Scholarships and Outstanding Paper Awards
ASPRS Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award
Virginia T. Norwood
The Photogrammetric Fairchild Award
2021 Recipient: Henry John “Hank" Theiss
ASPRS Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA)
2021 Recipient: Steve Coast
ASPRS Fellow Award
2021 Recipients:
John McCombs
Alper Yilmaz
Ramesh Sivanpillai
ASPRS Outstanding Service Award
2021 Recipients:
Stuart Marsh
Karen Schuckman
Lorraine Amenda
Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship
2021 recipient: Oscar Duran
Abraham Anson Memorial Scholarship
2021 Recipient: Alberto Loera
John O. Behrens Institute for Land Information (ILI) Memorial Scholarship
2021 recipient: Matthew Jacobson
Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship
2021 recipient: Patrick Gray
William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship
2021 recipient: Michelle Bester
Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship
2021 recipient: Ashish Pandey
The Kenneth J. Osborn Memorial Scholarship
2021 Recipient: Kennan Ganz
Ta Liang Memorial Award
2021 Recipient: Anais Zimmer
Paul R. Wolf Memorial Scholarship
2021 Recipient: Innocensia Owuor
International Educational Literature Award (IELA)
2021 Recipient: The Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of South of Minas Gerais (Brazil)
John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers
2021 Recipients:
1st Place:
Lu, Xiaoyan; Zhong, Yanfei; Zheng, Zhuo; Zhao, Ji; Zhang, Liangpei, “Edge-Reinforced Convolutional Neural Network for Road Detection in Very-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery,” PE&RS 86 (3)
2nd Place:
Tonbul, Hasan; Kavzoglu, Taskin, “Semi-Automatic Building Extraction from WorldView-2 Imagery Using Taguchi Optimization,” PE&RS 86 (9)
3rd Place:
Wu, Jie; Mao, Junya; Chen, Song; Zhuoma, Gesang; Cheng, Liang; Zhang, Rongchun, “Building Facade Reconstruction Using Crowd- Sourced Photos and Two-Dimensional Maps,” PE&RS 86 (11)
The Esri Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS
2021 recipients:
1st Place:
Wu, Bo; Li, Fei; Hu, Han; Zhao, Yang; Wang, Yiran; Xiao, Peipei; Li, Yuan; Liu, Wai Chung; Chen, Long; Ge, Xuming; Yang, Mei; Xu, Yingqiao; Ye, Qing; Wu, Xueying; Zhang, He, “Topographic and Geomorphological Mapping and Analysis of the Chang'E-4 Landing Site on the Far Side of the Moon,” PE&RS 86 (4)
Talbert Abrams Award
2021 Recipients:
Grand Award: Spring, Adam P, “A History of Laser Scanning, Part 1: Space and Defense Applications,” PE&RS 86 (7).
First Honorable Mention: Spring, Adam P, “A History of Laser Scanning, Part 2: The Later Phase of Industrial and Heritage Applications,” PE&RS 86 (8).
Second Honorable Mention: Colkesen, Ismail; Ertekin, Omer Habib, “Performance Analysis of Advanced Decision Forest Algorithms in Hyperspectral Image Classification,” PE&RS 86 (9).
George E. Brown, Jr. Congressional Honor Award
2021 recipient: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN)
Region Awards:
Region of the Year:
1st Place: Pacific Southwest Region
2nd Place: Potomac Region
3rd Place: Rocky Mountain Region
Region Web Site and Newsletter of the Year:
1st Place: Rocky Mountain Region
2nd Place: Eastern Great Lakes Region
3rd Place: Potomac Region
Roger Hoffer Membership Award
2021 recipients:
Jonathan Li
2021 Honorable Mention:
Dewberry
Karen L. Schuckman
ASPRS Presidential Citations
2021 recipients:
Lindi Quackenbush
Peng Fu
Chris Lee, Steve Yool, and Mike Abrams
Youssef Kaddoura
Tommy Jordan