The XXth ISPRS Congress will be held from 3rd to 11th July 2008 in the Congress Center, Beijing, and no fewer than four thousand participants are expected to attend. The work to be carried out in preparation for a congress of this magnitude can be easily imagined. For example, thirty thousand copies of the first announcement and 10,500 copies of the second, with call for papers, have been prepared, printed and distributed worldwide.

The Congress includes all technical meetings of ISPRS Technical Commissions and Working Groups. There will be theme and special sessions, ISPRS general assemblies, tutorials, seminars, exhibitions, social events, technical tours, committee meetings and meetings of the Joint Board of Spatial Information Societies to be held in conjunction with the congress. Also planned are ISPRS Council and Technical Committee meetings to be held prior to the official opening. The main body of the Scientific Programme consists of oral and poster presentations; there will be a hundred of the former and fifty of the latter. All has to be prearranged and co-ordinated.

ISPRS Council and Technical Commission presidents held joint meetings at the congress site during the final week of August and expressed their satisfaction with preparations; these are advancing well and members of the Local Organization Committee are doing terrific work. Do not miss this very important event; register for attendance via our website www.isprs2008-beijing.org, where you can also make your hotel reservation.

Hoping to meet all friends of “Information from Imagery” in Beijing in the first part of July 2008.