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significant results, including proposal submission, speaker series, graduate
brown-bag series, faculty incentive fund, and student research support.
The center has served as a forum for dialogue between ISU researchers
and decision-makers in governmental agencies at different levels andwith
the public, and has facilitated the collaboration of its faculty with local
communities. As an ASPRS member since 1996,Weng served as a Nation-
al Director from2007 to 2010, Indiana Director 2003-04, Faculty Advisor of
the Indiana State University Chapter of ASPRS since 2007, and amem-
ber of Data Preservation & Archiving Committee (2003-04), Standards
Committee (2008), Digital Globe Foundation Award Committee (2013,
2015), ESRI Award committee (2013), Erdas Award committee (2014), and
Boeing Award committee (2014). He has sponsoredmore than a dozen
students to become ASPRS members. During his tenure as the National
Director, he actively recruitedmembers from Indiana for ASPRS and
became amembership champion in 2005 and 2006, co-chaired the Joint
Summer Conference of Eastern andWestern Great Lakes Regions (2008),
and worked with ISU Office of Continuing Education to provide continued
education credit to professionals in theWestern Great Lakes Region, and
facilitated the 2011 ASPRS annual conference held inMilwaukee. He has
regularly attended ASPRS conferences as a presenter, session organizer
andmoderator. He is frequently called upon to reviewmanuscripts for
PE&RS
and other journals on remote sensing, GIS, with applications in
environment, planning, geosciences, geography, and ecology. In addition,
he served as the Secretary of the ISPRSWorking GroupVIII/1 (2004-08),
and is the organizer and program chair of biennial InternationalWorkshop
on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications, a committee
member of 22 international conferences, and an editorial boardmember
of 10 journals. Due largely to his vision and dedication, the ISPRS Journal
now ranks #1 in the fields of remote sensing and imaging science with
impact factor of 6.387. Other significant activities include serving as the
Lead of GEO’s Global Urban Observation and InformationTask (2017-19),
the Series Editor for Taylor & Francis Series in Remote Sensing Applications,
a member of U.S. DOE’s Cool Roofs Roadmap and Strategy review panel
in 2010, and Chair for American Association of Geographers (AAG) China
Geography Specialty Group (2010-2011). Weng was the recipient of the
2015Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award by AAG for his outstanding and
pioneering contributions in urban remote sensing, the 2011 Outstand-
ing Contributions Award in Remote Sensing sponsored by AAG Remote
Sensing Specialty Group, the 2010 Erdas Award fromASPRS (1st place,
co-authored with H. Liu), the Robert E. AltenhofenMemorial Scholarship
(1999), and the Best Student-Authored Paper Award by the International
Geographic Information Foundation (1998). At ISU, he received the
Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Research Award in 2006 (the university’s
highest honor) and Lilly Foundation Faculty Fellow in 2005 (commending
faculty’s excellence in experiential learning and community engagement).
InMay 2008, he received a prestigious NASA senior fellowship, allowing
him to work at Marshall Space Flight Center and to conduct research on
remote sensing applications in urban climate and public health.
Purpose: Started in 1992, the designation of Fellow is conferred on
Society members who have been active for a total of at least ten years
and who have performed exceptional service in advancing the science
and use of the mapping sciences and related disciplines. It is awarded for
professional excellence and for service to the Society.
Donor: ASPRS
The ASPRS Fellow Award includes a lapel pin and a hand-engrossed
certificate.
ASPRS Outstanding Service Award
2020 recipients:
Roberta Lenczowski
For Outstanding Service as ASPRS Board Secretary (2014 – 2020).
David Maune
For the editing, funding and distribution of the
Digital Elevation Model
Technologies and Applications: The DEM Users Manual, 3
rd
Edition
.
Michael S. Renslow
For development of the Certification Program.
Stanley Morain, Amy Budge & Michael S. Renslow
For their visionary work in editing and producing the
Manual of
Remote Sensing, 4
th
Edition
.
Purpose: Established in 1991, The Outstanding Service Award is given in
recognition of outstanding and unusual efforts in helping ASPRS develop and
carry out its programover a sustained period. Recipients have performed out-
standing service at the chapter, regional, or national level. Awardees’ service
includes any activities, including professional, that have helped the Society
achieve its goals and objectives.
Donor: ASPRS
The Outstanding Service Award consists of a bronze plaque.
