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2000 ASPRS FELLOW AWARD WINNERS

The 2000 ASPRS Fellow Award winners are Marvin Bauer, Walter E. Boge, Roger R. "Sky" Chamard, Chris J. Johannsen, Donald L. Light and William W. Mendenhall. The ASPRS designation of Fellow is conferred on active Society members who have performed exceptional service in advancing the science and use of the mapping sciences (photogrammetry, remote sensing, surveying, geographic information systems, and related disciplines).

The designation of Fellow is awarded for pro-fessional excellence and for service to the Society. Candidates are nominated by other active members, recommended to the Fellows Committee, and elected by the ASPRS Board of Directors. Up to 0.3 percent of the Society's active members may be elected as Fellows in any one year.The nominee must have made outstanding contributions in a recognized Society specialization whether in practice, research, development, administration, or education in the mapping sciences. Members of the Fellows Committee and the Executive Committee are ineligible for nomination.

Below please find biographical information about each of the award recipients.

MARVIN BAUER

Dr Bauer is a highly regarded Professor of Remote Sensing at the University of Minnesota, and very much in the forefront of precision agriculture as well as the use of remote sensing for forestry applications. He is the Director of the Environmental Spatial Analysis Center (ERSAC) which links the capabilities and resources of five colleges and nine departments for doing remote sensing, spatial analysis and modeling. Since 1980 he has been the Editor of the journal "Remote Sensing of the Environment." For the past fifteen years, it has been rated as the leading remote sensing journal by the Science Citation Index impact factor. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Minnesota, from 1970 to 1983 Marv was a Research Agronomist and Program Leader at the Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing (LARS) at Purdue University. He played a key role in the definition of effective techniques for analysis of remotely sensed data for agricultural applications. He was a primary lead scientist in the "Corn Blight Watch" in the 70's and also in the Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment (LACIE), one of the key projects in the early years of remote sensing documenting the potentials for effective use of satellite remote sensor data.

He served on the ASPRS Awards Policy Committee from 1988 to 1995 (Chair, 1993-1995) and earlier in various leadership capacities of the Plant Sciences Section/Applications Division from 1976-1978. In 1995, he received the Alan Gordon Memorial Award for his achievements in remote sensing. In 1996, Dr. Bauer was awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal by NASA recognizing his outstanding scientific contributions over the previous 25 years to NASA's terrestrial remote sensing programs.

WALTER E. BOGE

Mr. Boge retired as Director of the U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC), formerly the U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories (USAETL). He was the forest civilian Director of TEC (ETL) since 1991. Prior to serving with ETL he was R&D Coordinator for the U.S. Army Geodesy, Intelligence and Mapping Research and Development Agency (GIMRADA). As TEC's chief executive officer, Mr. Boge had overall management and leadership responsibility for a comprehensive program focused on the research, development and exploitation of topographic, geodetic, and remote sensing technologies for Army military and Corps of Engineers civil works applications. Walt joined the Corps after graduating from the City College of New York in 1960 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and worked on developing improved map compilation equipment and techniques. From 1962 to 1963, he attended graduate school at Syracuse University, majoring in photogrammetry and geodesy. Upon return to the Corps, Mr. Boge was engaged in the development of new automated mapping equipment and digital image processing systems. From 1972 to 1973, he continued graduate studies in photogrammetry and geodesy at Purdue University, receiving a master's degree in civil engineering and meeting all requirements except dissertation for a doctorate. In 1983, he was named technical director with the responsibility of formulating and implementing the organization's research and development program. He was the lead proponent of the Army's Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities Program which developed numerous classified imagery systems that proved essential to Operation Desert Storm. In 1991, he received the President's Meritorious Executive Award and ETL won top R&D Honors because of 26 new technologies developed and successfully used for the first time in Operation Desert Storm. The work under his direction was the foundation for digital (softcopy) photogrammetry.

Mr. Boge has been a member of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) since 1962, serving in numerous positions, to include Secretary-Treasurer, Vice President, and President of the Potomac Region. He also contributed many technical papers and won the Talbert Abrams award in 1965. He currently is the Director for the 2000 annual spring ASPRS meeting being conducted in Washington. In addition to ASPRS, Mr. Boge is a member of the Society of American Military Engineers, the American Defense Preparedness Association, the Senior Executives Association, Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society and Phi Kappa Psi Graduate Honor Society.

ROGER R. "SKY" CHAMARD

Sky Chamard received his Bachelors degree from Oregon State University in 1959 and his Masters on Operations Research from George Washington University in 1966. Sky spent thirty plus years in the U.S. Forest Service as a Forester and Engineer. In 1953 he recognized photogrammetry and remote sensing as laborsaving technologies for transportation and forestry planning, and has since been a strong proponent of the technology. After serving in various positions of increasing responsibilities he was assigned to establish the Forest Service's Geometronics Service Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, and as its Director. After his retirement from the Forest Service he served as a consultant for several private firms. He has served the Society as Regional officer in two Regions and Regional Director and spent twelve years as a member of the National Executive Committee. He was appointed in 1981 to the Evaluation for Certification Committee and as Chair since 1985. He is a member of the IGIF Board of Trustees and serves as Secretary.

He received ASPRS Presidential Citations for his many years of contributions to the board and Executive Committee in 1999 and for the establishment and development of the ASPRS Evaluation for Certification Committee in 1998. He also received a Certificate of Appreciation for Meritorious Service for his contributions tot the XVIII ISPRS Congress in Vienna, Austria in 1997. He also received the Ford Bartlett Award in 1993 along with Presidential Citations in 1970, 78, 82, 88, and 89. He continues as an active member of the profession.

CHRIS J. JOHANNSEN

Dr. Johannsen received his Bachelors and Masters in degrees in Agronomy in 1959 and 1961 respectively from the University of Nebraska and his PhD in Soil Physics from Purdue University in 1969. His professional experience includes employment with the Soil Conservation Service, Chevron Chemical Company, the University of Missouri-Columbia, the University of California-Davis, Space Imaging EOSAT, and Purdue University. While at Purdue he served as Program Leader for LARS and ultimately as Director Agricultural Network and Director of LARS. He is co-editor of the book "Remote Sensing for Resource Management", contributed to 9 book chapters, and author/co-author to over 160 papers and articles. He has developed an Extension Program for soil survey, remote sensing, resource data base development, etc.; was principal investigator for numerous research, educational, and applications grants; was instrumental in organizing the Missouri Geographic Resources Center; developed the first Agronomy Extension land use program at Purdue; assisted in the organization of LARS; established Ecologistics Ltd consulting firm; has taught numerous classes and workshops, and, in general, is recognized as a national and international authority in land use applications of remote sensing technology and GIS.

He is a Fellow in the American Society of Agronomy, Soil Society of America, and the Water Conservation Society. His honors include the Alumni Merit Award (University of Nebraska), Outstanding Service Award SWCS, Presidential Citation from ASPRS, National SWCS Commendation Award, and the Distinguished Award for the Missouri Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts. He Chaired the ASPRS awards committee for several years.

DONALD L. LIGHT

Donald L. Light is a 1968 graduate of the George Washington University with a BS in Geodetic and Cartographic Science. He holds graduate diplomas in Strategy and Management from the United States Naval War College (1974), and the Federal Executive Institute (1980). Since the mid-sixties, he has worked in applied research and systems development for modernizing mapping systems. He was Chief, Advanced Technology Division at the DMA Topographic Center, and for 3 years the Technical Director, Defense Mapping School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. In 1980, he was assigned from the Defense Mapping Agency Headquarters to the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment to work on a study of National Space Policy and Remote Sensing Applications. In August 1980, he transferred to the USGS, National Mapping Division as Chief of Systems Development in the Office of Research. In 1987, he became chief, Office of Production Contract Management responsible for the National Aerial Photography, the Side-Looking Airborne Radar imagery, and the orthophoto mapping programs, as well as the National Camera Calibration Laboratory where he introduced and implemented the rigorous camera calibration program--Simultaneous Multicamera Analytical Calibration (SMAC). In 1991, he was awarded the Department of Interior Meritorious Service Award for excellence in managing the USGS imaging programs.

In 1995 he retired from the USGS and joined the Eastman Kodak Company as Manager of Business Development for Commercial Remote Sensing Systems where he developed a concept entitled, "An Orbital Imaging System for civil, Military, and Commercial Applications: controlled Image Base Satellite (CIBSAT)." CIBSAT defines a stereo mapping camera system that would image the globe every 26 days at 5 m resolution.In 1998, Don joined Emerge, a Litton/TASC Company as Manager of Business Development.

He taught Analytical Photogrammetry at the George Mason University from 1991 to 1995.He is the Author Editor of Chapter XVII, Satellite Photogrammetry, of the Fourth Edition of the ASPRS Manual of Photogrammetry along with other significant publications in PE&RS.He is currently Chairman of the ASPRS Remote Sensing Committee, and an Associate Editor for the Primary Data Acquisition Division of ASPRS as well as the Co-Chairman of the ISPRS Working Group, Mapping from Space, and a member of the ISPRS editorial board.

WILLIAM W. MENDENHALL

Mr. Mendenhall holds a BS and MS in Civil Engineering from Cornell University and is a member of four honor societies: Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Chi Epsilon.He was a Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks from 1955-1987 overseeing all photogrammetric courses taught at both the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Anchorage campuses. In 1954, Bill established Mendenhall Aerial Surveys performing geodetic control surveys and photogrammetric mapping, and still maintains a daily presence in the company.Bill is credited with being the first person in Alaska to compile a topographic map using aerial photography and the multiplex stereo plotter.

Bill was one of the founding fathers of the Alaska Region in the early 1960's from the Puget Sound Region and has been an active Region member ever since. He helped organize the first Annual Alaskan meeting in 1966.He has taught short courses at every annual Alaska Survey and Mapping meeting including courses on Terrestrial Photogrammetry, Photogrammetric Ground Control, the Alaska Coordinate System, Geodetic Observations, Solar Observations for Azimuth, to name a few. In recognition of his outstanding service to the Conference, the 1986 Annual Conference was dedicated to him. In 1961, Bill received the Wild Heerburgg Award for Research in Photogrammetry, and has published numerous articles in Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing and other professional journals. In 1996, Bill was named to the Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference "Hall of Fame", the most prestigious award in Alaska recognized by the surveying and mapping community. He is also a member of ACSM, NSPE, ASCE, ASPLS, Society of AME, and Alaska Board of Architects, Engineers and Land Surveyors and is a registered Land Surveyor in Alaska.

Founded in 1934, ASPRS is an international professional organization of 7,000 geospatial data professionals. ASPRS is devoted to advancing knowledge and improving understanding of the mapping sciences to promote responsible application of photogrammetry, remote sensing, geographic information systems and supporting technologies.For additional information about ASPRS, visit our web site at http://www.asprs.org.

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( 28 March 2000 )