The outside organization has also agreed to share all of the raw data from this survey with the ASPRS Ten-Year Remote Sensing Industry Forecast team for their use in future analyses. 

Please go to http://www.asprs.org/Sensor_User_Survey.pdf and complete the form.  Upon completion, clicking on the Submit button will launch your email client and transmit a small XML file to the group compiling the survey results.

Thank you for your assistance with this effort.

Call for Papers
NGA is soliciting research papers and presentations of twenty to thirty minutes. Papers should address the complexity of the problem and the need to integrate multidisciplinary approaches, multi-data and sensors, and multi-INT to improve our Nation’s ability to detect, locate, characterize, and track different entities. 

** Please do not submit papers that focus on proprietary company or commercial products or services or use the presentations to promote or advertise a product, service, or company.  **

Submission requirements:
Abstracts for papers must be received by March 12, 2010. Abstracts may be classified but must have an unclassified title and include the classification level, author(s)/presenter(s) with affiliations(s), and a description not to exceed 500 words. Abstracts will be evaluated on their descriptions and implications, relevance to session and community, and overall technical quality. Paper selection notifications will be made by March 22, 2010.  If selected full presentation or paper will be due to NGA on or before April 9, 2010.

Download complete information on submitting an abstract.

Call for Deep-Dive Discussion Topics

NGA is soliciting topics for in-depth round table research discussions in the afternoon sessions that address key challenges and potential solutions on important GEOINT fusion problems. Selection of topics will be based on importance of the problem being addressed, creative problem formulations, state-of-the-art and practices elucidations, innovative ideas, ingenious approaches, and imaginative research alternatives.

Download complete information on submitting an abstract.

The Award Committee must receive nominations for the 2010 award by May 1, 2010.  Instructions for preparing a nomination and other information about the award can be found on the Pecora Award web site.

Any individual or group working in the field of remote sensing of the Earth is eligible to receive the William T. Pecora Award.  An individual award recognizes achievements in the scientific and technical remote sensing community, as well as contributions leading to successful practical applications of remote sensing. Consideration will be given to sustained career achievements or singular contributions of major importance to the field of remote sensing.  A group award recognizes a team or part of an organization that has made major breakthroughs in remote sensing science or technology, or developed an innovative application that has a significant impact on the user community or national and international policies.  Individual and group achievements should be documented in the open literature.

Four very worthy project proposals were chosen from those submitted. The recipients are Sabrina Carvalho, Ph.D. candidate, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Netherlands; Jack Gibbons, Masters candidate, Colorado School of Mines, United States; Kimberly Casey, Ph.D. candidate, University of Oslo, Dept. of Geosciences, Norway; Indrie Miller, Ph.D. candidate, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Now in its fourth year, the Instrument Support Program offers temporary use of ASD field instruments (FieldSpec® 3 and FieldSpec® HandHeld) to a maximum of ten recipients each year. The program provides field instrumentation for students in graduate-level research programs affiliated with an accredited University in the US or any country which accepts Carnet shipping documentation. Additionally, recipients are eligible to receive up to $500 (US) toward publication charges for resulting findings if accepted for publication in a recognized journal, and/or toward reimbursement of travel and production charges for presentations accepted at an approved scientific conference.

“For the past 20 years ASD has been a leading provider of high-performance analytical instrumentation solutions used in the field and labs around the world. The Goetz Program allows us to support graduate students to do research with up-to-date equipment as part of their degree programs,” said Dr. Alexander Goetz, co-founder and Chief Scientist of ASD. “As in prior years, the range of research topics of this year’s recipients is a testament to the broad application of our instruments. We are very excited to have one of our past winners presenting at the upcoming Art, Science, and Applications of Reflectance Spectroscopy Symposium in February.”

About ASD
ASD Inc. is unsurpassed in solving some of the world’s most challenging materials measurement problems. We collaborate with industrial professionals, analytical researchers, and remote sensing scientists to provide the most reliable, high performance analytical instrumentation solutions for real-world applications. Established in 1990 and based in Boulder, Colorado, USA, ASD Inc. has customers world-wide.

For more information, please contact Amanda Griffin, Marketing Communications Manager, ASD Inc., 2555 55th Street, Suite 100, Boulder, CO, 80301; 303/444-6522, 303/444-6825 (fax); www.asdi.com.

The overall goal of the new Mobile Mapping committee will be to:

· Provide a networking forum for companies and individuals involved in any aspect of Mobile Mapping
· Develop best practices for Mobile Mapping System data collection and processing
· Develop RFP templates to provide clients with a starting point for acquiring Mobile Mapping data and managing projects
· Promote Mobile Mapping to the potential client base
· Provide input to the LAS Specification group to ensure that the LAS format meets the needs of the Mobile Mapping community

The Airborne Lidar Committee has been one of the most active committees of the ASPRS.  We believe, due to the explosive growth of Mobile Mapping , that this new committee will be equally popular, useful and successful. 

We intend to host the inaugural meeting at the spring 2010 ASPRS Annual Conference in San Diego, California.  At this meeting we will set a roadmap for the committee as well as elect a chair and vice chair. 

The only requirement for participation in this committee is that you become (if you are not already) a member of ASPRS (download membership application).

Please let us know your interest in participating in this new committee by sending an email to .  Please note that members are welcome to participate in both the Lidar Committee and the Mobile Mapping Committee.

Poster Presentation Deadlines:
Abstracts: January 15, 2010
Poster presenters are encouraged to submit a full Poster Paper by February 25, 2010 to be included as part of the online proceedings posted on the ASD website following the symposium.

Submit your abstract using our online submission portal.

Student Poster Competition
Following the precedent of IEEE GRSS and ASD Inc. through the Alexander Goetz Instrument Support Program — the platform provided by this symposium is an opportunity to emphasize and further promote the role of future generations in shaping the evolution and application of reflectance spectroscopy. Student participants will have the ability to network and converse with some of the world’s foremost experts in the use of reflectance spectroscopy techniques from a broad cross-section of applications and disciplines.

Both undergraduate and graduate students are particularly encouraged to present and/or participate in the conference as part of the Student Poster Competition. Five finalists will be selected by a committee during the Wednesday evening poster session and noted as finalists in the online posting of the proceedings following the symposium. During the closing gala banquet the five finalists will be announced and will receive a certificate recognizing their achievement. Additionally, three prizes will be presented to the winning authors.
First Prize US$ 500.00
Second Prize US$ 300.00
Third Prize US$ 200.00

For additional information please visit the symposium website.

The ASARS Symposium brings together 40 internationally recognized researchers, scientists, and engineers from a variety of disciplines, providing an unprecedented opportunity for a very diverse and prestigious community to gather and interact. Two days of plenary sessions will showcase unique applications of reflectance spectroscopy, including studies in planetary surfaces, snow and ice, vegetation and soils, pulp and paper processing, mineral analysis and metallurgical processing, archeology, chemometrics, and more.

The event opens with a meet and greet networking reception. The second evening is dedicated to a poster session, including a student competition. The symposium culminates in a gala banquet celebrating ASD Inc.’s 20th anniversary, with keynote address by John S. MacDonald of Day4Energy, Canada, and the Student Poster Competition awards.

Attendees can save $200 or more by taking advantage of Early Bird discounted rates ending January 15, 2010. For more information visit the event website: www.ReflectanceSpectroscopySymposium.com.