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Gamble, former President of the International Society for 
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and Director of the 
1972 Congress. Establishment of the award was approved 
by the Council of the International Society for Photogram- 
metry and Remote Sensing in March 1985. The award is to 
be granted according to the following regulations: 
Regulations 
Article 1 
The award shall be known as The Samuel Gamble Award, 
and it will be granted at each Congress of the International 
Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). 
Article 2 
Up to three awards may be made at each ISPRS Congress. 
Article 3 
A recipient of the award shall be a person who, like Dr. Gam- 
ble, has contributed significantly to the development, organ- 
isation or professional activities of photogrammetry and/or 
remote sensing, at the national or international level. 
Article 4 
The award shall consist of a certificate, issued by the 
Canadian Institute of Surveying and Mapping. 
Article 5 
The recipient(s) of the award shall be selected by a selec- 
tion board consisting of the President of the Canadian 
Institute of Surveying and Mapping, or his or her nominee, 
and two individuals appointed by the Council of ISPRS. 
Article 6 
No member of the Council of ISPRS shall be eligible to 
receive the award while serving on the Council. 
Article 7 
The award shall be presented during a General Assembly 
of the ISPRS Congress. 
The U.V. Helava Award 
A New Award Related to the ISPRS Journal 
In its recent meeting in Stuttgart, 5-6 September, the ISPRS 
Council finalised the terms of a new, prestigious award, The 
U.V. Helava Award, and decided on the jury members for the 
evaluation period 1996-1999. The U.V. Helava Award, spon- 
sored by Elsevier Science B.V. and LH Systems, LLC is pre- 
sented to authors of the best paper, written in English and 
published exclusively in the ISPRS Journal of Photogram- 
metry and Remote Sensing during the four year period from 
January of a Congress year, to December of the year prior to 
the next Congress. The Award consists of a monetary grant 
of SFr. 10,000 and a plaque. The first Award will be present- 
ed at the Amsterdam 2000 ISPRS Congress. All colleagues 
are strongly encouraged to submit high quality scientific 
papers to the ISPRS Journal. The terms of the award are: 
The U.V. Helava Award 
Preamble 
The publisher of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry 
and Remote Sensing (herein referred to as 'the Journal), 
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Elsevier Science B.V., and LH Systems, LLC, have agreed 
to jointly present ‘The U.V. Helava Award"* to encourage 
and stimulate submission of high quality scientific papers 
by individual authors or groups to the Journal, to promote 
and advertise the Journal, and to honour the outstanding 
contributions of Dr Uuno V. Helava to research and devel- 
opment in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 
The award will be made in accordance with the following 
regulations. 
Article 1 
The award, which consists of a plaque and a grant of SFr. 
10,000, will be presented every four years to the author(s) 
of an outstanding paper on one of the topics included in 
the scope of the Journal. The recipient(s) of the U.V. 
Helava Award shall receive the award only once. 
Article 2 
Candidates for the award shall be authors of a paper writ- 
ten in English, and published exclusively in the Journal 
during the four year period from January of a Congress 
year, to December of the year prior to the next Congress 
(referred herein as 'the evaluation period"). For multiple 
authored papers, the grant shall be split equally among the 
authors; only one plaque will be given. 
Article 3 
A five member jury, comprising experts of high scientific 
standing, whose expertise covers the main topics includ- 
ed in the scope of the Journal, shall be proposed by the 
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal and approved by the ISPRS 
Council. Jury members shall be designated by ISPRS 
Council at its last meeting of the year prior to the Con- 
gress, for the four year evaluation period of the award. The 
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal shall serve as secretary of 
the jury, without voting rights. 
Article 4 
The Jury shall select the best paper published in the Jour- 
nal for each year of the evaluation period (referred to here- 
in as ‘best papers’). The author(s) of the best papers shall 
be announced annually in the Journal, ISPRS Highlights 
and ISPRS WEB site. Individuals may receive recognition 
as authors of best papers more than once. At the end of 
the four year evaluation period, the Council shall appoint a 
second jury according to the terms of Article 3 to select the 
most outstanding paper of the four best papers of the 
evaluation period, for receipt of the U.V. Helava Award. The 
authors of the three runner-up best papers shall receive a 
certificate and a one-year free subscription to the Journal 
(free subscriptions will be provided to a maximum of two 
authors per paper). 
Article 5 
No member of the Juries shall receive the U.V. Helava 
Award or 'best paper' award. 
Article 6 
The Award shall be presented to the recipient(s) by the 
President of ISPRS and a representative of each sponsor 
at an appropriate event of the Congress. 
* The name 'U.V. Helava' is used with kind permission from 
Mrs. Inkeri Helava and Dr. Heikki Helava. 
International Archives of Photogrammerty and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXIII, Part A. Amsterdam 2000.