ORGANIZATIONS
Diversity and Inclusion on the Agenda The short description of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) says that “the Society is a non-governmental organization devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry and remote sensing and their applications”. One of the many ways to fulfil this definition is to encourage the organization of scientific meetings. To support this activity and strengthen cooperation with its members, the ISPRS Council decided to help organizers of scientific meetings to achieve better visibility of their events by introducing the Keynote Speaker Series. The series offers financial support for keynote speakers at such events. The ISPRS Keynote Speaker Programme provides an opportunity for ISPRS Ordinary Members (OdM), Associate Members (AsM) and Regional Members (RgM) to support events organized under their umbrella by inviting top-quality international experts, in order to attract more participants and enhance the scientific quality of the event. The programme was launched in 2019 and three organizations were able to make use of this possibility before the COVID-19 restrictions were imposed. However, when many ISPRS events were forced to be cancelled in 2020, and a few of them held virtually, the programme was interrupted. The ISPRS Council decided to enlarge this service in a new direction, as did many other organizations, and began to present latest advances related to various important topics in webinar format. Since April 2021, under the newly launched Virtual Keynote Speaker Series, webinars have been held regularly free of charge. The following list shows that the webinars cover very interesting themes related to topical issues in photogrammetry, remote sensing and geospatial sciences: • Deep learning for global vegetation analysis (Jan-Dirk Wegner) • New network design processes to support 3D reality capture with terrestrial laser scanners (Derek Lichti) • Capture and interpretation of mobility data (Monika Sester) • Human cognition and visuo-spatial information: Experiments in visualization and virtual reality (Arzu Çöltekin)
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Since April 2021, under the newly launched Virtual Keynote Speaker Series, webinars have been held regularly free of charge.
• All you ever wanted to know about the ISPRS Congress in Nice 2022 (Christian Heipke, Nicolas Paparoditis) • Golden age of SAR? (Batu Osmanoglu) • Photogrammetry in allied health: Two applications (Petra Helmholz) • Geospatial information extraction from EO images using deep learning approaches (Costas Armenakis) • Creating digital twins of cities: from data acquisition to 3D modeling and analyses (Bruno Vallet).
members, including Individual Members, receive emails informing them about the webinars.
Lena Halounova, ISPRS Secretary General
These webinars were attended by many participants who actively participated in consequent discussions. ISPRS invites interested scientist, experts, students and suchlike to take part in or attend future webinars. Details of upcoming sessions are available on the ISPRS website. All ISPRS
More information https://www.isprs.org/society/ksp/default.aspx
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