Dr. Qassim Abdullah is an accomplished scientist and a thought leader with more than 45 years of combined industrial, research and development, and academic experience in analytical photogrammetry, digital remote sensing, and civil and surveying engineering. He obtained his doctorate degree in photogrammetry from the University of Washington in Seattle.
Currently, Dr. Abdullah is Vice President and Chief Scientist for Woolpert. In addition to his position at Woolpert, Dr. Abdullah serves as an adjunct professor at Penn State and University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) teaching graduate courses on UAS, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Dr. Abdullah is also a member of the NOAA Hydrographic Services Review Panel (HSRP) and is on the Transportation Research Board’s Standing Committee on New Users of Shared Airspace and its Standing Committee on Geospatial Data Acquisition Technologies.Â
Dr. Abdullah is a Fellow with the ASPRS, was the creator and principal author of the new ASPRS Positional Accuracy Standards for Digital Geospatial Data, received the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019, and has been the recipient of several prestigious awards within the organization. Dr. Abdullah is a certified photogrammetrist and licensed professional surveyor and mapper in Florida, Oregon, Virginia, and South Carolina. He is also a certified thermographer by the FLIR Infrared Training Center and a Certified GEOINT Professional in Remote Sensing and Imagery Analysis.
