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PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
Chuck served as the ASPRS National Director from the Eastern
Great Lakes Region from 2002 until 2008. In 2005, Brain Hu-
berty recalls that Chuck came up with the brilliant idea to have
a joint interregional meeting on the Lake Michigan Car Ferry
between Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and Ludington, Michigan. The
Eastern Great Lakes Region members got on the ferry early in
the morning on August 19 and had their meeting going across to
Manitowoc, WI. Western Great Lakes members got on the ferry
around noon for a joint meeting in a small theater on the ferry
heading back to Ludington.
His service to ASPRS earned Chuck several Society awards,
including the 2011 Outstanding Workshop Instructor Award
for his excellent conference workshops on image understanding.
He received three Presidential Citations for Meritorious
Service and the Ford Bartlett Award. Chuck was honored as an
ASPRS Fellow in 1998, and in 2009, as an Honorary Member of
ASPRS, the highest award a member can receive in recognition
of distinguished lifetime service to ASPRS and advancing
the science and use of geospatial information sciences. Chuck
also began the ASPRS Oral History Project and completed 56
interviews, several of which were the basis for
Reflection of the
Past
series in
PE&RS
.
A gentleman and outgoing member, he made everyone feel wel-
come at ASPRS, always eager to talk about the finer points of
aerial photos. He leaves a long-lasting impact on each colleague
who has been fortunate to experience his wisdom, intelligence,
and practical knowledge. He will be remembered as a giant
on whose shoulders we all stand within the remote sensing
community.
Selected Publications by Charles Olson
Elements of Photographic Interpretation
Common to Several Sensors
C. E. Olson, Jr.
Photogrammetric Engineering
, 1960
Seasonal Trends in Light Reflectance from Tree Foliage
C. E. Olson, Jr.
International Archives of Photogrammetry
, 1963
Infrared Sensors and their
Potential Contributions to Forestry
C. E. Olson, Jr.
Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science,
Arts and Letters
, 1965
Accuracy of Land-use Interpretation from Infrared
Imagery in the to 5.5 Micron Band
C. E. Olson, Jr.
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
, 1967
Infrared Scanning Techniques for Big Game Censusing
G. W. Croon, D. R. McCullough,
C. E. Olson, Jr., and L. M. Queal
Journal of Wildlife Management
, 1968
Multispectral Sensing of Forest Stress
W. G. Rohde and C. E. Olson, Jr.
Photogrammetric Engineering
, 1972.
Assessing Spruce Budworm Damage with
Small-Format Aerial Photographs
J. McCarthy, C. E. Olson, Jr., and J. A. Witter.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research
, 1983.
Use of Geographic Information Systems
to Develop Habitat Suitability Models
M. L. Donovan, D. L. Rabe, and C. E. Olson, Jr.,
Wildlife Society Bulletin
, 1987
Minimizing Classification Errors Arising from Skewed
Distributions of Satellite-Observed Brightness Values
C.E. Olson, Jr.
In,
Proceedings of the ASPRS/ACSM
Global Change Symposium
, 1992
Is 80% Accuracy Good Enough?
C.E. Olson, Jr.
In,
Proceedings of the ASPRS SemiAnnual Meeting
, 2008
The Fallacy of Normality in Remotely Sensed Data
C.E. Olson, Jr.
In,
Proceedings of the ASPRS Annual Convention
, 2009
2005 Eastern Great
Lakes and Western
Great Lakes
Regions members
(EGLR-WGLR)
meeting on the Lake
Michigan Car Ferry
between Manitowoc,
Wisconsin,
and Ludington,
Michigan. Courtesy
of Brian Huberty,
Remote Sensing
Consultant,
SharedGEO.
Dr. Olson presenting
at the joint EGLR-
WGLR meeting in
June of 2009, at
Western Michigan
University, when
he gave one of
his talks on image
interpretation.
Courtesy of Colin
Brooks, Michigan
Technical University.
