The Custodian of the Holy Mosques Hajj Research Institute at Um-Alqura University won the best scientific research prize during the International Symposium for Geographic and remote sensation Information System Applications in the Middle East. Dr. Osamah bin Fadhel Al-Bar, Dean of the Institute, said a scientific research jointly conducted by Dr. Abdulateef bin Abdulaziz Al-Harthi and Dr. Nabil bin Abdulqadir Kushaq in which they used latest technologies in air photography and analyzed digital photos in Hajj applications was awarded the prize.