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2026 Award Winners

Scholarships and Professional Awards

The ASPRS Lifetime Achievement Award:
Not Awarded

ASPRS Photogrammetric Award (Fairchild):
Dr. Mohamed Mostafa, Trimble Applanix

Estes Memorial Teaching Award:
Dr. Ramesh Sivanpillai, University of Wyoming

ASPRS Fellow Award:
Demetrio Zourarakis, Consultant
Srinivasan Dharmapuri, Sanborn

ASPRS Outstanding Service Award:
David Day - ASPRS Website
Evon Silvia - LAS Format Standard
Matt Bethel - Lidar Density Guidelines

Region Awards
Region of the Year:
 Pacific Southwest Region
Region Community Page of the Year: Gulf South Region

Roger Hoffer Membership Award – Honorable Mention
Briar Pierce
Xiaojun Yang

ASPRS Presidential Citations:
Claire Kiedrowski, Demetrio Zourarakis, John McCombs, Jordan Hicks, Rongjun Qin, Stephanie Dockstader, Sagar Deshpande, Michael Joos

Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship:
Aser Eissa

James M. Anderson Memorial Scholarship:
Albany Zavarce

Abraham Anson Memorial Scholarship:
Christopher O'Neill

John O. Behrens Institute for Land Information (ILI) Memorial Scholarship:
Victoria Sandoval Rios

Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship:
Chintan Birnal Maniyar

William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship:
Jose Pilartes-Congo

Government Services Scholarship:
Adam Oliphant

Lyman J. Ladner Memorial Scholarship:
Debao Huang

Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship:
Pablo Barboza

The Kenneth J. Osborn Memorial Scholarship:
Reece Toups

Ta Liang Memorial Award:
My Thu Tran

Paul R. Wolf Memorial Scholarship:
Sang-Yeop Shin

The Esri Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS

1st Place: Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla et al., for “Landsat-Derived Rainfed and Irrigated-Area Product for Conterminous United States for the Year 2020 (LRIP30 CONUS 2020)"

2nd Place: Philipp Schuegraf et al., for “SAT2BUILDING: LoD-2 Building Reconstruction from Satellite Imagery using Spatial Embeddings"

3rd Place: Adam Kostrzewa for “Convolutional Neural Networks for Land Use and Land Cover Multiclass Maps from Historical Aerial Photographs"

John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers

1st Place: Aparajithan Sampath, Jeffrey R. Irwin, and Jason M. Stoker for “Evaluating 3DEP Lidar Consistency and Accuracy at Scale Using Cloud-Native, Open-Source Methods"

2nd Place: Jiageng Zhong et al., for “A High-Quality Underwater 3D Reconstruction Solution for Coral Reef Environments Leveraging Advanced Photogrammetric Computer Vision Techniques"

3rd Place: Changyong Cao et al., for “Combined Use of Satellite Observations and the RIM for Assessing Recovery from Natural Disaster"

Talbert Abrams Award

1st Place: Haochen Zhou et al. for "A Comparative Study of Deep Learning Methods for Automated Road Network Extraction from High Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery"

2nd Place:: Rongjun Qin, Guixiang Zhang, and Yang Tangung-Kuan Liu for "On the Transferability of Semantic Segmentation for Very High Resolution Remote Sensing Data of Multi-City Environments"

3rd Place: Peng Yan et al. for "MRTD-based Effective Range Analysis of Airborne Infrared Imaging Systems for Ship Detection: Optimization of the Calculation for Operational Range through an Improved MRTD Model"

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