Our Mission
To foster an understanding of remote sensing science.
Emphasis is placed on developing a meaningful dialogue
among geographers interested in understanding and applying
remote sensing technology in research, instruction, public service,
and private enterprise.
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Professional Awards
- Award Announcements
- 2013 Early Career Award: Download Announcement
- 2013 Outstanding Contributions Award: Download Announcement
- Outstanding Contributions Award
- 2011 - Qihao Weng, Department of Geography & Center for Urban and Environmental Change, Indiana State University
- Past Winners
- Early Career Award
- 2012 Winner - Dr. Caiyun Zhang, Florida Atlantic University
- Past Winners
Student Awards
- 2013 Student Honors Paper Competition
- Call For Papers
- Advisors Form
- 2013 Student Illustrated Paper Competition
- Call For Papers
- Advisors Form
- 2012 Honors Paper
- 1st Place: Amy E. Frazier, State University of New York at Buffalo, Super-Resolution Land Cover Mapping using Landscape Metrics (Award prize = $500).
- 2nd Place: Iryna Dronova, University of California at Berkeley, Landscape analysis of wetland plant functional types: the effects of image segmentation scale, vegetation classes and classification methods (Award prize = $250).
- 3rd Place: Amy L. McCleary, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, A Comparison of Support Vector Machine and Object Based Image Analysis Approaches for Mapping Land Use/Cover: A Case Study of the Galápagos Islands (Award prize = $150).
- 2012 Illustrated Paper
- 1st Place: Andrew Shatz, Clark University, Creating and Analyzing a Time Series of Species Distribution Models: Asian Longhorned Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) in Worchester County, MA (Award prize = $500).
- 2nd Place: Marion Clement & Kae Yamane, Rutgers University, The Shantytown Mapping Project: Google Earth in the Study of Urban Shantytowns (Award prize = $250).
- 3rd Place: Shanshan Cai, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Combing Object-based Classification Approach with Pixel-based Contextual Classification on Airborne High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery (Award prize = $150).
Past Award Winners