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service at many levels. At WVU, he served as associate chair of the
Department of Geology and Geography, 2008-2011, and served also
on the university’s strategic planning council, amongst many other
service roles. In national service, he was elected founding secretary of
AmericaView, and was recognized with that group’s Legacy Award in
2004. He served as chair of the Association of American Geographers
(AAG) Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG) and received the RSSG
Outstanding Contributions Award in 2006. Warner has served in an ed-
itorial capacity on four journals: as a member of the editorial board of
Geography Compass, as progress reports editor for Progress in Physical
Geography, as an editor for Remote Sensing Letters, and since 2014, he
has served as the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Remote
Sensing (IJRS). Warner has always highly valued his three decades of
membership in ASPRS-- the society has recognized his contributions
with five awards. As a graduate student at Purdue, he received the
Cambridge Instruments Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Award,
and the following year, theWilliam A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship.
The latter was particularly helpful for his career, because it funded his
dissertation field research in Canada. In 1992 he received the ASPRS
Merit Award. Two of his
PE&RS
papers have won awards from ASPRS,
including the Boeing Award for Best Paper in Image Analysis and
Interpretation (2006) and the Talbert Abrams Award (2015).
From 1990-1992 he served as chair of the ASPRS Student Affairs Com-
mittee, and ran a very successful job fair and student program at the
society’s spring and fall conferences during those years. He subsequent-
ly served as the ASPRS Scholarship Chair (1992-1997). He has served
as a reviewer for many manuscripts for Photogrammetric Engineering
& Remote Sensing (
PE&RS
), and has published 12 papers in the journal,
in many cases with his students as first authors. With the help of the
ASPRS Potomac Region, he established the Alfred O. Quinn Remote
Sensing Student Forum atWVU, to focusWVU student interest in remote
sensing and ASPRS. In summary, Warner has demonstrated an excep-
tional record of contributions to the mapping sciences, and specifically
to the remote sensing community. His capabilities as an educator have
enhanced the understanding of the mapping sciences for hundreds
of university students as well as established professionals who have
benefited from his varied outreach activities. Warner is an accomplished
scientist and has demonstrated career-long service competence for
many organizations including AmericaVIew, AAG, and especially ASPRS.
Qihao Weng
QihaoWeng is the Director of the Center for Urban and Environmental
Change and a tenured Full Professor at the Department of Earth &
Environmental Systems, Indiana State University (ISU), and an Edi-
tor-in-Chief of ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
He was a visiting NASA Senior Fellow at Marshall Space Flight Center
(2008-09). Born in Fuzhou, China, he received an A.S. fromMinjiang
University in 1984, a M.S. from South China Normal University in 1990,
a M.A. from the University of Arizona in 1996, and a Ph.D. from the
University of Georgia in 1999. At the same year, he joined the University
of Alabama as an Assistant Professor. Since 2001, he has been a member
of the faculty at Indiana State, and was early promoted to Associate
Professor in 2005 and to Full Professor in 2009.
At Indiana State,Weng teaches courses on remote sensing, digital
image processing, remote sensing-GIS integration and environmental
modeling, and has since mentored 15 doctoral and 13 master students.
Some of his former students are rising rapidly in the field of remote
sensing. He transformed an introductory remote sensing course from
a low enrollment undergraduate course to an exceedingly popular
general education class. From 2002 to 2008, he served as the director
of graduate studies in his department. His efforts to reform curriculum,
admission and retention procedures, and advising policies received
much appreciation from his colleagues, contributing to attracting qual-
ity students and recent success in ISU geography graduate program. In
addition, Weng has sincerely dedicated his efforts in developing course
materials and modules for introducing contemporary remote sensing
and GIS techniques to teachers and students at primary and secondary
schools at Indiana via short-courses, workshops, and seminars. He was
a Co-PI for a USAID-funded project that provided course instruction and
curriculummaterials to a group of professors fromMalawi in 2004-05.
The textbooks written byWeng,“An Introduction to Contemporary
Remote Sensing”(McGraw Hill, 2012) and“Remote Sensing and GIS
Integration”(McGraw Hill, 2009), have been used worldwide in research
universities, undergraduate institutions, and community colleges.
Weng conducts researches on urban remote sensing, urbanization
and associated environmental effects. His publications focus on the
following areas: urban heat island modeling using remote sensing data
and field measurements; estimation and mapping of urban impervious
surfaces; urban sprawl mapping and environmental impact analysis;
urban land characterization and classification; population estimation,
urban environmental quality and quality of life analysis; human and
environmental health; human ecosystems sustainability analysis; and
human-environment interactions. Weng has published 200 articles and
10 books, with Google citations of over 12,000 and H-index of 50. He
has worked extensively with optical and thermal remote sensing data,
more recently with LiDAR data, with financial support from NSF, NASA,
USGS, USAID, NOAA, National Geographic Society, and Indiana Dept of
Natural Resources. He has been invited to give approximately 90 talks
by the organizations and conferences held in the U.S., China, Canada,
Brazil, Greece, and Hong Kong, and has presented over 100 papers at
professional conferences (including co-presenting).
Weng is the Founding Director of the university’s Center for Urban and
Environmental Change since 2004, a center dedicated to interdisciplinary
research involving the studies of the urban and suburban environments
and applications of geospatial technologies. He sets up the center’s
structure and functions, secures funding for initial years, and establishes a
sustainable fundingmechanism. Several programs have since generated
