The ISPRS Foundation

The ISPRS Foundation was developed in 2004 by ISPRS to pursue its philanthropic endeavours. The foundation's goals are to provide grants for a range of purposes that will assist those who wish to further their knowledge, skills and experience in the photogrammetry, remote-sensing and spatial information sciences and technologies. It is a non-profit entity, managed by a board of eleven trustees responsible for fundraising, investment, management and approval of grants from Foundation funds. Trustees do not receive any salary or other compensation for their services. Examples of activities supported by The ISPRS Foundation are:

1. Sponsorship of international workshops - to fund, support or co-support educational, training and technical programme aspects of international scientific workshops sponsored by the ISPRS and other international organisations.

2. Research initiatives - for advancing capabilities and applications of the ISPRS sciences, technologies and disciplines to the benefit of the international community.

3. Travel grants - to enable young authors, distinguished speakers, and officially designated national delegates, especially from developing countries, to participate in ISPRS sponsored events.

4. Scholarships and fellowships - to support professional development in the photogrammetry, remote-sensing and spatial information (P&RS&SI) sciences and technologies.

5. Awareness raising - to stimulate youth (K-12), public awareness, and participation in the P&RS&SI sciences and technologies to help meet the growing worldwide need for trained and educated practitioners.

6. Tools and literature - to solicit, assemble, translate if needed, underwrite subscriptions, and distribute textbooks, technical publications, and basic tools and equipment that include the ISPRS disciplines.

7. Awards - to provide international recognition for young authors, research, publications, training/education, and significant achievement.

Since 2004

The ISPRS Foundation has:

- received more than $210,000 in donations and grants that are being used to support The ISPRS Foundation funding activities

- received the support of leading representatives from academia, government and business in the spatial-information industry as trustees of the Foundation Board

- received large donations of up to US$25,000 from major spatial-information companies

- provided grants for more than fifty individuals from Africa, Asia and Latin America to attend workshops and conferences to improve their knowledge and skills in spatial-information sciences

- funded prizes for two Computer Aided Teaching Contest events encouraging development of freely available software for teaching spatial-information processing and management

- funded a major award for outstanding individual performance in the spatial-information sciences

- funded three research initiatives supporting ISPRS research and development activities

- received donations of sixty products and tools from fifteen leading spatial-industry companies and organisations to support its fundraising activities at the ISPRS Congress in Beijing in July 2008.

In order to continue its work, the ISPRS Foundation needs your donation (1).