Scholarships and Professional Awards
The ASPRS Lifetime Achievement Award:
Roberta (Bobbi) Lenczowski
ASPRS Photogrammetric Award (Fairchild):
Alper Yilmaz
Estes Memorial Teaching Award:
Qiaofeng (Robin) Zhang
ASPRS Fellow Award:
Ayman Habib
Ben Wilkinson
ASPRS Outstanding Service Award:
Tommy Jordan, Lindi Quackenbush, Jie Shan, and Alper Yilmaz
Region Awards
Region of the Year: Florida Region
Region Community Page of the Year: Gulf South Region and Rocky Mountain Region
Roger Hoffer Membership Award – Honorable Mention
Youssef Kaddoura
ASPRS Presidential Citations:
Harold Rempel, John McCombs, and Dr. Mohamed Ahmed Tarabzouni
Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship:
David Abiola
John O. Behrens Institute for Land Information (ILI) Memorial Scholarship:
Alexander Zasso
Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship:
Aiyin Zhang
William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship:
Nitheshnirmal Sadhasivam
Government Services Scholarship:
Frances Yu
Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship:
Reece Toups
The Kenneth J. Osborn Memorial Scholarship:
Shane Santos
Ta Liang Memorial Award:
Afshin Shayeghi Moghanlou
Paul R. Wolf Memorial Scholarship:
Nithish Manikkavasagam
The Esri Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS
1st Place: Jung-kuan Liu, Rongjun Qin, and Samantha T. Arundel for “Assessing the Utility of Uncrewed Aerial System Photogrammetrically Derived Point Clouds for Land Cover Classification in the Alaska North Slope,” PE&RS, 90(7): 405-414.
2nd Place: Jingxian Dong, Fan Ming, Twaha Kabika, Jiayao Jiang, Siyuan Zhang, Aliaksandr Chervan, Zhukouskaya Natallia, and Wenguang Hou for “Terrain Complexity and Maximal Poisson-Disk Sampling-Based Digital Elevation Model Simplification,” PE&RS, 90(1): 13-20.
3rd Place: Itiya Aneece, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Richard McCormick, Haireti Alifu, Daniel Foley, Adam J. Oliphant, and Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla for “Machine Learning and New Generation Spaceborne Hyperspectral Data Advance Crop Type Mapping,” PE&RS, 90(11): 687-698.
John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers
1st Place: Jun-Fu Ye, Jaan-Rong Tsay, and Dieter Fritsch for “Wavelets for Self-Calibration of Aerial Metric Camera Systems,” PE&RS, 90(9): 575-587.
2nd Place: Long Chen, Bo Wu, Ran Duan, and Zeyu Chen for “Real Time Cross-View Image Matching and Camera Pose Determination for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” PE&RS, 90(6): 371-381.
3rd Place: John Dolloff, Henry Theiss, and Brian Bollin for “Assessment, Specification, and Validation of a Geolocation System’s Accuracy and Predicted Accuracy,” PE&RS, 90(3): 157-168.
Talbert Abrams Award
Grand Award: Hamid Gharibi and Ayman Habib for “Scan Angle Analysis of Airborne Lidar Data for Missing Return Approximation in
Urban Areas,” PE&RS, 90(3): 143-154.
First Honorable Mention:Jung-kuan Liu, Rongjun Qin, and Samantha T. Arundel for “Assessing the Utility of Uncrewed Aerial System
Photogrammetrically Derived Point Clouds for Land Cover Classification in the Alaska North Slope,” PE&RS, 90(7): 405-414.