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(L-r) Fangning He and Charles Toth.
(L-r) John W. Gross and Charles Toth.
The John I. Davidson President’s Award for
Practical Papers
1
st
Place:
John W. Gross and Benjamin W. Heumann
for “A Sta-
tistical Examination of Image Stitching Software Packages
for Use with Unmanned Aerial Systems”
PE&RS
82 (6), 419.
2
nd
Place:
Fangning He and Ayman Habib
for “Automated Relative
Orientation of UAV-Based Imagery in the Presence of Prior
Information for the Flight Trajectory,”
PE&RS
, 82 (11), 879.
3
rd
Place:
Jay M. Vincelli, Fatih Calakli, Michael A. Stone, Gra-
ham E. Forrester, Timothy D. Mellon, and John D.
Jarrell
for “Characterizing a Debris Field Using Digital Mo-
saicking and CAD Model Superimposition from Underwater
Video,”
PE&RS
, 82 (3), 223.
Purpose:
The John I. Davidson President’s Award for Prac-
tical Papers was established in 1979 to encourage and com-
mend individuals who publish papers of practical or applied
value in PE&RS.
Donor
: The ASPRS Foundation in memory of ASPRS Past
President John I. Davidson.
The First Place award includes an engraved pewter tankard,
a cash award of $500 and a hand-engrossed certificate; Sec-
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ond Place is a cash award of $300 and a hand-engrossed cer-
tificate; Third Place is a cash award of $200 and a hand-en-
grossed certificate.
The Esri Award for Best Scientific Paper in
GIS
Berdien De Roo, Britt Lonneville, Jean Bourgeois, and
Philippe De Maeyer
for “From Virtual Globes to Archeo-
GIS: Determining the Technical and Practical Feasibilities,”
PE&RS
, 82 (9), 677.
Purpose:
Established in 1991, the fully-endowed ESRI
Award honors individuals who publish papers of scientific
merit that advance our knowledge about GIS technology.
Donor:
Esri, Inc. through the ASPRS Foundation
The Esri Award first prize is $1,000 and a hand-engrossed
certificate; second prize is $600 and a hand-engrossed cer-
tificate; third prize is $400 and a hand-engrossed certificate.
The Talbert Abrams Award
Grand Award:
Dan Liu, Xuejun Liu, and Meizhen Wang
for “Camera
Self-Calibration with Lens Distortion from a Single Image,”
PE&RS
, 82 (5), 325.
First Honorable Mention
Yi-Hsing Tseng, Yung-Chuan Chen, and Kuan-Ying Lin
for “Bundle Adjustment of Spherical Images Acquired with
a Portable Panoramic Image Mapping System (PPIMS),”
PE&RS, 82 (12),935.
Purpose:
The Talbert Abrams Award was established in
1945 to encourage the authorship and recording of current,
historical, engineering, and scientific developments in photo-
grammetry. The Award is determined from papers published
in PE&RS.
Donor:
The ASPRS Foundation
The award consists of a check for $3,000 and an engraved
plaque for the Grand Award, and an award certificate for the
First Honorable Mention.
