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PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
ASPRS
NEWS
ASPRS Lifetime Achievement Award to Michael S. Renslow
Editor-In-Chief
Alper Yilmaz, Ph.D.,
Associate Editors
Photogrammetry
Rongjun Qin, Ph.D.,
Michael Yang, Ph.D.,
Petra Helmholz, Ph.D.,
Bo Wu, Ph.D.,
Change Detection Remote Sensing
Clement Mallet, Ph.D.,
Remote Sensing
Abuduwasiti Wulamu, Ph.D.,
Remote Sensing—Vegetation
Jose M. Pena, Ph.D.,
Hyperspectral
Xin Huang, Ph.D.,
Remote Sensing/GIS—Agriculture
Prasad Thenkabail, Ph.D.,
Lidar/GIS/Photogrammetry
Ruisheng Wang, Ph.D.,
Remote Sensing/Pattern Analysis
Desheng Liu, Ph.D.,
GIS/Pattern Recognition/Mapping
Valérie Gouet-Brunet, Ph.D.,
Photogrammetry/Machine Learning
Yury Vizilter, Ph.D.,
Remote Sensing Change Assessment/
Risk Analysis/Image IProcessing/Ecology
Qunming Wang, Ph.D.,
Technical Editor
Michael S. Renslow,
Highlight Article Editor
Jie Shan, Ph.D.,
Contributing Editors
Grids & Datums Column
Clifford J. Mugnier,
Book Reviews
Sagar Deshpande,
Mapping Matters Column
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Amr Abd-Elrahman,
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ASPRS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
AWARD TO MICHAEL S. RENSLOW
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heASPRSLifetimeAchievementAwardSelection
Committee has announced that Michael S.
Renslow has been chosen as the 2018 recipient of
the ASPRS Lifetime Achievement Award (formerly
the Honorary Member Award). Presentation of the
award will be made at ASPRS Annual Conference
and International Lidar Mapping Forum Feb 5-7,
2018 in Denver, Colorado.
The ASPRS Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest award an ASPRS member
can receive, and there are only 25 living Lifetime Achievement Awardees of the
Society at any given time. Candidates are chosen by a Nominating Committee
made up of the past five Recipients of the award and two members of the Board of
Directors and chaired by the most recent recipient. Candidates must have provided
outstanding service to ASPRS and must have made outstanding contributions
in practice, research, development, administration, or education in the mapping
sciences and/or related disciplines.
Mike Renslow
Renslow is a photogrammetrist with 50 years of geospatial experience. His
career began in 1967 as a civilian land surveyor for the US Department of
Defense. In 1971, he went to work for the US Forest Service in California as a
photogrammetric cartographer and often field surveyor; he was instrumental in
the development and implementation for the FIRESCOPE Project in Southern
California and the Incident Command System for disaster response to wildland
fires. In 1983, Renslow left government service and entered the private sector as
the general manager of Pacific Aerial Surveys and vice-president of Hammon,
Jensen, and Wallen, Inc. His next position, in 1989, was with the Oregon-based
WAC Corporation in market development and operations management of Digital
Geographic Systems writing digital aerial imagery on CD-ROM. Renslow started
his first mapping firm in 1995, Renslow Image Mapping, which specialized in digital
imagery and orthophotography. After one year, he sold the company to Spencer
B. Gross Engineering and became the firm’s vice-president managing the Eugene
office; and became interested in lidar. Also, in 1997, Renslow took a position at
the University of Oregon, Geography Department as adjunct faculty, teaching a
class in Fundamentals of Remote Sensing for five years. In 2007, he established
Renslow Mapping Services specializing in consulting for emerging technologies
and accuracy QA/QC validation procedures. In 2009, he accepted a position with
Penn State University, John A. Dutton e-Education Institute as a senior lecturer
in the Geography Department teaching a new course on Lidar Technology and
Applications (GEOG497D).
He graduated with an AA in Civil Engineering in 1967 from Solano College and a
BS in Geography in 1971 from San Francisco State University.
Renslow has been a member of ASPRS for 44 years, and served nationally on
several committees and technical divisions, the Board of Directors, the Executive
