2021 Award Winners

Scholarships and Outstanding Paper Awards

ASPRS Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award

Virginia T. Norwood

The Photogrammetric Fairchild Award

2021 Recipient: Henry John “Hank" Theiss

ASPRS Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA)

2021 Recipient: Steve Coast

ASPRS Fellow Award

2021 Recipients:
John McCombs
Alper Yilmaz
Ramesh Sivanpillai

ASPRS Outstanding Service Award

2021 Recipients:
Stuart Marsh
Karen Schuckman
Lorraine Amenda

Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship

2021 recipient: Oscar Duran

Abraham Anson Memorial Scholarship

2021 Recipient: Alberto Loera

John O. Behrens Institute for Land Information (ILI) Memorial Scholarship

2021 recipient: Matthew Jacobson

Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship

2021 recipient: Patrick Gray

William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship

2021 recipient: Michelle Bester

Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship

2021 recipient: Ashish Pandey

The Kenneth J. Osborn Memorial Scholarship

2021 Recipient: Kennan Ganz

Ta Liang Memorial Award

2021 Recipient: Anais Zimmer

Paul R. Wolf Memorial Scholarship

2021 Recipient: Innocensia Owuor

International Educational Literature Award (IELA)

2021 Recipient: The Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of South of Minas Gerais (Brazil)

John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers
2021 Recipients:

1st Place:

Lu, Xiaoyan; Zhong, Yanfei; Zheng, Zhuo; Zhao, Ji; Zhang, Liangpei, “Edge-Reinforced Convolutional Neural Network for Road Detection in Very-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery,” PE&RS 86 (3)

2nd Place:

Tonbul, Hasan; Kavzoglu, Taskin, “Semi-Automatic Building Extraction from WorldView-2 Imagery Using Taguchi Optimization,” PE&RS 86 (9)

3rd Place:

Wu, Jie; Mao, Junya; Chen, Song; Zhuoma, Gesang; Cheng, Liang; Zhang, Rongchun, “Building Facade Reconstruction Using Crowd- Sourced Photos and Two-Dimensional Maps,” PE&RS 86 (11)

The Esri Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS

2021 recipients:

1st Place:

Wu, Bo; Li, Fei; Hu, Han; Zhao, Yang; Wang, Yiran; Xiao, Peipei; Li, Yuan; Liu, Wai Chung; Chen, Long; Ge, Xuming; Yang, Mei; Xu, Yingqiao; Ye, Qing; Wu, Xueying; Zhang, He, “Topographic and Geomorphological Mapping and Analysis of the Chang'E-4 Landing Site on the Far Side of the Moon,” PE&RS 86 (4)

Talbert Abrams Award

2021 Recipients:

Grand Award:  Spring, Adam P, “A History of Laser Scanning, Part 1: Space and Defense Applications,” PE&RS 86 (7).

First Honorable Mention: Spring, Adam P, “A History of Laser Scanning, Part 2: The Later Phase of Industrial and Heritage Applications,” PE&RS 86 (8).

Second Honorable Mention:  Colkesen, Ismail; Ertekin, Omer Habib, “Performance Analysis of Advanced Decision Forest Algorithms in Hyperspectral Image Classification,” PE&RS 86 (9).


George E. Brown, Jr. Congressional Honor Award

2021 recipient: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN)


Region Awards:

Region of the Year:

1st Place: Pacific Southwest Region

2nd Place: Potomac Region

3rd Place: Rocky Mountain Region

Region Web Site and Newsletter of the Year:

1st Place: Rocky Mountain Region

2nd Place: Eastern Great Lakes Region

3rd Place: Potomac Region


Roger Hoffer Membership Award

2021 recipients:
Jonathan Li

2021 Honorable Mention:
Dewberry
Karen L. Schuckman

ASPRS Presidential Citations
2021 recipients:
Lindi Quackenbush
Peng Fu
Chris Lee, Steve Yool, and Mike Abrams
Youssef Kaddoura
Tommy Jordan