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January 2014
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
ASPRS
NEWS
Young Professionals Council | Student Advisory
Council | Member Champions | New Members |
Certification
2014 ASPRS FELLOW AWARD
WINNERS
B
on A. Dewitt, Rongxing Li, Richard A.
Pearsall, Karen L. Schuckman and Douglas
A. Stow have been named the 2014 ASPRS Fel-
low Award winners. 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, sur-
veying, 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 mem-
bers, 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 nominees must have made out-
standing contributions in a recognized Society specialization whether in
practice, research, development, administration, or education in the map-
ping sciences. Members of the Fellows Committee and the Executive Com-
mittee are ineligible for nomination. This year’s awards will be given in
March at the ASPRS 2014 Annual Conference in Louisville, Kentucky.
A brief description of each award winner has been provided below. For com-
plete profiles of the awardees, please visit the ASPRS website at
org/Press-Releases.
Bon A. Dewitt
is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Geo-
matics Program at the University of Florida. Dr. Dewitt has been working as
a faculty member in the Geomatics Program for more than 22 years where he
has been teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses in photogramme-
try, digital mapping, geodesy, least squares adjustments, hydrographic sur-
veying, subdivision design, route geometrics, as well as other mapping science
topics.
The University of Florida recognized his instructional aptitude by present-
ing him with two of the coveted “Teaching Improvement Program” Awards,
in 1994 and again in 1999. He has also served as the faculty advisor of the
ASPRS Student Chapter at the University of Florida for the past 19 years. He
continues to encourage students to join the Society as student members and
has been a Member Champion several times.
Dr. Dewitt has contributed significantly to the mapping science com-
munity in the state of Florida and nationally through many professional
continuing education seminars. He has been involved in writing and quali-
ty-checking exam questions in the subjects of surveying and photogramme-
try for the NCEES. He has also served as a private consultant and expert
witness in numerous court cases involving forensic photogrammetry.
John R. Jensen and Stanley
Morain Selected as
ASPRS Honorary Members
John R. Jensen
and
Stanley
Morain
have been selected as
the next Honorary Members of
the American Society for Photo-
grammetry and Remote Sensing
(ASPRS). Their nominations were
recently approved by the ASPRS
Board of Directors. This is the
highest award bestowed by ASPRS.
There can be only 25 living Honor-
ary Members of the Society at any
given time.
Initiated in 1937, this life-time
award is given for professional
excellence in recognition of indi-
viduals who have rendered dis-
tinguished service to ASPRS and/
or who have attained distinction
in advancing the science and
use of the geospatial informa-
tion sciences. Jensen and Morain
will receive their awards at the
ASPRS 2014 Annual Confer-
ence in Louisville, Kentucky.
Dr. John R.
Jensen
is a
Carolina Distin-
guished Profes-
sor emeritus in
the Department
of Geography
at the Univer-
sity of South
Carolina. He majored in physical
geography, cartography and remote
sensing at California State Univer-
sity at Fullerton, where he received
a BA in 1971. He went on to re-
ceive his MA from Brigham Young
University in 1972 and a PhD from
the University of California at Los
Angeles (UCLA) in 1976. While
attending UCLA, he worked as a
photogrammetric stereo-plotter
operator at Aero Service Corpora-
tion in Beverly Hills, CA. In 1977,
he accepted a professorship at the
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