Dear Colleagues,

The nomination deadline for the IJGI 2023 Young Investigator Award is extended. Entries will be accepted until September 30th 2023. We are looking forward to nominations from all over the world.

We are pleased to announce that ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI) is now inviting nominations for the IJGI 2023 Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to one young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the field of geo-information. All nominations will be assessed by an Award Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz.

The Prize:
– CHF 2000;
– Option to publish one paper free-of-charge in IJGI after peer review before 31 May 2024;
– An electronic certificate.

Eligibility and Requirements:
– Must have received their PhD no more than 10 years prior to 30 September 2023;
– Must have produced ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of the science and technology of geographic information;
– Candidates must be nominated by senior scientists.

List of Documents for Nomination:
– Detailed curriculum vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;
– Scanned copy of doctorate certificate;
– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

Schedule:
– Nomination deadline: 30 September 2023
– Winner’s announcement: 30 November 2023

How to submit nominations?
The nominations must be submitted online at:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/awards/2113.

Contact
Ms. Nora Zhang
Marketing Specialist
Email: nora.zhang@mdpi.com

Kind regards,
IJGI Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI), I am pleased to announce the winners of the IJGI 2023 Travel Award. The award has been granted to:

Ms. Dorothee Stiller, a PhD student at German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), Wessling, Germany, focusing on new methodologies and experimental data sources for urban transportation research in the context of remote sensing and deep learning.

Ms. Yue Lin, a PhD student in the Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, USA. The research and teaching interests include geographic information science, geospatial data science, geocomputation and machine learning, urban informatics, data privacy and digital justice, technology and society.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for the diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz,
on behalf of the IJGI 2023 Travel Award Evaluation Committee

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the IJGI 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The IJGI Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to the journal. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Fernando P. Fonseca
Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Research interests: environmental planning and management

Dr. Polina Lemenkova
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Research interests: cartography; programming; data analysis; statistics; mapping; marine geology

Dr. Alexandre B. Gonçalves
University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Research interests: Spatial Analysis; optimization; geographical information systems; computational geometry; geographic modelling; spatial data algorithms

Prof. Marcin Kulawiak
Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland
Research interests: geographic information systems; geovisualization; remote sensing; spatial analysis; geoinformation; web mapping; mapping; geoprocessing; spatial statistics; satellite image analysis

Dr. Dennis Edler
Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Research interests: remote sensing; spatial memory; multimedia; experimental psychology; environmental psychology; GIS; human geography; education; virtual and augmented reality

The Prize for the Top 3 Winners:
– 500 Swiss Francs (CHF);
– The chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2023;
– An electronic certificate.

The Prize for the Further 2 Winners:
– The chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2023;
– An electronic certificate.

Kind regards,
Prof. Wolfgang Kainz
Editor-in-Chief, IJGI

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI), I am pleased to announce the winners of the IJGI 2022 Travel Award.

The award has been granted to Mr. Jianwei Huang, a PhD student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Ms. Sevim Sezi Karayazi, a PhD student at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were incredibly challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On
behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Kind regards,
Prof. Wolfgang Kainz
Editor-in-Chief, IJGI

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the IJGI 2021–2022 Best Cover Award. There were 24 cover stories published in 2021 and 2022 that have reported important research results or innovative methods with impressive images joining this competition. According to survey voting results from scholars and the IJGI Editorial Office, we are pleased to announce that the IJGI 2021–2022 Best Cover Awards will be granted to the following papers and each will receive CHF 100.

Volume 10, Issue 1 (January 2021)
A Critical Comparison of 3D Digitization Techniques for Heritage Objects
by Efstathios Adamopoulos, Fulvio Rinaudo and Liliana Ardissono
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(1), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10010010

Volume 10, Issue 11 (November 2021)
Mapping Inuinnaqtun: The Role of Digital Technology in the Revival of Traditional Inuit Knowledge Ecosystems
by Brendan Griebel and Darren Keith
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(11), 749; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10110749

Volume 11, Issue 1 (January 2022)
Historical Vltava River Valley–Various Historical Sources within Web Mapping Environment
by Jiří Krejčí and Jiří Cajthaml
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2022, 11(1), 35; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11010035

Congratulations to the winners for their excellent research!

We would also like to thank everyone for participating in the survey.

Kind Regards,
IJGI Editorial office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the IJGI 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The IJGI Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to IJGI. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Lemenkova Polina
Laboratory of Image Synthesis and Analysis, École polytechnique de Bruxelles (EPB, Brussels Faculty of Engineering), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Andrew Newton
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCJ), School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Dennis Edler
Geography Department, Cartography, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Lukáš Herman
Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Marcela Bindzarova Gergelova
Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Geographical Information Systems, Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnology, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia

Kind regards,
Prof. Wolfgang Kainz
Editor-in-Chief, IJGI

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of IJGI, I am pleased to announce the winners of the IJGI Travel Awards for 2021.

Junghwan Kim, a Ph.D. student of the Department of Geography and GIScience, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA; and Xuke Hu, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Citizen Science, Institute of Data Science, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Jena, 07745, Germany.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Wolfgang Kainz
Editor-in-Chief, IJGI

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the IJGI 2020 Outstanding Review Awards. The IJGI Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to IJGI. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

Prof. Christophe Claramunt
Naval Academy Research Institute, F-29240 Lanvéoc, France

Dr. Lars Bodum
Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Rendsburggade 14, DK-9000, Aalborg, Denmark

Dr. Kalliopi Kyriakou
Department of Public Health Sciences, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CM Utrecht, The Netherlands

Dr. Izabela Gołębiowska
Department of Geoinformatics, Cartography and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmiescie 30, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland

Dr. Johannes Scholz
Research Group Geoinformation, Institute of Geodesy, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria

The top three winners will receive the following:
– 500 Swiss Francs (CHF);
– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2021;
– A certificate.

A further two winners will receive the following:
– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2021;
– A certificate.

Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
Editor-in-Chief, IJGI

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the “IJGI 2019–2020 Best Cover Awards”. The winners of the “IJGI 2019–2020 Best Cover Awards” will receive CHF 100 each. The winners are as follows:

Volume 9, Issue 4 (2020, April)
Cartographic Vandalism in the Era of Location-Based Games—The Case of OpenStreetMap and Pokémon GO (doi:10.3390/ijgi9040197)

Volume 8, Issue 7 (2019, July)
City Maker: Reconstruction of Cities from OpenStreetMap Data for Environmental Visualization and Simulations (doi:10.3390/ijgi8070298)

Volume 9, Issue 7 (2020, July)
Multidimensional Visualization and Processing of Big Open Urban Geospatial Data on the Web (doi:10.3390/ijgi9070434)

Congratulations to the winners for their excellent research.

We selected five participants who will receive a CHF 50 voucher each:
Guan Li, Paulo Raposo, Dirk Hoffmeister, Francesca Matrone, and Ivana Semanjski.
Many thanks to everyone who participated.

IJGI Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the two winners of the 2020 IJGI Travel Awards:

Jesús Balado Frías is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Vigo - Applied Geotechnologies Research Group. His research interests include point cloud processing, laser scanning, urban modelling, machine learning, and deep learning.

Yang Zhang is a PhD student in the SpaceTimeLab for Big Data Analytics, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London (UCL), UK. Her PhD thesis is “Deep Learning Models for Network-based Spatio-Temporal Prediction and Optimisation”. Her research focuses on geoinformatics, spatial-temporal data mining, applied machine learning and deep learning, urban computing, and complex network and graph theory.

Each Travel Award consists of a certificate and 800 CHF to attend an academic conference of the recipient’s choice in 2020. Congratulations to the winners of this highly competitive Travel Award!

We would like to thank all the Scientific Committee members for their careful evaluation of the candidates and all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating research.

The 2021 IJGI Travel Awards will begin accepting applications soon in 2020. Please check https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/awards for more information closer to that time.

Dear Colleagues,

The IJGI Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to IJGI. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

The following referees have been selected to receive the “IJGI 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Award” for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2019.

The top three winners will receive the following:
–– 500 Swiss Francs (CHF);
–– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2019;
–– A certificate.

Levente Juhasz
GIS Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.

Waldemar Kociuba
Department of Geology Soil Science and Geoinformation, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 21-030 Lublin, Poland.

Timofey E Samsonov
Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia.

A further two winners will receive the following:
–– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2019;
–– A certificate.

Sara Migliorini
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy.

Amílcar Soares
Department of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 1W5, Canada.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the two winners of the 2019 IJGI Travel Awards:

Taylor Anderson is a PhD student at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada. She is a research assistant at the Spatial Analysis and Modeling Lab, Department of Geography, SFU, working on various research-related tasks, including conducting literature reviews; handling GIS data; and developing, programming, and implementing complex systems models.

Jue Wang is a PhD student in the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. His research focuses on creating a robust and reliable resource for accessing, sharing, and analyzing confidential geospatial research data, overcoming obstacles to replicating NSF research. His work is about evaluating and implementing masking and encryption capabilities for the GVDE, and he is responsible for experiment design, data collection, data processing and analysis, and the writing of papers for publication.

Each travel award consists of a certificate and 800 CHF to attend an academic conference of the recipient’s choice in 2019. Congratulations to the winners of this highly competitive travel award!

We would like to thank all the Scientific Committee members for their careful evaluation of the candidates and all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating research.

The 2020 IJGI Travel Awards will begin accepting applications at the end of 2019. Please check https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/awards for more information closer to that time.

Dear Colleagues,

The IJGI Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to IJGI. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

The following referees have been selected to receive “IJGI 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of their reviews in 2018:

The top three winners will receive the following:

–– 500 Swiss Francs (CHF)
–– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2019
–– A certificate

Vít Pászto
Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, 77146 Olomouc, Czech Republic

Andrew Newton
Department of Criminology, The University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7QA, UK.

Robert Jeansoulin
emeritus CNRS, LIGM, Université Paris-Est Marne (UPEM), Champs sur Marne, 77454 Marne-la-Vallée Cedex 2, France

A further two winners will receive the following:
– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in IJGI in 2019
– A certificate

Miguel-Angel Manso-Callejo
MERCATOR Research Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ETSI en Topografía, Geodesia y Cartografía Mercator St #2 Madrid 28031, Spain

Dapeng Li
Department of Geography, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the two winners of the 2018 Travel Awards sponsored by ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information:

Travel Awards have been granted to Dr. Yanbiao Sun from University College London (UCL), London, UK and Dr. Marco Minghini from Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.

Dr. Yanbiao Sun joined UCL from Tianjin University in 2017 as a postdoctoral researcher in the Light Controlled Factory Project. He works in the field of digital mapping photogrammetry and industrial photogrammetry, with notable research in non-linear optimization methods used for photogrammetric applications. His current work includes two aspects: photogrammetric optimization and coded target design. He has always been looking for efficient and robust algorithms to address problems faced in images-based navigation and position. Dr. Yanbiao Sun, working with Prof. Stuart Robson, designed new planar coded targets, in which each coded target includes five fixed circle dots and another three coded circle dots. Now, the coded targets have been successfully used in robotic tracking and positioning in the UCL project. In the future, Dr. Yanbiao Sun will focus on accurate and real-time tracking of industrial photogrammetry.

Dr. Marco Minghini’s research spans the domains of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing. He is an early career scientist working on Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) mapping and education. He is also a Charter Member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo, https://www.osgeo.org) and GeoForAll (https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all). He has addressed several aspects of this field: the development of platforms for VGI collection (mainly from mobile devices) and management; the role of VGI to increase public participation; the analysis of VGI data to understand contribution patterns and contributors' motivations; the assessment of VGI quality, in particular positional accuracy and completeness; the relevance of protocols to guide data collection in VGI projects; VGI applications to disaster response; the role of VGI in education; and the exploitation of VGI in deriving scientific datasets such as LULC maps.

The awards consist of 800 Swiss Francs each to attend an academic conference in 2018.

We would like to thank the Selection Committee members Tao Cheng, Bin Jiang and Sisi Zlatanova for their evaluation of candidates.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
Editor-in-Chief