“The Otto von Gruber Award” 
The Board of the ‘‘Foundation I.T.C. Fonds”, established on 26th September, 1961, by Dr. Ir. W. 
Schermerhorn, has decided to make available the funds necessary for granting an award. This award, in 
honour of the services to photogrammetry of Otto von Gruber and a token of the gratitude of the founder of 
the LT.C. Fonds, shall be called “The Otto von Gruber Award”. It shall be awarded once every 4 years and 
shall consist of a gold medal and a sum of money amounting to a maximum of Dutch Guilders 500. 
The von Gruber Award shall be subject to the following Statutes which have been approved by the Board 
of Governors of the International Training Centre for Aerial Survey and by the Board of the International 
Society of Photogrammetry. 
STATUTES 
Article 1 
The qualifications for the von Gruber Award shall be: 
a) that the recipient shall have written within 4 years immediately preceding the Congress at which the 
Award is declared, an article of outstanding merit on photogrammetry or photo-interpretation which shall 
have been adjudged by the jury to be the best article submitted to them. 
b) that the recipient shall, within the preceding 12 years, either 
l. have graduated from a recognized university with photogrammetry of photo-interpretation as a major 
subject, or 
2. having graduated in other subjects from a university or similar educational institution, have satisfactori- 
ly completed a post-graduate course in photogrammetry of photo-interpretation at a recognized university, 
technical college or school, or 
3. have graduated from the International Training Centre for Aerial Survey at Delft. 
Article 2 
The jury shall be free to make the Award to the author of a published article who has not applied for it, 
provided the article qualifies for the Award in all other respects. Furthermore the jury shall be free to make 
no award if they consider no candidate's submission of sufficient merit, or to make two Awards (but not more) 
at any one Congress if they consider the submissions of two candidates to be of equal merit, provided always 
that on average over the years no more Awards are made than congresses take place. 
Article 3 
That those desirous of being considered for the Award shall so inform the Board and present their work in 
quintuple to the President of the LS.P. not less than 6 months before the congress. The article may be in any 
language, provided that, if it is not written in one of the official languages of the LS.P. (at present French, 
English, German), it shall be translated into one of them, at no expense to the LS.P., before being sumitted to 
the President of the LS.P. 
Article 4 
The decision of the jury shall be final without any possibility of appeal. 
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