MAPPS will announce the winners of the 5th Annual Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards competition on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 7:00 PM at the Hilton Washington Dulles Airport Hotel, Herndon, VA. The awards ceremony is sponsored by T3 Global Strategies. The awards ceremony is a part of the MAPPS Fall Policy Conference and in conjunction with the ASPRS Pecora Symposium. The MAPPS awards competition recognizes the professionalism, value, integrity and achievement that member firms have demonstrated in their projects and technology developments over the previous year.
The Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards program has seven categories: airborne and satellite data acquisition; photogrammetry/elevation data generation; remote sensing; GIS/IT; surveying/field data collection; small projects; and technology innovation. A Grand Award winner will be selected from the seven category winners to represent the MAPPS Project of the Year.
A panel of five independent judges have evaluated the projects. The panel of judges included Chairman Robert Burtch, Professor in Surveying Engineering Program at Ferris State University,; Donn Dears, President of TSAugust; Christine “Kristi” Grahl, Editor of P.O.B. magazine; Lenord Gilroy, Director of Government Reform at Reason Foundation; and Thomas Palmerlee, Associate Director, Technical Activities Division at the Transportation Research Board (TRB). Read More
