Keynote Speakers

Dr. Kevin Slocum
LIDAR Applications: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Bio: For over 30-years, I have been designing, proposing, executing, and defending strategic Science and Technology investment programs in partnership with industry, academia, and related government agencies. My areas of professional interest include geospatial terrestrial, maritime, and environmental sciences. I have been the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's research and development LIDAR Program Manager for the past 3+ years, accelerating efforts to expand and transition processing, exploitation and dissemination capability. I was the Science and Technology program manager for Army's Engineer Research and Development Center in the mid-2000s championing battlespace-related basic and applied research initiatives. From early-1990 into the early-2000s, I was a principal investigator and team lead at the former Army Topographic Engineering Center on a variety of projects to include digital elevation model analysis, soil moisture modeling, habitat assessment, geostatistical performance, decision-tree analyses, and geospatial intelligence approaches. My career began in 1979 at the former Defense Mapping Agency Hydro Topographic Center where I contributed as a nautical cartographer generating, managing, and then training others in the compilation of myriad special naval products.  I received my doctorate in Marine Science from the College of William and Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and have graduate and undergraduate degrees in applied geographic methods and tools from Southwest Texas State University and James Madison University, respectively.

Professor Edward Mikhail of Purdue University
50-Year Journey and Participation in Photogrammetric Technology

Professor of Photogrammetry, Former Head, Geomatics Engineering, Purdue University.

Professor Mikhail received his BSCE from Cairo University, and his MS & PhD in Photogrammetry and Geodesy from Cornell University. Early in his career, he was an instructor at Cairo University, and spent 3 years in private industry as an analytical photogrammetry specialist. He then established the graduate program in Geomatics at Purdue University, where he developed and taught all the graduate courses in photogrammetry, and data adjustments (estimation). He’s been a visiting professor at Stuttgart and Munich universities, Germany, and the ITC, the Netherlands. Professor Mikhail has supervised/graduated some three dozen PhDs, and several hundred Master’s degrees. He has authored/co-authored seven books, seven book chapters, and many hundred articles, papers, presentations, and research reports. He also holds a U.S. Patent for the holographic stereomodel. He served as co-editor for the Manual of Photogrammetry and Civil Engineering Handbook. He is an Honorary Member of ASPRS, and has received several ASPRS awards that include, the Photogrammetric Award (Fairchild), Talbot Abrams (twice), and Wild Heerbrugg (twice); and the Senior Alexander von Humboldt (Germany), and NATO. He has been formally recognized for his work by USGS, NRO (twice), and ORD, among others. He has consulted, and continues to consult, with over 35 corporations and government agencies, and has served on many boards, both scientific and industrial.

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