Announcement on
ISPRS Technical Commission VI Symposium“E-LEARNING AND THE NEXT STEPS FOR EDUCATION”
Tokyo, Japan, 27 - 30 June 2006

The highly integrated multimedia technologies of e-Learning are rapidly changing the style of education.
The interest to education is increasing more than ever. Recognizing the importance of combining thelatest e-Learning technology with traditional pedagogy, the International Society for Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Commission VI on “Education and Outreach” is organizing aninternational symposium on “E-LEARNING AND THE NEXT STEPS FOR EDUCATION" jointlywith the Japan Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (JSPRS) on June 27-30, 2006 in Tokyo,Japan.
The objective of the Symposium is to bring researchers, engineers, educators and students from thefields of remote sensing, photogrammetry, and spatial information sciences to share their expertise,knowledge and experiences for optimizing the ways of education in their related fields.
Each of the five working groups(WG) and one special interest group of the Commission VI will beorganizing special session. The educational software contest CATCON4 will be organized during thesymposium. Tutorials for students to learn the latest educational software and datasets are also planned.

Terms of Reference
Promotion of education and training at fundamental, advanced and professional levels (WG1&3)
Promotion of technology transfer, considering regional needs and resources (WG3)
Computer-assisted teaching and training, and distance learning （WG1&2）
Innovative techniques for information dissemination on the Internet (WG4)
Promotion of student consortium and innovative outreach activities （WG5）Assistance of the Council in promotion of ISPRS activities in the regions （WG3）
Quality enhancement of content and format of ISPRS publications and Internet web site（WG4）Working Groups
Commission VI President
Kohei Cho
WG VI/1 : Educational Frameworks and Methodologies
Chair: Henrik Haggren
Co-chairs: Alain Duperet, Anders Boberg
WG VI/2 : e-Learning
Chair: Gerhard Konig,
Co-Chair: Mark Shotis
WG VI/3 : International Cooperation and Capacity Building
Chair: Xiaoyong Chen,
Co-chair: Sjaak J.J. Beerens
WG VI/4 : Internet Resources and Datasets
Chair: Timothy Foresman
Co-chair: Venkatesh Raghavan
WG VI/5 : Promotion of the Profession to Students
Chair: Rahmi Nurhan Celik Co-chair: Zhu Qing
Special Interest Group on Technology Transfer Caravan
Chair: Armin Gruen,
Co-chair: Shunji Murai

1Program Outline NEW!
June 27(Tue)June 28(Wed)June 29(Thu)

June 30(Fri)

9:00-10:00

Registration

10:00-12:00

Opening Session
Welcome Addresses:
Prof. Kohei Cho, ISPRS Com. VI President
Prof. Shunji Murai, JSPRS President
Prof. Ian Dowman, ISPRS President
Keynote Speeches:
Prof. Hans van Ginkel(Rector, United Nations University)
Prof. Yasunori Matogawa(Director, Japan Space Education Center of JAXA)
Prof. Joachim Höhle (Aalborg University)

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-17:50

Technical Sessions

18:30-Welcome Party

9:00-11:50

Technical Sessions

11:50-13:20

Lunch Break,

13:20-17:40

Technical Sessions

18:10-

Students Night Session

9:00-12:00

CATCON4

12:00-12:30

Visit JICA Center

12:30-14:00

Lunch Break

14:00-16:00

Technical Sessions

16:00-19:00

Visit Asakusa

19:30-

Tokyo Bay Cruise Dinner Party

9:00-12:20

Technical Sessions

12:20-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-14:00

Closing Session

14:30-16:00

Technical visit to IIS

the board meeting with WG officers/ JICA Distance Learning Demo

Technical Exhibition （June 27 & 28）NEW!
JICOUX DATASYSTEMS INC.

RIEGL JAPAN LTD

RESTECImageONE Co.,LtdESRI Japan Corporation

NTT DATA ENGINEERING SYSTEMS CORPORATION

KOKUSAI KOGYO CO.,LTDPASCOCorporation2TOPCONCORPORATION

Online Pre-Registration••••

If you are going to make a pre-registration without submitting a paper, please send us the below
listed 11 items to isprs_conf@paddy.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Please set subject as "Pre-Registration".
Those who are registered will receive the latest information on the Symposium.
You are kindly requested to pay a registration free at an onsite front desk.
Attendance fees for "Welcome party and Tokyo Bay Cruise Dinner Party" are included in aregistration fee.

Required information for pre-registration
1.Zip code (ex. 153-8505):
2.Shipping address (ex. 6-1, Komaba 4-chome, Meguro, Tokyo , Japan ):3.Country (ex. Japan ):4.Dr. or Mr. or Ms. (ex. Dr.):
5.Name (ex. Wataru Takeuchi):
6.Affiliation ( ex. University of Tokyo ):7.Tel. (ex. +81-3-5452-6406):
8.Fax. (ex. +81-3-5452-6408):
9.E-mail (ex. wataru@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp):
10.Attendance for "Welcome Party" (Yes or No):
11.Attendance for " Tokyo Bay Cruise Dinner Party" (Yes or No):

Preparation of Papers
Instructions for authors for preparing papers (manuscripts) can be found at the followings sites;
ISPRSguidelines_authorsTC6.doc（ＷＯＲＤ）
ISPRSguidelines_authorsTC6.pdf（ＰＤＦ）

Student/Young Authors Award
In order to assist students and young scientists to attend the Commission VI Symposium,
the Japan Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (JSPRS) has created theStudent/ Young Authors Award. 500USD will be given to five persons who have submitted
excellent paper to the Symposium. An applicant has to be less than 30 years old. To apply
the award, one should submit one’s full paler by the end of March with notification about
the award application.

CATCON4ISPRS WG VI/2 will organize the fourth contest for Computer Assisted Teaching(CATCON4) atthe Symposium. The main objective of the contest is to promote the development and disseminationof effective, educational and user-friendly multimedia tutorials, simulations and virtualenvironments, information packages or data sets, and application software designed and used
specifically for computer assisted teaching in photogrammetry, remote sensing or GIS. Thefollowing awards will be given to the winners.

3Gold Award: $1000
Silver Award: $700
Bronze Award: $500
Please visit the following site for more information.
http://www.geomsoft.com/isprs6wg2/catcon4.shtml

Important Dates
1 February 2006 : Deadline for applying to Financial Assistance to Commission VI Smposium(pdf)
28 February 2006
: Deadline for Abstracts
30March2006 : Deadline for Full Paper for applying to Student Award
10 April2006 : Deadline for Full Paper

Registration Fee
Participants:200USD
Full time students & seniors
100USD
Accompanying persons
Free(Students must be less than 30- years old, and seniors must be age 65 or older)

Dinner Party
On June 29, the Tokyo Bay Cruise Dinner Party will be organized.
All the participants are kindly invited to the cruising. A traditional
big boat will take you to the Tokyo Bay night cruising. The city lightof Tokyo seen from the boat is just fantastic !
http://www.tric.u-tokai.ac.jp/ISPRScom6/TC6_sympo/Tokyo_bay_cruise.htm

Accommodation
The hotel information is listed at the following site;
http://www.tric.u-tokai.ac.jp/ISPRScom6/TC6_sympo/Hotel_List.pdf

Sightseeing NEW!
There are various nice places for sightseeing in Japan and around Tokyo. For yourinformation, we have prepared link information of sightseeing guides in Japan.
http://www.tric.u-tokai.ac.jp/ISPRScom6/TC6_sympo/Sightseeing_Guide_Link.htm

4VenueThe Symposium will take place at University of Tokyo / Komaba II Campus
Address : 4-6-1 KOMABA MEGURO-KU, TOKYO 153-8505, JAPANhttp://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/index.html••

Map around the Komaba II campus
Map inside the Komaba II Campus :The Symposium will be held at the Convention Hall (No.6 in the map)

Organizing Committee
Shunji Murai, Keio University (Chairman)
Kohei Cho, Tokai University (Com. VI President)
Masahiro Setojima, Kokusai Kogyo co.
Kunio Nonomura, Japan Map Center
Kunihiko Ono, Japan Association of Surveyors
Haruhisa Shimoda, Tokai University
Hirofumi Chikatsu, Tokyo Denki University
Yoshifumi Yasuoka, University of Tokyo
Tamotsu Igarashi, JAXA
Ryousuke Shibasaki, University of Tokyo
Eihan Shimizu, University of Tokyo
Ryutaro Tateishi, Chiba University
5Program Committee
Kohei Cho, Tokai University, JapanShunji Murai, Keio University, Japan
Joachim Höhle, Aalborg University, Denmark
Manos Baltsavias, ETH, Switzerland
Henrik Haggren, HUT, Finland
Alain Duperet, IGN, France,Anders Boberg, KTH, Sweden
Gerhard Konig, BUT, Germany
Mark R. Shortis, RMIT University, Australia
Xiaoyong Chen, AIT, Thailand
Sjaak J.J. Beerens, ITC, Netherlands
Timothy Foresman, ICRSE, USA
Venkatesh Raghavan, Osaka City University, Japan
Rahmi Nurhan Celik, ITU, Turkey
Zhu Qing, Wuhan University, China
Jaakko Järvinen, HUT, Finland
Armin Gruen, ETH, Switzerland

Secretariat
For further information please visit the ISPRS Commission VI web sitewww.commission6.isprs.org or contact
Mitsunori Yoshimura
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
457-4 Motoyama, Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8047 Japan
TEL: +81-75-707-2493(2100) FAX: +81-75-707-2510
E-mail: yosh@chikyu.ac.jp

Updated: May 26, 2006

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