IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine - December 2015 - 54

grss MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS

GRSS Members Elevated to the Grade of Senior
Member in the Period August-September 2015

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enior membership has the following distinct
benefits:
The professional recognition of your peers for technical and professional excellence.
An attractive fine wood and bronze engraved Senior
Member plaque to proudly display.
Up to $25.00 gift certificate toward one new Society
membership.
A letter of commendation to your employer on the
achievement of Senior Member grade (upon the request of the newly elected Senior Member).
Announcement of elevation in Section/Society and/
or local newsletters, newspapers and notices.

AuguSt

Hiroyuki Yamaguchi

Tokyo Section

September

Jose Dias

Portugal Section

◗ Eligibility to hold executive IEEE volunteer positions.
◗ Can serve as Reference for Senior Member applicants.
◗ Invited to be on the panel to review Senior Member

applications.
◗ Eligible for election to be an IEEE Fellow.

Applications for senior membership can be obtained
from IEEE website: https://www.ieee.org/membership_
services/membership/senior/application/index.html You
can also visit the GRSS website: http://www.grss-ieee.org.

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MGRS.2015.2507298
Date of publication: 3 February 2016

ConfEREnCE REPoRT

GRS

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10. Congratulations to all
2015 award reCipients
The GRSS Awards Committee would like to thank the
evaluators of IGARSS'15 technical sessions and the
Editorial Boards of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and
Remote Sensing, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Letters, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth
Obser vations and Remote Sensing , t he GR SS
Publications Awards Committee, the Student Prize Paper
Awards Committee, and the Special Awards Committee
for their valuable inputs to the awards process. We would
also like to encourage all GRSS members to actively
participate in nominating distinguished colleagues for
the GRSS Major Awards including the Distinguished
Achievement Award, the Outstanding Service Award and
the Education Award, and the Special Awards including
the Early Career Award, David Landgrebe Award, and
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the Regional Leader Award. GRSS members can
nominate papers also for the publication awards. Please
see the instructions on the GRSS Home Page (http://
www.grss-ieee.org/about/awards/).
11. Best wishes for a suCCessful igarss 2016
The General Co-Chairs of IGARSS 2015 Vito Pascazio
and Sebastiano Serpico turned over the responsibility
for the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium to IGARSS 2016 General Co-Chairs Ji
Wu and Ya-Qiu Jin, with their best wishes for a successful symposium in Beijing, China, July 10-15, 2016. The
symposium theme is "Advancing the Understanding of
Our Living Planet". Please visit http://www.igarss2016.
org for further information.
We hope to see you in Beijing at IGARSS 2016!
GRS
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https://www.ieee.org/membership_ http://www.grss-ieee.org http://http:// http://www.grss-ieee.org/about/awards/ http://www.igarss2016

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