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outstanding work as Chair of Working Group Ill/5 on
"Remote Sensing and Vision Theories for Automatic Scene
Interpretation." Under her skilful leadership, the WG made
major advances in fusing multi-sensor data. She was
instrumental in organising the "Ocean City" test data site
and in 1999 organised the very successful interdisciplinary
Workshop on "Mapping Surface Structure and Topography
by Airborne and Spaceborne Lasers".
The President's Honorary Citation - Commission IV 1996-
2000 was awarded to Emmanuel Baltsavias for his many
contributions to ISPRS Commission IV as exemplified by
his outstanding work as Chair of Inter-Commission Work-
ing Group IV/III.2 on "Integration of Image Analysis and
Emmanuel Baltsavias receiving Citation from John Trinder
GIS"; for his enthusiastic and skilful organisation of the
1997 Joint Workshop "3D Reconstruction and Modeling of
Topographic Objects" and the 1999 Joint Workshop
"Fusion of Sensor Data, Knowledge Sources and Algo-
rithms for Extraction and Classification of Topographic
Objects"; and for securing funds for Young Author Awards.
The President’s Honorary Citation - Commission V 1996-
2000 was awarded to Sabry El-Hakim for his many contri-
butions to ISPRS Commission V as exemplified by his out-
standing: work as Chair of Working Group V/3 on "Scene
Modeling for Visualization and Virtual Reality"; organising
Videometrics V in 1997 and VI in 1999, co-organisation of
a Joint Workshop in 1999; and preparing a special theme
issue for the ISPRS Journal in 1998.
The President's Honorary Citation - Commission VI 1996-
2000 was awarded to Tania Maria Sausen for her many
contributions to ISPRS Commission VI as exemplified by
her outstanding work as Chair of Working Group VI/1 on
"Education" by establishing an ISPRS Education and
Training Database on the Internet; by designing and con-
ducting the pilot program for the Task Force on Education
and Training; and by organising in 1997 the successful "1st
Workshop on Education in Remote Sensing, Mercosul
Wide".
The President's Honorary Citation - Commission VII 1996-
2000 was awarded to Ake Rosenqyvist for his many contri-
butions to ISPRS Commission VII as exemplified by his
International Archives of Photogrammerty and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXIII, Part A. Amsterdam 2000.
Tania-Maria Sausen receiving Citation from Larry Fritz
outstanding work as Chair of Working Group VII/5 on
"Global Monitoring" by organising a session on global and
regional scale Earth Observation Programs in 1998 and in
1999 by co-organisation of a Joint Workshop on "Remote
Sensing and the Kyoto Protocol".
Best Young Author Awards
Presented by: Shunji Murai, ISPRS 1st Vice President
at: Opening Plenary Ceremony
Prizes for Best Papers by Young Authors are grants of
2,500 Swiss Francs awarded by the Japan Society of Pho-
togrammetry and Remote Sensing (JSPRS) and the Joint
ISPRS/EARSeL workshop, that was held in Valladolid in
1999, to make it possible for the winners to attend the
Congress.
In 2000 the winners were: B. Ameri (Germany), A. Brunn
(Germany), M. Honikel (Switzerland), Jun Li (Canada), S.
Priya (Japan), J. Schiewe (Germany) and G. Zalmanson
(USA).
Mr. Babak Ameri with his paper "Feature Based Model Ver-
ification (FBMV): a new concept for hypothesis validation
in building reconstruction".
Presentation of Young Author Awards by Shunji Murai
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