NCG Symposium 2025

On Friday, July 4, 2025, the Netherlands Center for Geodesy and Geo-Informatics (NCG) holds its annual NCG Symposium.

This year, the symposium will include a special event, “Navigating the Geodetic Landscape: honouring 45 years in science by Peter Teunissen, professor in Mathematical Geodesy and Positioning”, co-hosted by TU Delft, NCG, and IUGG Netherlands. Peter, who is retiring, made great contributions to the NCG, the geodetic community in the Netherlands and abroad.

The symposium also includes the annual “Baarda Lecture” which will be provided by Prof. Todd Humphreys (Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at University of Texas at Austin). Prof. Humphreys is a world expert in the field of satellite positioning and navigation, with special emphasis on tackling GNSS disturbance signals that can seriously disrupt society.

The symposium will also include a special interactive discussion session on recent issues in geo-information science, the future of NCG and its committees, education and job opportunities. You are invited to provide suggestions regarding these and other topics to discuss in a special interactive session. Please mail your suggestions to secretariat.grs@wur.nl.

The symposium is free of charge and intended for all researchers and students of Dutch universities, academies, companies, government agencies and institutes that are active in the fields of geodesy, geo-informatics, geo-information science and remote sensing, as well as for professionals from the business and governmental sector.

This year’s symposium will be held at the LEF Future Center in Utrecht (Griffioenlaan 2, 3526 LA Utrecht), provided by NCG partner Rijkswaterstaat.

This announcement is directed at all interested parties in the topics above. Active researchers in the field (including PhD candidates, students and postdocs) are especially encouraged to attend and present their work.

If you want to present your work, we would like to invite you to submit a title, author name, and a short summary (up to 1500 characters) by Friday, May 30, 2025. For this you can use the registration link below.

The contributions received will be assessed by the program committees, and upon acceptance, the authors will be notified about the allocated time slot for their presentation by Monday, June 16, 2025.

The symposium covers all research activities in the domain of geodesy, geo-informatics, geo-information science and remote sensing. This includes, but is not limited to:

Geodesy; Geoinformatics; Earth Observation; Land Subsidence and Sea Level Change; Geo-Information Infrastructure; Positioning and Navigation with GNSS; Geovisualisation; Marine Geodesy; Core Spatial Data; Defence and Military Applications; Disaster Response; Lidar Applications; Geo-ethics; Land Monitoring; Human-space Interaction; Precision, Accuracy and Uncertainty; Spatial Methods for Precision Farming, Forestry and Environment; New Satellite Missions; Geo Education; Geo Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI)

Registration for the Symposium is already open and is mandatory for all participants. Please register through the following link to confirm your attendance: https://forms.office.com/e/MFHaHAN3jQ. For any questions or requests for assistance, please contact the secretariat of the Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing of Wageningen University & Research by sending your name and organisation/educational institution in an e-mail with the subject 'NCG2025 registration' to secretariat.grs@wur.nl.

The full program will be announced on the NCG website.

The Board of the NCG would like you to spread this announcement within your organisation and to encourage possible candidates for presentations to subscribe.

We are looking forward to welcoming you on Friday, July 4, in Utrecht at the NCG Symposium.

Best regards,

Dirk Dubbeling (Secretary NCG)
Jennifer Koch, Christien Holst, Laura Cué la Rosa & Arnold Bregt (Organising committee WUR)
Sandra Verhagen & Ramon Hanssen (Organising committee Special Event Peter Teunissen)