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November 2017
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
ASPRS
NEWS
ASPRS CANDIDATES FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, 2018-2019
T
he ASPRS Governance Committee has selected candidates Jeff Lovin, Jeffrey
Yates, and Jeffrey M. Young for the office of Vice-President of ASPRS. Ballots
will be circulated at the end of November.
Below is a brief sketch of each candidate. More detailed biographical information and vision statements will be posted on the
ASPRS web site.
Jeff Lovin
Lovin is Senior Vice President and Managing Principal of
the Government Solutions Market at Woolpert, a national
architecture, engineering and geospatial firm headquartered
in Dayton, Ohio. During his 30 years with Woolpert, Lovin
has developed a diverse technical background, as well as
senior leadership expertise and advocacy experience. He
has been integral to expanding and enhancing the firm’s
geospatial capabilities and technology portfolio, while also
building relationships with geospatial-data stakeholders
from federal, state, local, private and academic sectors to
better understand, advocate for and meet their needs.
He has worked closely with Woolpert’s multidiscipline
teams to research, develop and adopt best practices in
photogrammetry, GIS, lidar, remote sensing and unmanned
autonomous systems (UAS) services—with capabilities
ranging fromdata acquisition and processing to manipulation,
storage and sharing. These services are shaped both by
and for the stakeholders Lovin interacts with on a regular
basis—which includes federal organizations such as USGS,
the National Oceanic and Atmo¬spheric Administration
(NOAA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), as well as state and local
Departments of Transportation (DOTs), water management
departments and GIS departments. He also engages with
academia to develop curriculum, courses and programs that
align with current and emerging geospatial technology and
best practices.
Jeffrey Yates
Yates is the General Manager of DAT/EM Systems
International, developers of photogrammetric software
based in Anchorage, Alaska. Upon receiving his BS degree
from Montana State University, he worked as a survey crew
member for the U.S. Forest Service in the Gallatin National
Forest. Following this, Yates worked for the U.S. Geological
Survey (USGS) in the Denver Federal Center on one of the
first nation-wide mapping projects undertaken by the USGS
digitizing 1:24,000 and 1:63,360 scale analog (paper) maps to
a digital format.
In 1982 Yates ventured north to Alaska where he became a
senior photogrammetrist with North Pacific Aerial Surveys
in Anchorage. During the next several years he worked in all
photogrammetric production operations including project cost
estimations, designing flight lines for photo missions, served
as aerial cameraman and navigator, learned to fly Cessna
twin-engine aircraft, developed film and prints, performed
aerial triangulation and photogrammetric compilation.
During this time the internal development of software for
digitizing directly from 3-axis (X,Y,Z) encoded analogue and
analytical plotters began. This early software ‘interface’
allowed for map compilation to switch from mylar base maps
directly into CAD software, such as AutoCAD. Yates was one
of the two original users of this software which became known
as DAT/EM Systems International. Yates then switched from
production compilation to being DAT/EM’s first International
Sales Manager.
Jeffrey M. Young
Currently at LizardTech, over the last eight years Young has
been responsible for expanding third party relationships and
he represents LizardTech at ASPRS, The Open Geospatial
Consortium, UAS initiatives in Colorado, and serves as a
Friend of the Geospatial Data Acquisition Technologies
AFB80 Committee for the Transportation Research Board.
Prior to joining LizardTech he held positions in program
management, business development, consulting, and
sales with several geospatial companies, including Leica
Geosystems, Space Imaging, and Bentley Systems. In
addition to serving as National Director for ASPRS for the
Rocky Mountain Region (RMR), Young has been a member
of ASPRS’s Executive Committee, the Bylaws Committee,
The Audit Committee, the Data Archiving and Preservation
Committee and has in the past served on various ad hoc
committees including the ASPRS Value Proposition Task
Force, the LiDAR Division, the LAS Working Group, and the
GIS in the Rockies Executive Committee. Young also is an
active member of the AAG and CaGIS.
ASPRS Candidates For Vice-President, 2018-2019
