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Welcome to the CLGE Young Surveyors’ Contest Finals – 27 August 2026
The Jury of the CLGE Young Surveyors’ Contest 2026 have now selected the best entries from 30 participants. The shortlisted finalists will present their thesis during the online Finals on Thursday, 27 August 2026. The winners of the Contest will receive money prizes of up to EUR 1500 and travel to the Awarding Ceremony at INTERGEO 2026, Munich (DE).
This is an online only event and everyone is welcome. If you wish to take part in the online Final event, please email us at [email protected] to register. The deadline for registrations is 23:59 (CEST) Tuesday, 25 August 2026. On the Finals Day we will send you a reminder with the joining link. We look forward to your participation and please do share this post with your friends and colleagues.
After the Finals the winners will be chosen by the CLGE Jury. The announcement of the winners and the awarding ceremony will take place at INTERGEO 2026 in Munich (DE) from 16:00 to 17:00 (CEST) on Wednesday, 16 September 2026. We look forward to seeing you at the CLGE booth on the Associations Park, which is known as the Verbändepark in German. INTERGO is the world’s leading trade fair and conference for geodesy, geoinformation, and land management.
Below you will find the six or seven finalists in each category listed in alphabetical order. Please read their application forms and be inspired by the learned insights of young surveyors on the latest technology or methodology in our industry.
Agenda for Online Finals on 27 August 2026:
14:00 – 15:00 (CEST) presentations of finalists in Masters and Bachelors category:
- Aaron Howard – Utilising GIS to Create a RNLI Lifeboat Response Time Framework (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
- Adrian Weng – Data-Centric Benchmarking of Deep Learning Models for Antarctic Coastline Segmentation Using Earth Observation Imagery (University of Bonn, Germany)
- Chukwuma Ugwu – From CityGML to I3S: An Empirical Evaluation of Open-Source Conversion Workflows for Interoperable 3D City Models (Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
- Miriam Baumgartner – Combined precise orbit determination of Jason-3 based on SLR and DORIS observations (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
- Philip Schubert – Above-Ground Biomass Estimation with Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar Data in a Semi-Arid Environment (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)
- Saheel Ahmed – A Concept Bottleneck Approach for Mapping Urban Deprivation using Morphometrics from Earth Observation (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands)
- Zineb Faiz – Near-Real-Time Positioning of the Low Earth Orbit Satellite Sentinel-6A using the Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS) (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
15:00 – Break
15:30 – 16:30 (CEST) presentations of finalists in PhD category:
- Betty Heller-Kaikov – Machine Learning Algorithm for Separating Geophysical Signals in Satellite Gravity Data (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
- Blaženka Bukač – Realizations and Analyses of the Relationship between Croatian and European Vertical Reference Systems (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Junjie Han – Real-Time Monitoring of GNSS Precise Products Toward Quality Aware High-Precision Applications (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain)
- Junyang Gou – Enhancing Geodetic Monitoring of Earth Surface Mass Variations using Deep Learning (Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland)
- Narges Takhtkeshha – Advancing Semantic 3D Mapping with Multispectral LiDAR and Deep Learning (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy)
- Sujata Dhar – A Climate-Informed Machine Learning Framework for Improved Length-of-day predictions. (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
Good luck to everyone.
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