Distinguished Lecturer Program T he Distinguished Lecturer Program provides GRSS Chapters with talks by experts on topics of interest and importance to the Geoscience and Remote Sensing community. The Chapters can choose from a changing list of topics and from speakers who are interested in coming to Chapter meetings to give a talk. The GRSS covers the cost of the visit. Details can be found at the GRSS website under "Education": http://www.grssieee.org/education/distinguished-lecturers/. 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 fills out the application form located on the website. The lecturer is responsible for the budget and can help with the scheduling. The GRSS will reimburse the Distinguished Lecturers for their travel expenses. Reimbursement is directly to the lecturer from IEEE/GRSS so that the Chapter does not have to worry about financial issues. Information about the speakers and additional details about how to take advantage of the program are available at the GRSS website (look for Distinguished Lecturer under the "Education" tab). The application form that should be submitted for approval prior to a visit is located there. The Distinguished Lecturers are volunteers who are willing to travel to visit your chapter. Don't hesitate to contact them. And, please feel free to contact the program Chair (David Le Vine) with questions at d.levine@ieee.com. I will be happy to help you take advantage of this program. Also, if there are ways we can make it serve you better, please let us know. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MGRS.2015.2503842 Date of publication: 3 February 2016 december 2015 ieee Geoscience and remote sensing magazine Finally, there are several speakers available to lecture in languages in addition to English (see the abstracts for languages available). Lecturers for 2016: ◗ Lorenzo Bruzzone: Current Scenario and Challenges in the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images ◗ Melba Crawford: (1) Advanced Methods for Classification of Hyperspectral Data (2) Hyperspectral Remotely Sensed Data: Opportunities and Challenges ◗ Alejandro Frery: Statistics and Information Theory in Remote Sensing with SAR ◗ Akira Hirose: Advanced Neural Adaptive Processing in Interferometric and Polarimetric Radar Imaging ◗ Ya-Qiu Jin: (1) Modeling of Polarimetric Scattering and Information Retrieval for Microwave Remote Sensing; (2) Electromagnetic Scattering/ Emission Modeling for Moon, Mars, and ExtraPlanetary Missions, and Chinese Deep-Space Exploration Program ◗ Eric Pottier: SAR Polarimetry: From Basics to Applications ◗ H.K. Ramapriyan: Earth Science Informatics: An Overview ◗ Carlos Scavuzzo: Landscape Epidemiology: A new high social impact area for Space Technology Application ◗ Chris Ruf: NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) Earth Venture Mission ◗ Jiancheng Shi: Microwave Remote Sensing of Land Surface Properties ◗ Valery Zavorotny: (1) Remote Sensing Using GNSS Bistatic Radar of Opportunity; (2) Measurements of Soil Moisture, Snow and Vegetation with GPS Interferometric Reflectometry. grs 39http://www.grss http://www.ieee.org/education/distinguished-lecturers/