Distinguished Lecturer Program T he IEEE GRSS Distinguished Lecturer Program provides GRSS Chapters with talks by experts on topics of interest and importance to the Geoscience and Remote Sensing community. The purpose of the program is to support the Chapters and provide our members with an opportunity to learn about the work being done in our discipline and to meet some of the prominent members of our Society. The program has been structured so that Chapters will incur little or no cost in making use of this program. Briefly a chapter contacts a lecturer from the list of available speakers, and once the initial details of the visit have been worked out (e.g. date and a rough budget) the chapter contacts the Distinguished Lecturer Program Chair. This can be done by e-mail or by completing an on-line application form available at the GRSS website. The Lecturer travels on his/her own expense with reimbursement made directly by IEEE to the Distinguished Lecturer. All of the Lecturers are experts in their field. Many are fellows of the IEEE. Information about the speakers with contact information, abstract and background are available at the GRSS website: www.grss-ieee.org (look for "Distinguished Lecturer" under the "Education" tab). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MGRS.2014.2367376 Date of publication: 26 January 2015 December 2014 ieee Geoscience and remote sensing magazine Instructions for how to apply for a speaker and the short on-line application form are also located there. The speakers and topics for 2014 are: ◗ Lorenzo Bruzzone: Current Scenario and Challenges in the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images ◗ Melba Crawford: Advanced Methods for Classification of Hypersectral Data ◗ Akira Hirose: Advanced Neural Adaptive Processing in Interferometric and Polarimetric Radar Imaging ◗ Ya-Qiu Jin: Research on the Modeling and Simulation of Polarimetric Scattering and Information Retrieval for Microwave Remote Sensing ◗ Yann Kerr: SMOS First Successes and Related Issues: The First Global Soil Moisture and Sea Salinity Maps are Coming ◗ Ricardo Lanari: Differential SAR Inteferometry: Basic Principles, Key Applications and New Advances ◗ Eric Pottier: SAR Polarimetry: From Basics to Applications ◗ H.K. Ramapriyan: Earth Science Informatics: An Overview ◗ Werner Weisbeck: Digital Beam-Forming in Remote Sensing ◗ Valery Zavorotny: Remote Sensing Using GNSS Bistatic Radar of Opportunity. grs 97http://www.grss-ieee.org