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University of Georgia. In 1981, he went to the University
of South Carolina as an Associate Professor and helped
develop the PhD program in GIScience. He has been an
ASPRS) Certified Photogrammetrist since 1991.
Dr. Jensen has made lasting contributions to the field
of remote sensing and GIScience in the geographical,
environmental, biophysical and urban sciences through
his research, publications, leadership, and undergrad-
uate and graduate teaching. He taught hundreds of
undergraduate students and mentored 62 Masters
and 35 PhD graduate students to completion in the
Department of Geography at the University of South
Carolina. In effect, he helped educate a generation of
remote-sensing scientists who are now making significant
contributions in academia, government and industry.
Dr. Jensen’s remote sensing and GIScience research
focused on: a) remote sensing of wetland biophysical
characteristics and water quality assessment; b) the de-
velopment of algorithms to classify rural and urban- sub-
urban land cover; c) the extraction of change information
using improved change detection algorithms, and d) the
development of remote sensing and GIS-assisted decision
support systems. He received funding from the National
Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), National
Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, Nation-
al Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
The Nature Conservancy, and other agencies to support
his research. He has published more than 140 articles
in refereed journals including 20 in the ASPRS journal,
Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing
and has
received numerous ASPRS best scientific and practical
paper awards. He and his graduate students presented
more than 300 papers to learned societies with many
published in proceedings volumes. He was the editor of
the journal
GIScience & Remote Sensing
from 2004 – 2013
and served on several other journal editorial boards.
He is well known as the author of two widely used
remote-sensing and digital image processing text-
books:
Remote Sensing of the Environment
(2nd Ed.;
2007) and
Introductory Digital Image Processing: A
Remote Sensing Perspective
(3rd Ed., 2005; 4th Ed.,
in press
), that ushered in a new era of remote sensing
education at numerous universities around the world.
In 2013, he co-authored
Introductory Geographic In-
formation Systems
with his son, Dr. Ryan Jensen.
He was a contributor to the ASPRS
Manual of Re-
mote Sensing
(1st Ed., 1975; 2nd Ed., 1983),
Digital
Photogrammetry
(1996);
Manual of Photographic In-
terpretation
(2nd Ed., 1997),
Manual of Remote Sens-
ing: Remote Sensing of Human Settlements
(3rd Ed.,
Vol. 5; 2005), and
Manual of Remote Sensing: Earth
Observing Platforms & Sensors
(3rd Ed., Vol. 1.1;
2009). He is a contributing author on ten (10) remote
sensing-related scientific reports published by the Na-
tional Research Council, National Academy Press.
Dr. Jensen was Chairman of the Remote Sensing
Specialty Group of the American Association of Ge-
ographers (AAG) in its formative years. He received
the ASPRS Alan Gordon Memorial Award in 1989. He
served as President of ASPRS from 1995 to 1996. He
received the ASPRS Autometric Award in 1996. Dr.
Jensen received the ASPRS “Fellow” honor in 1998 and
the “SAIC John E. Estes Memorial Teaching Award” in
2004. The United States Secretary of the Interior and
the Administrator of NASA honored Dr. Jensen with
the prestigious “William T. Pecora Award” in 2006, for
his lifetime accomplishments in remote sensing science.
He received the AAG “Lifetime Achievement Honor” for
his work in remote sensing and GIScience in 2009.
Dr. Stanley Morain
received his PhD
in Geography from the University of
Kansas (KU) in 1970 and was an Assis-
tant Professor there until 1974. From
1974 to 2008, he progressed from Asso-
ciate to Full Professor of Geography at
the University of New Mexico (UNM)
while also serving as Director of UNM’s
Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC)
from 1976 until his retirement in 2008.
For over 38 years, Dr. Morain carved a distinguished ca-
reer in remote sensing recognized locally, nationally, and
internationally. His contributions focused on educating his
students and developing professional ties to research com-
munities in many developing countries on the applications
of remote sensing in several societal benefit areas, but pri-
marily in agriculture, transportation, and public health. In
pursuit of his vision, he worked with many research teams
and governments in Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
Dr. Morain’s graduate research at KU centered on
applications of airborne side-looking K-band radar im-
agery for vegetation analysis and agriculture. In the
early 1970s, with the advent of Landsat, he was among
the first to use satellite imagery for crop and vegetation
analyses. In 1973, his interests were re-directed toward
developing countries wishing to adopt Landsat-1 technol-
ogy for natural resources management. Since 1973 Dr.
Morain has consulted on, or contracted to develop, over
30 training programs and applications projects with the
U.S. Geological Survey/Office of International Geology, the
United Nations/Food and Agriculture Organization (UN/
FAO), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP),
John R. Jensen and Stanley Morain Selected as
ASPRS Honorary Members
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