Robert Ryerson

Robert Ryerson

Dr. Bob Ryerson has served in a variety of senior positions in industry and government, including Director General of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing. He has been a Certified Mapping Scientist (Remote Sensing), and is a Fellow of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). He has served on the Board of the ASPRS, and is a Past-President of the Canadian Remote Sensing Society. He has published or presented almost 200 papers and books world-wide, including “Why ‘Where’ Matters.” He has won a number of awards, including the Gold Medal of the Canadian Remote Sensing Society and the Alan Gordon Memorial Award for “Outstanding Service over his career to Remote Sensing.” Several examples of his work in remote sensing have been featured in Canada’s National Museum of Science and Technology. He likes to attend the GoGeomatics Socials in Ottawa.