PR -- Fugro EarthData, Inc. (Frederick, MD) was presented the Grand Award for
its project, "Mapping a vital marine resource in Texas," at the 2008
MAPPS Summer Conference July 22 in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Furgo EarthData's work earned 'Project of the Year' honors in the
MAPPS 2008 Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards
competition.
The top project was one of four category winners in the MAPPS
competition. MAPPS presented awards to Intermap Technologies for
"Ultra Long Lines: Increasing Airborne Data Acquisition Rates" in the
category of Airborne and Satellite Data Acquisition; Aero-Metric, Inc.
for "Interstate 35W Bridge Collapse" in Photogrammetry/Elevation Data
Generation; and Photo Science for "Legislative Atlas" in the GIS/IT
category. The Fugro EarthData project was the category winner among
Remote Sensing project entries.
Twelve projects were judged in four categories by a
distinguished panel of judges chaired by Robert Burtch, professor of
Surveying and Engineering at Ferris State University. The judges panel
also included Dr. Pamela Lawhead, University of Mississippi; Dr. Tom
Lillesand, retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dennis
Morgan, retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Dr. Adrian
Moore of the Reason Foundation.
"Private geospatial firms are collecting more data from many
different types of sensors and these projects illustrated how these
companies have crafted processes and procedures to efficiently collect
that data, manage the large volume of data through the production
process and fuse it into a final deliverable for the client," said
Burtch regarding the complexity of the various submissions.
Contracted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's (NOAA) Coastal Services Center (CSC) in Charlston, SC,
Fugro EarthData was given the challenge of creating benthic habitat
maps to support the Texas Seagrass Monitoring Program. The goal of the
project was to protect the shallow marine environment in the estuaries
along the Texas Gulf Coast. The project covered 1,400 square miles of
Texas coastal estuaries and involved three elements: high-resolution
aerial mapping, object-oriented classification, and quantitative
accuracy assessment.
The 2009 Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards
will be announced during the joint MAPPS-ASPRS conference to be held
November 12-14, 2009 in San Antonio, Texas.
Formed in 1982, MAPPS is the only national association
exclusively comprised of private firms in the remote sensing, spatial
data and geographic information systems field in the United States.
Current MAPPS memberships span the entire spectrum of the geospatial
community, including Member Firms engaged in satellite and airborne
remote sensing, surveying, photogrammetry, aerial photography,
hydrography, bathymetry, charting, aerial and satellite image
processing, GPS, and GIS data collection and conversion services. MAPPS
also includes Associate Member Firms, which are companies that provide
hardware, software, products and services to the geospatial profession
in the United States and other firms from around the world. MAPPS
provides its members opportunities for networking and developing
business-to-business relationships, information sharing, education,
public policy advocacy, market growth, and professional development and
image enhancement. For more information on MAPPS, please visit www.MAPPS.org.
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