2024 Award Winners

Scholarships and Professional Awards

The ASPRS Lifetime Achievement Award:
Dr. Charles Toth

ASPRS Photogrammetric Award (Fairchild):
Dr. Jason Stoker

Estes Memorial Teaching Award:
Dr. L. Monika Moskal

ASPRS Fellow Award:
Amar Nayegandhi
Becky Morton
Dr. Joseph Messina
Greg Stensaas

ASPRS Outstanding Service Award:
Azhar Ibrahim. Dr. Ayman Habib. Dr. Ajit Sampath, Bahram Salehi, Dr. Christopher E. Parrish, Claire Kiedrowski, Clay Smith, David Day, Dr. Srini Dharmapuri, Ethan Schreuder, Jim Gillis, John Erickson, Leo Z. Liu, Manya Waggoner, Matt Bethel, Michael Zoltek, Dr. Mohamed Mostafa, Dr. Nora Csanyi May, Dr. Qassim Abdullah, Dr. Riadh Munjy, Ravi Soneja, Harold Rempel, Thomas Prescott, Charles Mondello, Yuri Raizman, Oscar Duran, Colin Lee, Maurice Elliot, Jacob Lopez, Josh Nimetz, Martin Flood, Dr. Sagar Deshpande, Thom S Salter

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

Roger Hoffer Membership Award
Balaji Ramachandran
Karen Schuckman

ASPRS Presidential Citations:
Ben Wilkinson
Danielle Blanchard
Ken Meme
Yuki Day

Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship:
Hamdy Elsayed

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

Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship:
Mohammad Abdul Qadir Khan

William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship:
Jeng Hann Chong

Government Services Scholarship:
Kyle Steen

Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship:
Elias Fierro

The Kenneth J. Osborn Memorial Scholarship:
Oren Nardi

Ta Liang Memorial Award:
Sarah Esenther

Paul R. Wolf Memorial Scholarship:
David Abiola

The Esri Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS
1st Place: Linfeng Wu, Linfeng Wang, and Huiqing Wang for “A Lightweight Conditional Convolutional Neural Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification", PE&RS, 89(7): 413-423

2nd Place: Daiwei Zhang, Bo Xu, Han Hu, Qing Zhu, Qiang Wang, Xuming Ge, Min Chen, and Yan Zhou for “Spherical Hough Transform for Robust Line Detection Toward a 2D–3D Integrated Mobile Mapping System”. PE&RS, 89(5): 311-320

3rd Place: Yanis Marchand, Laurent Caraffa, Raphael Sulzer, Emmanuel Clédat, and Bruno Vallet for “Evaluating Surface Mesh Reconstruction Using Real Data”, PE&RS, 89(10): 625–638

John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers
1st Place: Yunus Kaya, Halil İbrahim Şenol, Abdurahman Yasin Yiğit, and Murat Yakar for “Car Detection from Very High-Resolution UAV Images Using Deep Learning Algorithms", PE&RS, 89(2): 117-123

2nd Place: Jiaxin Xu, Qiao Zhang, Yu Liu, and Mengting Zheng for “Small Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images Based on Window Self-Attention Mechanism", PE&RS, 89(8): 489-497

3rd Place: Yueming Sun, Jinlong Chen, XiaoHuang, and Hongsheng Zhangf for “Multi-Level Perceptual Network for Urban Building Extraction from High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images", PE&RS, 89(7): 427-434

Talbert Abrams Award
Not awarded this year