The ASPRS 2005 Annual Conference was held March 7-11, 2005 at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, with over 1500 attendees. This year's conference, "Geospatial Goes Global: From Your Neighborhood to the Whole Planet," was opened with a keynote address from Dr. Chip Groat, director, U.S. Geological Survey. Groat's remarks included discussion of the Earth Observation Summit Activities, the goals of which are to create agreements among the space faring nations to integrate their Earth observation programs more effectively and data to benefit all nations' understanding and management of the planet.

Fourteen workshops were offered on the two days preceding the conference, and covered a wide array of topics including Hyperspectral Image Processing and Feature Extraction: Maximizing Geospatial Information Retrieval; Fundamentals of Geodesy in GPS Surveying Applications; and Utilization/Integrations of Lidar for Mapping and GIS, plus two workshops on Preparation for ASPRS Certifications. User group meetings were also held on Monday and Tuesday by Applanix Corporation, EAGLE Mapping, ESRI, INPHO, Intergraph, NIIRS10, Inc., PCI, RSI, and The MathWorks.