Scholarships and Outstanding Paper Awards
ASPRS Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award
Marguerite Madden
The Photogrammetric Fairchild Award
Jie Shan
ASPRS Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA)
USGS Digital Orthophoto Quad (DOQ)Technical Team: David Hooper, Lyman Ladner, George Lee and Randy Olsen.
Presidential Citations
Lorraine Amenda
Lucia Lovison
Marguerite Madden
Rakesh Malhotra
Mary Mayes
John McCombs
Mike Zoltek
ASPRS Fellow Award
John S. Iiames, Jr.
Riadh A Munjy
Tim Warner
Qihao Weng
ASPRS Outstanding Service Award
Roberta Lenczowski
Dave Maune
Michael S. Renslow
Stanley Morain
Amy Budge
Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship
Abishek Poudel
Abraham Anson Memorial Scholarship
Alberto Loera
John O. Behrens Institute for Land Information (ILI) Memorial Scholarship
Elizabeth Hanwell
Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship
Colin Doyle
William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship
Bo Peng
Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship
Wenhao Liu
The Kenneth J. Osborn Memorial Scholarship
Trenton Holyfield
Ta Liang Memorial Award
Mohammad Abdul Qadir Khan
Paul R. Wolf Memorial Scholarship
Lee Ann Nolan
John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers
1st Place:
Jarrod Edwards, John Anderson, William Shuart, and Jason Woolard for “An Evaluation of Reflectance Calibration Methods for UAV Spectral Imagery,” PE&RS, 85 (3)
2nd Place:
Gottfried Mandlburger for ”Through-Water Dense Image Matching for Shallow Water Bathymetry,” PE&RS, 85 (6)
3rd Place:
Zhixin Qi, Anthony Gar-On Yeh, and Xia Li for “Scattering-Mechanism-Based Investigation of Optimal Combinations of Polarimetric SAR Frequency Bands for Land Cover Classification,” PE&RS, 85 (11)
The Esri Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS
1st Place:
X. Wang, F. Rottensteiner, and C. Heipke for”Robust Structure From Motion Based on Relative Rotations and Tie Points,” PE&RS 85 (5)
2nd Place:
Andreas Wichmann, Amgad Agoub, Valentina Schmidt, and Martin Kada for “RoofN3D: A Database for 3D Building Reconstruction with Deep Learning,” PE&RS 85 (6)
3rd Place:
Harith Aljumaily, Debra F. Laefer, and Dolores Cuadra for ”Integration of Lidar Data and GIS Data for Point Cloud Semantic Enrichment at the Point Level,” PE&RS, 85 (1)
Talbert Abrams Award
Grand Award: Chang Li, Xiaojuan Liu, and Wei Lu for “An Image-Pyramid-Based Raster-to-Vector Conversion (IPBRTVC) Framework for Consecutive-Scale Cartography and Synchronized Generalization of Classic Objects,” PE&RS, 85 (3)
First Honorable Mention: Niclas Börlin, Arnadi Murtiyoso, Pierre Grussenmeyer, Fabio Menna, and Erica Nocerino for ”Flexible Photogrammetric Computations Using Modular Bundle Adjustment: The Chain Rule and the Collinearity Equations,” PE&RS, 85 (5)
Second Honorable Mention: Qiang Zhou, Shuguang Liu, and Michael J Hill for “A Novel Method for Separating Woody and Herbaceous Time Series,” PE&RS, 85 (7)
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
Dr. Xiaojun Yang, Florida State University
Rising Stars
Amanda Aragon
Charles Krugger