Brief Bio: Marguerite Madden, is a Professor in the University of Georgia (UGA) Department of Geography. She was the Director of the UGA Center for Geospatial Research (CGR) for 20 years and is currently CGR Associate Director for Education and Outreach. She holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Biology from the State University of New York and Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Georgia. Since the late 1970s, she has conducted research combining remote sensing and geospatial analyses with landscape ecology, particularly focused on vegetation mapping and human-animal-environment interactions. Joining the UGA-LRMS in 1985 as a Graduate Research Assistant (1895-1990), she was a CRMS Postdoctoral Researcher (1990-1991) and Research Scientist (1991-2004) helping to develop and analyze numerous multi-temporal and detailed vegetation databases for local, state and national conservation lands throughout the Southeastern United States. In 2004 she became the Interim Director of CRMS following Dr. Roy Welch’s retirement and in 2005, she was appointed CRMS Director and Associate Professor in the Department of Geography. When Dr. Deepak Mishra took over as CGR Director in 2024, she turned her focus to CGR education and outreach. She teaches Aerial Photographs and Image Interpretation and co-teaches with Dr. Mishra two graduate seminars, Geospatial Techniques in Landscape Analysis and Advanced Remote Sensing of Environment. She has also taught Introduction to Geographic Information Science, Remote Sensing of Environment and this Fall will co-teach Field and Lab Methods in Remote Sensing with Dr. Abhishek Kumar. Since 2005, she has served as major advisor to 27 Ph.D. and 25 M.S. students in the Geography graduate program.
Dr. Madden is Past President of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) (2007) and Editor of the 2009 ASPRS Manual of GIS (2009). She served as the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Technical President of Commission IV, “Digital Mapping and Geodatabases” (2008-2012), ISPRS Council Second Vice President (2012-2016) and Financial Officer of The ISPRS Foundation (2010-2022). She is the recipient of the ISPRS Willem Schemerhorn Award (2004), ASPRS Fellow Award (2010), ASPRS Estes Teaching Award (2011), NASA Silver Achievement Medal (2018), ISPRS Fellow Award (2020), ASPRS Lifetime Achievement Award (2020) and American Association of Geographers (AAG) Remote Sensing Specialty Group Outstanding Contributions in Remote Sensing Award (2021). She serves on the ASPRS Foundation Board of Trustees (2020-2025), ISPRS Foundation Board of Trustees (2012-2025), Chair of the ISPRS Foundation Finance Committee (2022-2025), U.S. National Academies of Sciences Geographical and Geospatial Sciences Committee (2020-2025) and is the Lead Science Advisor for the Georgia Node of the NASA DEVELOP National Program (2012-2025).