2019 Award Winners

Scholarships and Outstanding Paper Awards

ASPRS Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award

Qassim Abdullah and Roger Crystal

The Photogrammetric Fairchild Award

2019 Recipient: Thomas M. Lillesand, PhD, CP, CMS

ASPRS Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA)

2019 Recipient: Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Förstner

ASPRS Fellow Award

2019 Recipients:
William Heidbreder
Jerome J. Lenczowski
Lindi J. Quackenbush
Charles K. Toth
E. Lynn Usery

ASPRS Outstanding Service Award

2019 Recipient: Suzanne Hallam

Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship

2019 recipient: Daniel Foley

Abraham Anson Memorial Scholarship

2019 Recipient:   Danielle O’Buckley

John O. Behrens Institute for Land Information (ILI) Memorial Scholarship

2019 recipient: Caitlin Tran

Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship

2019 recipient:  Brad Peter

William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship

2019 recipient: Su Ye

Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship

2019 recipient: Vincent Lazar

The Kenneth J. Osborn Memorial Scholarship

2019 Recipient: Jacob Moyer

Ta Liang Memorial Award

2019 Recipient: Alana Herro

Paul R. Wolf Memorial Scholarship

2019 Recipient: Isabel Garcia

John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers
2019 Recipients:

1st Place:  

Unal Okyay and Shuhab D. Khan, “Spatial Co-Registration and Spectral Concatenation of Panoramic Ground-Based Hyperspectral Images,” PE&RS 84 (12)

2nd Place:  

Matthew P. Dannenberg, Conghe Song, and Christopher R. Hakkenberg, “A Long-Term, Consistent Land Cover History of the Southeastern United States,” PE&RS 84 (9)

3rd Place:

Zhen Ye, Xiaohua Tong, Yusheng Xu, Sa Gao, Shijie Liu, Huan Xie, Peng Chen, Wensheng Lu, and Xianglei Liu, “An Improved Subpixel Phase Correlation Method with Application in Videogrammetric Monitoring of Shaking Table Tests.” PE&RS 84 (9)

The Esri Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS

2019 recipients:

1st Place:

Fei Liu, Yashar Balazadegan, and Yang Gao, “Tight Integration of INS/Stereo VO/Digital Map for Land Vehicle Navigation,” PE&RS 84 (1)

2nd Place:

Alina E. Maas, Franz Rottensteiner, Abdalla Alobeid and Christian Heipke, “Multitemporal Classification Under Label Noise Based on Outdated Maps,” PE&RS 84 (5)

3rd Place:  

Christopher E. Soulard, William Acevedo, and Stephen V. Stehman, Applications Paper: “Removing Rural Roads from the National Land Cover Database to Create Improved Urban Maps for the United States, 1992 to 2011,” PE&RS 84 (2)


Talbert Abrams Award

2019 Recipients:

Grand Award:   C. Becker, E. Rosinskaya, N. Häni, E. d’Angelo, and C. Strecha, “Classification of Aerial Photogrammetric 3D Point Clouds,” PE&RS 84 (5).

First Honorable Mention:  Stefan Blaser, Stephan Nebiker, and Stefan Cavegn, “On a Novel 360° Panoramic Stereo Mobile Mapping System,” PE&RS 84 (6).

Second Honorable Mention:  Lei Ye and Bo Wu, “Integrated Image Matching and Segmentation for 3D Surface Reconstruction in Urban Areas,” PE&RS 84 (3).


George E. Brown, Jr. Congressional Honor Award

2019 recipients: Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Mark Warner (D-VA)


Region Awards:

Region of the Year:                      

           1st Place: Rocky Mountain Region

           2nd Place: Pacific Southwest Region

           3rd Place: Potomac Region

Region Web Site and Newsletter of the Year:                       

           1st Place: Rocky Mountain Region

           2nd Place: Pacific Southwest Region

           3rd Place: Potomac Region


Roger Hoffer Membership Award

2019 recipients:

Bon Dewitt 

Xioajun Yang

Columbia River Region

Woolpert, ASPRS Sustaining Member