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The U.V. Helava Award, sponsored by Elsevier BV and Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping, LLC, is a prestigious ISPRS Award established in 1998 to encourage and stimulate submission to the ISPRS Journal of high-quality scientific papers by individual authors or groups. The award is designed to promote and advertise the journal, and to honour the outstanding contribution of Dr Uuno V. Helava to research and development in photogrammetry and remote sensing.
Grant and Plaque
The award goes to the author(s) of the best paper written in English and published exclusively in the ISPRS Journal over the four-year period from January of a congress year to December of the year preceding the next congress. The award consists of a monetary grant of SFr.10,000, and a plaque. A five-member jury of experts of high scientific standing evaluates the papers. The jury’s expertise covers the main topics included within the scope of the journal. The best paper is selected for each year of the four-year evaluation period, and from these four the one to receive the U.V. Helava Award.
Winner
The third U.V. Helava Award will be presented at the 21st ISPRS Congress to be held in Beijing from 3rd to 11th July 2008. The five-member jury appointed by the ISPRS Council has evaluated the 35 papers in Vol. 62 (2007) and announced its decision. The winner of the 2007 Best Paper is: ‘Time Geography for ad-hoc Shared-ride Trip Planning in Mobile Geosensor Networks’ by Martin Raubal, Stephan Winter, Sven Teßmann and Christian Gaisbauer.
Jury Rationale
This paper provides an excellent discussion of a simulation model for shared-ride trip planning. It is very interesting to read, and provides a good overview of the use of agents for trip planning. The theory development is solid. The authors demonstrate their proposed system with a real street network, confirming their theoretical results.
Congratulations
On behalf of the ISPRS and the U.V. Helava Award jury, I would like to congratulate the authors for this distinction and thank them for their contribution. I would also like to thank the sponsors of the award, and the jury members for their thorough evaluations.
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