<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Dear All,</span><br></div><div style="font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div><div><div><div> </div><div>The Big 3 of the Geospatial World (the International Cartographic Association, Open Source Geospatial Foundation and International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) have joined forces in our common aim to make geospatial education and
opportunities available for all.</div><div> </div><div>From 2015, we have decided to award <b>ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Award for Open Geospatial Science</b> at key conferences to students doing excellent research in this area. We have also set up a committee for this.</div><div> </div><div>• Prof. Georg Gartner (President, ICA)</div><div>• Mr. Jeff McKenna (President, OSGeo)</div><div>• Prof. Chen Jun (President, ISPRS)</div><div>• Prof. Charlie Schweik (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)</div><div>• Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)</div><div>• Dr. Xinyue Ye (Kent State University, USA)</div><div>• Dr. Luciene Delazari (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil)</div><div>• Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu (UNMC, Malaysia)</div><div>• Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan (Osaka City University, Japan)</div><div>• Prof. Ivana Ivánová (FCT/UNESP, Brazil)</div><div>• Mr. Jeroen Ticheler
(GeoCat)</div><div>• Dr. Serena Coetzee (University of Pretoria, South Africa)</div><div>• Prof. Helena Mitasova (North Carolina State University, USA )</div><div>• Dr. Suchith Anand (University of Nottingham, UK)</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Professor Maria Brovelli is organising FOSS4G-Europe 2015 in Como, Italy (July 2015) and will be running the third edition of the very successful <b>NASA World Wind Europa Challenge</b>. The aim of this challenge is to inspire ideas for building great applications that serves the INSPIRE Directive and uses NASA’s open source virtual globe technology World Wind.
Details at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/" target="_blank">http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/</a> </div><div> </div><div>So the inaugural ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Award for Open Geospatial Science will be for the best student winning team at this competition. </div><div> </div><div>We will now plan ideas for FOSS4G 2015 (South Korea) and ICC 2015 (Brazil) and also ISPRS conferences.</div><div> </div><div>We thank GeoCat for their support for the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Award initiative and welcome more sponsors to join us, so we can extend this. We also request the wider community for new ideas to extend this.</div><div> </div><div>Best
wishes,</div><div> </div><div>Suchith</div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Dr Suchith Anand</span><i><span></span></i></div><div><span>Nottingham Geospatial Institute<br>Nottingham Geospatial Building </span></div><div><span>University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU<br>Tel: (0)115 82 32750</span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/suchith.anand" target="_blank">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/suchith.anand</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">
</span></div><div><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Be part of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.geoforall.org/" target="_blank">"Geo for All"</a> </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications" target="_blank">Special Issue "Open Geospatial Science and Applications"</a></span></b></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Leading Open Geospatial Science through “Geo for All”</span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for bridging the digital divide</span></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div><br></div>