Nine papers have won the ISPRS Prizes for Best Papers by Young Authors. The Award consists of a cheque for SF2500 and a certificate, donated by Sherman Wu and his wife via the ISPRS Foundation. The authors will be required to attend the Congress to receive their award on 8 July and present their paper.
The awards will be presented at one of the plenary sessions, 08:30-10:00 on 4, 7 or 10 July.
The winners are:
* Marta Blazquez from Spain: A new approach to spatio-temporal calibration of multi-sensor systems
* Margarita Kokla from Greece: A Tool for the Extraction of Semantic Information from Definitions
* Min Deng from Hong Kong: A Hierarchical Representation of Topological Relations between a Line and an Area
* Sander Oude Elberink from The Netherlands: Problems in automated building reconstruction based on dense airborne laser scanning data
* Pengfeng Xiao from the People's Republic of China: Multispectral Quickbird-2 Image Segmentation based on Vector Field Model
* David Belton from Australia: Improving and Extending the Information on Principal Component Analysis for Local Neighbourhoods in 3D Point Clouds
* Francesco Dell'Endice from Switzerland: Improving the performance of hyperspectral pushbroom imaging spectrometers for specific science applications
* Long-qi Zhang from the People's Republic of China: Geospatial Informatics Techniques Based Reproductive Health Surveillance System
* Yunhang Chen from the United States: Bundle Adjustment of Mars HiRISE Stereo Images Based on Rigorous Sensor Model
* Yuan LI from the People's Republic of China: Lane-oriented 3D Dynamic Segmentation Method