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As Editor-in-Chief of the ISPRS Inte rnat ional Journal of Geo-Informat ion (IJGI), I am pleased to announce the recipient of the 2017 Travel Award: The 2017 IJGI Travel Award goes to Dr. Hongchao Fan of the GIScience Research Group, Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Dr. Fan’s research focuses on volunteered geographic information and data quality. With the help of this grant, he will present findings of a recently granted research project at the International Cartographic Conference in Washington, DC, in July 2017. We would like to thank the Selection Committee members Tao Cheng, Bin Jiang, Marguerite Madden and Sisi Zlatanova for their evaluation of candidates.
IJGI 2017 Travel Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Dorothee Stiller
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Yue Lin
The Ohio State University
Award Committee
Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
Chairman
University of Vienna
Dr. Mingshu Wang
University of Glasgow
Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Politecnico di Milano
Prof. Sisi Zlatanova
UNSW Built Environment
Winner
Jianwei Huang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sevim Sezi Karayazi
Eindhoven University of Technology
Award Committee
Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
Chairman
University of Vienna
Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Politecnico di Milano
Prof. Wei Huang
Tongji University
Winner
Xuke Hu
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Junghwan Kim
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Award Committee
Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
Chairman
University of Vienna
Prof. Dr. Bart Kuijpers
Hasselt University
Dr. Raffaele Albano
University of Basilicata
Prof. Lars Harrie
Lund University
Winner
Jesús Balado Frías
University of Vigo
Yang Zhang
University College London
Award Committee
Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
Chairman
University of Vienna
Prof. Lars Harrie
Lund University
Prof. Sisi Zlatanova
UNSW Built Environment
Prof. Dr. Hans Dieter Fritsch
University of Stuttgart
Winner
Jue Wang
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Taylor Anderson
Simon Fraser University
Award Committee
Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
Chairman
University of Vienna
Prof. Jamal Jokar Arsanjani
Aalborg University Copenhagen
Dr. Marco Helbich
Utrecht University
Prof. Bernd Resch
Prof. Sisi Zlatanova
UNSW Built Environment
Winner
Yanbiao Sun
University College London
Marco Minghini
Politecnico di Milano
Winner
Hongchao Fan
GIScience Research Group of the Institute of Geography in Heidelberg
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