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54 February 2018 PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
URISA is pleased to announce that Kara
Utter has been named URISA’s Young
Professional of the Year in recognition of
her outstanding contributions as part of
URISA’s Vanguard Cabinet.
Kara is a GIS Analyst for Valley County,
Idaho. She has been an active participant
on the planning committee for GIS-Pro,
URISA’s annual conference, particularly
with student outreach and young professional networking
events. She is also the lead for the URISA Marketing Website
Sub-Committee and is very active locally in the URISA North-
ern Rockies Chapter.
The Vanguard Cabinet (VC) is a URISA initiative which
debuted in 2011 to engage young GIS practitioners (35 and
under), increase their numbers in the organization, and bet-
ter understand the concerns facing these future leaders of the
GIS community. The Cabinet’s mission is to collaborate with
URISA’s Board of Directors and Committees in creating and
promoting programs and policies of benefit to young profes-
sionals. Comprised entirely of passionate young members se-
lected from different geospatial disciplines, the Cabinet aims
to position URISA as the center of opportunities for creative
young professionals who are committed to improving URISA
and the geospatial profession via innovation, collaboration,
networking, and professional development.
CALENDAR
• February 13-14, Automated ISR & Battle Management
Symposium, Alexandria, Virginia. For more information,
visithttp://autoisr.dsigroup.org /.
• March 19-22, GIS /CAMA Technologies Conference,
Houston, Texas. For more information, visithttp://www .
urisa.org/gis-cama-technologies-conference/.
• March 26 - 29, RSCy2018— 6th International
Conference on Remote Sensing and Geo-information
of Environment, Paphos, Cyprus. For more information,
visitwww.cyprusremotesensing.com/rscy2018 /.
• April 9-13, URISA GIS Leadership Academy , Columbus,
Ohio. For more information, visithttp://www.urisa.org /
education-events/urisa-gis-leadership-academy/.
• April 22-24, Inaugural Joint UESI-Cal Poly Pomona
2018 Surveying & Geomatics Conference, Pomona,
California. For more informatin, visitwww.surveyingconfer-
ence.org/.
• May 9-11, 15th Conference on Computer and Robot
Vision (CRV 2018), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For more
information, visithttp://www.computerrobotvision.org/.
• July 18-22, COSPAR 2018, Pasadena, California. For more
information, visithttp://www.cospar-assembly.orgor http://
cospar2018.org/.
Too young to drive the car? Perhaps!
But not too young to be curious about
geospatial sciences.
The ASPRS Foundation was established to advance the under-
standing and use of spatial data for the betterment of humankind.
The Foundation provides grants, scholarships, loans and other
forms of aid to individuals or organizations pursuing knowledge of
imaging and geospatial information science and technology, and
their applications across the scientific, governmental, and
commercial sectors.
Support the Foundation, because when he is ready
so will we.
asprsfoundation.org/donate