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PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
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they can analyze it using the same skills they use in the
field, unlike when working with 2D image data.
Users who stepped into a LiDAR scan of a site well-
known to them reported that they felt like they were back
at that site. By extension, presenting topographic data
from other planets also creates the sense of a real place,
albeit one that no human has ever set foot on. I believe it
was this sense of place, and the intuitive understanding of
that place that comes with it, that allowed Dawn Sumner,
one of our core researchers, to collect the evidence she
needed to make a strong case for Gale Crater as the land-
ing site for the Curiosity Mars rover.
We are currently working to create a detailed 3D model
of Mercury, based on data returned from NASA’s Messen-
ger mission, and believe it will similarly form a spring-
board for further discovery.
I expect that affordable VR hardware, combined with
special-purpose VR software, will become the standard
way to work with geospatial data in the near future.
Professional Insights—Augmented Reality Sandbox
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FIRST CERTIFIED
MAPPING
SCIENTIST-LIDAR
ANNOUNCED
M
ike Renslow, Chair of the ASPRS
Evaluation for Certification Com-
mittee, has announced that James Wilder
Young has become the first ASPRS Certi-
fied Mapping Scientist-Lidar. Mr. Young
completed the application process, pass-
ing peer review, and then successfully
passed the Lidar examination.
For information on the ASPRS Certification Program,
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ASPRS congratulates these recently Certified
and Re-certified individuals:
CERTIFIED MAPPING SCIENTIST LIDAR
James Wilder Young, Certification #L001
Effective September 14, 2015, expires September 14, 2020
RECERTIFIED PHOTOGRAMMETRIC
TECHNOLOGIST
Barry L. Dalrymple, Certification #R1297PT
Effective June 11, 2015, expires June 11, 2018
RECERTIFIED MAPPING SCIENTISTS GIS/LIS
Sanchit Agarwal, Certification #R223GS
Effective February 16, 2015, expires February 16, 2020
Rebecca A. Morton, Certification #R164GS
Effective March 22, 2015, expires March 22, 2020
RECERTIFIED PHOTOGRAMMETRIST
Jeffrey P. Schramm, Certification #R973
Effective September 19, 2015, expires September 19, 2020
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