Remote Sensing Symposium
Early Registration Deadline:
April 28
Region Officers Ballot:
(call an officer if you need a ballot)
President's Message
National Director's Report
Finally, we can go outdoors in the North Country
without a coat so it must be time for our CNY Remote
Sensing Symposium. This symposium is a factor in the
CNY Region tying for 3rd place for the Region of the
Year Award. We also won 2nd place for Region Website
of the Year for 2004! Many thanks to our active Region
Council members and special thanks go to Jeff Barth of
NYS DOT for maintaining our website. Check it out at
http://www.esf.edu/asprs .
One of the goals of ASPRS is to actively promote
certification and appropriate licensing. Besides the
confusion that may be associated with certification and
licensing, some controversy has been generated recently
in New York regarding the performance of GIS related
activities that were thought to have required a state
license. In 2002, Jim Plasker, Executive Director of
ASPRS was the keynote speaker at the NYS GIS
Conference, and later spoke to a packed session on this
topic. In 2003 another packed session was held at the
NYS GIS Conference. Many of the same questions were
asked in 2003 that were asked in 2002. Combined with
the obvious interest of the GIS community, there appears
to be a need for information on the topic of GIS,
surveying and licensing. CNY ASPRS is working with
the NYS GIS Coordinating Body, ASPRS National, and
other interested organizations to develop a workshop
that will educate the GIS community and others about
certification, licensing, the National Council of
Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES)
Model Law, and licensing activity in New York. A pilot
workshop will be produced and presented, and the
results reviewed. If the initial workshop is a success, the
NYS Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure
Protection may sponsor a statewide series of workshops,
similar to the orthoimagery and geocoding workshops
they have previously presented. The workshop materials
and instructors who are trained would also be available
for ASPRS to present at national conferences. If you are
interested in helping to develop the materials for this
workshop, or in reviewing results, or being trained to
present this workshop, let me know.
Planning is complete for the May 18-19 Fourth Annual
Remote Sensing Symposium Forging Pathways for
Remote Sensing Applications, at Fulton Montgomery
Community College (FMCC) in Johnstown, NY. On
May 19th we will have two parallel tracks. One track
highlights applications in Earth observation, Water
Quality, Vertical Data, and Dual Use Technology. The
second track contains hands-on workshops in FMCC’s
GIS computer laboratory. On May 18th there are two
parallel ½ day sessions. One is a quickstart tutorial on
the remote sensing application ENVI. The other session
is the national level workshop to prepare individuals for
the Photogrammetric, Remote Sensing, or GIS/LIS
Technologist Certification exam. The Certification
Workshop costs $150 for ASPRS members at the
ASPRS national conferences and the CNY Region is
subsidizing the same workshop to offer it locally to
ASPRS members for only $40.
Our keynote speaker Don Lauer, Scientist Emeritus
EROS Data Center USGS and former ASPRS President,
will speak on “Development and Applications of Remote
Sensing Technologies: Past, Present and Future”. The
(see President’s, pg 2)
Region’s Annual
(see Director, pg 2)
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Nominations for
2005 Region Officers
Meeting will also be held
at this time. Sign up by April 28th for early
registration.
We look forward to seeing and hearing from our
Central New York Region ASPRS members during
the forthcoming year.
(President’s, from pg 1)
The Nominations Committee respectfully submits
the following persons for approval as candidates for
the 2005 ASPRS Central New York Region election
of officers:
Vice President: Ms. Lindi Quackenbush, ESF
Secretary-Treasurer: Ms. Emily Constantine
Mercurio, IAGT
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Nominating
Committee this year was composed of the Region
Council. Luckily, Lindi and Emily were eagerly
agreeable to run for their respective positions.
The Vice President position is a three-year
commitment to the council. During the first year
this person serves as Vice President responsible for
Membership and Student Awards, and then serves
as President, who is responsible for our technical
program, followed by Past President, responsible
for nominations. We alternate this position among
the academic, public, and private sectors. In this
cycle, we were seeking nominations from members
in the academic sector.
The Secretary/Treasurer position is responsible for
minutes at Council and business meetings, and
Region accounting and bookkeeping, etc. The
council has retained the business operations of the
Region with our colleagues at SUNY-ESF. So, it is
convenient, but not required, that members in
proximity to Syracuse and ESF be candidates for
this position.
Also, the Region Council consists of members
interested in guiding the Region during the coming
year. The President appoints these positions.
Please contact Ron Frederiks, who will become
President in May, if you wish to be on the Council
or have any suggestions, including meeting places,
topics of discussion or concerns for our region
council.
r.frederiks@worldnet.att.net
(518) 439-7109
Joan Zelinski
Progress is being made
toward the Fall 2007 Conference that the CNY
Region has been working on. A proposal is in hand
from the Westin in Ottawa, and Anna Marie
Kinerney, ASPRS Conference Director, is making a
site visit in May. It looks like a good candidate
location. We need volunteers for the conference
committees, and to help develop the business plan.
Contact me for more information.
(Director, from pg 1)
Don’t forget the Fourth Annual Remote Sensing
Symposium, 18-19 May, Johnstown, NY at the
Fulton-Montgomery Community College.
The
program has been expanded to two days to include
workshops on ENVI, and preparation for the
ASPRS Technologist Certification Exam on the
first day. On the second day there will be more
workshops, concurrent with great technical sessions
as in past years. The workshops include a digital
ortho workshop presented by NYS CSCIC,
integrating imagery with GIS, using ArcGIS
Publisher 9.0, and an introduction to oblique
imaging technology and uses. Other highlights
include a demonstration of Optech lidar scanning
technology, and the keynote speaker, Dr. Don
Lauer, Scientist Emeritus, EROS Data Center, U.S.
Geological Survey (ret.), and Past President of
ASPRS. Don will give an overview of remote
sensing technologies, which will include a
definition of terms, a historical perspective on how
remote sensing has evolved, several current data
applications, a discussion on the importance of data
integration, the meaning of the term "decade of
imagery," and a look at future systems. The early
registration deadline is 28 April, so register now.
Ed Freeborn
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Biographies and Statements
Candidates for Region Officers
New President
Vice-President Candidate
Ron Frederiks
Lindi Quackenbush
Ron Frederiks is an ASPRS Certified Photogrammetrist
and works for the New York State Department of
Transportation (NYSDOT) in Albany, NY. He received
a B.S. Letters and Science (Cartography) from the
University of Wisconsin Madison and a M.S. Civil and
Environmental Engineering (Photogrammetry and
Remote Sensing) from the University of Wisconsin
Madison. Ron has worked in photogrammetry field for
the past 20 years as part of a team that implemented
analytical and later digital photogrammetric technologies
into the large scale engineering mapping production
process at the NYSDOT. He is responsible for all the
aerotriangulation at NYSDOT and has implemented
CADD based target positioning that allows for GPS
assisted target placement in the field, aerial film roll feed
scanning, digital control selection, and automated
aerotriangulation. He has also implemented the use of
airborne GPS at NYSDOT to assist with flight quality
assurance and to reduce the amount of survey control
needed for aerotriangulation.
He has provided
presentations on the photogrammetric process,
photogrammetric mapping accuracies, roll feed
scanning, and New York State coordinate systems
among others. He has worked on the State Plane
Coordinate Act in the past and is working on Quality
Assurance of the Statewide Orthophoto Program. He is
currently involved with efforts to implement a statewide
system of Continuously Operating Reference Stations
(CORS) which when operational will be of great benefit
for anyone doing Airborne GPS in New York State in
conjunction to any other GPS applications.
I have been a member of ASPRS for ten years,
joining as a student in 1995, and later transferring to
full member status. I followed my desire to become
more involved in the leadership of the Central New
York Region of ASPRS by becoming
Secretary/Treasurer in 2000. I served in that
position for four years, and am currently a member
of the Region Council. Over recent years, the
Region Council has worked toward enhancing the
service that the society provides to members,
including the development of the now annual
Remote Sensing Symposium. I hope to be able to
continue the traditions established by our recent
leadership and further the growth of the Society by
reaching out to new members across all sectors.
Mapping science applications continue to increase
in prominence throughout a range of areas. We can
all benefit by encouraging diversity in the
membership of the society. I look forward to seeing
such growth.
I am on the Faculty of Environmental Resources
and Forest Engineering (ERFEG) at the State
University of New York College of Environmental
Science and Forestry (ESF) in Syracuse. I teach a
variety of graduate and undergraduate classes in the
mapping sciences including remote sensing, GIS,
and surveying. Before joining the ERFEG faculty, I
served as the Coordinator of the Affiliated Research
Center (ARC) at ESF for almost three years. My
position with the ARC at ESF combined
administrative activities with technical direction for
a variety of remote sensing and spatial information
based projects. I earned a Ph.D. in remote sensing
at ESF in 2004, having also completed my master’s
degree at ESF in 1998. I attained undergraduate
degrees in surveying and science from The
University of Melbourne, Australia. As a student, I
received the CNY Region Student of the Year
Award (1995, 1997) and the Robert E. Altenhofen
Memorial Scholarship (1997).
Why I want to be President …
We live in an exciting era. More and better data is
becoming available almost daily as the number and
quality of data collection platforms increases. Software
and hardware are becoming more powerful and easier to
use. Discipline boundaries are becoming fuzzier. Within
this fast changing world I would like to contribute to the
profession by continuing to foster communication,
education, collaboration and information sharing among
people in the spatial data community and direct my
efforts toward this end. I look forward to the challenges
that lie ahead for us and working together with people to
further our profession.
Email: r.frederiks@worldnet.att.net
Secretary/Treasurer Candidate
Emily Constantine Mercurio
I have been involved in the central New York
remote sensing community since January 2001,
when I accepted a position at the Institute for the
Application of Geospatial Technology (IAGT) in
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Over the past year serving in this role, I’ve greatly
enjoyed the many opportunities to serve the regional
remote sensing community by helping CNY ASPRS stay
on track with regular reporting and financial
management of the organization, and additional
reporting required by national ASPRS. I would be very
happy to serve CNY ASPRS as Secretary/Treasurer for
another year, and feel I have the skills, experience and
support required to be successful in this role. It is my
intention to use the best of my abilities to provide CNY
ASPRS with the assistance it needs for continuation of
its mission. I appreciate your consideration of my
candidacy for this position.
Auburn, New York, where I currently serve as a
remote sensing analyst. Soon after accepting this
position, I became an official member of ASPRS.
Since becoming a member, I have been an active
participant in both national and local ASPRS events,
including
conferences,
workshops,
and
training/certification activities. During the summer of
2003, I became a Council Member of the Central New
York Region of ASPRS, and in 2004 I became the
group’s Secretary/Treasurer.
Central New York Region News
Future Dates
Financial Statement
ASPRS Central New York Region
2004 - 2005 Region Program
1 Jan 05 - 18 April 2005
2005 CNY ASPRS Annual Meeting and the
4th Annual Remote Sensing Symposium: May 19, 2005.
INCOME
Dues (Regular and Student)
Student of the Year
Region Conferences
Interest
Dinner Meeting
Gifts
Region Rebate
TOTAL
The committee has chosen Fulton Montgomery Community
College (FMCC) for the site as it seemed to be a really great
place for the meeting. Go to
http://www.esf.edu/outreach/pd/asprs05.htm for further
information.
GIS Day 2005 will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005.
ASPRS 2005 Annual Conference & The Sixteenth
William T. Pecora Memorial Remote Sensing
Symposium, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Sheraton Hotel and
$
48.00
$ 1,500.00
$
$
41.33
$ 737.00
$
13.00
$
$ 2,339.33
EXPENDITURE
Sioux Falls Convention Center,
October 23-27, 2005
Dinner Meeting
Postage
TOTAL
ASPRS 2006 Annual Conference: April 30 - May 4, 2006
Reno Hilton Hotel, Reno, Nevada.
Please send in your favorite stories about any conference to the
editor.
$
$
$
751.00
37.00
788.00
ASSETS
Base Shares (Savings Account)
12 Month Certificate
Share Draft (Checking Account)
Petty Cash
TOTAL
GRADE POINTS
CNY Student of the Year Award
The Student of the Year Award (SOYA) evaluation
committee is reviewing the applicants for 2005. In
addition to the Graduate and Undergraduate first
and second place awards, the first ten applicants
will receive a one-year subscription to PE&RS.
The SOYA is intended to recognize professional
development, encourage further professional
development, and promote involvement in ASPRS.
The SOYA is made possible by a donation from
Eastman Kodak Company.
$10,069.33
$ 4,012.15
$
68.89
$
$14,150.37
LIABILITIES
TOTAL
$
$
-
TOTAL AVAILABLE FUNDS
Assets-Liabilities
Ron Frederiks
$14,150.37
Have you remembered your annual dues!
Region annual dues are $4.00 for members. Dues may be
paid at any Region meeting, or mailed to the
Secretary/Treasurer.
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4th Annual New York State
Remote Sensing Symposium
May 19, 2005
Johnstown, New York
Fulton Montgomery Community College
Registration Form
Vendor Registration Form
Brochure
Register Me! Early registrations received by April 28 are only $85. After
April 28, the full fee is $95. Early student fee is $40, received after April 28;
full student fee is $50.
2:10 - 3:20 Session 3A or Session 3B
Pre-conference Workshops
Wednesday, May 18th
Session 3A: Vertical Data in Room C110
12:00 pm Registration
(Breakfast and Lunch are on your own)
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm (PM break included)
• Preparation for the ASPRS Technologist
•
Session 3B: Pictometry: Introduction to
Oblique Imagery, Technology and Uses in
SITC Lab, Room C123
Certification Workshop
Exploring ENVI - the half day quickstart
workshop
3:20 -3:40 Coffee Break
3:40 - 4:50 Session 4A or Session 4B
Session 4A: Dual Use Technology in Room
C110
Conference Agenda for
Thursday, May 19th
Session 4B: NYS CSCIC Ortho Workshop:
8:30 am Registration and Coffee
9:00-10:10 Session 1A or Session 1B
Accessing and Applying New York's
Digital Orthoimagery in SITC Lab, Room C123
Session 1A: Earth Observation in Room C110
5:00 - 6:30 Reception with cash bar in the Mohawk
Room in the College Union Building
Session 1B: IAGT Workshop: Remote Sensing
6:30 Banquet Dinner in the Mohawk Room in the
College Union Building
Data Acquisition and Imagery
Integration in GIS in SITC Lab, Room C123
7:30 CNY ASPRS Annual Meeting & Student of the
Year Award Presentation
10:10 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:40 Session 2A or Session 2B
Registration fee: includes breaks, lunch, reception, and
materials. Banquet is an additional $25, Student
banquet tickets $15.
Session 2A: Water Quality in Room C110
Session 2B: PAR Workshop: Publishing and
Payment: Pay by check (please make the check
payable to SUNY Research Foundation) or pay by
MasterCard or Visa (sorry, no American Express), or
pay with a purchase order. ESF Outreach Contact
Information: Phone: 315-470-6817, Fax: 315-470-6890,
Mailing address: 219 Bray Hall, 1 Forestry Drive,
Syracuse, NY 13210, email: mwakefield@esf.edu.
Sharing Data Using ArcGIS Publisher
9.0 in SITC Lab, Room C123
11:40 - 1:00 Lunch provided in the Cafeteria in the
College Union Building
1:00 - 2:00 Plenary Session in Theater N108:
•
Welcome by Dr. Barry Weinberg, President
•
ASPRS Certification by Doug Fuller,
•
Satellite Land Remote Sensing by Don Lauer
Location: Fulton Montgomery Community College
(FMCC) is located at 2805 Hwy 67, Johnstown, NY
12095-3790. A map, directions and parking information
will be sent with registration. Visit their website for
directions.
Lodging: A block of rooms has been reserved at the Holiday
Inn, 308 N. Comrie Ave. Johnstown, NY 12095 at $77.95 per
night for a single/double if reserved by April 18, 2005. Call
(518) 762-4686 to reserve your room and mention ASPRS to
receive the discount rate.
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Central New York Region
Annual Spring Meeting
Thursday, May 19, 2005
6:30 PM to 10:00 PM
th
Mohawk Room
College Union
Fulton Montgomery
Community College
Johnstown, New York
(518) 762-4651
in conjunction with the
4 Annual NYS Remote Sensing Symposium:
“Forging Pathways for Remote Sensing Applications”
will present
“National Headquarter Updates”
from
Don Lauer,
Chief of EROS Data Center, 1992 – 2002.
Past-President, American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)
Lauer joined ASPRS as a graduate student in 1966. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical reports
and papers. In 1987, he received the ASPRS President’s Award for Practical Papers (2nd prize) for his paper
“Applications of Landsat Data and the Data Base Approach.” He has served the Society as a contributing author to
the Manual of Remote Sensing (1st and 2nd editions) and, for eight years, as correspondent to the ISPRS Commission
VII: Interpretation of Data. He has been given three ASPRS President’s Citations for meritorious service—for
making education training films and organizing specialty conferences for the Society. Lauer chaired the Steering
Committee for the 1999 Pecora 14/Land Satellite Information III Symposium and is performed that same role for the
2002 Symposium.
Schedule
5:00
6:30 – 7:30
7:30 – 8:00
8:00 – 9:00
The buffet dinner will consist of House Salad with
various dressings, Lemon-Pepper Chicken Breast,
Roast Sirloin Beef, Home-made Lasagna,
Seasonal Mixed Vegetables, and various desserts.
The beverages will be coffee and herbal teas.
Dinner will be $25.00 to Regular Members, and
$15.00 to Student Members.
Reception with cash bar (Mohawk Room)
Dinner
Business Meeting and Student of the
Year Presentations
Don Lauer Presentation
Dinner Reservations will be required by Noon on Monday, May 16th. For dinner only reservations please
still use the Symposium’s Registration form found at “www.esf.edu/outreach/pd/asprs05RegForm.htm”
The City of Johnstown lies about midway between Albany to the east and Utica to the west, at the
Foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. It is easily reached by the New York State Thruway.
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Officers of the Central New York Region
President:
Joan Zelinski
PAR Government Systems Corp.
664 Pleasant Valley Rd.
Potsdam, NY 13676
(315) 268-0145 (Home)
(315) 268-1608 (Work)
(315) 268-1626 fax
email: joan_zelinski@partech.com
Vice President:
Ron Frederiks
New York State Department of
Transportation (NYSDOT),
88 Dumbarton Drive
Delmar, NY 12054-4406
(518) 439-7109 (voice)
email: r.frederiks@worldnet.att.net
Secretary/Treasurer:
Emily Constantine Mercurio
Institute for the Application of
Geospatial, Technology
199 Franklin Street, Suite 300
Auburn, NY, 13021
(315) 283-9422 (voice)
(315) 253-7335 fax
email: emercurio@iagt.org
National Director:
Ed Freeborn
L-3 Communications,
Government Services Inc.
1300-B Floyd Avenue
Rome, NY 13440
(315) 339-6184 voice
(315) 330-4315 fax
email: edwin.freeborn@l-3com.com
Newsletter Editors:
Paul Szemkow
Environmental Resources & Forest
Engineering, 312 Bray Hall
SUNY-College of Env. Science &
Forestry
1 Forestry Drive Syracuse, NY
13210-2778
(315) 470-6635 voice
(315) 470-6958 fax
email: pszemkow@mailbox.syr.edu
Central New York Region's Home
Page
http://www.esf.edu/asprs
DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE:
August 31, 2005
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Syracuse, New York 13210-2778
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Council Members
Darryl Murdock
Eastman Kodak Company
1447St Paul Blvd
Rochester NY 14653
(585) 253-0112 voice
(585) 726-4100 fax
darryl.murdock@kodak.com
Lindi Quackenbush
SUNY-ESF, 312 Bray Hall
1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY
(315) 470-4727 voice
(315) 470-6958 fax
email: ljquack@esf.edu
Student Representative
Chintan A. Shah
Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
Syracuse University
335 Link Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244
email: cashah@ecs.syr.edu