Assistant Professor Martin Raubal has just won the prestigious Helava Award, including a grand prize of ~$10,000. The international award, sponsored by Elsevier Science BV and Leica Geosystems, LLC, is presented to the author(s) of the most outstanding paper published exclusively in the ISPRS International Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing during the four years preceding the Congress. The award was established to encourage and stimulate submission of high quality scientific papers by individual authors or groups to the Journal, to promote and advertise the Journal, and to honor the outstanding contributions of Dr. Uuno V. Helava to research and development in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
The paper in question is: Martin Raubal, Stephan Winter, Sven Teßmann, and Christian Gaisbauer (2007) Time geography for ad-hoc shared-ride trip planning in mobile geosensor networks. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 62(5): 366-381. Dr. Raubal comments: “The work was done with my long-time collaborator Stephan Winter (The University of Melbourne, Australia), Sven Teßmann (my former grad student who now works for the German Space Agency) and Christian Gaisbauer (now a PhD student at Vienna University of Technology, Austria). We have been working on this particular topic for several years, providing an agent-based simulation of the shared-ride trip planning problem within a non-deterministic transportation network. The research utilizes mobile geosensor networks and applies spatio-temporal concepts from time geography to find optimal travel assignments. In the simulation we could quantitatively confirm the theoretically foreseen reduction in communication costs.”
George Vosselman, Editor-in-Chief of the ISPRS Journal, announced the award to Dr. Raubal by stating, “As announced in my previous mail, your paper selected as the best paper of 2007 was a candidate for the ISPRS Helava Award for the best paper in the period 2004-2007. It is my pleasure to inform you that this prestigious prize has been awarded to you and your co-authors. I would like to congratulate you on behalf of the ISPRS Council and the jury of the Helava Award! The award, consisting of a plaque and a grant of SFr 10,000, will be presented at the opening ceremony of the ISPRS congress in Beijing on July 3rd. We would appreciate it if you (or one of your co-authors) could be present at this ceremony to accept the Helava Award.” Quite an honor—as well as yet another reason our Department is internationally renowned.
Editor’s note: For more about the award-winning article, see the article earlier this year about Dr. Raubal’s ISPRS Best Paper Award here.
