PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
September 2017
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ASPRS
NEWS
Editor-In-Chief
Alper Yilmaz, Ph.D.,
Associate Editors
Photogrammetry
Rongjun Qin, Ph.D.,
Michael Yang, Ph.D.,
Petra Helmholz, Ph.D.,
Bo Wu, Ph.D.,
Change Detection Remote Sensing
Clement Mallet, Ph.D.,
Remote Sensing
Abuduwasiti Wulamu, Ph.D.,
Remote Sensing—Vegetation
Jose M. Pena, Ph.D.,
Hyperspectral
Xin Huang, Ph.D.,
Remote Sensing/GIS—Agriculture
Prasad Thenkabail, Ph.D.,
Lidar/GIS/Photogrammetry
Ruisheng Wang, Ph.D.,
Remote Sensing/Pattern Analysis
Desheng Liu, Ph.D.,
GIS/Pattern Recognition/Mapping
Valérie Gouet-Brunet, Ph.D.,
Photogrammetry/Machine Learning
Yury Vizilter, Ph.D.,
Remote Sensing Change Assessment/
Risk Analysis/Image IProcessing/Ecology
Qunming Wang, Ph.D.,
Technical Editor
Michael S. Renslow ,
Highlight Article Editor
Jie Shan, Ph.D.,
Contributing Editors
Grids & Datums Column
Clifford J. Mugnier,
Book Reviews
Sagar Deshpande,
Mapping Matters Column
Qassim Abdullah,
Sector Insight
Amr Abd-Elrahman,
Project Management Column
Raquel Charrois,
Assistant Director — Publications
Rae Kelley,
Electronic Publications Manager/
Graphic Artist
Matthew Austin,
Circulation Manager
Priscilla Weeks,
Advertising Sales Representative
Bill Spilman,
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Lidar Standards and Guidelines Public Review Process |
New ASPRS Members
ASPRS MEMBERSHIP
ASPRS would like to welcome the following new members!
Alaska
Andy Dietrick
At Large
David Falls
Konrad Kern
Helen McCreary
Doost Ali Nawaz
Alberto Maala Pai
Elise White
Columbia River
Eli Cox
Mark Stevens
Derrick Westoby
Eastern Great Lakes
Maggie Bennett
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ASPRS MEMBERSHIP, VISIT
Your path to success in the geospatial community
Florida
Anna Christine Swanson
Heartland
Whit Lynn
Peter T. Wolter
Mid-South
Heather Hunnicutt
Cody Morgan Sullivan
North Atlantic
Jolynn Schmidt
Pacific Southwest
Mark Moreno
John Corbet Nunley
Adam Watts
Potomac
Debbie Chmara
Daniel Kozel
Hope S. Morgan, PLS
Darek Olsen
Jason Lee Smith
Puget Sound
Gary Proctor
Rocky Mountain
Teresa L. Barber
Western Great Lakes
Barry Browning
Nancy HF French
LIDAR STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES
PUBLIC REVIEW PROCESS
A
s part of its mission, ASPRS maintains a leadership
role in the development of guidelines, standards,
specifications, and calibration processes for those
sensors and activities of primary importance to
the membership by using established procedures
for developing, reviewing, modifying, approving
standards, and publishing them.
A USGS-ASPRS Work Group (WG), operating under the aegis of the ASPRS Lidar
Division and the Airborne Lidar Committee, has investigated various factors associated
with the geometric quality of lidar data. The WG has noted that while the quality of
lidar data have improved tremendously in the past few years, the QA/QC of these data
are not standardized, including the semantics, processes for measurement and reporting,
and meta data. Therefore, to ensure the geometric quality of that lidar data required
for scientific (statistical error propagation and estimation) and non-scientific purposes
(including legal), the WG has recommended several topics for research and development
in a Summary document. In addition, the WG created Guidelines on quantifying the
relative horizontal and vertical errors observed between conjugate features in the
overlapping regions of lidar data. The effort has been supported by the USGS National
Geospatial Program (NGP) and the Land Remote Sensing (LRS) program.
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