One of the most common questions from prospective delegates is how the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2025 program is structured and which themes it is likely to cover. Because the definitive schedule is published by the organisers, this guide focuses on the typical shape of a Geospatial Week program and the thematic areas expected at GSW 2025, while pointing you to the official program for confirmed specifics.

How the Geospatial Week 2025 Program Is Typically Structured

Across its history, ISPRS Geospatial Week has followed a fairly consistent structural template, even as the specific content evolves from edition to edition. The program is built around the co-location of multiple specialised workshops, layered with shared elements that tie the week together. In broad terms, a typical Geospatial Week program includes parallel workshop tracks, shared plenary and keynote sessions, tutorials and short courses, poster and interactive sessions, and an exhibition or technology showcase. The exact number of workshops, the daily timetable and the room allocations for the 2025 edition should be confirmed on the official ISPRS Geospatial Week 2025 program page. For the bigger picture, our complete guide to ISPRS Geospatial Week 2025 sets the program in its full context.

Parallel Workshops at Geospatial Week 2025

The heart of any Geospatial Week is its set of parallel workshops. Each workshop is a self-contained mini-conference with its own theme, scientific committee and reviewed paper track, yet all run concurrently under the shared Geospatial Week banner. This arrangement lets delegates concentrate on a specialism while still being able to hop into adjacent sessions. In practice, a delegate might spend the morning in a workshop on point cloud processing and the afternoon in one on deep learning for remote sensing. To understand why this co-location model is so effective, see our overview of what ISPRS Geospatial Week is.

Sessions, Keynotes and Plenaries

Shared plenary and keynote sessions are what turn a collection of separate workshops into a genuine week-long event. These sessions typically feature invited speakers addressing broad, cross-cutting challenges relevant to the entire community, from the future of sensor technology to the ethical and societal dimensions of geospatial data. Because keynote speakers are announced per edition, we do not name any here; check the official ISPRS Geospatial Week 2025 program for the confirmed line-up. Alongside the keynotes, individual workshops run their own oral presentation sessions, where authors present peer-reviewed papers to specialist audiences.

Tutorials and Short Courses

Geospatial Week programs frequently include tutorials and short courses, usually scheduled around the main workshop days. These sessions are especially valuable for early-career researchers, newcomers to a subfield, and practitioners wanting hands-on exposure to a new tool or method. Past tutorials have covered topics such as open-source geospatial software, point cloud analysis pipelines, and machine-learning frameworks for remote sensing. If you are deciding whether the event suits your level and goals, our guide on who should attend Geospatial Week 2025 discusses how different attendees benefit from these training components.

Exhibitions and Technology Showcases

Many editions of Geospatial Week feature an exhibition area where sensor manufacturers, software vendors and research groups demonstrate their latest offerings. This is where delegates can see new LiDAR units, cameras, drones and mapping platforms first-hand, and discuss real-world requirements directly with developers. The exhibition also provides an informal space for networking that complements the more structured sessions. Whether an exhibition runs at the 2025 edition, and its scale, will be confirmed in the official program.

Expected Thematic Areas at Geospatial Week 2025

While the precise workshop line-up is set by the organisers, the thematic areas expected at GSW 2025 can be anticipated from past programs and the current direction of the field. These commonly include:

  • LiDAR, laser scanning and point clouds: acquisition, registration, classification and analysis of 3D point data.
  • 3D reconstruction and modelling: building and city models, digital twins and photogrammetric reconstruction.
  • Mobile and indoor mapping: SLAM, mobile mapping systems and positioning in GNSS-denied environments.
  • Image analysis and computer vision: feature extraction, matching and scene understanding.
  • Machine and deep learning: neural networks applied to imagery, point clouds and multimodal geospatial data.
  • Applications: environmental monitoring, disaster management, agriculture, cultural heritage and smart cities.

For a deeper dive into these subjects, read our dedicated article on the key topics of Geospatial Week 2025.

How Papers Fit into the Program

The program is driven in large part by peer-reviewed papers. Authors submit to specific workshops in response to the call for papers, their work is reviewed, and accepted papers are scheduled into the relevant oral or poster sessions and published in the ISPRS Annals or Archives. If you intend to contribute, familiarise yourself early with the submission process; our guide to the ISPRS call for papers for Geospatial Week 2025 explains what to expect. The publishing standards themselves flow from the society, as described in our guide about the ISPRS society.

Poster and Interactive Sessions

Alongside the oral presentations, Geospatial Week programs usually make room for poster and interactive sessions. These are far more than a consolation prize for work not selected for a talk; they are often where the most detailed technical discussion happens. Standing beside a poster, an author can walk an interested specialist through their method step by step, field pointed questions, and gather feedback that shapes future work. For early-career researchers in particular, poster sessions offer a lower-pressure way to present and to build the personal connections that sustain a research career. Expect the 2025 program to include dedicated time for these sessions, though the exact format is confirmed by the organisers.

Networking and Social Program

Part of what justifies travelling to an event rather than reading the proceedings online is the human dimension, and Geospatial Week programs typically build in social elements to support it. Welcome receptions, workshop dinners and informal gatherings give delegates the chance to meet collaborators, discuss ideas that never make it into papers, and form the relationships that lead to joint projects and future research. When planning your attendance at GSW 2025, treat the social program as a genuine part of the value rather than an optional extra. As always, the confirmed social schedule appears in the official program.

Planning Your Time at Geospatial Week 2025

Because the program runs multiple tracks in parallel, a little planning goes a long way. Once the official schedule is released, map out which workshops and sessions matter most to you, note any tutorials worth attending, and leave time for the exhibition and networking events. Delegates who plan their week in advance consistently report getting more from the event than those who improvise. Remember that all timing decisions should be based on the official ISPRS Geospatial Week 2025 program rather than assumptions.

Where to Find the Confirmed Program

This guide describes the typical structure and expected themes, but it deliberately avoids publishing a specific schedule for the 2025 edition. For the confirmed program, including dates, session times, workshop list, keynote speakers and venue, always consult the official ISPRS Geospatial Week 2025 website and ISPRS.org. To understand how this focused program differs from the sprawling agenda of the ISPRS Congress, see Geospatial Week vs the ISPRS Congress.