PE&RS October 2000
VOLUME 66, NUMBER 10PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
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ASPRS would like to welcome our new members!
At Large Central Florida Mid-South North Atlantic New England Potomac Puget Sound Saint Louis Southwest Western Great Lakes Grand Total: 26 |
New Membership Category
Are you no longer eligible for a Student Membership but not quite ready for full membership status? Become an Associate today! The ASPRS Board of Directors recently passed a new bylaw that created the Associate Member category. ASPRS is pleased to offer this new membership opportunity. Our goal is to provide a way to better help you remain involved with our Society. For more information on how to become an Associate Member, please contact the membership department at membership@asprs.org. Reminder Is your membership up for renewal? Don’t let your membership lapse and miss out on any Society News or your issues of PE&RS. To check your membership status; please visit the website at www.eserv.asprs.org and watch your email/mail for renewal notices! Conference Info FALL 2000 Conference makes its debut in New England! The meeting is co-sponsored by ASPRS and ACSM as well as several state societies. For more information or to register, visit the conference website at http://www.asprs.org/providence. Save the Dates! Mark your calendars and plan to attend the ASPRS 2001 Annual Conference: Gateway to the New Millennium, April 23-27, St. Louis, Missouri – the city of the super bowl champs! This conference is guaranteed to have what you’re looking for. Obtain cutting edge information that impacts your profession, interact with industry colleges, explore the exhibit hall; get hands-on experience on new software applications. For more information please visit the conference website at http://www.asprs.org/stl01 New revised Bylaws available from ASPRS. The ASPRS Board of Directors passed the revised Bylaws at their May Board Meeting. The complete Bylaws are posted on our website at www.asprs.asprs.org under Society Information. |
USA Selected as ISPRS Commission I Host, Dr. Stanley A. Morain, President for 2000-2004!
ASPRS is pleased to announce that the USA was selected to host Commission I (Platforms, Sensors and Imagery) for the period 2000-2004 with Dr. Stanley A. Morain as president and Amelia Budge as executive secretary. The USA was up against Germany in the voting that took place during a General Assembly of the XIXth Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) in Amsterdam, July 17-23.
As the recognized leader in launching the first civilian satellites and the first commercial, high-resolution satellite for Earth observations, the USA is in a very strong position to continue the work of Commission I. The first decade of the new millennium will bring profound changes in civilian and commercial satellite and airborne sensing systems; and through further development and Commission I efforts, these systems will provide new opportunities and technology challenges for image users worldwide.
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President Alan Mikuni, head of the USA delegation to the ISPRS Congress
was pleased with the outcome of the Commission I election. “ASPRS developed
a strong Commission I platform and offered a very credible candidate
in the person of Stan Morain. It became apparent as the USA delegation
lobbied other nations for their vote on this issue, that we had clear
support from the majority of voting delegates. The USA won the vote
by a wide margin.”
Morain is an internationally renowned remote sensing educator and scientist with more than 35 years of experience in image analysis for natural resources. Currently, he is director of the Earth Data Analysis Center at the University of New Mexico. He as also served as the chairman of Geography at UNM. Morain has assisted in program design, implementation, and evaluation in many countries, including Asia, Africa, and Central America; usually in the role of project team leader, chief-of-party, or chief technical advisor. Morain has been active in ASPRS for many years. He is a past president of ASPRS, and on behalf of our Society served as host for the XVIIth ISPRS Congress in 1992. Since 1996 he has served ASPRS as editor-in-chief of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, ASPRS’s monthly journal.
Since his election, Morain has begun working with interested delegates and other international leaders to organize Working Groups to advance the resolutions approved at the ISPRS Congress. The Working Groups identified will address topics in sensor calibration and validation, advanced commercial and government digital imaging systems, accessing and archiving data, advanced data operations, parameter standardization and calibration. One of the Working Groups will develop a digital directory of international platforms and sensors. In addition, Morain will assist in planning the Commission’s mid-Congress Symposium in conjunction with an ASPRS “Specialty Conference, ” which will be held in Fall 2002.
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