Remote Sensing Society Recognizes UNL’s Wardlow

University of Nebraska-Lincoln remote sensing specialist Brian Wardlow has been recognized by the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) for a publication that appeared in the November 2006 issue of “Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing.”

Wardlow is a research professor in UNL’s National Drought Mitigation Center. He coauthored the award-winning article with two colleagues from the University of Kansas, said NDMC director Don Wilhite.

The awards were the 2007 John I. Davidson President’s Award for the Best Practical Paper in Remote Sensing, and the 2007 Leica Geosystems Award for Best Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing.

These awards recognize the top research papers published in the PERS journal, which are selected by a committee of nationally-recognized professors and other professionals in the field of GIS and remote sensing. 

The award-winning paper, “Using USDA Crop Progress Data for the Evaluation of Green-up Onset Data Calculated from MODIS 250-Meter Data,” can be found online at   http://drought.unl.edu/pubs/documents/Wardlow_etal_PERS_2006.pdf.
Wardlow joined the NDMC last year after completing his doctorate in geography at the University of Kansas and is one of the main researchers on the “VegDRI” tool, which can be found online at: http://drought.unl.edu/vegdri/VegDRI_Main.htm.

The NDMC is part of UNL’s School of Natural Resources.