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Geodesy: Best Paper Award and Best Presenter Award

Geodesy: Best Paper Award and Best Presenter Award

Dr. Gay Jane Perez, ISPRS Commission V President Prof. Lena Halounová, ISPRS President, Christian Heipke, a member of the National Mapping and Resource Authority, Dr. Joel S. Marciano Jr., General director of the Philippine Space Agency (from left to right)
Best Presentation Award for Jojene R. Santillan (in the center)

Members of the Institute of Photogrammetry and Geoinformation (IPI) successfully participated at the ISPRS Midterm Symposium of the Commission V "Education and Outreach", held in Manila in August 2024: For his paper entitled Studying Geodesy and Geoinformatics - a German university perspective, co-authored by Prof. Steffen Schön, Prof Christian Heipke was honoured with the Best Paper Award, while Jojene R. Santillan, M.Sc., who is a PhD candidate at IPI, received the Best Presenter Award for his paper Visualising the Philippines' SDG 11.3.1 Status and Progress Using Open-Source Geospatial Software and Earth Observation Datasets.