Kass
Green elected ASPRS Vice President
Morton,
Smith, and Iiames elected Assistant Division Directors
The
results of the 2006 National ASPRS election have been tallied by the Tellers
Committee. Kass Green won the election over Charles
Mondello to become ASPRS Vice President for 2006. Green is President of The Alta Vista Company and consults
on geospatial strategy, technology, and policy issues to private,
educational, and public organizations.
Once
she is sworn in as President in 2008, Green will be the seventh
woman to hold that office since the Society was founded in 1934. "Kass will be an excellent
addition to the ASPRS officer corps. The election of four women officers in four years is
an unprecedented trend, but I believe it demonstrates the ever-increasing
diversity of our membership. It is a comment on the integrity of
our organization and the membership that outstanding individuals
are recognized for their professional contributions," said
Karen Schuckman, ASPRS President.
Becky
Morton was elected as Assistant Director, Photogrammetric
Applications Division. Morton is the
Director of Business Development for Horizons, Inc. in Rapid City,
South Dakota. Douglas L. Smith
was elected as Assistant Director, Professional Practice Division. Smith is Vice President at David
C. Smith & Associates, Inc., a family-owned photogrammetric
mapping firm in Portland, Oregon. John
S. Iiames, a research biologist-remote sensing scientist
for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Research Triangle
Park, North Carolina, was elected Assistant Director, Remote Sensing
Applications Division.
An
ASPRS member since 1988, Green has served the Society on the ASPRS
Board of Directors, as cofounder of the GIS Division, Program Chair for
the 2000 Pecora Conference, and Registration Chair for the GIS 1987
conference, and has presented workshops at almost every ASPRS conference
for the last decade. She has received
numerous awards from the Society.
Three
years ago, Green retired as President of Space Imaging Solutions,
a division of Space Imaging LLC where she supervised over 200 employees
involved in tasks including operation of a digital airborne system,
acquisition of airborne and satellite imagery from numerous platforms
and sensors, creation of land cover and land use coverages from remotely-sensed
data using both manual and automated techniques, and the development
of desktop and web-based geospatial analysis software. Prior to
joining Space Imaging, Green was President of Pacific Meridian
Resources, a geospatial services company she co-founded in 1988 and grew
to 7 offices throughout the United States.
Green
has developed several courses and workshops on remote sensing and
GIS applications, and is currently developing two web-based courses for
the University of Mississippi. She serves on the Boards of several
for-profit and non-profit organizations, and is currently a member of
NOAA's Advisory Committee for Commercial Remote Sensing and USGS's
National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive Advisory Committee.
Past industry service includes President and Board member of MAPPS, and
member of two NASA Advisory Committees. Green also provides pro bono
advice and consulting to public agencies and non-profit organizations.
She
has given several hundred research presentations throughout the
world at various conferences and her published articles have appeared in
numerous journals. Her scientific service includes membership on three
National Research Council panels for the National Academy of Sciences,
authorship of several book chapters, as well as co-authorship of the
text book, Assessing the Accuracy of Remotely Sensed Data. She is currently Chair of the College of Natural Resources
Advisory Committee at the University of California, Berkeley.
Green
has set for her goals as an ASPRS officer to: