Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
The ASPRS 2011 Annual Conference Preliminary Program is now available for viewing online. The Annual Conference will be held May 1-5, at the Frontier Airlines Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With a conference theme of, “Ride on the Geospatial Revolution”, attendees will travel along the geospatial road for the next generation with an outstanding lineup of
Friday, January 7th, 2011
Alan R. Stevens and Jack Dangermond have been selected as the next Honorary Members of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). Their nominations were recently approved by the ASPRS Board of Directors. This is the highest award bestowed by ASPRS and there can be only 25 living Honorary Members of the Society
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
In early December the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) and the ASPRS Foundation received an individual donation with a value of $90,000 to endow a new Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. The Award will be administered through ASPRS and funded by the ASPRS Foundation. In accordance with the wishes of the donor, who
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Episode 1 of the Penn State Public Broadcasting’s (PSPB) four-part online video series, “The Geospatial Revolution Project,” is now available in its entirety or in shorter chapters at Penn State Public Broadcasting’s website, http://geospatialrevolution.psu.edu. The 13-minute episode, which is divided into four chapters, begins with an overview and moves into how GPS works. Following a
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Ms. Bauojuan Zheng is the Grand Prize Winner of the ASPRS Membership Nomination Campaign in a drawing held October 1. Zheng a student at Virginia Tech, was selected at random from all ASPRS members who recently nominated colleagues for a six-month complimentary membership in ASPRS. The prize is a complimentary conference registration, free roundtrip (domestic)
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Past President Roger Crystal was recently named ASPRS Membership Development Leader. This adjunct staff position was approved at the April 30, 2010 ASPRS Board Meeting in San Diego, California after the ASPRS Membership Committee determined that the ASPRS Regions could use additional help with their grassroots membership recruitment and retention efforts. Read More
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Foundation recently appointed Roger Crystal, the former Foundation Vice President, to assume the role of Foundation President in response to Thomas Lillesand’s desire to rotate out of that position after six years of service. Dr. Lillesand will continue serving the Foundation as a Trustee. Dr. Cliff
Friday, May 21st, 2010
The Photogrammetric Award (Fairchild) was awarded to Qassim Abdullah, PhD at the 2010 Annual ASPRS Conference in San Diego in April. This award, the essence of which is practicability, is designed to stimulate the development of the art of aerial photogrammetry in the United States. The selection committee makes its choice based on an outstanding
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) 2010Annual Conference was held April 26-30 at the Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center in San Diego, California with many and varied conference activities and an attendance of nearly 1,300. This year’s conference theme of Opportunities for Emerging Geospatial Technologies was carried throughout and particularly
