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American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Abbreviation ASPRS
Motto The Imaging and Geospatial Information Society
Formation 1934; 83 years ago (1934)
Type NGO
Purpose A scientific association
Membership
3000
Affiliations International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Website www.asprs.org

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) is an American learned society devoted to photogrammetry. It is the United States' member organization of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Founded in 1934, the ASPRS is a scientific association serving over 7,000 professional members around the world. As a professional body with oversight of specialists in the arts of imagery exploitation and photographic cartography.

ASPRS members-individuals from private industry, the government, and academia are analysts/specialists, educators, engineers, managers/administrators, manufacturers/product developers, operators, technicians, trainees, marketers, and scientists/researchers. Employed in the disciplines of the mapping sciences, members work in the fields of Agriculture/Soils, Archeology, Biology, Cartography, Ecology, Environment, Forestry/Range, Geodesy, Geography, Geology, Hydrology/water Resources, Land Appraisal/Real Estate, Medicine, Transportation, and Urban Planning/Development.


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