Qassim Abdullah

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About Qassim Abdullah

Dr. Qassim Abdullah is an accomplished scientist with 40 years of combined industrial, research, and academic experience in photogrammetry, remote sensing, and civil and surveying engineering. His responsibilities include designing and managing strategic programs to develop new geospatial technologies focused on meeting the evolving needs of geospatial users. Dr. Abdullah is the chief scientist and a member of Woolpert Labs team. Dr. Abdullah serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and at Penn State teaching graduate courses on UAS, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. His latest accomplishments include introducing the Geiger and single photon LiDAR to the geospatial industry and leading Woolpert research activities in the field of UAS, its sensor calibration, and its workflow development. Dr. Abdullah obtained his doctorate and master degrees in photogrammetry from the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Abdullah publishes a monthly column “Mapping Matters”, in the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) journal. Dr. Abdullah is a Fellow with the ASPRS and he is the recipient of prestigious awards such as the ASPRS 2010 Photogrammetric Fairchild award, the ASPRS Outstanding Service award, the ASPRS Presidential Citation award in recognition to his contributions in co-authoring the new “Positional Accuracy Standards for Digital Geospatial Data”, and the ASPRS Outstanding Workshop Instructor award. Dr. Abdullah is a certified photogrammetrist and licensed professional surveyor and mapper with the states of Florida, Oregon, Virginia, and South Carolina. He is a certified thermographer by the FLIR and a Certified GEOINT Professional (CGP-R) by the USGIF. Specialties: Dr. Abdullah started as civil engineer then specialized in Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, GIS, Land Surveying, LiDAR, GPS/IMU, Accuracy Standards, and Geodetic Sciences