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Keynote Address — Wednesday, April 28th
Awards Program
Awards and Scholarships
Awards for Outstanding Papers, Professional Achievement, Service and Region activities are determined by committee selection; scholarships and
academic awards are also determined by committee selection but are chosen from among current applications. For details on the application process,
see: http://www.asprs.org/membership/scholar.html
Keynote Address, Wednesday, April 28th Purpose: to recognize an individual who has rendered distinguished
Honorary Member Award service to ASPRS and/or who has attained distinction in advancing the
Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship science and use of the mapping sciences. It is awarded for professional
Photogrammetric Award (Fairchild) excellence and for service to ASPRS and consists of a plaque and a
certificate.
The total number of honorary Members may not exceed twenty-five
Honorary Member Award at any given time, and no more than two will be elected in one year.
2010 Recipient: Charles E. Olson, Jr. Donor: The ASPRS Foundation
Charles E. “Chuck” Olson, Jr. is a Professor Emeritus of the University
of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment and is cur- ASPRS Honorary Members
rently Senior Image Analyst, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Ann Friedrich E. Ackermann James M. Anderson
Arbor, Michigan. He received his BSF in Forestry from the University Robert H. Brock, Jr. James B. Case
of Michigan, a MF from the University of Minnesota in Forest Man- Clifford J. Crandall Frederick O. Diercks
agement, a MF from the University of Illinois in Photo-Interpretation Frederick J. Doyle, Sr. Lawrence W. Fritz
Photogrammetry and a MF from the University of Costa Rica in Tropi- John J. Graham William G. Hemple
cal Biology. His PhD is from the University of Michigan in Forestry Roger M. Hoffer Thomas M. Lillesand
(Resource Inventory). Edmond S. Massie, Jr. Rex R. McHail
He served as Air/Photo/Radar Intelligence Officer, U.S. Naval Dean C. Merchant Edward Mikhail
Reserve, retiring with the rank of Captain in 1987. He was a Remote Roy R. Mullen A.O. Quinn
Sensing Instructor at the Remote Sensing Center for East Africa, Nai- William A. Radlinski Revere G. Sanders
robi, Kenya in 1981. Harry Tubis George J. Zarzycki
During his 36-year career at the University of Michigan, Olson taught
undergraduate and graduate courses in Air Photo Interpretation, Remote
Sensing of Environment, Digital Processing of Remote Sensor Data, Ap-
plications of Geographic Information Systems, Forest Fire Ecology, and
Multiple Use Forest Management. As Director of the School of Natural Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship
Resources and Environment Remote Sensing Laboratory, he supervised
operations of the image interpretation facility, a nearly self-supporting 2010 Recipient: Frank D.W. Witmer
authorized recharge facility serving the University and appropriate outside Frank D.W. Witmer is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of
government and industrial clients. His research included early detection Colorado, Boulder.
of stress in forest vegetation, thermal inventory of large animal popula- The Colwell Fellowship will support his research to develop new
tions, design and completion of land cover/use inventories, and environ- algorithms for radiometric normalization of night-time imagery from
mental monitoring with low cost remote sensing systems. From 1963 to the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). No record was
1969, Olson held a joint appointment in the Infrared Physics Laboratory made of on-board DMSP calibration adjustments over many years. This
of the University’s Willow Run Laboratories. means that to detect changes over time, it is necessary to radiometrically
Olson has presented many workshops for ASPRS on remote sens- normalize the imagery using known areas of constant light. Witmer
ing of vegetation and thermal remote sensing and has had numerous will develop and use these new algorithms to analyze a dataset of over
papers published in Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 14,000 violent events in the North Caucasus region of Russia that were
(PE&RS) and, the International Archives of Photogrammetry. He re- identified and geolocated to the nearest village during the period from
ceived the Presidential Citation for Meritorious Service for several years August 1999 to August 2007. Better radiometric correction of DMSP
and the Ford Bartlett Award. In 1998, he was elected an ASPRS Fellow data collected over this 8-year period will support the analysis of the
and served as National Director from the Eastern Great Lakes Region violent event data, to identify the types of impacts from violent conflict
from 2002 until 2008. He also began the Oral History Project complet- that are detectible with “nighttime lights” imagery. This information
ing 56 interviews, several of which were the basis for the “Reflection of will aid in the early detection of violence, and could be used by interna-
the Past” series in PE&RS. tional aid organizations to facilitate refugee assistance following periods
This is the highest award an ASPRS member can receive, and there of disturbance in contested landscapes and natural catastrophes.
are only 25 living Honorary Members of the Society at any given time. Witmer’s graduate career has emphasized the use of satellite remote
Candidates are chosen by a Nominating Committee made up of the past sensing and other geospatial technologies to investigate the impacts of
five recipients of the award and chaired by the most recent recipient. civil war on social functioning and land cover change. He received a
Initiated in 1937, this life-time award is given in recognition of indi- PhD degree in Geography from the Univ. of Colorado in 2007. His doc-
viduals who have rendered distinguished service to ASPRS and/or who toral research focused on an analysis of Landsat imagery to determine
have attained distinction in advancing the science and use of the geospa- the effects of war on land-cover change and abandonment of agricultur-
tial information sciences. It is awarded for professional excellence and al lands in Bosnia following implantation of land mines during the war.
for at least 20 years of service to ASPRS. Olson has been a member of The research topic for his Master’s degree (2003, Univ. of Colorado)
ASPRS and the American Society of Photogrammetry (the predecessor was “Economic decline and the natural environment in post-Soviet
of ASPRS) since 1956.
European Russia: A remote sensing and spatial statistical analysis.” Wit- sional surveyor, Abdullah currently serves as Fugro EarthData’s chief
mer also has experience in the private sector, having worked for Science scientist responsible for designing and managing strategic programs
Applications International Corporation (SAIC) from 1997-2001. to develop and implement new remote sensing technologies that allow
As shown by his graduate research, Witmer has a very well rounded Fugro EarthData to meet the evolving needs of geospatial users. He
set of spatial analytical skills that include remote sensing, GIS, spatial was instrumental in streamlining Fugro EarthData’s photogrammetric
and statistical modeling, and spatial analysis (including geostatistics) mapping processes, and most recently, has been leading the technology
methods. He has demonstrated substantial success publishing his transfer and process integration of Fugro EarthData’s new panoramic
research in top journals, including the Annals of the Association of mapping system.
American Geographers and the International Journal of Remote Sens- Abdullah obtained his Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the
ing. He is also a highly successful instructor in statistical methods, GIS, University of Basra in Iraq, and his master’s degree and doctorate de-
and political geography. grees in photogrammetry from the University of Washington in Seattle.
Over the course of more than a half century, Robert N. Colwell devel- He is affiliated with a number of national and international professional
oped a reputation as one of the world’s most respected leaders in remote societies, is a published author of over 50 technical papers and reports,
sensing, a field that he stewarded from the interpretation of aerial pho- and is a sought-after professional speaker and educator. Besides pub-
tographs during World War II, to the advanced acquisition and analysis lishing the monthly column “Mapping Matters”, which appears in the
of many types of geospatial data from military and civilian satellite ASPRS journal PE&RS, he is involved in several national committees,
platforms. His career included nearly 40 years of teaching and research and participates in discussions regarding the industry and technology
at the University of California, Berkeley, a distinguished record of forecast, future technologies, process improvement of lidar and digital
military service reaching the rank of Rear Admiral, and prominent roles photogrammetry, and accuracy standards. Abdullah is also an adjunct
in private industry and as a consultant for many U.S. and international professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, teaching a
agencies. Among the many awards bestowed upon Colwell, he had the graduate course on photogrammetry and GIS.
distinction of being one of the 25 Honorary Members of ASPRS, chosen Purpose: the Award is designed to stimulate the development of the art
from the Society’s 6000 members of aerial photogrammetry in the United States. The Award consists of a
Purpose: Established in 2006 to encourage and commend college/univer- silver presentation plaque mounted on a walnut wood panel.
sity graduate students or post-doctoral researchers who display excep- Practicability is the essence of the Award and with this as a criterion,
tional interest, desire, ability, and aptitude in the field of remote sensing or the selection committee reviews candidates who have:
other related geospatial information technologies, and who have a special l An outstanding invention or design involving any type of equip-
interest in developing practical uses of these technologies. ment that applies to the art of aerial photogrammetry.
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation, from funds donated by students, as- l Any outstanding method developed for the general use of aerial
sociates, colleagues and friends of Robert N. Colwell. photographs and/or imagery.
The Award now consists of a grant of $5,000 and a one-year student l Outstanding research for study along aerial photogrammetric lines.
or associate membership (new or renewal) in ASPRS. l Made an outstanding effort for the general advancement of the art
of photogrammetry.
Past Recipients
Donor: Lockheed Martin
2006 — Desheng Liu
2007 — Michael Falkowski The Photogrammetric Award (Fairchild) includes an engraved plaque.
2008 — Jonathan Thayn
2009 — Sergio Bernardes Past Award Recipients:
2005 — Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Förstner
2006 — Gordon Petrie
2007 — George Y.G. Lee
2008 — Donald L. Light
2009 — Charles K. Toth
The Photogrammetric (Fairchild) Award
2010 Recipient: Qassim Abdullah
Qassim Abdullah is an accomplished scientist with more than 30 years
of combined industrial, research and development, and academic experi-
ence in analytical photogrammetry, digital remote sensing, and civil and
surveying engineering.
Over the course of his career, Abdullah has contributed significantly
toward the advancement of digital aerial imagery and lidar acquisi-
tion, and production processes. Among his accomplishments, Abdullah
developed proprietary software applications for use in digital orthopho-
tography and DEM production; he developed and integrated a metric
digital aerial camera for rapid image acquisition; he integrated airborne
GPS into conventional aerotriangulation adjustments; he refined inertial
navigation systems and GPS technology for position and orientation
measurement; and he developed integrated airborne GPS, inertial mea-
surement, lidar data acquisition and development of precise positioning
algorithms and processes.
A civil engineer, ASPRS certified photogrammetrist, and profes-
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Awards Program
76th Business Meeting and 21st Awards Luncheon, —
Wednesday, April 28th
76th Business Meeting and 21st Awards Luncheon, Installation of New Assistant Directors Bradley D. Doorn
Wednesday, April 28th Douglas L. Smith, Photogrammetric Applications Division
Becky Morton, Professional Practice Division
David L. Szymanski, Remote Sensing Applications Division
Welcome Bradley D. Doorn
Installation of President-Elect & Vice President Bradley D. Doorn
Lunch
Gary Florence, President-Elect
Introduction of Guests Bradley D. Doorn Roberta E. (Bobbi) Lenczowski, Vice-President
Presentation of ASPRS Awards Alan R. Stevens
Installation of Incoming President Bradley D. Doorn
Bradley D. Doorn
Carolyn J. Merry
Outstanding Papers Awards
Boeing Award for Best Paper in Image Analysis and Interpretation Presentation of Birdseye Citation & Carolyn J. Merry
John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers President’s Key to Retiring President
ERDAS Award for Best Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing Bradley D. Doorn
ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS
Talbert Abrams Award Adjournment
John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers ERDAS Award for Best Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing
2010 Recipients: 2010 Recipients:
1st Place: 1st Place: Hua Liu and Qihao Weng, for “Scaling Effect on the Relation-
John R. Jensen, Michael E. Hodgson, Maria Garcia-Quijano, Jungho ship between Landscape Pattern and Land Surface Temperature: A Case
Im, and Jason A. Tullis for “A Remote Sensing and GIS-assisted Spatial Study of Indianapolis, United States” PE&RS, 75(3), 291-304.
Decision Support System for Hazardous Waste Site Monitoring,” 2nd Place: Stephen V. Stehman, James D. Wickham, Timothy G. Wade,
PE&RS, 75 (2), 169-177. and Jonathan H. Smith for “Designing a Multi-Objective, Multi-Support
2nd Place: Accuracy Assessment of the 2001 National Land Cover Data (NLCD
Benjaman E. Wilkinson, Bon A. Dewitt, Adam C. Watts, Ahmed H. Mo- 2001) of the Conterminous United States,” PE&RS, 74(12), 1561-1571.
hamed, and Matthew A. Burgess for “A New Approach for Pass-point 3rd Place: J. Linke, G.J. McDermid, D.N. Laskin, A.J. McLane, A.
Generation from Aerial Video Imagery” PE&RS, 75 (12), 1415-1424. Pape, J. Cranston, M. Hall-Beyer, and S.E. Franklin for “A Disturbance-
3rd Place: Inventory Framework for Flexible and Reliable Landscape Monitoring,”
Xuelian Meng, Le Wang, and Nate Currit for “Morphology-based Build- PE&RS, 75(8), 981-995.
ing Detection from Airborne Lidar Data,” PE&RS, 75 (4), 437-442. Purpose: Established in 1991 as the ERDAS Award for Best Scien-
Purpose: The John I. Davidson Award was established in 1979 to encour- tific Paper in Remote Sensing, it became the Leica Geosystems Award
age and commend individuals who publish papers of practical or applied for Best Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing in 2002 and returned to
value in Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS). ERDAS sponsorship in 2009. This award encourages and commends
individuals who publish papers of scientific merit that advance our
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation knowledge of remote sensing technology.
The John I. Davidson Award First Place includes an engraved pewter Donor: ERDAS through the ASPRS Foundation
tankard, a cash award of $500 and a hand-engrossed certificate. 2nd
place is a cash award of $300 and a hand-engrossed certificate. 3rd The ERDAS Award first prize is $500 and a hand-engrossed certificate;
place is a cash award of $200 and a hand-engrossed certificate. second prize is $300 and a hand-engrossed certificate; third prize is
$200 and a hand-engrossed certificate.
Past Award Recipients:
2005 Recipients: Past Award Recipients:
1st Place: A. Edirisinghe, J.P. Louis, and G.E. Chapman 2005 Recipients:
2nd Place: Thomas J. Cova, Paul C. Sutton, and David M. Theoba 1st Place: Giles M. Foody
3rd Place: K.S. Schmidt, A.K. Skidmore, E.H. Kloosterman, H. van 2nd Place: Robert L. Huguenin, Mo Hwa Wang, Robert Biehl, Scott
Oosten, L. Kumar, J.A.M. Janssen Stoodley, and Jeffrey N. Rogers
2006 Recipients: 3rd Place: Thomas J. Cova, Paul C. Sutton, and David M. Theobald
1st Place: Rongxing Li, Steven W. Squyres, Raymond E. Arvidson,
2006 Recipients:
Brent A. Archinal, Jim Bell, Yang Cheng, Larry Crumpler, David J. Des
1st Place: Elijah Ramsey III and Amina Rangoonwala
Marais, Kaichang Di, Todd A. Ely, Matt Golombek, Eric Graat, John
2nd Place: Lei Ji and Albert J. Peters
Grant, Joe Guinn, Andrew Johnson, Ron Greeley, Randolph L. Kirk,
3rd Place: Francesca Pozzi and Christopher Small
Mark Maimone, Larry H. Matthies, Mike Malin, Tim Parker, Mike
Sims, Larry A. Soderblom, Shane Thompson, Jue Wang, Patrick Whel- 2007 Recipients:
ley, and Fengliang Xu 1st Place: Brian D. Wardlow, Jude H. Kastens, and Stephen L. Egbert
2nd Place: Rebecca Musy, Randolph Wynne, Christine Blinn, John
2nd Place: Christopher E. Parrish, Grady H. Tuell, William E. Carter,
Scrivani, and Ronald McRoberts
and Ramesh L. Shrestha
3rd Place: Lei Ji and Kevin Gallo
3rd Place: Paul M. Dare
2008 Recipients:
2007 Recipients: 1st Place: Frank Crosby
1st Place: Brian D. Wardlow, Jude H. Kastens, and Stephen L. Egbert 2nd Place: Zhong Lu
2nd Place (tie): J. Chris McGlone, Tom Barclay, Ed Freeborn, Clifford 3rd Place: A. Baccini, M.A. Friedl, C.E. Woodcock, and Z. Zhu
W. Greve, Ayman Habib, Terry Keating, Roberta Lenczowski, Bryan
Logan, Toni Schenk, Mladen Stojic, Alan Voss And: Ernesto Rodriguez, 2009 recipients:
Charles S. Morris, and J. Eric Belz 1st Place: Jan A.N.van Aardt, Randolph H. Wynne, and John A. Scrivani
2nd Place: Eva Ivits, Alistair Lamb, Filip Langar, Scott Hemphill, and
2008 Recipients: Barbara Koch
1st Place: A. Baccini, M.A. Friedl, C.E. Woodcock, and Z. Zhu 3rd Place: Nikolaos Galiatsatos, Daniel N.M. Donoghue, and Graham
2nd Place: P.S. Thenkabail, P. GangadharaRao, T.W. Biggs, M. Krishna,
Philip
and H. Tural.
3rd Place: Ayman F. Habib, Eui-Myoung Kim, and Chang-Jae Kim
2009 Recipients:
1st Place: Zhen Xiong and Yun Zhang
2nd Place: Hongxing Liu, Jaehyung Yu, Zhiyuan Zhao, and Kenneth C. Jezek
3rd Place: Caixia Wang, Anthony Stefanidis, Arie Croitoru, and Peggy Agouris
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Awards Program
76th Business Meeting and 21st Awards Luncheon, —
Wednesday, April 28th
The ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS The Talbert Abrams Award
st
1 Place: John R. Jensen, Michael E. Hodgson, Maria Garcia-Quijano, 2010 Recipients:
Jungho Im, and Jason A. Tullis for “A Remote Sensing and GIS-assisted
Spatial Decision Support System for Hazardous Waste Site Monitoring,” Grand Award:
PE&RS, 75 (2), 169-177. Karsten Raguse and Christian Heipke for “Synchronization of Image
Sequences – A Photogrammetric Method,” PE&RS, 75 (5), 535-546.
2nd Place: Hubo Cai and William Rasdof for “Accuracy Evaluation and
Sensitivity Analysis of Estimating 3D Road Centerline Length using First Honorable Mention:
Lidar and NED,” PE&RS, 75 (6), 657 – 665. K. Gwinner, F. Scholten, M. Spiegel, R. Schmidt, B. Giese, J. Oberst,
3rd Place: Peng Hu, Xiaohang Liu, and Hai Hu for “Accuracy Assess- C. Helpe, R. Jaumann and G. Neukum for “Derivation & validation of
ment of Digital Elevation Models based on Approximation Theory,” high-resolution digital terrain models from Mars express HRSC-data,”
PE&RS, 75 (1), 49 - 56. PE&RS, 75 (9), 1127-1142.
Purpose: Established in 1991, the ESRI Award honors individuals who Second Honorable Mention:
publish papers of scientific merit that advance our knowledge about GIS N. Akel, S. Filin and Y. Doytsher for “Reconstruction of complex shape
technology. buildings from lidar data using free form surfaces,” PE&RS, 75 (3),
271-280.
Donor: The Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
through The ASPRS Foundation Purpose: The Talbert Abrams Award was established in 1945 to encour-
age the authorship and recording of current, historical, engineering, and
The ESRI Award first prize is $500 and a hand-engrossed certificate; scientific developments in photogrammetry. The Award is determined
second prize is $300 and a hand-engrossed certificate; third prize is from papers published in Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote
$200 and a hand-engrossed certificate. Sensing (PE&RS). The award consists of a check for $3,000 and an
engraved plaque for the Grand Award and award certificates for the First
Past Award Recipients: and Second Honorable Mentions.
2005 Recipients: Donor: The ASPRS Foundation
1st Place: Dorota A.Grejner-Brzenzinska, Ron Li, Norbert Haala, and
Charles Toth 2005 Recipients:
2nd Place: Christian Heipke Grand Award: Yun Zhang, C. Vincent Tao, and J. Bryan Mercer
3rd Place: Colin Homer, Chengquan Huang, Limin Yang, Bruce Wylie, Honorable Mention: Sorin C. Popescu and Randolph H. Wynne
and Michael Coan 2005: No award given
2006 Recipients: 2007 Recipients:
1st Place: Bisheng Yang, Wenzhong Shi, and Qingquan Li Grand Award: Jie Shan, Chiung-Shiuan Fu, Bin Li, James Bethel, Jef-
2nd Place: Rodolphe Devillers, Yvan Bedard, and Robert Jeansoulin frey Kretsch and Edward Mikhail
3rd Place: Xutong Niu, Ruijin Ma, Tarig Ali, and Rongxing Li First Honorable Mention: C. S. Fraser and S. Al-Ajlouni
2007 Recipients: Second Honorable mention: Hans-Gerd Maas and Uwe Hampel
1st Place: Suzanne P. Wechsler and Charles N. Kroll
2008 Recipients:
2nd Place: Jeremy Mennis
Grand Award: Michel Morgan, Kyung-Ok Kim, Soo Jeong, and Ay-
3rd Place: Kurt H. Riitters, James D. Wickham, and Timothy G. Wade
man Habib
2008 Recipients: First Honorable Mention: Ayman F. Habib, Eui-Myoung Kim, and
1st Place: Rongxing Li, Kaichang Di, Jue Wang, Xutong Niu, Sanchit Chang-Jae Kim
Agarwal, Evgenia Brodyagina, Erik Oberg and Ju Won Hwangbo Second Honorable Mention: Simon Clode, Franz Rottensteiner, Peter
2nd Place: Rifaat Abdalla, C. Vincent Tao, Qiuming Cheng, and Jona- Kootsookos, and Emanuel Zelniker 2009 recipients:
than Li
2009 Recipients:
3rd Place: Pravara Thanapura, Dennis L. Helder, Suzette Burckhard,
Grand Award: Junhee Youn, James S. Bethel, Edward M. Mikhail, and
Eric Warmath, Mary O’ Neill, and Dwight Galster
Changno Lee
2009 Recipients: First Honorable Mention: Elja Honkavaara, Jouni Peltoniemi, Eero
1st Place: Jie Shan, Sharaf Alkheder, and Jun Wang Ahokas, Risto Kuittinen, Juha Hyyppa, Juha Jaakkola, Harri Kaartinen,
2nd Place: Carlos F. Mena Lauri Markelin, Kimmo Nurminen, and Juha Suomalainen
3rd Place: David Potere, Neal Feierabend, Alanb H. Strahler, and Eddie Second Honorable Mention: Nikolaos Galiatsatos, Danuel N.M.
E. Bright Donoghue, and Graham Philip
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Awards Program
76th Business Meeting and 21st Awards Luncheon, —
Wednesday, April 28th
John O. Behrens Institute for Land Information (ILI) The Kenneth J. Osborn Memorial Scholarship
Memorial Scholarship 2010 Recipient: Eric S. Wilder
2010 Recipient: Elizabeth Young Wilder is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography with an em-
Elizabeth Young is selected as the second annual recipient of the John phasis on GIS from the University of California at Santa Barbara. His
O. Behrens ILI Memorial Scholarship as a person who represents the major field of study is geographic information systems and geographic
goals of John Behrens in advancing the value of land information and in analysis. He plans to graduate in May of 2011, after which he intends to
a lifelong commitment to learning and education. John Behrens was a pursue a Master’s Degree in GIS. He anticipates applying for the Mas-
visionary who saw the fields of surveying and land information as ways ter’s program at either the University of Michigan or the University of
of opening new career opportunities. Young exemplifies the fulfill- Redlands. In the near future, he intends to apply for a student internship
ment of that vision as a person from a small town who saw the exciting at the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) in Redlands,
potential of geomatics for new educational and professional options that California. He exemplified the Osborn qualities of communication and
could help her achieve her dreams. Young has a strong academic record collaboration through leadership of projects within the UCSB Campus
in pursuing a degree in Geomatics Engineering and has gained valuable and Design Facilities Department, and research projects resulting in
field experience as a surveying intern. Young has received outstanding published papers. His faculty advisor is Professor Stuart Sweeney.
reviews by the supervisors of her work internship, for her willingness The Award consists of a one-year membership in the Society (new or
and ability to learn, her work commitment and her ability to coordinate renewal), an engrossed certificate and a check in the amount of $2,000.
many different projects and tasks. Young has an excellent balance of
academic, work and personal drive that provides a foundation for a Purpose: To encourage and commend college students who display
successful career as a surveying and land information professional. It is exceptional interest, desire, ability, and aptitude to enter the profession
with pleasure that the 2010 John O. Behrens ILI Memorial Scholarship of surveying, mapping, photogrammetry, or geospatial information and
is awarded to Elizabeth Young of California State University, Fresno. technology. In addition, the Award recognizes students who excel at
an aspect of the profession that Ken demonstrated so very well, that of
The John O. Behrens ILI Memorial Scholarship was established by the communications and collaboration.
Institute for Land Information (since officially dissolved) as a tribute to
the many contributions of Behrens to the field of geographic and land Donor: The ASPRS Foundation from funds donated by the friends and
related information and technology. John O. Behrens was a founder of colleagues of Kenneth J. Osborn. Recognized nationally and interna-
the ILI and the author of many articles about the value of spatial infor- tionally, Ken was an outstanding practitioner of surveying, mapping,
mation, land assessment and taxation, and land information policy. In photogrammetry, and geospatial information and technology, and a
recognition of Behrens outstanding contributions over his distinguished great friend of the Society. As a professional cartographer with the U.S.
career, funds from the ILI have been donated to the ASPRS Foundation Geological Survey, Ken made significant contributions to these fields.
to be administered for the John O. Behrens ILI Memorial Scholarship. The award was first offered in 2005.
Purpose: To encourage students/persons who have an exceptional inter- Past Award Recipients:
est in pursuing scientific research or education in geospatial science or 2005 — Rachel E. Ruppel
technology or land information systems/records to enter a professional 2006 — Sean Bolender
field where they can use the knowledge of this discipline to excel in 2007 — Katarina Doctor
their profession. 2008 — Nathaniel Ovans
2009 — Jason B. Jones
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation from funds donated by the ILI
The Award consists of a certificate and a check in the amount of $1,000
and a one-year student or associate membership (new or renewal) in
ASPRS.
Past Recipient:
2009 — Christopher Griffith
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Awards Program
76th Business Meeting and 21st Awards Luncheon, —
Wednesday, April 28th
Kodak International Educational Literature Award (KIELA) ASPRS Outstanding Service Award
2010 Recipient: The Waiariki Institute of Technology, Rotorua, New 2010 Recipients:
Zealand School of Forestry, Wood Processing and Biotechnology Marguerite Madden, for her outstanding efforts as Editor-in-Chief of
the GIS Manual.
The Waiariki Institute of Technology, Rotorua, New Zealand offers a
National Diploma in Forestry (Forest Management). The institute pro- Lockheed Martin, for their longtime and continued support for the
gram recently approved and, as of 2010, offers a Bachelor of Applied ASPRS Photogrammetric Award.
Management with a Forestry Emphasis. The KIELA Award will be used Major contributors to the Geospatial Revolution Film Project:
to improve and establish the Institute’s remote sensing program and will Booz Allen Hamilton
provide students with materials for current applied technology advances Harris Corporation
for inclusion into their academic programs. The resources and materials DigitalGlobe
including ASPRS publications will be housed on campus and will be GeoEye
available to all Institute students as well as the general public of New USGIF
Zealand through the Roturua Public Library. Northrop Grumman
Purpose: The KIELA was first bestowed in 1990. Its goal is to improve NAVTEQ
the quantity and quality of literature in the recipient’s library, particu- ESRI
larly in the mapping sciences (i.e. photogrammetry, remote sensing, Purpose: Established in 1991, The Outstanding Service Award is given
GIS, and related disciplines) by providing ASPRS educational materials to Society members in recognition of outstanding and unusual efforts
and publications. in helping ASPRS develop and carry out its program over a sustained
The KIELA includes $350 worth of books, manuals, or other literature period. Recipients have performed outstanding service at the chapter,
published by ASPRS; a five-year subscription to PE&RS, proceedings regional, or national level. Awardees’ service includes any activities,
of the Annual Conference and Fall technical meetings for five years; including professional, that have helped the society achieve its goals and
one free registration to the Society’s Annual Conference at the time of objectives.
receiving the award for a member of the institution to whom the award Donor: The ASPRS Foundation
is being given; and a hand-engrossed certificate.
The Outstanding Service Award consists of a bronze plaque
This award has been augmented by
l a generous grant from the Environmental Systems Research Past Award Recipients:
Institute (ESRI) of the complete ESRI Press Library collection 2005 — Chris McGlone, Roy Mullen, Mike Renslow, and Jan Gervin
l selected titles from the John Wiley and Sons, Publishers, catalog 2006 — Stewart Walker, BAE Systems, and Don Lauer
l The conference proceedings from the Geospatial Information 2007 — The Future of Land Imaging Interagency Working Group, Jack
Technology Association (GITA) Dangermond, and Dave Maune
l The conference proceedings from The Association of American 2008 — James W. Merchant, Bernard “Barney” Schur, James V.
Geographers (AAG) Taranik, and George Y. G. Lee
2009 — The Procurement Guidelines Committee, R. Douglas Ramsey,
Donor: Eastman Kodak Company, through the ASPRS Foundation
Russell G. Congalton, Roberta E. “Bobbi” Lenczowski, and John
Past Award Recipients: Moeller
2005 — The Department of Forest Engineering, Federal University of
Vicosa, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
2006 — The Institute of Geography, National University of Mexico
(Instituto de Geografia - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
2007 — University of San Carlos, Guatemala
2008 — Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya
2009 — Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
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Awards Program
76th Business Meeting and 21st Awards Luncheon, —
Wednesday, April 28th
ASPRS Outstanding Workshop Instructor Award Col. Claude H. Birdseye President’s Citation
2010 Recipient: Russell G. Congalton 2010 Recipient: Bradley D. Doorn
The 2010 ASPRS Outstanding Workshop Instructor Award recipient is Purpose: The Col. Claude H. Birdseye President’s Citation was estab-
Russell G. Congalton for his excellent workshop on accuracy that he has lished in 1965 as a tribute to one of the founders and the first president
offered to ASPRS and for his leadership as the Workshop Coordinator of the Society. Each year at the Annual Convention it is conferred on the
for 10 years. outgoing president in recognition of her/his contributions to the Society.
Purpose: The Outstanding Workshop Instructor Award is conferred by Donor: ASPRS Foundation
ASPRS in recognition of special, personal, and meritorious contribu
The Birdseye Citation carries with it a gold Past President’s Key, and a
tions to continued organization, promotion, and/or delivery of work-
hand-engrossed certificate.
shops at the ASPRS Annual and Fall Conferences.
Past Award Recipients:
Donor: The award is administered by the ASPRS Foundation from
2005 — Russell G. Congalton
funds donated by ASPRS members and participating sponsors through
2006 — Karen L. Schuckman
contributions to the ASPRS Foundation.
2007 — Kari J. Craun
The award consists of a certificate and an inscribed laser pointer. 2008 — Marguerite Madden
2007 Recipient: Michael Renslow 2009 — Kass Green
2008 Recipients: Kass Green and Robert Burtch
2009 Recipients: David Fuhr and Brian Huberty
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Awards Program
General Session — Thursday, April 29th
General Session, Thursday, April 29th l Geospatial Analysis of Dynamic Terrorist Networks
Fellow Award l ASPRS Ten-Year Remote Sensing Industry Forecast Phase I-V
Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship l Fusion of Hyperspectral and Radar Data Using IHS to Enhance
Paul R. Wolf Memorial Scholarship Urban Surface Features
BAE Systems Award l Investigation of the Integration of AVIRIS and IFSAR for Urban
Conference Management Awards Analysis
Hepner is a recipient of multiple ASPRS Presidential Citations, the
ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS, 1999, ASPRS Meritorious
Service Award, April 1998 and many additional citations.
goals, and missions of the Society. She continued to serve the Society l “Analytic Data Reduction Schemes in Non-Topographic Pho-
as its delegate to the University Consortium of Geographic Information togrammetry,” in H. Karara, ed., Non-Topographic Photogram-
Science (UCGIS) and as the ASPRS Correspondent for ISPRS Com- metry, Second Edition, American Society for Photogrammetry
mission IV (Geodatabases and Digital Mapping). Madden was elected and Remote Sensing, 1989.
Vice-president of ASPRS in 2005 and advanced to President in 2007. McGlone was the recipient of the 2004 ASPRS Photogrammetric
Her honors include an ASPRS Presidential Citation for creating and (Fairchild) Award given in recognition of contributions to the field of
championing student assistantships (2009); the Col. Claude H. Birdseye photogrammetry, as well as an ASPRS Outstanding Service Award
President’s Citation upon completion of her term as President of ASPRS in 2005 and a Certificate of Appreciation in 1994. While in graduate
(2008); the ISPRS Willem Schermerhorn Award (2004) for promot- school he received the Wild-Heerbrugg ASPRS Fellowship in Photo-
ing international activities in specialized areas of photogrammetry and grammetry.
remote sensing; Visiting Scholar at James Madison University (2002);
Distinguished Visiting Alumna at Plattsburgh State University of New Clifford J. Mugnier
York (1999); Best Session Paper (co-authored with Roy Welch) at the Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Mugnier attended grammar school
Fourth ERIM Thematic Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and in New Orleans and high school in Balboa, Canal Zone. He attended
Coastal Environments (1997); and Best Plenary Paper (co-authored Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge for two years and graduated
with Roy Welch) at the Second ERIM Thematic Conference on Remote from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana in 1967.
Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments (1994). College summers were spent working as a map draftsman and navigator
for Offshore Navigation, Inc. in New Orleans. He attended the U.S.A.F.
J. Chris McGlone Aeronautical Chart & Information Center Professional Cartographer
J. Chris McGlone is currently a photogrammetrist at SAIC, Inc. working course in St. Louis where he first joined the American Society of
on urban modeling from lidar and other sensors. He received his BS in Photogrammetry in 1967, and was “encouraged” by the Draft Board to
Civil Engineering in 1974 from the University of Kentucky and his MS enlist in the U.S. Army. He attended Engineer Officer Candidate School
and PhD in Photogrammetry from Purdue in 1977 and 1980, respec- where he completed Sapper Demolition and Combat Engineering. Upon
tively. His dissertation topic, supervised by Edward M. Mikhail, was graduating, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Corps of
“Photogrammetric Analysis of Aircraft Multispectral Scanner Data.” Engineers. Colonel Conard, Commanding Officer of Army Map Service
Before joining SAIC in 2005, McGlone was a research faculty mem- requested that Mugnier be assigned under his command. He was and re-
ber in the Computer Science Dept. at Carnegie Mellon University, work- mained there for the entire duration of his military service that spanned
ing in cartographic applications of computer vision. While at CMU he the existence of the U.S. Army Topographic Command (TOPOCOM).
co-founded TerraSim, Inc. to commercialize visual simulation database While at TOPOCOM, he served as Company Commander of enlisted
construction software. Prior to CMU, McGlone was a senior engineer personnel, and was educated as a photogrammetrist in the Extraterrestri-
at Fairchild where he worked on reconnaissance sensor performance al Branch by Don Light and in the Geometric Division by Zeno Kittrell
and geometric modeling and automated image exploitation techniques for CORONA Program technology. He also served as Captain and
for ground stations, and at H. Dell Foster Associates, where his projects Executive Secretary of the U.S. Army Topographic Scientific Advisory
included a real-time vision metrology system for industrial inspection Committee (TSAC); two members of which were Prof. Arthur McNair
and an analytical stereo plotter for uncalibrated small format imagery. and Prof. Robert N. Colwell. He published a paper in The Military
McGlone is the Editor-in-chief of the Fifth Edition of the Manual of Engineer on the photogrammetric instrumentation in use at TOPO-
Photogrammetry, published by the ASPRS in 2004, and a co-author of COM at the time. Mugnier attended George Washington University
the textbook Introduction to Modern Photogrammetry. He served as and studied Analytical Photogrammetry under Morton Keller and also
the chairman of an ASPRS Panel which made recommendations to the took the TOPOCOM course in Analytical Photogrammetry in which he
U.S. Geological Survey on their Digital Orthoimagery program. He is later lectured. On completion of military service, he worked as Chief of
currently a co-chair of ISPRS WGIII/5, “Image Sequence Analysis,” an Aerotriangulation for the Raytheon/Autometric Operation in Wayland,
affiliate faculty member in the Department of Geography and Geoinfor- Massachusetts for two years. Mugnier then moved his family to Baton
mation Science at George Mason University, and a member of the SAIC Rouge where he was General Manager of the Photogrammetry Division
Technical Fellows Council. of Owen & White, Inc. Consulting Engineers.
McGlone has been an ASPRS member since 1976 and is currently Because of the equipment used at the time, he developed new
the Technical Program Chairman for the Potomac Region, as well as a rectification techniques, published “Analytical Rectification Utilizing
Certified Photogrammetrist. He is also a member of the IEEE Computer Artificial Points” in PE&RS, and was awarded Honorable Mention for
Society. the Talbert Abrams award in 1973. He started lecturing in Land Survey-
Other contributions to ASPRS manuals include: ing at the Baton Rouge Vo-Tech School in 1973. Mugnier was first
l “Photogrammetry,” in D. Maune, ed., Digital Elevation Model certified as a Photogrammetrist in 1976. In 1977, he moved his family
Technologies and Applications: the DEM Users Manual, Second to New Orleans and started business as a consulting Cartographer and
Edition. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Photogrammetrist. Mugnier contracted with the New Orleans District,
Sensing, 2007. Corps of Engineers for several years as a consultant in the surveying
l “Sensor modeling in image registration,” in C. Greve, ed., Digi- and mapping sciences. He continued in private practice in New Orleans
tal Photogrammetry: An Addendum to the Manual of Photo- for another 23 years doing cartographic, geodetic, and photogrammetric
grammetry, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote consulting as well as Expert Witness research and testimony. He started
Sensing, 1996. lecturing in Photogrammetry at the University of New Orleans in 1980,
l David M. McKeown, Chris McGlone, et al., “Automatic Carto- and continued there as an adjunct member of the faculty until he moved
graphic Feature Extraction Using Photogrammetric Principles,” to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 2000 as a full time
in C. Greve, ed., Digital Photogrammetry: An Addendum to the member of the faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental
Manual of Photogrammetry, American Society for Photogram- Engineering.
metry and Remote Sensing, 1996.
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Awards Program
General Session — Thursday, April 29th
He was first certified as a Mapping Scientist in 1983. Mugnier cur- Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship
rently lectures in Photogrammetry, Geodesy, and Land Surveying at
2010 Recipient: Ivan D. Detchev
LSU and is chief of Geodesy with the LSU Center for GeoInformatics.
He has published over 60 papers, and over 130 columns in Professional Ivan D. Detchev has been selected for the 2010 award of the Francis
Surveyor and in Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, H. “Frank” Moffitt Scholarship. Detchev is attending the University of
including the monthly column, “Grids and Datums.” Cliff Mugnier is Calgary, Ontario, Canada, pursuing a Master of Science degree in Geo-
an Honorary Member of the Louisiana Society of Professional Survey- matics Engineering/Photogrammetry to be awarded April 2010. Prior to
ors, an inactive Fellow of the American Congress on Surveying and attending the University of Calgary, Detchev attended the University of
Mapping, a full member of the Americas Petroleum Survey Group, New Brunswick and received a Bachelor of Science in Geomatics/Sur-
and is a Member Emeritus of the ASPRS. Mugnier was the (two-term) vey Engineering in May 2007.
Chairman for the Certification Review Committee of the ASPRS for At the University of Calgary, Detchev has researched calibration and
Certified Mapping Scientist (GIS/LIS) 1993-2003. He was Director of stability of low-cost off-the-shelf digital cameras used for close range
the Photogrammetric Applications Division of ASPRS from 2006-2008. photogrammetry applications such as mobile mapping, face recognition
He is an Expert in NRA Conventional Bullseye Pistol competition, and and structure deformation monitoring. His master’s thesis work focuses
on an unrelated topic is the father of two daughters and five sons. on the design and implementation of a low-cost photogrammetric
system for the 3D reconstruction of scoliotic torsos using multiple cam-
Purpose: Started in 1992, the designation of Fellow is conferred on
era, multiple projectors and pattern recognition techniques. He is also
Society members who have been active for a total of at least ten years
interested in researching improvements to mathematical modeling for
and who have performed exceptional service in advancing the science
photogrammetric bundle adjustment to increase matching reliability and
and use of the mapping sciences and related disciplines. It is awarded
speed up the algorithm processing time, and exploring different ways of
for professional excellence and for service to the Society.
improving the expected precision of the unknown parameters solved for
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation the calibration operation.
The ASPRS Fellow Award includes a hand-engrossed certificate. Detchev volunteered as a student assistant at the ASPRS Pecora 17
Symposium in November 2008 and at the ASPRS Annual Conference
Past Award Recipients: in March 2009. He represented the Geomatics Engineering department
2005 — Lawrence Pettinger and Geomatics Engineering graduate association to the University of
2006 — Anthony B. Follette, Barry N. Haack, and Lloyd O. Herd Calgary Graduate Representative Council in 2008-2009.
2007 — Russell G. Congalton, Alan M. Mikuni, and Nancy K. Tubbs His future goals include pursuing a doctorate degree in photogram-
2008 — Allan Falconer, Peggy J. Harwood, Frank Scarpace, and metry related to structural deformation monitoring, working in industry
Bernard “Barney” Schur for a short while, and teaching photogrammetry or surveying in devel-
2009 — Ray Helmering and Thomas R. Loveland oping countries.
In recognition of Professor Moffitt’s many contributions to the sur-
veying and photogrammetry profession and his devotion to the related
professional societies, this Award is presented by the American Society
for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), the Management
Association for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors (MAPPS), and
the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) through
the ASPRS Foundation from funds donated by students, associates,
colleagues and friends of Frank Moffitt as a memorial to his lifetime
contributions to the photogrammetric surveying profession and the goals
of these professional societies.
Purpose: The award was first presented in 2008 with the purpose of
encouraging upper-division, undergraduate-level and graduate-level col-
lege students to pursue a course of study in surveying and photogram-
metry leading to a career in the geospatial mapping profession.
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation from funds donated to the Foundation
from former students, associates, colleagues and friends
The Award consists of a certificate and a check in the amount of $3,000
and a new or renewal membership in ASPRS.
Past Award Recipients:
2008 — Chad M. Schaeding
2009 — Nathaniel Ovans
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Awards Program
Memorial Address — Thursday, April 29th
Memorial Address, Thursday, April 29th Katie Mayo, Vaughn Rogers, and Jack Mayo; Richard A. Pearsall, Re-
Presidential Citations becca A. Morton, and Louis N. Graham; Gene Forsburg, George Y. G.
Region Awards Lee, Kimberly A. Tilley and Marguerite Madden; Michael R. Thomas
Region of the Year and A. Stewart Walker; Mary Potter and Terrence J. Keating;
Region Newsletter of the Year The 75th anniversary Committee, Russell G. Congalton, Chair and
Region Website of the Year Committee Members, Stewart Walker, Karen Schuckman, Bill Hemple,
and Brian Kloer.
Presidential Citations
2010 Recipients: ASPRS Region the Year Award
Paul Brooks for his long-standing work on the Executive Committee of 2010 Recipients:
the ASPRS Board of Directors. First Place: The Potomac Region
Larry Handley for his long-standing work on the Executive Committee First Honorable Mention: The Rocky Mountain Region
of the ASPRS Board of Directors and Chair of the By-laws Committee. Second Honorable Mention: The Columbia River Region
Don Lauer for on-going work to support ASPRS as Treasurer and proac- The Potomac Region is The Region of the Year Award winner. This
tive participation and leadership of ASPRS membership and national Region has been diligent in their efforts to maintain the high standards
remote sensing initiatives. of the Society while hosting the 2009 National Annual Conference, had
a successful GeoTech Conference, hosted several Technical Meetings/
Al Stevens for his long-standing and on-going work as the Chair of the Technical Tours, had outstanding accomplishments in establishing three
Awards Committee. new Student Forums at three different universities, had a successful
Becky Morton for her leadership and contributions as the Director of the student membership campaign exceeding by 26% over the previous
Photogrammetric Applications Division. year, and were named the Region of the Month nine times during the
year (January, February, March, April, May, July, August, September
John Iiames for his leadership and contributions as the Director of the
and December). Three Cheers for a job well done!
Remote Sensing Applications Division.
The Rocky Mountain Region has been awarded First Honorable Men-
Doug Smith for his leadership and contributions as the Director of the
tion. Their ambitious board and volunteers have worked very hard to
Professional Practice Division.
pursue their goals with a mission in mind to be a leader in the Geo-tech-
Al Karlin for his on-going leadership and initiative as Chair of the Mem- nologies, provided opportunities to its members participating in the in-
bership Committee to include the 2009 Membership Campaign. dustry and society networking events, held “webinar” meetings, hosted
Bradley Rundquist for his leadership and contributions as the PE&RS several technical meetings and workshops including a major technical
Book Review Editor. conference, “GIS in the Rockies,” co-sponsored with URISA, ACSM,
PLSC and GITA, created a new student chapter and expanded the exist-
Rose Kearney for her leadership and contributions as the Chair of the ing student chapter, had a successful student membership campaign
Student Advisory Council. exceeding by 47% over the previous year, had scholarships for graduate
Mark W. Jackson for his efforts as editor of the Manual of Remote students and additional scholarship from regional ASPRS Sustaining
Sensing, Vol 1.1. Members, had an outstanding Annual Regional Membership Report.
Purpose: First awarded in 1992, Presidential Citations are presented by The Columbia River Region has been awarded Second Honorable
the ASPRS President to members of ASPRS and other societies, family Mention. The Region won the Region of Month twice (March and
members, and friends in recognition of special, personal, and meritori- April) in 2009, continued hosting GIS in Action, had several techni-
ous contributions to the operation or advancement of the Society and its cal seminars and conferences including Annual Technical Exchange,
interests during the presidential year. Student Chapters Awards programs, had three student chapters and a
successful student membership recruitment and retention exceeding 7%
Donor: The ASPRS Foundation over the previous year, continued to establish the Photogrammetry licen-
The Presidential Citation is a hand-engrossed certificate. sure in Oregon, monitored this issue and focused on promoting student
chapters while offering educational programs.
Past Award Recipients:
2005 — Dan Civco, Marguerite Madden, Don Lauer, Scott Perkins, The Region of the Year Award includes a hand engrossed certificate and
Pat Woodruff, Cindy Clark, Steve DeGoria, Larry Pettinger, Barry possession of the Region of the Year banner for one year for the winner,
Haack, Sokhan Hing, Kass Green, Doug Richardson, Richard Tilley, and certificates for first and second honorable mention.
Kim Tilley, The Congalton Family Purpose: The Region of the Year Award was established in 1968 to
2006 — A. Stewart Walker, Richard Aspinall, Stephen Yool, Eric Ande- recognize excellence at the regional level in providing service to the
line, James Morrell, Peter Boniface, Duane Haselfeld, Ding Yuan, Lee members and to the profession at large.
Harbers, Bradish Johnson, Jim Hipple, Michael Thomas
2007 — Mary Clinthorne, Perry Hardin, Rakesh Malhotra, Albert Bar- Donor: The ASPRS Foundation
nett, Paul Brooks, Randy Olsen Previous Award Recipients:
2008 — Sandra Hunkele, Kim Tilley, Gene Dial, Ed Freeborn, Tina 2005 — The Rocky Mountain Region
Cary, Matthew Austin, Rae Kelley 2006 — The Rocky Mountain Region
2009 — Michael S. Renslow, Charles Mondello and George F. Hepner; 2007 — The Columbia River Region
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Awards Program Memorial Address — Thursday, April 29th
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Thursday, April 29th
Session Categories
Sensor Design and Development Hydrosphere and Atmosphere Applications
1 Sensor Design and Development: Ground-based Sensors 48 Data Visualization / Hydrosphere Applications
45 Sensor Design and Development: High-Resolution Systems I 78 Hydrosphere and Atmosphere Applications: Air pollution/ Atmo-
65 Sensor Design and Development: High-Resolution Systems II spheric CO2
75 Sensor Design and Development: High-Resolution Systems III 18 Hydrosphere and Atmosphere Applications: Hydrology
23 Sensor Design and Development: UAV Systems Ecosystem and Ecology Applications
27 Special Panel Session – Panoramamic, Oblique, and Medium Format 51 Ecosystem and Ecology Applications: Vegetation Mapping I
Sensors: Status of Technology and Applications 71 Ecosystem and Ecology Applications: Vegetation Mapping II
34 Special Panel Session 1 - Airborne Digital Mapping Camera Sys- 7 Ecosystem and Ecology Applications: Wetlands
tems: Manufacturer’s Perspective 60 Ecosystem and Ecology Applications: Wildlife Habitat
43 Special Session - Mobile Mapping 44 Special Session - Extracting vegetation characteristics with Lidar
24 Special Session: Emerging EO satellite technologies
CS 1 Commercial Session 1: Lidar Resource Management Applications
CS 2 Commercial Session 2: Optical 63 Applications and High-resolution Data
CS 3 Commercial Session 3: DMC II Camera Family - Z/I Imaging’s Next 8 Resource Management Applications I
Generation of Sensors 19 Resource Management Applications II
CS 4 Commercial Session 4: Special Panel Session 2 - Digital Aerial 41 Resource Management Applications: Monitoring and Assessment /
Mapping Camera System Sensor Requirements from a User’s View Invasive Species I
52 Resource Management Applications: Monitoring and Assessment /
Data Collection and Management Invasive Species II
2
Data Collection and Management: Accuracy and Error Assessment I 30 Resource Management Applications: Monitoring and Assessment I
35
Data Collection and Management: Accuracy and Error Assessment II 74 Resource Management Applications: Monitoring and Assessment II
46
Data Collection and Management: Accuracy and Error Assessment III 79 Resource Management Applications: Monitoring and Assessment III
55
Data Collection and Management: Accuracy and Error Assessment IV
66
Data Collection and Management: Accuracy and Error Assessment V Natural Hazards Applications
38
Data Collection and Management: Data Partnerships/Sharing 64 Natural Hazards Applications
13
Recent Advances in Lidar Accuracy and Performance 81 Natural Hazards Applications: Insect and Air-borne Pathogens
49
Spaceborne Sensors / Web-based Data Serving 25 Special Session - Forest Fire Fuel Monitoring with Lidar
5
Special Panel Session - Commercial Data Licensing Urban and Cultural Applications
54
Special Panel Session - Lidar Calibration, Validation, and Interoper- 73
Data Processing and Analysis / Urban Mapping
ability 33
Global Agriculture
58 Special Session - “Preserving our Geospatial Footprints” - Ensuring 22
Special Session - Global Croplands and Their Water Use
Geospatial Records Viability through Time 61
Special Session - Urban Remote Sensing: Recent Advances and
Data Processing and Analysis Future Opportunities
29 Data Processing and Analysis I 70 Urban and Cultural Applications: Transportation and Development
57 Data Processing and Analysis II Disaster Management /Emergency Response
12 Data Processing and Analysis: Data Fusion I 32 Disaster Management / Emergency Response
26 Data Processing and Analysis: Data Fusion II 21 Disaster Management / Natural Hazards
36 Data Processing and Analysis: Data Fusion III 72 Special Session - Getting a Clear Picture of Environmental Impacts
14 Data Processing and Analysis: Data Visualization I - Use of Aerial Photography to Prove and Delineate Toxic Waste and
37 Data Processing and Analysis: Data Visualization II other Land Degradations
69 Data Processing and Analysis: GIS Modeling I 10 Special Session: Improved Remote Sensing Mission Tasking and
80 Data Processing and Analysis: GIS Modeling II Image Acquisition for Emergency Response
Feature Extraction Education/Professional Development
4 Data Processing and Analysis: Feature Extraction I 11 Geospatial Education
15 Data Processing and Analysis: Feature Extraction II 62 Special Session - Geospatial Education – the Status of GIS and
47 Data Processing and Analysis: Feature Extraction III Remote Sensing Programs
56 Data Processing and Analysis: Feature Extraction IV 53 Special Session - Open Student Discussion of the Conference and
67 Data Processing and Analysis: Feature Extraction V Future Possibilities with the SAC
68 Data Processing and Analysis: Feature Extraction VI 9 Special Session - Opportunities for Emerging Geospatial Professionals
76 Data Processing and Analysis: Feature Extraction VII 31 Special Session - Opportunities for Emerging Geospatial Profes-
77 Data Processing and Analysis: Feature Extraction VIII sionals: Academic Publishing I Organized by the ASPRS Student
16 Special Panel Session: Terrain Modeling Using LiDAR Data and Advisory Council
Break lines: The Conflict between New Technologies and Old Prac- 20 Special Session - Opportunities for Emerging Geospatial Profession-
tices als: Academic Publishing II (Panel Discussion) Organized by the
Global Change ASPRS Student Advisory Council
39 Global Change / Carbon Applications 42 Special Session - Opportunities for Emerging Geospatial Profession-
40 Global Change / Ecology als: Next Steps for Undergraduate and Graduate Students Organized
28 Global Change / Urban Applications by the ASPRS Student Advisory Council
6 Global Change Applications: Land Cover Change Mapping 3 Special Session: ASPRS History
59 Global Change Applications: Phenology/Landscape Dynamics
17 Land Surface Change Applications
50 Special Session - Uncertainties, Errors, and Accuracies in the Study of
Terrestrial Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) using Remote Sensing
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My Day-at-a-Glance
Sunday, April 25th to Monday, April 26th
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Pre-Conference
Monday, April 26th
Workshop 4 Workshop 5
Modeling with Google SketchUp Introduction to Polarimetric SAR Classification
Rakesh Malhotra, North Carolina Central University Don Atwood, Ph.D., Chief Scientist, Alaska Satellite Facility,
7:45 AM to 12:15 PM, CEU .4; Room: Windsor East University of Alaska Fairbanks
7:45 AM to 12:15 PM, CEU .4; Room: Windsor West
INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP
Traditionally, maps have been created in a 2-D environment but new INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP
tools such as Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth and Google Sketch- The recent availability of dual- and quad-polarization synthetic aperture
Up are changing this. This introductory workshop will focus on the use radar (SAR) imagery now permits serious investigation into using pola-
of Google SketchUp to model structures that can then be integrated with rimetry for land cover classification. The advantages of this approach are
remote sensing and GIS data in mapping applications that support Key- the abilities to understand the scattering mechanisms of the target and to
hole Markup Language (KML). The instructor will present an overview, characterize environments that that might not be visible to optical sensors
followed by a step by step guide to creating 3-D objects that can be used due to cloud cover or seasonal darkness. The disadvantage of this technol-
to model real world entities such as buildings, automobiles, etc. that can ogy, however, is the unique geometry of SAR that presents challenges in
then be positioned onto a landscape. With advances in computer speed the form of variable radiometry and geometric distortions based on the
and increased memory capacity, 3D modeling using this and similar local topography. Any successful classification technique must confront
techniques will become an integral part of mapping in the near future. the impact of surface slope on the polarimetric parameters. Moreover,
The basic tool set found in Google SketchUp will be covered in this any attempt to evaluate classification accuracy must map the polarimetric
workshop. These tools include the pencil (line) and rectangle tools classes into a rectified image compatible with GIS evaluation.
used for creating edges and surfaces. Complimented by the circle and The intent of this workshop it to provide an introduction to polarimetric
polygon tools, these devices can be used to rough out surfaces or create SAR classification for remote sensing and GIS specialists who may not
precisely metered forms. The arc, freehand and offset devices round out be familiar with SAR and its applications. The short course will offer a
the complete set of drawing tools available in Google SketchUp. The background in SAR, introduce polarimetry, discuss various polarimetric
powerful pushpull tool is the cornerstone of the system allows one to decomposition and segmentation strategies, and walk-through a specific
rapidly produce simple and/or complex 3D structures and designer edg- example using the open-source tools, PolSARPro and MapReady. Finally,
es can replicated along forms using the follow me tool. Once a drawing the accuracy of the classification will be assessed via GIS comparison with
has been created it can be reposition using the move tool and rotated to a USGS classification from the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD).
any position with the same tool or the rotate feature. The sandbox tool-
Formal education in polarimetry is usually highly mathematical, but this
set lends itself to positioning a structure onto the 3D landscape created
workshop will emphasize an intuitive grasp of the concepts. The goal is
artificially in random space or onto spaces imported from topographic
to sufficiently familiarize the students with the language of polarimetry
surfaces (Google Earth) and other landscape data sources.
so that they may successfully pursue the topic on their own.
Model development undertaken for a university campus will be used as
the underlying demonstration tool. The primary objective of such mod-
eling is to introduce 3-D and ‘fly through’ techniques that can be used in
conjunction with other geospatial tools. Features created using Google
Workshop 7
SketchUp may be added to maps and other landscape modeling graph-
ics to provide a more realistic representation of the environment. This Thermal Remote Sensing
improved modeling technique allows those using the model to perceive Charles E. Olson, Jr., PhD, Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources,
a more accurate rendition and thus provide decision makers better inter- University of Michigan and Senior Image Analyst, Michigan Tech
pretation of reality. Although not mandatory, it would certainly add to Research Institute
the learning experience if participants choose to bring laptop computers 12:45 PM to 5:15 PM, CEU .4; Room: Windsor West
with Google SketchUp and Google Earth (free downloads) preinstalled.
INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP
An examination of factors affecting thermal signals upwelling from ter-
rain features. Effects of these factors on applications of thermal data in
agriculture, forestry, geology, water/wetland management, and wildlife
management. This workshop is intended for anyone involved in or con-
sidering use of thermal sensors for crop, forest or land-use monitoring,
geo-botanical prospecting and/or modeling of thermal energy upwelling
from terrestrial features.
Pre-Conference
Monday, April 26th
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My Day-at-a-Glance
Tuesday, April 27th
Workshops
Classified Session
The GEOINT Fusion Grand Challenge
April 27th l San Diego, California Workshop 8
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is de-
A Do-It-Yourself Approach to Lidar and Imagery
lighted to be hosting an all-day classified session on April 27, Processing and Analysis Using Open-Source Tools
2010 in conjunction with the ASPRS 2010 Annual Confer- Christopher E. Parrish, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey, Remote
ence. The purpose of this session is to engage and solicit from Sensing Division
Jon Sellars, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey, Remote Sensing Division
attendees their views, ideas, approaches, and solutions for the
Jason Woolard, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey, Remote Sensing
GEOINT Fusion Grand Challenge. Fusion is considered
Division
the act or process of combining two or more pieces of data or 7:45 AM to 5:15 PM, CEU .8; Room: Sheffield
information regarding one or more entities in order to improve
or provide new capabilities for the detection, identification, INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOP
or characterization of those entities. With active participation
Over the past few years, there has been a rapid increase in the amount of
and engagement, this one-time collaborative session will be
publicly-available imagery and lidar data. As an example, NOAA recently
informative, invigorating, and thought provoking. began public dissemination of imagery and lidar data collected as part of
Classification Level: This session will be held at the the Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IOCM) initiative, through the
“DigitalCoast” Web portal. Likewise, there has also been an increase in the
SECRET//NOFORN level.
number of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) lidar processing and analysis
Meeting Format software packages. Most of the COTS software packages are very robust,
Morning Session(s) will offer presentations addressing offering considerable built-in functionality; however, most cost thousands
cutting-edge scientific research and technologies on GEOINT of dollars and typically function as a “black box” (i.e., the processing algo-
fusion. rithms are treated as proprietary information and are not released to users).
While the COTS software packages are well suited for many organizations
Afternoon Session(s) will be devoted to in-depth round table engaged in production surveying and mapping operations using lidar, some
discussions addressing key challenges and potential solutions individuals and organizations may require other software alternatives.
on important GEOINT Fusion problems focused on creative Researchers in NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) have discovered
problem formulations, state-of-the-art and practices elucida- several open source tools and techniques that may be appropriate for the
tions, innovative ideas, ingenious approaches, and imaginative community of scientists, engineers, and other professionals, including:
research alternatives. I. Researchers who require the ability to add or modify processing
Session Schedule (schedule subject to change): and analysis algorithms.
II. Small organizations or individuals who would like to utilize lidar
6:30 AM: Buses leave the Town & Country Hotel (NOTE:
data, but cannot afford and/or do not need large, commercial
There is no parking at the facility. All participants MUST take
software packages.
the bus transportation provided from the Town & Country
III. “Nontraditional” lidar data users (e.g., those with unique
Hotel) processing/analysis needs or who work in other fields with vastly
7:30 AM: Continental Breakfast at the Facility different requirements).
8:00 AM: Morning Session(s) begin
12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM: Box Lunch This workshop is designed to provide contemporary technical information
1:00 PM to 5:30 PM: Afternoon Session(s) well suited to these users’ needs. Participants will learn about open-
source, customizable software and tools for processing and analyzing lidar
5:30 PM: Busses board to return to the Town & Country Hotel
data and imagery, as well as simple strategies for developing their own
Location software. The morning session will consist of presentations and demos
BAE Systems, 10920 Technology Place by the instructors, and the afternoon session will be devoted to projects
San Diego, California 92127 conducted in groups of two to three. Participants will have the option of
taking the course as either a half-day (morning session only) or full-day
(morning and afternoon sessions). In the afternoon session, participants
will be able to choose from a set of pre-selected projects ranging in level
Registration Desk Hours of difficulty (beginning through advanced) and the topic/application area.
6:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Prerequisites: Some basic (“101-level”) familiarity with computer
programming and scripting will be helpful for this course, but is not
required. To participate in the afternoon session, attendees must have
a Windows laptop, as well as administrator rights (i.e., the ability to
install software). It is permissible for participants to share the same
computer, if they intend to work together as a team.
Note: Mention of a particular vendor, product, process, or technique in
this abstract or in the workshop does not constitute an endorsement by
the National Geodetic Survey.
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Tuesday, April 27th
Workshop 9 sources. The studies include the global/national landuse and land cover,
Georeferencing: State of the Art and New Trends national land survey, agriculture, forestry, fishery, resource exploitation,
Joe Hutton, Director of Airborne Business, Applanix environmental protection and monitoring, disaster prevention and miti-
Dr. Mohamed MR Mostafa, Chief Technical Authority - Geomatics, gation, and national security. Therefore, the objectives of the workshop
Applanix are to introduce basic concepts of SAR including a brief overview of the
7:45 AM to 5:15 PM, CEU .8; Room: Cresent past/current SAR missions, in-depth discussion of physical fundamen-
tals, polarimetry, and radar target decomposition, to provide application
INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOP examples in environmental monitoring, land-use, natural hazards, etc.,
and finally to foster and promote new researches and studies of using
Georeferencing is defined as the science and art of referencing remotely SAR data.
sensed data to a local mapping frame of reference. Traditionally, this
has been done using photogrammetry, ground truth and various forms
of triangulation, resulting in the production of quality mapping products Workshop 11
since as early as World War II. However, even at that time, there was
speculation about the possibility of using onboard sensors to directly Topics in Orthophoto Production
georeference images to improve the productivity of photogrammetric Frank L. Scarpace, Emeritus Professor, Department of Civil and
mapping. This concept was further discussed in the 1970s and 1980s, Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
where the measuring sensors were labeled as “Auxiliary Sensors” by 7:45 AM to 12:15 PM, CEU .4; Room: Windsor East
the photogrammetric community. However it was not until the advent of
INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOP
GPS in the 1980’s that a practical solution appeared possible. In 1984,
the University of Calgary in Canada conducted the first experiment us- This workshop will discuss the principles and tasks necessary to pro-
ing GPS onboard a survey aircraft to measure the camera location at the duce orthophotos from both film and digital aerial images. The first 6
moment of exposure, revealing the enormous potential of this new tech- topics will be appropriate for beginners in the field and will cover the
nology. The 1990s saw the use of Kinematic GPS with GPS-assisted principles for creating an orthophoto. The remaining topics will discuss
Aerotriangulation (AT) become standard, and the appearance of the first methods of efficiently determining the external orientation parameters
GNSS-Aided Inertial systems being tested to augment or even replace necessary to create orthophotos, as well as a number of specialized
AT altogether. By the late 1990s, GNSS-Inertial systems were them- orthophoto applications.
selves proven to be commercially viable methods of georeferencing, The topics that will be covered include: a review of aerotriangulation,
driven in part by the demands of new types of sensors such as Lidar, automated aerotriangulation methods, producing simple orthophoto
digital line scanners and SAR where AT was not practical. Nowadays, mosaics, methods of automatic and manual generation of the seam lines,
direct georeferencing using GNSS-Inertial is a standard method of methods of automatic and manual color balance including correcting for
georeferencing data collected on mobile platforms. uneven scene illumination and reflection from water, creating orthorec-
This workshop will focus on the underlying concepts of georeferencing tified overlays and creating true orthophotos within cities. Methods
using different methods and sensors for different applications. Practi- of creating orthophotos from the recent high resolution satellites and
cal examples from real world projects are used extensively to illustrate methods of creating orthophotos from direct georeferencing will be
the pros and cons of each method or sensor assembly. This workshop is discussed. Demonstrations for creating orthophotos and automated
intended for the ASPRS mapping professionals from either technical or aerotriangulation using commercial software developed by the instructor
business background. will be given.
Workshop 10 Workshop 14
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Application Marketing Your Business
Dr. Yong Wang, Department of Geography, East Carolina University Dr. Tina Cary, Cary and Associates
7:45 AM to 5:15 PM, CEU .8; Room: Hampton 12:45 PM to 5:15 PM, CEU .4; Room: Windsor East
User Groups maps, digital terrain models (DTMs), and other geographic data that
government, military, and commercial organizations need to preserve
accuracy and precision of data. Intergraph experts will highlight our
BAE SYSTEMS
automated production systems, flight and sensor management systems,
8:00 AM to Noon; Room: San Diego
and industry-leading digital camera technology, including an update on
BAE Systems welcomes SOCET SET® and SOCET GXP® users. Learn the new RMK D Medium Format Digital Camera.
about the transition from SOCET SET, batch processing performance, and
SOCET GXP eXtreme Analysis™ workflows. Complex photogrammetric MICROSOFT
tasks such as aspect and slope analysis, terrain profiling, and line-of-sight 8:00 AM to Noon; Room: Golden West
analysis are automated in SOCET GXP v3.1. SOCET GXP v3.2 adds Video
Join the technical experts and business leaders from Microsoft’s Photo-
Analysis enhancements, SAR data handling and processing, raster to vector
grammetry division, Vexcel Imaging GmbH, along with business partners
enhancements, and Frame imagery support. Visualization and mesh model-
in this half day presentation for an opportunity to learn firsthand about the
ing are planned for the v4.0 release.
company’s latest business and product developments such as new partner-
ships, new sensors including the new UltraCamXp Wide Angle, new
ERDAS
software systems including UltraMap version 2.0, and the new Monolithic
8:00 AM to Noon; Room: Garden Salon Two
Stitching methodology. Seating will be limited so be sure to arrive early.
ERDAS 2010 Rocks. But don’t just take our word for it...experience
ERDAS Software 2010 for yourself at our UGM at ASPRS. You will see a ITT Visual Information Solutions
comprehensive set of interoperable workflows, be introduced to useful new 8:00 AM to Noon; Room: California
features and learn tips and tricks to lighten and simplify your workload.
With more than 30 years of experience pioneering geospatial analysis, you If you’re an ENVI user or would like to learn about ENVI’s image
will see the fusion and culmination of innovation in ERDAS Software 2010. processing capabilities, the ENVI User Group Meeting is for you. See
ENVI users from a variety of disciplines showcase their ENVI applica-
INTERGRAPH tions. Learn more about some of the latest advances in ENVI includ-
8:00 AM to Noon; Room: Garden Salon One ing a preview of the upcoming ENVI 5.0 release, the upcoming ENVI
EX 2.0 release with ArcGIS integration, new automated workflows for
Join Intergraph to learn about the latest updates in our solutions for Im- hyperspectral and multispectral imagery, the WorldView 2 Toolkit, and
age Acquisition and Geospatial Data Production systems for producing more.
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ESRI
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM; Room: California
ASPRS Committee & Board of Directors’
The ESRI User Group meeting, at the ASPRS 2010 Annual Conference,
Meetings
is a gathering of remotely sensed data and imagery users and those who Data Preservation & Archive Committee
are interested in best practices for remotely sensed data, imagery and 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM; Room: Pacific Salon Four
GIS. Highlights will include presentations on the future direction of the
ArcGIS platform for GIS, imagery and remote sensing professionals, New Board Members Orientation
ESRI technology demonstrations, and time for user questions and an- 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM; Room: Pacific Salon Five
swers. Learn more about ESRI’s Enterprise Image Management System Geographic Information Systems Division (GIS)
at www.esri.com/imagery. 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM; Room: Pacific Salon Six
TRIMBLE
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM; Room: San Diego
Trimble’s integrated solutions allow customers to collect, manage and
analyze complex geospatial information faster and easier, making them
more productive, efficient and profitable. Experts from Trimble includ-
ing INPHO and Rollei Metric will demonstrate how to maximize your
business opportunities with its integrated aerial data collection systems,
photogrammetry and lidar solutions. For more information and to reg-
ister, please contact us at geospatial_info@trimble.com. Registration is
appreciated, but not required.
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My Day-at-a-Glance
Wednesday, April 28th
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Nobel laureate and IPCC co- A blue ribbon keynote panel will respond to Overpeck’s
author Jonathan Overpeck of the presentation. They will lead a lively 20-minute discussion
Keynote Address University of Arizona will ad-
dress the manner in which global
on the role remote sensing is playing, and will play, in meet-
ing these information needs. The session will be a great
climate is influencing and will opportunity to learn and to formulate questions about one
likely change future land surface of the most pressing issues affecting current and future
processes and human activities, generations.
citing information needs for de-
tecting, monitoring and adapting Panelists:
to these changes.
Marguerite Madden is the Director of the Center for
Remote Sensing and Mapping Science (CRMS) and
Professor in the Department of Geography at the Uni-
versity of Georgia (UGA). She received her BA and MA
degrees in Biology from the State University of New
York at Plattsburgh and her PhD in Ecology in 1990
from the University of Georgia. Her research over the
past 25 years at UGA has focused on geographic in-
formation science (GIScience) and landscape analysis for investigations
of spatio-temporal patterns of vegetation distributions, landscape-level
human impacts on natural environments, and more recently, multidisci-
plinary collaboration involving GIScience and human geography, animal
behavior and wildlife disease. Madden is a Past President of the Ameri-
can Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), Editor
of the 2009 ASPRS Manual of GIS and current Technical Commission
President of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote
Sensing (ISPRS) Commission IV “Geodatabases and Digital Mapping”.
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Thursday, April 29th
Conference Program
Wednesday, April 28th 9:15 AM to 10:45 PM
TS 6 TS 8
Global Change Applications: Land Cover Change Mapping Resource Management Applications I
Moderator: Steve Yool, University of Arizona Moderator: Naresh Pai, University of Arkansas
Room: Sheffield Room: Windsor East
Comparison of Remote Sensing Land Use/Cover Change Detection Forest Biomass Estimation from an Airborne Single-Pass L-Band
Methods Over Istanbul, Turkey Polarimetric InSAR System
Biricik Gozde Ozacar, University of Arizona Bryan Mercer, Intermap Technologies Corp., Canada
Steve Yool, Cigdem Goksel, and Michael Bonine Biophysical and Socioeconomic Influences on Pasture Quality in
Mapping Rubber Expansion in two Thai Villages using an Object- DaMao Banner, Inner Mongolia
oriented Classification Approach Charles Emerson, Western Michigan University
Zhe Li, East-West Center Geospatial Tool for Nonpoint Source Program Implementation in
Jefferson Fox and Dieuwe Da La Parra Arkansas
Classification Robustness of SVM and MLC under Reduced Training Naresh Pai, University of Arkansas
Dataset Dharmendra Saraswat
Mahesh Rao, Humboldt State University Remote Sensing & GIS Based Land Cover, Soil and Land Capability
Liangjiang Yu Information for Resources Managment in Semi-arid Region of
Paraiba,Brazil
Teotia Harendra, Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB), Brazil
TS 7 Civco Daniel and Ramos Francisco
Ecosystem and Ecology Applications: Wetlands
Moderator: Meghan Graham MacLean, University of New Hampshire
Room: Pacific Salon Six
The Development of a Salt Marsh Migration Tool and its Application in TS 9
Long Island Sound Special Panel Session — Opportunities for Emerging
Mark Hoover, University of Connecticut Geospatial Professionals
Daniel Civco and Adam Whelchel Organized by the ASPRS Student Advisory Council
Moderated by Members of the Student Advisory Council
Multi-temporal Image Analysis of the Coastal Watershed, NH Room: Pacific Salon Four
Meghan Graham MacLean, University of New Hampshire
Alexis Rudko and Russell Congalton This session will act as a forum for those entering the professional
field for the first time. A panel of young professionals will share
Mapping the Spectral and Spatial Characteristics of Mound Spring experiences from resume creation and submission, the interview
Wetland Vegetation in South Australia: A Novel Spectrally Segmented process and the first days on the job from the employee perspective.
PCA Approach The panel is planned to include young professionals who are work-
Davina White, The University of Adelaide, Australia ing in their first job since graduation from a variety of industries
Megan Lewis and academia. This session will allow for networking with fellow
peers entering the job market and geospatial industry.
TS 10
Special Panel Session: Improved Remote Sensing
Mission Tasking and Image Acquisition for Emergency
Response
Moderator: Bruce A. Davis, Department of Homeland Security
Room: Garden Salon One
Delivery of remote sensing imagery by a sensor system selected
to provide the best information for the ongoing disaster incident is
critical to effective emergency response. Knowing when this sensor
system will be able to acquire imagery of an incident is extremely
valuable for first response teams. Delivery of remotely sensed im-
agery to the response teams in real time as well as sharing the same
images throughout the incident command structure is also critical to
effective response.
Panelists:
Bruce A. Davis, Department of Homeland Security
Michael E. Hodgson, University of South Carolina
Charles Mondello, Pictometry International Corp
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Hot Topics
Wednesday, April 28th 9:15 AM to Noon
TS 11
Geospatial Education
Moderator: TDB
Room: Garden Salon Two
Future of Remote Sensing Education
Chris Cruz, West Valley College; NASA-Sigma Space Corp
Interactive Networking
Jeannie Allen 11:00 am to Noon
Expanding Undergraduate Remote Sensing Research Opportunities These one-hour HOT TOPIC discussions groups,
through Wyomingview hosted by ASPRS Divisions and Committees, are a high
Ramesh Sivanpillai, University of Wyoming, WYGISC point of every conference. This is an opportunity for all
Incorporating a Web-based GIS into the High School Classroom attendees to weigh in with their thoughts on the issues
Cindy Schmidt, San Jose State University being discussed.
Scheduled Discussions
Allison Lenkeit-Meezan, Ellen Metzger, and Richard Taketa
TS 13
21 Annual Awards Luncheon and 76 Installation of
st th Recent Advances in Lidar Accuracy and Performance
Moderator: Valerie Ussyshkin, Optech Incorporated
Officers Room: Hampton
12:15 PM to 1:30 PM; Room: San Diego/Golden West Ballroom Precision Mapping: ALTM Orion Establishes a New Standard in
Plan to join your colleagues at this year’s luncheon honoring Airborne Lidar Performance Capability
the current award recipients and participate in the occasion of Valerie Ussyshkin, Optech Incorporated
the installation of the 76th slate of ASPRS officers. Livia Theriault, Martin Pokorny, Mariusz Boba, and Michael Sitar
The award winners will be given special honor and the annual Registration of Lidar Point Clouds using Image Features
business meeting of the Society will include installation of the Manoranjan Majji, Texas A&M University
Officers. Bradley Doorn, retiring ASPRS President, will give a Brien Flewelling, Brent Macomber, John L. Junkins, Anup B. Katake,
summation of the past year’s events. Hhyochung Bang
Tickets for this Luncheon are required and may be purchased at Optical Images and Terrestrial Laser Scanning Co-registration by the
the ASPRS Registration Desk no later than 2:00 PM, Tuesday, use of Feature Based Methodology
April 27th. E. Renaudin, University of Calgary, Canada
On site ticket purchases are limited to availability. Limited A. Habib
seating in the rear of the room is available at no cost for con-
ference registrants wishing to attend the ceremonies only.
TS 14
Data Processing and Analysis: Data Visualization I
Moderator: Ming-Chih Hung, Northwest Missouri State University
Room: Pacific Salon Six
Automatic Extraction of Buildings from Digital Imagery for Change
Technical Sessions Detection
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM Yandong Wang, Pictometry International Corp.
Framework to Automatically Characterize Real Property using High-
resolution Aerial Images
TS 12 Philipp Meixner, Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz
Data Processing and Analysis: Data Fusion I University of Technology, Austria
Moderator: Jack Leifer, Trinity Unviersity Franz Leberl
Room: Sheffield
A Simple and Robust Destriping Algorithm for Imaging Spectrometers:
Analyzing Scene Geometries for Stereo Pushbroom Imagery Application to MODIS Data
Michal Jama, Kansas State University Marouan Bouali, INRIA/CNES
Chris Lewis and Dale Schinstock Patrice Henry
Development of a Lunar Astronaut Spatial Orientation and Information ERDAS APOLLO used at the 2012 Olympic Games for security by British
System (LASOIS) Transport Police
Boris Skopljak, The Ohio State University Mladen Stojic, ERDAS
Rongxing Li , Shaojun He, Alper Yilmaz, and Jiang Jinwei
A Correspondence-based Strategy for Automatic Registration of
Terrestrial Laser Scanning Data
Darion Grant, Purdue University
James Bethel and Melba Crawford
Analysis of Hyperspectral High-resolution Data for Tree Species
Classification
Gang Hong, Canada Center for Remote Sensing, Canada
A. Zhang, F. Zhou
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Wednesday, April 28th 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
TS 15 TS 18
Data Processing and Analysis: Feature Extraction II Hydrosphere and Atmosphere Applications: Hydrology
Moderator: Bingcai Zhang, BAE Systems Moderator: John Hatzopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece
Room: California Room: Fairfield
Residential Building Extraction Using Artificial Immune Networks The Impact of Break Lines in the Creation of Digital Terrain Models
Binglei Gong (DEM) used for Runoff Modeling and Watershed Delineation
Im Jungho David Alvarez, CDM
Building Point Grouping using View-Geometry Relations Integrating GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Data into the U.S. and
I-Chieh Lee, The Ohio State University North American Drought Monitors
Shaojun He, and Po-Lun Lai, and Alper Yilmaz, and Rongxing Li Rasmus Houborg, NASA GSFC
Matthew Rodell
From Where to What: Image Understanding through 3-D Geometric
Shapes Coordination of Public Policies for Flood Protection using Remote
Bingcai Zhang, BAE Systems Sensing and GIS Technologies for Coastal Urban Landscapes at Water
William Smith Territories
John Hatzopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece
Generation of 3D Building Models from Commercial Image Database Athina Santorinaiou and Dimitra Gitakou
through Shadow Analysis
Taeyoon Lee, Inha University, South Korea
Taejung Kim TS 19
Resource Management Applications II
Moderator: Jennifer Hird, Foothills Facility for Remote Sensing and
TS 16 GIScience, University of Calgary, Canada
Room: Windsor East
Special Panel Session: Terrain Modeling using Lidar
Data and Break Lines: The Conflict between New Using a Combination of Moderate (MODIS) and High-resolution
(Dubaisat-1) Satellite Data in Detecting and Monitoring Red Tide
Technologies and Old Practices Outbreaks in the Arabian Gulf
Moderator: Qassim Abdulla, Fugro EarthData, Inc. Adnan Al-Rais, Emirates Institute for Advanced Science & Technology /
Room: Pacific Salon Five American University in Dubai, Dubai
The panel focuses on current requirements and practices in terrain Ammar Al-Muhairi, Hosni Ghedira, and Ali Shaheen
modeling using lidar data from end users and data providers’ per-
Detection of Water Pollutants Near Industrial Plants using
spectives. The panel will also shed the light on the common misun-
Hyperspectral Imagery
derstanding of the break lines and its need in support for Lidar data.
Orych Agata, Military University of Technology, Poland
Panelists: Piotr Walczykowski and Rafal Dabrowski
H. Karl Heidemann, U.S. Geological Survey-EROS
Qassim A. Abdullah, Fugro EarthData Quantifying Human Footprint for Biodiversity Monitoring: The Impact of
Timothy Blak, Dewberry Sampling Intensity and Extent
Harold W. Rempel, URS Corp. Jennifer Hird, Foothills Facility for Remote Sensing and GIScience,
Kirk Waters, NOAA-CSC University of Calgary, Canada
Adam McLane, Julia Linke, Guillermo Castilla, and Greg McDermid
Evaluation of Environmental Sensitivity of the Coastal Plains
Shoreline to Oil Spills: Southwestern Sinai Coastal Plain, Egypt
TS 17 Ahmed Wahid, Faculty of Science at Port-Said
Land Surface Change Applications Marguerite Madden, Fikry Khalaf, and Ibtehal Fathy
Moderator: Demetrio Zourarakis, Kentucky Division of Geographic
Information
Room: Garden Salon Two
Spatial and Temporal Change Analysis of Land-use and Land-cover in
and Around the Bannerghatta National Park, India
Sanchayeeta Adhikari, University of Florida
Jane Southworth and Harini Nagendra
Integration of Aerial Photography and Airborne Lidar to Delineate River
Channel Meander and Cutoff Dynamics
Jennifer Jensen, Texas State University-San Marcos
Alex Fremier
Hydrologic Change Assessment — Updating the Waterbodies Layer of
NHD With Multitemporal Imagery
Demetrio Zourarakis, Kentucky Division of Geographic Information
TS 20 TS 22
Special Panel Session — Opportunities for Emerging Special Session — Global Croplands and Their Water
Geospatial Professionals: Academic Publishing I Use
Organized by the ASPRS Student Advisory Council Moderator: Prasad Thenkabail, U.S. Geological Survey
Moderator: Lisa M. Wedding, University of Hawaii Room: Garden Salon One
Room: Pacific Salon Four
Global Crop Monitoring and Forecasting
This session will provide graduate students and young profession- Tim Stahley, GDA Corporation
als an introduction to the peer review publication process. Details Dmitry Varlyguin, Stephanie Hulina, Julian Winter, and Lucas Roth
will be presented on the proper organization, preparation and
submission of a manuscript. This session will also provide insight Global Croplands and their Water Use Assessments using Remote
on how to choose an appropriate journal, draft a letter to the editor, Sensing and Traditional Approaches
and address reviewer comments. Prasad Thenkabail, U.S. Geological Survey
Munir Hanjra, Venkateswarlu Dheeravath, and Muralikrishna
Panelists:
Gumma
Russell Congalton, University of New Hampshire
John Jensen, University of South Carolina Identifying Crops in the Lower Forty Eight
Jie Shan, Purdue University Michael Craig, U.S. Department of Agriculture / NASS
Multi-polarized PALSAR and Landsat Multi-modality Data Fusion
for Crop Classification
Zhengwei Yang, U.S. Department of Agriculture / NASS
TS 21
Rick Mueller
Disaster Management/Natural Hazards
Moderator: Ian Kramer, University of South Carolina
Room: Pacific Salon Seven
Tropical Cyclone Intensity Estimation using Neural Networks Exhibit Hall Guided Tour
Arun Kulkarni, The University of Texas at Tyler
Richard Bankert
for Students
2:30 PM; Meet at Exhibit Hall Entrance
Removal of Azimuth Ambiguity and Delineation of a Ship using Airborne
The ASPRS Sustaining Members Council is
Polarimetric C-Band SAR Data
hosting a guided tour of the exhibit hall for
Yong Wang, East Carolina University
students. This is your opportunity to meet the
Changcheng Wang and Mingsheng Liao exhibitors, up close and personal.
Identifying the Spatial and Spectral Resolution Requirements
Associated with the Department of Homeland Securities Hurricane and
Flood Information Collection Plan Essential Elements of Information
(EEI) Beverage Break
Ian Kramer, University of South Carolina 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Exhibit Hall
Michael Hodgson, John R. Jensen, Shufan Liu, Ben Sigrist, and Davis,
Bruce
Actionable Emergency Mapping
Arik Nir, Icaros, Inc
Dan Abraham
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Conference Program
Wednesday, April 28th 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Technical Sessions TS 25
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Special Session — Forest Fire Fuel Monitoring with
Lidar
TS 23 Moderator: L. Monika Moskal, School of Forest Resources &
Precision Forestry Cooperative
Sensor Design and Development: UAV Systems Room: California Room
Moderator: Grant Fraley, TerraPan Labs, LLC
Room: Fairfield Lidar Based Post-fire Fuels Characteristics in Two Sky Island
Forests of Southeastern Arizona
Large-baseline Stereo Imaging Utilizing Dynamic Pose Compensation
Tyson Swetnam, University of Arizona
Prather Lanier, Virginia Tech
Steve Yool
Nathan Short, Lynn Abbott, and Kevin Kochersberger
Assessing Forest Structure with Aerial Lidar in Two Complex
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Hyperspatial Remote Sensing of
Forest
Rangelands: Object-based Classification and Field Validation
Jeffrey J. Richardson, University of Washington
Andrea Laliberte, New Mexico State University
L. Monika Moskal
A. Rango, C. Winters, A. Slaughter, and C. Maxwell
Estimation of Forest Canopy Fuels through Fusion of Lidar and
Implications of Low-cost Sensor Technologies for UAV Imaging
Near-Infrared Imagery
Applications
L. Monika Moskal, School of Forest Resources and Precision
Grant Fraley, TerraPan Labs, LLC
Forestry Cooperative
Dietmar Backes , Charles Schmidt, Christopher Lippitt, Alessandro Todd Erdody
Annunaziato, Cristiano Giovando, and Simone Gadenz
Generation of a Mosaic and Associated Sensor Model from an Airborne
Stare-step Imaging System
Henry Theiss, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Contractor)
TS 26
Data Processing and Analysis: Data Fusion II
Moderator: Charles Toth, The Ohio State University
TS 24 Room: Sheffield
Special Panel Session: Emerging EO Satellite Automated Video Georegistration at Real-time Rate
Technologies Charles Taylor, BAE Systems
Moderator: Kumar Navulur, DigitalGlobe John Dolloff, Matt Bower, and Scott Miller
Room: Garden Salon One
Experiences with using SIFT for Multiple Image Domain Matching
Recent years have seen proliferation of very high resolution satel- Charles Toth, The Ohio State University
lites. This panel will discuss the emerging trends in the satellite Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska
industry including collection capabilities, spectral bands (current
and desired), spatial resolution, and accuracy. Further the panel Array Algebra Automation of 4-D Imaging and Range Sensing
will discuss the need for industry standards for the imagery includ- Urho Rauhala, Array Algebra Consultant
ing file naming convention, metadata, band sequencing, metadata,
etc. The panel will also discuss on how the imagery can best be
integrated into various software tools, image processing & analysis
as well as GIS tools, to ensure the pixels are customer ready. Panel-
ists will include representatives from DigitalGlobe, RapidEye,
Geoeye, SPOT, and other Industry Experts.
TS 29
TS 27
Data Processing and Analysis I
Special Panel Session – Panoramic, Oblique, and Moderator: Maryellen Sault, NOAA, National Geodetic Survey
Medium Format Sensors: Status of Technology and Room: Pacific Salon Six
Applications A Geometric Method for Extracting Endmembers from Hyperspectral
Sponsored by the ASPRS Primary Data Acquisition Division
Imagery
Moderator: Qassim A. Abdullah, Fugro EarthData
Ruijin Ma, University of Redlands
Moderator: Charles Mondello, Pictometery International
Room: Pacific Salon Five Optimal Parameter Determination for Mean-shift Segmentation-based
Shoreline Extraction using Lidar data, Aerial Orthophotos, and Satellite
The panel will focus on the state of the new sensors (Panoramic,
Imagery
Oblique, and Medium format) and their derived products. This new
I-Chieh Lee, The Ohio State University
generation of sensors can overwhelm users who are more familiar
with conventional mapping sensors. The panel will include represen- Liang Cheng and Rongxing Li
tatives from the lead sensor manufacturers and end users who will An Assessment of Automatic Shoreline Extraction in Portsmouth, New
shed light on the value and capabilities of these sensors, their newest Hampshire
advancements, the latest technologies and layout strategies on how to Maryellen Sault, NOAA, National Geodetic Survey
evaluate and shop for products.” David Jennings and Stephen White
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Conference
Wednesday, April 28th 3:30 PM to 7:00 PM
TS 32
Disaster Management/Emergency Response
Moderator: Nadine Alameh, MobiLaps LLC Exhibitors’ Reception
Room: Pacific Salon Seven 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Time Sensitive Remote Sensing for Disaster Response: Considerations Always a highlight of the Annual ASPRS Conferences is
for Practical Deployment the Exhibitors’ Reception and the 2010 Conference will
Christopher D. Lippitt, San Diego State University/University of continue this tradition. This is a great opportunity to view
California Santa Barbara the latest products and services offered by both national and
Douglas Stow and Grant Fraley international suppliers who are your hosts for the evening.
The Information Products Laboratory for Emergency Response — Light hors d’oeuvers and beverages will be served for your
Towards Rapid Turnaround Geospatial Disaster Management Products: enjoyment while
Fire and Earthquake Response Case Studies you mingle with
Jan van Aardt, Rochester Institute of Technology old and new
friends.
Donald McKeown, Tony Vodacek, Sobha Duvvuri, Abhijit Pillai, Chris
Renschler, Jason Faulring, Hans-Peter Bischoff, Heather Collins, and Admission to this
Donald Boyd event is included
with all registra-
Enhancing Search and Rescue Operations with Web Services, 3D
tions.
Visualization and Open Source Technologies
Nadine Alameh, MobiLaps LLC
Patrick Hogan
Using the Orthogonal Projection for Parameter Initialization in the 3D
Reconstruction of Distant Objects
Keith F. Blonquist, Lidar Pacific Corporation
Robert T. Pack
TS 33
Global Agriculture
Moderator: Louise Matthews, U.S. Department of Agriculture-FSA-
APFO
Room: Hampton
Improving World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates by
Integrating NASA Remote Sensing Soil Moisture Data into USDA World
Agricultural Outlook Board Decision Making Environment
William Teng, NASA GES DISC (Wyle)
Richard de Jeu, Paul Doraiswamy, Steve Kempler, and Harlan Shannon
Understanding of a Climate Change Impact on Rainfed Rice Production
in Northeastern Thailand
Kamthonkiat Daroonwan, Thammasat University, Thailand
Honda Kiyoshi, Charoenhirunyingyos Sujittra, and Khun San Aung
Detecting Agricultural Change in Historical Imagery
Louise Matthews, U.S. Department of Agriculture-FSA-APFO
Brian Vanderbilt
Innovative Use of Remote Sensing Technology for Agriculture in
Uganda
Dan Abraham, Icaros, Inc
Adina Rosenthal, Zion Suliman Salay, Arik Nir
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Fellow Award
Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship
Paul R. Wolf memorial Scholarship
BAE Systems Award
Conference Management Awards
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Conference Program
Thursday, April 29th 9:00 AM to 10:45 AM
TS 37
TS 35 Data Processing and Analysis: Data Visualization II
Data Collection and Management: Accuracy and Error Moderator: Stephan Gehrke, North West Geomatics
Assessment II Room: Pacific Salon Six
Moderator: John Marshall, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency New Approach for Automatic Dodging of Push-broom Digital Aerial
Room: Hampton Imagery
2D Line-based Transformation Model for Image to Image/Map Riadh Munjy, California State University, Fresno
Registration Qassim Abdullah
Ahmed Shaker, Ryerson University, Canada
Radiometric Processing of ADS Imagery: I. Using Atmosperic and BRDF
Wai Yeung Yan
Corrections in Production
Covariance Propagation from Specific to Generic Model Michael Downey, North West Geomatics
Henry Theiss, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Contractor) Robert Uebbing, Stephan Gehrke, and Ulrich Beisl
Spatial Uncertainty in Line-surface Intersections Radiometric Processing of ADS Imagery: II. Mosaicking Large Image
John Marshall, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Blocks
A Sensor Neutral Replacement Model for Covariance Propagation Stephan Gehrke, North West Geomatics
Timothy Nagy, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
TS 38 TS 40
Data Collection and Management: Data Partnerships/ Global Change/Ecology
Sharing Moderator: Jason Tullis, University of Arkansas
Moderator: Shawana Johnson, Global Marketing Insights, Inc. and U.S. Room: Fairfield
Department of Agriculture Sustainable Management of Insular Environment using GIS and Remote
Room: Pacific Salon Seven Sensing Technologies
USDA and NGA Successful Interagency Collaboration John Hatzopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece
Shawana Johnson, Global Marketing Insights, Inc. and U.S. Department Christina Efthimiatou
of Agriculture Accuracy Assessment of Polarimetric SAR Land Cover Classification
Robert Tetrault for Boreal Environments
Satellite Imagery Archive Shared by USDA Agency Wide Don Atwood, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Shawana Johnson, Global Marketing Insights, Inc. and U.S. Department Benedikt Ripka
of Agriculture Lidar and Spectral Interpretation of Decadal Changes in the Ozark
Sherry Loy and Robert Tetrault National Forest
Designing a GIS to Meet Real Needs in the Maldives Jason Tullis, University of Arkansas
Robert Ryerson, Kim Geomatics Corporation Joshua Jones, Aaron Lingelbach, Jason Defibaugh y Chavez, and Fred
Mohamed Shafee, Kevin Lim, Ihsan Sadiq, and Ahmed Rasheed Stephen
Using 3D Lidar Technology to Construct 3D Port Layout for Port Logistics
Simulation
TS 39 Yiching Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Global Change/Carbon Applications James Tsai, Chance Flanders, and Noel Perkins
Moderator: Soe W. Myint, Arizona State University
Room: Garden Salon Two
Estimation of Woody Plant Aboveground Biomass for Bioenergy TS 41
Production using Ground-based Lidar Remote Sensing Resource Management Applications: Monitoring and
Nian-Wei Ku, Texas A&M University Assessment/Invasive Species I
Sorin C. Popescu and R. James Ansley Moderator: Caitlin Chason, San Diego State University
Room: Windsor East
Impact of Fuel Treatments on Carbon Flux During a Wildfire using
Satellite Imagery: Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest Using Aerial Photography for Mapping Giant Reed Infestations along
Kyle Myrick, NASA Ames DEVELOP the Texas-Mexico Portion of the Rio Grande
Erin Justice, Brandon Cheung, William Danse, Matthew Willis, Susan Chenghai Yang, U.S. Department of Agrivulture-ARS
Prichard, and J.W.Skiles James Everitt amd John Goolsby
Uncertainties of Mapping Forest Carbon using National Forest Using High-resolution Satellite Imagery to Evaluate the Relationship
Inventory Plot and Remotely Sensed Data Due to Plot Locations Between Honey Mesquite Canopy Cover and Forage Production on
Guangxing Wang, Southern Illionois University Chihuahuan Desert
Maozhen Zhang, George Z. Gertner, Ronald E. McRoberts, and Tonny Ahmed Mohamed, New Mexico State University
Oyana Jerry Holechek, Derek Bailey, and Carol Campbell
Burnt Area Products Quality Assessment Based on Landscape Metrics Signature Separability of Native and Nonnative Herbaceous Vegetation
and the Pareto Boundary in Coastal Sage Scrub using Spectral Time Series
Jesus Anaya, Universidad de Medellin, Columbia Caitlin Chason, San Diego State University
Emilio Chuvieco Contribution of Geospatial Predictor-variable Groups when Modeling
Forest Invasive Species Distribution
Dennis M. Jacobs, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service
Dumitru Salajanu
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Commercial Sessions
Thursday, April 29th 9:15 AM to Noon
TS 42 Beverage Break
10:45 AM to 11:00 AM
Special Session — Opportunities for Emerging Exhibit Hall
Geospatial Professionals: Next Steps for
Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Organized by the ASPRS Student Advisory Council Commercial Sessions
Moderated by Members of the Student Advisory Council 11:00 AM to Noon
Room: Pacific Salon Four
Commercial Session I
This session addresses opportunities for undergraduate and graduate
students leading up to and following graduation. Topics plan on be- Lidar
ing covered include: working with your academic advisor, continu- Moderator: James Young, The Sanborn Map Company
ing your education or entering the job market, what you can really Room: Sheffield
do with your degree, among others. Lidar Acquisition Best Practices, QA/QC Procedures and Accuracy
Assessment to Insure a Quality Lidar Product to the End User
James Young, The Sanborn Map Company
TS 43 Phaedra Pieper
Special Session — Mobile Mapping
Moderator: Lewis Graham, GeoCue Corporation Lidar Data Meets the MrSID Format
Room: California Jon Skiffington, LizardTech
Michael Rosen
Session Introduction
Lewis Graham, ASPRS PAD (GeoCue Corporation)
Commercial Session 2
Overview of Mobile Mapping for Transportation Optical
Paul DiGiacobbe, HNTB Room: Hampton
Overview of the Applanix POS/LV for Mobile Mapping Systems Moderator: Alexander Wiechert, Vexcel Imaging GmbH, Austria
Kevin Andrews, Applanix, Inc. Verifying the Calibration Parameters by the Direct use of Vexcel Level 0
Overview of the LYNX Mobile Mapping System Images in the Aerotriangulation Process
lbert Iavarone, Optech, Inc. Stefan Corcodel, Fugro EarthData Inc.
Overview of the StreetMapper Mobile Mapping System DSM and True Ortho Generation with the UltraCamL — A Case Study
Graham Hunter, 3D Laser Mapping Alexander Wiechert, Vexcel Imaging GmbH, Austria
Michael Gruber
Overview of the TITAN Mobile Mapping System
Craig Glennie, TerraPoint/Ambercore DMC: Optical System Development, On-orbit Results and Future
Directions
Session Concluding Remarks Owen Hawkins, DMC International Imaging Ltd.
Lewis Graham, ASPRS PAD (GeoCue Corporation)
Liam Sills, Paul Carter, and Stephen Mackin
TS 44 Commercial Session 3
Special Session — Extracting Vegetation DMC II Camera Family – Z/I Imaging’s Next Generation of
Characteristics with Lidar Sensors
Moderator: Dar Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara Moderator: Jack Ickes,
Room: Garden Salon One Room: Windsor
Ecosystem Structure Characteristics from Lidar Remote Sensing Dalsa Ultra large CCD technology - Customized for Aerial Photogrammetry
Wenge Ni-Meister, Hunter College Holger Stoldt, DALSA, The Netherlands
Spatially Coincident Satellite, Airborne, and Ground-based Lidar A New Digital Camera Design – Best in Class
Data: A Discussion and Comparison of Forest Structure Metrics Klaus Neumann, Z/I Imaging
with Field Observations Single Monolithic Digital Camera – Photogrammetric Benefits
C. Sorin Popescu, Texas A&M University TBD
Kaiguang Zhao, Demetrios Gatziolis, Ryan Sheridan, Nian-Wei Ku,
Clint Harper, Muge Mutlu, and Jared Stukey Commercial Session 4
Mapping Urban Trees using Multi-return Lidar and Imaging Special Panel Session 2 — Digital Aerial Mapping
Spectrometry Camera System Sensor Requirements from a User’s View
Bree Beylea, University of California, Santa Barbara Sponsored by the ASPRS Primary Data Acquisition Division
Keely Roth, Cheyne Hadley, and Dar Roberts Moderator: Gregory Stensaas, U.S. Geological Survey
Room: Pacific Salon 5
Advances in Three Dimensional Forest Structure and Habitat
Mapping using NASA’s Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor The manufacturers from Special Panel Session 1 — Airborne Digital
Anu Swatantran, University of Maryland - College Park Mapping Camera Systems: Manufacturer’s Perspective (TS34) will ask
Ralph Dubayah, Michelle Hofton, and J. Bryan Blair the users and providers of aerial systems specific questions and allow
discussion of important topics in this area.
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2010 Memorial Address and Awards
12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Room: San Diego/Golden West Ballroom
This year’s Memorial Address will feature the life and achievements of Dr. Uuno (Uki) Vilho Helava, presented by
Scott Miller.
The Memorial Address Series affords attendees an opportunity to hear about the great accomplishments of industry
pioneers and learn how they continue to impact our profession.
HONOREE
Dr. Uuno (Uki) Vilho Helava, was born a native of Kokemaki, Finland in 1923. Helava graduated from high school in 1942 and married
Inkeri later that year. Helava’s studies were delayed by the war and he completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Helsinki Uni-
versity of Technology. He started his career at the Finnish Topographic Services and the National Board of Surveys but was soon invited
to take a one year post-doctoral research fellowship at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in Ottawa in 1953. Helava was
invited to stay on at the NRC and stayed for 12 years in Ottawa and became a Canadian citizen and was raising 3 children. Helava was the
first to write about the concept of analytical (computerized) plotters for photogrammetry in 1957. In 1965, Helava moved to Rome to work
with Ottica Meccanica Italiana (OMI) on analytical plotters but moved on to the Bendix Research Laboratories in Michigan in 1966. The
years at Bendix produced a wide variety of specialized photogrammetric systems primarily aimed at the defense market with commercial
introduction in the late 70s. The most widely adopted products were analytical plotters for defense mapping and eventually commercial
versions for the civilian market. When Bendix decided to leave the photogrammetry defense market (around 1979), Helava took over
that business and formed Helava and Associates. As the leader of Helava and Associates, Helava continued to innovate and build highly
specialized state-of-the-art photogrammetric systems including multi-stage comparators, analytical plotters, and automated orthophoto
generation devices among others. In the early 80s, Helava formed a strong relationship with General Dynamics and jointly pursued the first
generation of completely digital photogrammetric systems. By 1987 General Dynamics had purchased Helava and Associates but Helava
continued to lead the group and develop new products for the defense and civilian markets. New photogrammetric products were produced
under Helava’s watch through his semi-retirement from 1991-1994. Helava was quite prolific in his field with approximately 70 pub-
lished papers, 10 patents, and a book. Helava twice served at director of the American Society of Photogrammetry (ASP) and received a
Presidential Citation in 1970. Helava received the ASP Fairchild Award in 1964, the International Society for Photogrammetry Brock Gold
Medal in 1972, the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award in 1977, the Surveyors Honorary Medal and the V. Talbert Abrams
Award from ASP in 1988 and was named an Honorary Member of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in
1992. Helava died the 6th of June 1994 after a significant battle with bone cancer.
PRESENTER
Scott Miller is a native of Wisconsin who completed his bachelor degree in Civil Engineering in 1977. He joined the Defense Mapping
Agency in 1977 and participated in the implementation and utilization of photogrammetric systems provided through Helava’s expertise.
In 1980, Miller completed his Masters degree in Civil Engineering at Purdue University and continued to implement and manage topo-
graphic mapping techniques for the Defense Mapping Agency. In 1983 Miller joined Helava and Associates and worked with Helava until
his death in 1994. During this period he contributed to the development of several photogrammetric devices for the defense and civilian
communities and was a principle developer of the now BAE Systems SOCET SETtm product line. Miller has published many papers in
the field of photogrammetry and contributed to the fifth edition of “The Manual of Photogrammetry” and “Digital Photogrammetry: An
Addendum to the Manual of Photogrammetry”. Miller was the head of photogrammetric development for the joint venture company LH
Systems during the late 1990s and early 2000s and participated in the development of commercial photogrammetric instruments including
digital sensors, image scanners, and Lidar scanners. Miller returned to BAE Systems in 2002 and was named a Fellow at BAE Systems in
2006. Miller continues to contribute to advanced photogrammetric systems for the defense and civilian markets.
Awards
Presidential Citations
Region of the Year
Region Newsletter
Region Website
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Conference Program
Thursday, April 29th 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
Technical Sessions TS 47
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM Data Processing and Analysis: Feature Extraction III
Moderator: KyoHyouk Kim, Purdue University
Room: California
TS 45 An Algorithm Predicting Building Rooftop Displacements on Aerial
Sensor Design and Development: High-Resolution Photos using the 3D Coordinates of Rooftop and the Location of Lens
Systems I Young S.Yang, Louisiana State University
Moderator: Kumar Navulur, Digital Globe Carol J. Friedland and Marc L. Levitanc
Room: Pacific Salon Six
Roof Plane Segmentation from Lidar Data using Multiphase Level Set
WorldView-2 Pan-Sharpening Method
Chris Padwick, DigitalGlobe KyoHyouk Kim, Purdue University
Michael Deskevich Jie Shan
On-orbit Geolocation Accuracy and Image Quality Performance of the Ridge Based Decomposition of Complex Buildings for 3D Model
GeoEye-1 High Resolution Imaging Satellite Generation from High-resolution Digital Surface Models
David Mulawa, GeoEye, Inc. Hossein Arefi, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Kevin Kohm, Nancy Podger, and Preston Mattox Helmut Mayer, Michael Hahn, Uwe Stilla, and Johannes Engels
Exploring the Spectral Bands of DigitalGlobe’s Worldview2 Satellite
Kumar Navulur, DigitalGlobe
TS 48
WorldView-1 Stereo Extraction Accuracy with and without MIN
Processing
Data Visualization/Hydrosphere Applications
Moderator: Lisa M. Wedding, University of Hawaii/NOAA
John Dolloff, BAE Systems
Room: Pacific Salon Seven
Reuben Settergren
Consistent Color Resample in Digital Orthophoto Production
Yaron Katzil, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Isreal
TS 46 Yerach Doytsher
Data Collection and Management: Accuracy and Error Automated Image Interpretability Assessment by Edge Profile Analysis
Assessment III of Natural Targets
Moderator: Xutong Niu, Troy University Taejung Kim, Inha University, Korea
Room: Hampton Dongwook Kim and Jae-In Kim
High-resolution Stereo Satellite Elevation Mapping Accuracy Applying Remotely Sensed Lidar Data to Advance Marine Landscape
Assessment Ecology in the Third Dimension
Gerry Mitchell, PhotoSat Lisa M. Wedding, University of Hawaii/NOAA
Kevin MacNabb Alan Friedlander
3D Accuracy Assessment of IKONOS Stereo Imagery using an Error-in-
Variables Model
TS 49
Xutong Niu, Troy University
Spaceborne Sensors/Web-based Data Serving
Precision GNSS Positioning Without Dedicated Basestations for Moderator: Michael Hodgson, University of South Carolina
Airborne Mapping Room: Sheffield
Mohamed Mostafa, Applanix Corporation
A Synthetic Sensor/Image Simulation Tool to Support the Landsat Data
Joe Hutton
Continuity Mission (LDCM)
New Developments and Challenges in Bundle Triangulation John Schott, Rochester Institute of Technology
Erwin J. Kruck, Geoinformatics & Photogrammetric Engineering, Rolando Raqueno
Germany
A Satellite-Sensor-Band Database Accessible Programmatically using
Balazs Melykuti
Web Services
Michael Hodgson, University of South Carolina
Shufan Liu, Ian Kramer, and Ben Sigrist
Powerful Web GIS for Participatory Low Cost Mapping
Dmitry Varlyguin, GDA Corporation
Luke Roth, Julian Winter, Stephanie Hulina, Peter Claggett, Sally
Claggett, and Fred Irani
TS 50 TS 52
Resource Management Applications: Monitoring and
Special Session — Uncertainties, Errors, and
Assessment/Invasive Species II
Accuracies in the Study of Terrestrial Essential Climate Moderator: Steve Yool, The University of Arizona
Variables (ECVs) using Remote Sensing Room: Windsor East
Moderator: Prasad Thenkabail, U.S. Geological Survey
Methodology for Measuring Spectral Characteristics of Conifer
Room: Garden Salon Two
Needles
Satellite remote sensing data and methods will be key to mapping Laura Calandra, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
and modeling Terrestrial Essential Climate Variables (ECVs), which Wenhua Zhang, Lindi J. Quackenbush, Jungho Im, and Stephen A. Teale
are global in nature. Emphasis of this session will be to discuss and
outline the uncertainties, errors, and accuracies in determining ter- Utilizing NASA Satellite Missions to Identify Bark Beetle Infestation in
restrial ECV’s using satellite remote sensing involving hyperspectral, Sequoia National Park
hyperspatial, and advanced multi-spectral data. Michelle Newcomer, NASA Ames DEVELOP
Janine Bird, Shaina Sabatine, Gabriel Sady, Ashley Stalzer, Cindy
Uncertainties in Classifying the Land Cover ECV of Mexico in the Schmidt, and J.W. Skiles, Tim Wheeler
Framework of the North American Land Change Monitoring System
Rene R.Colditz, National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Modeling Southern Pine Beetle Infestation Growth and Assessing Risk
the Biodiversity of Attack with Lidar
Pedro Maeda, Gerardo López, Isabel Cruz, and Rainer Ressl Sorin C. Popescu , Texas A&M University
Jared Stukey, Kaiguang Zhao, Robert Coulson, and Andrew Millington
Uncertainties, Errors, and Accuracies in Land-use\Land-cover and
Biomass ECV using Hyperspectral, Hyperspatial, and Advanced
Multispectral DAT
Prasad Thenkabail, U.S. Geological Survey TS 53
Accuracy Assessment of Global Land Cover Data Set ECVs: Special Panel Session — Open Student Discussion of
Problems and Opportunities the Conference and Future Possibilities with the SAC
Chandra Giri, U.S. Geological Survey Moderator: Meghan Graham MacLean, University of New
Hampshire
Room: Pacific Salon Four
TS 51 Panel of Student Advisory Council members. All students and
young professionals are invited to discuss their overall views on the
Ecosystem and Ecology Applications: Vegetation Mapping I
conference.
Moderator: Fang Qiu, University of Texas at Dallas
Room: Fairfield
Analysis of Hyperspectral High-resolution Data for Tree Species Beverage Break
Classification 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Petra Krahwinkler, Institute of Man-Machine Interaction Exhibit Hall
Juergen Rossmann
Forest Inventory at the Individual Tree Level using Lidar Point Cloud Data
Fang Qiu, University of Texas at Dallas
Caiyun Zhang
An Object-based Remote Sensing Analysis of Tree Mortality for Mixed-
conifer Forests in San Diego County, California
Mary Freeman, San Diego State University
Douglas Stow
Aspen Inventory using Remote Sensing
Randy Hamilton, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service/
RedCastle Resources
Kevin Megown, Jeff DiBenedetto, and Rachel Feigley
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Conference Program
Thursday, April 29th 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Technical Sessions TS 56
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Data Processing and Analysis: Feature Extraction II
Moderator: Yiching Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Room: California
Lidar Data Interoperability Issues Progressive Automation: Using Learning and Search to Intelligently
Karl Heidemann, U.S. Geological Survey Grow Road Networks From Examples
Wilson Harvey, TerraSim, Inc.
Calibration, Validation, and Interoperability from a Manufactures
David McKeown
Perspective
R. Valerie Ussyshkin, Optec, Inc.
TS 57
Data Processing and Analysis
TS 55 Moderator: Paul Pope, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Data Collection and Management: Accuracy and Error Room: Pacific Salon Five
Assessment IV Object-specific Feature Extraction via Markov Random Fields Derived
Moderator: Mohamed Mostafa, Applanix Corporation from 0th-Order Sigma-Tree Segmentations
Room: Hampton Syed Ali Khan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Primary Factors in Orthorectification: Automatically Deriving Ortho Christopher F. Barnes
Accuracies Detection and Robust Estimation of Cylinder Features in Point Clouds
Gregory Grohman, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Yun-Ting Su, Purdue University
John Strebeck James Bethel
Geometric Calibration of the Phoenix V ‑ A New High Resolution Comparison of Two Different Surfaces for 3D Model Abstraction in
Scanner Support of Remote Sensing Simulations
Donald Moe, SGT Inc. at U.S. Geological Survey/EROS Paul Pope, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Theoretical Ground Accuracy Analysis Derived from Today’s Airborne Doug Ranken
Digital Frame Cameras and Direct Georeferencing Simultaneous Adjustment of Lidar Strips
Mohamed Mostafa, Applanix Corporation Riadh Munjy, California State University, Fresno
Joe Hutton
Influence of Video Frame Mis-selection on the Accuracy of Moving
Objects 3d Measurements using Close-Range Photogrammetry
Mostafa A-B Ebrahim, Assiut University, Egypt
TS 58 TS 60
Special Session — “Preserving our Geospatial Ecosystem and Ecology Applications: Wildlife Habitat
Moderator: Peg Gronemeyer, New Mexico State University
Footprints” ‑ Ensuring Geospatial Records Viability Room: Garden Salon Two
through Time
Sponsored by the Data Preservation and Archiving Committee, ASPRS Changes in Landscape Disturbance of Grizzly Bear Habitat in the Rocky
Moderator: Thomas Holm, U.S. Geological Survey Mountain Foothills of Alberta From 1975 To 2005
Room: Garden Salon One Andrea Ram, Foothills Facility for Remote Sensing and GIScience,
University of Calgary, Canada
The GeoMAPP Partnership sponsored by the Library of Congress Julia Linke and Greg McDermid
and featuring state GIS and Archive leaders from Utah, North Caro-
lina, and Kentucky, has been focused on addressing the challenges Using Object-based Image Analysis to Investigate the Spatial
of archiving critical geospatial data since 2007. Come learn about Distribution and Habitat Use by the African Wild Dog in Northern
the challenges they have faced and lessons learned in their quest to Botswana
discover and inventory state geospatial data, transfer data between Peg Gronemeyer, New Mexico State University
the State GIS and State Archives organizations, moving data be- Megan Parker and Jason Karl
tween the state partners, and making these data publically available Identifying Sensitivity Thresholds in Environmental Models: When Does
for user consumption and research purposes; and hear from the U.S. a Model Become Insensitive to Change?
Geological Survey on their partnership with the National Archives Mark DeVisser, Michigan State University
and Records Administration involving archives and records man-
agement best practices. Using GIS to Model Common Loon (Gavia immer) Habitat
Alexis M. Rudko, University of New Hampshire
The Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership
Russell G. Congalton
(GeoMAPP)
William Lazorchak, Library of Congress
Preserving and Archiving Geospatial Data in Utah
Cindy Clark, Utah State Government TS 61
Ensuring Geospatial Records Viability Through Time Special Session — Urban Remote Sensing: Recent
John Faundeen, U.S. Geological Survey Advances and Future Opportunities
Moderator: Qihao Weng, Indiana State University
Room: Sheffield
Thermal Remote Sensing of Urban Areas: Progresses and Prospects
TS 59 Qihao Weng, Indiana State University
Global Change Applications: Phenology/Landscape Dale A. Quattrochi
Dynamics
High-resolution Multi-sensor Remote Sensing: New Opportunities
Moderator: Dawn Browning, U.S. Department of Agriculture-
for Urban Applications
Agriculture Research Service
Manfred Ehlers, University of Osnabrueck, Denmark
Room: Pacific Salon Six
Nighttime Lights: Current Capabilities and Future Possibilities
Phenological Studies using Spectral Matching Techniques at Global to
Christopher D. Elvidge, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center
Local Scales
Prasad Thenkabail, U.S. Geological Survey Change and Evolution of Urban Environments
Soe W. Myint, Arizona State University
Linking Grizzly Bear Health with Remotely-sensed Vegetation
Phenology
David Laskin, University of Calgary, Canada
TS 62
Scott Nielsen, Jennifer Hird, Greg McDermid, and Gord Stenhouse
Special Session — Geospatial Education – the Status
Species Specific Contributions to Moderate Resolution Vegetation
of GIS and Remote Sensing Programs
Indices Derived From Sub-decimeter Aerial Photography — Prospects
Moderator: Ann Johnson, iGETT
for Phenological Monitoring
Room: Windsor East
Dawn Browning, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research
Service Geospatial Support for High School Science
Andrea Laliberte and Albert Rango David Stolarz, City University of New York
Spatio-temporal Analysis of Badland Extent in Southern Guam, Mariana Geospatial Programs at Four-year Institutions
Maribeth Price, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Islands, using Tonal Analysis
Yuming Wen, University of Guam, Guam Changing Times, Changing Skills: Meeting the Challenge of
Maria Kottermair Dynamic Geospatial Technologies through Workforce Education
Scott Sampson, Mississippi State University
Support Two-year Colleges: Integrating Remote Sensing into GIS
Programs
Jeannette Allen, Sigma Space Corp. at NASA
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Thursday, April 29th
Thursday, April 29th 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
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Applications and High-resolution Data
Moderator: Abduwasit Wulamu, Saint Louis University
Room: Pacific Salon Seven
Welcome Aboard!
6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Pleiades - Sub-meter Imagery with Direct Tasking Capabilities Busses will leave from the bus entrance at the Town and country Hotel
Mike Smallwood SPOT Image Corp. on a continuous basis to take attendees with tickets to the social events
Towards Quantifying Movement of a Massive Lateral Spread using aboard the USS Midway.
High-resolution Satellite Image Processing The USS Midway Aircraft Museum is an unforgettable adventure for
Jackson Cothren, University of Arkansas the entire family. Go to sea without leaving port!
Brady R. Cox, Adam Barnes, Joseph Wartman, Jorge Meneses, Adrian
Rodriguez-Marek Just for YOU, the attendees of the 2010 Annual ASPRS Conference,
on Thursday evening, April 29th, ASPRS has arranged an exclusive
Mineral Exploration and Alteration Zone Mapping in Egypt’s SE Desert evening aboard the historic aircraft carrier, the USS Midway, located in
using ASTER Data downtown San Diego.
Abduwasit Ghulam, Saint Louis University
The Evening Aboard the USS Midway is included in the registration
Timothy Kusky and Safwat S. Gabr
fee for those paying the Full Speaker, Presenter/Moderator and Spouse/
Guest Registration Fee. All others, including children, wishing to attend
this event must purchase tickets in advance at the ASPRS Registration
TS 64 Desk in the Town and Country Hotel no later than 10 am on Wednesday,
Natural Hazards Applications April 28. Tickets will not be sold on board the USS Midway. Adult tick-
Moderator: Cynthia Wallace, U.S. Geological Survey ets for this event are $75. Tickets for children 13 years of age and under
Room: Fairfield are $30. Children over 13 years of age must have an adult ticket.
Value of Monitoring our Home Planet (from Air and Space) YOU will be able to
Orhan Altan, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey l Descend deep inside Midway to the brig and engineering, where the
A Sampling Approach to Forest Fuel Load Assessment Across Different raw power was generated to operate a “City at Sea.” ;
Fire Regimes in Eastern Deciduous Forests using Small-footprint l Get a taste of what it took to launch and recover aircraft on Mid-
Discrete Return Lidar way’s 4.02-acre flight deck, one of the most dangerous places on
Jan van Aardt, Rochester Institute of Technology earth.
l Learn what it was like to prepare 13,000
Mary Arthur, Robert Kremens, Jason Faulring, and Donald McKeown
meals daily, how sailors ate in rough
Development of Satellite Vegetation Indices to Assess Grassland seas, shared space with bombs and mis-
Curing Across Australia and New Zealand siles and found their way into sick-bay
Danielle Martin, Bureau of Meteorology l Experience the life of the men respon-
Ian Grant, Simon Jones, and Stewart Anderson sible for the USS Midway and the ships
that protected her for 47 years. The war
room, task force command center, com-
munications, and living quarters provide
a unique insight to two of the most
pressure-filled jobs at sea
Refreshments will be served throughout the evening on board the ship.
My Day-at-a-Glance
Friday, April 30th
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Sensor Design and Development: High-Resolution Data Processing and Analysis: Feature Extraction VI
Moderator: Caroline Tyra, Fugro-EarthData
Systems II Room: Golden West
Moderator: Angela M. Kim, Naval Postgraduate School, Montery
California Detecting the Topographic Changes of Spatial Features from SAR
Room: Pacific Salon Four Satellite Images Based on the Multilayer Level Set Approach
Yishuo Huang, Department of Construction Engineering, CYUT
A Knowledge-based 3D Power-line Scene Classification from Airborne
Shang-Yuh Lin
Full-wave Laserscanning Data
Heungsik Brian Kim, GeoICT Lab, York University Precision Processing of Hirise Stereo Orbital Images for Topograpic
Gunho Sohn Mapping on Mars
Juwon Hwangbo, The Ohio State University
Simulating Full-waveform Lidar
Yunhang Chen and Ron Li
Angela M. Kim, Naval Postgraduate School, Montery California
R. Chris Olsen and Carlos Borges Advanced Feature Extraction using IFSAR
Caroline Tyra, Fugro - EarthData
The Role of Workflow in Multisensor Applications
Ruedi Wagner, Leica Geosystems AG, Switzerland
Felix Zuberbuehler, Gert Ferrano and Udo Tempelmann
A Comparison of Lidar Data with Pushbroom-based DSM
Tauno Saks, Leica Geosystems AG, Switzerland
Nicholas Boehler, Stephan Gehrke, Robert Uebbing
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Conference Program
Friday, April 30th 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
TS 69 TS 71
Data Processing and Analysis: GIS Modeling I Ecosystem and Ecology Applications: Vegetation Mapping II
Moderator: Greg Mauldin, Tallahassee-Leon County GIS Moderator: Jan van Aardt, Rochester Institute of Technology
Room: Pacific Salon Five Room: Garden Salon One
Developing a New ArcGIS Tool to Quantify Building-content Modeling ICESat/GLAS Waveforms for Characterizing Vegetation
Vulnerability from Storm-Surge Inundation Vertical Structures Over Complex Terrain
Chandi Witharana, University of Connecticut, Center for Integrative Sorin C. Popescu, Texas A&M University
Geosciences Kaiguang Zhao
Thomas Meyer, Daniel Civco, and Jeffey Osleeb Vegetation Classification in the Brazilian Amazon with ALOS PALSAR
Predicting Financial Loss Hot-spots using Monte-Carlo Simulation L-band Data
Bandana Kar, University of Southern Mississippi Dengsheng Lu, Indiana University
Processing Lidar Point Cloud Data for Mapping Surface Drainage in Emilio Moran and Scott Hetrick
Karst Landscapes Comparing Discrete Return- To Waveform Lidar Data for Vegetation
Greg Mauldin, Tallahassee-Leon County GIS Structural Assessment — A Contemporaneous, Small-footprint Study in
An Automated Approach for Modeling Stream Position and Type in a Savanna Ecosystem
South Carolina from Lidar-based Data Jan van Aardt, Rochester Institute of Technology
Benjamin P. Sigrist, University of South Carolina Jiaying Wu, Jolene Fisher, Barend Erasmus, Konrad Wessels, Renaud
Michael E. Hodgson Mathieu, Gregory Asner, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, Dave Knapp
Conifer Health Classification for Colorado, 2010
Beverly A. Friesen, Rocky Mountain Geographic Science Center, U.S.
TS 70 Geological Survey
Urban and Cultural Applications: Transportation and Suzanne M. Noble, Christopher J. Cole, Steven L. Blauer
Development
Moderator: Rodrigo Nobrega, Mississippi State University
Room: Pacific Salon Six
TS 72
Sociospatial Network Analysis for Rural Economic Development
Steven Steinberg, Institute for Spatial Analysis
Special Session — Getting a Clear Picture of
Sheila Steinberg, Jason Barnes, Sarah Keeble, and Erick Eschker Environmental Impacts – Use of Aerial Photography
to Prove and Delineate Toxic Waste and other Land
Road Network Entropy Based on Traffic Flow and Planar Network
Structure Degradations
Kyoungjin Park, The Ohio State University Moderator: Robert Pope, Waterstone Environmental, Inc.
Room: Garden Salon Two
Alper Yilmaz
Synthesizing Geospatial Historical Data
A Geospatial Framework to Analyze Impacts from Disruptions to
Shawna Dark, California State University, Northridge
Critical Infrastructures in Rail Network
Rodrigo Nobrega, Mississippi State University Eric Stein, Robin Grossinger, and Travis Longcore
Bethany Stich and Charles O’Hara Zooming In – What Environmental Lawyers Really Look for in Aerial
Photography During Litigation and Project Due Diligence: War
Using Mobile Lidar to Survey Railway Infrastructure
Stories, Horror Stories, and Other Case Studies
Daina Morgan, Optech Incorporated
John E. Van Vlear, Voss, Cook & Thel LLP
Eric Andelin and Gordon Perry
Just a Mouse Click Away – Data Collection, Management, and
Analysis on a Single Integrated Platform
B. Deane, Chambers Group, Inc.
S. Smith and Craig Neslage
Stepping Back in Time – Integrating Historical Aerial
Photogrammetry with other Investigative Sciences to Resolve
Environmental Issues
Robert A. Pope, Waterstone Environmental, Inc.
Eric Lang and Eric Smith
TS 73 Beverage Break
Data Processing and Analysis/Urban Mapping 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Moderator: Jie Shan, Purdue University Exhibit Hall
Room: Pacific Salon Seven
Global Urban Expansion: Using GIS to Quantify the Undeveloped Land
Impacted in Metropolitan Areas
Jason Parent, University of Connecticut Technical Sessions
Daniel Civco and Shlomo Angel 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
High-resolution Urban Land Cover Mapping using Object-based Fuzzy
Image Classification Techniques
Jie Shan, Purdue University TS 75
Ejaz Hussain Sensor Design and Development: High-Resolution Systems III
Moderator: Alexander Wiechert, Vexcel Imaging GmbH, Austria
Land Use/Land Cover Mapping using Remote Sensing for Urban Room: Pacific Salon Four
Development-A Case Study of Tarkwa and Its Environs
Bernard Kumi-Boateng, University of Mines and Technology Practice on Integrating Multiple Non-metric Digital Cameras into Aerial
Mapping System
C. B. Boye and Yakubu Issaka
Fei Ma, M7 Visual Intelligence
10 Years Large Format Digital Aerial Cameras, a Review
TS 74 Michael Gruber, Microsoft
Resource Management Applications: Monitoring and Alexander Wiechert
Assessment II Monolithic Stitching: One Sensor Geometry for Multiple Sensor Cameras
Moderator: Lloyd Coulter, San Diego State University Richard Ladstädter, Vexcel Imaging GmbH, Austria
Room: Windsor East Gruber Michael and Alexander Wiechert
Using Repeat Terrestrial and Aerial Photography to Detect Vegetation GPU Acceleration for Airphoto Process Automation
Change in Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Habitat David Piekny, PCI Geomatics
Erin Latham, Foothills Facility for Remote Sensing and GIScience, Teodor Hanchevici and James Lutes
University of Calgary, Canada
Mike Dodd, Lacey Greene, Tom Stephenson, Mark Hebblewhite, and
Greg McDermid TS 76
Assessing Forest Fragmentation in Connecticut using Multi-temporal Data Processing and Analysis: Feature Extraction VII
Land Cover Moderator: Lindi Quackenbush, SUNY-ESF
James Hurd, University of Connecticut Room: California
Jason Parent and Daniel Civco An Intelligent Guide for Close Range Photogrammetry
Time-space Radiometric Normalization of TM/ETM Scenes for Land- Matthieu Bach, Université Laval - Sciences Géomatiques, Canada
cover Change Detection Sylvie Daniel
Lloyd Coulter, San Diego State University
A Volumetric Approach to Population Estimation using Lidar Remote
Allen Hope and Douglas Stow Sensing
Estimating Life-form Fractional Cover for Monitoring Shrublands using Zhenyu Lu, ZL
Remote Sensing Jungho Im
Yuki Hamada, San Diego State University
Comparing the Quality of Road Extraction from Lidar Data in Residential
and Commercial Areas
Lindi Quackenbush, SUNY-ESF
Yue Zuo
Line Matching in Oblique Airborne Images to Support Automatic
Verification of Building Outlines
Adam Patrick Nyaruhuma, International Institute for Geo-Information
Science and Earth Observation - ITC
Markus Gerke and George Vosselman
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Conference Program
Friday, April 30th 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
TS 77 TS 79
Data Processing and Analysis: Feature Extraction VIII Resource Management Applications: Monitoring and
Moderator: Bingqing Liang, Mansfield University Assessment III
Room: Golden West Moderator: Andrea Laliberte, New Mexico State University
Estimating Impervious Surfaces from Medium Spatial Resolution Room: Windsor East
Imagery: A Comparison between Fuzzy Classification and LSMA Applying Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Techniques to Measure
Xuefei Hu, Indiana State University Pigment Concentrations for a Degraded Mangrove Forest of the
Qihao Weng Mexican Pacific
Landsat ETM+ Image Classification by using Fractal-based Texture Chunhua Zhang, East Tennessee State University
Information John M. Kovacs, Yali Liu, Francisco Flores-Verdugo, and Francisco
Bingqing Liang, Mansfield University Flores De Santiago
Qihao Weng Using Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery for Mapping Salt Cedar
Application of Close Range Photogrammetry in San Agustin (Huila), Infestations in West Texas
Colombia, World Historical Heritage Chenghai Yang, U.S. Department of Agriculture-ARS
A. Campos, Department of Cartography, Agricultural Sciences, James Everitt
Cundinamarca University, Colombia Object-based Classification of Hyperspatial Digital Mapping Camera
W. Barragán, J.J. Martínez (DMC) Imagery for Potential Integration into the National Resources
Inventory of Grazing Lands
Andrea Laliberte, New Mexico State University
D.M. Browning, J.E. Herrick, and P. Gronemeyer
TS 78
Hydrosphere and Atmosphere Applications: Air
Pollution/ Atmospheric CO2 TS 80
Moderator: Yuyu Zhou, Purdue University Data Processing and Analysis: GIS Modeling II
Room: Pacific Salon Seven Moderator: Peter Guth, U.S. Naval Academy
Airborne Infrared Hyperspectral Mapping for Detection of Gaseous and Room: Pacific Salon Five
Solid Targets Integration of Lidar and Break line Data within the New ArcGIS®
Vincent Farley, Telops Terrain Data Structure (TDS) for Building a Multi-Resolution Terrain
Philippe Lagueux, Frederick Marcotte, Martin Chamberland Model
Comparison of Deep Blue and Land Surface Reflectance in the San Ruijin Ma, University of Redlands
Joaquin Valley Tarig Ali
Daniel Fisher, NASA Ames DEVELOP Improving Classification Accuracy of Spectrally Similar Urban Classes
Puja Agrawal, Sherry Lehmuth, Andrew Nguyen, Kristin Roberts, by using Object-oriented Classification Techniques: A Case Study of
Anthony Strawa, Lee Johnson, and J.W. Skiles New York City
The Spatial Pattern of Sector-specific Fossil-fuel CO2 Emissions in USA Sunil Bhaskaran, Lehman College, City University of New York (CUNY)
Yuyu Zhou, Purdue University Slope, Reflectance, and Viewsheds Algorithms for Arc-second Digital
Kevin Gurney, Daniel Mendoza, Sarath Geethakumar Elevation Models
Peter Guth, U.S. Naval Academy
Monitoring Dust and Sand Storms Over the Middle-East Desert using
Thermal Properties of Mineral Aerosols Derived from MSG/SEVIRI Proposal of 3D GIS for Spatial Data Visualization and Analysis over
Adnan Al-Rais, Emirates Institution for Advanced Science & Internet
Technology / American University in Dubai, Dubai Chokri Koussa, INSA Strasbourg, France
Ali Al-Suwaidi and Hosni Ghedira Mathieu Koehl
TS 81
Natural Hazards Applications: Insect and Air-borne
Pathogens
Moderator: Ola Hall, Lund University, Sweden
Room: Garden Salon Two
Climate Change Impact on Dengue Fever in Thailand using Spatial
Analysis
Kanchana Nakhapakorn, Mahidol University, Thailand
Nathsuda Pumijumnong and Supet Jirakajohnkool
Remote Sensing in Epidemiology-- The Emergence and Spread of Tick-
borne Encephalitis (TBE) in Scandinavia
Ola Hall, Lund University, Sweden
The Association Between Urban Thermal Conditions and West Nile
Virus Dissemination
Hua Liu, Old Dominion University
Qihao Weng
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Poster Sessions
Posters will be on display in the Exhibit Hall throughtout the conference.
A Comparison of SAR Filtering Techniques on Agricultural Area On the Fly Registration of Aerial Images in the Absence of GPS Signal
Identification Sudhagar Nagarajan, University at Buffalo
Asli Ozdarici, Middie East Technical University, Turkey Toni Schenk
Zuhal Akyurek
Determination of Velocities from Repeat Aerial Imagery Based on
A New Method of Measuring Long Term Urban Sprawl by Multi-Source Matching Harris Corner Points in Object Space
Data: The Case Study of Greater Toronto Area, Canada Sudhagar Nagarajan, University at Buffalo
Qingxu Huang, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Bea Csatho
Jonathan Li
Impact of Land Use on Tree Canopy Height Distributions Determined by
Spatio-temporal Variation of Green Space and its effect on Urban Heat Lidar in and Around Kruger National Park, South Africa
Island by using Fractal Analysis Konrad Wessels, Meraka Institute, CSIR
Huaqiang Du, Zhejiang Forestry University, China R. Mathieu, GP. Asner, R. Main, IPJ Smit, BFN Erasmus , JAN van
Demonstrating the Impacts of Surface Interpolation Methods on Aardt, J. Fisher, W. Marais, T. Kennedy-Bowdoin, DE Knapp, R.
Viewsheds Emerson, and J. Jacobson
Marguerite Madden, University of Georgia GIS-based Web Service for Studying Earthquakes using Open Source
Douglas Lockhart Tools
Asli Dogru, Bogazici University, Turkey
Effect of Urban Forms: Towards the Reduction of CO2 Emissions
Yasuyo Makido, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan Gonul Toz and Haluk Ozener
Yoshiki Yamagata and Shobhakar Dhakal Use of Radar Imagery for Investigating Urban Land Cover Changes
through Angle Method
Spectral Mixture Analysis of Ancient Artifact Scatters
Mohammed Raza Mehdi, University of West Georgia
Tuna Kalayci, University of Arkansas
Jeong Chang Seong
Application of Low-cost Digital-camera Data for Monitoring and
Recording Seasonal Changes in Crop Growth Utility of Combined Aerial Photography and Digital Imagery for Fault
Toshihiro Sakamoto, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Trace Mapping
Sciences, Japan Florante Perez, California Geological Survey
Michio Shibayama, Brian Wardlow, Anatoly Gitelson, Shashi Verma, Jerry Treiman and William Bryant
Andrew Suyker, Eiji Takada, Kazuhiro Morita, Wataru Takahashi, And Orthophoto Production of Multi-level Bridges
Shigeno Miura Ofelia Perez, Californai Department of Transportation
Using TIMESAT with AVHRR Imagery to Analyze Phenology in China Mapping Tillage Intensity and Residue Levels for Carbon Management
Zhihui Gu Over Landscapes using Multispectral Imagery
Wei Haiyan, Heilman Phil, Qi Jiaguo, Nearing Mark, and Zhang Paul Doraiswamy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS
Yongguang Bakhyt Akhmedov, Craig Daughtry, Jerry Hatfield,and Alan Stern
Remote Sensing Urban Heat-island Phenomenon in Four Texas Cities The Effect of LAI Based MODIS in Difference Scale to Gross Primary
David Prado, University of Texas San Antonio Productivity Estimation
Hongjie Xie and Steve Ackley Supannika Potithep, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and
Technology, Japan
A Study on the SFM Indicator Analysis using Forest Cover Type Map
and MORAN Index -Focusing on the Ecosystem Diversity Indicator- Rikie Suzuki, Shin Nagai, and Nasahara Kenlo Nishida
Kyoung Min Kim, Korea Forest Research Institute, Korea Application of Terrestrial Laser Scanning in Cultural Heritage
GIS Database Design for APEX Model Michal Kedzierski, Military University of Technology, Poland
Ming-Chih Hung, Northwest Missouri State University Anna Fryskowska, Rafal Dabrowski, and Michalina Wilinska
Paul Duckworth, Yi-Hwa Wu, and Jamie Patton GIS and Remote Sensing Applications for Watershed Planning: Five
Geo-referencing of Aerial Images using High-resolution Stereo Years of Activities for the Maumee Basin, Ohio: 2005-2010
Satellite Images Patrick Lawrence, University of Toledo
Jaehong Oh, The Ohio State University Assessing Simulated Land Use/Cover Maps using Similarity and
Charles Toth and Dorota Brzezinska Fragmentation Indices
Jean-Francois Mas, Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental -
Mapping Urban Vegetation with High Spatial Resolution Satellite
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Images: A Comparison between Two Different Landscapes
Jindong Wu, California State University, Fullerton Azucena Pérez Vega
Marvin Bauer Validation of a Spatial-constraint Optimization Model for Hyperspectral
Underwater Terrain and Inherent Optical Property-mapping in Case 2
The Effects of CO2 and Herbicide Induced Stress on the Spectral
Coastal Waters
Reflectance of Maize
Anthony Filippi, Texas A&M University
Sani Yahaya, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Toshiro Kubota
Michael Steven and Giles Foody
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Exhibitor Descriptions
E. Coyote Enterprises, Inc. Booth 300 ESRI Canada Booth 716
P. O. Box 1119 Suite 900 – 12 Concord Place
Mineral Wells, Texas 76068 Toronto, ON, M3C 3R8, Canada
940-325-0757; Fax 940-325-0941; www.coyote.net 416-441-6035 ext. 6393; Fax 416-446-1639; www.esricanada.com
ECE offers the IGI suite of instrumentation including precision flight ESRI Canada is a leader in providing world-class enterprise GIS
planning and management systems, medium format digital cameras solutions. ESRI Canada will showcase the PurVIEW stereoscopic
and thermal imaging sensors. On display in the ECE booth will be the viewing technology. PurVIEW allows users to quickly transform the
medium-format gyrostabilzed mount from SOMAG A.G., which also ArcGIS Desktop into a precise stereo-viewing environment enabling 3D
provides the GSM 3000 gyrostabilized platform for all types of sen- visualization. Please stop by our booth # 716 anytime to see PurVIEW
sors. ECE, Inc. also represents the JAS 150 digital camera from Jena in action or learn more by visiting our website www.esricanada.com/
Optronik. purview.
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Exhibitor Descriptions
Imaging NOTES Magazine Booth 107 ITT Visual Information Solutions Booth 515
1539 Platte Street, #204 4990 Pearl East Circle
Denver, CO. 80202 Boulder, Colorado 80301
303.477.5272; www.imagingnotes.com 303-786-9900; Fax 303-786-9909; www.ittvis.com
Imaging Notes is a premier publication for commercial, govern- Visit the ITT Booth at ASPRS 2010 to learn more about ENVI, the im-
ment and academic remote sensing professionals around the world. It age processing software trusted by image scientists for years to extract
demonstrates how remote sensing technologies and spatial information important information from all types of digital imagery. You’re invited
illuminate the urgent interrelated issues of the environment, energy and to watch live in-booth presentations and learn how ENVI will streamline
security. your image processing and analysis workflow by delivering you seam-
less ArcGIS® integration and automation of essential image processing
tasks. Learn more about ENVI at www.ittvis.com/ENVI.
Intergraph Corporation Booth 401
170 Graphics Drive
Madison, Alabama 35758 IXSEA Booth 522
800.345.4856; Fax 256 730 6708; www.intergraph.com 55 Avenue Auguste Renoir
78160 Marly le Roi, France
Intergraph’s photogrammetric solutions support your earth imaging
33 1 30 08 98 88; Fax 33 1 30 08 88 01; www.ixsea.com
requirements, from data acquisition to exploitation and data distribution.
We provide the tools to produce maps, digital terrain models, orthopho- IXSEA, experts in IMU and FOG technology, provides turnkey INS/
tos, and other geographic data. Our end-to-end earth imaging solutions GPS solutions for the airborne and land-based survey industries and
include RMK D Medium Format Camera System, the Digital Map- meets their growing demand for accurate position, orientation and geo-
ping Camera (DMC) system, flight management and post-processing referencing data. At ASPRS, IXSEA presents AIRINS, an INS for high
systems, and photogrammetric data exploitation software suite. Our Z/I and low altitude missions and all types of sensors.
Imaging Solutions for photogrammetry give ease of use, data accuracy
and precision, and performance throughout your project.
KLT ASSOCIATES, INC. Booth 620
100 Corporate Place
ISTS Americas Corporation Booth 424 Peabody, Massachusetts 01960
41716 Chadboune Dr. 303 -697-5475; Fax 303-697-5483; www.kltassoc.com
Fremont, California 94539 ATLAS was written specifically to handle solutions for all aspects of
510-676-0621; http://www.istsamericas.com/ mapping 3D geographic data. ATLAS provides a fully integrated system
ISTS has developed a complete turnkey digital aerial photography sys- for collecting, editing, and retrieving geographic information, SOFT-
tem, including a gyrostabilized mount, digital camera and “Radmetry” COPY STEREO data collection, Terrain tools handling LIDAR, TINs,
data processing software, which is smaller, lighter and cheaper than any DEMs. ORTHO rectification and MOSAIC of frame cameras, digital
on the market. Radmetry is a revolutionary set of software that, through imagery, including cameras, airborne line sensors and spaceborne
an internationally patented “Soft Gyro” process, has eliminated the need imagery. AERIAL TRIANGULATION provides solutions for even the
for IMU data. Only digital images and GPS data are needed to produce most difficult mapping project, in an interactive environment. Visit us to
a full orthorectified geolocated data set, including a DEM data set. discuss ALL your mapping needs.
ITRES Research Limited Booth 302 Leica Geosystems, Inc. Booth 601
Suite #110 3553 31st Street NW 5051 Peachtree Corners Circle
Calgary, AB T2L 2K7 Canada Suite 250
403-250-9944; Fax 403-250-9916; www.itres.com Norcross, Georgia 30092
770-326-9536; Fax: 770-326-9586; www.leica-geosystems.us
ITRES (1979) is an airborne hyperspectral remote sensing imager
manufacturer and worldwide mapping survey provider. ITRES imagers Our changing world demands up-to-date geospatial information. To
feature unmatched precision, focus, and resolution for hyperspectral remain competitive means to provide the highest quality imagery more
and thermal imaging of infrastructure and environmental applications. accurately, more reliably and faster than anyone else. Leica Geosystems
Our Lidar-ready systems cover all major spectral regions: hyperspectral is the industry leader in airborne imaging and lidar sensor solutions.
VNIR CASI, SWIR SASI, MWIR MASI, hyperspectral thermal TASI With our range of real workflow solutions from flight planning to data
and broadband thermal TABI. Supporting products include multiple delivery, Leica Geosystems helps you to get to better results much faster
sensor operation, remote operation capability, and (soon) in-flight geo- – at even lower cost. Leica Geosystems Airborne Sensors – Imagery for
correction. New development: Wide-array thermal TABI-1800. a changing world.
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Exhibitor Descriptions
Overwatch Booth 206 Point of Beginning (POB) Magazine Booth 107
21660 Ridgetop Circle, Suite 110 2401 W. Big Beaver Rd., Suite 700
Sterling, Virginia 20166 Troy, MI 48084
703-437-7651; Fax 703-437-0039; www.overwatch.com 248-244.6400; Fax 248-362.5103; www.pobonline.com
Overwatch, an operating unit of Textron Systems, is the leading pro- Since 1975, Point of Beginning, also known as POB, has been serv-
vider of integrated intelligence software solutions and services as well ing the surveying and mapping profession as an informative national
as robust satellite communications systems for today’s U.S. and inter- publication and more recently via electronic media, including eNewslet-
national defense and intelligence communities. For the past 20 years, ters, a comprehensive website, www.POBonline.com, and the industry’s
Overwatch’s intelligence solutions have supported decision makers, favorite message board, www.RPLS.com. As our mission states, we
counter-terrorism analysts, warfighters and first responders by providing are dedicated to helping the geomatics professional succeed through
proven tools that simplify the integration, analysis and exploitation of our coverage of new applications and evolving technologies, practical
intelligence to present a complete operational picture and accelerate the solutions to surveying and mapping problems, and business, legal and
time to-decision. educational issues.
PCI Geomatics USA Booth 608 Professional Surveyor Magazine Booth 216
4848 Tramway Ridge, NE. Suite 222 Flatdog Media, Inc.
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87111 20 West Third Street
888-343-0003; Fax 888-629-4445; www.pcigeomatics.us Frederick, Maryland 21701-5331
PCI Geomatics is a world leading developer of software and systems for 301-682-6101; Fax 301-682-6105; www.profsurv.com
geo-imaging solutions. PCI Geomatics provides products and solutions Professional Surveyor Magazine is the premier U.S. resource for
that help organizations turn geospatial imagery into useful information, surveying, mapping, engineering, GPS, and GIS professionals. Features
through our high performance, automated and scalable image process- include reviews of new technology and hands-on solutions, business
ing software. Since 1982, we have delivered innovative solutions for the management ideas, detailed project stories and more. We also publish
environmental, DSI, agricultural and satellite data processing markets Aerial Mapping and Surveyor’s Red Pages once a year. We also produce
that use aerial and satellite optical imagery, as well as synthetic aperture Pangaea which is a twice monthly e-newsletter covering many aspects
radar (SAR) imagery. of the industry.
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Exhibitor Descriptions
Topcon Positioning System Booth 121 Urban Robotics, Inc. Booth 203
7400 National Drive 33 NW First Avenue, Ste. 200
Livermore, California 94550 Portland, Oregon 97209
925-245 8300; Fax 925-245-8591; www.topconpositioning.com 503-224-9239; Fax 503-210-1910; www.urbanrobotics.net
Topcon Positioning Systems Inc. is headquartered in Livermore, Urban Robotics Inc. provides cutting edge software and hardware solu-
California, and designs and manufactures precise positioning products tions for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) applications.
and solutions for the global surveying, construction, agriculture, civil Products include aerial EO and NearIR digital sensor systems, high per-
engineering, mapping and GIS, asset management, and mobile control formance aerial and ground computer clusters, and automated algorithms
markets. The company has worldwide employee operations and dealer for generating fast turn-around orthorectified maps. Customers include
networks. Topcon is dedicated to developing the best instruments and federal agencies, military forces and private corporations. With products
solutions possible to perform tasks accurately and quickly. TPS’ parent deployed around the world, Urban Robotics has a proven track record of
company, Topcon Corporation (Tokyo Stock Exchange – 7732), was bringing advanced technologies quickly into deployed products.
founded in 1932.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Booth 213
USGS - Land Remote Sensing, Strategic Communications Manager
Track’Air B.V. Booth 420
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
Zutphenstraat 55
Reston, Virginia 20192
7575 EJ Oldenzaal
703-648-4462; Fax: 703-648-5939; www.usgs.gov
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31 541 229 030; Fax 31 541 229 033; www.trackair.com The USGS Land Remote Sensing (LRS) Program and the Earth Research
and Observation Science Center (EROS) located in Sioux Falls, South
Lead’Air, Inc. Dakota serves as is the Nation’s portal to the largest archive of remotely
4009 5th St, Ste 102 sensed land data in the world. Working with NASA, NOAA, commer-
Kissimmee, Florida 34741 cial satellite companies, State and local governments, and international
407- 343-7571; Fax 407-343-7572 programs, the LRS Program collects, maintains, and distributes millions
Track’Air B.V. and Lead’Air, Inc. develop and distribute affordable, of images acquired from satellite and aircraft sensors. From such images
effective tools to the worldwide aerial survey community. Aerial Flight scientists and land managers, both public and private, derive information
Management Systems (FMS) are the main products of these compa- about natural resources, hazards, and long-term changes to the landscape.
nies. Our FMS can be operated with a large variety of aerial survey Through advancements in data archive and processing technology and
equipment. To date, over 750 organizations are operating our FMS through the operation and maintenance of satellites such as Landsats 5 and
worldwide. Our latest FMS, the NanoTrack, is setting new standards for 7, the LRS Program provides continuous access to worldwide land images
performance and affordability. that can be used in mankind’s effort to sustain the ever-changing Earth.”
Trifide Group Booth 705 Vexcel Imaging, GmbH (a Microsoft company) Booth 301
14071 Bear Creek Drive 1690 38th Street
Vancouver, DC V3W821 CANADA Boulder, Colorado 80301
604-614-5751; www.trifidegroup.com 303-546-1301; Fax: 425-936-7329; www.microsoft.com/ultracam
Trifide Group is an international Geomatics services organization, cur- Acquired by Microsoft Corporation in May 2006, Vexcel Imaging
GmbH brings 20 years of photogrammetry expertise to Microsoft’s Bing
rently promoting a new mobile mapping technology that produces high
Maps business unit. Offerings include the UltraCamXp large format
resolution 3D pictures/images from the ground view, georeferenced so
system; the UltraCamXp Wide Angle for small scale mapping; the
that any point/pixel on each image has the highest absolute accuracy
smaller, lighter and cost-effective UltraCamL medium format sensor for
of any mobile mapping system. Developed at Belgium University, the
organizations flying smaller aircraft; and UltraMap workflow software
system is not reliant on GPS technology and eliminates the inaccuracies
for a complete and integrated photogrammetric workflow for UltraCam
of GPS in dense urban areas. See the most efficient surveying technol- images. Visit us and partners on the show floor in Booth #301
ogy in the world.
Wuda Geoinformatics Co., Ltd Booth 324 ASPRS 2013 Annual Conference
WHU S&T Park, East Lake High-Tech Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel
Development Zone, Wuhan 430223, China_ Baltimore, Maryland
86-27-87196288 ext. 8059; Fax 86-27-87196133; www.geostar.com.cn
March 24-28, 2013
Wuda Geoinformatics Co., Ltd (hereinafter as “WUDA GEO”) is
a global geospatial information service provider in China. WUDA
GEO possesses international advanced instruments of surveying and ASPRS 2015 Annual Conference
mapping, such as DMC, ADS40, as well as data-processing software Marriott Tampa Bay Waterside Hotel
“GeoOne” and GIS platform software “GeoGlobe” with IPR (Intellectu- Tampa, Florida
al Property Right). WUDA GEO can provide spatial services including March 4-8, 2015
aerial photography, vector mapping, orthophotos, Lidar data processing,
digital terrain models, 3D city models, 3D Texture and various spatial
solutions.
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Presenter Index
Presenter Session Presenter Session Presenter Session Presenter Session
Abdullah, Qassim A. 16, 27 Greg Stensaas CS 4 Liu, Hua 81 Ruedi Wagner 65
Abraham, Dan 33 Grohman, Gregory 55 Liu, Yawen 36 Ryerson, Robert 38
Adhikari, Sanchayeeta 17 Gronemeyer, Peg 60 Lovin, Jeff 27 Sakamoto, Toshihiro Poster
Agata, Orych 19 Gruber, Michael 75 Lu, Dengsheng 71 Sampath, Aparajithan 36
Alameh, Nadine 32 Gu, Zhihui Poster Ma, Fei 75 Sampson, Scott 62
Ali Khan, Syed 57 Guevara, Armando 27 Ma, Ruijin 29, 80 Sault, Maryellen 29
Allen, Jeannette 62 Guth, Peter 80 MacLean, Meghan 7, 53 Schmidt, Cindy 11
Al-Rais, Adnan 19, 78 Habib, Ayman 66, 54 Madden , Marguerite Poster Schott, John 49
Altan, Orhan 64 Hall, Ola 81 Majji, Manoranjan 13 Shaker, Ahmed 35, 67
Alvarez, David 18 Hamada, Yuki 74 Makido, Yasuyo Poster Shan, Jie 20, 31, 73
Amer, Reda Poster Hamilton, Randy 51 Marshall, John 35 Sheridan, Ryan 30
Anaya, Jesus 39 Harendra, Teotia 8 Martin, Danielle 64 Shor, Erez 27
Andrews, Kevin 33 Harvey, Wilson 56 Mas, Jean-Francois Poster Sigrist, Benjamin P. 69
Arefi, Hossein 47 Hatzopoulos, John 18, 40 Mathews, Louise 33 Sivanpillai, Ramesh 11
Atwood, Don 40 Hawkins, Owen CS 2 Mauldin, Greg 69 Skiffington, Jon CS 1
Ayman, Habib 2 Heidemann, H. Karl 16, 54 Mehdi, Mohammed Raza Poster Skopljak, Boris 12
Bach, Matthieu 76 Helder, Benjamin Poster Meiron, Guy 54 Sohn, Gunho 56
Benson, Mike 5 Hightower, Lee (Haitao Li) Poster Meixner, Philipp 14 Stahley, Tim 22
Berényi, Attila Poster Hird, Jennifer 19 Meng, Xuelian 4 Steinberg, Steven 70
Beylea, Bree 44 Hodgson, Michael E. 10, 49 Mercer, Bryan 8 Stensaas, Greg 54
Bhaskaran, Sunil 80 Holm, Thomas 58 Miller, Marvin 5 Stojic, Mladen 14
Blak, Timothy 16 Hong, Gang 12 Mitchell, Gerry 4, 46 Stolarz, David 62
Blonquist, Keith F 32 Hoover, Mark 7 Moe, Donald 55 Stoldt, Holger CS 3
Blundell, S. Bruce Poster Houborg, Rasmus 18, Poster Moe, Tun Lin 3 Stricherz, Brad
Bogle, Rian 1 Hu, Xuefei 77 Mohamed, Ahmed 41 Student Advisory Council 9, 42
Bouali, Marouan 14 Huang, Qingxu Poster Mondello, Charles 10, 27 Su, Yun-Ting 57
Browning, Dawn 59 Huang, Yishuo 68 Morgan, Daina 70 Swatantran, Anu 44
Calandra, Laura 52 Huberty, Brian 34 Moskal, Monica 25 Swetnam, Tyson 25
Campos, A. 77 Hung, Ming-Chih Poster Moss, Erin 2 Tauno Saks 65
Chason, Caitlin 41 Hunter, Graham 33 Mostafa, Mohamed 46, 55 Taylor, Charles 26
Chen, Hainan 29 Hurd, James 74 Mulawa, David 45 Teng, William 33
Choi, Yosoon Poster Hwangbo, Juwon 68 Munjy, Riadh 37, 57, 66 Theiss, Henry 23
Clark, Cindy 58 Iavarone, Ibert 33 Myint, Soe W. 28, 61 Theiss, Henry 35
Colditz, Rene R. 50 Im, Jungho Poster Myrick, Kyle 39 Thenkabail, Prasad 22, 59
Congalton, Russell 20, 31 Jacobs, Dennis M. 41 Nagarajan, Sudhagar Poster Thomassie, Brett 5
Conrad, Amber Poster Jama, Michal 12 Nagy, Timothy 35 Toth, Charles 26
Corcodel Stefan CS 2 Jensen, Jennifer 17 Nakhapakorn, Kanchana 81 Tsai, James 40, 56
Cothren, Jackson 63 Jensen, John 20, 31 Navulur, Kumar 24, 45 Tullis, Jason 40
Coulter, Lloyd 74 Johnson, Ann 62 Neumann, Klaus 27, CS 3 Tyra, Caroline 68
Craig, Michael 22 Johnson, Shawana 38 Newcomer, Michelle 52 Ussyshkin, R. Valerie 13, 54
Craun, Kari 5 Jung, Jinha Poster Ni-Meister, Wenge 44 van Aardt, Jan 32, 64, 71
Cross, Barry 27 Kalayci, Tuna Poster Nir, Arik 21 Van Vlear, John E. 72
Cruz, Chris 11 Kang, Joon Mook Poster Niu, Xutong 36, 46 Varlyguin, Dmitry 49
Dark, Shawna 72 Kar, Bandana 69 Nobrega, Rodrigo 70 Wagner, Ruedi 27
Daroonwan, Kamthonkiat 33 Katzil, Yaron 48 Nyaruhuma, Adam Patrick 76 Wahid, Ahmed 19
Davis, Bruce A. 10 Kedzierski, Michal Poster Olson, Charles 3 Wang, Guangxing 39
Dean, B. 72 Kim, Angela M. 65 Oh, Jaehong Poster Wang, Sendo 28
Detchev, Ivan 66 Kim, Heungsik Brian 65 Oian, Chad Poster Wang, Yandong 14
DeVisser, Mark 60 Kim, KyoHyouk 47 Ozacar, Biricik Gozde 6 Wang, Yong 21
DiGiacobbe, Paul 33 Kim, Kyoung Min Poster Ozdarici, Asli Poster Waters, Kirk 16
Dodd, Mike 74 Kim, Sooyoung 67 Padwick, Chris 45 Wedding, Lisa 20, 31, 48
Dogru, Asli Poster Kim, Taejung 48 Pai, Naresh 8 Weems, Bryan Poster
Dolloff, John 45 Koussa, Chokri 80 Park, Woojin Poster Wegner, Brian 27
Doraiswamy, Paul Poster Krahwinkler, Petra 51 Saraswat, Dharmendra 8 Wen, Yuming 59
Downey, Michael 37 Kramer, Ian 21 Parent, Jason 73 Weng, Qihao 61
Du, Huaqiang Poster Kruck, Erwin J. 46 Park, Kyoungjin 70 Wessels, Konrad Poster
Dunham, Susa Poster Ku, Nian-Wei 39 Perez, Florante Poster White, Davina 7
Ebrahim, Mostafa 55 Kulkarni, Arun 21, Poster Perez, Ofelia Poster Wiechert, Alexander CS 2, 27, 75
Ehlers, Manfred 61 Kumi-Boateng, Bernard 73 Piekny, David 75 Wilson, Cyril 28
Elvidge, Christopher D. 61 Laliberte, Andrea 23, 79 Pope, Paul 57 Witharana, Chandi 69
Emerson, Charles 8 Lanier, Prather 23 Pope, Robert A. 72 Wu, Jindong Poster
Evans, Adam 27 Laskin, David 59 Popescu, Sorin 44, 52, 71 Wulamu, Abduwasit 63
Farley, Vincent 78 Lawrence, Patrick Poster Potithep, Supannika Poster Yahaya, Sani Poster
Faundeen, John 58 Lazorchak, Butch 58 Prado, David Poster Yan, Lin 56
Filippi, Anthony Poster Lee, I-Chieh 15, 29 Price, Maribeth 62 Yang, Chenghai 41, 79
Fisher, Dan 78 Lee, Jun Hak 30 Qiu, Fang 51 Yang, Young S. 47
Fraley, Grant 23 Lee, Sang-Hoon Poster Quackenbush, Lindi 76 Yang, Zhengwei 22
Fraser, Clive S. 1 Lee, Taeyoon 15 Ram, Andrea 60 Yoon, Yeosang Poster
Freeman, Mary 51 Lee, Young Jin Poster Ramirez, Nicolas Poster Young, James CS 1
Friesen, Beverly 71 Levin, Eugene 36 Rao, Mahesh 6 Yun, Hee Cheon Poster
Gehrke, Stephan 37 Lewis,Chris 4 Rauhala, Urho 26 Zaletnyik, Piroska 67
Giri, Chandra 50 Li, Ding 2 Rempel, Harold W. 16 Zhang, Bingcai 15
Glennie, Craig 33 Li, Zhe 6 Renaudin, Erwan 13 Zhang, Chunhua 79
Gong, Binglei 15 Liang, Bingqing 77 Richardson, Jeffrey J. 25 Zhenyu Lu 76
Goulden, Tristan 2 Li-Chee Ming, Julien 1 Roberts, Dar 44 Zhou,Yuyu 28, 78
Graham, Lewis 33, 43 Lim, Kevin 30 Roth, Keely L. Poster Zhu, Hongwei 4
Grant, Darion 12 Lippitt, Christopher 32 Rudko, Alexis M. 60 Zourarakis, Demetrio 17
Division Officers
Primary Data Acquisition
Gregory Stensaas
Robert E. Ryan
Remote Sensing Applications
John S. Iiames, Jr.
Joseph F. Knight
Professional Practice
Douglas Lee Smith
Anne K. Hillyer
Photogrammetric Applications
Rebecca A. Morton
Lewis N. Graham
Geographic Information Systems
Maribeth Price
Michael P. Finn
Sustaining Members Council
Mark Stanton
Jim Green
*Executive Committee Member
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students, researchers and practioners who are interested in asking spatial
questions, assessing landscapes, building geodatabases and envisioning a
world of integrated geospatial technologies.
The book has been organized in eight major sections: Background and
Overview; Data Models, Metadata and Ontology; GIS Data Quality and
Uncertainty; Spatio-Temporal Aspects of GIS; Analysis and Modeling;
Blending GIS with Remote Sensing, GPS and Visualization; GIS and
the World Wide Web and GIS Applications. Top researchers in GIS from
around the world, along with emerging scholars, have told the story of a
discipline that originated alongside advances in computer technology and
is increasingly incorporated into our daily lives. The wide range of topics
covered in the 62 chapters of this volume attest to the role GIS plays in
blurring the boundaries between traditional photogrammetry, remote
sensing, land surveying, geodesy, cartography, and computer science.
The Manual of Geographic Information Systems provides a conceptual
framework for data connected to location, the language needed for spatial
conversation and analysis tools for discovery of geographic place, prox-
imity, dimensions, trends and correlations.
The DVD that accompanies this book contains more than 300 color
figures plus digital content contributed by leading GIS companies, agen-
cies and institutions including, ESRI; ERDAS; SAIC; IVS 3D; NOAA;
USGS; San Diego State University; University of California, Santa
Barbara; University of Plymouth; Florida State University; University of
Georgia; and, State University of New York College of Environmental
Science and Forestry.
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