What is Student Consortium?

The ISPRS Student Consortium (SC) acts within ISPRS WG VI/5 and presents the main student and researcher group, who share the same interest in photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences. It was founded during the ISPRS Congress 2004 in Istanbul, under the ISPRS Commission VI "Education and Outreach". The ISPRS Student Consortium is an important connection between students and ISPRS professional activities, way to get students familiar with and interested in ISPRS activities. It provides a platform for exchange of information and organise student-specific events either independently (e.g. summer schools) or within larger ISPRS events.

All the advanced diploma students and young researchers doing their Master or PhD studies in ISPRS fields can join the SC. SC coordinators are responsible for the information flow between SC members, promotion of the profession and SC activities, and for the continuity of the SC activities. The continuity of the Student Consortium is ensured by setting up ISPRS WG VI/5 that provides a link between Student Consortium (SC) and ISPRS. One of the missions of the SC is also to cooperate with other international student organisations, such as IGSO (International Geodetic Student Organization).

During the first year of the SC, we have started from the basics to build up our organization in stable but also flexible way. In practice, this means among other things that we have prepared a WEB site for the SC, introduced our organization internationally in many ways and also started to gather information of our members with a member questionnaire located at our WEB site.

The main purpose of the SC is to link students, young researchers and professionals in different countries, who are interested in the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences, to provide a platform for exchange of information, to organize student-specific events and other actions that integrate students and youth more effectively into ISPRS activities.