The 2001 ASPRS Fellow Award winners are Robert H. Brock, Jr. and Roger E. Crystal. The ASPRS designation of Fellow is conferred on active Society members who have performed excep-tional 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.
ROBERT H. BROCK, JR.
Dr. Robert H. Brock, Jr. received his BS in Forestry from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Syracuse University in 1958, his MS in Photogrammetry/Civil Engineering from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Syracuse University in 1959, and his PhD in Photogrammetric and Geodetic Engineering in the field of Civil Engineering from Cornell University in 1971.
Brock began his teaching career at Syracuse University in 1959 and has taught photogrammetry and mapping sciences subjects to over 2,000 students at the undergraduate level and 500 students at the graduate level. In 1967 he went to SUNY-CESF to build the mapping sciences component of the program. With the efforts and leadership of many good people along the way including Dr. Tom Lillesand, ASPRS past president, and Dr. Paul Hopkins, associate professor, Forest Engineering, SUNY/CESF, SUNY-CESF now has an outstanding mapping sciences educational program and research facility. He chaired the department from 1980-1999.
For 40 years, Brock has engaged in mapping sciences research for government and private industry. This work led to numerous journal articles, papers and reports in the areas of image analysis, image measurement, analytic mapping systems, system calibration and global positioning systems. His work has co-produced patents for a System for Correlating Electronic Distance Measurement and Aerial Photography for the Extension of Geodetic Control, 1980; Radar Calibration Using Direct Measurement Equipment and Oblique Photometry; and a Surface for GPS Relative Positioning. Brock is also active in the American Society For Agricultural Engineers which oversees the university’s EAC/ABET accreditation efforts.
Brock joined ASP (ASPRS) in 1958. As a student, he served as secretary for the Central New York Region (CNYR). In the following years, he served in all the offices for the CNYR. He was also very active on the Committee on Computational Photogrammetry and served as the chairman in 1969. He directed the Symposium on Computational Photogrammetry the year it was held in Syracuse at SUNY-CESF. From 1975-78 Brock represented the CNYR on the ASP Board of Directors and was elected to the Executive Committee of ASP from 1976-78. In the 1980 Fall Convention of ACSM-ASP in Niagara Falls, he served as deputy director for Student Programs. He received an ASP Presidential Citation for organizing and implementing the first student activities program at a National ACSM-ASP Convention. Brock has presented and co-authored papers that appeared in the conference proceedings and has been published in PE&RS. He takes great pride in seeing many former students become leaders in ASPRS. He has also received several Ford Bartlett Awards for sponsoring new members.
Throughout his career, Brock has practiced consulting in analytic and interpretive photogrammetry for engineering firms, law firms, and industrial research firms. He is a certified photogrammetrist and is listed in Who's Who in American Education, Engineering, and American Men and Women in Science.
ROGER E. CRYSTAL
Upon graduation from Upper Iowa University in Iowa City, Crystal joined the Washington State Department of Transportation as a photogrammetrist. Currently he is the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) manager for Titan Systems Corporation, AverStar Group, in Portland, Oregon. He is responsible for all GIS activities within the group.
Crystal retired from the USDA, Forest Service as director of Information Resource Management in 1996. During his tenure with the Forest Service, he had overall management and leadership responsibility for programs focused on photogrammetry, remote sensing technologies, GIS, and information technology. He was responsible for the initiation of the high-resolution digital orthophoto program in support of resource management in Oregon and Washington. As part of this effort, a high accuracy survey net using remote sensing technologies was established in 19 National Forests in Oregon and Washington. This remote sensing effort led to a complete inventory of forest resources. Prior to joining the Forest Service, Crystal worked for the Corps of Engineers, Middle East Division, in Saudi Arabia. He was the chief photogrammetrist providing technical leadership for the Division. Because of his highly regarded contributions, he received the Meritorious Service Award from the Forest Service.
Crystal’s contributions to ASPRS have been exceptional. He was president of the Society in 1997-98, having previously served as vice president (1995-96) and president-elect (1996-97). He has received several ASPRS Presidential Citations for Meritorious Service. He was a member of the national ASPRS Strategic Planning Committee, and is currently serving on the Nominating Committee and the Convention Policy and Planning Committees. Crystal was convention director for the 1999 Annual ASPRS Conference in Portland, Oregon. He has also served as Professional Practice Division director as well as the national director, president, vice president, and secretary-treasurer of the ASPRS Columbia River Region. He also served as conference director for the regional GIS in Action Conference in Portland, which is co-sponsored by the Columbia River Region. Crystal is also a Certified Photogrammetrist (ASPRS).
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 2001)