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MOTIVATION
The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is a non-governmental organization devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of knowledge, research, development and education in the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and Spatial Information Sciences, their integration and application in the disciplines such as cartography, geodesy, surveying, natural, Earth and engineering sciences, and environmental monitoring and protection. Advanced graduate and especially postgraduate students and researchers represent a significant part of the scientific work developed within the fields of ISPRS profession. With the aim to include the young generation into the society and to encourage the research and scientific work among them, the
Student Consortium was founded in 2004 at the ISPRS Congress in Istanbul. It was established within Comission VI – Education and Outreach. The continuity of the Student Consortium is ensured by setting up
ISPRS WG VI/5 that provides a link between Student Consortium (SC) and ISPRS.
Prešern's Monument, the monument to the greatest Slovenian poet, France Prešeren (The Prešernov trg square)
One of the SC aims is organization of summer schools for students and young researchers. The purpose of "Summer Schools" is to provide an intensive and educational week with training activities for the students and young researchers in ISPRS's work fields. Each Summer School has scientific topics of its own, selected from the wide variety of the topics treated within ISPRS. In addition to learning the theory in the lectures, the aim of summer schools is also to demonstrate the participants practical and laboratory works. Not less important, such meetings have a special social meaning in order to exchange ideas and provide base for further international cooperation.
 Detail from Francesco Robba's Fountain of Three Carniolan Rivers, one of Ljubljana's most significant Baroque monuments
The first
SC summer school in
Istanbul was organized in June 2005 at Istanbul Technical University’s Maslak campus. Based on this good and successful experience, the SC is continuing to organize summer schools. This year, the summer school took
place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1 – 7 July 2007, the topic
was “Theory and Application of Laser Scanning”. For 2008, the 3rd summer school is planned in Nanjing, China, just before the
ISPRS Congress in Beijing.
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