ABSTRACT for the ISPRS Archives

Explanation:

• Submitted Abstract is reviewed
• Final paper will be in the ISPRS Archives

Archives

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences is the series of peer-reviewed proceedings published by the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

Since 2011, the Archives are published under the Creative Common Attribution 3.0 License, see for details.

The Archives are listed in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) of the Web of Science, SCOPUS, and DOAJ. The ISPRS Archives and Annals have recently been submitted for indexing at the Engineering Compendex, also called Engineering Index or EI.

Abstract submission

Authors submit Abstracts selecting:

• Technical Session – determined by WG (of an appropriate TC),
• or Theme Session,
• or Special Session,

they believe the submission best fits into. The abstracts are then automatically forwarded to the corresponding session.

The recommended number is 350-400 words, maximum number of the abstract is 1500 words. The abstract must be PDF only.

Use templates for abstract.

Deadlines:

• 7^th January 2016 - abstract submission,
• 21^st February 2016: Author is notified about acceptance,
• 10^th March 2016: Author is notified about the paper location in the programme – oral/interactive session,
• 9^th April 2016: Final Paper delivery,
• 14^th April 2016: Early Bird registration fee payment for the paper to be included in the ISPRS Archives

Recommendations for Authors: Abstracts

Each author should take into account that reviewers will look for answers on following questions in Abstracts:

• Innovation

Does the abstract indicate original work?

• Quality of content

Is the abstract informative, i.e. does it describe a problem, solution and assessment of results?

• Relevance

Does the subject fit within the call for papers? Do the results have a practical relevance? Will results impact other research?

• Presentation

Is the abstract well written?

Full Paper Submission for The ISPRS Annals

Explanation

Submitted Full Paper is double blind reviewed.

Final paper will be in The ISPRS Annals.

Annals

The ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences contain full paper double-blind peer-reviewed scientific contributions of ISPRS Congresses, Symposia and a number of Conferences and Workshops. The series was newly established in 2012.

The Annals are open access publications, they are published under the Creative Common Attribution 3.0 License, see for details.

The Annals are listed in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) of the Web of Science, and DOAJ. Application for including them into SCOPUS and the Engineering Compendex, also called Engineering Index or EI have been submitted.

Full Paper submission

Authors submit Full Paper selecting

• Technical Session – determined by WG (of an appropriate TC),
• or Theme Session,
• or Special Session,

they believe the submission best fits into. The Full Papers are then automatically forwarded to the corresponding session.

Use templates for full paper.

Deadlines:

• 13^th December 2015: Full Paper submission
• 21^st February 2016: Author is notified about acceptance,
• 10^th March 2016: Author is notified about the paper location in the programme – oral/interactive session,
• 9^th April 2016: Final Paper delivery,
• 14th April 2016: Early Bird registration fee payment for the paper to be included in the ISPRS Annals

For all other issues, incl. a possible conflict of interest, the rules of the Orange Book apply.

Recommendations for Authors: Full Papers

Each author should take into account that reviewers will look for answers to the following questions in Full Papers:

• Innovation

Does the paper contain original work? Has related work been properly credited?

• Quality of content

Are the employed methods appropriate? Are facts and interpretation duly separated? Are results assessed? Are the interpretations and conclusions justified by the data? Are equations correct?

• Relevance

Does the subject fit within the call for papers? Do the results have a practical relevance? Will results impact other research?

• Presentation

Is the paper well written and well structured? Are figures well readable? Are the references complete? Is the paper formatted according to the author guidelines?

Types of submissions, publications and sessions

Authors can submit a full paper or an abstract for review. Papers accepted on the basis of a full paper review will be published in the ISPRS Annals¹. If a full paper is rejected for publication in the ISPRS Annals, it may still be accepted for publication in the ISPRS Archives. Papers accepted on the basis of an abstract review will be published in the ISPRS Archives².

Upon submission of their full paper or abstract authors will select the session they consider most suitable for their paper. This serves as a first way to direct the papers to the officers that will handle the review process. As with the previous congresses, there are three session types:

• Technical sessions: the fields of these sessions correspond to the working group fields. Papers submitted to technical sessions will be dealt with by the Working Group (WG) officers and Technical Commission Presidents (TCPs).
• Thematic sessions: these sessions have been defined to attract additional papers on topics to be highlighted. The TCPs have been asked some time ago to provide these topics. For each thematic session there is a chair who will take on the same role as the WG officers for the technical sessions. Every thematic session is linked to a technical commission and, hence, to a TCP who will oversee the review process for this thematic session.
• Special sessions: these sessions are organised by Council in cooperation with sister societies of the ISPRS. Council is handling the review process for these papers.

Review of full papers

In short: the WG officers are responsible for assigning reviewers and collecting the reviews for papers assigned to their session and for making a preliminary decision. The WG officers do not make reviews themselves, but act as area chairs. I.e., they make their decision based on the collected reviews and their own opinion on the quality of a paper. In this decision making the WG officers can ignore reviews of a poor quality (e.g. missing motivation for negative assessments) and are asked to take position if reviewers expressed contradicting views on the quality of a paper. The TCPs check the preliminary decisions of the WG officers and make the final decision. The software ConfTool will be used for the handling of all communication and decisions. More in detail, the tasks are as follows:

Initial checks

• Some authors may have selected a wrong session. Therefore, WG officers check if the paper topic is appropriate for the session. If not, they use the Online Forum in ConfTool to request the TCP to reassign the paper. If the TCP considers the paper inappropriate for his TC, he/she can ask the local programme committee to assign the paper to another TC.
• WG officers check whether the paper is anonymised (see the author guide lines, section 1.1). If the paper is not anonymous, they ask the author to upload an anonymised version.
• WG officers coarsely check whether the paper was edited based on the ISPRS template or not and are readable (corrupted PDFs). If the paper is not readable or obviously not correctly prepared (e.g. one-column formatted, wrong reference style, overlength – full paper over 8 pages, invited full paper over 12 pages) they ask the author to upload a correct version in time.
• WG officers inform LPC who was invited to submit the invited paper in their Technical Session
• To avoid a conflict of interest, papers submitted by WG officers to their own sessions will be reassigned by the TCP to another session for the reviewing phase. After acceptance of a paper, the paper can still be presented in the session selected during the paper submission.

Reviewing process

• The TCP decides whether two or three reviewers should be invited per paper.
• The WG officers assign the reviewers for every paper. WG officers do not review the papers of their session themselves, but act as area chairs (see above). Area chairs are supposed to read the papers on which they need to make a preliminary decision. If the number of papers in a session is more than 10, the WG officers can ask the TCP to appoint additional area chairs and reassign part of the papers to them.
• TCPs request the local organisers to open the review phase for their TC and send out the review requests to the reviewers.
• WG officers monitor the reviewing progress and timely invite additional reviewers if reviews are expected to be late or unavailable.
• If a submitted review has a very low quality, WG officers can invite additional reviewers.
• WG officers can be reviewer for papers of other WGs, but should consider whether they can complete the reviews in time next to the work for their own WG.
• Similarly, TCP do not review papers submitted to their own TC, but may review papers submitted to other TCs.

Decisions

• The area chairs (either WG officers or the additionally appointed area chairs) discuss each paper and make their decision based on the collected reviews and their own opinion on the quality of a paper. In this decision making the WG officers can ignore reviews of a poor quality and are asked to take position if reviewers expressed contradicting views on the quality of a paper.
• Possible decisions are Accept for Annals, Accept for Archives, and Reject. Whether an accepted paper will be presented in an oral or poster session is decided later.
• The TCPs, together with the other members of the International Program Committee belonging to their TC, check the preliminary decisions of the WG officers and make the final decisions.
• To avoid conflict of interest, the chair and vice-chairs of the International Programme Committee make the final decision on papers with TCP (co-)authorship.
• TCP’s request the local organisers to communicate the decisions to the authors.

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¹ - Full name: The ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. The ISPRS Annals is the series of proceedings for publications accepted after a full paper double-blind peer review.

² - Full name: The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. The ISPRS Archives is the series of proceedings for publications accepted after abstract review. Both the Archives and Annals are published under the Creative Common Attribution 3.0 License (http://publications.copernicus.org/for_authors/license_and_copyright.html). Both are listed in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) of the Web of Science, SCOPUS, and DOAJ.

Review of abstracts

In short: the WG officers review abstracts themselves and make preliminary decisions. The TCPs check the preliminary decisions of the WG officers and make the final decision. The software ConfTool will be used for the handling of all communication and decisions. More in detail, the tasks are as follows:

Initial checks

• Some authors may have selected a wrong session. Therefore, WG officers check if the abstract topic is appropriate for the session. If not, they use the Online Forum in ConfTool to request the TCP to reassign the abstract. If the TCP considers the abstract topic inappropriate for his TC, he/she can ask the local programme committee to assign the abstract to another TC.
• To avoid a conflict of interest, abstracts submitted by WG officers to their own sessions will be reassigned by the TCP to another session for the reviewing phase. After acceptance of an abstract, the final paper (to be submitted later) can still be presented in the session selected during the abstract submission.

Reviewing process

• Abstracts are reviewed by two WG officers.
• The WG chair assigns abstracts to himself/herself and/or one or two of his WG co-chairs for reviewing.

Decisions

• The WG officers make the decisions based on their reviews.
• Possible decisions are Accept for Archives and Reject. Whether an accepted abstract will be presented in an oral or poster session is decided later.
• The TCPs, together with the other members of the International Program Committee belonging to their TC, check the preliminary decisions of the WG officers and make the final decisions.
• To avoid conflict of interest, the chair and vice-chairs of the International Programme Committee make the final decision on abstracts with TCP (co-)authorship.
• TCP’s request the local organisers to communicate the decisions to the authors.

Manual For Assigning Submissions to Sessions

Manual For Assigning Submissions to Sessions

Manual For Assigning of Session Chairs

Major Mistakes in Final Papers

Oral Presentations

Oral presentations are accompanied by PowerPoint presentations. The speakers are entirely responsible for the presentation content (order, graphics etc…). Once onsite, each speaker should also verify in the Final program that the room and the time of the session did not change.

Time of Presentation

Time reserved for your presentation is 15 minutes + 3 minutes of discussion for normal presentations. Invited presentation will have 30 minutes + 6 minutes discussion. Actual timing of each of your presentations will be available in the Final Program before the Congress.

Format of Presentation

Please make sure your presentation is in a commonly compatible format. Please prepare your presentation preferably using PowerPoint version 2010 or 2013 (although versions 2007 / 2003 are also supported).

Supported file types:

Presentation: PPT, PPA, PPTA, PPTX, PDF,  (Keynote - is only accepted in the Slide preview room onsite and will be converted into ppt)

Video: AVI, MPG, MKV, MOV, MP4, WMV Audio: WMA, MP3, WAV Pictures: JPG, GIF, BMP, TIF

Do not forget, when saving your final presentation to CD or USB stick, to make sure to include your video files, if any, and all links to these multimedia files.

IN THE LECTURE ROOM

Your presentation will be sent directly to the lecture room through the local network. Once the presentation is launched on the computer in the respective lecture room, you will advance your own slideshow using the remote control.

All speakers are requested to be present in the lecture room 5 minutes before the session starts to meet with the session chair. Please, do NOT come at the last minute with your own computer into the lecture room: you will NOT BE ABLE to connect it. All presentations must be downloaded in the SPEAKERS´ PREVIEW ROOM beforehand. Use of own computers is not recommended.

Interactive Presentations

Poster dimensions

The maximum dimensions of your poster should be 90 cm wide and 120 cm high (portrait orientation).

In order to fit the poster board, your poster should not exceed the recommended size. Prepare your material beforehand so that it will fit the space available and can be easily attached to the board. Thin cardboard is more suitable than paper. The organizers will provide suitable fixing materials, and onsite assistance will be available to help you to display your poster.