Activities

CURRENT ACTIVITIES

The ASPRS Foundation currently funds the following Awards and Scholarships given annually by ASPRS:

• Talbert Abrams Award
• Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship
• John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers
• William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship
• Kenneth J. Osborn Memorial Scholarship
• Ta Liang Memorial Award
• Paul R. Wolf Memorial Scholarship
• Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship
• Outstanding Technical Achievement Award
• ASPRS Student Assistantship Program
• Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship
• Abraham Anson Memorial Scholarship
• John O. Behrens Institute for Land Information (ILI) Memorial Scholarship

The Foundation is the depository for annual corporate contributions for the following Awards and Scholarships:

• BAE Systems Best Student Paper Award
• Boeing Award for Best Paper in Image Analysis and Interpretation
• The ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS
• International Educational Literature Award
• ERDAS (Formerly Lieca Geosystems) Award for Best Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing
• SAIC/Estes Memorial Teaching Award
• Z/I Imaging Scholarship

The Foundation is the trustee for contributions to the following ISPRS Award:

• The Brock Gold Medal Award

The Foundation is also the depository for contributions for the following ASPRS Project:

• ASPRS Films History Project

The Foundation was also the depository for contributions which provided the initial seed funding grant for the following project::

• PBS Film "Geospatial Revolution"

The Foundation Board of Trustees continuously analyzes the total funding level required to fully endow the awards and scholarships at present levels. The current estimate is that approximately $1,000,000 will be required to reach that interim goal. The Foundation balance as of the end of 2010 was approximately $875,000.

ASPRS has set aside funds from the Society’s reserves to match individual ASPRS member and Region contributions to the Foundation.