ISPRS
2000
ing Group VII/7 on "Non-renewable resources and geot-
echnical applications".
During the inter-congress period 1996-2000, but also in
earlier inter-congress periods, he contributed to the
advancement of remote sensing methodologies for geo-
logical applications and the detection and monitoring of
natural hazards. He plays a major role in knowledge dis-
semination and training for a huge number of profession-
als in the developing world.
Tsehaie Woldai is involved in the activities of ISPRS since
many years, as contributor to and chairman of working
groups. His outstanding effort for the support of African
remote sensing professionals is well documented. Some
of his major achievements are:
- The creation of the first professional organisation on
the African continent, the African Association for
Remote Sensing of the Environment AARSE, and
- His leading role in the organisation of the first remote
sensing conference in Africa, the Conference on the
Application of Remotely Sensed Data and Geographic
Information Systems in Environmental and Natural
Resources Assessment in Africa, March 15 - 22, 1996,
Harare, Zimbabwe.
The sustained success of that meeting certainly con-
tributes to the exceptional response to the call for the
ISPRS/AARSE Conference in Cape Town in March of this
year.
Dr. Tsehaie Woldai has the Eritrean and the Dutch nation-
ality and works at the International Institute for Aerospace
Surveys and Earth Sciences ITC in Enschede, The Nether-
lands.
His achievements fit very well in the tradition of Willem
Schermerhorn because they promote international activi-
ties in remote sensing and geo-informatics. But that is
even more so because these activities stimulate the use of
these techniques in developing countries, especially in
Africa.
We certainly hope that this award for Dr. Woldai will be
seen as a strong signal of support by ISPRS for the effort
made by African RS scientists to deal with the enormous
challenges in assessment and management of the envi-
ronment and natural resource base on the continent.
T. Woldai receiving The Schermerhorn Award from Prof. Dr.
M. Molenaar
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May | now ask the President of the Netherlands Society for
Earth Observation and Geo-informatics, Prof. Martien
Molenaar, to step forward and present the award to the
winner.
The President's Honorary Citations
Presented by: Lawrence W. Fritz, ISPRS President
at: Closing Plenary Ceremony
The President's Honorary Citation* (1988), is a certificate
of recognition presented by the President of ISPRS to a
chairperson, co-chairperson or member of a working
group of each ISPRS Technical Commission. The citation
is to recognise special, personal and meritorious contribu-
tions to the operation of the relevant Technical Commis-
sion's activities and advancement of its interests, during
the quadrennial term of the Society.
The President's Honorary Citation - Commission | 1996-
2000 was awarded to Karsten Jacobsen for his many con-
tributions to ISPRS Commission | as exemplified by: his
outstanding organisation of Working Group 1/3 dealing with
Sensors and Platforms for Topographic Survey; and for his
organisation of very successful Workshops in 1997 and
1999 on "Sensors and Mapping from Space".
The President's Honorary Citation - Commission ll 1996-
2000 was awarded to Christian Heipke for his many con-
tributions to ISPRS Commission Il as exemplified by his
outstanding: work as Chair of Working Group 11/8 "Digital
Systems for Image Analysis"; organisation and manage-
ment of an international test on "Performance of tie point
extraction in automatic aerial triangulation"; organisation
of four successful international workshops in 1997, 1998
and 1999; and active collaboration with other Working
Groups and with OEEPE.
The President's Honorary Citation - Commission Ill 1996-
2000 was awarded to Beata Csatho for her many contri-
butions to ISPRS Commission Ill as exemplified by her
Beata Csatho receiving her Citation from Larry Fritz
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