ISPRS Council will award cash prizes to encourage young authors who are under 35 years old and are the sole author of a high quality paper presented to the XXI ISPRS Congress in Beijing , China , July 3-11, 2008. The Prizes are sponsored by donor organizations and by ISPRS. Each prize consists of a certificate and a SFr. 2,500 grant to make it possible for the winner to participate in the Congress. In order that papers can be judged in time for the Council to offer the travel subsidies to authors prior to the Congress, young authors must do online paper submission at the website ( The online submission website is http://www.isprs2008-beijing.org/ABS_PaperSubmitForYoungAuthorsLogin.aspx ) before 31 January 2008. An additional copy of the final paper together with evidence of birth date must be submitted to the President of ISPRS, Prof. Ian Dowman, who will coordinate the judging of the papers.
Results of the judging will be announced by 15 April 2008 and the ISPRS Treasurer will send the funds to the winners. The winning authors have to reply in writing that they will be present at the Congress and present their papers in a technical session at the Congress.
Conditions:
| | Born on or after the 1 July 1973 |
| | Single author |
| | Age proof in English and additional copy of final manuscript to the President of ISPRS |
| | Deadline for submitting the abstract of paper*: 20 October 2007 |
| | Deadline for submitting the full manuscript*: 31 January 2008 |
* The electronic submission is encouraged!
Sherman Wu donates to Young Authors Awards on Space Science or Real-time Photogrammetry
On the occasion of his 80th birthday, Sherman Wu, well known for his work on mapping Mars and winner of the ISPRS Cassini Award in 2004, and his wife, have donated $2500 to The ISPRS Foundation to fund an award for Young Authors at the ISPRS Congress to be held in Beijing in July 2008. The award will be made for the best paper by an author under 35 years of age, on the topic of either 'Space Science or Real-time Photogrammetry'. Authors wishing to nominate for this award must satisfy the conditions for Young Authors Awards which are:
| | Born on or after the 1 July 1973 |
| | Single author |
| | Age proof in English and additional copy of final manuscript to the President of ISPRS |
| | Deadline for submitting the abstract of paper: 5 November 2007 |
| | Deadline for submitting the full manuscript: 31 January 2008 |
Young Authors who have already submitted an abstract on the relevant topics are eligible for this award provided they inform the Congress Director.
Congress Director:
Prof. CHEN JUN
National Geomatics Center of China
1 Baishengcun, Zizhuyuan
Beijing 100044
CHINA
Tel: +86-10-68424086
Fax: +86-10-68412289
E-mail: congressdirector@isprs2008-beijing.org
chenjun_isprs@263.net
ISPRS President:
Prof. IAN DOWMAN
Dept. of Geomatic Engineering
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44-20-76797226
Fax: +44-20-73800453
E-mail: idowman@ge.ucl.ac.uk
