Please note: The ICA Travel Awards programme was discontinued. ICA now offers ICA Scholarships.
Cartographers from developing countries can get travel awards for the ICC conferences. Please find the winners of the previous travel awards below. To apply for an upcoming ICC, please check the relevant ICC website.
2013
Felipe Rufino Atkocius | Brazil | Maps in Decision Making: Why Almost Every Negotiation Starts and Ends With a Map? |
Milad Niroumand | Iran | The Evaluation and Development of the Pixel Swapping Technique for Enhancing the Locational Perception of the Soft Classified Satellite Imagery |
Viktor Putrenko | Ukraine | Assessment of Risk and Hazard of Technological Emergencies with GIS (on the Example Vinnytsia Region) |
Iomara Barros de Sousa | Brazil | Mapping my Mangrove: New Technologies applied to cartography to support environmental education in Geography’s teaching |
- Travel Award details for ICC2013, deadline for application: 15 November 2012
2011
Maythm Al Bakri | Iraq | User Generated Content and Formal Data Sources for Integrating Geospatial Data |
Andrius Balciunas | Lithuania | The Possibilities of Functionality Research of Interactive Internet Maps |
Haosheng Huang | China | Incorporating context-aware collaborative filtering into Location Based Services |
Adonis Kouame | Ivory Coast | Cartographie du Risque Bilharzien a Partir de L’utilisation Combinee de la Télédétection et du SIG |
Silvija Marinova | Bulgaria | Cross border maps and disaster management |
Andre Mendonca | Brazil | What do people prefer and what is more effective for maps: A decision making test |
Milad Niroumand | Iran | Optimal Visualization of Satellite Imagery and Superimposed Vector Data; a New Trend to the Conceptual Visualization of Land-Use Maps |
Jean Marc Philius | Haiti | Création d’une plateforme technique de SIG en Haïti / définition des référentiels de base |
- Travel Award details for ICC2011 [FR] Détails pour ICC2011
- ICA Travel Awards for ICC2009 and ICC2011 [FR] Bourses de voyage de l’ACI pour ICC2009 et ICC2011
2009
Victoria Molochko | Ukraine | System of educational geographical atlases in Ukraine |
Tao Wang | China | Semantics of contour lines’ spatial relation |
Małgorzata Wieczorek | Poland | Werenskiold Glacier (SW Spitsbergen) – morphometric characteristics |
Rodrigo Mora | Chile | Retrieving hierarchical information from maps: The role of metric and configurational variables |
Marcio Schmidt | Brazil | Expert system to classify semantic information |
Maria Victoria Alves de Castro | Argentina | Nitrates pollution at Hurlingham District waters – Spatial analysis with GIS |
Diallo Ngagne | Senegal | A diachronic study on the urban growth of Dakar and its impacts |
Unfortunately, Maria Victoria Alves de Castro and Diallo Ngagne couldn’t come to Chile and present their work.
2007
Leandro Andrei Beser de Deus | Brazil | Images of the past: Colonial Guanabara Bay and European military cartography |
Mariana Alesia Campos | Argentina | The use of cartographic material in High School: Diagnosis and consequences |
Ahmet Dogru | Turkey | GIS applications on epidemiology with cartographic perspective in Turkey |
Kristina Gurjanovaite | Lithuania | Cartographic analysis of general geographic elements in children’s mental maps |
Henrik Hargitai | Hungary | Localizing the gazetteer of planetary nomenclature |
Dao Hoai | Vietnam | An approach to visualize big volumes of video |
Alexander Kent | United Kingdom | An analysis of stylistic diversity in European state 1:50 000 topographic maps |
Lilla Lukacs | Hungary | Database of Hungarian geographical names |
Ana Paula Micou | Argentina | Feasibility of installing sustainable urban drainage systems in already urbanized areas of the Calderdale District, West Yorkshire, England |
Jean Pierre Nghonda | Cameroon | La problematique de la cartographie comme discipline academique et support didactique au Cameroun |
Gabriel Origel-Guitierrez | Mexico | Digital geosciences: E-journal of interactive on-line maps |
Natalia Polyakova | Ukraine | Semantic structure of the typical thematic map contents in the geoinformational mapping |
Teresa Saint Pierre | Argentina | The importance of using contour lines in teaching |
Malick Ould Vall | Mauretania | Vers la mise à jour cartographique et création de bases de données numériques de la Mauritanie |
2005
Elena Cherepanova | Russia | GIS solar planetary system: case study of the ArcGIS planet |
Cristiane da Silva Ramos | Brazil | Expanding map access for Brazilian children: an open source template for publishing school atlases on the Web |
Vadym Kaydash | Ukraine | New elemental abundance maps integrating optical and geochemical data on the lunar surface |
Georges Herbert Chekuimo | Cameroon | Integrating ecological tools with GIS: modelling animal dispersal |
Sergio Fiori | Brazil | Touristic maps: the challenge of using art in the digital era |
Ulanbek Turdukulov | Kirgizistan | Visualization of events in time-series of remote sensing data |
Dragutin Protic | Yugoslavia | Development of digital cartographic database for managing of the environment and natural resources in the republic of Serbia |
Carla Gimenez | Brazil |
2003
Prem Chhetri | India | Mapping the potential of scenic views for the Grampians National park |
Etien Koua | Côte d’Ivoire | Using self-organised maps for information visualization |
Giedre Beconyte | Lithuania | Twelve years of thematic cartography in Lithuania |
Nnabugwu O Uluocha | Nigeria | Interfacing indigenous knowledge and GIS for suitable rural mapping and development |
Felicia I Akinyemi | Nigeria | Mapping selected human development indicators in sub-saharan Africa |
Henrik Hargitai | Hungary | Planetary maps for public and educational outreach |
Tatiana Delgado Fernández | Cuba | Service-centric approach to discover spatial information in GSDI |
Rafael Cruz Iglesias | Cuba | Development of a platform for storage and handling of geographical information in the Internet |
2001
Richard Olomo | Nigeria | The impact of human factors on the retrieval of information presented with cultural symbols on Nigerian Topographic maps |
Cecilia Oka | Brazil | The production and use of tactile maps in Sao Paulo, Brazil. An overview and perspectives |
Felicia Akinyemi | Nigeria | Geographic targeting for poverty alleviation in Nigeria: a GIS approach |
Xuejuan Sun | China | Balancing tourism and conservation in the Tianmu Shan biosphere reserve, China |
1999
Temenujka Bandrova | Bulgaria | 3D cartographic modelling in city environment |
Roshanak Darvishzadeh | Iran | Semiautomatic change detection for updating large scale spatial databases |
Alick Mwanza | Zambia | Geographic targeting for poverty alleviation in Nigeria: a GIS approach |
Maxim Nyrtsov | Russia | Mathematical planetary cartography basis for nonspherical celestial bodies |
Patrick Ogao | Kenya | Visualisation of urban growth using temporal cartographic animations |
Romina Plastina | Argentina | Changes analysis of land uses in an area of Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Dragan Stojanovic | Yugoslavia | Cartographic visualisation and animation of the dynamic geographic processes and phenomena |
Yongping Zhao | China | Metadata standard architecture based on digital earth |
1997
Deng Zhaohui | China | A Universal Dynamic Structure of Map Based on Vector Data |
Guo Jiankun | China | The Interaction of Multimedia Maps |
Andrea Flavia Tenorio-Carneiro | Brazil | The Brazilian Cadastral System – Problems and Possible Solutions |
Farshad Hakimpour | Iran | Evaluation of Logical Consistency in Spatial Relations |
Charles Nqweniso Pateni | South Africa | The role of cartography in a developing country like South Africa: a look at the need for the education of Black Professional and Technical Cartographers to drive the mapping process in South Africa in fulfilment of the objectives of the Reconstruction and Development Programme |
Krishna Kanta Talukdar | India | Remote Sensing – Based GIS Techniques for Urban Environment Mapping – A Time for Developing Countries to Act |
Vincent Mtaroni | Tanzania | Education and Training in Cartography |