons between SC with WGVI/5and other ISPRS TCs-WGs are increasingly growing. We expect SC will have ac-ve roles in some of the TC Symposiums. We look forward to gaining more pos-sibilies for our students and organize specic events in the Symposiums.I also would like to welcome the new comers within the recent months and

thank to the ones who also started to take responsibilies in the SC acvies.

With my Best Regards,Cemal zgr KIVILCIMSC Chair

WEBSITE BULLETIN

by Mete Ercan Pakdil and Ahmet engl

Board members of ISPRS SC had fruiul discussions during the last ISPRS SummerSchool in Warsaw. Very nice ideas and comments about the website emerged. TheWeb Team decided to change the ISPRS SC Web page and started with the renewalstraight away. First, an update plan was prepared based on the decisions taken dur-ing the meeng. The Webmaster, Mete Ercan Pakdil, followed the report while hewas programming the new version. In the new version, the structure is much moreecient and user-friendly. Visitors of the page can easily reach the announcementsin their interest. This upgraded version is facilitated with usage stascs of the web-site. One of the major dierences from the previous versions is the drop menu forthe main secons. With these properes, navigaon through the web site is moreeecve. Another new opon is the sub-directory of the related topics and will ap-pear in a click drop down menu. Webmaster also designed the new outlook of thegallery and events secon. Lastly, we want to bring your aenon to the fact thatmembers can add new events under the Events page. On the Message Board, youare able to both send and read messages about scholarships, job opportunies, and

interesng announcements related to ISPRS issues. The best feature is that you arenow able to discuss ongoing topics with ISPRS SC members from all over the world.

Please visit our SC webpag

e and share your ideas and interests with other mem-bers and visitors.
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FOREST FIRES IN ATTICA, 2009

How Remote Sensing techniques applied in re management?by Thanasis Moysiadis (University of Thessaly)

Greece is mainly a mountainous country with a wide climac range from subtropi-cal to alpine. However, the country is less forested than it used to be. This is mainlydue to intensive culvaon and forest res that occur across the country. Unfortu-

nately, that was the case in the prefecture of Aca this August. Several forest resoccurred in the northern-east part of the prefecture and more than 16 000 hectaresof land have been burned.Remote sensing contributes in re management in all phases, from risk esmaon,(before the re) to detecon (during the re) and assessment (aer the re). Earthobservaon satellites applied to detect and map burned areas by means of imagescoming from dierent sensors of dierent spaal, radiometric, spectral and tem-poral resoluon. The use of visible part of electromagnec spectrum and thermalinfrared imagery giving the dierences in temperature can be used. The use of nearinfrared with high reectance of vegetaon pinpoinng the dierences betweenhealthy and diseased vegetaon and calculaon of vegetaon indices giving theamount of vegetaon can be applied also.

Source: hp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Greek_forest_res

Even if high spaal resoluonimages is more appropriatefor detail vegetaon mapping(SPOT, IKONOS, Quickbird,WorldView), the use of medi-um resoluon images (NOAA,MODIS, Landsat) with high tem-poral resoluon, acquired at nocost, are implemented at re

management. For forest remonitoring, detecon and anal-ysis AATSR and MERIS data canbe used. For burned area es-maon ASAR and MERIS data

and exisng land cover informaon such as CORINE land cover 2000 and Globcover,ESA, MERIS product, freely available, quanfy the amount of burned areas.

In the website hp://miliaresis.tripod.com/aki.htm Dr. George Miliaresis presentsthe monitoring and impact assessment of the forest res of Aca, using NOAA-AVHRR, Aqua/Terra-MODIS imagery, Global Landcover & SRTM DEMs.

The (GMES) Global Monitoring for the Environment and Security, the European Ini-ave for the establishment of a European capacity for Earth Observaon, is todeliver informaon collected from spaceborne, airborne plaorms on environment

and security which correspond to idenfy user needs and produce output infor-maon in the form of maps, datasets, reports, targeted alerts, etc. For the case ofAca, several maps have been created using IKONOS, SPOT, MODIS data to assessthe burned areas.

Source:hp://miliaresis.tripod.com/aki.htm

ITHACA (Informaon Technologyfor Humanitarian Assistance, Co-

operaon and Acon) is anotherassociaon with the main goalof conducng operaonal andresearch acvies in the eld ofgeomacs for analysis, evalua-on and migaon of natural andmanmade hazards. The projecthas been developed within an as-sociaon founded by Politecnicodi Torino and SiTI (Istuto Supe-riore sui Sistemi Territoriali per

lInnovazione) in cooperaon withWFP (World Food Programme),the largest UN operaonal Agen-cy and some private and public organisms. Dierent iniaves are started both inthe eld of the realizaon of themac and ulity maps for emergency managementand in the prototyping of a small UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) suitable for envi-ronmental applicaons.

Source: ESA

The Center for Satellite Based Crisis In-formaon (ZKI) is a service of DLRs Ger-man Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD).

Its funcons are the rapid acquision,processing and analysis of satellite dataand the provision of satellite-based in-formaon products on natural and en-vironmental disasters, for humanitarianrelief acvies. The analyses are tailoredto meet the specic requirements of na-onal and internaonal polical bodiesas well as humanitarian relief organiza-ons.In summary, remotely sensed data com-

bined with reference data show a highpotenal to provide reasonably accurateinformaon of remote forest areas for forest re management.
http://miliaresis.tripod.com/attiki.htmhttp://miliaresis.tripod.com/attiki.htmhttp://miliaresis.tripod.com/attiki.htmhttp://miliaresis.tripod.com/attiki.htmhttp://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEM0S8H7KYF_index_0.htmlhttp://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEM0S8H7KYF_index_0.htmlhttp://miliaresis.tripod.com/attiki.htmhttp://miliaresis.tripod.com/attiki.htm


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The EO perspecve (part I)By Vasileios Kalogirou (RSAC c/o ESA)

My previous arcle slightly touched some impor-tant issues relevant to the need of real operaonal

products and services from Earth Observaon (EO)data (see previous ISPRS SC Newsleer). Productsand services, however, means that EO data acqui-sion and provision is ensured and also that stan-dardised processes exist to enable a connuousdata ow, which (aer the essenal processing) willlead to a nal product/service to an end user. Thenwe could think of an imaginary operaonal chain asfollows:i) an end user exists and has a need that EO can

full,ii) appropriate EO data can be acquired and provid-ed on demand,iii) processing methodologies can turn the EO datainto informaon (e.g. maps) which the end userneeds; therefore everyone is happy. Nevertheless,in the case ofdisaster response the aforemenonedchain has to be adapted in the very specic needsof disaster management, which is quite parcular:The end user exists (e.g. a Civil Protecon Agency)but needs informaon right here - right now andEO data can be acquired under specic me, at-

mospheric and operaonal limitaons. Needlessto say that aer the programming and acquisi-on, the data has to be downlinked to one of theground staons, where some pre-processing will

take place. Then, as soon as the data will be avail-able for download, someone (who?) has to quicklyextract the informaon needed, possibly create amap and provide it directly to the end user. Lastbut not least, any programmed satellite acquisionuses some of the resources of a space agency (orcompany) and every image has a cost.The consideraons above indicate that disaster re-sponse is a domain where EO reaches its responseme limits; but what is really obvious is that there

should be a link between all the dierent pares,a link which will convey all those acons and willact according to a specic standardised process. Sonally everything ends up to: link the dierent par-es, and provide a framework of acons from thepoint when an end user will need immediate help(e.g. in a ood event or in a forest re etc.) to thepoint that informaon will be provided on me forcrisis management. With a couple of paragraphswe have now summarised the main funcons ofEO disaster response iniaves. Keep it simple: Itsall about geng some space agencies together to

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Related Links:

GMES (Global Monitoring for the Environment and Security), European Commis-sion, hp://ec.europa.eu/gmes/index_en.htmCenter for Satellite Based Crisis Informaon (ZKI) by DLRs German Remote SensingData Center, hp://www.zki.dlr.de/zki_intro_en.htmlITHACA Informaon Technology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperaon and Ac-

on, hp://www.ithaca.polito.it/index.php

Related Conferences:

Internaonal Conference on Geo-Spaal Soluons for Emergency Management,September 14 16, 2009, Beijing, CHINA.hp://www.gsem2009.org6th Gi4DM Conference on Geomacs for Crisis Management, February 2-4, 2010,Torino, ITALY.

hp://www.gi4dm-2010.org

DISASTER RESPONSE

sign an agreement to commit some of their re-sources for data provision in the case of a disas-ter, and then establish a framework of aconsand roles in order to be as quick and eecve as

possible. It sounds process-driven and actuallythis is exactly what it is. In a crisis event thereis no me for research on which kind of datashould be used, or which algorithm works bet-ter; those quesons should be already answeredby predened scenarios. When someone startsto think about those issues, then the concept ofEO-based disaster services becomes more com-plicated: Who will manage the chain of acons?Who can request this service? What is actually a

disaster?In the next Newsleer we will clarify those is-sues, with the descripon of the InternaonalCharter for Space & Major Disasters, which willsoon complete 10 years of end-to-end EO-baseddisaster services to the users.
http://www.isprs-sc.org/materials/newsletter/vol3/2http://www.isprs-sc.org/materials/newsletter/vol3/2http://ec.europa.eu/gmes/index_en.htmhttp://ec.europa.eu/gmes/index_en.htmhttp://www.zki.dlr.de/zki_intro_en.htmlhttp://www.zki.dlr.de/zki_intro_en.htmlhttp://www.ithaca.polito.it/index.phphttp://www.gsem2009.org/http://www.gsem2009.org/http://www.gi4dm-2010.org/http://www.gi4dm-2010.org/http://www.gi4dm-2010.org/http://www.gsem2009.org/http://www.ithaca.polito.it/index.phphttp://www.zki.dlr.de/zki_intro_en.htmlhttp://ec.europa.eu/gmes/index_en.htmhttp://www.isprs-sc.org/materials/newsletter/vol3/2


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A COORDINATORS EYE

Collaboraon for Simultaneous Lidar Acquision at Two Research

Staons in Panama and Costa Ricaby Elena Lobo and Carlomagno Soto

Lidar is quickly growing a user base but sll is a rather expensive technology thathas amazing capabilies for studying forest ecosystems. Specically, small footprint

Lidar with its extremely high spaal resoluon and coverage of large areas (fromlandscape to regional scales) oers a unique opportunity to improve the under-standing of tropical forest ecosystems, where extensive eldwork is limited.

Plane ready to start a ight

Over the last few months, an eort has been devel-oped for simultaneous Lidar data acquision at twoimportant Research Staons in Central America,namely, Barro Colorado Naonal Monument in Pan-ama and La Selva Biological Staon in Costa Rica. This

coordinated eort succeeded and small footprint Lidar data are currently being ac-quired at these sites. Success was made possible through collaboraon betweennumerous partners and Instuons, such as the Smithsonian Tropical ResearchInstute, the Organizaon for Tropical Studies, Conservaon Internaonal, NASA,University of Illinois, UCLA, Princeton University and Stanford University of Califor-nia amongst others.Coordinaon between collaboratorsproved a challenging but feasible pro-cess and this iniave can serve asan example of how combined eortsand mulple funding sources can suc-ceed where single partner iniavesfail. An important contribuon to this

coordinaon was made by a graduatestudent by establishing contacts withthe dierent partners when aend-ing symposiums and Lidar workshops

Lidar sensor back(Optech ALTM 3100EA)

Lidar sensor front(Optech ALTM 3100EA)

in the region with support from ISPRS. This successful iniave should encourageyoung professionals to establish contacts and parcipate in iniaves with partnersat mulple instuons and countries.

On this note, we would like to encourage you to aend a Lidar workshop that willtake place on October 19th and 20th in Venezuela.More info at: hp://www.i.org/i/html/jornadas.html#

ALOS Satellite Images Compliance with GCPs Databaseby Kyaw Sann Oo, Mitsuhiro Kojima and Masataka TakagiTakagi Laboratory, Department of Infrastructure Systems Engineering, Kochi University ofTechnology, JAPAN

Precise Ground Control Points (GCPs) are an important requirement in satellite im-age registraon. However, there are many precise geodec survey points in Japan;the points are dicult to idenfy in satellite images. Therefore, we developed aweb-based GCP database (gure 1) available to users free of charge.

Figure 1: GCPs on island Shikoku (orange area)

Nowadays, many improvements have beenmade in advanced survey technology; one ofthe improvements in geoinformacs is the de-velopment of VRS-GPS technology. This kine-mac technology uses the telecommunicaonnetwork as a Virtual Reference Staon for theGlobal Posioning System. VRS-GPS can usethe collecon of GCP in a short me (about 2

minutes for one GCP) compared to the Stac Dierenal GPS (about 60 minutes).We used a VRS-GPS system to collect GCP in this project.We chose points which are visible in PRISM and AVNIR-2 images before we surveyedon that locaon. Thus, the tle of this arcle becomes ALOS Satellite images com-pliance with GCP Database. Regardless of the ALOS compliance; this GCP can beused for many other satellite images. Recently, 444 GCPs have been observed for theforth island (SHIKOKU) of JAPAN. However, we collected GCPs mainly with VRS-GPS;somemes we had to use stac Dierenal GPS survey (when VRS network failed toreceive the telecommunicaon signal). Our GCP database covered the whole areaof Shikoku (18,803 km2) island, and the island is a hilly remote area of Japan. Col-lected GCPs are distributed widely. GCP page (gure 2) is composed of three mainparts: GCP meta data (X, Y, Z, Lat, Long, obser-vaon date, feature name, etc), photographs(taken from dierent direcons), and locaon ofsatellite images (PRISM or/and AVNIR-2). Usingthese three pieces of informaon, users can un-derstand the locaon and can easily idenfy thelocaon on satellite images.

Reference:

Kojima et al., 2009. Establishment of Ground ControlPoints Database for Satellite Remote Sensing and theEvaluaon, 30th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing

2009, 18-23 October 2009, Beijing, CHINA.Figure 2

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PAST EVENTS REPORTS

4th ISPRS WG VI/5 and Student Consorum Summer Schoolby Krzysztof Stereczak and Krzysztof Bdkowski

photo by Piotr Tompalski

The Student Consorum (SC) and the WG VI/5 (Promoon of the Profession to Students)organized together the 4th ISPRS Summer School which took place in Warsaw, Poland, be-

tween 13th

and 18th

of July, 2009. Three previous Summer Schools have already taken placein Istanbul (2005), Ljubljana (2007) and Nanjing (2008). This years main topic was NaturalEnvironment Management, Monitoring and Conservaon, as it was decided during ISPRSCongress in Beijing, 2008.The Summer School was hosted by Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), the oldest ag-ricultural academic school in Poland; its history dates back to 1816. At present, the universityconsists of 12 facules and 6 interfaculty units; there are 25,000 students enrolled. The or-ganizaon of the Summer School was entrusted to the Faculty of Forestry and Joint Divisionof Spaal Economics. More than 20 student voluntaries from Forestry Students ResearchAssociaon, Student Associaon of Spaal Management and Student Associaon of Environ-ment Protecon join organizaon comity. The main coordinators of local organizaon were

Krzysztof Stereczak (ISPRS SC Co-Chair) and Prof. Krzysztof Bdkowski.A large number of parcipants aended the event there were 57 internaonal parcipantsfrom 15 dierent countries, and around 30 domesc parcipants (students, faculty teachingsta, representaves from sponsors). Counng all parcipants this Summer School was abig success!

Read more...

Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS) 2009

Beijing, China, 18 - 23 October 2009For more info visit: hp://www.aars-acrs.org/acrs/

AfricaGIS 2009

Kampala, Uganda, 26 - 30 October 2009For more info visit: hp://www.africagis2009.org/

ISPRS Workshop on Data Management

Cologne, Germany, 29 - 30 October 2009For more info visit:hp://www.tr32db.uni-koeln.de/workshop/workshop09.php

EGU Topical Conference on Earth Observaon & Water Cycle Science

Frasca, Italy, 18 - 20 November 2009For more info visit: hp://www.congrex.nl/09C16/

WG II/2+3+4 Workshop on Quality, Scale & Analysis Aspects of Urban

City Models

Lund, Sweden, 3 - 4 December 2009

For more info visit: hp://www.commission2.isprs.org/wg2/

4th Internaonal Conference

Earth from Space The Most Eecve Soluons

Moscow, Russia, 1 - 3 December 2009For more info visit:hp://www.transparentworld.ru/conference/2009/en/

Internaonal Conference on Science and Engineering (ICSE) 2009Yangon, Myanmar, 4 - 6 December 2009For more info visit: hp://icse2009.most.gov.mm/

MatGeoS09 | Geosciences from Earth to Space

Freiberg, Germany, 7 - 8 December 2009For more info visit: hp://www.iamg.tu-freiberg.de/matgeos09

Internaonal Workshop Impact of Climate Change on AgricultureAhmedabad, India, 17 - 18 December 2009For more info visit:hp://www.commission8.isprs.org/wg6/

FUTURE ISPRS RELATED EVENTS
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IT NEWS INTERESTING LINKS

eoPortal

The eoPortal aims to open the door to theworld of Earth Observaon resources.More info here

EDUCATIONPhD Studentships - Hyperinet Network

More info here

Geo Educaon

More info here

RESOURCES

Diconary Of Abbreviaons And Acronyms

In Geographic Informaon Systems, Carto,

And Remote Sensing

More info here

GeoDesign: A Bibliography

More info here

JOURNALS

Scienc Journal on GI

More info here

FREE SOFTWARE

Modelling Soware, from Visual Comput-ing Lab - CNR Pisa

More info here

RELATED ORGANIZATIONS

Internaonal Spaal Accuracy Research As-

sociaon (ISARA)

More info here

TUTORIALS

Theory and Applicaon of Laser Scanning

More info here

WebMathemaca 3

Wolfram Research has launched webMathemaca 3, a new version of its technology for adding dynamic content to theweb. webMathemaca 3 features innovave new performance and development capabilies, which allow users to buildand deploy websites with interacve calculaons and visualisaons at a faster pace and lower cost than before.

WebMathemaca 3 is the chosen deployment technology for Wolfram|Alpha, the webs only computaonal knowledgeengine. The applicaon makes the calculaons performed by Wolfram|Alpha possible by allowing users to tap into Math-emacas computaonal and graphic abilies without having Mathemaca experience or installing it locally. Performanceand development features of webMathemaca 3 include:

Expression language and custom tags.Queuing system.Support for Wolfram Workbench, providing a signicant number of features that help to accelerate the developmentof webMathemaca content.WebMathemaca 3 enables users to write REST and SOAP web services that use Mathemaca.A new, congurable logging system helps to track dierent types of errors and to idenfy problems so that they canbe resolved easily.

Improved kernel monitor. The kernel monitor has new code for monitoring memory usage, running me, concurrentrequests, and Java objects, which helps to improve the reliability of the server. It allows starng and stopping of indi-vidual kernel pools, canceling individual computaons, and monitoring of queued jobs for progress and errors.Improved kernel interacon. webMathemaca 3 launches kernels as soon as the server starts and launches all ker-nels in parallel, which helps to improve the startup me for the server. It also has a number of new conguraontools, which limit the use of me and memory by the kernel; this helps to improve the reliability of the server. Kernelsare automacally restarted in the background, so service remains uninterrupted.

For more info visit: hp://www.wolfram.com/webmathemaca

Accuracy Analyst Soware

Accuracy Analyst, a soware soluon to determine locaonal accuracy of the image data used to produce maps, is avail-able. Sta can be producve using the soware aer 30 minutes of training, saving 80% of the me needed for tradionalaccuracy assessment.

With Accuracy Analyst, data providers will dierenate their products, beneng of rapid data assurance, customer ac-ceptance of data, and payment for delivered image data products exceeding customer requirements and product speci-caons. Data providers and customers alike will appreciate the use of Accuracy Analyst to assure and communicate thequality of new photo map data and the ability to disnguish the quality of new data from old products so that maps maybe updated using new images without uncertainty or delays.

For more info visit: hp://www.maris.state.ms.us/

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The Department of Geosciences and Geography of the University of Hel-sinki, Finland, host two 4-year PhD student posions in Airborne ImagingSpectroscopy Applicaon and Research on Earth Sciences (AISARES) in 2010- 2014. The students will work with AISA airborne imaging spectroscopydata, which will be made available by the collaboraon partners. Deadline isunl October 16th, so hurry up with the applicaons!More info here

There are two open posion at Kayser-Threde, Munich, Germany, workingon high-technology soluons for the industrial, aerospace and scienc sec-

tors. Applicaons are invited for the following early stage researcher (ESR)posion within the framework of the European Marie Curie Research andTraining Network Hyper-I-NET at Kayser-Threde GmbH (KT) in cooperaonwith University of Zrich (UZH) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR),Oberpfaenhofen Germany. One agreement is on theme Hyperspectral sen-sor calibraon algorithms and another on Hyperspectral sensor modellingand smulaon.More info here

European Commision Joint Research Centre, Instute for Environment andSustainability, Ispra, Italy, oers posions for three types of trainings: train-

ing related to the preparaon of a thesis for a university degree, trainingaer university educaon and industrial placement. The minimum dura-on is three months and the maximum is twelve months.

Oers are constantly changing at this web page.

Applicaons are invited for a PhD posion to work within an excing newEPSRC-funded collaboraon between Heriot-Wa, Durham and GlasgowUniversies from United Kingdom to develop new techniques for mul-object spectrometry and its applicaons in microscopy, bio-imaging and re-mote sensing. The scholarship is 13,29.

More info here

Terrasolid releases new versions of the worldleading soware suite for handling of

airborne and mobile scanned laser point clouds

Helsinki, FinlandSeptember 21, 2009 Terrasolid Ltd.( www.terrasolid.), the world-leading developer of soware soluons for handling of airborne and mobile scannedlaser point clouds has relased new versions of TerraScan, TerraMatch and TerraPhoto.Read more...

Geological map of Arcc in nal stages16 September 2009 - Canadian sciensts are pung the nishing touches on the worldsrst detailed geological map of the Arcc. The Geological Survey of Canada already pub-lished a preliminary map late in 2008, but a nal copy will be released next year.Read more...

New GNSS/GIS Range from Leica Geosystems

Leica Geosystems has released a complete new series of GNSS/GIS products within theLeica Viva family targeng the data collecon market. The Leica Zeno GIS oers pro-fessionals and newcomers a mul-funconal and easy GNSS/GIS soluon with superiorperformance. The device provides a one-click automated workow between the eld

and oce.Read more...

GIS Market to Grow by 50% Over the Next Five Years

A market study by the ARC Advisory Group predicts that the geospaal industry will growby 50% over the next ve years.Read more...

iPhone Geographic Informaon System (GIS) applicaon released for Washington and

Oregon

Oakland, CA September 18, 2009 -- Integrity Logic today announced the release of Geol-

ogy WA, the latest version of the GIS (Geographic Informaon System) for the iPhone/iPod plaorm, covering Washington state and Oregon.Read more...

STUDIES AND PRACTICAL WORK OTHER INFO

This column serves as a guide for the students who are thinking orare willing to go studying or doing praccal work abroad. We havesearched for new opportunies in dierent facules, schools and oth-er learning programs all over the world in order to encourage as manystudents as possible to take new steps towards new horizons.

Intergraph(R) Approved to Deliver Data Fusion for the EU Emergency Support System

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Intergraph((R)), a world leader in publicsafety and security, has been named a member of the Emergency Support System (ESS)Consorum approved by the European Commission to begin research and developmentof a portable emergency command and control system that incorporates real-me datacollecon technologies. The system will provide aconable intelligence to managers dur-ing crisis events and will be used as a framework for future crisis management systems.

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