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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
- 2010-2011 – Professor Ted Milton
- 2009-2010 – No award made during the reporting period
- 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:
- 2010-2011 – Robert Taft
- 2009-2010 – Ian Downey
- 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):
- 2010-2011 – DB Hester, SAC Nelson, HI Cakir, S Khorram and H Cheshire, IJRS Vol 31 (2), 2010, pp 445-475
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 one-year period up to and including April of the year in which the award is to be made. The current period of eligibility is 2011/12. The award usually takes the form of a certificate and cheque for £100.
Current recipient(s):
- K-S Ang and HL Mitchell for: Non-Rigid Surface Matching and Its Application to Scoliosis Modelling, The Photogrammetric Record, Vol 25 (130), June 2010, 105-118.
Past recipient(s):
A list of previous recipients can be found HERE
The Taylor and Francis Remote Sensing Letters Award
This new Award is for the best letter published in the Remote Sensing Letters publication during the previous calendar year. The award winner receives a certificate and one year’s free subscription to the IJRS/RSL, or a £100 book token. Usually sponsored by Taylor and Francis. Nominations for this Award are considered and awarded by Council.
Current recipient(s)
- 2011 – M Van Leeuwen, N Coops and M Wulder for: Canopy surface reconstruction from a LiDAR point cloud using Hough transform, Remote Sensing Letters, Vol 1 (3), 125-132.
Past recipient(s)
A list of previous recipients of the Taylor & Francis Best Letter Award 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). The Student Awards are usually sponsored by Leica Geosystems Limited.
Current recipient(s)
- PhD: – Armando Marino (University of Edinburgh): A new target detector based on geometrical perturbation filters for polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (POL-SAR).
- MSc: – Kim Calders (UCL): Modelling Lidar Waveforms to Solve for Canopy Properties.
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 prizes were awarded at “RSPSoc 2011 – Earth Observation in a Changing World”:
Main Award (£100)
- RK Broughton, RA Hill, SN Freeman and SA Hinsley for their poster: “The integration of airborne remote sensing data and field-based territory mapping applied to the understanding of habitat selection by woodland birds”.
Merit Award (£25)
- P Pankaew, T Dawson and E Milton for their poster: “Estimating the proportion of diffuse photosynthetically active radiation from satellite measured cloud fraction: a test under humid temperate conditions”.
- H Hashiba and T Sugimura for their poster: “Analysis of Tsunami disaster in east Japan by using ALOS satellite images”.
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 on the last day. As well as receiving a cheque, the Poster Paper Prizes have, in recent years, been sponsored by ITT Visual Information Solutions and Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. ITT have kindly donated one year’s free ENVI Software licence to the first-named author of each winning poster and Wiley-Blackwell 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 2011 – Earth Observation in a Changing World to:
- Daniel Donoghue, Nikolaos Galiatsatos, A-J Mahmood & M Nebbia for the presentation: “Validating tropical deforestation for Redd+ ”.
A list of previous President’s Cup recipients can be found HERE
