ASPRS 2016 Annual Conference

IGTF 2016

Imaging & Geospatial Technology Forum (IGTF)& co-located JACIE Workshop
Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) Workshop

Fort Worth, Texas USA
April 11–15
Fort Worth Convention Center
Awards for Outstanding Papers, Professional Achievement, Service and Region
activities are determined by committee selection. Scholarships and academic
awards are also determined by committee selection but are chosen fromamong current applications. For details on the application process, see:
http://www.asprs.org/ASPRS-Awards-and-Scholarships.html
Keynote Address, Wednesday, April 13, 2016–– Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award–– Photogrammetric (Fairchild) Award–– Outstanding Technical Achievement Award
Awards Dessert Reception, Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm–– Fellow Awards–– Outstanding Service Awards–– Presidential Citations–– Scholarships–– Outstanding Paper Awards

ASPRS Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award
Roy A. Welch
Dr. Roy A. Welch was born in Waukesha,
Wisconsin. In 1961, Welch received his B.S.
degree in Geography and Biology from
Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin. In
1962, he conducted glacial geomorphologicaland ecological studies in southeast Alaska
for The Ohio State University Institute ofPolar Studies From 1962 to 1964, he was aphoto-analyst with the U.S. Government. In
1965, he received his M.A. degree in PhysicalGeography from the University of Oklahoma
and in 1968, his Ph.D. in photogrammetry,
remote sensing and physical geography
from the University of Glasgow. His doctoral
research involved the development andapplication of aerial photographic methods
for studying glacial areas in southeast
Iceland and Britain. This work resulted inseveral publications in The Photogrammetric
Record and Photogrammetric Engineering.
Following his graduation, 1968 to
1969, Welch worked as a manager in the
Earth Science Department and Senior
Photogrammetric Engineer for the Iteck
Corporation and in 1969-1971, as a National
Academy of Sciences Postdoctoral Research
Associate for the National Research Council
evaluating factors influencing image qualityof air and space photographs. He also taught
photogrammetry at the U.S. Departmentof Agriculture Graduate School. In 1971,
he joined the faculty of The University ofGeorgia (UGA) Department of Geography
where he was responsible for undergraduate
and graduate courses in field methods,
photo-interpretation, photogrammetry,
remote sensing and geographic information
systems. He reached the highest faculty
rank of Distinguished Research Professor
in the UGA Franklin College of Arts andScience and retired in 2003 as Emeritus
Distinguished Research Professor.

Welch’s early professional activities
include service as a Remote Sensing
Specialist for the U.S. Geological Survey(USGS). He participated in USGS and the
Agency for International Development(AID) Landsat remote sensing projects andconducted research on the cartographic
potential of SIR-B, SPOT, Landsat andSkylab image data In the 1970s, he also
worked as a consultant or advisor to several
groups, including the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA), SPOT
Image Corporation, and the California
Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory In 1980, he received a fourmonth appointment from Japan’s Ministryof Education to study the space program
and remote sensing activities of Japan. In
1981, Welch was appointed to the Space
Program Advisory Panel of the Office ofTechnology Assessment, U.S. Congress.
In 1984, Welch founded the Laboratory
for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science(LRMS), a research laboratory, and served
as its Director until his retirement in 2003
His externally-funded contracts and grants
focused on research involving cartographic
evaluation of remote sensing imagery, soil
erosion processes, hydrologic modeling andassessment of invasive aquatic vegetation
using photogrammetry, surveying, remotesensing and GIS. In 1989, LRMS was elevatedto the status of a Center and renamed
the Center for Remote Sensing and
Mapping Science (CRMS) In 1998, CRMS wasnamed a National Aeronautic and Space
Administration (NASA) Center of Excellenceand his leadership resulted in over $5M ofexternally funded grants from agencies
including NASA, USGS, National Science
Foundation, National Park Service, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency,
and the US Army Corps of Engineers, alongwith numerous state agencies, non-profit
organizations and private companies.
Welch founded and was President of
R-WEL, Inc., a company that developed
and marketed mapping software for small
computers. Dr. Welch was President of ASPRS
in 1984 and between 1992-1996 he served
as President of Commission IV, Mappingand Geographic Information Systems,
International Society for Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).
Welch is the author of more than
170 refereed publications on sensor
performance, image quality, mappingfrom satellite image data, remote sensing
and geographic information system (GIS)
applications He is a member of ASPRS,
the American Congress on Surveying
and Mapping, Association of American
Geographers, British PhotogrammetricSociety, and Society of Sigma Xi He has thedistinction of being a Fellow of both ASPRS(1995) and ISPRS (2010) and he received
many awards throughout his career including

the ASPRS 2006 SAIC/Estes Memorial
Teaching Award, The University of Georgia
Research Foundation 1996 Inventor of theYear Award, ASPRS Alan Gordon Memorial
Award (1993) for contributions to desktop
mapping with personal computers including
digital photogrammetry, radargrammetry
and three-dimensional terrain visualization,
Sigma Xi Active Member Research Awardfor significant research on the cartographic
applications of satellite imagery (1982),
ASPRS Fairchild Photogrammetric Award forresearch leading to significant contributions
in remote sensing, image quality assessment
and digital image processing (1981) and the
University of Georgia Research Foundation
Creative Research Medal (1981) for remotesensing studies of land use changes in China.
Welch has mentored nearly 40 doctoraland masters graduate advisees andinvited many international scholars to
conduct research at CRMS. His former
students and associates hold positionsof leadership in several government
agencies, private companies, universities
and professional societies, owing muchto his influence and high standards.

The Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest award an ASPRS member canreceive, and there are only 25 living Honorary Members of the Society at any given time
Candidates are chosen by a Nominating Committee made up of the past five recipients of
the award and chaired by the most recent recipient Initiated in 1937, this life-time award isgiven in recognition of individuals who have rendered distinguished service to ASPRS and/or
who have attained distinction in advancing the science and use of the geospatial information
sciences It is awarded for professional excellence and for at least 20 years of service to
ASPRS.
Purpose: To recognize an individual who has rendered distinguished service to ASPRS and/or
who has attained distinction in advancing the science and use of the mapping sciences. It isawarded for professional excellence and for service to ASPRS and consists of a plaque and acertificate.
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation.

ASPRS Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award
Kass Green
Kass Green’s experience spans thirty yearsof managing and supervising GIS and remotesensing professionals, as well as leadership in
GIS and remote sensing research and policy.
In 1974, Green received a B.S. degree
in Forestry and Resource Managementfrom the University of California,
Berkeley (UC Berkeley); an M.S. degree inResource Policy and Management fromthe University of Michigan, Ann Arborin1981 and advanced to Ph.D. candidacy
in Environmental Science, Policy, andManagement at UC Berkeley that same year.
Green switched her career from natural
resource economics to GIS and remotesensing in 1985 when an early employer
requested that she perform a benefit cost
analysis of alternative GIS software packages
for the firm to purchase In1988, Green andher husband co-founded Pacific Meridian
Resources a GIS/remote sensing firm thatthey grew to 75 employees in seven offices
nationwide and sold to Space Imaging in 2000
After running half of Space Imaging
for three years, Green decided tofocus her career on challenging remotesensing mapping and policy projects As
a non-tiring advocate of Landsat, Green
testified before Congress and worked
on numerous initiatives to support theLandsat Program Her research includes
innovations in automated change detection
and object oriented image classification
Over the last six years, Green has had thepleasure of using object oriented techniques
to create detailed vegetation maps of theGrand Canyon National Park, the nationalparks of Hawaii, and Sonoma County,
California, from high resolution optical andlidar imagery. Green chairs NASA’s Earth
Science Applications Committee, co-founded
and chaired the Department of the Interior’s
Landsat Advisory Group and has served ona variety of Federal Advisory Committees
for NASA, NOAA and DOI. She has taught
numerous workshops for the American
Society of Photogrammetry and Remote
Sensing (ASPRS) and federal agencies
She is a fellow in ASPRS, and a pastpresident of both ASPRS (2008-2009) and
MAPPS She is currently the lead author ona remote sensing guide being developed
for Esri, and will soon begin work on thethird edition of Assessing the Accuracyof Remotely Sensed Data, Principles andPractices with Dr. Russell Congalton Deemeda “rock star of remote sensing” by Directions
Magazine, her research and accomplishments
in mapping and GIS are world renowned.
An ASPRS member since 1988, Green
has served the Society on the ASPRS Boardof Directors, as co-founder of the GIS
Division, Program Chair for the 2000 Pecora
Conference, and has presented workshops
at almost every ASPRS conference for thelast decade She has received numerous
awards from the Society including:–– First Place, ASPRS John I. Davidson Award
for Practical Papers, 2011–– ASPRS Fellow Award, 2011–– ASPRS Birdseye Presidential Award, 2009–– ASPRS Outstanding Workshop Instructor
Award, 2008.
–– ASPRS Presidential Citation, 2000.
–– Meritorious Service Award, 1993.
–– Second Place, ASPRS John I. Davidson
Award for Practical Papers, 1994.

The Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest award an ASPRS member canreceive, and there are only 25 living Honorary Members of the Society at any given time
Candidates are chosen by a Nominating Committee made up of the past five recipients of theaward and chaired by the most recent recipient Initiated in 1937, this life-time award is given inrecognition of individuals who have rendered distinguished service to ASPRS and/or who haveattained distinction in advancing the science and use of the geospatial information sciences It
is awarded for professional excellence and for at least 20 years of service to ASPRS.
Purpose: To recognize an individual who has rendered distinguished service to ASPRS and/or who
has attained distinction in advancing the science and use of the mapping sciences. It is awarded
for professional excellence and for service to ASPRS and consists of a plaque and a certificate.
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation.

The Photogrammetric (Fairchild) AwardDavid F. Maune
The 2016 Photogrammetric Award (Fairchild)is awarded to David F. Maune in recognitionof his lifelong contributions to the scienceand art of photogrammetry Maune earned
his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geodetic scienceand photogrammetry from The Ohio State
University in 1970 and 1973 respectively
and won the ASPRS’ Talbert Abrams GrandAward in 1977 for his pioneering researchin digital photogrammetry. Maune also
received the ASPRS Outstanding Service
Award in 2002 and again in 2007 and an
ASPRS Presidential Citation in 2015.
He served for 30 years on Army active
duty in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers(USACE) and was the Army’s leading
Topographic Engineer for over a decade Hecommanded topographic engineer units
at platoon, company, and battalion levels.
He was wounded in combat in 1966 whileserving as the Mapping Officer, U.S. Army
Vietnam He served as Topographic Plans
Officer at Headquarters, Department of theArmy, where he rewrote Army topographic
engineering doctrine to focus on terrain
analysis, created the Terrain Analysis
Warrant Officer specialty, and created
Division Terrain Teams equipped with modern
technology He served as Inspector Generalof the Defense Mapping Agency, and Directorof the Defense Mapping School where hetransitioned Army topographic engineersfrom analog to digital technology. He lastserved as Director, U.S. Army Topographic
Engineering Center (TEC), winning the
Army’s R&D Organization of the Year for 26
innovative technologies that modernized
U.S. Army topographic engineers. He retired
from the Army in 1991 at the rank of Colonel.
Maune joined Dewberry Consultantsin 1992 as Senior Remote Sensing
Project Manager. He has managed five
major Dewberry geospatial contracts

with USGS, four with NOAA, one with
DHS, plus miscellaneous contracts withstate and local governments and private
industry His signature accomplishments
at Dewberry include the following:–– 1998, author of the National Height
Modernization Study, published by the
National Geodetic Survey, on how tomodernize the National Height Systemin the U.S. based on CORS stations anddifferential GPS.
–– 2001, editor and principal author of
Digital Elevation Model Technologies andApplications: The DEM Users Manual,published by ASPRS.
–– 2003, author of Appendix A: “Guidance for
Aerial Mapping and Surveying,” to FEMA’s
Guidelines and Specifications for Flood
Hazard Mapping Partners.
–– 2003, received the ASPRS Fellow Awardfor lifetime achievements.
–– 2004, principal author of Guidelines for
Digital Elevation Data, published by the
National Digital Elevation Program (NDEP).
–– 2004, principal author of the ASPRS
Guidelines: Vertical Accuracy Reportingfor Lidar Data.
–– 2007, appointed as charter member of the
National Geospatial Advisory Committee(NGAC).
–– 2007, editor and principal author of
Digital Elevation Model Technologies andApplications: The DEM Users Manual, 2ndedition, published by ASPRS.
–– 2008, author of the Alaska DEM
Whitepaper that led to statewide IFSAR
mapping of Alaska.
–– 2010, principal author of FEMA Procedure
Memorandum No. 61, Standards for Lidar
and Other High Quality Digital Topography.
–– 2012, author of the National Enhanced
Elevation Assessment (NEEA) whichdocumented benefits of elevation dataand led directly to USGS’ ongoing 3D
Elevation Program (3DEP) based onnationwide QL2 lidar.
–– 2014, a principal author of the ASPRS
Positional Accuracy Standards for Digital
Geospatial Data.

–– 2015, author of USACE Engineer Manual
1110-1-1000, Photogrammetric and LiDAR
Mapping.
–– 2015, appointed as member of NOAA’s
Hydrographic Services Review Panel(HSRP).

Purpose: The Photogrammetric (Fairchild) Award is designed to stimulate the developmentof the art of aerial photogrammetry in the United States. Practicability is the essence of theAward and is the basis for the review of all candidates.
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation and Lockheed Martin
The award consists of a silver presentation plaque mounted on a walnut wood panel and an
engraved plaqueASPRS Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA)Charles C. Counselman III
for making accurate position information available to all
The ASPRS awards its 2016 OTAA toProfessor and Dr. Charles (Chuck)Counselman of MIT for making it possible foreveryone to determine position coordinates
accurately from radio signals received
from earth-satellites such as those of
the Global Positioning System, or “GPS.”The path to accurate positioning for
all became visible during World War II, withthe development of radio- or radar-based
methods of positioning and navigation,
especially Loran. GPS is basically a Loransystem with radio transmitters orbiting
the Earth instead of fixed on shorelines.
GPS is more accurate because its radio
signals can travel along clear lines-of-sight;
whereas Loran signals must follow theearth’s curved surface via ground- and/or
ionosphere-guided modes of propagation.
In 1981, GPS was being developed by
the U.S. Air Force as a weapon system,a “force enhancer.” To keep an enemy
from using GPS against us, all GPS signals
were encoded and the code keys would be
military secrets, not available to anyone
outside the Department of Defense (the“DoD”), a few other U.S. government
agencies, and allied military forces.
Independently, in 1981, Professor
Counselman invented a method andsystem for determining position fromGPS signals without knowledge of the
GPS codes. Recognizing the potential for
hostile use of his inventions, he disclosed
them to the Air Force. He was told to limit
further disclosure and to register with
the Office of Munitions Control, but hewas encouraged to develop his inventions
because they promised to reduce theuncertainty of GPS-based position
determination by a factor of one thousand.

In 1982, the Air Force found anotherreason to like Counselman’s inventions.
The U.S. Congress had begun to press
the DoD to make GPS available to thegeneral public. Counselman gave the
DoD a way to do this while continuing
to defend against hostile use.
Counselman’s GPS technology wasderived from radio-astronomical techniques
he had developed and applied ten years
earlier to determine the positions of quasars(natural, extragalactic, radio sources)[Ref. 1]; to test Einstein’s General Theory
of Relativity [2]; to establish selenodetic
control for photogrammetry of the Moon[3]; to track the Apollo Lunar Roving
Vehicles [4]; and, in 1980, to determine windspeeds and directions in the atmosphereof Venus [5]. His method was to determine
position from “doubly differenced” phaseobservations. The phases of radio signals
emitted simultaneously by different sources
and received simultaneously (except for
propagation-delay differences) by different
receivers were differenced between thesources and between the receivers. Thus,
unknown phase shifts associated withindividual sources, and with individual
receivers, were canceled; so the relative
positions of the sources and/or receivers
could be determined with exquisite accuracy.
When he learned of the Air Force’s
NAVSTAR system (later renamed “GPS”),
Professor Counselman knew that his
doubly-differenced-phase technique,applied to GPS, would determine relativeposition vectors with millimeter- to
centimeter-level accuracy. [6] He would
need receivers that were adapted to the
GPS signal structure and that measured
the phases of the carrier and subcarrier

waves implicit in GPS signals received
simultaneously from multiple satellites.
To keep the phases of signals received
from different satellites from being
shifted differently by a receiver, heinvented a receiver architecture in which acomposite of signals coming from multiple
satellites was digitized before different
satellites’ signals were separated. Then, bysynchronous, parallel, digital processing, thedifferent satellites’ carrier and subcarrier
phases could be determined, free of error
due to inter-satellite differences.
Counselman and a former MIT colleague
themselves funded the development of apractical hardware-software system foraccurate positioning, using GPS satellite
signals, without knowledge of the GPS
codes. Position was determined fromdoubly-differenced phase observations. Thissystem, the Macrometer® Interferometric
Surveyor, was announced in Feb. 1982 [7]and was tested by the multi-agency Federal
Geodetic Control Committee in Jan. 1983
[8]. Macrometer systems were boughtby the U.S. National Geodetic Survey andby geodetic surveying firms in the USA
and Germany; and they were used on fivecontinents. Macrometer systems have beenin the Scientific Instruments collection of theSmithsonian National Museum of American
History in Washington, DC, since 1997 [9] andin the Geodesy and Mapping Department of
the Deutsches Museum in Munich since 1998.
Until Professor Counselman’s patents[12] expired, virtually all GPS receivers madein this country were made under licenses
from Western Atlas International Inc.,
which had acquired the patents in 1984.
Professor Counselman continued tocollaborate with the Air Force throughthe Air Force Geophysics Laboratory andLincoln Laboratory; and, from 1994 to
1998, he consulted for the U.S. Secretaryof Defense as a member of Defense
Science Board Task Forces I & II on GPS.
References and Notes
1. 1. Counselman III, C. C., Very-long-baseline
interferometry techniques applied
to problems of geodesy, geophysics,
planetary science, astronomy, and generalrelativity, Proc. IEEE, vol. 61, pp. 1225-1230,
September 1973.
Counselman III, C. C., Radio Astrometry,chapter in Ann. Rev. Astron. andAstrophys., vol. 14, pp. 197-214, 1976.
2. Counselman III, C. C., Kent, S. M., Knight, C.
A., Shapiro, I. I., Clark, T. A., Hinter-egger,
H. F., Rogers, A. E. E., and Whitney, A. R.,
Solar gravitational deflection of radio
waves measured by very-long-baseline
interferometry, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 33,
pp. 1621- 1623, December 30, 1974.
3. Counselman III, C. C., Hinteregger, H. F., King,R. W., and Shapiro, I. I., Precision selenodesy
via differential interferometry, Science,
vol. 181, pp. 772-774, August 24, 1973.
Counselman III, C. C., Hinteregger, H.
F., King, R. W., and Shapiro, I. I., Lunarbaselines and libration from differential
VLBI observations of ALSEPs, The
Moon, vol. 8, pp. 484-489, 1973.
4. Counselman III, C. C., Hinteregger, H. F., andShapiro, I. I., Astronomical applications ofdifferential interferometry, Science, vol.
178, pp. 607-608, November 10, 1972.
5. Counselman III, C. C., Gourevitch, S. A.,
King, R. W., Loriot, G. B., and Ginsberg, E.
S., Zonal and meridional circulation of thelower atmosphere of Venus determined byradio interferometry, J. Geophys. Res., vol.
85, pp. 8026-8030, 30 December 1980.
6. Counselman III, C. C., and Shapiro, I. I.,
Miniature interferometer terminals
for earth surveying, in Proc. 9th GEOP
Conference, pp. 65-85 (Dept. of Geodetic
Science Rept. No. 280, Ohio State Univ.,Columbus, Ohio 43210) October 1978.
Counselman III, C. C., Cox, D. B., Greenspan,
R. L., and Shapiro, I. I., Backpack VLBI
terminal with subcentimeter capability,
in Radio Interferometry Techniques
for Geodesy (NASA conference pub.
no. 2115), pp. 409-414, 1980.
7. Counselman III, C. C., and Steinbrecher, D.
H., The MACROMETERTM compact radio
interferometry terminal for geodesy
with GPS, in Proc. Third Intl. Geodetic
Symp. on Satellite Doppler Positioning,
vol. 2, pp. 1165-1172, 8 February 1982.
8. Report on Test and Demonstrationof MACROMETER™ Model 1000
Interfero¬metric Surveyor, by L. D.
Hothem and C. J. Fronczek, Federal
Geodetic Control Committee, Report
FGCC-IS-83-2, May 1983.

9. <http://americanhistory.si.edu/
collections/search/object/
nmah_1184540> as of 23 March 2016.
10. Counselman III, C. C., Method and System
for Determining Position Using Signals from
Satellites, U. S. Patent No. 4,667,203, 24 pp.
incl. 9 figs. and 80 claims, May 19, 1987.
Counselman III, C. C., Multi-Antenna GPS
Receiver for Seismic Survey Vessels, U. S.
Patent No. 4,809,005, 77 pp. incl. 25 figs.
& 9 claims, February 28, 1989.
Counselman III, C. C., System for
Simultaneously Deriving Position
Information from a Plurality ofSatellite Transmissions, U. S. Patent
No. 5,014,066 (19 pp. incl. 9 figs.
and 12 claims), May 7, 1991.
and others.

The ASPRS Outstanding Technical Achievement Award was first introduced in 2012 This Award
consists of a silver presentation plaque mounted on a wood panel plus a monetary award of $5,500.
Purpose: This generous grant is designed to reward the developer[s] of a specificbreakthrough technology which causes quantum advances in the practice ofphotogrammetry, remote sensing or geographic information systems in the United States.
Donor: In 2011, ASPRS and the ASPRS Foundation received a very generous individual donationfrom Honorary Member and ASPRS Fellow Clifford W. Greve to endow a new Outstanding
Technical Achievement Award. This award is now fully endowed at the $5,500 level..

ASPRS Fellow Award
Ross Lunetta
Ross Lunetta is a Senior ResearchPhysical Scientist at the United States
Environmental Protection Agency in
Research Triangle Park, NC. He obtained
his B.A. (1977) and M.A. (1979) in Biology
from Northern Michigan University. Also,
he completed Post M.A. research in aquatic
ecology (1979-81) from Wayne State
University and in remote sensing (198183) from Eastern Michigan University.
For nearly three decades, Lunetta
has made significant contributions tocharacterize landscape condition andmonitor watershed changes at regional
scales using remote sensing. He hasdeveloped methods for monitoring
vegetation phenology related to landscapedynamics, and to land cover condition andchanges in near real-time using automatedapproaches An important thrust of thiswork has been collaboration with ASPRS in a
number of venues to both communicate thevalue of the technology and to reach out toa wide body of users to illustrate that utility.
Lunetta has been an active member since
1984 He has provided untiring support of
ASPRS activities through a variety of venues
including publications in PhotogrammetricEngineering and Remote Sensing (PE&RS)
and numerous PE&RS journal reviews. He
has sponsored/participated in workshops
on Remote Sensing of Wetlands in almost all
ASPRS Annual Conferences since 1984 including
the GIS/LIS conference and at PECORA 18
in Sterling, VA He has presented numerous
talks and chaired sessions, as well as funding
and staffing numerous exhibitor booths at
ASPRS Annual, Fall, and Regional meetingsand PECORA Symposia 17 and 16, while alsochairing technical sessions, and presenting
research, of which most were invited
Time and time again, Lunetta has soughtout opportunities to bring his and hiscolleague’s work into ASPRS venues He co-lead the ground-breaking Landsat Pathfinder
North American Landscape Characterization(NALC) Program of the 1990’s; he hosted
peer reviews at ASPRS national meetings in
New Orleans and in Reno, where the famous
Multi-Resolution Land Characterization(MRLC) or NLCD land cover mapping anddatabase consortium was initiated as afollow-on to NALC He brought his leadershipto bare on the GIS/LIS series of meetings
that were so successful for ASPRS leadershipin the mapping sciences Whenever he andhis colleagues have had seminal ideas to help
the world, he has brought their involvement
into the ASPRS “tent”, helping demonstrate
the Society’s leadership worldwide.
The latest leadership opportunity was his
co-organization and co-sponsorship of theMultiTemp 2009 Symposium in Connecticut
for ASPRS He has successfully brought
this program to the United States twicein the last decade, and his leadership waslauded at the Mississippi MultiTemp meetinga few years back by Under Secretary ofCommerce Admiral Lautenbacher of NOAA.
Interesting to note was his quiet nurturingof holding an ASPRS meeting with CASA in
Ottawa; he advocated it for a MultiTemp
meeting and later the Society saw the valueand held their annual meeting in Ottawa.
All of this work has earned him
recognitions from ASPRS including: the2004 ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper
in Geographic Information Systems; in1997 both the John I. Davidson President’sAward for Practical Papers and the
ERDAS Award for Best Scientific Paper
in Remote Sensing and in 1992 and 1995,
Certificates of Appreciation for Meritorious
Service He was elected to the 2008-2009
International Society for Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing Co-Chair for
Wetlands in the Working Group VIII/6 on
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Biodiversity.

ASPRS Fellow Award
Mostafa S. Madani
Mostafa S. Madani was, until recently, theChief Technology Officer (CTO) for Sanborn’s
Mapping Division. He was responsible forestablishing the company’s technical visionand leading all aspects of the company’s
technology development. He used a
blend of technologies to assist Sanborn
in building relationships with vendors,
contractors, and external companies forall of its technology related initiatives.
Prior to joining Sanborn, he served as
chief photogrammetrist and product/industry manager for Z/I Imaging, adivision of Intergraph Corporation. He was
responsible for directing and driving theoverall operational concept and the feature
requirements for the ImageStation lineof analytical and digital photogrammetry
applications (VAX, Unix, and Windows
Operating Systems). In addition, he managed
all aspects of photogrammetry productplanning including ROI and market analysis
and evaluation of customers’ requirements.
He did intensive work on the Digital
Mapping Camera (DMC) and RMK D (medium
format digital camera) calibrations andprovided a concept for QC/QA of the GPS/INS data in aerial triangulation. He has
published over 55 technical papers.
He worked as a Surveyor and taught
Surveying at the College of Civil Engineering
for several years. While teaching at the
Civil Engineering Department, Universityof Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, hepublished a book on Surveying, in Persian.
He is affiliated with a number ofnational and international professionalsocieties such as ASPRS and ISPRS. He
is the co-chair of ISPRS WG I/3 and amember of the ISPRS Science Advisory
and Scholarship Committees.
Madani earned a B.S. in Physics fromthe University of Tehran, Iran M. Eng. From
the College of Surveying, Tehran, Iran, andan M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of
Geodetic Science and Surveying, The Ohio
State University and has been an active
member of ASPRS since 1978. He edited
PE&RS papers for several years as Associate
Technical Editor and contributed to PE&RS
as well. Madani served on the PDAD Camera
Calibration Committee and he is one of
the authors and editors of the Manual of
Photogrammetry, Fifth and Sixth Editions.

Purpose: Started in 1992, the designation of Fellow is conferred on Society members who havebeen active for at least ten years and who have performed exceptional service in advancing
the science and use of the mapping sciences and related disciplines. It is awarded for
professional excellence and for service to the Society.
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation
The ASPRS Fellow Award includes a hand-engrossed certificate.

Presidential Citations
Stewart Walker
for his continued leadership of the Streamlining Task Force that now is working
on implementation of our new bylaws and operating procedures.

Al Stevensfor his exceptional service to the Awards Program and acceptanceand testing of the changes to the awards this year.

Jesse Winch
for his exceptional service to the Awards Program and acceptanceand testing of the changes to the awards this year.

Jessica Fayne
for her work on the Awards Program including developing andstewarding a new application and review process.

Jerry Lencowski
for his leadership of the IGTF 2016 Planning and Organizing Committee.

Raad Saleh and Demetrio Zourourakis
for their diligent work on the IGTF 2016 Planning and Organizing Committee.

Becky Morton
for her leadership of the Value Proposition Task Force.

Bandana Karr and David Perkins
organizing and producing Frontier Day
Purpose: First awarded in 1992, Presidential Citations are presented by the ASPRS President
to members of ASPRS and other societies, family members, and friends in recognition of
special, personal, and meritorious contributions to the operation or advancement of theSociety and its interests during the presidential year.
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation
The Presidential Citation is a hand-engrossed certificate

ASPRS Outstanding Service Award
Russ Congalton
for his excellent editorship and dedication to PE&RS and his
continued service during our search for a replacement.

Cliff Mugnier
for his column Grids and Datums in PE&RS and his dedication to ASPRS.
Purpose: Established in 1991, The Outstanding Service Award is given to Society members
in recognition of outstanding and unusual efforts in helping ASPRS develop and carry out
its program over a sustained period. Recipients have performed outstanding service at
the chapter, regional, or national level. Awardees’ service includes any activities, including
professional, that have helped the Society achieve its goals and objectives.
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation
The Outstanding Service Award consists of a bronze plaqueRobert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship
Chisaphat Supunyachotsakul
Ms. Chisaphat Supunyachotsakul is a doctoral candidate at Purdue University,
Civil Engineering/Geomatics, with a focus on lidar feature extraction She has
an extremely strong background in photogrammetry and geomatics Last
year, she was the recipient of a prestigious internship at NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center to study lidar for NASA applications.
Purpose: First given in 1986, the Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship is intended toencourage and commend college students who display exceptional interest and ability in thetheoretical aspects of photogrammetry.
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation. This award was originally established by Mrs. Helen Altenhofen
as a memorial to her husband, Robert E. Altenhofen, past president of ASPRS. He wasan outstanding practitioner of photogrammetry and made notable contributions to themathematical aspects of the science.
The Altenhofen Scholarship consists of a monetary award of $2,000 and a hand-engrossed certificate.

Abraham Anson Memorial Scholarship
Jory Fleming
Jory Fleming is an undergraduate at the University of South Carolina, majoring in both
geography and marine science with a minor in geophysics. Fleming’s core interest is GIS,
a discipline with the ability to integrate multiple data sources and perform analyses andvisualizations that enable deductive leaps and inferences. His academic program andinternships in geography have given him extensive technical experience with GIS, while his
studies and research in marine science and geophysics have given him a solid researchbackground in the geosciences. Fleming plans to pursue graduate school in GIS andoceanography to further his understanding of both the marine environment and utilization

of geospatial technologies and sensor
networks. He believes that the integrationof big data analysis, regional or global
scale sensor networks, and GIS will enable

new breakthroughs in oceanography,
facilitating his career goal of utilizing arobust set of technological methodologies ininterdisciplinary oceanographic research..

Purpose: To encourage students who have an exceptional interest in pursuing scientificresearch or education in geospatial science or technology related to photogrammetry,
remote sensing, surveying and mapping to enter a professional field where they can use theknowledge of their discipline to excel in their profession.
Donor: This award is presented by the ASPRS Foundation from funds donated by the Anson
bequest and contributions from the Society and the Potomac Region as a tribute to Abe
Anson’s many contributions to the field of photogrammetry, remote sensing, and long,dedicated service to the Society.
The award consists of a certificate and a monetary award of $2,000.

John O. Behrens Institute for Land Information Memorial Scholarship
Scott Nesbit
Scott Nesbit is an undergraduate at the
University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire, majoringin Geography and Environmental ScienceHis passion and interest are both fed byremote sensing and the capabilities it has
to monitor the Earth’s water resources andto improve proper environmental policies.
He believes that the avenues to be exploredamong runoff, agriculture, and humanimpacts to water resources are endless.
Nesbit is interested in learning more about
the environmental impacts of conventionalfarming on water quality and identifying amore sustainable way to provide food for theworld. He hopes to use his remote sensing
and GIS training, along with his landscapeprocess knowledge, to complete additional
research focused on runoff of all types as it
relates to water pollution He hopes to bringnew and additional attention to the causesof hypoxic zone development and, more
importantly, develop mitigation strategies
to reduce the expansion of the hypoxic zone
and to learn more about the increased algae
concentrations and impacts to aquatic life.

The John O. Behrens ILI Memorial Scholarship was established by the Institute for Land
Information (since officially dissolved) as a tribute to the many contributions of Mr. Behrens
in the field of geographic and land related information and technology John O. Behrens wasa founder of the ILI and the author of many articles about the value of spatial information,
land assessment and taxation, and land information policy In recognition of Mr. Behrens
outstanding contributions over his distinguished career, funds from the ILI have been donatedto the ASPRS Foundation to be administered for the John O. Behrens ILI Memorial Scholarship.
Purpose: To encourage students/persons who have an exceptional interest in pursuing
scientific research or education in geospatial science or technology or land information
systems/records to enter a professional field where they can use the knowledge of thisdiscipline to excel in their profession.
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation from funds donated by the ILI. The Award consists of acertificate and a monetary award of $2,000.

Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship
Tammy Parece
Biographical data not available at press time.
Over the course of more than a half century, Dr. Robert N. Colwell developed a reputation as
one of the world’s most respected leaders in remote sensing, a field that he stewarded fromthe interpretation of aerial photographs during World War II, to the advanced acquisition
and analysis of many types of geospatial data from military and civilian satellite platforms
His career included nearly 40 years of teaching and research at the University of California,
Berkeley, a distinguished record of military service reaching the rank of Rear Admiral, andprominent roles in private industry and as a consultant for many U.S. and international
agencies. Among the many awards bestowed upon him, Dr. Colwell had the distinction of being
one of the 25 Honorary Members of ASPRS.
Purpose: Established in 2006 to encourage and commend college/university graduate
students or post-doctoral researchers who display exceptional interest, desire, ability, andaptitude in the field of remote sensing or other related geospatial information technologies,
and who have a special interest in developing practical uses of these technologies.
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation, from funds donated by students, associates, colleagues andfriends of Robert N. Colwell.
The Award now consists of a grant of $6,500.

The DigitalGlobe Foundation Award
Rachel Hackett
Rachel Hackett is a Ph.D. student at Central
Michigan University in the Earth andEcosystem Science Program, with focusedinterests in UAV Remote sensing, botany, andfield research. Hackett has been selected toreceive a Digital Globe Foundation data grant
for her proposal related to her graduate
research work, titled “ Relationships
Between Overall Prairie Fen Biodiversity andVegetation Patch Dynamics: A Comparisonof Remote Sensing Technologies.” Hackett isan outstanding, published student scientist
who has already written and received

numerous grants and awards, and who
received the highest accolades from hersponsoring academic committee members.
Her promising research will investigate theuse of high spatial-resolution imagery,acquired through different remote sensing
platforms, for studying prairie fen diversity.
This research has both scientific merit,as it will benefit ecological theories, andpractical applicability, as it will also guidewetland managers on their future use of
applied remote sensing data sources.

TThe Award was established in 1991 In 2001 it became known as the Space Imaging Award for
the Application of High Resolution Digital Satellite Imagery, in 2006 it became The GeoEyeAward and in 2013 became the DigitalGlobe Foundation Award.
Purpose: To support remote sensing education and stimulate the development of applicationsof high-resolution digital satellite remote sensing data through the granting of DigitalGlobe
imagery for applied research by undergraduate or graduate students.
Donor: The DigitalGlobe Foundation through the ASPRS Foundation

William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship
Lyndsay Rankin
Lyndsay Rankin, currently a Ph.D. student
in Ecology at Northern Illinois University has
been selected to receive the 2016 William
A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship. Rankin isbeing presented this award in recognition ofher innovative academic accomplishments,
significant analytical skills, and impressive
record of research. Rankin has clearly
demonstrated the ability to combine hersignificant field and laboratory skills toanswer important ecological questions. Her
current research will be one of the firstto connect terrestrial nutrient dynamics
unique to seabird islands to nearshore
environments utilizing advanced remotesensing technologies. Her work exhibits
the kind of innovation William Fischer

would have wanted recognized and theresults of her dissertation research
clearly holds significant promise to better
understand land-water interaction
and the impacts of these interactions
on both land and marine species
The committee congratulations Rankin on
her accomplishments and we are confident
that her current and future research
efforts will continue to make important
contributions to the global community.The committee congratulations Ms.
Rankin on her accomplishments and
we are confident that her current andfuture research efforts will continue
to make important contributions
to the global community.

Purpose: The William A. Fischer Scholarship facilitates graduate studies and career goals ofa worthy student adjudged to address new and innovative uses of remote sensing data andtechniques that relate to the natural, cultural, or agricultural resources of the Earth. It wasestablished in 1984.
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation through individual and corporate contributions in memory ofWilliam A. Fischer.
The William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship consists of a hand-engrossed certificate and amonetary award of $2,000.

Leica Scholarship (formerly the Z/I Imaging Scholarship)
Caren Remillard
Caren Remillard is a University of Georgia
doctoral student in geography, GIS, andremote sensing. Her graduate research
applies photogrammetry and remote sensing
data in novel ways to explore complex
environmental questions. One of her main
research goals is to identify areas thatpossess high potential for restoring forest
connectivity between fragmented regions ofcritical forest habitats. She is interested in
integrating new image processing techniques
for improved land cover classifications to
extract the most accurate and valuable

information from remotely sensed data.
By incorporating multiple datasets andenvironmental variables into an innovative
geospatial model, she hopes to improveupon previous management strategies.
In the future, she would like to expand
this research into a career as a professor
and scientist using remote sensing forenvironmental conservation. Her research
incorporates NASA satellite imagery andgeospatial technologies to produce maps
and quantitative information regarding
historical and current conditions of thehabitat of the Cotton-top tamarin, one of
the most endangered primates in the world.
One of her ongoing research objectives isdeveloping and refining a multi-input andweighted GIS model designed to identify
suitable forest habitat for conservation
using freely available remote sensing data.

Purpose: The Leica Scholarship is designed to facilitate graduate-level studies and careergoals adjudged to address new and innovative uses of signal processing, image processing
techniques, and the application of photogrammetry to real-world techniques within the earth
imaging industry.
Donor: Leica Geosystems though the ASPRS Foundation.
The Leica Scholarship consists of a $2,000 cash prize and a hand-engrossed certificate.

Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship
Tara Mullen
Tara Mullen is a junior at the Universityof Maine, Orono, majoring in Surveying
Engineering Technology. She is thepast winner of the Warner M. Plummer
Scholarship and the E.N. Roberts Scholarshipboth offered by the New Hampshire Land
Surveyors Association. She earned an
Associate’s degree from the Universityof New Hampshire’s Thompson School ofApplied Science in Applied Science in Civil
Technology with a concentration in Surveying
and Mapping and graduated Summa Cum
Laude. This level of academic excellence iscontinuing with her current degree work. She
has completed two research projects, one
involving the intersection of geospatial dataand sustainability and the other including
the design of a full plan set and subdivision
design presented to the local planning board.
Mullen has been an active volunteer andmentor to other students. She is a memberof the “Engineers Without Borders” student
chapter, has served as a teaching assistant,a math tutor and tutored surveying forcivil technology and forestry programs.
She has also been an active member of the
New Hampshire Outing Club, organizing andleading hikes and first aid training, as well as
serving as a summer coordinator. She has
worked as a surveying intern where, as oneof her references noted, “she tenaciously
battled through hot days on insect-infested,briar-thick sites with no complaint” andher office work has been exemplary.
She is a current Surveyor-in-Training
in New Hampshire and plans to becomea fully licensed Land Surveyor andCertified Photogrammetrist and plansto pursue a career in aerial mapping.

Purpose: The Moffitt Scholarship was first presented in 2008 with the purpose ofencouraging upper-division, undergraduate-level and graduate-level college students
to pursue a course of study in surveying and photogrammetry leading to a career in thegeospatial mapping profession.
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation from funds donated to the Foundation from former students,
associates, colleagues and friends.
The award consists of a certificate and a monetary award of $6,500.

The Kenneth J. Osborn Memorial Scholarship
Aryn Cowley
Cowley is pursuing a Bachelor of Science
degree in Surveying Engineering from Ferris
State University (FSU), and plans to graduate
in May of 2016 Following her B.S., she intends
to apply her outstanding scholarshiptowards pursuit of a Master’s Degree atPurdue University Cowley exemplified
the Osborn qualities of communicationand collaboration through leadership ofactivities within the Ferris State campus
community by serving at a student memberof the Michigan Society of Professional
Surveyors, West Central Chapter of the
National Society of Professional Surveyors,
and as President of Burt & Mullett, thestudent chapter of the National Societyof Professional Surveyors at FSU.

Purpose: To encourage and commend college students who display exceptional interest,
desire, ability, and aptitude to enter the profession of surveying, mapping, photogrammetry,or geospatial information and technology In addition, the Award recognizes students
who excel at an aspect of the profession that Ken demonstrated so very well, that ofcommunications and collaboration.
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation from funds donated by the friends and colleagues of Kenneth
J. Osborn Recognized nationally and internationally, Ken was an outstanding practitioner ofsurveying, mapping, photogrammetry, and geospatial information and technology, and a greatfriend of the Society As a professional cartographer with the U.S. Geological Survey, Kenmade significant contributions to these fields. The award was first offered in 2005.
The award consists of an engrossed certificate and a monetary award of $2,000.

Ta Liang Memorial Award
April Frake
The Ta Liang Memorial Award for 2016is being presented to April Frake forher academic achievements, planned
program of research-related travel, andextracurricular activities. Frake is a Ph.D.
student in Geography at the Michigan State
University (MSU) specializing in medical
geography She earned her M.A. (2014) and
B.A. (2012) degrees from the Universityof North Carolina at Greensboro in applied
geography and geography, respectively
Frake’s current research focuses on theintersection of food insecurity and malaria
infection in Malawi Her research aims todevelop a high-resolution hydrological model

to characterize the potential increase inbreeding sites for malaria vectors causedby irrigation for agriculture. The Ta Liang
travel grant will support field visits to the
Bwanje Valley Irrigation Scheme in central
Malawi to gather raw elevation data inan effort to ensure greater reliability ofmodeling outputs and inform later vector
sampling surveys across the study area.
In addition to excelling as a student, Frakeis co-organizer of the MSU Geography
Department Colloquium Series and serves
as an outreach committee member for
Supporting Women in Geography.

Purpose: To facilitate research-related travel by outstanding graduate students in remotesensing, including field investigations, agency visits, participation in conferences, or othertravel which enhances or facilitates graduate research.

Donor: Individual and corporate contributions to the ASPRS Foundation in memory of Ta Liang.
Established in memory of Ta Liang, a skilled civil engineer, an excellent teacher, and one of theworld’s foremost airphoto interpreters, the award consists of a hand-engrossed certificate
and a $2,000 grant.

Paul R. Wolf Memorial Scholarship
Howard Lassiter
Howard Lassiter is being presented thisaward in recognition of his outstanding
academic credentials and his plans andenthusiasm to become an education
professional in Surveying, Mapping,
Photogrammetry and related fields Lassiteris currently a Ph.D. candidate (planned
graduation May 2018) in Geomatics at the
University of Florida He has demonstrated
his continued interest, dedication,enthusiasm, passion, and aptitude to
become an education professional andhas been recognized at all levels Of note
is his interest in teaching across a wide
spectrum of classes at all levels The
committee wishes him much success andis confident that his current and future
education efforts will continue to makeimportant contributions to the Surveying,
Mapping and Photogrammetry community.

Purpose: To encourage and commend college students who display exceptional interest,
desire, ability, and aptitude to enter the profession of teaching surveying, mapping, or
photogrammetry.
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation from funds donated by the friends and colleagues of PaulR. Wolf Recognized nationally and internationally, Paul was an outstanding educator andpractitioner of surveying, mapping, and photogrammetry and a great friend of the Society As
author, teacher, and mentor, Paul made significant educational and academic contributions tothese fields. The award was inaugurated in 2003.
The award includes a hand-engrossed certificate and a $4,000 grant.

International Educational Literature Award
Surveying Engineering Department, Salahaddin University-Erbil, Iraq
Established in 2009, the Surveying
Engineering Department, Salahaddin
University-Erbil, Iraq is in the process ofbuilding a remote sensing program with afocus on photogrammetry, map projections,
geodesy, GPS, and Land Law Salahaddin
University-Erbil has a strong need formaterials to assemble library holdings andresources for the Department’s Geoscience
Program The award materials will provide
students with current technology andadvancements in remote sensing The
Surveying Engineering Department willplace the materials in the University
Library to share the resources with otheruniversities in Iraq, especially in Kurdistan.

Purpose: The International Educational Literature Award (IELA) was first bestowed in 1990. Its
goal is to improve the quantity and quality of literature in the recipient’s library, particularlyin the mapping sciences (i.e. photogrammetry, remote sensing, GIS, and related disciplines) byproviding ASPRS educational materials and publications.
Donor: the ASPRS Foundation from funds donated by ASPRS members and participating
sponsors through contributions to the ASPRS Foundation.

The IELA includes $350 worth of books, manuals, or other literature published by ASPRS; afive-year subscription to PE&RS, proceedings of the Annual Conference and Fall technicalmeetings for five years; one free registration to the Society’s Annual Conference at the timeof receiving the award for a member of the institution to whom the award is being given; anda hand-engrossed certificate.
This award has been augmented by–– a generous grant from the Environmental
Systems Research Institute (ESRI) of thecomplete ESRI Press Library collection–– Selected titles from the John Wiley and Sons,
Publishers, catalog

Boeing Award for Best Paper in Image Analysis and Interpretation
Xiaodong Li, Yun Du, and Feng Ling
“Sub-pixel-scale Land Cover Map Updating by Integrating Change
Detection and Sub-Pixel Mapping” PE&RS, 81 (1), 59-67.
Purpose: Established in 1965 as the Autometric Award, this grant recognizes development andachievement in the field of photographic interpretation through special acknowledgment ofsuperior publications on the various aspects of image analysis and interpretation.
Donor: Boeing S&IS Mission Systems through the ASPRS Foundation
The Award includes an inscribed certificate and monetary award of $1,000.

The John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers
First Place
Omar E. Mora, Jung-kuan Liu, M. Gabriela Lenzano, Charles K. Toth,and Dorota A. Grejner-Brzezinska
Small Landslide Susceptibility and Hazard Assessment Basedon Airborne Lidar Data,” PE&RS, 81 (3), 239-247.
Second Place (tie)Craig Rodarmel, Mark Lee,John Gilbert, Ben Wilkinson,
Henry Theiss, John Dolloff,and Christopher O’Neill“The Universal Lidar Error Model,”PE&RS, 81 (7), 543-563.

John Loomis, Steve Koontz,
Holly Miller, and Leslie Richardson
Valuing Geospatial Information:
Using the Contingent Valuation
Method to Estimate the Economic
Benefits of Landsat satellite
Imagery,” PE&RS, 81 (8), 647-668.

Purpose: The John I. Davidson Award was established in 1979 to encourage and commend
individuals who publish papers of practical or applied value in Photogrammetric Engineering &Remote Sensing (PE&RS).
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation
The First Place award includes an engraved pewter tankard, monetary award of $500, and a handengrossed certificate; Second Place receives a monetary award of $300 and a hand-engrossed
certificate; Third Place receives a monetary award of $200 and a hand-engrossed certificate.

ERDAS Award for Best Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing
First PlaceMichael Campbell,
Russell G. Congalton,
Joel Hartter, and Mark Ducey“Optimal Land Cover Mapping andChange Analysis in Northeastern
Oregon Using Landsat Imagery.”PE&RS, 81 (1), 37-47.

Second PlaceMaryam Imani and
Hassan Ghassemian“Two Dimensional Linear Discriminant
Analyses for Hyperspectral
Data” PE&RS, 81 (10), 777-786.

Purpose: Established in 1991 as the ERDAS Award for Best Scientific Paper in Remote
Sensing, it became the Leica Geosystems Award for Best Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing
in 2002 and returned to ERDAS sponsorship in 2009. This award encourages and commends
individuals who publish papers of scientific merit that advance our knowledge of remotesensing technology.
Donor: ERDAS through the ASPRS Foundation
The ERDAS Award first prize is a monetary award of $500 and a hand-engrossed certificate;second prize is a monetary award of $300 and a hand-engrossed certificate; third prize is amonetary award of $200 and a hand-engrossed certificate.

The Esri Award for Best Scientific Paper in GISFirst Place
Tammy E. Parece andJames B. Campbell“Identifying Urban Watershed
Boundaries and Area, Fairfax County,
Virginia.” PE&RS, 81 (5), 365-372.

Second Place
Muditha K. Heenkenda,
Karen E. Joyce, Stefan W. Maier“Mangrove Tree Crown Delineationfrom High-Resolution Imagery,”PE&RS, 81 (6), 471-479.

Purpose: Established in 1991, the fully-endowed Esri Award honors individuals who publish
papers of scientific merit that advance our knowledge about GIS technology.
Donor: Esri, Inc. through the ASPRS Foundation
The Esri Award first prize is a monetary award of $1,000 and a hand-engrossed certificate;second prize is a monetary award of $600 and a hand-engrossed certificate; third prize is amonetary award of $400 and a hand-engrossed certificate.

The Talbert Abrams AwardGrand Award
Mehdi Mezaheri and Ayman Habib“Quaternion-Based Solutions for the Single Photo
Resection Problem,” PE&RS, 81 (3), 209-217.
First Honorable Mention
Bo Wu, Lei Ye, and Yuansheng Yang
“Accuracy Analysis of a Dual Camera System with an AsymmetricPhotogrammetric Configuration,” PE&RS, 81 (3), 219-228.
Second Honorable Mention
Han Hu, Qing Zhu, Zhiqiang Du, Yeting Zhang, and Yulin Ding
“Reliable Spatial Relationship Constrained Feature Point
Matching of Oblique Aerial Images,” PE&RS 81 (1), 49-58.
Purpose: The Talbert Abrams Award was established in 1945 to encourage the authorship andrecording of current, historical, engineering, and scientific developments in photogrammetry.
The Award is determined from papers published in Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote
Sensing (PE&RS).
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation
The award consists of a monetary award of $3,000 and an engraved plaque for the GrandAward, and an award certificate for the First and Second Honorable Mentions.

ASPRS Service Award ­— Ford Bartlett Award
Erik Brewster
Ekaterina Fitos
Jonathan Li
Purpose: First awarded in 1968, the ASPRS Ford Bartlett Membership Award honors members
for actively promoting membership in ASPRS.
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation. (This award was originally sponsored by the firm of Lockwood,
Kessler, and Bartlett, Inc.)
A member is eligible to receive the Award after sponsoring ten or more members in one year.
Each recipient receives a hand-engrossed certificate and a one-year membership in the Society.

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