Deputy General Director of National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN France)
Vice President of ISPRS (2022-2026)
Biography: Nicolas Paparoditis is currently Deputy General Director of IGN-France. He is a senior research Professor and technologist. He was previously Director of Research and Higher Education at IGN-France, head of the Ecole Nationale des Sciences Géographiques, the French engineering school of Geoinformation, and Vice-President of University Gustave Eiffel. Before that he chaired the MATIS remote sensing and 3D image processing laboratory of IGN. He started his career in 1992 in the industry working for Aerospatiale on 3D mapping from VHR satellite images. He has also been the Officer in charge of the programme "Digital Models/Twins" at ANR, the French National Research Agency, in the early 2010's. Nicolas Paparoditis is an international expert of remote sensing, photogrammetric computer vision, and computer graphics for 3D geodata collection systems and their application to smart cities and more globally to public policies. He has supervised 20 PhDs and has published over hundred and fifty papers in the field of remote sensing, photogrammetry, and spatial information sciences mostly published in ISPRS journals and proceedings. He has also led several large national research and innovation projects around the development of technologies for 3D geodata collection, revisualization, digital globes and digital twins. Nicolas Paparoditis has been involved in ISPRS since 2000. He has been Chair of the ISPRS former Commission III (2008-2012), the XXIV ISPRS congress director (2016-2022). He is currently Vice-President of ISPRS (2022-2026) and Vice-President of EuroGeographics.
