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"