PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
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ASPRS
NEWS
ASPRS Election Results | New Sustaining Members
CHARLES TOTH ELECTED AS ASPRS VICE PRESIDENT
SCOTT PERKINS, JOHN MCCOMBS, JASON STOKER, AND FRANK TAYLOR ELECTED AS
ASSISTANT DIVISION DIRECTORS
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SPRS, The Imaging and Geospatial Information
Society, announces the results of its 2014 elections for
National Officers. The Tellers Committee reported that
Charles Toth, of The Ohio State University (OSU), won
the election to become ASPRS Vice President for 2014.
With the installation of officers at the ASPRS Annual
Conference in March, Stewart Walker moves into the
position of President; Lynn Usery becomes President-Elect;
and Stephen DeGloria becomes Immediate Past President.
Vice President-Elect Charles K. Toth is a Research Profes-
sor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic
Engineering at OSU. He received his MSc in Electrical Engi-
neering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Geo-Infor-
mation Sciences from the Technical University of Budapest,
Hungary. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed journal
and proceedings papers, and he is the co-editor of the widely
popular book
LiDAR: Topographic Ranging and Scanning
Principles and Processing
. Toth joined ASPRS in 1988. From
2004-2008 he served as Assistant Director, then Director of
the Photogrammetric Applications Division (PAD). Since 2008
he has served as the ASPRS Eastern Great Lakes Region Na-
tional Director. He is also President for the 2012-2016 Con-
gress Period of Technical Commission I for the International
Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).
Toth said, “ASPRS is the premier society for geospatial
information science and engineering professionals, uniquely
blending government, the private sector, and academia. It is
absolutely essential for the entire society to maintain its posi-
tion of leadership as the broad use and application of remote
sensing and geospatial data reaches many users who are not
traditional members of ASPRS.” Toth continued, “we must
be more proactive, demonstrating our knowledge and com-
petence to solve problems for humankind, including disaster
response, environment, climate change, peacekeeping, and
food supply… I look forward to serving as an officer of ASPRS
with honor and responsibility.”
Scott Perkins
was elected Assistant Director of the
Photogrammetric Applications Division (PAD). Perkins is Vice
President of Federal Programs at Aero-Metric, Inc., now part
of Quantum Spatial. He was a member of the inaugural class
of the Photogrammetric Modeling Program at Ferris State
University, and he later earned a Business Management
degree as a working professional. He is Director and
Treasurer of the ASPRS Central Region. He is also Vice Chair
of the Hydrographic Services Review Panel of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and serves
on the Office of the National Ombudsman Regulatory Fairness
Board of the Small Business Administration (SBA). Perkins
said, “we have important work ahead as we work to com-
plete new ASPRS Accuracy Standards for Digital Geospatial
Data, to replace the existing ASPRS Accuracy Standards for
Large-Scale Maps, 1990, and the ASPRS Guidelines, Vertical
Accuracy Reporting for Lidar Data, 2004.”
John McCombs
was elected Assistant Director of the
Remote Sensing Applications Division (RSAD). McCombs
is a Senior Image Analyst with the Baldwin Group. For the
last 10 years he has led NOAA’s Coastal Change Analysis
Program. He earned his MS from Virginia Tech, where he
concentrated on using topographic factor maps in a geograph-
ic system to improve wildlife management. He has been an
active ASPRS member for 14 years, and recently chaired
the RSAD Climate Change Committee. He is currently lead-
ing the revision of the remote sensing terms for the ASPRS
Glossary of the Mapping Sciences
. McCombs said, “the last
few years have seen new sensors being deployed and used
both commercially and in research. Turning this data into
usable information through consistent, accurate, peer-re-
viewed methods should be a large focus of the Society, and
this Division in particular.”
Jason Stoker
was elected Assistant Director of the
LiDAR Division (LD). Stoker is a Physical Scientist with
the US Geological Survey (USGS) at the Earth Resources
Observation and Science (EROS) Center. He was the for-
mer Director of the USGS Center for Lidar Information
Coordination and Knowledge (CLICK). He earned his BS in
Natural Resource Management and his MS in Geospatial
