PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
January 2014
27
ASPRS
NEWS
Geography at Pennsylvania State University, teaching
remote sensing and geospatial technology in the online
programs offered by the John A. Dutton e-Education In-
stitute. She has also served as President of Seven Valleys
Consulting LLC since 2007.
Schuckman has served as a consultant to URS Corpo-
ration in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where she provided ex-
pert knowledge in remote sensing and photogrammetry to
engineering practice groups, including floodplain mapping,
disaster response and preparedness, critical infrastruc-
ture, and transportation. She also held several positions
at EarthData (now Fugro EarthData), including geospa-
tial applications director for EarthData Solutions, senior
vice-president of EarthData Technologies, and president
and general manager of EarthData International of North
Carolina.
Schuckman directed notable projects for EarthData in-
cluding lidar acquisition for the North Carolina Floodplain
Mapping Program, numerous transportation mapping
projects for state DOT’s, and technology demonstration
projects for NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Department of
Transportation.
Prior to joining the private sector, Schuckman worked
for the United States Geological Survey National Map-
ping Division in Menlo Park, California. She immediately
demonstrated her technical expertise by developing the
rigorous Global Positioning Systems (GPS) specifications
for the USGS digital orthophoto contract being managed
by the USGS office in Menlo Park. Schuckman is also an
ASPRS Past President.
Douglas A. Stow
is a Professor of Geography at San
Diego State University (SDSU), in San Diego, California.
Dr. Stow has been on the Geography Department facul-
ty at SDSU for 28 years. Upon arrival at the University
he established a four course remote sensing curriculum.
In 1985, he co-founded the Center for Earth Systems
Analysis Research (CESAR) and continues to serve as
its primary co-director. CESAR is a thriving GIScience
research laboratory that supports upwards of $2 million in
extramurally supported research annually, four technical
staff and over 13 graduate students. In total, Dr. Stow has
served on 19 doctoral committees and 115 master’s com-
mittees at SDSU, and has served as an invited external
committee member for several doctoral students in other
institutions
Stow has a distinguished record of funded research that
has emphasized the application of multi-temporal remote
sensing image analysis for analyzing land surface chang-
es and dynamics. Many of these articles are co-authored
with his graduate students, who he guides through the
peer-review publication process and who normally serve
as first author. Stow has twice been on research teams
that received the ASPRS Leica Geosystems Award for
Rongxing (Ron) Li
is currently a Professor at the De-
partment of Civil and Environmental Engineering and
Geodetic Science at The Ohio State University, where he
has worked since 1996, and a Lowber B. Strange designat-
ed professor since 2005. A 20-year member of ASPRS, Dr.
Li has been an ASPRS Certified Photogrammetrist since
1991.
Dr. Li is a world renowned scholar in the fields of geo-
spatial information, photogrammetry and remote sensing.
He has received numerous highly prestigious awards from
ASPRS, NASA, and other organizations. He is one of the
pioneers in high-resolution satellite image stereo process-
ing (IKONOS and QuickBird) and was one of the early
developers of mobile mapping systems. His unique leading
position in planetary mapping and rover/astronaut nav-
igation (mission operations) is evidenced by the fact that
he has been selected as Participating Scientist and made
critical contributions to both the NASA Mars Exploration
Rover (MER 2003) mission and the Lunar Reconnaissance
Obiter (LRO 2009) mission. Dr. Li and his research results
have been featured at NASA press conferences and on
ABC news, Space.com, and other TV/radio/web media pro-
grams as well as in
National Geographic, USA Today, Los
Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, Denver Post,
and Columbus Dispatch
.
Richard (Rick) A. Pearsall
is presently retired and lives
with his wife Glenda, in Philomont, Virginia. Graduat-
ing with honors from Johnsburg Central School in North
Creek, New York in 1969, Pearsall received his Bachelor’s
Degree in Forest Engineering from the State University of
New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
in 1974 and a Master’s Degree in Civil and Environmental
Engineering – Surveying and Mapping from the Universi-
ty of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976.
From 1976 to 2007, Pearsall worked for the United
States Geological Survey (USGS), National Mapping Divi-
sion. At USGS, he was involved in every phase of mapping
to include field surveys, photogrammetry, and cartog-
raphy. In 1981, he completed the USGS Cartographer
Development Program.
In 2007, Pearsall left USGS and went to the Nation-
al Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to serve as a
GEOINT Standards Officer, responsible for the develop-
ment and advocacy of major Information Technology and
Service Oriented Architecture GEOINT standards for the
Department of Defense. During his career at USGS and
NGA, Pearsall received numerous national and govern-
mental awards and citations for his work in geographic
and cartographic map standardization. He retired from
Federal Service in April 2011, with more than 34 years of
public service.
Karen L. Schuckman
is currently a Senior Lecturer in
