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The Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society Award
This is awarded for ‘services to Remote Sensing and/or Photogrammetry’, through sustained and distinguished contributions to furthering the science and applications which use remote sensing or photogrammetry. The terms of the award state that it is “to be awarded on an occasional basis and never more than once in any year”?. This award consists of a suitably inscribed Gold Medal and Honorary Membership of the Society for Life.
Award recipients
- 2008-2009 – Professor Giles Foody
- 2007-2008 – No award made during the reporting period
- 2006-2007 – No award made during the reporting period
- 2005-2006 – No award made during the reporting period
- 2004-2005 – Dr John WC Gates.
- 2003-2004 – Professor Ian Dowman (University College, London).
- 2002-2003 – No award made during the reporting period
- 2001-2002 – No award made during the reporting period
- 2000-2001 – Dr Robin Vaughan(University of Dundee).
Founders’ Award
An award linked to the names of departed Founders for those who have made significant, original and personal contributions to the Society. Awarded occasionally by resolution of Council. This award consists of a Silver Medal and a cheque for £250. Nominations for this Award are considered and awarded by Council.
Award recipients:
- 2008-2009 – John Allan
- 2007-2008 – Kathie Bowden
- 2006-2007 – Jon Finch
- 2005-2006 – Ernie Wickens
- 2004-2005 – Madeleine Godefroy (EARSeL)
No award was made in the reporting periods between 2000 and 2004.
The Len Curtis Award
For an outstanding technical publication published in the preceding year in the International Journal of Remote Sensing (IJRS). The award is usually a certificate and books to the value of £200, normally sponsored by Taylor and Francis.
Current recipient(s):
- 2008-2009 – M Vohland and T Jarmer, IJRS Vol 29 (1,2), 2008, pp 191-209
Past recipient(s):
A list of previous recipients can be found HERE
E H Thompson Award
Awarded to the author(s) of the paper in The Photogrammetric Record (TPR) which most merits the award. The award will be made primarily for the originality of the content and the value of the paper to photogrammetry. It will be made from all those eligible papers published in the two-year period up to and including April of the year in which the award is to be made. The current period of eligibility is 2005/07. The award usually takes the form of a certificate and cheque for £200.
Current recipient(s):
- 2007-2009 -GH Seedahmed, The Photogrammetric Record, Vol 23 (121): 90-107
Past recipient(s):
A list of previous recipients can be found HERE
The Taylor and Francis Best Letter Award
Awarded for the best letter published in IJRS during the previous calendar year. The award winner receives a certificate and one year’s free subscription to the IJRS, or books to the value of £100. Sponsored by Taylor and Francis. Nominations for this Award are considered and awarded by Council.
Current recipient(s)
- 2009 – F Maselli et al, IJRS Vol 29 (8), 2008, pp 2437-2443
Past recipient(s)
A list of previous recipients can be found HERE
The Student Awards
Awarded for the best Doctoral and Masters theses, on the subjects of remote sensing and/or photogrammetry, accepted by a University during the previous calendar year and restricted to student members of the Society. The award usually takes the form of a certificate and cheques for £500 (Doctoral) and £250 (Masters). These awards, in the past, have been sponsored by Leica Geosystems Limited.
Current recipient(s)
- PhD: – PhD: – Marc Bartels (University of Reading): Segmentation and Classification of Terrain Features in Airborne LIDAR Data
- MSc: – MSc: – Ekaterina Shipigina (University of Cambridge): Spatial Variation in Land Cover Change using Multi-temporal satellite images of the Kola Peninsula, Russia
Past recipient(s)
For details on past recipients of this award, please view the document HERE
Poster Paper Prize:
Awarded for the best poster paper displayed at the Annual Conference of the Society. A Main Award of £100 and a runner-up Merit Award of £25 are usually sponsored by the Society. The following were awarded at “RSPSoc2009 – New Dimensions in Earth Observation”:
Main Award (£100)
- Angela Harris and Jadunandan Dash (University of Southampton): “Assessing gross primary productivity in North American ecosystems using a chlorophyll-based vegetation index”.
Merit Award (£25)
- Andrew Bradley et al (University of Leicester): “ATSR and L3JRC algorithm for global burned area estimates”.
- Bashar Dahdal et al (University of Leicester): “The use of interferometric spaceborne radar and GIS to measure ground subsidence in peat soils in Indonesia”.
Any poster displayed at the annual conference is eligable to receive this prize. Members of the Awards & Professional Standards Committee and/Council evaluate the poster presentations during the Conference and the winners are usually notified during the drinks reception. As well as receiving a cheque, the Poster Paper Prizes have, in recent years, been sponsored by ITT Visual Information Solutions and Whittles Publishing. ITT have kindly donated one year’s free ENVI Software licence to the first-named author of each winning poster and Whittles have sponsored books for prizes.
A list of previous Poster Paper Prize recipients can be found HERE
President’s Cup
This award is for the best oral presentation at the Annual Conference of the Society. The President’s Cup was awarded at RSPSoc 2009 – New Dimensions in Earth Observation to:
- Darren Ghent, Heiko Balzter and Joerg Kaduk for the presentation: “Assimilation of land-surface temperature in the land-surface model JULES”.
A list of previous President’s Cup recipients can be found HERE
