General Plan of Activities

Completed Activities

• Workshop on Immersive Technologies, focusing on the following three questions: (1) what is your basic workflow for creating AR/VR applications? (2) What problems have you already solved with the integration of AR/VR into your workflows: (3) Where do you see these technologies in 10 Years? Which problems do you want to be solved?
  • Co-organized by FIG WG 6.3 - Applications of immersive technologies in Engineering Geodesy
  • Two hours with 10 participants
• Workshop on 360 videos: Interactive and Immersive Experiences for Documenting Cultural Heritage - Culture & Tourism - Cultural Itineraries in Ahmedabad (India) on Tangible and Intangible Heritage
  • Co-organized by ISPRS as part of the activities of ECBI.
  • 30 hours with 13 participants.
• 8th CIPA-HD Spring School 2023 “3D surveying and modelling of cultural heritage”, March 23-29, Montecatini Terme (Italy) – co-organized with ISPRS WG IV/11 and WG V/1. The event gathered 35 people from 15 Counties, with different backgrounds, ages, and interests, linked by the topic of documentation of Cultural Heritage. Contribution of WG V/1 members: Tutor and organizer (https://www.cipa2023florence.org/cipa-spring-school)
• 29th CIPA2023 Symposium "Documenting, Understanding, Preserving Cultural Heritage: Humanities and Digital technologies for Shaping the Future", June 25-30, Florence (Italy). The event gathered more than 400 people from 37 Countries, 5 pre-Symposium workshops, and 36 technical sessions. The Symposium Proceedings (257 contributions) have been published in the ISPRS Archives and ISPRS Annals. Contribution of WG V/1 members: part of the organizing and scientific committee, reviewers of n. 47 papers; presentation of the contribution “Review of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and Geospatial Sciences Requirements by Various Accreditation Bodies” (https://www.cipa2023florence.org/)

Publications

• Bolkas, D., , O’Banion, M.S., EParisi, E.I., Bauer, P., Detchev, I. (2024) Demonstration of Immersive Technologies for Geospatial Learning​. ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 
• Bolkas, D., Parisi, E. I., Detchev, I., O’Banion, M., & Gramlich, V. (2023). Review of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and Geospatial Sciences Requirements by Various Accreditation Bodies. International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences, 48, 259-265.
• Bolkas, D., O'Banion, M.S, Chiampi, J., Laughlin, J. (2023) Collaborative Virtual Reality for Surveying Education, FIG Working Week

ISPRS ECBI Project Progress: Development of VR/AR applications to support geospatial education

• Received funds to develop two immersive experiences for educators and professionals, one in VR and one in AR.
• Engaged professionals and educators to inform what experiences to develop.
• Hired two undergraduate computer science students to assist in developing the experiences.
• Procured 6 VR HMDs to support experience testing at Penn State and West Point.
• Collaborating on the project with FIG WG 6.3.

Planned Activities

• Continue working on the funded ISPRS ECBI project.
• Document and disseminate sample curricula and teaching methods related to photogrammetry, remote sensing, and spatial information science.
• Organize relevant technical sessions, workshops, and tutorials in the Symposium of the TC, ISPRS Geospatial Week, ISPRS Congress, and other conferences to support the Terms of Reference of this Working Group.
• Organize a special issue publication on new pedagogical methods in geoinformation in the ISPRS International Journal of Geo- Information or another ISPRS peer-reviewed journal.
• Jointly organize CATCON with Working Groups 4 and 8 of Technical Commission 5, and with ICWG TC IV/V Spatial Information Science Education.