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FIG Foundation – Young Surveyor Grants – FIG Working Week 2025 and FIG Young Surveyors Conference, Brisbane (AU).

The FIG Foundation will sponsor and award Young Surveyor Grants in support of the FIG Working Week 2025 and FIG Young Surveyors Conference.

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CLGE Young Surveyors’ Contest 2024 – Winners Announced at INTERGEO

This is the third year in a row we have met at INTERGEO to announce the winners of the CLGE Young Surveyors’ (YS) Contest. The Awarding Ceremony, which was the culmination, of the CLGE YS Contest 2024 took place on 25 September 2024 at INTERGEO in Stuttgart (DE).

We launched the Contest on 29 January 2024 and by the submission deadline of 15 July we had received 30 applications. The Contest Jury selected the six best applications in the combined Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree category and the six best applications in the Doctoral Degree Category for the online Contest Finals which took place on 3 September. If you are interested to know which applications were selected to compete in the Finals, you can read all the applications here and watch the recordings here.

CLGE Treasurer Nicolas Smith opened the well-attended Awarding Ceremony. He congratulated all the participants, invited the young surveyors to prepare for next year’s contest and everybody to enjoy this event.

CLGE Vice-President Jānis Klīve, Chair of the Jury, welcomed all the attendees and made a short presentation about the Contest.  As Chair of the Jury, he expressed his gratitude to all the participants, the Jury members, and our supporters including: DVW, BDVI, Leica Geosystems, Riegl, GeoWeb, Geofoncier, Teria, Fixar and EUSPA.

All the winners then made a short overview presentation of their papers based on their studies. Jury member General Director & CTO of EXAGONE-TERIA Paul Chambon announced the winners in the Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree category and presented their prizes. In the same way, Jury member Bernhard Richter, Vice President Geomatics Product Management, Leica Geosystems AG, announced the winners in the Doctoral Degree category and presented their prizes. After the award ceremony everyone was invited to celebrate the event and congratulate the winners.

CLGE is delighted to announce that the winners of the CLGE Young Surveyors’ Contest 2024 are as follows

Winners in the Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree category:

1. First Prize – Paweł Czernic – Pedestrian tracking in global reference system from CCTV cameras using Computer Vision and Deep Learning (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)

2. Second Prize – Miloš Basarić –  Automatic Extraction and Placement of Building Point Vector Data from Aerial Imagery for the 1: 25 000 Topographic Map Production using U-Net (Military Geographical Institute in Belgrade, Serbia)

3. Third Prize – Angelina Jerjomina – Surveying of underground networks using low-cost LiDAR sensors (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)

Winners in the Doctoral Degree category:

1. First Prize – Juan Portela, Alejandra Staller, Marta Béjar – Geodetic data (InSAR and GNSS) to assess seismic hazard in El Salvador (Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain)

2. Second Prize – Antonio Tupek – Development of an Absolute GNSS Antenna Field Calibration System (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

3. Third Prize – Mar Roca Mora –  Seagrass and invasive algae mapping: An Earth Observation approach to support European blue carbon strategies  (University of Cádiz and Spanish National Research Council, Spain)

Please enjoy our YouTube video of the Awarding Ceremony.

CLGE – IG-PARLS met in Stuttgart on 25 September 2024 and announces Gender Parity!

Outgoing Chair Matjaž Grilc (SI), and former Vice Chair Dietrich Kollenprat also longtime Delegate for Austria were thanked for their excellent work and the always good vibes they’ve generated in the Group.

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Utility Cadastre Systems Compendium Released

CLGE is pleased to announce the release of the Utility Cadastre Systems Compendium.

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CLGE invites to you to INTERGEO 2024

This year INTERGEO will be held from 24 to 26 September in Stuttgart (DE). Everybody is welcome to meet CLGE at INTERGEO Association Park (Halle 5, Stand B5.007) and join the Awarding Ceremony of the CLGE Young Surveyors’ Contest on 25 September at 16:00.

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CLGE Executive Board meets in Split

The CLGE Executive Board met in Split (HR) on 30 and 31 August to prepare our future activities and events, particularly for the next six months.

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CLGE Young Surveyors’ Contest Finals, 3 September 2024, Online Event

The Jury of the CLGE Young Surveyors’ Contest 2024 have now selected the best entries from 30 participants. The shortlisted finalists will present their thesis during the online Finals on Tuesday, 3 September 2024. The winners of the Contest will receive money prizes up to EUR 1500 and travel to the Awarding Ceremony at INTERGEO 2024, Stuttgart (DE).

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