The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.

2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015

GISTAM 2023

Best Paper Award

Identification of Emergent and Floating Aquatic Vegetation Using an Unsupervised Thresholding Approach: A Case Study of the Dniester Delta in Ukraine
Ioannis Manakos, Eleftherios Katsikis, Sergiy Medinets, Yevgen Gazyetov, Leonidas Alagialoglou and Volodymyr Medinets

Best Student Paper Award

Spatio-Temporal Modelling of Relationship Between Organic Carbon Content and Land Use Using Deep Learning Approach and Several Co-Variables: Application to the Soils of the Beni Mellal in Morocco
Sébastien Gadal, Mounir Oukhattar, Catherine Keller and Ismaguil H. Houmma

Best Poster Award

Bushfire Susceptibility Mapping Using Gene Expression Programming and Machine Learning Methods: A Case Study of Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Maryamsadat Hosseini and Samsung Lim

GISTAM 2022

Best Paper Award

Comparison of Free and Open PPP Services for Master-base Positioning in Geodetic Disadvantaged Areas: Case Study along the Sirba River in Sub-Saharan Africa
Elena Belcore, Marco Piras, Paolo Dabove, Giovanni Massazza and Maurizio Rosso

Best Student Paper Award

A Formally Correct and Algorithmically Efficient LULC Change Model-building Environment
François-Rémi Mazy and Pierre-Yves Longaretti

Best Poster Award

Poverty Population and Its Educational Accessibility: An Evaluation using Geospatial Database in Ecuador
Gustavo Navas, Anthony Loyaga, Jefferson Barahona and Julio P. Orellana

GISTAM 2021

Best Paper Award

Deep Learning Application for Urban Change Detection from Aerial Images
Tautvydas Fyleris, Andrius Kriščiūnas, Valentas Gružauskas and Dalia Čalnerytė

Best Student Paper Award

Vertical Accuracy Assessment of ALOS PALSAR, GMTED2010, SRTM and Topodata Digital Elevation Models
Zuleide A. Ferreira and Pedro Cabral

Best Poster Award

Study on Ground Motions in Southwest Bulgaria based on in-Situ and Satellite Data
Mila Atanasova-Zlatareva, Hristo Nikolov and Nikolay Dimitrov

GISTAM 2020

Best Paper Award

Prediction of Spatiotemporal Distributions of Transient Urban Populations with Statistics Gathered by Cell Phones
Toshihiro Osaragi and Ryo Hayasaka

Best Student Paper Award

A Cloud Architecture for Processing and Visualization of Geo-located 3D Digital Cultural Heritage Models
Ikrom Nishanbaev

Best Poster Award

Analysis of Cartographic Generalization based on PYTHON Programming Language on Digital Topographic Maps
Marko Stojanović, Siniša Drobnjak, Jasmina M. Jovanović, Nenad Galjak and Ana Vučićević

GISTAM 2019

Best Paper Award

The e-approximation of the Label Correcting Modification of the Dijkstra's Algorithm
František Kolovský, Jan Ježek and Ivana Kolingerová

Best Student Paper Award

Optimizing Sample Patches Selection of CNN to Improve the mIOU on Landslide Detection
Omid Ghorbanzadeh and Thomas Blaschke

Best Poster Award

Management and Creation of a New Tourist Route in the National Park of the Sibillini Mountains using GIS Software, for Economic Development
Matteo Gentilucci, Maurizio Barbieri, Narendra N. Dalei and Eleonora Gentilucci

GISTAM 2018

Best Paper Award

VOLA: A Compact Volumetric Format for 3D Mapping and Embedded Systems
Jonathan Byrne, Léonie Buckley, Sam Caulfield and David Moloney

Best Student Paper Award

ResPred: A Privacy Preserving Location Prediction System Ensuring Location-based Service Utility
Arielle Moro and Benoît Garbinato

Best PhD Project Award

Reconstruction of Piecewise-explicit Surfaces from Three-dimensional Polylines - Applications in Seismic Interpretation in Compressive Domain
Joseph Baudrillard, Sébastien Guillon, Jean-Marc Chassery, Michèle Rombaut and Kai Wang

GISTAM 2017

Best Paper Award

Modelling Urban Thermal Comfort: Evaluating the Impact of the Urban Requalification Project of Praça Duque De Saldanha and Avenida Da República in Lisbon
Teresa Santos, Caio Silva and José António Tenedório

Best Student Paper Award

Multi-labelled Image Segmentation in Irregular, Weighted Networks: A Spatial Autocorrelation Approach
Raphaël Ceré and François Bavaud

Best Poster Award

Development of Mapping Design for Agricultural Features Extracted from LiDAR Datasets
Nerissa B. Gatdula, Mylene V. Jerez, Therese Anne M. Rollan, Ronalyn P. Jose, Coleen Dorothy U. Caranza, Joyce Anne Laurente and Ariel C. Blanco

Best PhD Project Award

The Use of 3DGIS Models to Develop a New Model of Urban Management: The Fortaleza- Brasil Case Study
Caroline Camara, Ana Paula Falcão and Jorge Baptista e Silva

GISTAM 2016

Best Paper Award

Structure Occupancy Curve Generation using Geospatially Enabled Social Media Data
Samuel Toepke

Best Student Paper Award

Automating Government Spatial Transactions
Premalatha Varadharajulu, Geoff West, David A. McMeekin, Simon Moncrieff and Lesley Arnold

Best Poster Award

Gathering GPR Inspections and UAV Survey in Cultural Heritage Documentation Context
Alessandro Arato, Flora Garofalo, Giulia Sammartano and Antonia Spanò

Best PhD Project Award

Visual Navigation for Rendezvous and Docking using PMD Camera
Ksenia Klionovska and Heike Benninghoff

GISTAM 2015

Best Paper Award

3D Reconstruction and Visualization of Alternatives for Restoration of Historic Buildings - A New Approach
Lemonia Ragia, Froso Sarri and Katerina Mania

Best Student Paper Award

DIFPL - Distributed Drone Flight Path Builder System
Manu Shukla, Ziqian Chen and Chang-Tien Lu

Best PhD Project Award

Spatial Temporal Relational Graphs on Connected Landscapes
Alan Kwok Lun Cheung, David O'Sullivan and Gary Brierley