ISPRS Geospatial Week 2025 is, at its heart, a scientific meeting — and for most researchers the reason to attend is to publish and present original work. If you are preparing a submission, understanding how the ISPRS publication and review system works will make the whole process smoother and improve your chances of acceptance. This guide explains the general mechanics of ISPRS calls for papers and submissions, along with practical advice for authors. It describes how the process typically operates rather than quoting this edition's exact deadlines; for the real call for papers, submission dates, and templates you must consult the official ISPRS Geospatial Week 2025 website or ISPRS.org.
ISPRS has a well-established, distinctive publication model, and Geospatial Week papers usually appear in one of its two peer-reviewed series. Knowing the difference between them is the first thing every prospective author should grasp.
Understanding the ISPRS Annals and Archives
ISPRS publishes accepted work in two complementary open-access series. The ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences is the more selective, double-blind peer-reviewed track intended for full papers presenting substantial, original research. The ISPRS Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences also carries peer-reviewed papers but has traditionally accommodated a broader range of contributions, including more applied or work-in-progress studies.
In practice, this means authors often choose their target series based on the maturity and nature of their work: a completed methodological study with strong validation may aim for the Annals, while an applied case study might fit the Archives. Both are indexed and openly accessible, which is one reason ISPRS venues are attractive for visibility. The exact submission tracks and their requirements for Geospatial Week 2025 will be set out in the official call, so confirm which series applies to your intended workshop. For thematic fit, our guide to Geospatial Week 2025 key topics shows the research areas typically covered.
How the Peer-Review Process Works at Geospatial Week 2025
ISPRS submissions go through peer review, and for the Annals this is typically a double-blind process in which reviewers and authors are mutually anonymous. That has an important practical consequence: you must prepare an anonymised manuscript, removing author names, affiliations, and any self-identifying references or funding acknowledgements that would reveal your identity. Reviewers assess originality, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the workshop's scope.
Timelines usually follow a familiar rhythm — a submission deadline, a review period, notification of acceptance (sometimes with requested revisions), and then a camera-ready deadline for the final version. Some editions distinguish between full-paper submission for the Annals and abstract-based submission for the Archives. Because these steps and dates change each year, treat the official call as authoritative and build in buffer time before every deadline. Once accepted, you will need to complete registration; see our how to register for Geospatial Week 2025 guide for how author registration ties into publication.
Templates, Formatting and Submission Systems
ISPRS provides official templates for both the Annals and Archives, usually available in Word and LaTeX formats, and adhering to them is not optional — papers that ignore the required layout, length limits, or reference style risk desk rejection. The templates specify the two-column layout, section structure, figure and table handling, and citation format standard across ISPRS publications.
Submissions are generally made through an online conference management system, where you register the paper, enter metadata and authors, select the relevant workshop or track, and upload your manuscript. Practical tips that reliably help:
- Download the current template first from the official site and write within it, rather than reformatting at the end.
- Respect the page limit — ISPRS papers have defined length constraints for each series.
- Anonymise thoroughly for double-blind tracks, including file metadata.
- Check figure resolution and captions, since geospatial work is often judged partly on the clarity of its visual results.
- Match your paper to the right workshop so it reaches reviewers with the relevant expertise.
The specific template version and submission-system URL are edition-specific, so always start from the official Geospatial Week 2025 call rather than reusing files from a previous year.
Presenting Your Work
Acceptance usually comes with a presentation format — an oral talk in a themed session or a poster. Oral presentations are typically short, so plan to convey your core contribution, method, and key result rather than every detail. Posters reward a clean visual narrative and a concise takeaway that invites conversation. In both cases, the audience is expert, which means you can assume familiarity with fundamentals and spend your time on what is genuinely new in your work.
Presenting well is also a networking opportunity: clear, honest discussion of limitations often attracts the most useful feedback and the strongest collaboration offers. For a sense of who will be in the room, see our overview of who should attend Geospatial Week 2025.
Ethics, Data Sharing and Reproducibility
The geospatial community increasingly expects submissions to meet standards that go beyond the manuscript itself. Reviewers look favourably on work that shares datasets, code, or trained models where possible, because reproducibility strengthens a paper's credibility and its long-term impact. If you use third-party data or imagery, be sure your licence permits publication and that you cite the source correctly; if your work involves imagery of people or sensitive locations, consider the privacy and ethical implications and address them in the text.
Authorship itself carries responsibilities: everyone listed should have made a genuine contribution, and funding sources and conflicts of interest are normally acknowledged in the final, non-anonymised version. Because ISPRS publications are open access, your work will be freely available to a global audience indefinitely, which is a strong incentive to document methods, parameters, and evaluation protocols clearly. Papers that make it easy for others to build on them tend to attract more citations and more collaboration offers — outcomes that matter well beyond the week itself. For a fuller picture of the community's culture around openness, see our overview of emerging trends in geospatial science.
Advice for First-Time Authors
If this is your first ISPRS submission, a few principles improve your odds. Choose a scope you can fully validate within the page limit rather than an over-ambitious study you can only sketch. Position your contribution clearly against existing work, and make your evaluation reproducible — well-described datasets, metrics, and comparisons carry a lot of weight in this community. Start early, circulate a draft to co-authors and colleagues, and leave time to act on internal feedback before the deadline.
It also helps to understand the society and its publishing culture; our guide on the ISPRS society gives useful background on the organisation behind the proceedings. Above all, read the official ISPRS Geospatial Week 2025 call for papers in full before you begin, note every deadline, and use the current templates. With the process understood and your work carefully prepared, submitting to ISPRS Geospatial Week 2025 becomes a clear, manageable path to publishing in a respected, open-access venue.