Dec. 17, 2004

Gretchen Cook-Anderson/Don Savage
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-0836/1727)

Keith Koehler
Wallops Flight Facility, Va.
(Phone: 757/824-1579)

RELEASE: 04-403

NASA INVESTIGATOR RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS REMOTE SENSING AWARD

NASA and the U.S. Department of Interior presented The William T. 
Pecora Award for excellence in remote sensing to William Krabill of 
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Va. 

Krabill, a 35-year NASA veteran, is an investigator for airborne lidar 
topographic mapping and Global Positioning System (GPS) applications. 
His vision of combining airborne laser ranging measurements and GPS 
has revolutionized glaciology, coastal zone mapping and measurement 
of land surface change.

His research team has provided detailed measurements, with decimeter 
level accuracy, of Greenland glaciers and ice sheets in the Arctic 
and Antarctic regions. This technology has been used to map nearly 
the entire coast of the continental U.S. and Puerto Rico.

The William T. Pecora Award is presented annually to individuals or 
groups that make outstanding contributions in the field of remote 
sensing and its application to understanding the Earth. It was 
presented to Krabill yesterday during the American Geophysical Union 
fall meeting in San Francisco.

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