PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
February 2017
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ASPRS
NEWS
Editor-In-Chief
Alper Yilmaz, Ph.D.
Associate Editors
Xin Huang, Ph.D
Desheng Liu, Ph.D
Clement Mallet, Ph.D
Rongjun Qin, Ph.D.
Valerie Gouet-Brunet, Ph.D
Michael Yang, Ph.D
Technical Editor
Michael S. Renslow
Highlight Article Editor
Jie Shan,
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Electronic Publications Manager/
Graphic Artist
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Contributing Editors
Grids & Datums Column
Clifford J. Mugnier,
Book Reviews
Melissa Rura,
Mapping Matters Column
Qassim Abdullah
Sector Insight
Melissa Rura or Amr Abd-Elrahman
Project Management Column
Raquel Charrois,
GIS Tips & Tricks
Al Karlin,
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Candidates for Vice-President Announced
CANDIDATES FOR VICE-PRESIDENT
ANNOUNCED
T
homas Jordan and Christopher Parrish selected for
2017 election
Thomas R. Jordan
is the recently retired Associate Director and current Lead Research
Professional at the Center for Geospatial Research (CGR), Department of Geography at
The University of Georgia (UGA). A member of ASPRS since 1979, Jordan is a Certified
Photogrammetrist and Certified Mapping Scientist, GIS/LIS. He received his B.S., M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees in Geography, with concentrations in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
from UGA in 1979, 1981 and 2002, respectively. Jordan is also a lifetime performing musician:
singing and playing acoustic and electric guitar, banjo and mandolin in a wide range of musical
styles.
Jordan’s responsibilities at UGA have involved management of CGR research projects with
emphasis on the geospatial components, and the design and operation of the CGR computer
systems, databases, web sites and networks. His primary research interests currently include
unmanned aerial systems (UAS), Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetric methods, and
cross-discipline applications which integrate the full range of geospatial technologies.
Jordan is a member of the ASPRS Evaluation for Certification Committee and the ASPRS
National Technical Planning Committee. He was Technical Program Co-Director of ASPRS
2014 Annual Conference in Louisville and served as the Master of Ceremonies for field demos
and invited speaker at the first UAS Conference in Reno in 2014. He is a co-recipient of
ESRI Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Awards in 2009 and 2015. As a member of ISPRS,
Jordan has attended most Congresses since 1992 (Washington, DC), helped to organize the
Commission IV Symposia in 1994 and 2010, and was invited to perform (playing guitar for
an event in a castle!) at the 1996 ISPRS Congress in Vienna. He was Secretary of ISPRS
Commission IV WG IV/6 (2000-2004) and Vice President of ISPRS Commission IV (2008-2012).
Christopher Parrish
is an Associate Professor of Geomatics in the School of Civil and
Construction Engineering at Oregon State University. His research focuses on full-waveform
lidar, topographic-bathymetric lidar, satellite laser altimetry, hyperspectral imagery,
uncertainty modeling, and UAVs for coastal applications. Parrish holds a Ph.D. in Civil and
Environmental Engineering with an emphasis in Geospatial Information Engineering from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.S. in Civil and Coastal Engineering with an
emphasis inGeomatics from theUniversity of Florida. Parrish serves as Director of OregonView,
a statewide consortium under AmericaView, dedicated to applied remote sensing research,
STEM education, workforce development, and technology transfer. He has previously held
the positions of Director of ASPRS’s Lidar Division and President of ASPRS Potomac Region.
Prior to joining OSU, Parrish served as lead physical scientist in the Remote Sensing Division
of NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey. He also holds an affiliate faculty position in the Center
for Coastal and Ocean Mapping - Joint Hydrographic Center (CCOM-JHC) at the University
of New Hampshire.
