FINAL PROGRAM

www.asprs.org/portland08 Table of Contents Dear Colleagues,

Letter from the Chairs ...... 3 We are pleased to welcome you to the 2008 ASPRS Annual Confer- Welcome to Portland ...... 4 ence on behalf of the Conference Planning Committee and the Sponsors ...... 4 Columbia River Region. It was ten years ago that the meeting in Frequently Asked Questions ...... 5 Portland ushered in a new era for the Society, and we are thrilled to Awards Program ...... 7 have you all back again! We have assembled an exciting program Session Categories ...... 21 of workshops, technical sessions, “Hot Topics,” social events, and My Day-at-a-Glance networking opportunities for you to take advantage of. We are Sunday ...... 22 especially pleased to present the “GIS in Action” track on Thursday, Monday ...... 22 which incorporates this year’s annual regional meeting presented by Tuesday ...... 26 the Oregon and Southwest Washington chapter of URISA and the Wednesday ...... 31 Columbia River Region of the ASPRS. Thursday ...... 42 Roger Crystal Friday ...... 54 Be sure to attend the General Session on Wednesday to get a Conference Chairman glimpse into the state of the geospatial industries future as presented Pre-conference Program by five key representatives from the core disciplines of our industry. Sunday ...... 22 On Thursday, Jim Plasker will present the current state of our Monday ...... 23 society and review the last decade of change, as well as welcome Tuesday ...... 27 Kass Green, the incoming President. We urge you to take advantage Conference Program of the networking opportunities to get reacquainted with old friends Wednesday ...... 33 and colleagues and to take the time to make new acquaintances. Thursday ...... 44 Plan on visiting the Exhibit Hall and attending the exhibitors’ social Friday ...... 55 on Wednesday evening. The Technical Program Committee has Opening/General/Poster/Other Sessions worked tirelessly to develop a strong program this year covering a Opening Session ...... 32 wide range of topics in order to keep pace with the rapidly changing Poster Sessions ...... 35-36, 47 geospatial environment. Hot Topics ...... 36 Chris Aldridge On Tuesday evening the Columbia River Region invites you to General Session ...... 43 Conference Vice-chairman GIS in Action ...... 44 join us for the “Party in the Park” welcome event, just a short walk Commercial Training & Products ...... 48 from the Lloyd Center Doubletree and most of the other hotels. On Wednesday, join us in the Exhibit Hall for the exhibitors’ social, and on Thursday we are pleased Pre-conference Events to invite you to World Forestry Center for a picnic social that we are sure you will remember. Workshops ...... 23-25, 27-30 User Groups ...... 24-25, 28, 30 In closing, we would like to express our special thanks to the members of the 2008 Technical ASPRS Committee & Program Committee led by Geoffrey Duh, Nancy Tubbs, and Michael Wing, who preformed the Board of Directors Meetings ... 22, 29, 55 heavy lifting for this year’s conference. We would also like to thank all of our sponsors, student volunteers, presenters, and headquarters staff, without who’s invaluable contributions this confer- Social Events ...... 59 ence would not be possible. Speed Networking ...... 30 19th Annual Awards Luncheon and Finally, thank you, members and soon to be members, for joining us in Portland for ASPRS 74th Installation of Officers ...... 37 2008, Bridging the Horizons: New Frontiers in Geospatial Collaboration. Exhibit Hall Guided Tour ...... 39 Exhibitors’ Reception ...... 41 Roger Crystal Chris Aldridge Past Presidents Breakfast ...... 43 Memorial Address and Awards ...... 49 An Evening at the Conference Chair Conference Vice-Chair World Forestry Center ...... 53 ASPRS Past President ASPRS CRR National Director Breakfast with the Exhibitors ...... 55 Exhibit Information The COLUMBIA RIVER REGION, ASPRS Exhibit Hall Floor Plan ...... 60 Exhibitors ...... 61 Welcomes All Conference Attendees to Portland Exhibitor Directory ...... 62-70 Please Join us For a Presenter Index ...... 71 ASPRS Officers, 2008 Conference Committee “Party in the Park!” and Staff ...... 72 Convention Center Floor Plan ...... 73 Tuesday, April 29th 5:30 to 8:30 pm

The “Party in the Park” will be held in Courtyard Park on April 29, 2008 at 5:30 to 8:30 PM. The park is located less than a block southwest of the Lloyd Center Double Tree Hotel and conveniently at the NE 7th Avenue MAX stop, for those coming from other hotels. Come and take advantage of this opportunity to enjoy some food, drink, and reacquaint yourself with old friends.

April 28 - May 2, 2008  Portland, Oregon 3 Welcome to Portland!

It is wonderful to have you here in Portland as we gather for another ASPRS Annual Conference. As our hosts, the Columbia River Region has done a great job of pulling together a multi-faceted program that I am sure you will enjoy. It is also hard to believe that my term as President is at an end. I have traveled a lot this past year, representing ASPRS at various meetings both in the U.S. and abroad, and talked with many ASPRS members and others who are very interested in ASPRS programs. From the ASPRS Central New York Regional and SUNY College of Environmen- tal Science and Forestry New York State Remote Sensing Conference held at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo last June to the ASPRS Alaska Region-ASCM-ASPLS-URISA Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference this past week in Anchor- age, I have thoroughly enjoyed meeting the practitioners, researchers and students of our profession. The first cohort of Community College faculty participating in the Integrated Geospatial Education Technology and Training (iGETT) project funded by the National Science Foundation gave me a warm welcome in Corpus Christi, Texas last summer and 18 accepted our invitation to join ASPRS. The highlight of the year, of course, was learning how to curl at the October Fall Specialty Conference in Ottawa and discovering the world of stones, brooms, sweeps, tee lines, hog lines, hacks and skips on ice. The Manual of GIS has also been keeping me quite busy! Working with ASPRS staff, the book is nearing completion and is scheduled for publi- cation this year. A special thanks goes out to all of the authors of the 62 chapters for their efforts and contributions. ASPRS continues to promote membership recruitment and retention through its regions at the grass roots level. I am proud to say that the Student Advisory Council (SAC), initiated when I became Vice President, has grown and more students have become involved in the Society and its activi- ties. SAC has motivated many students to initiate Student Chapters at their schools, including one at my own university – the University of Georgia. The new student blog, Signatures, established for online student news and communication (http://asprssignature.blogspot.com/) is run by the students, for the students, which has also added value to our student members. A Student Assistantship Program was successfully launched at the Ottawa Fall Conference and student-focused events such as Speed Networking, Guided Tours of the Exhibits and SAC special sessions on Manuscript Submission and Scholarships/Grants are now a part of our Annual Conferences. As a result, student membership in ASPRS increased 10% in 2007! It is the Society’s constant involvement in educational and professional issues that keeps ASPRS relevant to its members and valuable to the profession. I look forward to remaining active within ASPRS as I run for the position of Chair of ISPRS Commission IV this summer at the ISPRS Congress in Beijing, China. Enjoy the conference this week.

Marguerite Madden

ASPRS President

Sponsors

BAE Systems ASPRS Platinum Medallion Partner ITT Visual Information Solutions ASPRS Gold Medallion Partner ESRI Exhibit Hall Reception ASPRS Platinum Medallion Partner

DiMac Systems Gold Sponsor — Exhibit Hall Reception Virtual Geomatics Gold Sponsor — Exhibit Hall Reception Leica Geosystems Gold Sponsor — Exhibit Hall Reception

Student Assistantship Program Sponsors: Intermountain Region Eastern Great Lakes Region Cardinal Systems Puget Sound Region Southwest U.S. Region Bronze Sponsor — Lanyards New England Region Marguerite Madden 4 www.asprs.org/portland08 Frequently Asked Questions

Where is the ASPRS 2008 Annual Conference Registration Desk? Do Presenters have a Preparation Room? The ASPRS Conference Registration Desk is located in the Oregon Conven- Yes. The ASPRS Presenters Room is in the Oregon Convention Center tion Center. Room A101 It is available from 8 am to 5 pm Monday April 28 through Thursday, May 1 and from 8 am to 10 am on Friday, May 2. This room is What are the Conference Registration Desk Hours? available on a first come basis and is equipped with an LCD projector and Sunday, April 27 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm screen. We encourage all Presenters to preview their materials prior to their Monday, April 28 6:30 am to 5:00 pm presentation. Tuesday, April 29 6:30 am to 5:00 pm Wednesday, April 30 6:30 am to 5:45 pm Is there a Press Room? Thursday, May 1 7:00 am to 5:00 pm Yes, members of the press may use Room A 108 in the Oregon Convention Friday, May 2 7:00 am to 11:00 am Center. It is available from 8 am to 5 pm Wednesday, April 30 and Thursday Note: Registration materials are available during the above hours only. May 1. All attendees are encouraged to place applicable press releases in this room for distribution to the press. Press conferences and interviews What are the Exhibit Hall Hours? with ASPRS officers and general session speakers may be arranged, time Wednesday, April 30 10:00 am to 7:00 pm permitting. Please contact Anna Marie Kinerney, ASPRS Meetings Manager Exhibitors’ Reception 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm through the Conference Registration Desk for details. Thursday, May 1 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Friday, May 2 8:30 am to 1:00 pm Does ASPRS have a staff office on-site in the Oregon Convention Center? Exhibitors’ Continental Breakfast 8:30 am to 9:00 am Yes, the Staff Office is located in Room A109 of the Convention Center.

Are Workshops included with the conference registration fees? Why do I need a badge? No. Workshops require a separate registration. Availability is based on space. You paid your registration fee and your badge is proof of it. For entrance to the general and technical sessions, Exhibit Hall, and social event, you need Is there a charge for the User Group Meetings? to wear your name badge. No, the user group meetings are free of charge, however some require ad- vanced reservations. Please see pages 24-25 and 30 of this program for details. What if I forget or lose my badge? A charge of $5 will be made for replacement of lost badges. Are Daily Registrations permitted for all categories, e.g., presenters, students? Yes. Daily registrations may be done on-site. Why do I need tickets for certain events? Your tickets are proof of payment for certain events and must be presented What does the Daily Registration include? at the collection point. Lost tickets will not be replaced. Daily Registrations include select day’s general and technical sessions, ex- hibits and proceedings. Social function tickets for the same day as the Daily How do I get into the Exhibit Hall if I am not registered for the conference? Registration may be purchased for an additional charge on a space available Daily Exhibit Hall badges may be purchased at the ASPRS Registration basis. Desk in the Oregon Convention Center. Everyone entering the Exhibit Hall must have a name badge. Children under 12 years of age are not permitted May I bring a Guest to the conference? in the Exhibit Hall at any time due to safety and insurance regulations. Yes, guests are always welcome. A separate registration fee has been set for all guests. This fee includes the admission to the Exhibit Hall, the Exhibitors’ Will it be possible to post resumes and job openings? Reception, and the Evening at the World Forestry Center and the Exhibitors’ Yes, boards will be provided in the Exhibit Hall for posting all resumes and Continental Breakfast. Admission to the general and technical sessions is not job openings. included with this registration. If guests wish to attend any of these sessions, Please bring multiple copies and check the board frequently for updates. they must register at the appropriate rate. Children are not permitted to attend the workshops, general or technical sessions. Children under 12 years of age How do I get additional copies of the CD-ROM Proceedings? are not permitted in the Exhibit Hall. Those over 12 years of age must have All Full Registrants will receive a copy on-site with their registration materi- paid the appropriate fee. Children of all ages are welcome to attend the Eve- als. Additional copies may be purchased for $20 at the ASPRS Registration ning at the World Forestry Center but must register in advance, have a ticket Desk or at the ASPRS Bookstore Booth in the Exhibit Hall. and pay the required fee. Is there a Lost and Found? Is there an additional charge for the Social Events? Please contact the Oregon Convention Center Security for all lost and found If you are registered as Full, Presenter Full, or Spouse/Guest, all social items. events are included in the registration. All student and daily registrants, Exhibit Booth Staff (only), unregistered guests, and children must purchase How do I contact another Conference attendee? tickets if they wish to attend the Evening at the World Forestry Center. The A message board is located in the ASPRS Registration Area for posting ticket cost is $65. The ticket cost for children under 12 is $20 each. All messages. children over 12 must have a full price ticket. All tickets must be purchased in advance no later than 2:00 pm on Wednesday, April 30. No tickets will be How can someone from outside the hotel contact me? sold at the World Forestry Center. Messages cannot be delivered to attendees due to the varied schedules of ev- eryone in attendance. The ASPRS staff office in the Convention Center can Where should Student Assistants and Volunteers Report? be contacted in case of an extreme emergency and a message will be posted All Conference Volunteers should report to the Volunteer Coordinators in on the message board in the Registration Area. However, the staff office is the ASPRS Staff Office Room A109 in the Oregon Convention Center when not manned at all times during the conference. Cell phone numbers should they arrive to coordinate their work assignments. be made available to anyone needing to contact a conference attendee.

Do Presenters need to check in beyond picking up their registration materials? How do I get help in an Emergency? Yes, all Presenters are asked to check in at the Presenters Room in the Contact an ASPRS staff person or Convention Center Security personnel Oregon Convention Center Room A101 and place their initials with either a explaining the emergency and your location. A first-aid station in the Con- cell phone number or hotel room number beside their name in the program vention Center will be staffed during Exhibit Hall hours. that will be available. This will confirm to the moderator of that session that the Presenter is ready to give their presentation.

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Awards and Scholarships Awards for Outstanding Papers, Professional Achievement, Service and Region activities are determined by committee selection; scholarships and academic awards are also determined by committee selection but are chosen from among current applications. For details on the application process, visit www.asprs.org/membership/scholar.html.

Keynote Session, Wednesday, April 30th Chair, and has served on many other committees. He was elected as a Honorary Member Award Fellow in ASPRS and has received numerous awards from ASPRS, the SAIC Estes Memorial Teaching Award Society of American Foresters, NASA and others. These include (from Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship ASPRS) the 1978 Alan Gordon Memorial Award, the Birdseye Award, Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship Outstanding Service Award, Ford Bartlett Award (12 times), Presidential Citation for Meritorious Service (5 times), the Rocky Mountain Region 2007 Career Achievement Award, and in 2003 was the first recipient of the SAIC Estes Memorial Teaching Award. ASPRS Honorary Member Dr. Hoffer was selected as the Best Teacher in the Forestry Depart- ment at Purdue University in 1979. In 1986, he was one of six candi- 2008 Recipient: Roger M. Hoffer dates selected by NASA for an Astronaut Payload Specialist position Roger M. Hoffer is a Professor Emeritus of Forestry and Remote Sens- on a Shuttle Spacecraft mission. Dr. Hoffer has also been recognized by ing, Colorado State University. He grew up in Michigan and received Colorado State University with the 1994 Distinguished Faculty Award, his B.S. in Forestry (with High Honors) from Michigan State Univer- as the 1997-1998 Honor Alumnus of the College of Natural Resources, sity, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Watershed Management from the Troxell Award for Outstanding Service to Undergraduate Students Colorado State University. Following two years as an officer in the U.S. (twice), the C.S.U. Jack E. Cermak Outstanding Advisor Award, the Army (serving in Georgia, Korea and California), in 1964 Dr. Hoffer 1996 Xi Sigma Pi Outstanding Faculty Award, and others. went to Purdue University, where he was a co-founder and Program Dr. Hoffer retired in 2002 after 38 years as a teacher, researcher, Leader of the internationally recognized Laboratory for Applications of and advisor. He and Connie, his wife of 49 ½ years, are now busy with Remote Sensing. Along with his research activities at LARS, Dr. Hoffer various church activities, volunteering with the Red Cross, camping and taught several courses in photo interpretation and remote sensing in the fishing, nature photography, and most importantly, enjoying time with Forestry Department at Purdue. In 1988 he moved back to Colorado, their nine grandchildren. They also enjoy traveling whenever possible. where he continued his remote sensing research and teaching in the The purpose of the Honorary Member Award is to recognize an in- Department of Forest Sciences, Colorado State University. Through- dividual who has rendered distinguished service to ASPRS and/or who out his career, his research has focused on the spectral characteristics has attained distinction in advancing the science and use of the mapping of earth surface features, and on the interpretation and analysis of sciences. It is awarded for professional excellence and for service to satellite multispectral scanner data, synthetic aperture radar data and ASPRS and consists of a plaque and a certificate. color infrared photography, with particular emphasis on forestry and The total number of honorary Members may not exceed twenty-five land use applications. He has been a Principal Investigator of ERTS-1 at any given time, and no more than two will be elected in one year (i.e., Landsat-1), Skylab, Landsat-2, X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar, Simulated Thematic Mapper, and Shuttle Imaging Radar-B (SIR-B) ASPRS Honorary Members research contracts from NASA, as well as numerous other contracts and Friedrich E. Ackermann Rex R. McHail grants involving computer-aided analysis of remote sensor data for earth James M. Anderson Dean C. Merchant resource applications. He had the privilege of analyzing the very first Robert H. Brock, Jr. Edward Mikhail Landsat-1 data set. He is the author or co-author of over 300 papers and James B. Case Roy R. Mullen publications. He served as the Major Professor for 70 M.S. and Ph.D. Roger R. “Sky” Chamard A.O. Quinn graduate students. Clifford J. Crandall William A. Radlinski Dr. Hoffer has been invited to present papers (many as keynote or Frederick O. Diercks Revere G. Sanders plenary session papers) at International Congresses in Austria, Austra- Frederick J. Doyle, Sr. Morris M. Thompson lia, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Hungary, Lawrence W. Fritz Harry Tubis Japan, Norway and the U.S. Other papers and lectures on remote sens- John J. Graham Marshall S. Wright, Jr. ing have been given, by invitation, in various countries throughout the William G. Hemple George J. Zarzycki world, including Afghanistan, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, England, France, Edmond S. Massie, Jr. Italy, Japan, Mexico, The Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Taiwan, Thai- land and the U.S. He has been asked to serve as a consultant to several national and international agencies, including the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, U.S. Geological Survey, the Agency for International Development, and others. He has served on many NASA panels involving the design characteristics of future satellite systems, such as the Thematic Mapper, EOS, etc., and on review panels evaluating NASA’s earth resource applications programs. Dr. Hoffer served as the 1989 - 1990 President of the American Soci- ety for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and has served ASPRS in many other capacities at both the regional and national levels. He was a Regional President, Director of the Remote Sensing Applications Divi- sion, Co-chair of the Technical Program Committee for the National Convention in 1992 and again in 2004, the Membership Committee

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SAIC Estes Memorial Teaching Award Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship

2008 Recipient: Dr. Sam Goward 2008 Recipient: Jonathan B. Thayn In recognition of his exemplary contributions, ASPRS recognizes Dr. Jonathan B. Thayn is a doctoral candidate in Geography and Remote Samuel N. Goward as the 2008 recipient of the SAIC Estes Memorial Sensing at the University of Kansas. His current and long-term research Teaching Award. goals are to develop practical models and remote sensing-based applica- Dr. Goward is a respected Professor of Geography at the University tions that improve land management practices and can be used by ecolo- of Maryland-College Park. His research on biophysical and bioclima- gists and land managers. Such models are necessary as climatic change tological applications of remote sensing has had significant impacts on accelerates and affects even larger portions of the globe. These goals are our improved understanding of the state and dynamics of land condi- consistent with the emphasis on practical applications of remote sens- tions. After earning a PhD in Geography from the University of Indiana ing to natural resources that characterized the career of Dr. Colwell, in in 1979, Professor Goward worked in the Geography Department at whose memory this Fellowship is awarded. Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Stud- Thayn’s dissertation research is directed at identifying fertile soils ies in New York where he was involved in the Agriculture and Re- of the Amazon Basin called Amazonian Dark Earths that are vestiges sources Inventory Surveys Through Aerospace (AgRISTARS) program. of ancient habitation sites. This work uses MODIS time-series datasets This program was responsible for some of the trail blazing research and harmonic wave analysis to characterize vegetation phenology as about using satellite imagery to monitor crop conditions and produc- a surrogate for the underlying soil types. He is also employing a new tion. In 1982, he moved to the Geography Department at the University index for monitoring water stress in vegetation. After earning his degree of Maryland where he developed a land remote sensing program that in spring, 2009, Thayn plans to continue his research and teaching in a linked the University and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). university setting. He has published extensively in professional journals and books and Thayn is also collaborating with Brazilian colleagues to use harmonic serves on a variety of advisory panels including serving as associate wave methodology on other projects, including mapping the seasonal editor for Remote Sensing of the Environment. Because of his efforts, floodplains in the state of Amazonas using multi-year time-series the University of Maryland’s Geography Department is an international analysis and sub-pixel analysis; monitoring pasture quality with satellite leader in land remote sensing. imagery; and using satellite imagery to study the relationship between In addition to Professor Goward’s research and teaching activities, vegetation spectral response and soil chemistry. He has used Landsat he has been a strong public advocate for the Landsat program and other data to predict invasion rates of Red Cedar trees as a means of predict- earth observation missions and activities. From 1997 to 2001 he served ing the carbon sink capabilities of the Great Plains. In another study, he as the Team Leader for the NASA Landsat Science Team, and he was compared metrics of vegetation spatial and spectral biocomplexity (a instrumental in developing the Long-Term Acquisition Plan (LTAP) for proxy for species diversity) to cattle stocking rates in Kansas. This tech- Landsat 7. He is currently engaged in research addressing documenting nique had been used previously for wildlife species but not for domestic North American forest disturbance and regrowth since 1972. Professor livestock. Goward is also focusing on enhancing and extending LTAP for use in Thayn earned a B.S. degree in GIS and Cartography (2000) and the upcoming Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM). Professor Master of Public Administration degree (2002) from Brigham Young Goward has also served as the science co-chair of the USGS National University. He possesses a substantial list of published and pending Land Satellite Remote Sensing Data Archive (NSLRSDA) advisory papers and presentations, and received strong recommendations from committee. Because of his tireless support of Landsat, in 2006 he was his doctoral advisor and professors. He received the 2007 ASPRS Ta awarded the U.S. Geological Survey’s John Wesley Powell Award. The Liang Memorial Award, the 2006 ASPRS Central Region Scholarship, Powell award is the highest USGS award bestowed upon non-agency and several graduate research, teaching, and travel grants. In addition individuals. to his research activities, Thayn serves as the Communications Coun- The SAIC Estes Memorial Teaching Award was inaugurated in 2003 cilor of the ASPRS Student Advisory Committee. He is president of and is named in honor of Professor John E. (“Jack”) Estes, teacher, the University of Kansas ASPRS student chapter, and served as Student mentor, scientist, and friend of the American Society for Photogramme- Co-Chair of the Remote Sensing Specialty Group of the Association of try and Remote Sensing. American Geographers. Ov Purpose: This award is designed to recognize individual achievement er the course of more than a half century, Dr. Robert N. Colwell in the promotion of remote sensing and GIS technology, and applica- developed a reputation as one of the world’s most respected leaders in remote sensing, a field that he stewarded from the interpretation of tions through educational efforts. Award recipients are chosen based on aerial photographs during World War II, to the advanced acquisition documented excellence in education, teaching, mentoring and, training. and analysis of many types of geospatial data from military and civilian Donor: Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) through satellite platforms. His career included nearly 40 years of teaching and the ASPRS Foundation and consists of a presentation plaque and a cash research at the University of California, Berkeley, a distinguished record award of $2,000. of military service reaching the rank of Rear Admiral, and prominent roles in private industry and as a consultant for many U.S. and interna- Past Award Recipients tional agencies. Among the many awards bestowed upon Dr. Colwell, 2003 — Roger M. Hoffer he had the distinction of being one of the 25 Honorary Members of 2004 — John R. Jensen ASPRS, chosen from the Society’s 6000 members 2005 — Thomas M. Lillesand 2006 — Roy Welch Purpose: Established in 2006 to encourage and commend college/uni- 2007 — Marvin Bauer versity graduate students or post-doctoral researchers who display exceptional interest, desire, ability, and aptitude in the field of remote sensing or other related geospatial information technologies, and who have a special interest in developing practical uses of these technolo- gies.

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Donor: The ASPRS Foundation, from funds donated by students, as- 74th Business Meeting and 19th Awards Luncheon Wednesday, sociates, colleagues and friends of Robert N. Colwell. April 30th The Award now consists of a grant of $5,000 and a one-year student or associate membership (new or renewal) in ASPRS. Welcome Marguerite Madden Past Recipients Lunch 2006 — Desheng Liu Introduction of Guests Marguerite Madden 2007 — Michael Falkowski Presentation of ASPRS Awards Alan R. Stevens Marguerite Madden

Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship Outstanding Papers Awards Boeing Award for Best Paper in Image Analysis and Interpretation 2008 Recipient: Chad M. Schaeding John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers Mr. Chad Schaeding has been selected for the 2008 award of the Francis Leica Geosystems Award for Best Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing H. “Frank” Moffitt Memorial Scholarship. Schaeding is attending ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS Purdue University pursuing a Doctorate of Philosophy degree in Photo- Talbert Abrams Award grammetry. Prior to attending Purdue University, where he was awarded a Master of Science in Engineering in August 2007, Schaeding attended Scholarships and Academic Awards Ferris State University and received a Bachelor of Science in Surveying William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship Engineering and an Associate Degree in Applied Science in Surveying Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship Technology in May 2006. Ta Liang Memorial Award Schaeding’s work experience began in 2003, following his first year Paul R. Wolf Memorial Scholarship in the Surveying Program at Ferris, as a co-op student with the Spicer Kenneth J. Osborn Memorial Scholarship Group, an engineering and surveying company. He was also awarded a GeoEye Award scholarship from this company in 2003. Chad also worked as a summer Leica Geosystems Internship intern with three other engineering companies from 2004 thru 2007. He Intergraph Scholarship has served as a research assistant and tutor at Ferris State University and KODAK International Educational Literature Award as a research assistant and teaching assistant at Purdue University. Schaeding’s research experience includes such topics as Universal Service Awards Outstanding Service Award Passive Sensor Model; Statistical Spatial Data Enhancement; digital Ford Bartlett Membership Award elevation topics; and data fusion. Schaeding’s research goal is to de- Outstanding Workshop Instructor Award velop a practical lightweight image exploitation tool to service imagery George E. Brown, Jr. Congressional Honor Award acquired from non-metric handheld cameras and video systems. Schaeding plans to complete his Ph.D. in December 2009. In addition to his academic pursuits, he is active in the student chapters of ACSM President’s Report Marguerite Madden and ASPRS. In recognition of Professor Moffitt’s many contributions to the sur- Recognition of Retiring Members of Board of Directors and veying and photogrammetry profession and his devotion to the related Executive Committee Marguerite Madden professional societies, this Award is presented for the first time this Chris Aldridge year by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Jackson Cothren (ASPRS), the Management Association for Private Photogrammetric Kari J. Craun Surveyors (MAPPS), and the American Congress on Surveying and Edwin Freeborn Mapping (ACSM) through the ASPRS Foundation from funds donated Leland J. Harbers by students, associates, colleagues and friends of Frank Moffitt as a James D. Hipple memorial to his lifetime contributions to the photogrammetric surveying Thomas R. Loveland profession and the goals of these professional societies. Clifford Mugnier Charles E. Olson, Jr. Purpose: To encourage upper-division, undergraduate-level and gradu- Daniel J. Paulsen ate-level college students to pursue a course of study in surveying and photogrammetry leading to a career in the geospatial mapping profes- Teller’s Report Larry Hothem sion. The Award consists of a certificate and a check in the amount of $2,000 Installation of New and Re-elected Directors Marguerite Madden and a one-year student or associate membership (new or renewal) in Chris Aldridge, Columbia River Region ASPRS. John Boland, Central New York Region James D. Hipple, Potomac Region John S. Iiames, Jr., Remote Sensing Applications Division Rebecca A. Morton, Photogrammetric Applications Division Douglas Lee Smith, Professional Practice Division Charles Toth, Eastern Great Lakes Region A. Stewart Walker, South-West US Region Barry Budzowski , Central Region

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Installation of New Assistant Directors and Marguerite Madden Donor: The ASPRS Foundation Vice Chair of the Sustaining Members Council The John I. Davidson Award First Place includes an engraved pewter Lewis Graham, Photogrammetric Applications Division tankard, a cash award of $500 and a hand-engrossed certificate. 2nd Anne Hillyer, Professional Practice Division place is a cash award of $300 and a hand-engrossed certificate. 3rd Joseph F. Knight, Remote Sensing Applications Division place is a cash award of $200 and a hand-engrossed certificate. Mark Stanton, Sustaining Members Council Past Award Recipients Installation of President-Elect & Vice President Marguerite Madden 2004 Bradley D. Doorn, President-Elect 1st Place — Ross Nelson, Geoffrey Parker, and Milton H Carolyn J. Merry, Vice-President 2nd Place — Marco Albani and Brian Klinkenberg 3rd Place — DongMei Chen and Douglas Stow Installation of Incoming President Marguerite Madden Kass Green 2005 1st Place — A. Edirisinghe, J.P. Louis, and G.E. Chapman nd Presentation of Birdseye Citation & Kass Green 2 Place — Thomas J. Cova, Paul C. Sutton, and David M. Theoba rd President’s Key to Retiring President 3 Place — K.S. Schmidt, A.K. Skidmore, E.H. Kloosterman, H. van Marguerite Madden Oosten, L. Kumar, J.A.M. Janssen 2006 Adjournment 1st Place — Rongxing Li, Steven W. Squyres, Raymond E. Arvidson, Brent A. Archinal, Jim Bell, Yang Cheng, Larry Crumpler, David J. Des Marais, Kaichang Di, Todd A. Ely, Matt Golombek, Eric Graat, John Grant, Joe Guinn, Andrew Johnson, Ron Greeley, Boeing Award for Best Paper in Image Analysis and Interpretation Randolph L. Kirk, Mark Maimone, Larry H. Matthies, Mike Malin, 2008 Recipients Tim Parker, Mike Sims, Larry A. Soderblom, Shane Thompson, Jue Wang, Patrick Whelley, and Fengliang Xu Xiaoliang Lu, Ronggao Liu, Jiyuan Liu, and Shunlin Liang for “Re- 2nd Place — Christopher E. Parrish, Grady H. Tuell, William E. Carter, moval of Noise by Wavelet Method to Generate High Quality Temporal and Ramesh L. Shrestha Data of Terrestrial MODIS Products.” PE&RS, 73 (10), 1129-1139. 3rd Place — Paul M. Dare Purpose: Established in 1965 as the Autometric Award, this grant 2007 recognizes development and achievement in the field of photographic 1st Place — Brian D. Wardlow, Jude H. Kastens, and Stephen L. Egbert interpretation through special acknowledgment of superior publications 2nd Place (tie) — J. Chris McGlone, Tom Barclay, Ed Freeborn, Clifford on the various aspects of image analysis and interpretation. W. Greve, Ayman Habib, Terry Keating, Roberta Lenczowski, Donor: Boeing S&IS Mission Systems through the ASPRS Foundation Bryan Logan, Toni Schenk, Mladen Stojic, Alan Voss And: Ernesto Rodriguez, Charles S. Morris, and J. Eric Belz The Award includes an inscribed certificate and a cash award of $500.

Past Award Recipients 2003 — Youngsinn Sohn, N. Sanjay Rebello Leica Geosystems Award for Best Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing 2004 — Paul C. Sutton, Chris Elvidge, Tom Obremski 2005 — Rebecca N. Handcock, Ferenc Csillag 2008 Recipients 2006 — Timothy Warner, Karen Steinmaus First Place: 2007 — Ola Ahlqvist, Mark Gahegan Frank Crosby for “Adaptive Correlation Analysis With Non-Overlap- ping Imagery Indication,” PE&RS, 73 (9), 1041-1047 Second Place: John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers Zhong Lu for “InSAR Imaging of Volcanic Deformation over Cloud- prone Areas - Aleutian Islands,” PE&RS, 73 (3), 245-257 2008 Recipients Third Place: First Place A. Baccini, M.A. Friedl, C.E. Woodcock, and Z. Zhu for “Scaling Field A. Baccini, M.A. Friedl, C.E. Woodcock, and Z. Zhu for “Scaling Field Data to Calibrate and Validate Moderate Spatial Resolution Remote Data to Calibrate and Validate Moderate Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Models,” PE&RS, 73 (9), 945-954. Sensing Models.” PE&RS, 73 (8), 945-954. Purpose: Established in 1991 as the ERDAS Award for Best Scientific Second Place Paper in Remote Sensing, it became the Leica Geosystems Award for P.S. Thenkabail, P. GangadharaRao, T.W. Biggs, M. Krishna, and H. Best Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing in 2002. This award encour- Tural for “Spectral Matching Techniques to Determine Historical ages and commends individuals who publish papers of scientific merit Land-use/Land-cover and Irrigated Areas Using Time-series 0.1 Degree that advance our knowledge of remote sensing technology. AVHRR Pathfinder Datasets.” PE&RS, 73 (9), 1029-1040. Donor: Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping through the ASPRS Foundation Third Place The Leica Geosystems Award first prize is $500 and a hand-engrossed Ayman F. Habib, Eui-Myoung Kim, and Chang-Jae Kim for “New Meth- certificate; second prize is $300 and a hand-engrossed certificate; third odologies for True Orthophoto Generation.” PE&RS, 73 (1), 25-36. prize is $200 and a hand-engrossed certificate. Purpose: The John I. Davidson Award was established in 1979 to encour- age and commend individuals who publish papers of practical or applied value in Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS).

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Past Award Recipients 3rd Place: — Colin Homer, Chengquan Huang, Limin Yang, Bruce Wylie, 2004 and Michael Coan 1st Place — John Rogan, Jennifer Miller, Doug Stow, Janet Franklin, 2006 Lisa Levien and Chris Fischer 1st Place — Bisheng Yang, Wenzhong Shi, and Qingquan Li 2nd Place — Annemarie Schneider, Mark A. Friedl, Douglas K. McIver 2nd Place — Rodolphe Devillers, Yvan Bedard, and Robert Jeansoulin and Curtis E. Woodcock 3rd Place — Xutong Niu, Ruijin Ma, Tarig Ali, and Rongxing Li 3rd Place — Ling Bian 2007 2005 1st Place — Suzanne P. Wechsler and Charles N. Kroll 1st Place — Giles M. Foody 2nd Place — Jeremy Mennis 2nd Place — Robert L. Huguenin, Mo Hwa Wang, Robert Biehl, Scott 3rd Place — Kurt H. Riitters, James D. Wickham, and Timothy G. Wade Stoodley, and Jeffrey N. Rogers 3rd Place — Thomas J. Cova, Paul C. Sutton, and David M. Theobald

2006 The Talbert Abrams Award 1st Place — Elijah Ramsey III and Amina Rangoonwala nd 2 Place — Lei Ji and Albert J. Peters 2008 Recipients rd 3 Place — Francesca Pozzi and Christopher Small Grand Prize 2007 Michel Morgan, Kyung-Ok Kim, Soo Jeong, and Ayman Habib for 1st Place — Brian D. Wardlow, Jude H. Kastens, and Stephen L. Egbert “Epipolar Resampling of Space-borne Linear Array Scanner Scenes 2nd Place — Rebecca Musy, Randolph Wynne, Christine Blinn, John Using Parallel Projection,” PE&RS, 72, (11), 1255- 1263. Scrivani, and Ronald McRoberts First runner-up rd 3 Place — Lei Ji and Kevin Gallo Ayman F. Habib, Eui-Myoung Kim, and Chang-Jae Kim for “New Methodologies for True Orthophoto Generation,” PE&RS 73, (1), 25-36. Second runner-up The ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS Simon Clode, Franz Rottensteiner, Peter Kootsookos, and Emanuel Zelniker for “Detection and Vectorization of Roads from Lidar Data,” 2008 Recipients PE&RS 73, (5), 517-535. First Place Rongxing Li, Kaichang Di, Jue Wang, Xutong Niu, Sanchit Agarwal, Purpose: The Talbert Abrams Award was established in 1945 to encour- Evgenia Brodyagina, Erik Oberg and Ju Won Hwangbo, for “A WebGIS age the authorship and recording of current, historical, engineering, and for Spatial Data Processing, Analysis, and Distribution for the MER scientific developments in photogrammetry. The Award is determined 2003 Mission,” PE&RS, 73 (6), 671-680. from papers published in Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS). The award consists of a check for $3,000 for the Second Place Grand Award and an engraved plaque for each place. Rifaat Abdalla, C. Vincent Tao, Qiuming Cheng, and Jonathan Li for “A Network-centric Modeling Approach for Infrastructure Donor: The ASPRS Foundation Interdependency,” PE&RS, 73 (6), 681-690. 2004 Third Place Grand Award — Arie Croitoru and Yerach Doytsher Pravara Thanapura, Dennis L. Helder, Suzette Burckhard, Eric First Honorable Mention: — Jacek Grodecki and Gene Dial Warmath, Mary O’ Neill, and Dwight Galster for “Mapping Urban Land Second Honorable Mention: — Ayman F. Habib, Young-ran Lee and Cover Using Quickbird NDVI and GIS Spatial Modeling for Runoff Michel Morgan Coefficient Determination,” PE&RS, 73 (1), 57-66. 2005 Purpose: Established in 1991, the ESRI Award honors individuals who Grand Award — Yun Zhang, C. Vincent Tao, and J. Bryan Mercer publish papers of scientific merit that advance our knowledge about GIS Honorable Mention — Sorin C. Popescu and Randolph H. Wynne technology. 2006 Donor: The Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) No award given through The ASPRS Foundation 2007 The ESRI Award first prize is $500 and a hand-engrossed certificate; Grand Award — Jie Shan, Chiung-Shiuan Fu, Bin Li, James Bethel, second prize is $300 and a hand-engrossed certificate; third prize is Jeffrey Kretsch and Edward Mikhail $200 and a hand-engrossed certificate. First Honorable Mention — C. S. Fraser and S. Al-Ajlouni Second Honorable Mention — Hans-Gerd Maas and Uwe Hampel Past Award Recipients 2004 1st Place — Anthony Gar-On Yeh and Xia Li 2nd Place — Lucie Plourde and Russell G. Congalton 3rd Place — Ross S. Lunetta, Jayantha Ediriwickrema, John Iiames, David Johnson, John G. Lyon, Alexa McKerrow, and Andrew Pilant 2005 1st Place — Dorota A.Grejner-Brzenzinska, Ron Li, Norbert Haala, and Charles Toth 2nd Place — Christian Heipke

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William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship Ta Liang Award

2008 Recipient: Yuyu Zhou 2008 Recipient: Akira Kato Yuyu Zhou, currently a Ph.D. student with the Department of Natural The Ta Liang Memorial Award for 2008 is presented to Akira Kato. Resources Science at the University of Rhode Island has been selected Mr. Kato’s selection was based on his academic achievements, planned to receive the 2008 William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship. Mr. program of research-related travel, and extracurricular activities. Zhou is being presented this award in recognition of his significant Kato is a Ph.D candidate in Photogrammetry and Forest Remote Sens- academic credentials and his very impressive record of research and ing in College of Forest Resources of the University of Washington. His publications in remote sensing. Zhou’s research has focused on the work there involves combining topographic lidar and passive multi- environmental impacts of ever increasing urban impervious surfaces spectral image data to the mapping of individual tree parameters at the through the innovative use of high spatial resolution remote sensing landscape level. The project involves both analysis and merging of these data and their integration into hydrologic models. The results of Zhou’s disparate data sets using both photogrammetric and multispectral analy- research should greatly enhance the ability of the scientific community sis of the passive data as well as addressing the issues of merging all and natural resource managers to analyze the impacts of run-off on data sets into a cohesive whole. Field validations observations incorpo- coastal environments. The committee wishes Zhou much success and rate both standard forestry data and surveying. Kato will use the award is confident that his current and future research efforts will continue to for travel to the 2008 ASPRS Annual Conference in Portland where he make important contributions to the remote sensing community. plans to present the results of his research. Purpose: The William A. Fischer Scholarship facilitates graduate studies In addition to his studies, Kato successfully established the Pacific North- and career goals of a worthy student adjudged to address new and innova- west ASPRS Student Chapter at the University of Washington in the Fall of t ive uses of remote sensing data and techniques that relate to the natural, 2007. Kato has practical experience in applying geospatial techniques and cultural, or agricultural resources of the Earth. It was established in 1984. tools to solve environmental problems not only in the United States but also Donor: the ASPRS Foundation through individual and corporate contri- internationally, including projects in Indonesia and in Japan. He has worked butions in memory of William A. Fischer. with various remotely sensed datasets, from satellite imagery, to aerial imagery and more recently lidar data. He has developed ways to use field The William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship consists of a $2,000 cash surveying information to validate remotely derived forest inventories and prize and a hand-engrossed certificate. has presented his work at numerous conferences. Past Award Recipients Established in memory of Ta Liang, a skilled civil engineer, an excellent 2003 — Bing Xu teacher, and one of the world’s foremost airphoto interpreters, the award 2004 — Carl J. Legleiter consists of a $500 grant and a hand-engrossed certificate. 2005 — Matthew David Dunbar Purpose: To facilitate research-related travel by outstanding graduate 2006 — Nora Csanyi students in remote sensing, including field investigations, agency visits, 2007 — Eva Paska participation in conferences, or other travel which enhances or facili- tates graduate research. Donor: Individual and corporate contributions to the ASPRS Founda- Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship tion in memory of Ta Liang.

2008 Recipient: In-seong Jeong Past Recipients Mr. In-seong Jeong is a doctoral candidate at Purdue University, 2004 — Ryan L. Perroy Geomatics Engineering, with a study of photogrammetry and remote 2005 — Matthew David Dunbar sensing. He has a strong academic background in photogrammetry, 2006 — Heather Richards experience as a research assistant, and excellent grades. He provided 2007 — Jonathan B. Thayn an excellent proposal for continuing studies, and has excellent faculty references. His faculty advisor is Associate Professor James Bethel. Purpose: First given in 1986, the Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholar- Paul R. Wolf Memorial Scholarship ship is intended to encourage and commend college students who display exceptional interest and ability in the theoretical aspects of photogrammetry. 2008 Recipient: Akira Kato Donor: The ASPRS Foundation. This award was originally established Akira Kato has been selected to receive the 2008 Paul R. Wolf Scholar- by Mrs. Helen Altenhofen as a memorial to her husband, Robert E. Al- ship. He is being presented this award in recognition of his outstanding tenhofen, past president of ASPRS. He was an outstanding practitioner academic credentials and his plans and enthusiasm to become an educa- of photogrammetry and made notable contributions to the mathematical tion professional in Surveying, Mapping, and Photogrammetry. Kato aspects of the science. is currently a doctoral candidate with the College of Forest Resources, University of Washington. He has demonstrated his continued interest, The Altenhofen Scholarship consists of a cash prize of $2,000 and a dedication, enthusiasm, and aptitude to become an education profes- hand-engrossed certificate. sional and has been recognized at all levels for this. Past Award Recipients The committee wishes Mr. Kato much success and is confident that his 2003 — Cameron Ellum current and future education efforts will continue to make important con- 2004 — Michel Morgan tributions to the Surveying, Mapping and Photogrammetry community. 2005 — Eva Paska Purpose: to encourage and commend college students who display 2006 — Yushin Ahn exceptional interest, desire, ability, and aptitude to enter the profession 2007 — Shahram Moafipoor of teaching surveying, mapping, or photogrammetry. 12 www.asprs.org/portland08 Awards Program

Donor: the ASPRS Foundation from funds donated by the friends and The ASPRS GeoEye Award colleagues of Paul R. Wolf. Recognized nationally and internationally, Paul was an outstanding educator and practitioner of surveying, map- 2008 Recipients: Sergio Bernardes, Hunter Allen, and Sheika Ara- ping, and photogrammetry and a great friend of the Society. As author, gundi teacher, and mentor, Paul made significant educational and academic contributions to these fields. The award was inaugurated in 2003. Sergio Bernardes is a Ph.D. student in the Geography Department at the University of Georgia (UGA) and a Graduate Research Associate The award consists of a $1,500 check and a hand-engrossed certificate. in the UGA Geography Department’s Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science (CRMS). He received his B.Sc. degree from Viçosa Past Award Recipients Federal University in Brazil and his M.Sci degree from the Brazilian 2003 — Brian J. Naberezny National Institute for Space Research - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 2004 — Ji Sang Park Espacias (INPE). His doctoral research involves the collection of 2005 — Darion Grant multi-sensor imager (i.e., multi-temporal MODIS mosaics, Landsat 2006 — Jamon Van Den Hoek ETM+, Hyperion and Ikonos) to investigate successional changes 2007 — no award given in the Amazon forest following deforestation and logging, and the correlation of field-based and Lidar-based measurements of forest biometrics with Vegetation Indices derived from the multi-dimensional Kenneth J. Osborn Memorial Scholarship image database. The imagery of higher spatial resolution will be used to verify endmember selection and both linear and nonlinear unmixing 2008 Recipient: Nathaniel Ovans of the coarse spatial resolution data. The impact of his research for global modeling of carbon sink/source studies, understanding human Nathaniel Ovans is pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Surveying impacts on the Brazilian Amazon forest/savanna and advancing remote Engineering, with a minor in Applied Mathematics, from Ferris State sensing image processing techniques is expected to contribute to global University. His areas of interest include GIS, photogrammetry, and ecology and global change monitoring/modeling. Barnardes is a student image registration techniques. He plans to graduate in May 2008, after member of ASPRS and the American Geophysical Union, as well as the which he intends to continue his studies at Purdue University’s Graduate President and Web Master of the UGA-ASPRS Student Chapter. School for a Master’s Degree in Geomatics Engineering, with an em- phasis on photogrammetry. He plans to conduct research on applications Hunter Allen is a MS student in the Geography Department at the that benefit from the fusion of methods and data from multiple sources University of Georgia (UGA) where he also received a B.A. degree and sensors. He also plans to pursue a doctorate at Ohio State Uni- in Geography and a B.F.A. degree in Art. He is a Graduate Teaching versity in geodetic science or related field. He exemplified the Osborn Assistant in the UGA Geography Department and a Graduate Research qualities of communication and collaboration through leadership within Assistant in the UGA Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science the ACSM student chapters, volunteer service at ACSM conferences, (CRMS). Allen’s interests include remote sensing, object-based image presentations to high school students under the TrigStar Program, and analysis (OBIA), GIS and geovisualization using high-resolution in the workplace at NGA and Michigan DOT. His faculty advisor is Ikonos imagery to provide scientists and managers with photo-realistic Professor Sayed Hashimi. geovisualizations of ecological impacts such as the spread of exotic insect damage to forest communities in National Parks and the effects Purpose: to encourage and commend college students who display of rising sea level on coastal wetlands. Allen is a student member of exceptional interest, desire, ability, and aptitude to enter the profession ASPRS and Vice-President of the UGA Student Chapter of ASPRS. of surveying, mapping, photogrammetry, or geospatial information and technology. In addition, the Award recognizes students who excel at Sheika Aragundi is a Ph.D. student in the Geography Department an aspect of the profession that Ken demonstrated so very well, that of at the University of Georgia (UGA) and Graduate Teaching Assistant communications and collaboration. in the UGA Geography Department. She received her B.Sc. degree in Biology from the Pontificia Unversidad Catolica del Ecuador and Donor: The ASPRS Foundation from funds donated by the friends and M.Sc. degree in ecology from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland colleagues of Kenneth J. Osborn. Recognized nationally and interna- and M.Phil. in GIS and Remote Sensing from Cambridge University, tionally, Ken was an outstanding practitioner of surveying, mapping, UK. Her research interests cover the fields of genetics, biogeography, photogrammetry, and geospatial information and technology, and a physical geography and remote sensing. Her doctoral dissertation great friend of the Society. As a professional cartographer with the U.S. topic is a biogeographic study of Polylepis forest remnants that grow Geological Survey, Ken made significant contributions to these fields. high in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador, one of the most rare and The award was first offered in 2005. threatened habitats in the Neotropics. Aragundi is using historical The Award consists of an engrossed certificate and a check in the aerial photographs and high-resolution Ikonos images to document the amount of $1,500. distribution of forest fragments relative to terrain characteristics and human impacts to assess the long term potential of their survival. In Past Recipients: addition, she is using genetic markers to determine the relationships 2005 — Rachel E. Ruppel of the fragment parent populations. Aragundi is a student member of 2006 — Sean Bolender ASPRS and an active member of the UGA Student Chapter of ASPRS. 2007 — Katarina Doctor The Award was established in 1991. In 2001 it became known as the Space Imaging Award for the Application of High Resolution Digital Satellite Imagery and in 2006 it became The ASPRS GeoEye Award Donor: The GeoEye Foundation through the ASPRS Foundation. This year, the ASPRS GeoEye Award consists of three grants of data valued up to $4,000 each, and a certificate inscribed with the name of the recipient.

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Past Award Recipients Past Award Recipients 2003 — Michel F. Morgan 2003 — Ludmilla Monika Moskal 2004 — Jason Janke and Qian Yu 2004 — Kristin Eickhorst 2005 — Candace Newman, Minho Kim, Junmei Tang 2005 — Georgiadis Charalampos 2006 — Yuyu Zhou, Qiaoping Zhang, Orien Richmond 2006 — Taehun Yoon 2007 — Govinda Basnet, Tim De Chant, and James Kellner 2007 — Nora Csanyi

The Leica Geosystems Internship Kodak International Educational Literature Award

2008 Recipient: David Milledge 2008 Recipient: Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya David Milledge is a PhD student at Durham University, Durham, England. The Departments of Geography and Agricultural Engineering, Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya, offer certificate programs in GIS and, Purpose: Leica GeoSystems Internship is an eight-week internship for beginning in 2008, a BSc in Geographic Information Sciences and graduate students in photogrammetry. The selected intern works with a BSc in Earth Systems Science. This award will support these two Leica GeoSystems personnel at a selected Leica GeoSystems facility. new degree programs and enhance the certificate program. Program Donor: Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping through the ASPRS Founda- curriculum includes photo interpretation, remote sensing, and GIS tion. The internship provides the award winner with an opportunity to with emphasis on natural resources and land use planning. The award carry out a small research project of his/her own choice, or to work on materials will be housed in a dedicated resource materials center in the an existing Leica GeoSystems project as part of a team. library allowing access by Department Faculty and students and others The internship consists of a stipend of $2500 plus an allowance for interested in promoting GIS and remote sensing applications. travel and living expenses for the period of the internship. Purpose: The KIELA was first bestowed in 1990. Its goal is to improve the quantity and quality of literature in the recipient’s library, particularly in the Past Award Recipients mapping sciences (i.e. photogrammetry, remote sensing, GIS, and related 2003 — Michel Morgan disciplines) by providing ASPRS educational materials and publications. 2004 — Cameron Ellum 2005 — Nora Csanyi The KIELA includes $350 worth of books, manuals, or other literature 2006 — Hongwei Zhu published by ASPRS; a five-year subscription to PE&RS, proceedings 2007 — Kaiguang Zhao of the Annual Conference and Fall technical meetings for five years; one free registration to the Society’s Annual Conference at the time of receiving the award for a member of the institution to whom the award is being given; and a hand-engrossed certificate. Intergraph Scholarship This award has been augmented by • A generous grant from the Environmental Systems Research 2008 Recipient: Eva Paska Institute (ESRI) of the complete ESRI Press Library collection Eva Paska completed her Master’s Degree in Surveying and Geoinfor- • Selected titles from the John Wiley and Sons, Publishers, catalog matics Engineering in June of 2001 from The Budapest University of • The conference proceedings from the Geospatial Information Technology and Economics. She will be completing her Ph.D. degree Technology Association (GITA) in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in the summer of 2008 from • The conference proceedings from The Association of American The Ohio State University. Her faculty advisors are Dr. Dorota Grejner- Geographers (AAG) Brzezinska and Dr. Charles Toth. Paska’s academic record is outstanding. Donor: Eastman Kodak Company, through the ASPRS Foundation Paska’s research combines photogrammetry, lidar, image processing, and mobile mapping technologies to support innovative transporta- Previous Recipients tion applications. Her research applies remote sensing technologies to 2002 — The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa real-world applications such as automated extraction of linear pavement 2003 — The Institute of Surveying and Mapping, Diyatalawa, Sri Lanka marking features from lidar intensity to support QA/QC of lidar data 2004 — The Department of Geography of the Federal University of and application of mobile mapping technologies to provide traffic flow Technology, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria assessments. 2005 — The Department of Forest Engineering, Federal University of The future plans stated by Paska demonstrate her dedication and com- Vicosa, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil mitment to the field. She intends to continue her research in remote 2006 — The Institute of Geography, National University of Mexico sensing transportation applications. She has the ability and potential to (Instituto de Geografia - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) make a significant contribution to our industry. 2007 — University of San Carlos, Guatemala Purpose: The Intergraph Scholarship, formerly the Z/I Imaging Award, is designed to facilitate graduate-level studies and career goals adjudged to address new and innovative uses of signal processing, image process- ASPRS Outstanding Service Award ing techniques, and the application of photogrammetry to real-world techniques within the earth imaging industry. 2008 Recipients James W. Merchant, for 7 years of outstanding service as Editor-in- Donor: Intergraph Corporation though the ASPRS Foundation Chief of PE&RS. The Intergraph Scholarship carries a $2,000 cash prize and a hand-en- Bernard “Barney” Schur, for over 20 years of service as the Chair of grossed certificate. the Photogrammetry Sub-committee of the Evaluation for Certification Committee. 14 www.asprs.org/portland08 Awards Program

James V. Taranik, for over 20 years of service as the Chair of the The committee is very pleased to make this award to Green and knows Remote Sensing Sub-committee of the Evaluation for Certification that she will be an integral part of the ASPRS Workshop Program and con- Committee. tinue to share her experience and passion well into the future. George Y. G. Lee, for the establishment and development of the Francis Robert Burtch of Ferris State University, has been selected to receive H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship. the Outstanding Workshop Instructor Award in 2008. Burtch is presented this award in recognition of his significant contributions to the ASPRS Purpose: Established in 1991, The Outstanding Service Award is given Workshop Program, specifically the “Preparing for ASPRS Certification” to society members in recognition of outstanding and unusual efforts Workshop. Burtch designed, updated, and taught the ASPRS Professional in helping ASPRS develop and carry out its program over a sustained Certification workshop from its inception in 2000. He has been extremely period. Recipients have performed outstanding service at the chapter, diligent in making this workshop the best possible experience for those regional, or national level. Awardees’ service includes any activities, preparing for the certification exam. Participants in Burtch workshop have including professional, that have helped the society achieve its goals and a significantly higher success rate at passing the exam than those who do objectives. not attend the workshop. Recently, Burtch has also begun teaching other Donor: The ASPRS Foundation workshops at the Spring and Fall ASPRS meetings. The committee is very pleased to make this award to Burtch and is The Outstanding Service Award consists of a bronze plaque. looking forward to his continued teaching of workshops at many ASPRS meetings in the years to come. Previous Recipients 2003 — SAIC, Al Watkins, Aero-Metric Inc, Barney Schur, Mary Purpose: The Outstanding Workshop Instructor Award is conferred by Clawson, Sky Chamard ASPRS in recognition of special, personal, and meritorious contributions 2004 — Doug Fuller, The Potomac Region, The St. Louis Region, to continued organization, promotion, and/or delivery of workshops at the ASPRS Annual and Fall Conferences. Susan Ustin, Jim Case 2005 — Chris McGlone, Roy Mullen, Mike Renslow, Jan Gervin Donor: The award is administered by the ASPRS Foundation from 2006 — Dr. Stewart Walker, BAE Systems, Don Lauer funds donated by ASPRS members and participating sponsors through 2007 — The Future of Land Imaging Interagency Working Group, contributions to the ASPRS Foundation. Dr. Gene Whitney, Chair; Jack Dangermond; Dave Maune The award consists of a certificate and an inscribed laser pointer.

Past Recipient ASPRS Ford Bartlett Award 2007 — Michael Renslow

2008 Recipients Brian Miyake, Columbia River Region Col. Claude H. Birdseye President’s Citation Michelle R. Kinzel, Columbia River Region Xiaojun Yang, Florida Region 2008 Recipient: Marguerite Madden Purpose: First awarded in 1968, the ASPRS Ford Bartlett Membership Purpose: The Col. Claude H. Birdseye President’s Citation was estab- Award honors members for actively promoting membership in ASPRS. lished in 1965 as a tribute to one of the founders and the first president Donor: the ASPRS Foundation. (This award was originally sponsored of the Society. Each year at the Annual Convention it is conferred on the by the firm of Lockwood, Kessler, and Bartlett, Inc.) outgoing president in recognition of her/his contributions to the Society. A member is eligible to receive the Award after sponsoring ten or more Donor: ASPRS Foundation members in one year. Each recipient receives a hand-engrossed certifi- The Birdseye Citation carries with it a gold Past President’s Key, an cate and a one-year membership in the Society. engraved plaque, and a hand-engrossed certificate.

Past Award Recipients Past Award Recipients 2005 — Alan M. Mikuni, Daniel L. Civco 2003 — Terrence J. Keating 2006 — Daniel L. Civco, Patricia G. Foschi, Brian Miyake, Thomas R. 2004 — Donald T. Lauer Mueller 2005 — Russell G. Congalton 2007 — Brian Miyake, Thomas R. Mueller, Brian E. Murphy, Mary 2006 — Karen L. Schuckman DeVries O’Neill 2007 — Kari J. Craun

ASPRS Outstanding Workshop Instructor Award

2008 Recipients: Kass Green and Robert Burtch Kass Green, president of Kass Green and Associates, has been selected to receive the Outstanding Workshop Instructor Award in 2008. Green is being presented this award in recognition of her many significant contributions to the ASPRS Workshop Program. Green has been teach- ing a variety of extremely popular workshops at Spring and Fall ASPRS meetings for more than the last 15 years. Her efforts to offer the latest information and her constant desire to always give the participants the best workshop experience make her most deserving of this award. She is an excellent and very engaging instructor.

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General Session, Thursday, May 1st Peggy Harwood currently serves as Planner for the Urban & Commu- Fellow Award nity Forestry Staff of the USDA Forest Service. Harwood earned Bach- Photogrammetric Award (Fairchild) elors and Masters degrees in Geological Sciences from The University BAE Systems Award of Texas at Austin in 1966 and 1972 and a Master of Public Administra- Conference Management Awards tion from The George Washington University. She is also a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), National Defense University at Ft. McNair, Washington, D.C. Harwood was associate director at the Council of State Planning ASPRS Fellow Award Agencies (affiliated with the National Governors Association) respon- sible for compiling information and developing policy related to state 2008 Recipients: Allan Falconer, Peggy J. Harwood, Frank Scarpace, GISs. At the Texas General Land Office in Austin, Texas, Harwood was Bernard “Barney” Schur a geologist, environmental planning program manager, and a principal investigator for a successful, two-year NASA-State of Texas investiga- Allan Falconer received his Bachelor’s and PhD degrees from the tion using Landsat data and applications inventorying and monitoring University of Durham in England. In May 2007, he completed 40 years Texas coastal resources. While still in graduate school, she worked as as a professional geographer. He taught geography at six universities on a photogeologist for the Bureau of Economic Geology, completing the three continents. Falconer served in industry, as an employee of Spectral Texas Geologic Atlas Project, Texas Coastal Atlas, and completing the Data Corporation (1978/84) under contract to USAID as Program first land use and hurricane flood hazard maps of the upper coast. Manager for the Regional Remote Sensing Facility in Nairobi, Kenya She joined the Forest Service in 1989 as Geometronics Program Man- while with the EROS Data Center. He served as Head of the Depart- ager and has since held various program manager positions related to ment of Geography and Earth Resources and as Director of the RS/GIS spatial planning in the National Forest System. Other federal positions Laboratories at Utah State University (1991-97). In November 1997, included coordinating community-based planning for the BLM, and co- was appointed Executive Director of the Mississippi Space Commerce ordinating interagency activities for weather and land satellite programs Initiative (MSCI). In August 2004 he was appointed to his current posi- in NOAA. She chaired an interagency working group to define roles tion of Professor and Chair of The Department of Geography at George and develop charters for lead agencies that would coordinate federal Mason University. standards for such geospatial data as soils, vegetation, and transporta- Falconer worked on the early days of the ERTS A & B (Landsat) tion during transition to the FGDC. Harwood coordinated development simulation program using aircraft and satellite data to study the hydrology of NOAA’s first regulatory program for licensing U.S. private operators of the Lake Ontario Basin. He used Landsat data for image mapping in of remote sensing space systems. She was also executive officer for a Ontario and worked with quick-look data to map Eco-regions and monitor Federal Advisory Committee and Assistant Secretary-level policy group Arctic pipeline routes. He participated in a multi-disciplinary study of established to advise the Secretary of Commerce and NOAA officials the harp seal using Landsat data to track the movement of ice in the St. regarding transfer of Landsat & weather satellites to the private sector. Lawrence estuary. During this time, he was at the University of Guelph In addition, she has become active in various sustainable development in Canada and served on the Canadian Advisory Committee on Remote initiatives, including development and delivery of a Green Infrastructure Sensing and chaired its Geography Working Group. In Australia, he used Training Program for the USDA. She has organized and given presenta- Landsat data for many purposes including the mapping of functional Eco- tions at numerous workshops and technical sessions on green infra- logical units, defining habitat regions and analyzing agricultural produc- structure at local and national conferences. She is also the co-leader for tion. In Nairobi, Kenya, under his supervision, more than 1,000 Eastern USDA’s participation in the My Community, Our Earth partnership with and Southern African scientists participated in training courses. Addition- the National Geographic Society, Association of American Geographers, ally this program created image maps of Swaziland and Lesotho and ESRI and the UN Environmental Programme promoting geographic portions of Sudan, Uganda and Kenya. Image maps were used to provide learning and problem solving among secondary school and university the first surveys of land cover and forest reserves since independence in a students worldwide. number of East African countries. Harwood joined ASPRS in 1976 and has served on the Board for At Utah State Falconer worked with USGS and ESRI on the GAP the Texas-Louisiana and Potomac Regions. She was also President of Analysis Project that had considerable influence on policy and adop- the Potomac Region in 1991 as well as the Region’s National Director tion of COTS standards in these agencies; a huge benefit to all ASPRS for two terms serving on the ASPRS Board including five years on the industry and academic members. During the MSCI years, Falconer Society’s Executive Committee. She also served as Director of the GIS developed an industry cluster of 42 companies spending more than $70 Division. She has also been a member of the IGIF Board of Trustees, million annually in the local economy of Southern Mississippi. The MSCI and was active in the Awards, Strategic Planning, Electronic Communi- Education Program developed instructional modules for use in the schools cations, and Division Directors’ Committees. (Grades 7-9) and a Geospatial Science module for graduation credit as an elective in Grades 10-12. The Technical and Community Colleges devel- Frank Scarpace received his PhD in the field of physics from the Univer- oped courses and Associates Degrees in Geospatial sciences. At George sity of Wisconsin-Madison. He is retired from the faculty of the Depart- Mason he has grown the program to 76 majors and the graduate program ment of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Institute for Environ- has more than 100 active students. mental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As an active member of ASPRS for over 30 years, Falconer regularly Scarpace has been teaching and conducting research in the fields of participates in ASPRS conferences. He served as Director of the Remote remote sensing, image processing, and digital photogrammetry since Sensing Applications Division (1996-1998) and as a member of the Board 1972. He taught all of the advanced courses in remote sensing, image of Directors (1996-98). He was elected to the Executive Committee and processing, algorithm development, and digital photogrammetry within Chair of the Division Directors’ Committee and was twice nominated as the mapping science field at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well a candidate for Vice-President of the Society by the nominating Commit- as workshops for ASPRS. He has been an ASPRS member since 1991. tee. From 1998 to 2003 he served as the Chairman of the Education and WIth more than 130 published articles and papers, Scarpace is also the Professional Development Committee. Falconer is the recipient of many author of numerous software programs involving image processing and awards, including the ASPRS Meritorious Service Award (1996, 1998). digital photogrammetry. A number of his current research grants involve us-

16 www.asprs.org/portland08 Awards Program ing softcopy photogrammetry to produce digital orthophotographs and high who subsequently landed on the Moon. The techniques, at the time, resolution (6 inch) DEMs, developing digital photogrammetric techniques were cutting-edge analytical phototriangulation and were also used in the to measure shoreline erosion, and applying digital photogrammetry to prob- Corona Program. The Apollo frame camera was a 5 x 5 inch format with lems of concern within industrial applications. The National Digital Ortho- a 3 inch focal length. Enlarging it 2x provided a normal size frame. The mapping Program is a result of his research work. Other current research camera was used to develop the Selenodetic control that was then trans- includes use of neural networks and fuzzy logic for image classification, the ferred to the high-resolution panoramic imagery used for the topographic use of wavelet transforms for image compression, developing methods of mapping of the landing sites. That was no small feat back then! That was geometrically correcting multispectral scanners, and improved multilevel also the impetus for the development of point transfer devices with dif- matching for softcopy photogrammetric applications. ferential zoom optics, (including the PUG III and PUG IV), as well as the Kern Capacitor Discharge CPM devices. Bausch & Lomb also went into Bernard “Barney” Schur has been with AERO-METRIC, INC. since production for several dozen units of the same general type, called Micro its inception in 1969. He is the Chief Executive Officer of the AERO- Marks based on the Variscale units used with the Apollo Orbital Mapping METRIC companies which include AeroMap, Anchorage, Alaska, series. Don’s leadership put his unit in the lead with NASA’s objectives, Walker and Associates, Seattle, Washington; Aero-Metric, Fort Collins, and his unit delivered on the objectives and on time. Colorado; Mark Hurd, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and, Air Survey, Light later moved on to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and remained Dulles, Virginia. His experience includes the organization and manage- in photogrammetric research and production. He retired from USGS ment of major domestic and foreign survey and mapping projects. His in 1995 and was subsequently employed by Kodak as a Senior Systems business association includes governmental contracting agencies, utility Engineer and became Manager of Business Development for Airborne companies and the private engineering community. and Satellite Cameras. He taught photogrammetry at George Mason Uni- Schur has more than 40 years of photogrammetric experience in versity prior to 1995, and now is an adjunct faculty member for Analytical private industry. He began his career in photogrammetry in 1959 at Chi- Photogrammetry at Rochester Institute of Technology. Light’s course is cago Aerial Survey (CAS) as a field surveyor and then as a cartographic for graduates and seniors majoring in Imaging Science at RIT. draftsman. He served in the U.S. Army from 1963 – 65 after which, Light is a 1968 graduate of The George Washington University with he returned to his position at Chicago Aerial Survey and took on the a B.S. in Geodetic and Cartographic Science. He holds a graduate responsibility for managing the cartographic drafting department. Near diploma in Strategy and Management from the United States Naval War the end of 1969, Aero-Metric Inc. was incorporated and Schur became College (1974), and a diploma from the Federal Executive Institute, one of the original start-up employees of a new company. Within a few Charlottesville, Virginia, 1980. years, he became a principal in the company and also the marketing Light has been an active member of ASPRS since 1955 and became manager. He was elevated to corporate president and director in 1998. a Fellow of the Society in 2000, the same year he won, for the second He has served ASPRS as sub-committee chair of the photogrammetry time, the John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers. In review panel of the Evaluation for Certification Committee, for which 1966, he was the first runner-up for the Talbert Abrams Award and he he received ASPRS Merit Awards in 1994 and 1998. In 1995, he re- was author/editor of Chapter 17, “Satellite Photogrammetry,” for the ceived the ASPRS Meritorious Service Award and in 2003 the Outstand- 4th edition of the ASPRS Manual of Photogrammetry, 1980. He was ing Service Award. He is the Past President, Vice President and Director awarded several ASPRS and ACSM Presidential Citations and was of the former Wisconsin Chapter ASPRS. He also served as a Director granted the Meritorious Service Award from the Department of Interior for the Management Association Private Photogrammetric Surveyors in 1989. In 1987 he was elected Director of the Primary Data Acquisi- (MAPPS). He served briefly on the Board of Trustees for the ASPRS tion Division (PDAD). In 1996 he was Director of the ASPRS Remote Foundation, and is a Certified Photogrammetrist and a Registered Land Sensing Division, and an Associate Editor for PE&RS and a member of Surveyor (Photogrammetry) in North and South Carolina. the 1999 ASPRS/USGS Camera Calibration Review Panel. Light is also Purpose: Started in 1992, the designation of Fellow is conferred on an ASPRS Certified Photogrammetrist. Society members who have been active for a total of at least ten years Purpose: The Award is to stimulate the development of the art of aerial and who have performed exceptional service in advancing the science photogrammetry in the United States. The Award consists of a silver and use of the mapping sciences and related disciplines. It is awarded presentation plaque mounted on a walnut wood panel. for professional excellence and for service to the Society. Practicability is the essence of the Award and with this as a criterion, the Donor: the ASPRS Foundation merits of candidates are considered by the Committee with respect to the following points: The ASPRS Fellow Award includes a hand-engrossed certificate. • An outstanding invention or design involving any type of Past Award Recipients equipment that applies to the art of aerial photogrammetry. 2003 — Daniel L. Civco, David F. Maune • Any outstanding method developed for the use of aerial 2004 — Amelia Marie Budge, Clive Fraser, Paul F. Hopkins, Elias Johnson photographs and/or imagery. This does not relate only to the use 2005 — Lawrence Pettinger of photographs for mapping but is intended in a general sense. 2006 — Anthony B. Follette, Barry N. Haack, Lloyd O. Herd • Outstanding research for study along aerial photogrammetric lines. • Outstanding effort for the general advancement of the art of 2007 — Russell G. Congalton, Alan M. Mikuni, Nancy K. Tubbs photogrammetry. Donor: Lockheed Martin Photogrammetric Award (Fairchild) The Photogrammetric Award (Fairchild) includes an engraved plaque.

2008 Recipient: Donald L. Light Past Award Recipients 2003 — Paul R. Wolf Donald L. Light ran the Extraterrestrial Branch of the Army Map Service 2004 — J. Chris McGlone in the late 60s and early 70s, and his unit computed the aerotriangulation 2005 — Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Förstner from the Lunar Orbiters and the Apollo Orbiters that was used to produce 2006 — Gordon Petrie the Lunar Landing Charts for Neil Armstrong and the other Astronauts 2007 — Dr. George Y.G. Lee April 28 - May 2, 2008  Portland, Oregon 17 Awards Program

The BAE Systems Award Memorial Address, Thursday, May 1st Presidential Citations 2008 Recipient: Xuerian Meng Region Awards Region of the Year Xuerian Meng receives this award as the lead author for the paper, Region Newsletter of the Year “Morphology-based Building Detection from Airborne Lidar Data.” Region Website of the Year ASPRS Student Travel Grants The advent of Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) technique provides a promising resource for three-dimensional building detection. Most cur- rent methods commonly fuse lidar data with other multi-spectral images to help remove vegetation based on NDVI or other vegetation indices; Presidential Citations however, the fusing process may cause errors that are introduced by res- olution differences, geo-referencing, time differences, shadow and high- 2008 Recipients rise building displacement problems. Due to the difficulty of removing Sandra Hunkele and Kim Tilley for the creation, organization and suc- vegetation, relatively few approaches have been developed to detect cessful implementation of the ASPRS Student Advisory Council. buildings only from lidar data. This paper presents a morphological Gene Dial of GeoEye, Inc. for supporting and promoting the GeoEye building detection method to identify buildings by gradually removing award and increasing the number of recipients in recent years. non-building pixels. First, a ground filtering algorithm separates ground from buildings, trees, and other objects. Then an analytical approach Ed Freeborn for serving as the ASPRS Co-chair for the Ottawa Fall further removes the remaining non-building pixels using size, shape, Specialty Conference. height, building element structure, and height difference between the Tina Cary, Matthew Austin and Rae Kelley for their work on the first and last return. The experiment results show this method provides a production of the GIS Manual. comparative performance with an overall accuracy of 95.46% as in the study site in the Austin urban area. Purpose: First awarded in 1992, Presidential Citations are presented by the ASPRS President to members of ASPRS and other societies, family Purpose: To reward top quality research and publication by young members, and friends in recognition of special, personal, and meritori- students (under age 35 as of the application deadline) at master’s or ous contributions to the operation or advancement of the Society and its doctoral level and to encourage researchers to use the ASPRS an- interests during the presidential year. nual conference as a vehicle to publish and present their findings. The recipient’s paper will be published in Photogrammetric Engineering & Donor: the ASPRS Foundation Remote Sensing (PE&RS), the official journal of ASPRS. The Presidential Citation is a hand-engrossed certificate. Donor: BAE Systems through the ASPRS Foundation Past Award Recipients The award was first offered in 2005 and consists of a certificate and a 2004 — George Hepner, Charles Mondello, Ray Williamson, Rae grant of $2,000. Kelley, Carol Lauer, Mike Renslow 2005 — Dan Civco, Marguerite Madden, Don Lauer, Scott Perkins, Past Recipients Pat Woodruff, Cindy Clark, Steve DeGoria, Larry Pettinger, Barry 2005 — Nora Csanyi Haack, Sokhan Hing, Kass Green, Doug Richardson, Richard 2006 — Pravara Thanapura Tilley, Kim Tilley, The Congalton Family 2007 — Yuyu Zhou 2006 — A. Stewart Walker, Richard Aspinall, Stephen Yool, Eric Andeline, James Morrell, Peter Boniface, Duane Haselfeld, Ding Yuan, Lee Harbers, Bradish Johnson, Jim Hipple, Michael Thomas 2007 — Mary Clinthorne, Perry Hardin, Dr. Rakesh Malhotra, Dr. ASPRS Conference Management Awards Albert Barnett, Paul Brooks, Randy Olsen 2008 Recipients: Roger Crystal, Nancy Tubbs, and Geoffrey Duh Purpose: The intent of this award is to recognize the great effort put forth by the individuals who volunteer their time to assist in the plan- ASPRS Region the Year Award ning and execution of a successful annual conference. 2008 Recipients Donor: The ASPRS Foundation First Place: The award is an engraved plaque with the conference program cover. The Columbia River Region First Honorable Mention: Past Recipients The Eastern Great Lakes and Central New York Regions 2003 — Don Davis, Jr., Thomas Eidel, Greg Durocher 2004 — Allen Cook, Roger Hoffer, Jeff Liedtke Second Honorable Mention: 2005 — Richard Campbell, David Maune, Barry Haack The Rocky Mountain and the Western Great Lakes Regions 2006 — George F. Hepner, Alan M. Mikuni, Patricia G. Foschi, The Columbia River Region is once again the Region of the Year for its Robert. D. Ramsey consistent dedication to the goals of ASPRS through their great efforts 2007 — Gary Florence, Bon Dewitt in membership promotion and retention - they have shown an increase in both Active and Student membership, having Region Program Awards for their three active Student Chapters, still keeping up a terrific newsletter, holding several technical meetings and workshops, helping the working group on certification exam questions, and revising the Guidelines for Photogrammetric Services.

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The Eastern Great Lakes and the Central New York Regions have For the second year in the row, Wavelengths, the newsletter of the tied for First Honorable Mention. Columbia River Region, is the First Place Winner. This publication has The Eastern Great Lakes Region continues to do a great job on their won for its unique style and tradition of photojournalism, concentration membership campaign, contacting their Member Champions, having on the ASPRS certification programs including the new Provisional Cer- new student chapters, co-hosting a workshop on Remote Sensing of the tification, its coverage of regional and national news including informa- Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands, working with the Western Great Lakes tion on the award-winning PE&RS, and promotion of the new “Francis and Central New York Regions to promote attendance for the RDX Con- H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship.” ference, and having a very strong financial position to support its future The Central Region Newsletter has taken Second Place twice in a row. objectives and those of the National organization. This lovely, informative, easy to read publication continues to cover all The Central New York Region continues its winning ways. Among the important areas in the region including upcoming events, scholarships Region’s many activities includes co-hosting the Fall 2007 ASPRS and other valuable information such as news on the National Land th Specialty Conference in Ottawa, Ontario, having a successful 6th An- Imaging Program and the 200 anniversary of NOAA. nual Remote Sensing Symposium, conducting membership campaigns The Eastern Great Lakes Newsletter and The Rocky Mountain Compiler throughout the year, continuing to provide a Student of the Year Award finish in a tie for third place. program, and contacting and interviewing inactive members. The Eastern Great Lakes Newsletter – This colorful bulletin is an The Rocky Mountain and the Western Great Lakes Regions have informative communication with substance! Region members look tied for Second Honorable Mention. forward to its coverage of regional and national news, announcements The Rocky Mountain Region has received this award for their hard of technical meetings/workshops, its gentle reminders, ballots, work for contacting their Member Champions, creating a Membership installation of new officers, student chapter/scholarship, positions open. Enhancement and Engagement Program (MEEP Campaign), creating The Rocky Mountain Compiler has maintained its high profile that a special student membership rebate offer, organizing a new student reflects the Region’s dedication to its members by reporting all important chapter, hosting several technical meetings and workshops including a notifications, timely topics of regional as well as national news, and major technical conference, “GIS in the Rockies,” ASPRS Certification announcements of job postings, scholarships, and technical/social meetings. workshop, Lidar Training Class, and holding a field trip. Purpose: The Society first bestowed this award in 1980 to recognize The Western Great Lakes Region has pursued and won this honor. They excellence of the Region in providing service to the members and to the are to be applauded for their efforts in revitalizing the Region, having profession at large through publications of a newsletter. several technical meetings, workshops and social events and a success- Donor: ASPRS Foundation ful NSGIC conference in Madison, Wisconsin, and forming their first active Student Chapter at Indiana State University. The Newsletter of the Year Award includes a hand engrossed certificate.

The Region of the Year Award includes a hand engrossed certificate and Region Past Recipients possession of the Region of the Year banner for one year for the winner 2003 — Rocky Mountain Compiler, Central New York Region and certificates for first and second honorable mention. Newsletter, Central Region Newsletter Purpose: The Region of the Year Award was established in 1968 to 2004 — Rocky Mountain Compiler, Central Region Newsletter, recognize excellence at the regional level in providing service to the Wavelengths (Columbia River Region) members and to the profession at large. 2005 — Rocky Mountain Compiler, Central Region Newsletter, Wavelengths (Columbia River Region) Donor: the ASPRS Foundation 2006 — The Central Region Newsletter, Rocky Mountain Compiler, Wavelengths Previous Recipients Wavelengths The Central Region 2003 — Rocky Mountain Region, Central New York Region, Central 2007 — (Columbia River Region), Newsletter, Rocky Mountain Compiler Region 2004 — Rocky Mountain Region, Columbia River Region, Central Region 2005 — Rocky Mountain Region, Central Region, Central NY and Region Website of the Year Columbia River Regions 2006 — The Rocky Mountain Region, The Central US, Columbia River 2008 Recipients Regions, The Central New York and Eastern, Great Lakes Regions 1st Place 2007 — The Columbia River Region, The Eastern Great Lakes, The Rocky Mountain Regions, The Central New York, Central Regions Northern California, http://giif.cnr.berkeley.edu/ASPRS-NCR/ 2nd Place Southwest US, http://www.asprs.org/SouthwestUS/html/ ASPRS Region Newsletter of the Year 3rd Place Columbia River, http://www.asprs.org/ColumbiaRiver/ 2008 Recipients A scoring and weighting system applied by a third party neutral judge is First Place used to decide the winners of the Region Website of the Year Award. Wavelengths, Columbia River Region The winning websites demonstrate high quality look and feel in the site Second Place design and effectively convey accurate, informative and timely content. The Central Region Newsletter Each site is easy to navigate with few or no broken links and page file Third Place (tie) sizes are minimized to reduce page loading times. The sites display The Eastern Great Lakes Newsletter and The Rocky Mountain Compiler content of unique regional flavor.

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Purpose: The Region Website of the Year Award serves to recognize as an opportunity in getting the exposure to real life scenarios, and an excellence among the regions in providing service to members and to opportunity to meet, interact and network with professionals in the field. the profession at large through web site publication. Finally I hope to use the conference as a stepping stone as I prepare to apply for ASPRS provisional certification in the coming year. If selected Donor: the ASPRS Foundation I would be happy/honored to travel to Portland Oregon and promise to The Region Website of the Year Award, inaugurated in 2003, includes work as a student volunteer at the conference.” hand-engrossed certificates for all winners. Purpose: the intent of this program is to increase student exposure to the respective professions identified with ASPRS, and to encourage Past Recipients continued student identification with and membership in a national 2004 professional organization. First Place — Saint Louis Region Second Place — Potomac Region Donor: the ASPRS Foundation. Third Place — Rocky Mountain Region The award consists of two grants of up to $500 each to two qualifying 2005 students in support of airfare and lodging to attend the annual First Place — Central Region Conference. The grant also includes a one-year student membership Second Place — Central New York in ASPRS and a complimentary conference registration provided the Third Place — St Louis Region selected students volunteer to help at the conference.

2006 Recent Past Award Recipients First place — Potomac Region 2003 — Thomas Kirk and Rebecca Forest Musy Second place (tie) — Mid-South Region and St. Louis Region 2004 — Steven Lennartz and Michele Baum 2007 2005 — Xin Miao First Place — Eastern Great Lakes 2006 — Hongwei Zhu and Alicia Marie Rutledge Second Place — Rocky Mountain 2007 — Jonathan B. Thayn and Bandana Kar Third Place — Alaska

ASPRS Travel Grants Don’t forget to apply for the following awards by 2008 Recipients: Todd Erdody and Taihisa Hill December 1, 2008 Todd Erdody “I am currently pursuing a Master of Science in Forestry as a necessary and take advantage of these valuable scholarships. step in becoming a fire ecologist or resource manager for a land management agency. I have a strong academic background in science Forms may be obtained from the ASPRS office or they may and a variety of experience working in fire research and monitoring. be downloaded from our website at I want to integrate this knowledge into further studies in the field of forestry and remote sensing and want to acquire the necessary skills to www.asprs.org apply remote sensing technologies in assessing landscapes. Attending the ASPRS 2008 annual conference will broaden my horizons and Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship provide me with invaluable opportunities to learn about geospatial research. William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship Being new to the field of remote sensing, attending the ASPRS Leica Geosystems Internship 2008 annual conference would give me the opportunity to learn more about using remote sensing technologies in applied forestry research GeoEye Award and would open the door to meeting my peers. Agreeing to serve as Ta Liang Memorial Award a student volunteer at the conference would also enable me to fully interact with fellow researchers. Intergraph Scholarship With assistance from the ASPRS Foundation and the Student Travel Grant I will be able to travel to Portland to attend the 2008 ASPRS Paul R. Wolf Memorial Scholarship annual conference. I will also have the opportunity to advance my The Kenneth J. Osborn Memorial Scholarship geospatial knowledge while working to improve our understanding of geospatial applications in forestry.” BAE Systems Award

Taihisa Hill Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship “As a first year student specializing in geosciences, Bridging the Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship Horizons - New Frontiers in Geospatial Collaboration caught my attention as an innovative window into my chosen journey. After ASPRS Travel Grants completing a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology at Southern Connecticut State University, I have decided to incorporate a modern KODAK International Educational Literature Award (KIELA) twist of technology into my earth science background. That twist being Geographic Information Systems, in which I am currently obtaining a Masters of Science Degree at North Carolina Central University. As a novice in the imaging and geospatial field, I see the conference

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Session numbers are noted to the left of each title 39. Forensic Applications 56. Photogrammetric DEM Extraction Data Accuracy, Error Assessment and Image Registration 66. Photogrammetric Triangulation Models 45. Geospatial Data Accuracy/Error Assessment 95. Close-Range Photogrammetry 55. Radiometric Correction C3. Photogrammetry Solutions 58. Image Registration 76. Positional Accuracy Assessment Remote Sensing and GIS Data: Data Processing and Analysis Techniques 90. Multispectral Image Classification Accuracy 34. Object Feature Extraction I 42. Object Feature Extraction II Data Standards, Management, and Partnerships 50. Feature Based Registration 8. Geospatial Project Management 94. Data Fusion 31. Geospatial Collaboration through the National Spatial Data Infrastructure 97. 3D Feature Extraction 33. Open Source/Interoperability C1. Feature Extraction Solutions 79. Internet Data Services C6. Geospatial Mobility Solutions 81. Data Standards I – The Sensor Web: Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Sensor Web Services Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies: Hazards, Disaster and Emergency 82. Data Partnerships Response Management and Applications 93. Data Standards II – Development of Image Sensor Model Standards 26. ISPRS Working Group I.3 – Multi-Platform Sensing and Sensor 96. ASPRS PDAD – Digital Data Quality, Traceability, and Admissibility Networks in Support of Natural Disaster Management C4. Data Sharing Solutions 48. Environmental/Public Health Applications 96. ASPRS PDAD – Rapid Response Imaging Geospatial Education and Issues 80. Homeland Security Applications 1. Wetland Education through Maps and Aerial Photogrammetry 83. Atmospheric Applications (WETMAAP) 89. Natural Hazard Applications 7. ASPRS SAC I – Getting A Job 98. Improving Disaster Management and Emergency Response 11. ASPRS PDD – Guidelines for Procurement of Professional Aerial Imagery, Photogrammetry, Lidar, and Related Remote Sensor Base and Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies: Hydrologic/Aquatic Monitoring, Geospatial Mapping Services Mapping, and Applications 14. ASPRS GISD/ACSM – The Interface between Cartography and 3. Oceanography Applications Remote Sensing 15. Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Program (PNAMP) I 24. Geospatial Education 23. Hydrologic Applications I 27. ASPRS SAC II – Successfully Entering the Workforce 29. Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Program (PNAMP) II 38. ASPRS SAC III – Scholarships and Grants: Funding Your Way to Success 52. Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Program (PNAMP) III 47. Geographic Information Science (GISc) Licensing Issues 53. Wetland/Aquatic Vegetation Mapping 49. ASPRS SAC IV – Scientific Communication I: Organizing and 59. Hydrologic Applications II Constructing a Scientific Paper 64. Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Program (PNAMP) IV 51. AmericaView 72. Hydrologic Applications III 61. ASPRS SAC V – Scientific Communication II: Proper Manuscript Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies: Natural Resource/Vegetation Preparation Modeling and Applications 74. ASPRS SAC VI – Scientific Communication III: Grammar for 2. Soil Applications Educated Writers of Scientific English 9. Fire Applications 75. ASPRS 10-Year Industry Forecast – Phase V Update 17. Vegetation Dynamics I 84. ASPRS SAC VII – Scientific Communication IV: The Publication 25. Rangeland Land Cover Mapping Process – From Submission to Print 28. Vegetation Dynamics II Land Cover Change Datasets, Applications, and Analysis 44. Natural Resource Applications I 18. Urban Applications I 46. Geophysical Applications 30. Urban Applications II 54. Vegetation Dynamics III 70. Land Cover Change Datasets and Applications 65. Natural Resource Applications II 77. Landscape Pattern Analysis 78. Invasive Species Mapping I 88. Object-based LULC Classification 86. Agricultural Applications I C5. Change Analysis Solutions 87. Vegetation Mapping 91. Invasive Species Mapping II Lidar and Other Digital Elevation Model Technologies and Applications 92. Global Studies 5. Lidar – General I 96. Agricultural Applications II 10. DEM Surface Modeling 12. 3D Visualization Remote Sensing and Imagery Systems 13. ASPRS PDAD – Airborne Lidar Mapping Technology 4. MODIS Imagery 21. Lidar – General II 16. ASPRS PDAD – Trends in Digital Aerial Imagery 22. Lidar – Forest Inventory and Assessment I 19. Thermal Imagery 35. Lidar – Forest Inventory and Assessment II 32. Radar Applications 37. Lidar – Data Accuracy Assessment I 36. ASPRS PDAD – Digital Cameral Data Applications 43. Lidar – Data Accuracy Assessment II 40. Satellite Imagery 57. Lidar – Urban Applications I 41. ASPRS PDAD – Airborne Digital Mapping Camera Systems: 63. Lidar – Forestry Applications Manufacturers’ Perspective 67. Lidar – Urban Applications II 60. High-Resolution Imagery 68. Lidar – Biomass Applications 62. ASPRS PDAD – Airborne Digital Mapping Camera Systems: Owners’ 71. IRSAR and SRTM Perspective C2. Lidar Data Processing Solutions 73. Digital Camera and Sensor Analysis and Calibration 85. ASPRS PDAD – Thermal Remote Sensing Photogrammetry 20. Photogrammetry

April 28 - May 2, 2008  Portland, Oregon 21 My Day-at-a-Glance Sunday, April 27th

Sunday, April 27th Time Event Room Attending 8:00 am to 5:00 pm ASPRS Committee Meeting — Executive Committee Portland Room – Doubletree Hotel

ASPRS Committee Meeting

Executive Committee 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Portland Room – Doubletree Hotel

Registration Desk Opens 4:00 pm to 7: 00 pm Oregon Convention Center

Monday, April 28th 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Workshop 1 — Professional Airborne Digital Mapping Systems — An Overview Room B113 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Workshop 2 — Image Classification Techniques for the Development of Accurate, Room B116 Detailed, Quantitative Land-cover Data 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Workshop 3 — Automated Linear Feature Extraction for a Production Environment Room B115 8:00 am to 12 noon Workshop 4 — Topics in Orthophoto Production Room B114 8:00 am to 12 noon Workshop 5 — Telegeoinformatics: An Introduction to Mobile Mapping Room B112 8:00 am to 12 noon User Group — Applanix Room A105 8:00 am to 12 noon User Group — ASD Inc Room A107 8:00 am to 12 noon User Group — Microsoft Room A106 9:00 am to 10:00 am ASPRS Committee Meeting — Division Directors Room B110 9:00 am to 10:00 am ASPRS Committee Meeting — Committee Chairs Room B111 10:00 am to 12 noon ASPRS Committee Meeting — Awards Committee Room B110 10:00 am to 12 noon ASPRS Committee Meeting — Membership Committee Room B111 10:00 am to 12 noon ASPRS Committee Meeting — Evaluation for Certification Committee Room B118 10:00 am to 12 noon ASPRS Committee Meeting — Region Officers Room B119 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ASPRS Committee Meeting — Convention Policy and Planning Committee Room B111 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ASPRS Committee Meeting — New Board Orientation Room B118 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm ASPRS Committee Meeting — Education and Professional Development Room B119 Committee 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Workshop 6 — Becoming a SAR User Room B112 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Workshop 7 — Thermal Remote Sensing Room B114 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm User Group — Intergraph Room A105 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm User Group — Optech Room A106

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Registration Desk Opens of linear features. In addition, the workshop with discuss user 6:30 am to 5:00 pm requirement and specification of deliverables; state-of-the-art extraction Oregon Convention Center tools; derivative products from aerial and satellite imagery; throughput variables; current challenges, and pending breakthroughs. Workshops WS 4 WS 1 Topics in Orthophoto Production Professional Airborne Digital Mapping Systems — An Overview Frank L. Scarpace, Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Dave Fuhr, Airborne Data Systems 8:00 am to 12 noon, CEU .4 Brian Huberty, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Room B114 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, CEU .8 Room B113 INTERMEDIATE Workshop: In order to maximize the benefits of this course, participants should have previous experience with creating INTRODUCTORY Workshop orthophotos from aerial or satellite imagery. The primary objective of this tutorial is to review professional airborne This half day course will discuss the tasks and principles necessary digital mapping camera systems. We will discuss all advantages to produce orthophotos from both film and digital aerial images. The and disadvantages of these new, dynamic systems - technical, costs, topics that will be covered include: a review of aerotriangulation, feasibility, calibration and applications. Participants will leave with automated aerotriangulation methods, producing simple orthophoto a better understanding of what it takes to map their projects by either mosaics, methods of automatic and manual generation of the seam contracting or acquiring airborne digital mapping camera systems. lines, methods of automatic and manual color balance including correcting for uneven scene illumination and reflection from water, WS 2 creating orthorectified overlays and creating true orthophotos within cities. Methods of creating orthophotos from the recent high resolution Image Classification Techniques for the Development of Accurate, satellites will be covered. Methods of creating orthophotos from direct Detailed, Quantitative Land-cover Data Kenneth A. Stumpf, Geographic Resource Solutions georeferencing will be discussed. John Koltun, Geographic Resource Solutions 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, CEU .8 WS 5 Room B116 Telegeoinformatics: An Introduction to Mobile Mapping INTRODUCTORY Workshop: This workshop is designed as a workflow Robert Burtch, Ferris State University that takes participants through the different stages of a land cover 8:00 am to 12 noon, CEU .4 mapping (data development) project while identifying problems, Room B112 issues, and concerns and comparing and contrasting traditional INTRODUCTORY Workshop: The purpose of this workshop is to and alternative techniques. The workshop is built around the four introduce the participants to the principles of mobile mapping and major parts of an Image Classification Project - Data Acquisition mobile computing. and Preparation, Image Classification, Pixel to Polygon Conversion, and Accuracy Assessment. The workshop wraps up with a Location-based services are growing in importance and the concept of comprehensive summary followed by final questions and answers. telegeoinformatics will be defined and the components and applications will be described. The first part of the workshop will describe mobile mapping systems, configurations, and processing. This will involve the WS 3 integration of data collection tools such as GPS, inertial measurement, Automated Linear Feature Extraction for a Production Environment digital cameras, laser scanners, and other spatial data collection devices. Raad A. Saleh, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology The workshop will not discuss the theory of these particular systems Maha A. Jaafar, ZMD America, Inc. but will stress the interrelationships. Some basic introduction of the 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, CEU .8 technology will be presented. The advantages and disadvantages will Room B115 be talked about as well as limitations to the technology. The second part of the workshop will discuss mobile computing systems. The Those mapping professionals, INTERMEDIATE Workshop: technology will be presented to show the participant how specific photogrammetrists, production managers, and decision-makers hardware systems can be used in the field. Tradeoffs in the computing interested in the cost-effectiveness and performance of state-of-the- systems will be discussed. Wireless technologies will be introduced and art automated linear feature extraction tools and systems. explained. Finally, the workshop will show the advantages of placing From a production point of view, the premise of advanced automated computing assets in the field and how an organization can exploit these extraction of linear feature, such as roads and transmission lines, is that technologies in updating and maintaining their data resources. such automation would yield a considerable business advantage. Such an advantage is attained through substantial savings in labor cost of skilled stereo operators. There is a number of fairly distinct schools of thought, hence tool development, of how to automate the extraction of linear features to attain a “production-viable” solution. Unlike the case with surface extraction, automation of linear feature extraction is an ill-defined problem, thus requires more understanding to ensure its cost effectiveness. This workshop will provide an intensive overview of the various approaches in the theory and conceptual design of automated extraction

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User Groups ASPRS Committee Meetings

Applanix Division Directors 8:00 am to 12 noon 9:00 am to 10:00 am Room A105 Room B110 SCALABLE PRODUCTS AND SOLUTIONS FOR MOBILE MAPPING Committee Chairs AND POSITIONING 9:00 am to 10:00 am This meeting will provide the user with an update on what is new from Room B111 Applanix, Topics will include: Awards Committee • 2-hour introductory training session on POSPac Air 5.0, with 10:00 am to 12 noon particular emphasis on the benefits of being able to use existing Room B110 reference station networks and fly high banked turns to reduce overall deployment and flight costs. Membership Committee 10:00 am to 12 noon • An overview on the solutions offered for large format film and Room B111 digital sensor platforms. • An overview of the Applanix DSS 439 and its applications and Evaluation for Certification Committee market segments 10:00 am to 12 noon Room B118 • An overview of the Applanix Landmark mobile asset management system. Region Officers 10:00 am to 12 noon ASD Inc Room B119 8:00 am to 12 noon Convention Policy and Planning Committee Room A107 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm For new and existing users of ASD’s rugged field spectrometers, this Room B111 session will include an introduction to ASD Inc. and field spectroscopy, followed by a demonstration of the benchmark FieldSpec® 3 New Board Orientation spectroradiometer. We will cover basic set-up, operation of the 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm instrument, the RS3 control software with upgraded features, and the Room B118 use of foreoptics and the Contact Probe. The session will conclude with an open Q/A discussion and attendees are encouraged to bring Education and Professional Development Committee application-specific questions. 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Room B119 Microsoft 8:00 am to 12 noon Workshops Room A106 Microsoft subsidiary Vexcel Imaging presents latest developments WS 6 of the UltraCamX large format digital camera system as well as new Becoming a SAR User photogrammetric workflow software solutions. Presentations highlight Don Atwood, Alaska Satellite Facility novel concepts in digital camera image processing software and Rudiger Gens, Alaska Satellite Facility outstanding results from aerial missions. This forum also highlights 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, CEU .4 the Microsoft Virtual Earth program, the strong impact of the modern Room B112 digital photogrammetric workflow on fully automated production, and This half-day workshop will introduce outlines the contribution of the UltraCam to this vast photogrammetric INTRODUCTORY Workshop: Remote Sensing professionals to Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). project. Please reserve your seat by emailing [email protected]. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) offers many advantages to practitioners of remote sensing and GIS. SAR images day/night, independent of clouds, has the ability to extract topography, and discern ground motion on the scale of millimeters. Yet despite the advantages of this technology, SAR is used only by a minority of the remote sensing community. Fortunately, this is changing with the increasing availability of SAR data. Currently, researchers can access new data from ERS- 2, RADARSAT-1, ENVISAT, ALOS, and TerraSAR-X; with more satellites to be launched soon. The goal of this course is to assist remote sensing personnel in taking the first steps towards becoming SAR users. After a brief introduction to SAR attributes, strengths, and weaknesses, the course will focus on

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WS 7 Thermal Remote Sensing Charles Olson, Senior Image Analyst, Michigan Tech Research Institute 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, CEU .4 Room B114 INTRODUCTORY Workshop: Anyone involved in or considering the use of thermal sensors for crop, forest or land-use monitoring, geo- botanical prospecting and/or modeling of thermal energy upwelling from terrestrial features should take this workshop. In this workshop we will examine the factors affecting thermal signals upwelling from terrain features. Effects of these factors on applications of thermal data in agriculture, forestry, geology, water/wetland management, and wildlife management will be presented.

User Groups

Intergraph 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Room A105 Join Intergraph to learn about the latest updates in our solutions for Image Acquisition and Geospatial Data Production systems for producing maps, digital terrain models (DTMs), and other geographic data that government, military, and commercial organizations need to preserve accuracy and precision of data. Intergraph experts will highlight our industry-leading technology including the latest information on the Z/I Imaging Digital Mapping Camera (DMC), as well as flight and sensor management systems and automated production systems.

Optech 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Room A106 Optech is a world leader in advanced laser-based survey instruments. Optech products offer client-driven solutions in topographic mapping, hydrographic surveying, laser imaging, space-based atmospheric monitors and landing/docking systems, as industrial level/positioning sensors. All existing and new customers are welcome to participate in the annual Optech open user group meeting at ASPRS. With informative announcements, case studies and interactive discussions, everyone will learn more on how Optech’s new developments and current products can assist lidar companies reach their business goals.

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Tuesday, April 29th Time Event Room Attending 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Workshop 8 — Hyperspectral Image Processing and Feature Extraction: Maximizing Geospatial Room B116 Information Retrieval 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Workshop 9 — Preparing for ASPRS Certification Room B113 8:00 am to 12 noon Workshop 10 — Introducing Active Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Room B114 8:00 am to 12 noon Workshop 11 — Image Enhancement: Methods and Results of Contrast Manipulation, Local Filters, Room B115 and Image Transforms 8:00 am to 12 noon Workshop 12 — Remote Sensing of Wetlands Room B112 8:00 am to 12 noon User Group — DIMAC Room A107 8:00 am to 12 noon User Group — ENVI Room A105 8:00 am to 12 noon User Group — GeoCue Room A108 8:00 am to 12 noon User Group — Leica Room A106 8:00 am to 12 noon User Group — QCoherent Room A104 9:00 am to 11:00 am ASPRS Committee Meeting — Photogrammetric Applications Division (PAD) — Defense Room B110 Photogrammetry Subcommittee 9:00 am to 11:00 am ASPRS Committee Meeting — Photogrammetric Applications Division (PAD) — Close-Range Room B111 Photogrammetry Subcommittee 9:00 am to 11:00 am ASPRS Committee Meeting — Journal Policy Committee and Publications Committee (Joint Meeting) Room B118 9:00 am to 11:00 am ASPRS Committee Meeting — Professional Practices Division (PPD) Room B119 11:00 am to 12 noon ASPRS Committee Meeting — Sustaining Members Council Room B118 11:00 am to 12 noon ASPRS Committee Meeting — Photogrammetric Applications Division (PAD) Room B119 11:00 am to 12 noon ASPRS Committee Meeting — Data Preservation and Archive Committee Room B111 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm ASPRS Committee Meeting — Electronic Communications Committee Room B110 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm ASPRS Committee Meeting — Photogrammetric Applications Division (PAD) — Transportation Room B115 Surveys Subcommittee 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Workshop 13 — Looking Above the Terrain Model: Lidar for Vegetation Assessment Room B112 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Workshop 14 — SAR Data and Its Applications User Room B114 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm User Group — BAE Room A106 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm User Group — Dudley Thompson Mapping Corporation Room A108 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm User Group — ESRI Room A105 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm User Group — INPHO Room A107 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm User Group — Merrick Room A104 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm ASPRS Committee Meeting — Photogrammetric Applications Division (PAD) — Lidar Subcommittee Room B111 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm ASPRS Committee Meeting — Standards Committee Room B118 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm ASPRS Committee Meeting — Primary Data Acquisition Division (PDAD) Room B119 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ASPRS Committee Meeting — Photogrammetric Applications Division (PAD) — Softcopy Room B110 Photogrammetry Subcommittee 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ASPRS Committee Meeting — Remote Sensing Application Division (RSAD) and Geographic Room B118 Information Systems Division (GIS) (Joint Meeting) 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm ASPRS Committee Meeting — By-Laws Committee Room B119 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm ASPRS Committee Meeting — Division Directors Room B111 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm Speed Networking Room B117 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm ASPRS Committee Meeting — Student Advisory Council Room 118 26 www.asprs.org/portland08 Tuesday, April 29th Pre-Conference

Registration Desk Opens WS 9 6:30 am to 5:00 pm Preparing for ASPRS Certification Oregon Convention Center Robert Burtch, Professor, Ferris State University Rakesh Malhotra, North Carolina Central University Workshops 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, CEU .8 Room B113 WS 8 INTERMEDIATE Workshop: Assumes participants have subject Hyperspectral Image Processing and Feature Extraction: Maximizing knowledge and are serious about taking the Certification Exam. Geospatial Information Retrieval William Farrand, Space Science Institute The purpose of this workshop is to prepare individuals who are Stuart Blundell, Visual Learning Systems, Inc. planning to sit for the ASPRS Certification exams as a Certified Photogrammetrist or Certified Mapping Scientist in either Remote 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, CEU .8 Sensing or GIS. The workshop will begin by explaining the purpose and Room B116 form of the exam. It will then identify key topical areas that an applicant INTERMEDIATE Workshop: Intended for users of remote sensing data should be aware of prior to taking the exam. Topics will start with a including analysts who may have used multispectral data and GIS review of the basic concepts and sample questions to show how they systems and are now interested in using hyperspectral data and will be tested for on the exam. Finally, the workshop will try to identify feature extraction in their work. Also appropriate for managers who resources in which exam takers should be aware of and study from in must make decisions about what kind of remote sensing data to their preparation for the examination. purchase for their projects and/or what kind of image processing or feature extraction software that they should purchase. WS 10 Imaging spectrometry, commonly referred to as hyperspectral remote Introducing Active Hyperspectral Remote Sensing sensing, provides high-resolution spectral information for environmental Andre Samberg, AVAPROedu/Training & Consulting and natural resource projects. Hyperspectral image processing approaches can also be applied to broadband multispectral imagery and 8:00 am to 12 noon, CEU .4 results from these analyses can be used to enhance automated feature Room B114 extraction techniques. In this workshop, we will provide students INTRODUCTORY Workshop: This workshop has been designed at with an introduction to imaging spectrometry, hyperspectral image the introductory level for those people, who are interested in processing techniques, and automated feature extraction to demonstrate understanding what the term “active hyperspectral remote sensing” how results obtained from digital imagery can add value to maintenance stands for. There are no pre-requisites. However, a familiarity with of geospatial databases. Hyperspectral data requires a substantially optical remote sensing techniques and possibly previous experience different processing approach from that required for multispectral data; would form a good background for a more efficient acquisition of however, such an approach can add value to information extraction new knowledge. from broadband multispectral data. We will emphasize that the added In general, active hyperspectral remote sensing system is a complex value in imaging spectrometry is on the spectrometry, the ability to system. Its operating principle is based on multi-discipline achievements identify materials based on their reflectance signatures. We will briefly in both the fundamental sciences and the various technologies. This discuss the phenomenology of reflectance spectrometry and explain workshop will provide an overview of a history of active hyperspectral why some materials are more amenable to mapping than others. We will technology. The students will learn how a laser rangefinder migrated describe commercially available processing systems that are available into a multi-spectral lidar, and later into a hyperspectral lidar. A for processing hyperspectral and multispectral data and discuss the necessary physical background and the key scientific disciplines processing techniques within those packages. Certain processing will be outlined and briefly described. Project managers will find an techniques are better suited to certain applications. We will explain why interesting discussion about a concept of novel active hyperspectral this is so. We will also discuss some of the advantages and shortcomings RS vs. traditional passive hyperspectral RS. Aerial mapping service of current airborne and orbital hyperspectral systems as well as planned providers and mission planning officers will find useful information systems. about the state-of-the-art as well as a proposed three-tier surveillance The student will be introduced to the concepts of developing feature with regard to the SFS technology. The advantages and limitations extraction models for automated feature extraction using hyperspectral, of a hyperspectral lidar system will be discussed too. In the end, the Lidar, DEMs and multispectral data within a GIS. We will provide real- workbook will consist an extensive list of further reading resources. world examples of how end products, derived from hyperspectral and multispectral data processing, including resultant mineral and vegetation species maps, can be incorporated into the Feature Analyst for feature extraction in a GIS. The desired final result is a map that will be of immediate utility to the end user. We will provide a package of materials to the students that will include hard copies of the material presented and an extensive list of references on the topics addressed. We will engage the class with an in- class exercise and several “take-home” hands-on exercises.

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WS 11 ENVI Image Enhancement: Methods and Results of Contrast 8:00 am to 12 noon Manipulation, Local Filters, and Image Transforms Room A105 Larry Fox, Humbolt State University ITT Visual Information Solutions invites you to the ENVI User Group 8:00 am to 12 noon, CEU .4 Meeting. If you’re an ENVI user or would like to learn about ENVI’s Room B115 image exploitation capabilities, this meeting is for you. See ENVI users INTRODUCTORY Workshop: Many GIS users are beginning to consider from a variety of disciplines showcase their ENVI applications. Talk the value of digital images in their work. This workshop is designed to the ENVI experts and learn more about some of the latest advances for those new to digital image processing. in ENVI including our new ENVI Feature Extraction Module, SPEAR tools for automated workflows,and ESRI ArcGIS integration. We will address several image enhancement tools, from basic histogram ramps to complex band transforms such as the principal components transformation. The hurdle that beginners need to jump is the GeoCue understanding of Input DN vs. Output DN, the functions that produce 8:00 am to 12 noon output and their relation to the histogram, both input and output. Once Room A108 these concepts are firmly grasped, then global contrast enhancement is straightforward. While some newer imaging and GIS software packages GeoCue Corporation invites you to their User Group Meeting for an are adding a simple contrast and brightness button, many still require informative session that could have a dramatic positive impact on your the user to understand ramping functions and their relation to the productivity. GeoCue is a geospatial process framework that has been input and the output histogram. Many practitioners feel the best color widely adopted for tasks such as LIDAR production and other map enhancements will always be made with a complete understanding production tasks. We will demonstrate the new features we have added of histogram modifications. Local operators (edge enhancement and to our products to enable easy end-user workflow configurations. We smoothing) can modestly improve image appearance when used will also discuss the advanced products we are releasing for distributed appropriately. Image transforms reduce a number of correlated spectral processing and distributed project management. bands to a subset of uncorrelated derived “bands” useful for contrast enhancement and transformation back to RGB space or for subsequent Leica 8:00 am to 12 noon WS 12 Room A106 Remote Sensing of Wetlands Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging invites you to join us for our John Lyon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency User Group Meeting at the ASPRS Annual Conference in Portland, Ross Lunetta, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Oregon (8A-12N, April 29, 2008). 8:00 am to 12 noon, CEU .4 During this meeting, Leica Geosystems’ Product Managers, Room B112 Support Engineers and Sales staff will present our latest enterprise, INTRODUCTORY Workshop photogrammetry, remote sensing and visualization technology. Additionally, there will be a special focus on the new capabilities The identification and characterization of wetlands can be greatly of Leica Photogrammetry Suite 9.2, medium-format digital frame enhanced using remote sensor technologies. Basic aerial photo processing and enterprise photogrammetry workflows. interpretation supplies a great deal of information, as do computer- enhancement of remote sensor data. The utility of these approaches comes from their application over time and space, and leads one to QCoherent an understanding of the influences of hydrology, precipitation, soils, 8:00 am to 12 noon plants, and topography that occasion the presence of wetlands. These Room A104 presentations show how technologies and field work can greatly add to At the LP360 user group meeting QCoherent Software will provide the identification of wetlands in a variety of ecosystems. walkthroughs of LP360’s ability to manage and manipulate LIDAR data. Topics such as point cloud editing, conflating GIS features /breaklines, creating and exporting derivatives, and available out of the User Groups box QA/QC tools will be discussed. QCoherent Software developers will be on hand to discuss customization and programming options DIMAC using LPObjects. QCoherent Software encourages both existing users 8:00 am to 12 noon and those who are unfamiliar with our products to attend. Room A107 DIMAC SYSTEMS invites you to see the future at our annual User Group Meeting focused on our innovative and affordable DiMAC large format digital aerial camera. Technological features, new and future developments as well as use of the system will be highlighted during this session. This free workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn more about the DiMAC camera and its impressive capabilities. For more information, please call 00-352-2651-2166 in Europe or 303-651-2018 in the US. Email us at [email protected].

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ASPRS Committee Meetings By-Laws Committee 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Photogrammetric Applications Division (PAD) — Defense Room B119 Photogrammetry Subcommittee 9:00 am to 11:00 am Division Directors Room B110 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Room B111 Photogrammetric Applications Division (PAD) — Close-Range Photogrammetry Subcommittee Student Advisory Council 9:00 am to 11:00 am 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm Room B111 Room 118

Journal Policy Committee and Publications Committee (Joint Meeting) 9:00 am to 11:00 am Workshops Room B118

Professional Practices Division (PPD) WS 13 9:00 am to 11:00 am Looking Above the Terrain Model: Lidar for Vegetation Assessment Sorin C. Popescu, Texas A&M University Room B119 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, CEU .4 Sustaining Members Council Room B112 11:00 am to 12 noon INTERMEDIATE Workshop: The participants are expected to have Room B118 a basic understanding of remote sensing techniques and image processing. Photogrammetric Applications Division (PAD) The overall goal of this workshop is to introduce participants to 11:00 am to 12 noon lidar concepts, processing techniques, and applications for deriving Room B119 information on forest vegetation resources and canopy parameters. Data Preservation and Archive Committee More specific objectives are to: (1) familiarize participants with basic lidar and laser ranging concepts; (2) introduce types of lidar sensors for 11:00 am to 12 noon forest resources assessment and the LAS lidar data format; (3) review Room B111 algorithms for deriving information on terrain elevation and forest Electronic Communications Committee resources; (4) review processing techniques for generating canopy 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm height models and “multi-band” lidar height bins, (5) review methods Room B110 for deriving vegetation information at individual tree, plot, and stand level; (6) introduce participants to TreeVaW, a lidar processing software Photogrammetric Applications Division (PAD) — Transportation for identifying and measuring individual trees on lidar-derived canopy Surveys Subcommittee height models, and (7) discuss an array of processing techniques 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm derived from multi- and hyper-spectral image processing for using Room B115 lidar-derived data products for assessing vegetation parameters. This workshop is intended to be a half-day workshop at intermediate level, Photogrammetric Applications Division (PAD) — Lidar Subcommittee as the participants are expected to have a basic understanding of remote 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm sensing techniques and image processing. Room B111

Standards Committee 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Room B118

Primary Data Acquisition Division (PDAD) 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Room B119

Photogrammetric Applications Division (PAD) — Softcopy Photogrammetry Subcommittee 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Room B110

Remote Sensing Application Division (RSAD) and Geographic Information Systems Division (GIS) (Joint Meeting) 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Room B118

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WS 14 INPHO SAR Data and Its Applications User 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Don Atwood, Alaska Satellite Facility Room A107 Rudiger Gens, Alaska Satellite Facility INPHO, leading supplier of solutions for photogrammetry and terrain 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, CEU .4 modeling, will present new features of their photogrammetric system Room B114 (version 5.1). Highlights will be the new production line for pushbroom INTRODUCTORY Workshop: This workshop will benefit all novice and imagery from aerial triangulation to orthophoto production, the intermediate level SAR users. generation of very dense digital surface models (DSM) with MATCH- T, the new seamline finding function of OrthoVista, and tools for This half-day workshop will introduce Remote Sensing professionals distributed processing of large projects. For more information and to to Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). At the conclusion of the course, the register, please contact David Snyder at +1 (225) 6124873 or david_ participants will understand the fundamentals of SAR as well as how [email protected]. SAR data is acquired, processed, and used in a wide variety of scientific applications. The introduction to fundamentals of SAR data covers; the SAR specific Merrick characteristics of the microwave signal, the image geometry and the 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm correction of its inherent distortions, and the processing of SAR data. Room A104 This part of the course provides the technical background required to ® handle SAR data in a meaningful way. An image interpretation exercise The second annual MARS User Group Meeting will be held from 1 th will reinforce some of the basic concepts. – 5 PM on Tuesday, April 29 at the Oregon Convention Center. The ® The second part of the course deals with the applications of SAR purpose of this meeting is to assist current MARS Explorer users with data. It covers; an overview of SAR applications, the applications for technical issues and to provide LiDAR training to new users by allowing SAR interferometric data, the combination of SAR data with other them to ‘test drive’ the software application and learn about its many ® complimentary data sources, and the latest developments in SAR capabilities. MARS Explorer is a stand-alone Windows application applications. used to visualize, process and analyze lidar, orthophotography and hyperspectral imagery.

User Groups Social Event BAE Speed Networking 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Room A106 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm Room B117 BAE Systems demonstrates new features in SOCET SET® v5.4.1 as well as functionality for the forthcoming SOCET GXP® v3.0 release, Whether this is your first ASPRS which introduces the Microsoft® Ribbon user interface as well as many Conference or if you have had an new photogrammetric applications, and establishes the union of image opportunity to attend previously, you analysis, geospatial analysis, photogrammetry and mapping within a are invited to join other students and single product. Terrain extraction continues to be an area focus with young professionals from all over the enhancements to the Next-Generation Automatic Terrain Extraction world at this special event designed (NGATE) module and the addition of numerous new terrain editing tools. just for you. You’ve heard of Speed Dating. We’re offering Speed Networking Dudley Thompson Mapping Corporation where you will get to meet at least 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm seven new people who may become Room A108 good friends for the conference or the rest of your life. DTM Corporation hosts the AeroSys/IPS user group meeting. The At 5:30 on Tuesday evening, immediately following the Speed latest developments in our auto-aerotriangulation software, AeroMatch- Networking, you are welcome to join the Student Advisory Council AAT, will be demonstrated. Workflow procedures will be presented meeting and learn the many ways you can become more involved in followed by discussions of production expectations and benchmarks. ASPRS and further your professional life.

ESRI 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Room A105 ESRI will host a User Group Meeting at ASPRS to discuss how the latest ArcGIS software can enhance how your organization works with geographic data. ESRI staff will demonstrate raster data management, ArcGIS Image Server, ArcGIS server, and ArcGIS desktop products. Open discussion and questions are encouraged. Please join us as our guests for this forum. If interested, please visit the ESRI booth to receive your invitation. For more information on ESRI and ArcGIS software, visit www.esri.com/maps.

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Wednesday, April 30th Time Event Room Attending 8:00 am to 9:00 am Opening Session — Turning Point: The Future Direction of the Geospatial Industry Oregon Ballroom

9:15 am to 5:00 pm Wetland Education through Maps and Aerial Photography (WETMAPP) — Seminar for Educa- Room A103 tors 9:15 am to 10:45 am Technical Sessions 2-14 See individual session description 10:00 am to 7:00 pm Exhibit Hall Open Exhibit Hall A 10:00 am to 7:00 pm Poster Sessions Exhibit Hall A 10:45 am to 11:00 am Beverage Break in Exhibit Hall Exhibit Hall A 11:00 am to 12:00 noon Hot Topics Interactive Networking See individual session description 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm 19th Annual Awards Luncheon and 74th Installation of Officers Oregon Ballroom 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Technical Sessions 15-27 See individual session description 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Exhibit Hall Guided Tour for Students 3:00 pm to 3:30 pm Beverage Break in Exhibit Hall Exhibit Hall A 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm Technical Sessions 28-39 See individual session description 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm Exhibitors’ Reception Exhibit Hall A

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Registration Desk Opens 6:30 am to 5:45 pm Oregon Convention Center

Turning Point: The Future Direction of the Geospatial Industry 8:00 am to 9:00 am Oregon Ballroom The last ten years have witnessed enormous technological and process changes in the Geospatial Industry, and this trend shows no sign of slowing down. On the contrary, as the population of spatial information users continue to realize that “geo-information” ties all things together, our industry is facing a changing and challenging landscape. The issues of accuracy, collection, distribution, and ownership on all levels and the resulting effects on national security, business, and governance are topics that we as industry professionals must be aware of. This session, moderated by an industry expert, Mike Renslow, will engage a panel of geospatial industry leaders who will discuss their opinions of where our industry is heading and what we can do to prepare for the future. Moderator: Mike Renslow, Renslow Mapping Services Imaging Systems, Vice President of Commercial Imaging Systems, and Executive Vice President of Mapping and Civil Engineering. His Mike Renslow is a photogrammetric consultant involvement during most of his time with Intergraph and Z/I Imaging specializing in the application of advanced technolo- involved the integration of advanced hardware technologies into remote gies. He has 41 years of experience as an engineering sensing and mapping applications. surveyor, photogrammetrist, cartographer, aerial pho- Prior to his tenure at Intergraph, Graham served as an officer in the tographer, and business manager working for govern- United States Navy where he was a Physics instructor at the United ment, academia, and the private sector. Renslow has States Navel Nuclear Power School. been a member of ASPRS for 34 years, and served as Graham has over 20 years of experience in leading software and hard- president in 1999-2000. He is a ASPRS Certified Photogrammetrist and ware development teams in a variety of development and consulting proj- Registered Professional Photogrammetrist in Oregon. ects related to government and commercial mapping projects and products. Renslow is currently the technical editor for Photogrammetric Engineer- Graham received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the ing & Remote Sensing, an ASPRS Workshop Instructor, Treasurer for the University of West Florida. Subsequently, he received his Master of Science ASPRS Foundation, and Chair of the Evaluation for Certification Committee. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Huntsville. Panelist: Peter Becker, Product Manager, ESRI Panelist: Terrence Keating, Senior Vice President and Peter Becker is the imagery and mapping products CTO, AERO-METRIC, Inc. manager at ESRI. For the past three years he has been Dr. Terrence Keating has more than 25 years of expe- managing the development of ArcGIS Image Server. rience in the mapping industry: five years in teaching Prior to joining ESRI he was for 15years techni- and research, 14 years in mapping and GIS software cal manager at MAPS geosystems, executing large development, and six years either managing divisions international photogrammetry, remote sensing and of mapping and GIS firms or providing domestic and mapping projects. During his time at MAPS he was international project management and consulting. also instrumental in the development of innovative mapping production Keating currently serves as Aero-Metric’s CTO and as a Senior Vice Presi- flows and serving of large image datasets. Prior to MAPS he worked dent and Regional Manager at AERO-METRIC, INC.’s Sheboygan Office. for Logica Aerospace and Defense Ltd in the UK. Becker received his Keating is a Registered Land Surveyor, Professional Engineer and Bachelor of Engineering degree in Systems Engineering from Univer- Certified Photogrammetrist. He is a Past President of ASPRS. sity of Sheffield, UK. Panelist: George Southard, Vice President Cary and Associates Panelist: Tina Cary, President, Americas, Digital Imaging, Leica Geosystems Dr. Tina Cary has more than 30 years of experi- George Southard has worked with Leica since 1993 ence in remote sensing and GIS, including research, and currently serves as Vice President Americas, training, and marketing. She is a past president and a Digital Imaging. Southard’s career in the field of pho- Fellow of the American Society for Photogrammetry togrammetry and aerial photography began in 1977 and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). She earned a PhD in working as an aerial photographer and aerial photo Geography from Columbia University in New York. lab manager for a small mapping company in the Salt While at Columbia, she was a Fulbright Fellow, lead- Lake City area. In 1984 he accepted a position as business manager for -long field project in Kenya. Her Master’s degree was also in ing a year Analytical Surveys, Inc. in Colorado Springs where he worked for 7 Geography from Columbia. Her BS was in mathematics from Purdue years. After a brief period working as an account manager for Ge- University, where she got her start in remote sensing at the Laboratory oSearch, Inc., Southard began his employment with Leica where he has for Applications of Remote Sensing. worked as a sales representative, sales manager and general manager. She founded Cary and Associates a decade ago to provide marketing During his years in the geomatics profession, Southard has been a As a consultant and key- consulting and services in the geotechnologies. member of ASPRS and has served as the Leica corporate representative note speaker she has worked with senior executives around the world in to ASPRS, and also served two years on the ASPRS Board of Directors all sectors of the geotechnology industry from Fortune 100 companies as chairman of the Sustaining Members Council. to universities, federal agencies and non-profits. Southard earned a master’s degree in Geography in 1977 with an Before founding her company, Cary was with Space Imaging EOSAT emphasis in cartography and photogrammetry from Brigham Young for ten years. During that time, she had wide-ranging responsibilities in University. He has continued his education in the areas of Business eting and ultimately directed the development of new spatial data mark Management and Business Finance. products in emerging markets. Panelist: Lewis Graham, President and Chief ASPRS Awards Technical Officer, GeoCue Corporation Honorary Member Award Lewis Graham was the funding CEO of Z/I Imag- SAIC Estes Memorial Teaching Award ing, now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intergraph Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship Corporation. Prior to the formation of Z/I Imaging, Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship Graham served in various capacities for the Intergraph Corporation including Executive Manager of Federal

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~1~ ~5~ Wetland Education through Maps and Aerial Photography (WET- Lidar — General I MAPP) — Seminar for Educators Moderator: Ralph A. Haugerud, U.S. Geological Survey Moderator: Lawrence R. Handley, U.S. Geological Survey, National Room B112 Wetlands Research Center A Consumer’s Perspective on Lidar Data Quality Catherine Lockwood, Chadron State College Ralph A. Haugerud, U.S. Geological Survey 9:15 am to 5:00 pm Diana Martinez Room A103 Toward Automatic Generation of Digital True Orthophoto by using Dense This seminar is designed for educators to increase their ability to Lidar Data promote student awareness of and interest in wetland issues. This Keinan Eran, Mapping and Geo-Information Engineering, Faculty of seminar will explore wetlands using aerial photography, satellite Civil and Environmental Engineering, Israel imagery, and wetland maps, and will introduce traditional mapping techniques into the classroom. Doytsher Yerach

~6~ Technical Sessions Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Moderator: Kaiguang Zhao, Spatial Sciences Lab 9:15 am to 10:45 am Room B110 ~2~ Using a Modified Gaussian Model to Predict Concentrations of Blue-green Soil Applications Algal Pigments in Eutrophic Indiana Reservoirs Moderator: Erik Strandhagen, GISP, Integral Consulting Inc. Anthony Robertson, Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University Room B118 - Purdue University Lin Li, Lenore Tedesco, Jeffrey Wilson, and Emmanuel Soyeux Modeling Bare Soil Exposure in a Semiarid Ecosystem using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems Bayesian Learning with Gaussian Processes for Classification of Jacob Tibbitts, Idaho State University GIS Training and Research Center Hyperspectral Data Nancy Glenn and Keith Weber Kaiguang Zhao, Spatial Sciences Lab Sorin Popescu and Xuesong Zhang Soil Erosion Calculation using Remote Sensing and GIS Alejandra M. Rojas-González, University of Puerto Rico Estimating Spatial Variations in Soil Organic Carbon using Hyperspectral Modeling and Analyzing Mass and Volume of DDx Contamination in Data and Map Algebra Salahuddin M. Jaber, Department of Water Management and Sediment for Environmental Remediation Erik Strandhagen, GISP, Integral Consulting Inc. Environment, Hashemite University, Jordan David G. Livermore, R.G. and Eron Dodak, R.G. Christopher L. Lant

~7~ ~3~ ASPRS SAC — Getting a Job Oceanography Applications Organized by the ASPRS Student Advisory Council Moderator: Kass Green, Kass Green and Associates Moderators: Sandra Hunkele, The Florida State University Room A107 Jonathan Thayn, Student Advisory Council Chlorophyll Distribution and Whale Occupancy Patterns: Using SeaWiFS Room A106 Ocean Color Data to Monitor Coastal Ecosystems Dynamics Getting a Job, a two-part special session comprised of an initial panel Michelle Kinzel, Oregon State University, Department of Geosciences discussion on resumes and CVs and then a break-out session in which Roberto Venegas and William Megill students are paired with an industry representative for a one-on-one Comparison of ADS40, UltraCam and DMC Digital Airborne Sensors mock interview. Kass Green, Kass Green and Associates Mark Tukman and Mark Finkbeiner

~4~ MODIS Imagery Moderator: Vincent Salomonson, University of Utah Room A105 Vegetation Dynamics in Hawaii with an Analysis of Long-term MODIS Vegetation Index Data Sunyurp Park, University of Hawaii at Hilo An Overview of Applications and Science Accomplishments using the NASA EOS Terra and Aqua MODIS Sensor Vincent Salomonson, University of Utah

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~8~ mechanisms are appropriate for these services. The intent is to provide Geospatial Project Management an updated document to assist organizations procuring geospatial Moderator: Donald Light, Rochester Institute of Technology mapping services in determining when it is appropriate to procure such services through a qualifications-based selection process. Room B117 The Growing Profession of Project Management, the Project Management Professional (PMP) in the Geospatial Industry ~12~ Raquel Charrois, Fugro EarthData Inc. 3D Visualization Moderator: Beth Goralski, Portland State University Geospatial Collaboration With Confidence David Russell, LPA Systems, Inc. Room B119 Christopher Wolfe Eye Movement Analysis in Visual Inspection of Geospatial Data Eugene Levin, Michigan Technological University Pennsylvania PAMAP Statewide Data Management Chris Markel, geographIT Gennady Gienko Jay Parrish and Doug Miller 4D Modeling of Cloud Formation Henry Theiss, Integrity Applications Incorporated Calibrating Digital Cameras at the Rochester Institute of Technology Donald Light, Rochester Institute of Technology Todd Johanesen and Shawn Usman Don Mckeown, Harvey Rhode, and Jason Faulring Integrating Advanced Technologies and Methods for Fast and Reliable 3D Modeling Georgeta Pop (Manea), Romanian Society for Photogrammetry and ~9~ Remote Sensing, Romania Fire Applications Moderator: Allyson Jason, U.S. Geological Survey RDBMS Technology for Managing Very Large Image and 3D Datasets Xavier Lopez, Oracle USA, Inc. Room B111 Evaluating Surface Fuel Models Using Object-, Rule-, and Pixel-based Image Classification Techniques ~13~ Muge Mutlu, Spatial Science Lab, Texas A&M University ASPRS PDAD Panel — Airborne Lidar Mapping Technology Moderator: Robert Eadie, Spatial Wave, Inc. Sorin Popescu Room B113 Measuring Wildfire Temperature using Hyperspectral Data Philip Dennison, University of Utah Panelists: Don Carswell, Optech, Inc. Lucy Kammer and Dar Roberts Glenn Farrington, Optech, Inc. Roman Kathofer, TopoSys GmbH ~10~ Ron Roth, Leica GeoSystems DEM Surface Modeling Mike Watry, QCohrent Software, LLC Moderator: Sheri Schneider, U.S. Geological Survey Rebecca Holman, Overwatch Geospatial Room B114 Industry experts will present the latest information on Lidar sensor tech- nology and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data production work flow. 3D Building Shape Regularization using Minimum Description Length Principles Gunho Sohn, York University, Canada ~14~ Yoonseok Jwa and Woosug Cho Joint ACSM-CAGIS/ASPRS-GISD Panel —The Interface between DEM Alignment, Registration and Evalution for SAR Interferometry Cartography and Remote Sensing Zhengxiao Tony Li, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging Moderator: Rob Edsall, Arizona State University James Bethel Room B115 Seamless Exemplar Inpainting Method using Poisson Merging and In this session, we explore the implications of using imagery as base Normalization for Terrain Void Filling information in these popular maps, as well as the implications of Harlan Yates, Harris Corporation using the default methods of cartographic symbolization. We call for Mark Rahmes, Patrick Kelley, and Josef Allen a systematic examination of these traditional cartographic abstraction guidelines with regard to geographic information communication through these dynamic applications. ~11~ Panelists: ASPRS PPD Panel — Guidelines for Procurement of Professional Rob Edsall, Arizona State University Aerial Imagery, Photogrammetry, Lidar, and Related Remote Sensor Ben Tuttle, University of Denver/CIRES, CU-Boulder Base and Geospatial Mapping Services Doug Vandegraft, US Fish and Wildlife Service Moderator: Doug Smith, David C. Smith & Associates, Inc. Monika Moskal, University of Washington Room B116 Matthew Dunbar, Kansas University ASPRS, MAPPS and ACSM have formed a joint committee that includes representatives from private industry, state and federal Exhibit Hall Open government. This committee is in the process of studying what constitutes professional vs. technical services and what procurement 10:00 am to 7:00 pm Exhibit Hall A 34 www.asprs.org/portland08 Wednesday, April 30th Conference Program – Poster Sessions

The following posters will be on display from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm, Wednesday, April 30th, in the Exhibit Hall A.

Testing the Precision of Lidar Forest Measurement Replications in Remote Monitoring of Diurnal Activity in Elk and Beef Cattle Grazing a Operational Settings Northwest Oregon Summer Range Theresa F. Arnold, Mississippi State University Michael Johnson, Oregon State University David L. Evans, Emily Schultz, Robert Parker, Roberto Gutierrez, P.E. Clark, D.G. Ganskopp, R.C. Cook, M. Vavra, M. Louhaichi, and and Amy Neuenschwander D.E. Johnson Predicting Tree Heights and Southeastern Forest Fire Fuel Models Using High Frequency GPS to Determine Spatial-temporal Activity of using Geoscience Laser Altimeter System Data Ungulates Andrew Ashworth, Department of Forestry, Mississippi State Michael Johnson, Oregon State Unversity University P.E. Clark, D.G. Ganskopp, R.C. Cook, M. Vavra, M. Louhaichi, and David L. Evans, William Cooke, Andrew Londo, and Amy D.E. Johnson Neuenschwander Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing Geospatial Accuracy Assessment of Hyperspectral and Lidar Data Classification of Online Data Management Project for the Maumee Watershed, Ohio Hardwood Tree Species and Stressed Ash Trees Patrick Lawrence, University of Toledo David Bartels, USDA APHIS PPQ CPHST Mission Texas Lab Kevin Czajkowski, David Dean, Katie Swartz, Phil Haney, Jim Coss, David Williams, Jim Ellenwood, and Frank Sapio and Rumiko Hayase Local Gradient and Local Maximum Analysis of Lidar Data for Tree Lidar in the Urban Environment: Applications in the City of Portland Crown Identification Kevin Martin, City of Portland - Bureau of Planning S. Bruce Blundell, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Using Photogrammetry to Analyze Potential Natural Hazards at Redoubt Volcano, Alaska Deriving Essential Dates of AWiFS and MODIS Data for the Gari Mayberry, U.S. Geological Survey Identification of Corn and Soybean Fields in the US Heartland Claire Boryan, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Steve Schilling and Christina Neal Land Management Applications of Remote Sensing and Matched Filter Subpixel Abundance Estimates in Mixture-tuned Matched Photogrammetry at the University of Alabama Filtered Classifications of Leafy Spurge (Euphorbia esula L.) Mark Brooks, Optimal Geomatics, Inc / University of Alabama Jessica Mitchell, Idaho State University Douglas Behm Nancy Glenn Lidar Contributions to Mt. St. Helens Engineering Reanalysis and Quantifying Basalt Rock Outcrops in Natural Resources Conservation Sediment Budget Service Soil Map Units using Landsat-5 Data Paul Cedfeldt, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Portland District Carol Moore, Idaho State University Doug Swanson and Patrick O’Brien Nancy Glenn USGS RMGSC Fire Science Activities: Grand County, Colorado Lidar Applications in Precision Forestry Christopher Cole, Parallel, Inc L. Monika Moskal, University of Washington Stacy Curry David Briggs, Akira Kato, Jeffrey Richardson, Guang Zheng, Todd Erdody, Sooyoung Kim, and Yuzhen Li Spatial Estimates of Plant Growth and Production Using Lidar Bruce Cook , University of Minnesota A Paradigm Shift for Remote Sensing Based Acreage Estimates Rick Mueller, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Paul Bolstad, Erik Naesset and Ryan Anderson Claire Boryan Lidar Derived Forest Structure for Fire Modeling Development and Comparison of Three Automated Individual Tree Todd Erdody, University of Washington Crown Detection and Delineation Algorithms for Augmenting Forest Akira Kato and L. Monika Moskal Inventory Parameter Collection Forest Inventory Characterization from Ground Based Lidar Andrew Niccolai, Yale University Zheng Guang, University of Washington Aaron Hohl L. Monika Moskal Wetland Delineation from Digital RGB and Color Infrared Imagery using Texture-mapping NLCD Data to Create Basemaps for use in an Photogrammetric Methods Automated Cartographic Workflow Joshua Persson Matthew Hampton, Metro Regional Services, Portland, Oregon Derivation of Leaf Area Index from Multiple Return, Small-footprint, Evaluation of Shape Characteristics of Vegetation Distribution in the Aerial Lidar in a Heterogeneous Mixed Forest Central Part of Tokyo by using High-resolution Satellite Images Jeffrey Richardson, University of Washington Hideki Hashiba, Dept. of Civil Engrg., College of Sci.and Tech., Soo-Hyung Kim, L. Monika Moskal, and Akira Kato Nihon Univ., Japan Land-Cover Change for the Willamette Valley Ecoregion A Protocol for Monitoring Vegetation, Bare Ground and Litter in Scaled Daniel Sorenson, U.S. Geological Survey Globally-positioned, Ground-level Digital Imagery Michael Johnson, Dept of Rangeland Ecology & Management Defining a Southern Pine Beetle Movement Corridor with Lidar Jared Stukey, Spatial Sciences Lab, Texas A&M University Mounir Louhaichi, Norman Harris, Patrick Clark, and Douglas Johnson Sorin Popescu, Robert Coulson, Andrew Birt, and Kaiguang Zhao

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Poster Sessions — continued Automated, Lidar Based Stand Delineation in Dense Natural Stands Alicia Sullivan, University of Washington Akira Kato Object-based Image Classification of High-resolution Color Infrared Data in Bankhead National Forest Wubishet Tadesse, Alabama A&M University Interactive Networking Luben Dimov 11:00 am to 12:00 noon Assessing the Risk of Wildfires to the Wildland-Urban interface using The one-hour HOT TOPIC discussion groups have become very High Resolution Remotely Sensed Data popular at the ASPRS Conference. We asked you what you wanted Miguel G. Velasco, United States Geological Survey to discuss, and here are your top six choices for this year. This is JoAnn Isbrecht and Pat Chavez an opportunity for all attendees to weigh in with their thoughts A Comparison of Three Classification Methods for a Texas on the issues listed below. Bottomland Hardwood System Using Lidar, SPOT-5, and Ancillary Hosted by ASPRS Divisions and Committees, you may attend Data any, or all, of the HOT TOPICS that you like. Zach Vernon, Texas A&M Spatial Sciences Lab Raghavan Srinivasan, Sorin Popescu,and Hongxing Liu The Voyages of the Starship “Enterprise GIS” Water Turbidity Parameters Derived from Satellite Imagery Room B113 Chi-Kuei Wang, National Cheng Kung University This session is for all those who have implemented an Enterprise Che-Chuan Kang GIS system and would like to share their expertise, or who are Seasonal NDVI Monitoring from a Geostationary Satellite considering implementing one at some point in the future. Come Hui Xu, IMSG Inc. discuss your goals, your successes, your rough spots, and your tips Kevin Gallo, Peter Romanov, and Dan Tarpley for making things work.

Advances in Global Earth Observation: From Landsat Forward Beverage Break in Exhibit Hall Room B116 10:45 am to 11:00 am The session will present a status of Landsat 5 and 7, review the progress of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission implementation, describe plans to make all Landsat data collected since 1972 available at no charge, and discuss emerging opportunities in global Earth observation.

The Need for K-12 Remote Sensing and GIS Education Room B112 Is there a need for K-12 RS and GIS education and what should be the role of ASPRS in K-12 materials and curriculum development?

Geospatial Professional Procurement Guidelines Room B115 This Hot Topic discussion will focus on issues related to the procurement of professional geospatial services, including qualifications based selection, and will also provide an opportunity for members to provide feedback on the updated draft ASPRS Procurement Guidelines document developed by an ad hoc committee including joint ASPRS, MAPPS and ACSM participation.

Advantages of Simultaneous Aerial Lidar/Imagery Acquisition Room B114 This topic covers the products derived from combining lidar and imagery data and their implications on airborne operations, system requirements and data processing workflow. Come discuss turn- key systems versus tailor-made solutions and the challenges in implementing them into an existing airborne acquisition and map production.

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Social Event Digital Aerial Acquisition Systems Eric Liberty, Applanix 19th Annual Awards Luncheon and 74th Installation of Officers Camera Calibration Software 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm Ayman Habib, University of Calgary, Canada Oregon Ballroom Join in recognition of your colleagues and participate in the occasion ~17~ marking the installation of the Society’s 74th slate of officers. Vegetation Dynamics I The recipients of this year’s prestigious awards will be given special Moderator: Iain Smith, Department of Geography, University of honor and the business meeting will include installation of ASPRS Calgary, Canada Officers and Directors. Marquerite Madden, retiring President, will give Room A107 a summation of the past year’s events. Tickets for the Luncheon are required and may be purchased at the Mapping Changes in Whitebark Pine Distribution in the Northern Rockies: ASPRS Registration Desk no later than 2 pm on Monday, April 28th. 1984 - 2002 On site luncheon ticket sales are limited to availability. Cost is $35 Jeff Jewett, Spatial Sciences Center, Montana State University per person for the luncheon. Limited seating in the rear of the room Rick Lawrence is available at no cost for conference registrants wishing to attend the Mapping the Distribution of Whitebark Pine in Waterton Lakes National ceremonies only. Park using Logistic Regression and Classification Tree Analysis Iain Smith, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Canada Technical Sessions Greg McDermid

1:30 pm to 3:00 pm ~18~ Urban Applications I ~15~ Moderator: Sunhui Sim, Florida State University Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Program (PNAMP) I Room B115 Moderator: Russ Faux, Watershed Sciences Room A105 Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Urban Pattern in Seoul Metropolitan Region: Linking Geostatistical Analysis into Urban Theory Characterizing Submerged Benthic Habitats Using Lidar Sunhui Sim, Florida State University Amar Nayegandhi, U.S. Geological Survey J.C. Brock and C.W. Wright Land Cover Change and Landscape Dynamics in the Urbanizing Area of a Mexican Border City High Resolution Mapping and Interpretation of Channel and Floodplain Erick Sánchez-Flores, Universidad Autón oma de Ciudad Juár ez, Mexico Topography with a Narrow-Beam Terrestrial-Aquatic Lidar Alfredo Granados-Olivas, Javier Chávez, and Isabel Villegas-Martínez Dan Isaak, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service J. McKean and C.W. Wright Extraction of Directly Connected Impervious Areas from High-resolution Imagery Application and Evaluation of the EAARL Lidar for Change Detection and Carl Zimmerman, University of Connecticut-NRME Hydraulic Modeling in a Shallow, Braided River Paul Kinzel, U.S. Geological Survey C.W. Wright ~19~ Thermal Imagery Using Bathymetric and Bare Earth Lidar in Riparian Corridors: Moderator: Michael McInerney, U.S. Army Engineer Research Applications and Challenges Development Center (ERDC) Jennifer Bountry, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Room B111 Robert Hilldale and Lucy Piety Thermal Infrared Aerial Survey of the University of Northern Iowa Campus Savelyev Alexander, University of Northern Iowa ~16~ Ramanathan Sugumaran ASPRS PDAD Panel — Trends in Digital Aerial Imaging Moderator: George Lee, U.S. Geological Survey-EROS Space and Time Analysis of Urban Heat Island using Landsat Images Rajasekar Umamaheshwaran, Indiana State University Room B113 Weng Qihao Aerial imaging is in a period of rapid growth and change with new tech- nologies, new customers, and new missions. This session will report on Deriving a Normalized Difference Thermal Index (NTDI) from ASTER the status of quality assurance and standardization efforts within the US Satellite Imagery and Canada, current and future trends in aerial data acquisition and ap- Michael McInerney, U.S. Army Engineer Research Development Center plication, and the calibration of sensors available in today’s market. (ERDC) Robert Lozar Panelists: Status of USGS QA of Digital Aerial Imagery George Lee, U.S. Geological Survey Digital System Specifications Paul Quackenbush, British Columbia Base Mapping and Geomatic Services

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~20~ ~23~ Photogrammetry Hydrologic Applications I Moderator: Donn Liddle, NASA - Johnson Space Center Moderator: William Kaiser, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Room B110 Service, Region 6 A New and Efficient Method for the Generation of a Ground Control Room B118 Network with a Large Area of Coverage Understanding Dynamic Processes of Water Quality in Lake Erie from John Dolloff, BAE Systems, Network Systems MODIS Time-Series Data Michelle Iiyama Li Zhang, The Ohio State University Carolyn Merry Stereo Photogrammetric Assessment of Space Shuttle Thermal Protection Damage on STS-118 An Object-based Distributed Rainfall-runoff Simulation Model with Donn Liddle, NASA - Johnson Space Center Incorporation of High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Data Orrin Thomas Yuyu Zhou, University of Rhode Island YeQiao Wang Dynamic Feature Point Tracking by Close-range Photogrammetry: The Monitoring of Shape of a Falling Parachute Assessment Predictability Limits in Small Watersheds to Enhance the Clive Fraser, University of Melbourne, Australia Flash Flood Prediction in Western Puerto Rico Thomas Jones and Khalil Al-Manasir Alejandra M. Rojas-González, University of Puerto Rico Eric Harmsen Epipolar Image Generation and Corresponding Point Matching from Coaxial Vehicle-based Images Zhizhong Kang, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of ~24~ Technology, Netherlands Geospatial Education Moderator: Alfredo Granados-Olivas, University of Ciudad Juarez, ~21~ Mexico Lidar — General II Room B117 Moderator: Mohammed Aldelgawy, University of Calgary, Canada Water Works: A Remote Sensing Project Room B112 Yu Zhou, BGSU Lidar Strip Adjustment using Conjugate Planar and Linear Features in Collaboration to Integrate Geospatial Technology into Two-Year College Overlapping Strips Programs Ana Paula Kersting, University of Calgary, Canada Ann Johnson, ESRI Ruifang Zhai and Habib Ayman Geovisualization in Ecological Research, Management and Education: Use of Lidar Data to Constrain the Matching of Conjugate Features in Experience with a GeoWall Large-Scale Imagery over Urban Areas Marguerite Madden, Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science Ruifang Zhai, University of Calgary, Canada (CRMS), Department of Geography, University of Georgia Habib Ayman Thomas Jordan and Chor-pang Lo Alternative Procedures for the Incorporation of Lidar-derived Linear and Roadmap of Geospatial Education in Mexico Areal Features for Photogrammetric Geo-referencing Alfredo Granados-Olivas, University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Mohammed Aldelgawy, University of Calgary, Canada Erick Sanchez-Flores, Bobby Creel, Antonio De la Mora-Covarruvias, Habib Ayman Francisco Llera-Pacheco, Javier Chavez, Tulio De la Cruz, and Oscar Dena-Ornelas

~22~ Lidar — Forest Inventory and Assessment I ~25~ Moderator: L. Monika Moskal, University of Washington Rangeland Land Cover Mapping MJ Harden Associates, Inc. Room B119 Moderator: Michael Joos, Room B114 Processing Discrete-return Profiling Lidar Data for Estimating Canopy Closure States and Transition Model - From Rangeland to Land Cover Change Adam McLane, University of Calgary, Canada Monitoring Greg McDermid Tanushree Biswas, Utah State University R. Douglas Ramsey New High-resolution Field Surveying Methods for Validation of Crown Attributes from 3D Scanning Laser Data Using Geospatial Tools for Rangeland Management — Predicting Akira Kato, University of Washington Vegetation Phenology L. Monika Moskal, Mark E. Swanson, Peter Schiess, and Donna Calhoun Naomi Kisen, University of Utah George Hepner Lidar Tree Crown Segmentation L. Monika Moskal, University of Washington Satellite-based Monitoring of Rangeland Health on the San Carlos Apache Akira Kato Reservation, Arizona Barry Middleton, U.S. Geological Survey

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~26~ ~29~ ISPRS Working Group I.3 Panel — Multi-platform Sensing and Sensor Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Program II (PNAMP) Networks in Support of Natural Disaster Management Moderator: Russ Faux, Watershed Sciences Moderator: Raad A. Saleh, Harrisburg University of Science and Room A105 Technology Application of SHOALS Technology to Fisheries Studies in the Hanford Room B116 Reach of the Columbia River The integration of airborne and space-borne systems, along with Paul Wagner, KWA Ecological Sciences, Inc. ground- and ocean-based sensors, can provide an enhanced capability Kenneth Tiffan in comprehensive monitoring, modeling, validation, and early warning. Assessment of Airborne Lidar Data and High-resolution Digital Imagery for This panel will discuss the concept of Multi-Platform Sensing and Aquatic Habitat Monitoring in the Pacific Northwest Sensor Networks, the technological issues, operational aspects, and Russ Faux, Watershed Sciences potential funding sources. John Buffington and German Whitley Panelists: Shahid Habib, NASA The use of Three Remote Sensing Techniques to Assess Habitat Conditions Stan Morain, University of New Mexico and Develop Long-term and Logically-sequenced Restoration and Protection Programs for Fish, Wildlife and Watershed Health Keith Wolf, KWA Ecological Sciences, Inc. ~27~ Managing, Manipulating, and Serving Lidar Terrain and Orthoimagery Data for ASPRS SAC — Successfully Entering the Workforce Riverine Habitat Assessment and Remediation Project Design for Salmon Organized by ASPRS Student Advisory Council Recovery in the Pacific Northwest Moderators: Jonathan Thayn, Student Advisory Council Mike Beaty, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Michelle Kinzel Room A106 ~30~ Successfully Entering the Workforce, an introductory special session Urban Applications II aimed at helping students and recent graduates successfully assimilate Moderator: Rodrigo Nobrega, Aerocarta S/A/, Brazil themselves in their chosen workplace. Room B115 Estimation of Impervious Surface of Beijing, China with Spectral Social Event Normalized Images using LSMA and ANN Xuefei Hu, Indiana State University Exhibit Hall Guided Tour Qihao Weng 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Development of a Videogrammetry System using High-definition Video The ASPRS Sustaining Members Council is hosting a guided tour of the Camera exhibit hall for students. This is your opportunity to meet the exhibitors, Joon Heo, Yonsei University, South Korea up close and personal. Sun Kyoo Woo and Seong-Su Jeong Population Estimation Based on Object-oriented Classification of High Beverage Break in Exhibit Hall Spatial Imagery at the Census Block Level Shaofei Chen, The University of Texas at Dallas 3:00 pm to 3:30 pm Fang Qiu Predicting Outdated Urban Cadastre Areas Supported by Multi-temporal Technical Sessions High-resolution Satellite Imagery Analysis Rodrigo Nobrega, Aerocarta S/A/, Brazil 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm Massayoshi Asano ~28~ Vegetation Dynamics II ~31~ Moderator: Robert Ryerson, Kim Geomatics Corporation, Canada Geospatial Collaboration through the National Spatial Data Room A107 Infrastructure Locating Amazonian Dark Earths using Vegetation Phenology as a Moderator: Alan Stevens, Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Secretariat Surrogate for Soil Type Room B113 Jonathan Thayn, University of Kansas Future Directions for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Kevin Price and William Woods John Mahoney, Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Relative Change Detection: An Overlooked Advantage ISO 19115 to the North American Profile- a collaboration between Canada Katie Yalte, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Canada and the US Greg McDermid Sharon Shin, Federal Geographic Data Committee Secretariat The Commercialization of Remote Sensing and GIS for Vineyard Management: Global Collaboration – Sharing Data and Experiences Across International A Simple but Powerful Application of Change Detection Boundaries Robert Ryerson, Kim Geomatics Corporation, Canada Alan Stevens, Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Secretariat Ralph Brown, Seth Schwebs, and Stephen Boles

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~32~ ~35~ Radar Applications Lidar — Forest Inventory and Assessment II Moderator: Terry Idol, George Mason University Moderator: Deborah Reusser, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Room B110 Fisheries Research Center An Examination of Quad Polarization PALSAR Radar, Variance Radar Room B119 Texture and Optical Data for Land Cover Mapping Estimating Individual Tree Level Leaf Area using Airborne Lidar-driven Terry Idol, George Mason University Surface Model and Canopy Point Clouds Barry Haack, Gyanendra Khatiwada, Salim Sawaya, and Arjun Sheoran Jun-Hak Lee, University of California, Berkeley Wetland Mapping in the Congo River Basin using Multisource Data and a Joshua Fisher and Gregory Biging Decision Tree Classifier Jean-Robert Bwangoy-Bankanza, South Dakota State University, Lidar-based Prediction of Inventory Parameters in a Complex Forest Geospatial Science and Engineering Jacob Strunk, University of Washington Matthew Hansen Determining Under-story Vegetation Structure using Small-footprint, Segmentation of SAR Imagery Based on Bayesian Inference using Waveform-resolving Lidar Voronoi Polygon and Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo Amar Nayegandhi, ETI - U.S. Geological Survey Yu Li, University of Waterloo, Canada John Brock, C. Wayne Wright, Robert Woodman, and Monica Jonathan Li Palaseanu-Lovejoy

~33~ ~36~ Open Source / Interoperability ASPRS PDAD — Digital Camera Data Applications Moderator: Ramesh Sivanpillai, University of Wyoming Moderator: George Lee, U.S. Geological Survey Room B118 Room B116 Illustrating the Synergies between Commercial and Open Source Software Outstanding questions to be answered are: How well do existing with the Development of a New Algorithm for the Generation of an Optimal airborne sensors perform for multi-spectral applications?; how well do RGB Image from Hyperspectral Imagery classic classification algorithms and processing techniques work for Gregg Petrie, Washington State University digital airborne data?; Are the techniques used for traditional satellite Peter Doucette data immediately applicable to airborne systems?; What has been tried and what research remains to be done before the advantage of digital Five Years of WyomingView: A Review of Accomplishments airborne imagery is fully realized? and Future Challenges Ramesh Sivanpillai, University of Wyoming Panelists: Kenneth L. Driese Ruediger (“Ruedi”) Wagner, Leica Klaus Neumann, Intergraph Craig W. Molander, Surdex ~34~ Kass Green, The Alta Vista Company Object Feature Extraction I Moderator: Diane Eldridge, U.S. Geological Survey, NSDI Partnership Office Room B112 Matching of Mobile Targets in Overlapping Aerial Images Stuart Heinrich, North Carolina State University Karthik Krish, Wesley Snyder, Siamak Khorram, and Halil Cakir 3D Information Extraction from Single High-Resolution Satellite Images Clive Fraser, University of Melbourne, Australia

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~37~ ~39~ Lidar — Data Accuracy Assessment I Forensic Applications Moderator: Michael Joos, MJ Harden Associates, Inc. Moderator: Nicole A. Spaun, Federal Bureau of Investigation Room B114 Room B117 Quantifying Uncertainty in Airborne Laser Scanning Data Based on Photogrammetry Goes to Trial in Elko, Nevada Internal System Measurements George Erio, eriotech llc Tristan Goulden, Applied Geomatics Research Group, University of Forensic Photogrammetry at the Federal Bureau of Investigation New Brunswick, Canada Nicole A. Spaun, Federal Bureau of Investigation Chris Hopkinson Reverse Projection Photogrammetry at the Federal Bureau of Quantifying Uncertainty Resulting from Terrain Effects in Airborne Investigation LidarObservations Richard W. Vorder Bruegge, Federal Bureau of Investigation Tristan Goulden, Applied Geomatics Research Group, University of Nicole A. Spaun New Brunswick, Canada Chris Hopkinson, Peter Dare, and Michael Demuth Performance Characterization of a Mobile Lidar System: Expected and Social Event Unexpected Variables Valerie Ussyshkin, Optech Inc., Canada Exhibitors’ Reception 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm Exhibit Hall A ~38~ ASPRS SAC – Scholarships and Grants: Funding Your Way to Always a highlight of the Annual ASPRS Conferences is the Exhibitors’ Reception and the 2008 Conference will continue this tradition. This Success is a great opportunity to view the latest products and services offered Organized by the ASPRS Student Advisory Council by both national and international suppliers who are your hosts for the Moderators: Michelle Kinzel, Oregon State University evening. Light hors d’oeuvers and beverages will be served for your Shaofei Chen, The University of Texas at Dallas enjoyment while you mingle with old and new friends Room A106 Scholarships and Grants: Funding Your Way to Success, a special session on the search process, writing a winning proposal/application, and resources.

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Thursday, May 1st Time Event Room Attending 7:00 am to 8:00 am Past Presidents Breakfast Room B119 8:00 am to 9:00 am ASPRS Presidential and State of the Society Addresses Oregon Ballroom 9:15 am to 5:00 pm GIS in Action Track Oregon Ballroom 203 9:15 am to 10:45 am Technical Sessions 40-51 See individual session description 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Exhibit Hall Opens Exhibit Hall A 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Poster Sessions Exhibit Hall A 10:45 am to 11:15 am Beverage Break in Exhibit Hall Exhibit Hall A 11:00 am to 12:00 noon Commercial Training and Products Session See individual session description 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm Memorial Address and Awards Oregon Ballroom 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Technical Sessions 52-63 See individual session description 3:00 pm to 3:30 pm Beverage Break in Exhibit Hall Exhibit Hall A 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm Technical Sessions 64-75 See individual session description 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm An Evening at the World Forestry Center

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Registration Desk Opens 7:00 am to 5:00 pm Oregon Convention Center

Past Presidents Breakfast 7:00 am to 8:00 am Room B119 By invitation only.

ASPRS Presidential and State of the Society Addresses 8:00 am to 9:00 am Oregon Ballroom

Increasing ASPRS’s Impact in a Time of Global Climate Change State of the Society Address Kass Green, Alta Vista Company James R. Plasker, ASPRS Executive Director As a society of geospatial professionals , ASPRS has a duty to affect The last ten years have been a decade of change for the society and a geospatial public policy. We need to take advantage of our financial rise of the phoenix from the ashes. Our society has faced considerable strength, the diversity of our membership, our certification program and adversity in the recent past and we have made tremendous forward our scientific prestige to lead the public debate and response to global progress in membership, awards and scholarship funding, and the climate change. Ms. Green’s presentation will focus on what ASPRS as society’s involvement advising academia, government, and industry an organization and its members as individuals can do to take on this on the issues associated with the rapidly changing landscape of the challenge.” geospatial sciences. ASPRS has been in the forefront of critical issues facing the nation including the National Land Imaging Program, state Kass Green, President of The Alta Vista licensure for photogrammetrists, and the Ten Year Industry Forecast. Company, consults on geospatial strategy, This address, by ASPRS Executive Director Jim Plasker, will report technology and policy issues to private, on the state of our Society for 2007-2008 and highlight those changes educational, and public organizations. Green also of the last ten years that have helped to shape your society into the provides pro bono advice and consulting to public dynamic and respected entity that it is today. agencies and non-profit organizations. Five years ago, Green retired as President of Space Imaging James R. Plasker, Executive Director of ASPRS. Solutions, a division of Space Imaging LLC where she supervised over 200 employees involved in tasks including operation of a digital airborne system, acquisition of airborne and satellite imagery from numerous platforms and sensors, creation of land cover and land use coverage from remotely sensed data using both manual and automated techniques, and the development of desktop and web based geospatial analysis software. Prior to joining Space Imaging, Green was President of Pacific Meridian Resources, a geospatial services company she co-founded in 1988 and grew to 7 offices throughout the United States. Green received her BS degree in Forestry from the University ASPRS Awards Fellow Awards of California at Berkeley, her MS degree in Resource Policy and Photogrammetric Award (Fairchild) Management from the University of Michigan, and advanced to PhD BAE Systems Award candidacy at the University of California at Berkeley. Conference Management Awards

ASPRS Mission Statement The mission of the ASPRS is to advance knowledge and improve understanding of mapping sciences and to promote the responsible applications of photogrammetry, remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), and supporting technologies.

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April 28 - May 2, 2008  Portland, Oregon 43 Conference Program – GIS in Action Track Thursday, May 1st

GIS in Action Track 9:15 am to 5:00 pm Oregon Ballroom 203 Oblique Imagery is Rapidly Being Adopted for a Variety of Uses Integrating Survey, GIS and CAD into a Single Solution 9:15 am to 10:00 am Pete Kelsey, Autodesk Technical Evangelist This session will highlight its applications and creation of 3D Another paradigm shift is at hand. The GIS community and the CAD models. Oblique imagery, its bundled software tools and integration community are leaving behind their age-old stereotypes and actually with GIS data offers a significant advantage compared to traditional collaborating. The incentives are obvious: increased efficiency and ortho imagery. It replaces traditional ‘perspective view’ imagery productivity. Survey data has emerged in the last few years as the common taken from the window of low flying aircraft with seamless rectified denominator. Any enterprise, public or private, that acquires, edits, or imagery covering whole metropolitan areas. From 9-1-1 dispatching provides surveying, civil engineering, GIS or construction services are centers and emergency management agencies, to property appraisers, required to integrate technology and standards into their processes. Not engineering firms, planning agencies, transportation departments, doing so makes competing with others who have impossible. It is evident and real estate investment, oblique imagery provides detailed visual that the optimization and integration of hardware and software into a information for viewing, measurement and integration with GIS. single, viable solution provides value to everyone. Like it or not the paradigm shift of integrating Survey, GIS and CAD data is happening. GIS, Surveying, Photogrammetry and changes to Oregon Law 10:30 am to 12 noon Both Worlds... Best: The Geographic Approach to GIS and CAD Interoperability In 2005, the Oregon state legislature passed House Bill 55 as a Don Kuehne, ESRI, CAD Product Management result of a four year effort by a task force consisting of surveyors, photogrammetrists, and GIS professionals. The bill defined GIS Attendees will be introduced to various forms of interoperability that surveying inclusions and exceptions that clarify the relationship focus on the strengths of Building Information Models, Computer Aided between survey, GIS, and photogrammetry in Oregon. HB55 Drafting, Facilities Management and Geographic Information System mirrored model laws and rules developed by the National Council of technologies. Using a hybrid “best of both worlds” solution may not Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) after a nine-year always be best; perhaps the goal should be, ”both worlds, best.” See multi-organizational task force concentrated upon developing a new how abstraction, services oriented architecture, standards and existing definition that would not focus upon technology or tools of the trade. information systems can combine to create interoperable systems. This session will review the adopted legislation and panelists will discuss how the law has impacted the professions and use of related Lidar is Evolving Through Complementary Usage of GIS, Selected technology in Oregon, as well as national activities, since its adoption. Types of Imagery and Image Processing Technologies 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm Bridging the GIS/CAD - CAD/GIS Gap: Collaboration, Strategies and This session will offer case studies of lidar applications in Oregon. Standards High Resolution Lidar: Is It Really the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread? 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Examples from Oregon Over the last few years CAD and GIS have moved from competing Ian Madin, Chief Scientist, Oregon Department of Geology and technologies at odds with each other towards a detente in which the Mineral Industries two systems are now able to work together. This session addresses some of the current and future interoperability tools, the move Using Lidar Products in the Woods Emmor Nile, GIS Coordinator, Oregon Department of Forestry towards standards to facilitate such tools and what exists and what is needed to develop further collaboration between GIS and CAD. In 2007 the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) acquired 1 meter resolution lidar data on approximately 313,000 acres of northwest Standards, collaboration, and Positive ROI for CAD-GIS Integration Oregon. In 2008 plans are to contribute an additional 292,000 Carl Reed, Chief Technology Officer, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. acres to the collection efforts of the Oregon Lidar Consortium. This presentation will give an overview of the ways that ODF is turning A number of sources, including GSA, have determined that the effective lidar deliverables into usable products for engineering, logging, use of standards could save billions annually in construction costs and biometrics, hydrographic, and archaeological uses. maintenance by enabling effective data sharing and the integration of applications that are used in all aspects of the building life cycle. The Is All Lidar Created Equal? OGC has a strong working relationship with the AEC community and Alan DeJong, PE Project Manager, Bonneville Power Administration recently signed Memorandums of Understanding with the National Bonneville Power Administration has been utilizing lidar to acquire Institute of Building Sciences and the International Alliance for existing topographic survey data and engineering data on its Interoperability. This presentation discusses the standards work being infrastructure system. Alan DeJong is the lidar program lead and is done by the OGC in concert with the AEC community to enable the an engineer in the geospatial services group. BPA recently began effective and seamless sharing of location based AEC content through the a campaign to fly all of its critical transmission lines for vegetation building life cycle. Often called GIS-CAD integration, the OGC effort management and also acquires data for new lines and line rebuilds. is coordinated through the OGC 3D Information Management Working Mr. DeJong will explain why all lidar is not created equal, the specific Group. This presentation will also provide examples of an Emergency data BPA lidar contractors extract from the raw lidar and explain in Services demonstration performed during the OGC Web Services detail what BPA does with this data. Testbed that shows how building information from an AEC application can easily be integrated into other applications in real time.

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Technical Sessions ~43~ Lidar — Data Accuracy Assessment II 9:15 am to 10:45 am Moderator: Michael Hodgson, University of South Carolina ~40~ Room B114 Satellite Imagery New Horizontal Accuracy Assessment Tools and Techniques for Lidar Data Moderator: Paula Smit, Raytheon IIS John Ray, Ohio DOT, GeoCue Corporation Room A105 Lewis Graham An Overview of the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) The Synergistic use of Lidar and Hyperspectral Data in a Segment Based Paula Smit, Raytheon IIS Image Classification Algorithm George Raber, The University of Southern Mississippi Micro Satellites Remote Sensing John Ahlrichs, Rapid Eye Validation of Lidar Points using Crossvalidation versus Reference Points Michael Hodgson, University of South Carolina Disaster Monitoring Constellation: Evolution of the Daily Global Imaging Service Owen Hawkins, DMC International Imaging Ltd ~44~ Paul Stephens Natural Resource Applications I Moderator: David Johnson, U.S. Department of Agriculture/National Agricultural Statistics Service ~41~ Room B117 ASPRS PDAD Panel — Airborne Digital Mapping Camera Systems: Manufacturers’ Perspective A Methodology for Mapping and Uncertainty Analysis of Forest Carbon by Moderator: Brian Huberty, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Combining Image and National Forest Inventory and Analysis Data Guangxing Wang, Department of Geography and Environmental Room B113 Resources Southern Illinois University Carbondale A dynamic forum to address current systems and future developments Tonny Oyana, Samuel Adu-Prah, and George Gertner in this important and rapidly evolving mapping technology. System vendors will highlight their specific technologies in order to meet the Estimation of Leaf Area Index (LAI) Through the Acquisition of Ground demand for digital mapping images. Truth Data in Yosemite National Park Bettina Schiffman, San Jose State University Panelists: Galli Basson, Anjanette Hawk, Evan Lue, Dustin Ottman, and Moyukh Ghosh Ruediger (“Ruedi”) Wagner, Leica Geosystems Michael Gruber, Vexcel/Microsoft An Evaluation of Resourcesat-1 LISS-III versus AWiFS Imagery for Klaus Neumann, Intergraph Identifying Croplands Eric Liberty, Applanix David Johnson, U.S. Department of Agriculture/National Agricultural Dave Fuhr, Airborne Data Systems Statistics Service Julien Losseau, DiMAC ~45~ ~42~ Geospatial Data Accuracy/Error Assessment Object Feature Extraction II Moderator: Nick Younan, Mississippi State University Moderator: Leberl Franz, Microsoft Photogrammetry, Austria Room A107 Room B112 Establishing the Geodetic Base for All Future Landsat Orthorectified Linear Sparse Feature Extraction Transforms for Remote Sensing Images Image Products Stefan Robila, Montclair State University Jon Dykstra, MDA Federal Inc Roger Mitchell and Michael Finn Automated Extraction of Predefined Features from the Imagery Dmitry Varlyguin, Geospatial Data Analysis (GDA) Corp Sampling Strategy for Accuracy Assessment of Vegetation Databases for Stephanie Hulina and Luke Roth National Parks Thomas Jordan, Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science Detecting Cars in Aerial Imagery for Improvements of Orthophotos and (CRMS), Department of Geography, University of Georgia Digital Elevation Models Leberl Franz, Microsoft Photogrammetry, Austria Marguerite Madden Michael Gruber, Horst Bischof, Helmut Grabner and Stefan Kluckner Accuracy Assessment of the Southeast Gap Analysis Project Regional Ecological Systems Map Todd Earnhardt, North Carolina State University Alexa McKerrow

April 28 - May 2, 2008  Portland, Oregon 45 Conference Program Thursday, May 1st

~46~ ~49~ Geophysical Applications ASPRS SAC — Scientific Communication I: Organizing and Moderator: Chris Hopkinson, Applied Geomatics Research Group Constructing a Scientific Paper Room B110 Organized by the ASPRS Student Advisory Council Moderator: Shaofei Chen, The University of Texas at Dallas Coastal Change Analysis Supported by Multi-dimensional Geospatial Data Xutong Niu, Mapping and GIS Lab, The Ohio State University Room A106 I-Chieh Lee, Sagar Deshpande, and Ron Li A series of four sessions (Organizing and Constructing a Scientific Paper, Proper Manuscript Preparation, Grammar for Educated Writers Estimations of Erosion and Deposition using High-resolution Optical of Scientific English, and the Publication Process: From Submission Imagery and Lidar Data to Print) intended to take students and young professionals through the John Barlow, University of Saskatchewan, Canada process of writing and publishing scientific research from start to finish. Steven Franklin and Chris Hopkinson Assessing Glacier Dynamics from Multitemporal Lidar Imagery Chris Hopkinson, Applied Geomatics Research Group, Canada ~50~ Mike Demuth Feature-based Registration Moderator: Paul Salamonowicz, National Geospatial-Intelligence A New Method of Shoreline Erosion Assessment Agency Joon Heo, Yonsei University, South Korea Room B118 Jung Kim, Kim Whan, and Woo Jin Moderated Question/Answer Session Overview of the Registration Problem and Critical Needs ~47~ Todd Johanesen, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Panel Discussion — Geographic Information Science (GISc) Licensing Jeff Kretsch and Paul Salamonowicz Issues Moderator: Carolyn Merry, The Ohio State University Stereo Correspondence and Image Registration: Fundamental Geometry Steven Zucker, Yale University Michael Hodgson, University of South Carolina Gang Li Room B116 3D Voxel Framework for Registration and Change Detection GIS professionals will present their viewpoints on licensing Joseph Mundy, Brown University professionals in the Geoscience disciplines. Thom Pollard and Dan Crispell Panelists: James Plasker, ASPRS Photogrammetric View of Registration John Palatiello, MAPPS Henry Theiss, Integrity Applications Incorporated Carolyn Merry, The Ohio State University Edward Mikhail The Dual-Bootstrap Registration Algorithm and Its Generalizations ~48~ Charles Stewart Environmental/Public Health Applications Moderator: James Lein, Ohio University ~51~ Room B111 AmericaView Extending Environmental Surveillance to Useful Public Health Information Moderator: Ramesh Sivanpillai, University of Wyoming Stanley A. Morain, Earth Data Analysis Center, University of New Mexico Room B115 Amelia M. Budge This panel will provide an overview about AmericaView, its goals and Utilization of the Landsat Archive for Agricultural Chemical Exposure objectives, followed by examples from the members (Stateviews) to Assessment highlight how these goals and objectives are being accomplished at the Eric Wood, SAIC, contractor to U.S. Geological Survey/EROS state-level. Susan Maxwell Panelists: Rebecca L. Dodge, AmericaView Inc., University of West Georgia Operational Considerations in the Application of Spaceborn Sensors for Rick Lawrence, Montana State University, Spatial Sciences Center Environmental Compliance Enforcement and Monitoring Bruce K. Quirk, U.S. Geological Survey, Land Remote Sensing Program James Lein, Ohio University Russell Congalton, University of New Hampshire Yong Wang, East Carolina University

Exhibit Hall Opens 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Beverage Break in Exhibit Hall 10:45 am to 11:15 am

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The following posters will be on display from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Thursday, May 1ST, in the Exhibit Hall A.

A Comparative Study of the Accuracy Estimation Methods used in Modeling Population Density with Spatial and Spectral Remotely Bundle Adjustment Sensed Variable Tarig Ali, Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida Mark Jackson, Brigham Young University Coastal Hydrography from Integrated Lidar, SAR, and High-Resolution Perry Hardin and Ryan Jensen Satellite Using AISA+ Hyperspectral Data to Estimate Urban Forest Dynamics Thomas Allen, East Carolina University Ryan Jensen, Brigham Young University GIS for Search & Rescue Application in Yosemite National Park Perry Hardin and Mark Jackson Jason Barnes, Humboldt State University A Comparison of Topographic Index and Tree Species Dominance Brian Huggett Adelaide Johnson, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station, Hyperspectral Mineral Mapping within the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone; Forestry Sciences Laboratory Characterization of Kavaicuwac, Utah John Mills Juli Bell, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University Knowledge Formulation with H-Resolution Satellite Imagery: Object- Brenda Beitler Bowen and Brigette Martini oriented versus Pixel-based Approaches A Ground Based Remote Monitoring System for Landscape Studies David Laskin, Department of Geography, University of Calgary Rian Bogle, US Geological Survey Dan Austin and Greg McDermid Pat Chavez and Miguel Velasco Evidential Approach for Multisensor Fusion Using Beta Distribution A Novel Raster to Vector Conversion Tool for Classified Images Sang-Hoon Lee, Kyungwon University Guillermo Castilla, Department of Geography, University of Calgary A Study on Generating Stereo Mosaic Image using Video Frames Geoffrey J. Hay, Gang Chen, and Ryan Powers Myoung-Jong Noh, Inha University Teaching Introductory Image Processing through Project-based Woosug Cho, Jin-Woo Koh, and Hwi-Jeong Chang Environmental Change Detection IPY Project: Effects of Climate Change, Glacial Retreat, and Snowfield Rebecca L. Dodge, Department of Geosciences, University of West Loss on Habitat Condition and The Affect on Wild Sheep Populations Georgia and Distribution in Polar and High Mountain Ecosystems in Alaska, Far- Abortion Clinic Crime: A Spatial Analysis of Planned Parenthoods in eastern Russia, and Central Asia California Edwin Pfeifer, U.S. Geological Survey Josef Eckert, Humboldt State University Barry Middleton, Jana Ruhlman, and Bradley Reed Nanette Yandell HYPDB - A Query System for Remote Sensing Data Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) Products from NASA Stefan Robila, Montclair State University Hydrology Data and Information Services Center (HDISC) M.D. Islam Hongliang Fang, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Combining Lidar and Hyperspectral Data for Improved Carbon Services Center Estimation in a Temperate Deciduous Forest Pat Hrubiak, Hiroko Kato, Mattew Rodell, Bill Teng, and Bruce Keely Roth, University of California at Santa Barbara Vollmer Dar Roberts, Eliza Bradley, Philip Dennison, Bothaina Natour, and Topographic Mapping with Lidar: A Summary of an Undergraduate Geoffrey Parker Geospatial Technician Internship Identification and Mapping of Waterholes in a Semi-Arid Region of East Aaron John Frye, University of Washington Africa with ASTER Imagery L. Monika Moskal and James Greer Gabriel Senay, SAIC/US Geological Survey EROS Modeling Housing Unit Density from Landcover Using Neural Networks Shahriar Pervez and Kwabena Asante Perry Hardin, Brigham Young University Development of a Geospatial Collaboration System: Malaria Research Mark Jackson and Ryan Jensen in Macha, Zambia Timothy Shields, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Visualization of Glacier Change on Mount Rainier, Washington Over the Last 12,000 Years Bin Cai, Fernando Pineda, Phil Thuma, William Moss, and Gregory Michael Hekkers, Portland State University Glass Andrew Fountain Combining Aerial Imagery with Environmental Data and Community- Based Knowledge to Examine Agricultural Pesticide Exposure Determination of Evapotranspiration for a Remote, Alpine Basin in Steven J. Steinberg, Humboldt State University Yosemite National Park Using GIS and Remotely Sensed Data Brian Huggett, Huggett Brothers Energy Laboratories Sheila Steinberg, Jennifer Kauffman,Nanette Yandell, Josef Ekert, and Marion Strong Delineation of Climate Regions for the Carolinas Jungho Im, State University of New York College of Environmental Geospatial Modules at the Kentucky Community and Technical College Science and Forestry System Demetrio P. Zourarakis, Remote Sensing/GIS Analyst Jinyoung Rhee Vince DiNoto

April 28 - May 2, 2008  Portland, Oregon 47 Conference Program – Commercial Training Thursday, May 1st

Commercial Training and Products Session 11:00 am to 12:00 noon ~C1~ ~C5~ Feature Extraction Solutions Change Analysis Solutions Moderator: Stuart Blundell, Visual Learning Systems, Inc. Moderator: TBD Room A106 Room B115 Automatic Road Extraction Using Multiple Cues and Methodologies Multi-temporal Analysis of the Relationships between WNV Xiangyun Hu, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging Dissemination and Environmental Conditions in Indianapolis, IN Hua Liu, Old Dominion University An Integrated Approach to Hyperspectral Feature Extraction Stuart Blundell, Visual Learning Systems, Inc. Multi-temporal Study on Land Use and Land Cover Change around Feature Analyst v5.0 Washington, D.C. Airports Stuart Blundell, Visual Learning Systems, Inc. Lisa Kuchy, SPADAC, Inc. Automated Change Detection of Enemy Behavior Frank Prats, SPADAC, Inc. ~C2~ Lidar Data Processing Solutions Moderator: David Opitz, Visual Learning Systems, Inc. ~C6~ Room B114 Geospatial Mobility Solutions Moderator: Sowmya Gopal, Intermap Technologies Corporation A GIS Expert System for Mapping Invasive Species with High- Resolution Imagery Room B116 Stephanie Hulina, GDA Corporation Interactive Traffic Analysis with Spatiotemporal Links Jim Antonisse, SPADAC, Inc. Impact of the Performance of a Position and Orientation System on the Achievable Accuracy of the Lidar Data Sensor Modeling and Geospatial Information Extraction of ALOS PRISM Valerie Ussyshkin, Optech, Inc. Imagery Xinghe Yang, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging An Approach for Collection Geospecific 3D Features from Terrestrial Lidar National and Regional Scale InSAR DEMs using Ultra Long Line David Opitz, Visual Learning Systems, Inc. Acquisition Sowmya Gopal, Intermap Technologies Corporation ~C3~ Photogrammetry Solutions Moderator: Michael Gruber, Microsoft Room A105 Generation of Photogrammetric Products Using Pictometry’s Digital Images Yandong Wang, Pictometry International Corporation UltraCamX and the New Way of Photogrammetric Processing Michael Gruber, Microsoft RolleiMetric AIC Camera Systems Martina Döring, Rollei Metric GmbH

~C4~ Data Sharing Solutions Moderator: Amy Zeller, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imagery Room B113 An Advanced Web Information System for Timely Assessments of International Crop Market Opportunities Dmitry Varlyguin, GDA Corporation Rapid Orthoimage Production using ArcGIS Image Server Peter Becker, ESRI Maximizing Value Extraction from Spatial Assets at USDA-APFO Scott Knutti, USDA Farm Service Agency Alex Napoli Leica TITAN: An Innovative Solution for Data Sharing Amy Zeller, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imagery

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Memorial Address and Awards 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm Oregon Ballroom This year’s Memorial Address will feature the life and achievements of John Edward “Jack” Estes, presented by Dr. John R. Jensen. The Memorial Address Series affords attendees an opportunity to hear about the great accomplishments of industry pioneers and learn how they continue to impact our profession. Honoree recognition of his pioneering achievements in remote sensing. His memory John Edward “Jack” Estes was a pioneer in remote sensing of the is honored annually through the “SAIC John E. Estes Memorial Teaching environment who passed away on March 9, 2001 at the age of 61. He Award,” given to a remote sensing scientist who has made significant was a devoted husband to Claire and father to Tommy and John II. contributions to remote sensing science and education. Jack will be missed Like geographers of old, Jack helped us see the world in new and greatly, though his legacy lives on through his numerous national and more complete ways. Jack received his PhD in 1969 from UCLA and international scientific contributions and his students. went on to a distinguished career at the University of California at Santa Presenter Barbara where he was the director of the Geography Remote Sensing John R. Jensen is a Carolina Distinguished Professor in the Department Unit. Professor Estes’ primary research interests revolved around the basic of Geography at the University of South Carolina. Jack Estes and John and applied use of remote sensing and geographic information systems Jensen were both mentored by Dr. Norman J. W. Thrower at UCLA. Dr. (GIS) for the analysis of earth resources. Jack and his graduate students Thrower allowed John to go to the UCSB Geography Remote Sensing Unit developed improved analytical methods to inventory and detect change in to learn about remote sensing of the environment under the direction of Dr. landcover at the national and international level, monitor marine oil spills, Estes from 1974-1977. Dr. Jensen is a certified photogrammetrist (#852), measure agricultural crop type and production, predict agricultural water Past-President of ASPRS (1995-1996), and ASPRS Fellow. John was a co- demand, and document the spatial distribution of biodiversity. author of ASPRS’ Manual of Remote Sensing (1st and 2nd ed.) and Manual He was the co-author of one of the earliest remote sensing textbooks of Photographic Interpretation (1997). He was a contributor to People and titled Remote Sensing: Techniques for Environmental Analysis (1974). He Pixels (1998) and co-authored Geographic Information for Sustainable was co-author of “Fundamentals of Image Interpretation” in the Manual Development published by the National Academy Press in 2002. His of Remote Sensing (ASPRS, 1975). He was the editor of the interpretation textbooks Introductory Digital Image Processing (2005) and Remote nd and applications volume of the Manual of Remote Sensing (ASP&, 2 Ed., Sensing of the Environment (2007) are used throughout the world. Dr. 1983). With Daniel Botkin, he edited Changing the Global Environment: Jensen has mentored 65 masters students and 30 PhDs in remote sensing. Perspectives on Human Involvement (Academic Press, 1989), and with He received the SAIC John E. Estes Memorial Teaching Award in 2005 and Jeffrey Star he wrote Geographic Information Systems: An Introduction the NASA/DOI William T. Pecora Award in 2006. He has served on eight (Prentice Hall, 1990). Jack collaborated closely with other GIScientists in National Academy of Science remote sensing-related committees. the federal government especially within NASA and the U. S. Geological Survey. He served on numerous National Academy of Science committees. Jack mentored more than 50 graduate students who are now employed in ASPRS Awards prominent positions in various professional fields. His strength in teaching Presidential Citations both undergraduate and graduate students lay in his thorough knowledge Region Awards of his subject, his ability to organize and present complex materials, his Region of the Year sense of humor, and his sincere interest in his students’ well-being. NASA Region Newsletter of the Year and the U.S. Department of the Interior recognized Dr. Estes’ outstanding Region Website of the Year contributions by awarding him the William T. Pecora Award in 1999. ASPRS Student Travel Grants NASA awarded Jack the Distinguished Public Service Medal in 2001 in

Technical Sessions Integrating Existing Vegetation Maps and Models of Vegetation Dynamics for Watershed Assessment 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Melinda Moeur, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest Service ~52~ Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Program III (PNAMP) ~53~ Moderator: Ralph Haugerud, U.S. Geological Survey Wetland/Aquatic Vegetation Mapping Room A105 Moderator: Craig Ducey, Bureau of Land Management Room B 111 Using High Spatial Resolution Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI) Imagery to Examine Patterns in Eelgrass Beds in Hood Canal, WA Ugandan Dambo Wetland Classification using Multispectral and Ralph Garono, Earth Design, Inc. Topographic Data Matthew Hansen, University of Utah Using Remotely Sensed Landscape Variables to Assess Anthropogenic Philip Dennison, Scott Graves, and David Brown Influences on In-Stream Water Temperature in the John Day River Mimi Diorio, NOAA Modeling Watershed Condition and Trend Peter Eldred, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Kirsten Gallo

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~54~ Lidar-Photo Fusion Approach to Enhancing DEMs with Building Elevation Vegetation Dynamics III Information Moderator: Joanne Halls, University of North Carolina Wilmington Sirisha Karamchedu, University of Wisconsin-Madison Room A107 Kiran Manchikanti and Frank Scarpace Understanding the Deforestation Process in the Tropics through Remote Sensing Analysis and GIS Modeling of Socioeconomic and Biophysical ~58~ Variables Image Registration Samuel Rivera, Utah State University Moderator: Jackson Cothren, University of Arkansas; Bohanan Huston, Inc. Alexander Hernandez, Pablo MartinezdeAnguita, and R. Douglas Ramsey Room B110 A GIS Model for Predicting Conifer Encroachment in the Bald Hills Prairies Automatic Compilation of 3D Road Features using Lidar and Multi- of Redwood National Park Spectral Source Data Scott Powell, Humboldt State University Wilson Harvey, TerraSim, Inc. JasonTeraoka and Leonel Arguello David McKeown An Investigation of IKONOS Image Classification and Change Detection A New Feature-based Image Registration Algorithm Techniques to Measure Coastal Habitat Progression Karthik Krish, North Carolina State University Joanne Halls, University of North Carolina Wilmington Stuart Heinrich, Wesley Snyder, Halil Cakir, and Siamak Khorram Holly Gabries Automated Matching and Orientation of Aerial Images using Affine Covariant Region Descriptors ~55~ Jackson Cothren, University of Arkansas; Bohanan Huston, Inc. Radiometric Correction John Nipper, Robert Dzur, and Dennis Sandin Moderator: Zhengwei Yang, U.S. Department of Agriculture/NASS, R&D Division, Spatial Analysis Research ~59~ Room B117 Hydrologic Applications II Unbiased Histogram Matching Quality Measure for Optimal Radiometric Moderator: Kiran Manchikanti, University of Wisconsin-Madison Normalization Room B118 Zhengwei Yang, U.S. Department of Agriculture/NASS, R&D Division, Spatial Analysis Research The Bigger the Better? How Spatial Resolution Affect Modeling and Rick Mueller Watershed Delineation David Alvarez, CDM Barrett Goodwin ~56~ Optimizing Allocation and Scheduling for Irrigation Systems (OASIS) — A Photogrammetric DEM Extraction Spatial/temporal Optimization Problem Moderator: Chunsun Zhang, South Dakota State University Kiran Manchikanti, University of Wisconsin-Madison Room B116 Multicriteria Analysis for Flood Vulnerable Areas In Hadejia-jama’are River Alternative Formulation of Multilinear Constraints with Geometric Basin, Nigeria Interpretation Sani Yahaya, Geomatics Engineering Unit, University Putra Malaysia, Orrin Thomas, NASA Malaysia Ed Oshel Noordin Ahmad and Ranya Fadlalla Abdalla Improving the Quality of Digital Elevation Models in Urban Areas using Breaklines via a Multi-photo Least Squares Matching Algorithm ~60~ Ahmed Elaksher, Purdue Univeristy High-Resolution Imagery James Bethel Moderator: Yong Wang, East Carolina University Generation of Digital Surface Model from High-resolution Satellite Imagery Room B112 Chunsun Zhang, South Dakota State University Evaluation of NAIP ADS40 1-Meter Stereo Imagery for Landslide Mapping Clive Fraser Timothy P. McCrink, California Geological Survey Florante G. Perez, Robert E. Yoha, Shawn R. Slade, And Becky Morton ~57~ Improving the Spatial Resolution of the ALOS PRISM Triplet using a Lidar — Urban Applications I Fusion Technique Moderator: Xuelian Meng, Texas State University Yong Wang, East Carolina University Room B114 Chong Fan, Jianya Gong, and Mingsheng Liao Morphology Based Building Detection using Airborne Lidar Data Tells the Number of Pixels the Truth? Effective Resolution of Large Size Xuelian Meng, Texas State University Digital Frame Cameras Le Wang and Nate Currit Karsten Jacobsen, Leibniz University Hannover, Gemany Delineating Impervious Surfaces Utilizing High Spatial Resolution Multispectral Imagery and Lidar Data Ming-Chih Hung, Northwest Missouri State University Kreh Germaine 50 www.asprs.org/portland08 Thursday, May 1st Conference Program

~61~ Technical Sessions ASPRS SAC — Scientific Communication II: Proper Manuscript Preparation 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm Organized by ASPRS Student Advisory Council Moderator: Shaofei Chen, The University of Texas at Dallas ~64~ Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Program IV (PNAMP) Room A106 Moderator: Ralph Haugerud, U.S. Geological Survey A series of four sessions (Organizing and Constructing a Scientific Room A105 Paper, Proper Manuscript Preparation, Grammar for Educated Writers of Scientific English, and the Publication Process: From Submission Expert Panel to Print) intended to take students and young professionals through the process of writing and publishing scientific research from start to finish. ~65~ Natural Resource Applications II ~62~ Moderator: Yinghai Ke, SUNY-ESF ASPRS PDAD Panel — Airborne Digital Mapping Camera Systems: Room B117 Owners’ Perspective Comparison of Individual Tree Crown Detection and Delineation Methods Moderator: Qassim Abdullah, Fugro EarthData Yinghai Ke, SUNY-ESF Room B113 Lindi Quackenbush Panelists will discuss highlights and some pitfalls of new airborne Land use Conflicts Identification in Protected Areas in the Surroundings digital mapping cameras. of the Caparaó National Park, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil Panelists: Fernando Soares de Oliveira, Federal University of Vicosa - Forestry John Welter, NWG Department, Brazil Layton Hobbs, Woolpert, Inc. Vicente Paulo Soares, José Marinaldo Gleriani, José Eduardo Macedo Michael Ritchie, PhotoScience, Inc. Pezzopane, Elias Silva , Gumercindo Souza Lima, and Carlos A. A. Anne Miglarese, Fugro EarthData Inc. S. Ribeiro Craig Molander, Surdex Corporation ~66~ ~63~ Photogrammetric Triangulation Models Lidar — Forestry Applications Moderator: Riadh Munjy, California State University, Fresno Moderator: Jason Tullis, University of Arkansas Room B110 Room B115 The Replacement Sensor Model (RSM): Overview, Status, and Using Lidar to Assess Canopy Depth of Red-cockaded Woodpecker (RCW Performance Summary Picoides borealis) Habitat John Dolloff, BAE Systems, Network Systems H. Alexis Londo, Mississippi State University Charles Taylor and Michelle Iiyama David L. Evans and Scott A. Tweddale Replacement Sensor Model (RSM) Performance for Triangulation and Individual Tree Species Identification using Lidar Intensity Data Geopositioning Sooyoung Kim, Precision Forestry Cooperative, College of Forest Charles Taylor, BAE Systems, Network Systems Resources, University of Washington John Dolloff and Michelle Iiyama Hans-Erik Andersen, Robert McGaughey, Gerard Schreuder Building and Road Recognition using Shape and Height Information Forest Lidar-derived Statistical Enhancement of Oak Hazard Models Hongwei Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison Jason Tullis, University of Arkansas Frank Scarpace Brian Culpepper, Jason Defibaugh y Chávez, Fred M. Stephen, and John Reliability of CORS-Based GPS Data for Highway Aerial Triangulation Riggins Riadh Munjy, California State University, Fresno Mushtaq Hussain and James Appleton Beverage Break in Exhibit Hall 3:00 pm to 3:30 pm

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~67~ ~70~ Lidar — Urban Applications II Land Cover Change Datasets and Applications Moderator: Charles Toth, Center for Mapping, The Ohio State University Moderator: Michael Coan, Science Applications International, Room B114 Corporation, Contractor to U. S. Geological Survey - EROS An AFE Approach for Combining Lidar and Color Imagery Room B116 David Opitz, Overwatch Textron Systems Noise Reduction in NDVI Time Series: An Empirical Comparison Stuart Blundell Jennifer Hird, Foothills Facility for Remote Sensing and GIScience, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Canada Quality Assessment of Lidar Data by using Pavement Markings Charles Toth, Center for Mapping, The Ohio State University Gregory McDermid Eva Paska and Dorota Brzezinska The Landcover Change Mapper (LCM) and Its Application to Forestry and Landslide Monitoring Potential of Terrestrial Laserscanning in Deformation Measurement of Guillermo Castilla, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Structures Canada Tamas Lovas, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Geof Hungary frey J. Hay, Ken Dutchak, and Richard Guthrie Arpad Barsi, Attila Polgar, Zoltan Kibedy, Akos Detrekoi, and Laszlo The Generation and Initial Application of a 250-Meter Conterminous Dunai United States Vegetation Phenological Database from MODIS Data Jerry Gasser, Lockheed Martin Mission Services – Civil Programs Joseph P. Spruce, James Smoot, Robert E. Ryan, Don Prados, Kenton ~68~ W. Ross, Rodney McKellip, and Bill Hargrove Lidar — Biomass Applications Moderator: Sorin Popescu, Texas A&M University Completion of the National Land Cover Database 1992/2001 Change Product Room B112 Michael Coan, Science Applications International, Corporation, Coupling Lidar and High-resolution Digital Imagery for Biomass Contractor to U. S. Geological Survey - EROS Estimation in Mixed-wood Forest Environments Joyce Fry, Collin Homer, Debra Meyer, Charles Larson, and Charles Neal Pilger, Queen’s University, Canada Wickham Paul Treitz, Benoit St-Onge, Murray Woods, and Paul Courville

Scale-invariant Prediction of Forest Biomass Using Airborne Lasers ~71~ Kaiguang Zhao, Spatial Sciences Lab IFSAR & SRTM Sorin Popescu and Ross Nelson Moderator: Steven Lennartz, Sanborn Scaling Up Lidar-derived Estimates of Aboveground Biomass to MODIS Room B111 Scales: A Case Study in East Texas EarthData USDA-FSA GeoSAR Acquisition Project Sorin Popescu, Texas A&M University Nathan Pugh, Fugro EarthData; DA-FSA-APFO Kaiguang Zhao, Ross Nelson, and Chinsu Lin Steven Shaffer A Comparison of Automatically Extracted OrbView-3 and IKONOS Elevation ~69~ Data to Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Elevation Data ASPRS PDAD Panel — Digital Data Quality, Traceability, and Robert Black, GeoEye Admissibility IFSAR Processing using Variational Calculus Moderator: Tom Holm, U.S. Geological Survey Kenneth Sartor, Northrop Grumman Room B113 Gnana Bhaskar Tenali, Emile Ganthier, and Adrian Peter Records Management Practices - Doing It Right John Faundeen, U.S. Geological Survey ~72~ Legal Certification of Digital Data: The Earth Resources Observation and Hydrologic Applications III Science Center Project Moderator: Karen Breitlow, Oregon State University Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz, National Center for Remote Sensing, Air, Room B118 and Space Law, University of Mississippi Landsat Thermal Data for Water Resources Management in Idaho Procedures for Certification of Digital Data William Kramber, Idaho Department of Water Resources Wayne Miller, U.S. Geological Survey Anthony Morse and Richard Allen Is it Worth the Cost to Make Digital Data Admissible? Charles Olson, University of Michigan The Effect of Urbanization on the Hydrologic Regime of the Big Darby Creek Watershed, Ohio Gi-Choul Ahn, The Ohio State University Carolyn Merry Priority Counties for RADARSAT Scene Collection – Texas Floods 2007 Joseph Toland, FEMA

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~73~ Social Event Digital Camera and Sensor Analysis and Calibration Moderator: Ricardo Passini, BAE Systems An Evening at the World Forestry Center Room A107 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm Geometric Analysis on Digital Photogrammetric Cameras Enjoy a relaxing indoor/outdoor evening with your fellow attendees Ricardo Passini, BAE Systems at the internationally acclaimed World Forestry Center located in Karsten Jacobsen Portland’s beautiful Washington Park. Built in dramatic Cascadian style architecture, you’ll marvel at the intricate hand carvings and grand Calibration of Camera Systems entry. Hands-on, interactive exhibits inside are designed to inform Karsten Jacobsen, Leibniz University Hannover, Gemany visitors about the sustainability of forests and trees of the Pacific Direct Georeferencing and Ultracam D Misalignment Calibration Northwest and around the world. Khaldoun Qtaishat, Mu’ta University, Jordan Forests are truly amazing places critical to our own survival, and you Martin Smith and David Park will come away from this museum experience with a more complete understanding of this. Forests are ever changing, face many challenges, and require proper management to be sustainable. By using the forests ~74~ of the Pacific Northwest as an example, you will see how they have ASPRS SAC — Scientific Communication III: Grammar for Educated systems, structure, and cycles, and how our daily lives are affected by Writers of Scientific English them. Organized by the ASPRS Student Advisory Council World-wide forests face multiple challenges. One of the exhibits Moderator: Shaofei Chen, The University of Texas at Dallas highlights People and Forests, and how they interact around the world. Room A106 You will “travel” to different regions, meeting people who are faced with the many issues of keeping forests in their countries sustainable. A series of four sessions (Organizing and Constructing a Scientific Special local delicacies will be served during the evening and Paper, Proper Manuscript Preparation, Grammar for Educated Writers transportation is provided. Bus transportation to the World Forestry of Scientific English, and the Publication Process: From Submission Center will be offered from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm. Buses will load from to Print) intended to take students and young professionals through the the Holladay Entrance of the Oregon Convention Center and from the process of writing and publishing scientific research from start to finish. Banquet Entrance of the Doubletree Hotel. Return bus service to both the Oregon Convention Center and the ~75~ Doubletree Hotel will be offered from the World Forestry Center starting at 6:30 pm. The last bus will leave the World Forestry Center ASPRS 10-Year Industry Forecast – Phase V Update promptly at 9:00 pm. Charles Mondello, Chair ASPRS 10 Year Industry Forecast, Pictometry The admission for this event is included for those paying full International registration fees. Everyone wishing to attend this event must be ticketed George Hepner, Department of Geography, University of Utah including children. Adult and student tickets may be purchased $65 Richard Medina, University of Utah each. Tickets for children under 12 are $20. Children over 12 must have Room B115 a full price ticket. A limited number of tickets will be available at the NOAA, USGS and ASPRS have continued the ASPRS 10 Year Industry ASPRS Registration Desk until 2 pm on Tuesday, April 29. Tickets will Forecast into its 5th Phase. While many projections have been made not be available at the World Forestry Center. over time, this is a forecast developed and carried out by members of our industry. This places significant credibility on the study results. The study has expanded from US only to the industry worldwide. This paper reviews the initial results of Phase V.

ASPRS Meeting Schedule Save the dates!!! The William T. Pecora Memorial Symposium ASPRS 2010 Annual Conference November 17-20, 2008 April 26 – 30, 2010 Adams Mark Hotel, Denver, Colorado Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, California

ASPRS 2009 Annual Conference ASPRS 2011 Annual Conference 75th Anniversary of ASPRS May 1 - 5, 2011 March 8 – 13, 2009 Midwest Airlines Center/Hyatt Hotel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland

ASPRS/MAPPS 2009 Fall Conference Check www.asprs.org for updates and important November 16 – 19, 2009 program information. Crowne Plaza Hotel, San Antonio, Texas

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Friday, May 2nd Time Event Room Attending 8:00 am to 5:00 pm ASPRS Board of Directors Meeting Room B118 8:30 am to 9:00 am Breakfast with the Exhibitors Exhibit Hall A 8:30 am to 11:00 am Exhibit Hall Open Exhibit Hall A 9:00 am to 10:30 am Technical Sessions 76-86 See individual session description 10:30 am to 11:00 am Beverage Break in Exhibit Hall Exhibit Hall A 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Technical Sessions 87-98 See individual session description

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Registration Desk Opens ~78~ 7:00 am to 10:30 am Invasive Species Mapping I Oregon Convention Center Moderator: Cuizhen Wang, University of Missouri Room A107 Mapping the Invasive Salt Cedar Plant Species (Tamarix ramosissima) ASPRS Board of Directors Meeting using Spectral Reflectance and Remote Sensing Balaji Bhaskar Maruthi Sridhar, Department of Geology, Bowling ASPRS Board of Directors Green State University 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Robert K. Vincent, Pete Clapham, David Eckhardt, Christopher Neale, Room B118 John Osterberg, Doyle Watts, and Sritharan Subramaniam Cheat Grass (Bromus tectorum) Invasibility Risk Assessment: A GIS & Remote Sensing Procedure Applied in Northern Utah Social Event Samuel Rivera, Utah State University Breakfast with the Exhibitors Alexander Hernandez and R. Douglas Ramsey 8:30 am to 9:00 am Detecting Invasive Sericea Lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata) in Missouri Exhibit Hall A Pasturelands with Hyper- and Multi-spectral Aerial Photos ASPRS invites all conference attendees to Cuizhen Wang, University of Missouri join with the exhibitors for a complimentary nd continental breakfast on Friday, May 2 ~79~ from 8:30 am to 9:00 am in the Exhibit th Internet Data Services Hall to say thank you for attending the 74 Moderator: Tarig A. Ali, University of Central Florida Annual conference. Room B116 The GeoBrain Web Service System- Architecture, Standards, Exhibit Hall Open Implementation, and Operation 8:30 am to 11:00 am Liping Di, George Mason University Exhibit Hall A Peisheng Zhao and Meixia Deng OpenAerialMap.org: A Democratization of Remotely Sensed Imagery Christopher Lippitt, San Diego State University Technical Sessions Cristiano Giovando and Charles Schmidt 9:00 am to 10:30 am Development of a Collaborative Web-based GIS Environment For Coastal ~76~ Land Use Planning Tarig A. Ali, University of Central Florida Positional Accuracy Assessment Moderator: Tzee Kiu Chow, University of Michigan-Flint Room A104 ~80~ Comparisons of Interior and Exterior Orientation Parameters of Several Homeland Security Applications Photogrammetric Software Packages in use at the Johnson Space Center Moderator: Babak Ameri, GEOSYS Technology Solutions Ltd., Canada Edward Oshel, Johnson Space Center, NASA Room B114 Positional Error Assessment in Spatial Databases Hyperspectral Fluorescence Remote Sensing of Landscape Molecular Tzee Kiu Chow, University of Michigan-Flint Probes John Anderson, US ARMY ERDC Richard Massaro, Jarrod Edwards, William Bernard, and Oliver Weatherbee ~77~ Landscape Pattern Analysis GIDE: Geo-Intelligent Collaborative Decision Support System for Real- Moderator: James Hurd, University of Connecticut Time Disaster and Emergency Management Babak Ameri, GEOSYS Technology Solutions Ltd., Canada Room B112 Ali Shankaie and David Meger Fractal Characteristics of the Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Indianapolis, USA Bingqing Liang, Indiana State University Qihao Weng Influence of Spatial Delineation Errors in Quantifying Landscape Pattern Change Julia Linke, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Canada Gregory McDermid, Alysha Pape, and Mryka Hall-Beyer Assessing the Impact of Land Cover Spatial Resolution on Forest Fragmentation Modeling James Hurd, University of Connecticut Daniel Civco

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~81~ ~85~ Data Standards I — The Sensor Web: Open Geospatial Consortium ASPRS PDAD — Thermal Remote Sensing (OGC) Sensor Web Services Moderator: Charles Olson, University of Michigan Moderator: Richard A. Pearsall, National Geospatial-Intelligence Room B111 Agency This session will highlight a variety of applications using remote Room A 103 sensing for disaster and resource management. What is the OGC Sensor Web Enablement? A Short History of Thermal Remote Sensing Mike Botts, University of Alabama-Huntsville Charles Olson, University of Michigan OGC Web Service Interoperability Program Initiative OWS-5 Applications of Near Real-Time Infrared Imagery Mark Reichardt, Open Geospatial Consortium Fred Osterwisch, Argon ST Detection of Moose in Mixed Deciduous-Coniferous Forests using FLIR ~82~ Susan Bernatas, Vision Air Research Data Partnerships Innovations in Field-based and In Situ Thermal Remote Sensing of Moderator: Jamie Ludwig, Portland State University Wildland Fires Room B110 Colin Hardy, Program Manager, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS): Promoting Access Program, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service to EO Data and Services Phil Riggan Douglas Nebert, U.S. Geological Survey The USDA-NASS 2007 California Cropland Data Layer ~86~ Patrick Willis, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Applications I Maximizing Value of Spatial Assets by Optimizing Cataloging Efficiencies Moderator: Jennifer D. Watts, Department of Land Resources and at MCIA Geospatial Analysis Division Environmental Sciences, Montana State University- Bozeman Kari R. Zehner, U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence Activity Room B115 Timely and Accurate Crop Area Estimation in Prince Edward Island ~83~ (Canada) using Statistical Survey Methods and Remote Sensing Image Atmospheric Applications Classification Technologies Moderator: Dar Roberts, Department of Geography, Univ. of California Frédéric Bédard, Statistics Canada, Agriculture Division, Canada Santa Barbara Richard Dobbins and Gordon Reichert Room A105 The Object-oriented Analysis of Agricultural Practices for Carbon Understanding the Correlation of San Joaquin Air Quality Monitoring with Sequestration Purposes in North Central Montana Aerosol Optical Thickness Satellite Measurements Jennifer D. Watts, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Michelle Newcomer, California Polytechnic State University, SLO Sciences, Montana State University- Bozeman Jacqueline Rudy, Sachi Lake, and Sivakami Sambasivam Rick L. Lawrence Linking Daily MODIS Data to Ground Climate Measurements: A Minimum Temperature Study for Dengue Fever in Thailand Beverage Break in Exhibit Hall Kristopher Kuzera, San Diego State University 10:30 am to 11:00 am Mapping of Methane Emissions from Naturally-occurring Marine Seeps using Imaging Spectrometry Dar Roberts, Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara Ira Leifer, Philip Dennison, Ross Cheung, Dylan Parenti

~84~ ASPRS SAC — Scientific Communication IV: The Publication Process – From Submission to Print Organized by the ASPRS Student Advisory Council Moderator: Shaofei Chen, The University of Texas at Dallas Room A106 A series of four sessions (Organizing and Constructing a Scientific Paper, Proper Manuscript Preparation, Grammar for Educated Writers of Scientific English, and the Publication Process: From Submission to Print) intended to take students and young professionals through the process of writing and publishing scientific research from start to finish.

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Technical Sessions ~90~ Multispectral Image Classification Accuracy 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Moderator: Guofan Shao, Purdue University ~87~ Room B110 Vegetation Mapping Maximizing Classification Accuracy with DALA-Unsupervised Moderator: Robert A. Chastain Jr., Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Classification Algorithm Education Guofan Shao, Purdue University Room A104 Multispectral Image Classification using Neuro-fuzzy Method in PCA Spatio-temporal Modeling of Soil Erosion Relevant Vegetation Cover Domain Factor by Combining Multi-temporal TM Images and Permanent Plots Sirichai Minhayenud, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Guangxing Wang, Department of Geography and Environmental Ladkrabang, Thailand Resources Southern Illinois University Carbondale Sakreya Chitwong, Apidech Somphol, and Fusak Cheevasuvit George Gertner, Alan B. Anderson, and Heidi Howard An SVM Multi-Classifier Approach to Land Cover Mapping Detection of Disturbed Surfaces: Measuring Human Interaction on the Anthony Gidudu, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Landscape South Africa Carol S. Mladinich, U.S. Geological Survey Rocky Mountain Gregg Hulley and Tshilidzi Marwala Geographic Science Center Isolating and Characterizing Woodland and Savanna Communities on Fort ~91~ Lewis, Washington, USA Robert A. Chastain Jr., Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Invasive Species Mapping II

Moderator: Dan Craver, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / Portland State ~88~ University Object-based LULC Classification Room A107 Moderator: Zachary J. Bortolot, James Madison University Mapping Invasive Weeds from Roadside Vegetation using NAIP Data Room A105 Yanfen Le, Northwest Missouri State University New “Refined” Land Cover Data Sets for Kentucky Counties - The Good, George Kegode The Better and The Best Demetrio Zourarakis, Kentucky Commonwealth Office of Technology Analyzing the Population Dynamics of White Sweet Clover (Melilotus alba) on the Matanuska Flood Plain in Alaska using Time Series Imagery Andrew Brenner and Michael Palmer Norman Harris, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Land Use and Land Cover Patterns of Mountain Resort Trish Wurtz and Beth Hall Development in Big Sky, Montana Natalie Campos, Montana State University — Bozeman Multi-Hazards Demonstration Project (MHDP): Mapping Vegetation Type Conversion in Southern California Rick Lawrence and Brian McGlynn Cynthia Wallace, U.S. Geological Survey An Adaptive Object-oriented Algorithm for Extracting Information From Jon Keeley Images Zachary J. Bortolot, James Madison University ~92~ Global Studies ~89~ Moderator: E. Raymond Hunt, U.S. Department of Agriculture-ARS Natural Hazard Applications Room B112 Moderator: Alexander Hernandez, Utah State University Room B111 Remote Sensing Data for Managing Locust Pest Problems Near Aral Sea, Central Asia Integrating Data from NASA Missions into NOAA”s Pacific Region Ramesh Sivanpillai, University of Wyoming - WYGISC Integrated Climatology Products (PRICIP) Project Alexandre Latchininsky and Hans Wilps Nicole Simons, University of Oklahoma Casey Teske, Frank Garcia, Joshua Ingham, Seema Gupta GDEST Africa Geospatial Sciences for Sustainable Development John A. Kelmelis, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of State, Simulation of the Temporal and Spatial Effects of Wildfires on Water Yield Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Water Quality in Rangelands of Northern Utah Paul Bartel, Raymond Lester, and H. Greg Smith Alexander Hernandez, Utah State University R. Douglas Ramsey Remote Sensing of Leaf Equivalent Water Thickness and Vegetation Water Content using Shortwave Infrared Reflectances E. Raymond Hunt, U.S. Department of Agriculture-ARS M. Tugrul Yilmaz and Thomas J. Jackson

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~93~ ~96~ Data Standards II — Development of Image Sensor Model Standards Agricultural Applications II Moderator: Richard A. Pearsall, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Moderator: Rick Mueller, U.S. Department of Agriculture-NASS Room A 103 Room B115 The DOD Geospatial Intelligence Standards Working Group Community Hyperspectral Analysis of Short Rotation Woody Crops Grown with a Sensor Model Focus Group Range of Nutrient and Water Availability Neil Sunderland, Seicorp Jungho Im, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Development of an ISO Common Sensor Model TBD John Jensen, Mark Coleman, and Eric Nelson Assessment of Landsat 7 ETM+, AWiFS, and UK-DMC Satellite Imagery in Agriculture Extraction and Illicit Poppy Cultivation Estimates ~94~ Wendy Wilson, MDA Federal Inc. Data Fusion Moderator: Andrea Laliberte, U.S. Department of Agriculture-ARS, Clay Baros and Jacqueline Luders Jornada Experimental Range Research to Operational: A Paradigm Shift for Remote Sensing Based Room B116 Acreage Estimates Rick Mueller, U.S. Department of Agriculture-NASS Bringing a Vector/Image Conflation Tool to the Commercial Market Lou Martucci, Battelle PNWD; BKF Systems Boris Kovalerchuk, Gamal Seedahmed, and Peter Doucette ~97~ A Procedure for Orthorectification of Sub-decimeter Resolution Imagery 3D Feature Extraction Moderator: Paul Pope, Los Alamos National Laboratory Obtained with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Andrea Laliberte, U.S. Department of Agriculture-ARS, Jornada Room A104 Experimental Range Synthetic Image Chip Creation through Photogrammetric and Computer Craig Winters and Al Rango Graphics Techniques Paul Pope, Los Alamos National Laboratory A Fast Intensity-hue-saturation Fusion Approach via Principal Component Analysis for IKONOS Imagery Sirichai Minhayenud, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology ~98~ Ladkrabang, Thailand Improving Disaster Management and Emergency Response Sakreya Chitwong and Fusak Cheevasuvit Moderator: Bruce A. Davis, NASA /DHS Room A106 ~95~ Adding Historical Image Collections and Future Plans to the Remote Close-Range Photogrammetry Sensing Hazard Guidance System Moderator: Ming-Chih Hung, Northwest Missouri State University Michael E. Hodgson, University of South Carolina Room B114 Bruce A. Davis, Clio Andris, Bandana Kar Mapping Cemeteries with Balloon Aerial Photography An Approach to the Optimal Selection and Processing of Remote Sensing Ming-Chih Hung, Northwest Missouri State University Data for Hurricane Disaster Response Eric Wolf Greg Easson, University of Mississippi Bruce A. Davis and Robert E. Ryan A UAV-based Photogrammetric Mapping System for Road Condition Assessment Real-time Airborne Data Management System Chunsun Zhang, South Dakota State University Charles Mondello, EVP Corporate Development, Pictometry International Collect Spatial Information from a Single Photo with the 3D Perspective Grid Plate Yishuo Huang, Department of Construction Engineering, CYUT, Taiwan Jer-Wei Wu

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under 12 may be purchased for $20 All attendees must have a ticket. th 19 Annual Awards Luncheon and 74th Installation of Officers Children over 12 must have a full price ticket. A limited number of Wednesday, April 30th, 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm tickets will be available at the ASPRS Registration Desk until 2 pm on Join in recognition of your colleagues and participate in the occasion Tuesday, April 29. Everyone attending this event must have a ticket. marking the installation of the Society’s 74th slate of officers. Tickets will not be sold at the World Forestry Center. The recipients of this year’s prestigious awards will be given special honor and the business meeting will include installation of ASPRS Breakfast with the Exhibitors Officers and Directors. Marquerite Madden. retiring President, will give Friday, May 2nd, 8:30 am to 9:00 am a summation of the past year’s events. Tickets for the Luncheon are required and may be purchased at the ASPRS invites all conference ASPRS Registration Desk no later than 2 pm on Monday, April 28 . attandees to join with the exhibitors On site luncheon ticket sales are limited to availability. Cost is $35 for a complimentary continental nd per person for the luncheon. Limited seating in the rear of the room breakfast on Friday, May 2 from is available at no cost for conference registrants wishing to attend the 8:30 am to 9:00 am in the Exhibit ceremonies only. Hall to say thank you for attending the 74th Annual conference.

Exhibitors’ Reception Students and Young Professionals — Wednesday, April 30th, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm These events are just for you! Always a highlight of the Annual ASPRS Conferences is the Exhibitors’ Speed Networking Reception and the 2008 Conference will continue this tradition. This Tuesday, April 29th, 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm is a great opportunity to view the latest products and services offered Whether this is your first ASPRS by both national and international suppliers who are your hosts for the Conference or if you have had an evening. Light hors d’oeuvers and beverages will be served for your opportunity to attend previously, you enjoyment while you mingle with old and new friends. are invited to join other students and young professionals from all over the Memorial Address and Student/Region Awards world at this special event designed Thursday, May 1st, 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm just for you. You’ve heard of Speed Dating. We’re offering Speed Networking This year’s Memorial Address will honor the life and achievements of where you will get to meet at least seven new people who may become John Edward “Jack” Estes presented by John R. Jensen. For complete good friends for the conference or the rest of your life. details of this event, please see page 49 of this program. At 5:30 on Tuesday evening, immediately following the Speed Networking, you are welcome to join the Student Advisory Council An Evening at the World Forestry Center meeting and learn the many ways you can become more involved in Thursday, May 1st, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm ASPRS and further your professional life. Enjoy a relaxing indoor/outdoor evening with your fellow attendees at the internationally acclaimed World Forestry Center located in Exhibit Hall Guided Tour Portland’s beautiful Washington Park. Built in dramatic Cascadian style Wednesday, April 30th, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm architecture, you’ll marvel at the intricate hand carvings and grand entry. Hands-on, interactive exhibits inside are designed to inform visitors about the sustainability of forests and trees of the Pacific Northwest and around the world. Forests are truly amazing places critical to our own survival, and you will come away from this museum experience with a more complete understanding of this. Forests are ever changing, face many challenges, and require proper management to be sustainable. By using the forests of the Pacific Northwest as an example, you will see how they have systems, The ASPRS Sustaining Members Council is hosting a guided tour structure, and cycles, and how our daily lives are affected by them. of the Exhibit Hall for students. This is your opportunity to meet the World-wide forests face multiple challenges. One of the exhibits exhibitors, up close and personal. highlights People and Forests, and how they interact around the world. You will “travel” to different regions, meeting people who are faced ASPRS Student Advisory Council Sessions with the many issues of keeping forests in their countries sustainable. Getting a Job Page 33 A special menu of local delicacies will be served during the evening Successfully Entering the Workforce Page 39 and transportation is provided. Bus transportation to the World Forestry Scholarships and Grants: Funding Your Way to Success Page 41 Center will be offered from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm. Buses will load from Scientific Communication I: the Holladay Entrance of the Oregon Convention Center and from the Organizing and Constructing a Scientific Paper Page 46 Banquet Entrance of the Doubletree Hotel. Scientific Communication II: Proper Manuscript Preparation Page 51 Return bus service to both the Oregon Convention Center and the Doubletree Hotel will be offered from the World Forestry Center Scientific Communication III: starting at 6:30 pm. The last bus will leave the World Forestry Center Grammar for Educated Writers of Scientific English Page 53 promptly at 9:00 pm Scientific Communication IV: The admission for this event is included for those paying full The Publication Process – From Submission to Print Page 56 registration fees. Other Conference registrants, including students, may purchase tickets for $65 each when registering. Tickets for children

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Company Booth # Company Booth # 3001 404 Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging 200 AGFA Materials Corporation 314 LizardTech 318 Airborne 1 418 MDA Federal Inc. 604 Alaska Satellite Facilty 105 Merrick & Company 617 American Geological Institute 720 Myriax Pty Ltd 712 Ampex Data Systems Corporation 714 NASA Earth Science Data and Services 704 Applanix Corporation 508 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency 711 ASD Inc. (formerly Analytical Spectral Devices) 217 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) 708 ASPRS 109 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 103 BAE Systems, GXP 300 National Reconnaissance Office 616 Cardinal Systems, LLC 501 New Tech Services, Inc. 705 Clark Labs 706 NovAtel Inc. 414 CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group 709 Optech Incorporated 400 DAT/EM Systems International 508 Overwatch Geospatial 102 DIMAC Systems s.a.r.l. Pasco International Engineering Department, 321 Overseas Division DIMAC Systems, LLC 309 PCI Geomatics 701 Directions Magazine 720 Photonics Spectra 720 Dudley Thompson Mapping Corporation (DTM) 421 Planar Systems, Inc. 216 Dynamic Aviation 505 Point of Beginning (POB) Magazine 720 Eagle Mapping Ltd. 614 Professional Surveyor Magazine 710 Earth Imaging Journal 720 QCoherent Software 315 Eastdawn Corporation 517 Riegl USA, Inc 600 E. Coyote Enterprises, Ltd. 509 Rollei Metric GmbH 520 ESRI 308 SPADAC Inc. 218 Federal Geographic Data Committee 100 Spectral Instruments, Inc. 420 GEO:connexion Ltd 720 Stora Enso 320 GeoCue Corporation 515 TerraSim Inc. 116 GeoEye 214 Terrasolid Ltd. 521 Geographic Resource Solutions 419 TopoSys North America Inc. 516 GeoInformatics 720 Urban Robotics, Inc. 117 GeoTec Media 619 USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) 702 Groupe Alta 208 Valtus Imagery Services 417 HAS Images, Inc. 608 Vexcel Imaging, GmbH – a Microsoft Company 108 Infoterra Group 715 Velodyne 317 INPHO 508 Virtual Geomatics 319 Intergraph Corporation 500 Wehrli & Associates Inc. 205 ITRES Research Limited 101 WeoGeo 221 ITT Visual Information Solutions 408 Western Air Maps, Inc. 107 KLT Associates, Inc. 201

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3001 Booth 404 American Geological Institute Booth 720 10300 Eaton Place, Suite 340 4220 King Street Fairfax, VA 22030 Alexandria, VA 22302 703-385-3001, 703-293-6205 (Fax), www.3001inc.com 703-379-2480, 703-379-7563 (Fax), www.agiweb.org 3001 is a leading provider of geospatial products and services. We The American Geological Institute is a nonprofit federation of 44 perform airborne imaging, surveying, mapping, remote sensing, geoscientific and professional associations that represents more than and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) development. 3001’s 100,000 geologists, geophysicists, and other earth scientists. Founded products are used for domestic and international civilian, defense, in 1948, AGI provides information services to geoscientists, serves as a and intelligence initiatives, to manage infrastructure, and to better voice of shared interests in our profession and strives to increase public understand the world. Since 9/11 in particular, Defense and Intelligence awareness of the vital role the geosciences play in society‘s use of communities have relied on 3001 for critical global geospatial solutions. resources and interaction with the environment. Please visit www.3001inc.com or call 866.GEO.3001 for more information. Ampex Data Systems Corporation Booth 714 1228 Douglas Avenue, RM 107 AGFA Materials Corporation Booth 314 Redwood City, CA. 94063 100 Challenger Road 650-367-2937, 650-367-3106 (Fax), www.ampexdata.com Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660 Ampex is a world renowned innovator of data storage products. During 201-373-4686, 201-440-6794 (Fax), www.agfa.com its 60+ year history, Ampex has developed substantial IP relating to the Agfa Materials Corporation provides a complete selection of aerial storage, processing and retrieval of electronic data, particularly images. film products including color and black and white data capture films, Customers include Boeing, Northrop Grumman, BAE, Lockheed, copy films and papers, along with color and black and white processing and Viacom where Ampex provides data acquisition and data archive chemistry. Agfa Materials offers :Apertune Image Enhancement storage solutions for military, intelligence and entertainment industry software, enabling total image control and enhancement after scanning requirements. Ampex’s latest product offering is the miniR 700 Solid to improve your digital work flow. Agfa Materials provides consluting State Recorder, weighing less than 3.5 lbs. and technical support through our experienced North American aerial sales team. Applanix Corporation Booth 508 85 Leek Crescent Airborne 1 Booth 418 Richmond Hill, ON 300 N. Sepulveda Blvd.#1060 L4B 3B3 El Segundo, CA 90245 Canada 310-414-7400, 310-414-7409 (Fax), www.airborne1.com 905-709-4600, 905-709-6027 (Fax), www.applanix.com Airborne 1 Corporation provides advanced lidar technology and asset Applanix, a wholly owned subsidiary of Trimble, develops, management for a wide variety of industries. From Turnkey Services to manufactures, sells and supports precision products that accurately and Software/Training, Rentals, and Fractional Ownership Plans, we enable robustly measure the position and orientation of vehicles operating in professionals to effectively enter the lidar market without incurring the dynamic environments. Applanix’s Position and Orientation Systems high costs of owning a sensor. Our digital mapping services include a ( POS) are used in a variety of applications, including road profiling, dedicated team of lidar experts; state-of-the-art Optech sensors; lidar GIS data acquisition, aerial surveying and mapping, railroad track survey coordination and project management; data processing analysis, maintenance and seafloor mapping. Established in 1991, Applanix and application development. strives to support customers around the world with exceptional service - anywhere, at anytime.

Alaska Satellite Facilty Booth 105 Geophysical Institute ASD Inc. (formerly Analytical Spectral Devices) Booth 217 University of Alaska Fairbanks 2555 55th Street, Suite 100 903 Koyukuk Drive Boulder, CO 80301 USA Fairbanks, Alaska 99775 303-444-6522, www.asdi.com 907-474-6166, 907-4747-2665 (Fax), www.asf.alaska.edu ASD Inc. is unsurpassed in solving some of the world’s most The Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) of the Geophysical Institute, challenging materials measurement problems with customer-focused University of Alaska Fairbanks, has over a decade of experience in solutions, service, and support of the highest quality and integrity. We satellite remote sensing. ASF is involved in a wide range of activities collaborate with industrial professionals, analytical researchers, and – from downlinking satellite data to developing data analysis tools, remote sensing scientists to provide the most reliable, high-performance value-added products, and training for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) analytical instrumentation for real-time materials measurement, exactly users. ASF distributes data to national and international scientists, where it is needed, on-site or at remote locations. Established in 1990 government agencies, with the primary goal of providing expertise, and based in Boulder, Colorado, USA, ASD Inc. has customers world- data, and service to the research community. wide.

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ASPRS Booth 109 DAT/EM Systems International Booth 508 5410 Grosvenor Lane, Suite 210 8240 Sandlewood Place, Suite 101 Bethesda, MD 20814 Anchorage, AK 99507-3122 301-493-0290, 301-493-0208 (Fax), www.asprs.org 907-522-3681, 907-522-3688 (Fax), www.datem.com Visit the ASPRS Bookstore and browse through our variety of DAT/EM Systems International develops software for digital mapping publications. Take advantage of discounts during the show. We hope and photogrammetric applications. Currently, DAT/EM serves over 350 you‘ll stop by to learn more about upcoming ASPRS conferences, photogrammetric firms, engineering firms, and government agencies including the Pecora 17 Symposium to be held in Denver, Colorado, in more than 50 countries worldwide. Specifically, DAT/EM Systems November 17-21. ASPRS staff members are available to answer targets the traditional marketplace for replacement of legacy systems questions on certification, membership, awards and scholarships, and with modern, fully-digital stereoplotters utilizing 3-dimensional CAD more. Make sure to pick up a free copy of PE&RS. and GIS digitizing interfaces.

BAE Systems, GXP Booth 300 DIMAC Systems s.a.r.l. 10920 Technology Place, MZ62TAL 95 Grand Rue, L-3313 San Diego, CA 92127 Bergem, LUXEMBURG 877-762-3873, 800 -316-9643 (Toll Free), 858-592-1046, +352 2651 2166, +352 2651 2165 (Fax), www.dimacsystems.com 858-592-5309 (Fax), www.baesystems.com/gxp

BAE Systems’ Geospatial eXploitation Products (GXP) division is a DIMAC Systems, LLC Booth 309 global provider of software for image analysis, geospatial analysis and 1230 Hunter Court precision photogrammetry. From critical mission planning and disaster Longmont, CO 80501 relief to topographic mapping, land use management and transportation 303-651-2018, 303-651-7693 (Fax), www.dimacsystems.com planning, GXP develops groundbreaking tools used to deliver accurate geospatial and intelligence data — when every minute counts. GXP DIMAC Systems is a customer focused provider of the cost effective helps its customers optimize their return on investment by delivering DiMAC Light and DiMAC 2.0, a large format digital aerial camera. Our quality technical support and training. Software products include innovative camera system and straight forward work flow processing are SOCET GXP® and SOCET SET®. changing the quality of digital imagery. Key features include DiMAC’s patented True FMC which allows for direct capture of True Color imagery. Find out why the DiMAC truly fulfills the promise of digital Cardinal Systems, LLC Booth 501 aerial imagery today and will continue to do so tomorrow. 701 North Oceanshore Boulevard Flagler Beach, FL 32136 386-439-2525, 386-439-0259 (Fax), www.cardinalsystems.net Directions Magazine Booth 720 194 Green Bay Road With a long and successful history of developing photogrammetric and Glencoe, IL 60022 mapping solutions, Cardinal provides the most efficient, pragmatic 847-242-0412, 240-250-7257 (Fax), www.directionsmag.com mapping tools available today. Now offering VrOne, VrTwo, VrOrtho, VrAirTrig, VrMosaic, VrBalance, VrAdjust, VrVolumes and VrLite we Directions Magazine is the ultimate resource providing access to tools, are continually developing fresh new programs for the industry in which maps, websites, and other useful guides for both the experienced and Vr is fast becoming the standard. We invite you to visit Booth 501 for a novice geospatial technology user. Search our archives for case studies demonstration of our latest product features. of applications and browse our map and image galleries for examples on what others in the industry have done. Plus, the “My Industry” pages of Directions have over 40 categories from which to find topics specifically Clark Labs Booth 706 for your area of interest. Clark University 950 Main Street Worcester, MA 01610 Dudley Thompson Mapping Corporation (DTM) Booth 421 508-793-7526, 508-793-8842 (Fax), www.clarklabs.org Suite 2025 – 7445 132nd Street, Surrey, BC, Canada, V3W 1J8 CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group Booth 709 604-592-6522, 866-902-2923, www.dtm-global.com 6000 Broken Sound Parkway, NW, Suite 300 DTM Corporation was formed in September 2006, to provide Boca Raton, FL 33487 aerial photography, scanning, aero-triangulation, digital mapping and 561-994-0555, 561-361-6018 (Fax), www.crcpress.com orthophoto services. The principals, Nick Dudley, CGM and Mike CRC Press, a member of the Taylor & Francis Group is a premier Thompson, P.Eng. have a combined experience of 38 years in the publisher of remote sensing and GIS books, journals, and electronic mapping sciences. Their focus is on accuracy, quality and timing of databases. products and services using leading technologies and tools. For further Visit our booth to peruse our newest titles and pick up free sample information, please contact Nick Dudley, ([email protected]) or journals. Convention discounts ranging from 15 to 25% will be offered Mike Thompson ([email protected]). during the meeting. Our new titles this year include: The 3-D Global Spatial Data Model: Foundation of the Spatial Data Infrastructure and the newest edition of our bestseller - GPS for Land Surveyors, Third Edition.

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Dynamic Aviation Booth 505 E. Coyote Enterprises, Ltd. Booth 509 1402 Airport Road P. O. Box 1119 P.O. Box 7 228 Lee Road Bridgewater, VA 23112 Mineral Wells, TX 540-828-6070, 540-828-4031 (Fax), www.dynamicaviation.com 940-325 0757, 940-325 0941 (Fax), www.ecoyote.com Dynamic Aviation specializes in providing turbine powered aircraft and aviation infrastructure to organizations with exacting data needs, but ESRI Booth 308 lacking aviation resources. We offer versatile, superior aerial platforms 380 New York St. into which existing and emerging technologies can be installed to Redlands, CA 92373 acquire data of all types. Our aerial platforms can be deployed to 909-793-2853, 909-793-5953 (Fax), www.esri.com obtain lidar and multi/hyperspectral data. They may be used for aerial photography, geophysical survey, and air sampling; as well as for aerial ESRI has been the world leader in the geographic information system and maritime surveillance. (GIS) software industry for more than 38 years. ESRI’s innovative imagery management solutions enable you to maximize the value of your imagery by quickly delivering your imagery to those that need it. Eagle Mapping Ltd. Booth 614 ESRI eliminates the need to pre-process your imagery by combining Suite 201 – 2071 Kingsway Avenue on-the-fly image processing with distribution to nearly any GIS, CAD, Port Coquitlam, BC image processing or Web client. Learn more about ESRI at www.esri. Canada V3C 6N2 com. 877-942-5551, 604-942-5951, www.eaglemapping.com

Eagle Mapping (ISO) delivers high quality digital mapping, data Federal Geographic Data Committee Booth 100 and imagery tailored to your unique needs. Our global services offer 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 590 turnkey mapping solutions for diverse industry sectors and stages of Reston, VA 20192 development. You Choose: business use, industry, language; aerial 703-648-4150, 703-648-5755 (Fax), www.fgdc.gov photos, topography, orthophotos; GPS and ground surveys; resolution, scale, format; lidar, Satellite or 3D Fly-Throughs… We Deliver. Do you The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is an interagency need volumes, drainage, contours or breaklines, for access corridors, committee promoting coordinated acquisition, processing, use, and development, exploration, environmental studies, investors or industrial dissemination of geospatial data nationally. This nationwide effort operations? is known as the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), a physical, organizational, and virtual network designed for sharing digital geographic information resources. FGDC secretariat supports Earth Imaging Journal Booth 720 the Secretary of the Interior with building the NSDI. The activities 1298 Main St., Unit A, PMB 4150 are hosted by the National Geospatial Programs Office of the U.S. Windosor, CO 80550 Geological Survey. 970-223-6295, 970-339-5517 (Fax), www.eijournal.com

Earth Imaging Journal is a bimonthly publication that focuses on the GEO:connexion Ltd Booth 720 dominant business applications that support the international remote PO Box 594 sensing industry, emphasizing the inherent beauty and informational Cambridge value of Earth imagery from numerous sources. The magazine is CB1 0FY published by a professional staff with more than 60 combined years United Kingdom of experience covering the geospatial market and sponsored by a +44 (0) 114 268 1133, +44 (0) 7801 907 666 (Fax) consortium of industry leaders. Earth Imaging Journal is complemented www.geoconnexion.com by its Web site (www.eijournal.com), which delivers a variety of online resources: comprehensive articles, press releases, an international GEO:connexion Ltd is a publisher of printed and on-line magazines for industry directory, and more. the Geospatial Technology industries. Geo: connexion International is the leading business-to-business monthly magazine for users of all spatial technologies globally. GEOconnexionUK covers news, Eastdawn Corporation Booth 517 features devoted to the UK‘s GI industry. Special focus areas are: E- 10th Floor, Sinosteel Plaza Government, Health, Public Safety, Environmental, Utilities, Surveying, No. 8 Haidian Street Location-Based Services, Tranport/Logistics, Telecommunications Haidian District, and an annual Olympics 2012 supplement. Also published: Beijing, P.R.China.100080 ContingencyToday - protecting the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure 86-10-62686799, 86-10-62686790 (Fax), www.eastdawn.com.cn -www.contingencytoday.com. Eastdawn Corporation (EDC), headquartered in Beijing, P. R. China, is international geospatial data production and remote sensing company. EDC is purely private company and, among privately owned geospatial data production companies in China, it is one of the largest in terms of sales revenue (2007). EDC will export its data production capabilities to North American and European market from the beginning of 2008 with its full confidence on products quality and flexible services to the customers.

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GeoCue Corporation Booth 515 Groupe Alta Booth 208 9968 Madison Blvd., Suite 101 607, 6e avenue de l’aéroport Madison, AL 35758 Québec (Québec) G2G 2T4 256-461-8289, 256-461-8249 (Fax), www.geocue.com Canada GeoCue Corporation is a software development and consulting services 418-667-1913, 418-266-3114, www.groupealta.com company specializing in geospatial production management solutions. Groupe ALTA is a North American leader in data solutions and We will be demonstrating our GeoCue product family of integrated geospatial information sectors. It implements and operates the most solutions in booth #515 as well as during our annual user’s group advanced technologies and techniques in the industry of data acquisition meeting on April 29th from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. These products and processing as well as information dissemination. Groupe ALTA’s provide an integrated end-to-end processing framework that, when mission is to provide customers with integrated geospatial solutions combined with industry leading production tools, significantly reduces and support them in their geomatics implementation process in order to production time from data acquisition to finished product. offer lasting solutions to respond to their needs.

GeoEye Booth 214 HAS Images, Inc. Booth 608 21700 Atlantic Blvd. 136 North Saint Clair St., Suite 300 Dulles, VA 20166 Dayton, OH 45402 703-480-7500, 703-480-9570 (Fax), www.geoeye.com 937-222-3856, 937-222-2443 fax, www.hasimages.com GeoEye is the premier provider of geospatial information, imagery HAS Images, Inc. is an aerial photo processing laboratory, producing and solutions for the national security community, strategic partners, a complete range of conventional and digital products. Our digital resellers and commercial customers to help them better map, measure services include image scanning with geometric precision using a LH and monitor the world. GeoEye operates a constellation of Earth Systems DSW 700 and Vexcel VX 4000 image scanners, rectification, imaging satellites, mapping aircraft and has an international network of mosaicing, and hard-copy output using the Cymbolic Sciences Light ground stations. GeoEye-1 will be launched in the coming months and Jet 5000 RS large format digital printer. We also are the exclusive will be the world‘s highest resolution and most accurate commercial Authorized Kodak Reseller of Aerial Products. Stop by Booth #608 to imaging satellite. see the “HAS Film Cleaning System.”

Geographic Resource Solutions Booth 419 Infoterra Group Booth 715 1125 16th Street, Suite 213 31 rue des Cosmonautes Arcata, CA 95521 31402 Toulouse Cedex 4 707-822-8005 France www 700 West 41st Avenue, Suite 200 .infoterra-global.com Anchorage, AK 99503 Infoterra, a wholly owned subsidiary of EADS Astrium with companies 907-563-9511 in France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom, is a leading www.grsgis.com provider of geo-information products and services. With decades of experience and a range of assets, Infoterra operates across the entire geo-information spectrum: data acquisition and processing, imagery GeoInformatics Booth 720 analysis and interpretation, hosting and delivering of large datasets, GIS P.O. Box 231 development and consultancy. Infoterra holds the exclusive commercial 8300 AE Emmeloord exploitation rights for the very high-resolution radar satellite TerraSAR- The Netherlands X. +31 (0) 527 619 000, +31 (0) 527 620 989 (Fax) www.geoinformatics.com GeoInformatics magazine provides coverage, analysis and commentary INPHO Booth 508 with respect to the international surveying, mapping and GIS industry. Smaragdweg 1 Recognizing the integrated nature of the geospatial information 70174 Stuttgart, Germany industry, GeoInformatics presents thought provoking and useful +49-711-228810, +49-711-2288111 (Fax), www.inpho.de information. INPHO is a leading photogrammetric systems provider with more than 1000 users worldwide. Today INPHO is part of Trimble’s geospatial initiative. INPHO’s products cover the complete workflow GeoTec Media Booth 619 of a photogrammetric project. Live demonstrations are offered for all an M2MEDIA360 Company INPHO products, including some major new features like automated 760 Market Street, Suite 432 extraction of digital surface models (MATCH-T DSM), new seam San Francisco, CA 94102 finding for ortho-mosaicking (OrthoVista), processing of pushbroom 415-839-5065, 415-398-3511 (Fax) imagery, and distributed processing for DSM/DTM and orthophoto GeoTec Media, publisher of GeoWorld, a BPA-audited monthly production. magazine reaching 25,050 subscribers, has been serving the geospatial community since 1987. Concentrating in government, emergency management, environmental management, utilities and public works, GeoWorld’s editorial helps professionals thrive in today’s marketplace. The magazine also hosts GeoPlace.com and the GeoTec Event in Canada. April 28 - May 2, 2008  Portland, Oregon 65 Exhibitor Descriptions

Intergraph Corporation Booth 500 LizardTech Booth 318 P.O. Box 240000 1008 Western Ave., Ste 200 Huntsville, AL 35894 Seattle, WA 98104 256-730-1227, 256-730-6275 (Fax), www.intergraph.com 206-652 5211, 206-652-0880 (Fax), www.lizardtech.com Intergraph’s photogrammetric solutions support all your earth imaging Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art technology for requirements, from data acquisition to exploitation and data distribution. managing and distributing massive, high-resolution digital content. We provide the tools to produce maps, digital terrain models, Government and non-government organizations have benefited from the orthophotos, and other geographic data. Our end-to-end earth imaging company‘s software products and technologies. LizardTech pioneered solutions include our Digital Mapping Camera (DMC) system, flight MrSID® (Multiresolution Seamless Image Database), a powerful management and post-processing systems, and a full photogrammetric wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format, and sits on the data exploitation software suite. Our Z/I Imaging Solutions for Technical Committee of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for photogrammetry give you ease of use, data accuracy and precision, and the purpose of extending the capabilities of JPEG 2000 to geospatial performance throughput, throughout your entire project. applications, driving cross-platform interoperability and Internet distribution for geospatial imagery.

ITRES Research Limited Booth 101 #110 MDA Federal Inc. Booth 604 3553 31 Street NW 6011 Executive Boulevard, Suite 400, Calgary, Alberta T2L 2K7 Rockville, MD 20852-3837 Canada 2401833 8200, 2401833-8201 (Fax), www.MDAFederal.com 403-250 9944, 403 2509916 (Fax), www.itres.com

ITT Visual Information Solutions Booth 408 Merrick & Company Booth 617 4990 Pearl East Circle 2450 S. Peoria St. Boulder, CO 80301 Aurora, CO 80014 303-786-9900, 303 786-9909 (Fax), www.ittvis.com 3031353-3634, 3031745 0964 (Fax), www.merrick.com/gis ITT Visual Information Solutions presents ENVI, the premiere software Merrick & Company is a full-service engineering firm that provides solution for extracting timely and accurate information from geospatial comprehensive, client-focused land information services and products. imagery. Visit Booth 408/410 for demonstrations on a full-suite of Merrick’s service offering includes imagery acquisition, land surveying, tools to help you get more information from your imagery, including digital photogrammetric and orthophoto production, lidar mapping and the latest technology for feature extraction, orthorectification, change a full complement of GIS consulting/implementation services. detection, classification and atmospheric correction. Make your image processing and analysis workflow faster and easier with ENVI. For more information, visit www.ittvis.com/envi. Myriax Pty Ltd Booth 712 GPO Box 1387 HOBART TAS 7001 KLT Associates, Inc. Booth 201 AUSTRALIA 8245 Wagon Wheel Road + 61 3 6231 5588, + 61 3 6234 1822 (Fax), www.myriax.com Morrison, CO 80465 Myriax produce high-quality innovative software products to meet 303-697-5475, 303 697-5483 (Fax), www.kltassoc.com real world environmental management needs. Eonfusion is powerful software for visualizing, exploring and analyzing environmental Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging Booth 200 data. Eonfusion offers exceptional ability to integrate diverse spatio- 5051 Peachtree Corners Circle, Suite 100 temporal data sources in a 4D environment for easy manipulation Norcross, GA 0092 and interpretation. Landscape Mapper can rapidly create accurate 770-776-400, www.gi.leica.geosystems.com orthomosaic images and vector maps. A structured workflow enables semi-automated real-time orthophoto and orthomosaic generation, radial Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging offers a broad range of geospatial distortion removal, linework extraction, interactive 3D visualization and information technology throughout the enterprise via web-based, mobile rubber sheet rectification. and desktop clients. Delivering the most comprehensive solutions in image exploitation, processing, visualization and data management, Leica Geosystems implements Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) interoperability and robust image compression techniques, offering the most efficient delivery of imagery over the Internet. Geospatial solutions from Leica Geosystems - when it has to be right.

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NASA Earth Science Data and Services Booth 704 National Reconnaissance Office Booth 616 Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) 14675 Lee Road USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Chantilly, VA 20151-1715 47914 252nd Street 703-808-2769, 703-808-2646 (Fax), http://dii.westfields.net Sioux F alls, SD 57198-0001 The National Reconnaissance Office‘s Director‘s Innovation Initiative 605 594-6116, 866 573-3222 (Toll Free), 605 594-6963 (Fax) invests in advanced technologies, fosters innovation, and provides seed http://LPDAAC.usgs.gov funding to push the boundaries of technology to dramatically improve The Land Processes DAAC is located at United States Geological our overhead reconnaissance capabilities. It presents an opportunity for Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS), developers not traditionally associated with the NRO to participate in near Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The LP DAAC maintains an archive of building the National Reconnaissance Office of the 21st Century.“ MODIS and ASTER data. The LP DAAC works closely with colleges and universities, governments, and businesses to distribute the data for use in various forms. The applications for MODIS and ASTER data New Tech Services, Inc. Booth 705 include vegetation mapping, land-cover change detection, mineral study, P.O. Box 16301 cloud detection, and other user-dependant applications. Sugar Land, TX 77496-6301 281-573 8029, 281-573 8030 (Fax), www.TopoFlight.com

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Booth 711 Office of Recruitment NovAtel Inc. Booth 414 Mail-Stop P-41 1120 68 Ave NE 12310 Sunrise Valley Drive Calgary, Alberta Reston, VA 20191 Canada T2E 8S5 703-755-5900, www.nga.mil 403-295-4900, 403-295-4901 (Fax), www.novatel.com National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, (NGA), an intelligence and NovAtel Inc. is a leading provider of precision Global Navigation combat support agency, produces Geospatial Intelligence in support of Satellite System (GNSS) components and subsystems. An ISO 9001 national security. NGA functions in the areas of national security; safety certified company, NovAtel develops quality OEM products including of navigation; Positions are located in the Bethesda, MD, Washington, receivers, enclosures, antennas and firmware that are integrated into D.C. and St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan areas. Applicant and high precision positioning applications worldwide. These applications immediate family members must be U.S. Citizens. include surveying, Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping, precision agriculture machine guidance, port automation, mining, timing and marine industries. NovAtel is focused on customer satisfaction National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Booth 708 through excellent product cost/performance, rapid integration ability 4600 Sangamore Road and support. Bethesda, MD 20816-5003 301-227-2439, 301-227-0117 (Fax), www.nga.mil Optech Incorporated Booth 400 NGA is a major combat support agency of the Department of Defense 300 Interchange Way and an integral member of the Intelligence Community. NGA provides Vaughan, ON timely, relevant, and accurate geospatial intelligence (a combination Canada L4K 5Z8 of imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial information) to the 905-660-0808, 905-660-0829 (Fax), www.optech.ca military warfighter and our nation’s civilian senior policy and decision makers. NGA’s geospatial intelligence provides the knowledge Optech has been in the lidar business for 33 years, helping our foundation our customers need for planning, decision, and action. customers survey the world. During this time we‘ve created a family of advanced laser-based instruments that fit every survey need on Earth, and beyond. We offer lidar solutions in airborne terrestrial mapping, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Booth 103 airborne laser bathymetry, high speed mobile mapping, laser imaging, National Ocean Service, mine cavity monitoring, industrial process control as well as space- National Geodetic Survey Remote Sensing Division qualified sensors for orbital operations and planetary exploration. 1315 East West Highway, SSMC3, Rm. 8142 Silver Spring, MD 20910 301-713-2663, 301-713-4572 (Fax) Overwatch Geospatial Booth 102 http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/programs/ngs/welcome.html 1719 Dearborn Ave Missoula MT 59801 The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) defines and manages the National 406-829-1384, 406-829-3593 (Fax), www.geospatial.overwatch.com Spatial Reference Systems, which determines position, height, distance, direction, gravity, and shoreline throughout the United States. The Overwatch Geospatial is committed to providing the world’s most NGS Remote Sensing Division assists the national airspace system innovative software solutions for the collection, maintenance, display, by providing airport geodetic control, runway, navigational aid, and publishing of all types of geospatial data from imagery. Our world- obstruction, and other aeronautical data. It also plans and acquires aerial class products including Feature Analyst, lidar Analyst, Urban Analyst, photography and complies shoreline data, mostly for nautical charts. Remote View, and the ELT Series are used daily within hundreds of federal, state and local government agencies, as well as a multitude of commercial mapping companies, and educational institutions worldwide.

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Pasco International Engineering Department Booth 321 Point of Beginning (POB) Magazine Booth 720 Overseas Division 2401 W. Big Beaver Rd., Suite 700 1-1-2 Higashiyama, Meguro-ku, Troy, MI 48084 Tokyo 153-0043, Japan 248-244-6400, 248-362-5103 (Fax), www.pobonline.com +81-3-6412-2888, +81-3-3715-8640 (Fax) Since its establishment - 1953, PASCO has used airborne surveying POB magazine is published to help the progressive surveying and systems to survey and to acquire topographic data. Recently we have mapping professional succeed. We achieve this mission by: Highlighting been expanding its business activities from conventional mapping to industry news, milestones and product coverage for better decision- digital mapping, GIS, and reception/distribution of SAR satellite images making. Reporting on new applications and continually evolving with value added products. Moreover, we are focusing to improve most technologies, including GPS, GIS and imaging. Providing practical high cost effective off-shore production in the world by the renewal of solutions to the problems facing the geomatics industry, including subsidiary company in Philippines - PACER, and expansion of PASCO professional business aspects, legal, legislative/educational issues and Thailand. more! Qualify for your FREE subscription online at www.pobonline. com.

PCI Geomatics Booth 701 50 West Wilmot Street; Suite 200 Professional Surveyor Magazine Booth 710 Richmond Hill, ON L4B 1M5 Reed Business Geo, Inc. Canada 100 Tuscanny Drive, Suite B-1 905-764-0614, 905-764-9604 (Fax), www.pcigeomatics.com Frederick, MD 21702-5958 USA 301-682-6101, 301-682-6105 (Fax), www.profsurv.com PCI Geomatics is a world-leading developer of geospatial software, specializing in remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, spatial analysis, Professional Surveyor Magazine is the premier U.S. resource for cartographic production and automated production systems. Our trusted surveying, mapping, engineering, GPS, and GIS professionals. Monthly Geomatica® brand provides all the image-centric solutions necessary features include applications and reviews of new technology and to meet the expectations of a large and expanding industry. Since 1982, hands-on solutions, business management ideas, detailed project stories PCI Geomatics has grown as a result of innovative leadership, strong and more. Our industry-renowned columnists focus on the diverse technology partnerships, active Geomatics community involvement and future and fascinating history of surveying and mapping. RBI-Geo a dedication to our customers. (Netherlands) publishes GIM and Hydro as well as other trade journals. Both companies are part of Reed Elsevier.

Photonics Spectra Booth 720 2 South Street, Berkshire Common QCoherent Software Booth 315 Pittsfield, MA 01201 1880 Office Club Pointe 413-499-0514, 413-442-3180 (Fax), www.Photonics.com Colorado Springs, CO 80920 719-386-6900, 719-272-8051 (Fax), www.QCoherent.com Photonics Spectra is the leading photonics magazine serving industries that use photonic technology: lasers, imaging, fiber optics, optics, QCoherent Software builds software solutions that enable users of lidar electro-optics, and photonic component manufacturing. It presents the data to easily and efficiently integrate enormous point clouds into their latest news articles and in-depth reports on photonics technology. It is day-to-day operations. QCoherent Software is the innovative provider distributed free to those who use or apply photonics. of LP360, Lidarserver, and the Limitless Lidar™ architecture. Our flagship product, LP360, provides specialized lidar tools in ArcGIS®. LP360’s custom visualization, classification, breakline tool suite, Planar Systems, Inc. Booth 216 derivative product generation, and dynamic surface modeling provide 1195 NW Compton Drive the capabilities required for sophisticated lidar operations and analysis Beaverton, OR 97006 by mapping professionals. 503-748-1100 503-748-5987 (Fax), www.planar3d.com

With 25 years as a leader in the display industry, Planar Systems Riegl USA, Inc Booth 600 provides a strong portfolio of display solutions for specialty applications 7035 Grand National Drive, Suite 100 including military, geospatial, medical and simulation applications. Orlando, FL 32818 Planar’s SD product line, featuring innovative StereoMirror™ 407-248-9927, 407-248-2636 (Fax), http://www.rieglusa.com technology, provides the highest quality stereoscopic image available in a 3D monitor. Visit www.planar3d.com to learn more. Riegl is the global leader in the innovation of lidar technology. The Riegl LMS-Q560 Airborne Laser Scanner has full waveform digitization technology and is an advanced digital instrument with state of the art signal processing. The LMS-Q560 operates at an effective scan rate of 240 kHz with a 2 km range and accuracy within 20mm. Riegl leads the industry with a broad array of systems providing exact instruments created for the specific use to the users.

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Rollei Metric GmbH Booth 520 TerraSim Inc. Booth 116 Salzdahlumer Straße 196 One Gateway Center, Suite 2050 D - 38126 Braunschweig 420 Fort Duquesne Blvd. Germany Pittsburgh, PA 15222 +49 (0)531 68 00 359, +49 (0)531 68 00 303 (Fax) 412-232-3646, 412-232-3649 (Fax), www.terrasim.com www.rollei-metric.com TerraSim, Inc. provides software solutions and services for advanced The Rollei Metric GmbH is a leading company in the sector of geospatial visualization. TerraTools(R) 3.0 employs innovative photogrammetry. Among photogrammetric cameras for terrestrial and technology to seamlessly create realistic simulations with full geospatial aerial application, RolleiMetric offers a wide range of photogrammetric accuracy. High-performance 3D visualization and interactive 3D GIS software. Additional to its own cameras and software products, feature query are delivered through our TSGFly™ 5.0 and TerraTours® RolleiMetric acts as partner for the company Panoscan and its panorama 3.0 viewers. DEMTools and RoadMAP from TerraSim(R) are camera Mark III. standalone source data preparation solutions for automated geospatial data processing. Visit booth 116 to learn how products from TerraSim can exceed your geospatial visualization requirements. SPADAC Inc. Booth 218 7921 Jones Branch Drive, Suite 600 McLean, VA 22102 Terrasolid Ltd. Booth 521 703-893-3500, 703-893-8131 (Fax), www.spadac.com Sohlberginkatu 10 Founded in 2002, SPADAC is a leading provider of geospatially- Fin 40530 Jyväskylä enhanced solutions. Customers in defense, intelligence, homeland Finland 358 400 648 391, 358 14 645 002 (F security, civilian government and commercial markets trust SPADAC ax), www.terrasolid.com with mission-critical challenges when accuracy and reliability Terrasolid Ltd develops user-friendly and powerful 3D software are paramount. SPADAC’s EarthWhere™ is a spatial content packages for processing airborne/ mobile scanned laser data (lidar) and management system that streamlines the organization, provisioning images. The product family comprises packages as follows: TerraScan and dissemination of disparate data for fast enterprise-wide access – standard package for processing laser, TerraMatch – to calibrate laser, in required formats. Our decision-support system uniquely combines TerraModeler – for surface modelling, and TerraPhoto – for processing spatial intelligence with predictive analytics technologies for objective airborne images. Keyword in lidar: fly and process laser and images and confident decision making. together. For further information about Terrasolid software look at www.terrasolid.com or contact Terrasolid at info@terrasolid.fi.

Spectral Instruments, Inc. Booth 420 420 N Bonita Ave TopoSys North America Inc. Booth 516 Tucson, AZ 85745 4600 South Ulster Street 520-884-8821, 520-884-8803 (Fax), www.specinst.com Denver, CO 80237 Spectral Instruments presents a large format geometrically accurate 888-438-1208, 303-740-6789 (Fax), www.TopoSys.com single lens, single 111 million pixel (9.5 cm X 9.5 cm) CCD camera TopoSys GmbH, founded in 1995 as a spin-off of Dornier GmbH. system. The system is offered with either a Bayer color mask or Building on its long-standing expertise in development and production monochrome. An upgraded system maintains the resolution and of fibre-optic lidar scanners, is committed to manufacturing and accuracy of the large 111 million pixel sensor plus adds a 4-band worldwide marketing of turnkey lidar sensor systems. TopoSys line of subsidiary camera set for IR and pan-sharpened color. The camera is sensors: Falcon III, Harrier 56/G3 and Harrier 24, are suited for lidar also offered as a film camera replacement, maintaining your existing applications ranging from wide-area topographic mapping to high- equipment. density corridor mapping. In 2007, TopoSys North America, Inc. was established as a wholly-owned subsidiary with headquarters in Denver, Colorado. Stora Enso Booth 320 Talvikkitie 40 c 01300 Vantaa Urban Robotics, Inc. Booth 117 Finland 33 NW First Avenue, Suite 200 +358 2046 24965, +358 2046 24960 (Fax), www.ensomosaic.com Portland, OR 97209 Stora Enso develops and distributes EnsoMOSAIC digital aerial 503-224-9239, 503-210-1910 (Fax), www.urbanrobots.com imaging system. EnsoMOSAIC system contains all software and Urban Robotics Inc. provides cutting edge software and hardware hardware components for independent small and medium format aerial solutions for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) imaging. EnsoMOSAIC software automatically measures and rectifies applications. Products include aerial EO and NearIR digital sensor thousands of images on a single run, and joins them into ortho-rectified systems, high performance aerial and ground computer clusters, and and georeferenced mosaics. EnsoMOSAIC system has been operational automated algorithms for generating fast turn-around orthorectified since 1995. EnsoMOSAIC software is used in all continents to process maps. Customers include federal agencies, military forces and private imagery collected by a variety of aerial sensors in any flying scheme. corporations. With products deployed around the world, Urban Robotics has a proven track record of bringing advanced technologies quickly into deployed products.

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USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Booth 702 Wehrli & Associates Inc. Booth 205 (EROS) 7 Upland Drive Mundt Federal Building Valhalla, NY 10595 47914 252nd Street 914-831-9821, www.wehrliassoc.com Sioux Falls, SD 57198 Wehrli & Associates Inc. designs, develops and manufactures 1-800-252-4547, http://eros.usgs.gov, http://seamless.usgs.gov technologically advanced photogrammetric products. Our product line USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) center is includes photoscanners, digital aerial cameras, airborne stabilizing a national data reception, processing, archiving, distribution, and platform and a complete software suite ranging from flight management research facility for remotely sensed and geographic information data. to data acquisition to data rectification. Our digital, push-broom aerial EROS provides the capability for developing and promoting science cameras adapt to a variety of applications from conventional imagery applications of remotely sensed data to identify, monitor, and understand for stereo compilation and orthophoto rectification to high oblique Earth‘s land surface changes. imagery for public safety applications to true color nadir imagery integrated to lidar data collection systems.

Valtus Imagery Services Booth 417 1375 Walnut Street, Suite 220 WeoGeo Booth 221 Boulder, CO 80302 10500 University Center Dr., Suite 140 303 482-2309 Tampa, FL 33612 813-574-3141, 813-574-3142 (Fax), www.WeoGeo.com WeoGeo enables greater productivity in the geospatial industry by Vexcel Imaging, GmbH – a Microsoft Company Booth 108 removing the vertical barriers to geo-content creation and sharing. Anzengrubergasse 8 WeoGeo Server (http://Server.WeoGeo.com) provides a solution to 8010 Graz the archival, discovery, customization, and delivery of in-house geo- Austria content for the enterprise. WeoGeo Market (http://www.WeoGeo.com) +43 316 849 0660, +43 316 849 0669 (Fax) is an internet B2B marketplace that enables geospatial professionals www.microsoft.com/ultracam to search, discover, customize, and acquire professional geo-content A Microsoft company, Vexcel Imaging GmbH brings 20 years of within minutes of entry to the marketplace. photogrammetry expertise to Microsoft’s Virtual Earth business unit and is at the heart of the Microsoft Photogrammetry business. Its offerings include the UltraCam-X large format digital aerial camera, widely Western Air Maps, Inc. Booth 107 adopted by aerial mapping customers since introduced in May 2006, 9401 Reeds Road and enhancing the Virtual Earth platform with best-of-breed imagery. Overland Park, KS 66207 Visit our booth to learn about product developments and to visit with 800-643-5177, 913-652-9933 (Fax), www.westernair.com Microsoft and its partners. Successful geospatial projects depend on timely and accurate geospatial information. Western Air Maps, Inc. was founded on a principle of providing our clients with quality imagery and mapping solutions. In Velodyne Booth 317 every geospatial project, we blend traditional mapmaking and surveying 345 Digital Drive skills with the latest technological solutions. Our dedication to quality is Morgan Hill, CA 95037 demonstrated by consistent repeat b 408-465-2800, 408-779-9227 (Fax), www.velodyne.com/lidar usiness and referral. WAM provides professional services in primary data acquisition, GPS surveying, GIS, The Velodyne HDL-64E is a 64-element lidar sensor that delivers a lidar processing, data extraction, and much more. 360-degree HFOV and a 26.8-degree VFOV. It generates one million distance points per second, creating a point cloud that is much denser than previously possible. The HDL-64E is used for mobile mapping/ surveying as well as autonomous vehicle navigation and obstacle detection.

Virtual Geomatics Booth 319 12741 Research Blvd., Suite 403 Austin, TX 78759 512-524-2411, 877-VG4D WIN (844-3946), 512-257-4607 (Fax) www.virtualgeomatics.com Virtual Geomatics provides innovative customer-centric lidar software solutions for Geospatial professionals and their customers. With over a decade of Geospatial/lidar production projects providing the foundation for our VG4D software suite, VG4D sets a new standard for end-to-end production software capability including project/data management, filtering, visualization and rigorous quality controls.

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Presenter Sessions Guang, Zheng Poster Light, Donald 8 Roth, Keely Poster Ahlrichs, John 40 Habib, Ayman 16 Linke, Julia 77 Roth, Ron 13 Ahn, Gi-Choul 72 Habib, Shahid 26 Lippitt, Christopher 79 Russell, David 8 Aldelgawy, Mohammed 21 Halls, Joanne 54 Liu, Hua C5 Ryerson, Robert 28 Alexander, Savelyev 19 Hampton, Matthew Poster Londo, H. Alexis 63 Salomonson, Vincent 4 Ali, Tarig 79, Poster Handley, Lawrence 1 Lopez, Xavier 12 Sanchez-Flores, Erick 18 Allen, Thomas Poster Hansen, Matthew 53 Losseau, Julien 41 Sartor, Kenneth 71 Alvarez, David 59 Hardin, Perry Poster Lovas, Tamas 67 Schiffman, Bettina 44 Ameri, Babak 80 Hardy, Colin 85 Madden, Marguerite 24 Senay, Gabriel Poster Anderson, John 80 Harris, Norman 91 Madin, Ian GIS in Action Shao, Guofan 90 Antonisse, Jim C6 Harvey, Wilson 58 Mahoney, John 31 Shields, Timothy Poster Arnold, Theresa Poster Hashiba, Hideki Poster Manchikanti, Kiran 59 Shin, Sharon 31 Ashworth, Andrew Poster Haugerud, Ralph 5 Markel, Chris 8 Sim, Sunhui 18 Barlow, John 46 Hawkins, Owen 40 Martin, Kevin Poster Simons, Nicole 89 Barnes, Jason Poster Heinrich, Stuart 34 Martucci, Lou 94 Sivanpillai, Ramesh 33, 92 Bartels, David Poster Hekkers, Michael Poster Mayberry, Gari Poster Smit, Paula 40 Beaty, Mike 29 Heo, Joon 30, 46 McCrink, Timothy 60 Smith, Iain 17 Becker, Peter C4 Hepner, George 75 McInerney, Michael 19 Soares de Oliveira, Fernando 65 Bedard, Frederic 86 Hernandez, Alexander 89 McLane, Adam 22 Sohn, Gunho 10 Bell, Juli Poster Hird, Jennifer 70 Medina, Richard 75 Sorenson, Daniel Poster Bernatas, Susan 85 Hobbs, Layton 62 Meng, Xuelian 57 Spaun, Nicole 39 Biswas, Tanushree 25 Hodgson, Michael 43, 98 Merry, Carolyn 47 Sridhar, Balaji 78 Black, Robert 71 Huggett, Brian Poster Middleton, Barry 25 Steinberg, Steven J. Poster Blundell, Stuart C1, Poster Holman, Rebecca 13 Miglarese, Anne 62 Stevens, Alan 31 Bogle, Rian Poster Hopkinson, Chris 46 Miller, William 69 Stewart, Charles 50 Bortolot, Zachary 88 Hu, Xiangyun C1 Minhayenud, Sirichai 90, 94 Strandhagen, Erik 2 Boryan, Claire Poster Hu, Xuefei 30 Mitchell, Jessica Poster Strunk, Jacob 35 Botts, Mike 81 Huang, Yishuo 95 Mladinich, Carol 87 Stukey, Jared Poster Bountry, Jennifer 15 Hulina, Stephanie C2 Moeur, Melinda 52 Sullivan, Alicia Poster Brooks, Mark Poster Hung, Ming-Chih 57, 95 Molander, Craig 36, 62 Sunderland, Neil 93 Bruegge, Richard W. Vorder 39 Hunt, E. Raymond 92 Mondello, Charles 75, 98 Tadesse, Wubishet Poster Bwangoy-Bankanza, Jean-Robert 32 Hurd, James 77 Moore, Carol Poster Taylor, Charles 66 Campos, Natalie 88 Idol, Terry 32 Morain, Stan 26,48 Thayn, Jonathan 28 Carswell, Don 13 Im, Jungho 96, Poster Moskal, L. Monika 22, Poster Theiss, Henry 12, 50 Castilla, Guillermo 70, Poster Isaak, Dan 15 Mueller, Rick 96, Poster Thomas, Orrin 56 Cedfeldt, Paul Poster Jaber, Salahuddin 6 Mundy, Joseph 50 Tibbitts, Jacob 2 Charrois, Raquel 8 Jackson, Mark Poster Munjy, Riadh 66 Toland, Joseph 72 Chastain, Jr., Robert 87 Jacobsen, Karsten 60, 73 Mutlu, Muge 9 Toth, Charles 67 Chen, Shaofei 30 Jensen, Ryan Poster Nayegandhi, Amar 15, 35 Tullis, Jason 63 Coan, Michael 70 Jewett, Jeff 17 Nebert, Douglas 82 Tuttle, Benjamin 14 Cole, Christopher Poster Johansen, Todd 50 Neuman, Klaus 36, 41 Umamaheshwaran, Rajasekar 19 Congalton, Russell 51 Johnson, Adelaide Poster Newcomer, Michelle 83 Ussyshkin, Valerie 37, C2 Cook, Bruce Poster Johnson, Ann 24 Nicolai, Andrew Poster Vandegraft, Doug 74 Cothren, Jackson 58 Johnson, David 44 Nile, Emmor GIS in Action Varlyguin, Dmitry 42, C4 DeJong, Alan GIS in Action Johnson, Michael Posters Niu, Xutong 46 Velasco, Miguel Poster Dennison, Philip 9 Jordan, Thomas 45 Nobrega, Rodrigo 30 Vernon, Zach Poster Di, Liping 79 Kang, Zhizhong 20 Noh, Myong-Jong Poster Wagner, Paul 29 Diorio, Mimi 52 Karamchedu, Sirisha 57 Olson, Charles 85, 69 Wagner, Ruediger 36 Dodge, Rebecca 51, Poster Kathofer, Roman 13 Opitz, David C2, 67 Wallace, Cynthia 91 Dolloff, John 20, 66 Kato, Akira 22 Oshel, Edward 76 Wang, Chi-Kuel Poster Doring, Martina C3 Ke, Yinghai 65 Osterwisch, Fred 85 Wang, Cuizhen 78 Dunbar, Matthew 14 Kelmelis, John 92 Palatiello, John 47 Wang, Guangxing 44, 87 Dykstra, Jon 45 Kelsey, Pete GIS in Action Park, Sunyurp 4 Wang, Yandong C3 Earnhardt, Todd 45 Kersting, Ana 21 Passini, Ricardo 73 Wang, Yong 51, 60 Easson, Greg 98 Kim, Sooyoung 63 Perrson, Joshua Poster Watry, Mike 13 Eckert, Josef Poster Kinzel, Michelle 3 Petrie, Gregg 33 Watts, Jennifer 86 Edsall, Rob 14 Kinzel, Paul 15 Pfeifer, Edwin Poster Welter, John 62 Elaksher, Ahmed 56 Kisen, Naomi 25 Pilger, Neal 68 Willis, Patrick 82 Eldred, Peter 52 Knutti, Scott C4 Plasker, James 47 Wilson, Wendy 96 Eran, Keinan 5 Kramber, William 72 Pop, Georgeta 12 Wolf, Keith 29 Erdody, Todd Poster Krish, Karthik 58 Pope, Paul 97 Wood, Eric 48 Erio, George 39 Kuchy, Lisa C5 Popescu, Sorin 68 Xu, Hui Poster Fang, Hongliang Poster Kuehne, Don GIS in Action Powell, Scott 54 Yahaya, Sani 59 Farrington, Glenn 13 Kuzera, Kristopher 83 Prats, Frank C5 Yalte, Katie 28 Faundeen, John 69 Laliberte, Andrea 94 Pugh, Nathan 71 Yang, Xinghe C6 Faux, Russ 29 Laskin, David Poster Qtaishat, Khaldoun 73 Yang, Zhengwei 55 Franz, Leberl 42 Lawrence, Patrick Poster Quackenbush, Paul 16 Yates, Harlan 10 Fraser, Clive 20, 34 Lawrence, Rick 51 Quirk, Bruce 51 Zehner, Kari 82 Frye, Aaron John Poster Le, Yanfen 91 Raber, George 43 Zeller, Amy C4 Fuhr, Dave 41 Lee, George 16 Ray, John 43 Zhai, Ruifang 21 Gabrynowicz, Joanne 69 Lee, Jun-Hak 35 Reed, Carl GIS in Action Zhang, Chunsun 56, 95 Garono, Ralph 52 Lee, Sang-Hoon Poster Reichardt, Mark 81 Zhang, Li 23 Gasser, Jerry 70 Lein, James 48 Richardson, Jeffrey Poster Zhao, Kaiguang 6, 68 Gidudu, Anthony 90 Levin, Eugene 12 Ritchie, Michael 62 Zhou, Yu 24 Gopal, Sowmya C6 Li, Yu 32 Rivera, Samuel 54, 78 Zhou, Yuyu 23 Goulden, Tristan 37 Li, Zhengxiao Tony 10 Roberts, Dar 83 Zhu, Hongwei 66 Granados-Olivas, Alfredo 24 Liang, Bingqing 77 Robertson, Anthony 6 Zimmerman, Carl 18 Green, Kass 3, 36 Liberty, Eric 16, 41 Robila, Stefan 42, Poster Zourarakis,Demetrio 88, Poster Gruber, Michael C3 Liddle, Donn 20 Rohas-Gonzalez, Alejandra 2,23 Zucker, Steven 50 April 28 - May 2, 2008  Portland, Oregon 71 ASPRS Officers, 2008 Conference Committee, and Staff

Officers ASPRS 2008 Annual ASPRS Staff President Conference Planning Executive Director Marguerite Madden* Co mmittee Jim Plasker President-Elect Associate Executive Director/Communications Kass Green* Chair Director Roger Crystal Kimberly A. Tilley Vice President I-TEN Associates Bradley D. Doorn* Program Manager Vice Chair/Secretary Jesse Winch Past President Chris Aldridge Kari J. Craun* Spencer B. Gross Assistant Director Publications Rae Kelley Treasurer ASPRS National Workshop Coordinator Donald T. Lauer* Russ Congalton Meetings/Marketing Manager University of New Hampshire Anna Marie Kinerney Board Members Technical Program Chair(s) Membership Manager Paul D. Brooks* Nancy Tubbs Sokhan Hing Edwin Freeborn U.S. Geological Survey (ret.) Accounting Manager Jackson Cothren Kathy Konapelsky Chris Aldridge Michael Wing Charles E. Olson, Jr. Oregon State University Publication Production Assistant Thomas J. Young Jiunn-Der Geoffrey Duh Matthew Austin Paula Smit Portland State University Membership Services Assistant Lucinda A. Clark Jerrard Ellerbe Lawrence R. Handley* Poster Session Coordinator Jackie Olson Claire Kiedrowski Editor, PE&RS U.S. Geological Survey David Stolarz Russell G. Congalton, University of New Lorraine Amenda Student Volunteer Coordinators Hampshire Clifford Mugnier Anne Hillyer Technical Editor, PE&RS James D. Hipple Bonneville Power Administration Michael S. Renslow Robert Eadie Steve Duncan Manuscript Coordinator, PE&RS Daniel J. Paulsen Bonneville Power Administration Jeanie Congalton Terry A. Curtis* Thomas R. Loveland User Group Coordinator Web Master Allen E. Cook* Brett Hazell Martin Wills, University of Missouri — Leland J. Harbers 3Di West Columbia David W. Kreighbaum Keynote and General Session Coordinator Advertising/Exhibit Sales Representative Michael E. Flynn Chris Aldridge Jim Perrus, THE TOWNSEND GROUP, INC. Qihao Weng I-TEN Associates Division Officers Primary Data Acquisition Robert C. Eadie Gregory Stensaas Remote Sensing Applications Thomas B. Loveland John S. Iiames, Jr. Professional Practice Daniel J. Paulsen Douglas Lee Smith Photogrammetric Applications Clifford J. Mugnier Rebecca A. Morton Geographic Information Systems Paula Smit Maribeth Price

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