The ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS.

The article announces awards given to various science researchers from the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) through the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Foundation including the first place for Rongxing Li, Kaichang Di, and Xutong Niu for their paper "A WebGIS for Spatial Data Processing, Analysis, and Distribution for the MER 2003 Mission," another for Rifaat Abdalla, C. Vincent Tao, and Jonathan Li for their paper "A Network-centric Modeling Approach for Infrastructure Interdependency," and another for Pravara Thanapura, Dennis L. Helder, and Eric Warmath for their paper "Mapping Urban Land Cover Using Quickbird NDVI and GIS Spatial Modeling for Runoff Coefficient Determination."