CATCON 2
The second educational software contest CATCON 2 was successfully held on July 21, 2000 at the 19th ISPRS Congress in Amsterdam.
The CATCON 2 was organized by the ISPRS WG VI/2:Computer Assisted Teaching(CAT).
Total of nine software/web-based contents/datasets were nominated and three winners were selected by the CATCON Jury. Under the sponsorship of Central Computer Service(CCS) Co. Ltd. of Japan, total of 4200 US$ were given to the winners.
Date: July 21, 2000
Place: 19th ISPRS Congress at Amsterdam
Sponsor:
Central Computer Service(CCS) Co. Ltd., Japan / 19th ISPRS Congress / Japan Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing(JSPRS)
Jury: Chair/Shunji Murai (ISPRS 1st Vice President at the time) Members /Armin Gruen (Financial Commission Chair at the time)
/Fahmi Amhel (Commission VI Acting President at the time)
/Kohei Cho (WG VI/2 Chairperson at the time)
Nomination:
1. Low-cost Virtural Reality View(LVR_View) by Shoji Takeuchi and Nguyen Duong(Contact point:
[email protected])
2. ARPENTEUR by Pierre Grussenmeyer and Pierre Drap(
www.arpenteur.net)
3. Remote Sensing Navigator by NASDA (demo by Toshiaki Hashimoto)(Contact point:
[email protected])
4. LDIPInter by Joachim Hohle (
www.i4.auc.dk/jh)
5. Web-based virtural l b by Qiming Zhou (
geog.hkbu.edu.hk/virtuallabs/rs/rs.htm)
6. Remote Sensing and GIS for Watershed Management by Manzul K. Hazarika and Kiyoshi Honda (
www.acrors.ait.ac.th)
7. Textbooks on Remote Sensing and GIS by JARS (demo by Manzul K. Hazarika) (
[email protected])
8. BILKO for Windows Module 7 by Tajeerd Hobma (
www.unesco.bilko.org)
9. Longman Atlas in CD (Un-official nomination) by Peason Education Australia (demo by Kohei Cho)(
www.logman.com.au)
Winners:
Gold Award (2,000US$):
ARPENTEUR (a photogrammetric software package) by Pierre Grussenmeyer and Pierre Drap(
www.arpenteur.net)
Silver Award (1,100US$):
LDIPInter(software for photogrammetry education) by Joachim Hohle, Denmark
(
www.i4.auc.dk/jh)
Silver Award (1,100US$):
Web-based virtural lab (a web-based teaching material for remote sensing) by Qiming Zhou(
geog.hkbu.edu.hk/virtuallabs/rs/rs.htm)
Pierre Grussenmeyer and Pierre Drap
CATCON2 Gold Award Winners!!
