CMSC Updates

For Immediate Release
ISPRS First Vice President, Ian Dowman
idowman@cege.ucl.ac.uk

Karl Kraus Medal - ISPRS Announces Winner of
Award for Geomatics Textbook
London, UK, June 1st 2012.

The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing "Karl Kraus Medal" is a prize to honour the authorship of excellent textbooks in the scientific fields of photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and Spatial Information Sciences. The prize is dedicated to the memory of Professor Karl Kraus, a passionate teacher and author of a number of textbooks.

The winner of the award for 2010 is ‘Close Range Photogrammetry: Principles, Techniques and Applications’ by Professor Thomas Luhmann, (Institute of Applied Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, University for Applied Sciences, Oldenburg, Germany), Professor Stuart Robson, (University College London), Dr. Stephen Kyle, (Consultant; Hon. Research Fellow, University College London), and Professor Ian Harley, (Emeritus Professor, University College London). Published by Whittles Publishing, Dunbeath, Scotland.

The award will be presented at the ISPRS Centenary Celebration in Vienna on 4th
July 2010.

The chairman of the jury reported that “…. the 7 nominated and reviewed books
- with an impressive overall volume of some 4500 pages - were all of very high
quality and made the decision of the Jury no simple task.”

____________________

Dr. Stephen Kyle is a member of the Coordinate Metrology Society and we are proud to acknowledge this award.  Join us in congratulating Dr. Kyle at the CSMC 2010 in Reno, Nevada on July 12th-16th.