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Dr. Kerekes is a member of Tau Beta Phi, Eta
Kappa Nu, the American Geophysical Union, and
the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. He is a senior member of the Optical
Society of America and SPIE. From 1995 to 2004,
he served as the founding chair of the Boston Section Chapter of the GRSS, and, from 2007 to 2010,
he was the founding chair of GRSS's Western New
York Chapter. He was a general cochair of IGARSS
2008 held in Boston. From 2010 to 2015, he was a
member of the GRSS AdCom, serving as vice president for technical activities from 2011 to 2015. In
-January 2017, he was appointed chief financial officer of the GRSS.
IEEE GRSS DISTINGUISHED
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Distinguished Achievement Award was esta-
blished to recognize an individual who has made
significant technical contributions within the scope
of the GRSS, usually over a sustained period. In
selecting an individual, the factors -considered are
the quality, significance, and impact of the contributions; the quantity of the contributions; the duration of significant activity; papers published in
archival journals; papers presented at conferences
and symposia; patents granted; and the advancement of the profession. IEEE membership is preferable but not required. The award is considered
annually and is presented only if a suitable candidate is identified. The awardee receives a plaque
and a certificate.
The 2017 IEEE GRSS Distinguished Achievement Award was presented to Yoshio Yamaguchi
of Niigata University, Japan, with the citation "for
contributions to Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture
Radar Sensing and Imaging and its utilization"
(Figure 8). He received his B.E. degree in electronics engineering from Niigata University, Japan, in
1976 and his M.E. and Dr. Eng. degrees from the
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1978 and
1983, respectively.
In 1978, he joined the Faculty of Engineering
at Niigata University. From 1988 to 1989, he was
a research associate at the University of Illinois,
Chicago. His interests are in the field of radar polarimetry, microwave scattering, decomposition,
and imaging.
Dr. Yamaguchi has ser ved as chair of the
GRSS Japan Chapter (2002-2003), chair of the URSI
Commission F Japanese Committee (2006-2011),
associate editor for Asian affairs of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing eNewsletter (2003-2007),
and Technical Program Committee cochair of
IGARSS 2011. He is a Fellow of the Institute of
Electronics, Information, and Communication
DECEMBER 2017

FIGURE 9. Michael Freilich explains the strategy for NASA's remote--

sensing future.

FIGURE 10. Plenary presenter Huadong Guo, stressing the importance of

remote sensing for China.

FIGURE 11. Maurice Borgeaud explains the European Space Agency's vision

and mission.

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