What:  its4land organised a workshop to test its newly developed QGIS plugin capable of delineating field boundaries Where: University of Twente/ITC, Enschede, Netherlands When: Tuesday 23 May 2017 Who: 14 volunteers Why: 14 volunteers, all MSc or PhD students from ITC, were asked to delineate visible land parcel boundaries once manually and once with the help of a newly developed [...]

What: a new publication from the its4land project on the current state of UAV regulations around the world. Where: Remote Sens. 2017, 9, 459; http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/9/5/459 When: May 2017 Who: Claudia Stöcker, Rohan Bennett, Markus Gerke, Francesco Nex, Jaap Zevenbergen. Why: UAVs—unmanned aerial vehicles—facilitate data acquisition at temporal and spatial scales that still remain unachievable for traditional remote sensing platforms. However, current legal [...]

What: its4land – Period 1 – European Commission Review Where: Leuven, Belgium When: 21st April 2017 Who: EC Review Panel, Georges Lobo, its4land MT (and special guests) Why: A one day review corresponding to the first reporting period took place on Friday, April 21th, 2017, at The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, in Leuven. During this workday the first [...]

What: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty Where: Washington D.C., United States When: 19-21 March 2017 Who: Tarek Zein (Hansa Luftbild, Germany), Rohan Bennett, Mila Koeva, Jaap Zevenbergen (University of Twente/ITC, Netherlands), Joep Crompvoets, Serene Ho (University of Leuven, Belgium) Why: to present three papers ITC co-authored, to chair two sessions, to host a Master Class on its4land and [...]

What: The 6th Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) Workshop Where: Technical University in Delft, The Netherlands When: 16-17 March 2017 Who: Mila Koeva, Carline Amsing Why: two presentations on its4land were held during the LADM workshop: ‘Remote sensing data for boundary extraction’ by Mila Koeva, and ‘Linking new survey data acquisition methods and maintanance’ by Carline Amsing. For [...]

What: Mila Koeva joins its4land team as New Project Coordinator Where: Enschede, Netherlands When: 31 March 2017 Who: Mila Koeva & Rohan Bennett Why: From March 2017, Dr. Mila Koeva is joining the its4land team as the new Project Coordinator. Mila is a quickly emerging Assistant Professor at the University of Twente, ITC Faculty - and she'll also play a [...]

What: WP5 Dissemination - Publications x 2* Where: Remote Sens. 2016, 8(8), 689; doi:10.3390/rs8080689 + Remote Sens. 2017, 9(2), 171; doi:10.3390/rs9020171 When: August 2016 and February 2017 Who: Sophie Crommelinck, Rohan Bennett, Markus Gerke, Francesco Nex, Michael Ying Yang and George Vosselman Why: The first paper reviews the available tools for extracting boundary features from UAV imagery, the 2nd delivers the results of the application [...]