Division Activity Summary
This table describes the current projects of each ASPRS Division. The Division Directors developed it in 2010 in order to track and avoid duplication of efforts between Divisions working on product standards, such as ASPRS Accuracy Standards for Large Scale Mapping and Lidar Best Practices. Division Directors and members can also use it to see who is leading which projects and project status, i.e. preliminary discussions, work group formed, document published, etc. It will generally be updated twice yearly, after the Spring and Fall National ASPRS conferences.
[last update 03-23-12]
| Title/ Description |
Division/ Subcommittee Lead |
Participating Divisions/ Subcommittees |
Chair/POC | Scope/ Purpose | Status/ Comments |
| Best practices for collecting and processing airborne Lidar for topographic products | Lidar | PAD | Karl Heidemann, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Use the USGS specification 13 as a foundation for an ASPRS best practices guide for Lidar collection for topographic products | In planning stages, pending completion of related documents |
| LAS 1.4 | Lidar | PAD | Lewis Graham, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Maintain relevance for industry needs | Approved Fall 2011 |
| Best Practices for Geometetric Accuracy of LiDAR | Lidar | PDAD | Greg Stensaas This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Lidar Best Practices for Calibration and Accuracy | Will be part of Lidar Best Practices |
| Unbiased measurement verification | Lidar | Lidar | Ty Naus, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Exploratory work, initial draft still needs to go through LiDAR committee | |
| Mobile mapping, calibration | Lidar | Lidar | Craig Glennie, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | In progress, will be part of LiDAR Best Practices | |
| Mobile mapping, geometric correction | Lidar | Lidar | Craig Glennie, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | In progress, will be part of LiDAR Best Practices | |
| Mobile mapping, - Data Levels | Lidar | Lidar | Craig Glennie, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | In progress, will be part of LiDAR Best Practices | |
| ASPRS Accuracy Standards for Large Scale Mapping | PAD | PDAD | Doug Smith, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. '; document.write(''); document.write(addy_text71016); document.write('<\/a>'); //-->\n This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Update for new technologies; | Draft will be provided by Fall 2012 |
| Image Quality | PDAD/USGS | PDAD | Greg Stensaas This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Digital tool being developed and will create a web tool to address image quality. | |
| In Situ Calibration Ad Hoc Committee | PDAD | PDAD | Dean Merchant, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Draft document has been created and is now under review. | |
| Oblique Imagery Specification | PDAD | PDAD | Charles Mondello, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Define specifications for metrics associated with oblique image capture, viewing and mensuration. | Plan is being developed and will be available in approx one month. |
| Datum guidelines | GISD | PDAD | David Alvarez, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Provide guidelines to help end users sort out and correctly apply myriad of different datums and revisions | Committee will be formed. |
| Commercial Products Procurement Guide | PPD | PPD | Charles Mondello, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Define and outline guidelines for procurement of commercial products; companion document to professional services procurement guidelines | Under public review, moving toward Fall 2012 board approval. |
| Procurement Guideline Umbrella and consolidation of the Procurement Guidelines for Products and Services | PPD | PPD | Becky Morton, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Follows on the heels of the Products Procurement Guide | Working group formed. |
| Wikipedia content | PPD | PPD | Brian Murphy, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Have ASPRS members add terms to and write definitions in Wikipedia, links to ASPRS as citation | Pending Glossary update |
| High Data Volume Management | RSAD | GISD | Joe Knight, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Best Practices for managing large datasets | Moved to next year. |
| Climate Change Committee | RSAD | PDAD | John McCombs, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Best Practices for Modelling Climate Change w/Remote Sensing Data | Committee is formed and working on a plan. |
| Student Involvement in RSAD | RSAD | GISD | David Szymanski, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Involve students in maintenance of Sensor Database for ASPRS, in exchange for college credit | Forming working group |
| Run ASPRS booths at conferences for CAGIS, ESRI conferences | GISD | GISD | David Alvarez, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Increase ASPRS visibility in the GIS community | Creating a group of volunteers to staff the booths at the difference conferences. |
| LAS Validation Software | Lidar | Lidar | Lewis Graham, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Proposal submitted to board. |
