CHAPTERS BY MOUSSA SOFIANE KAROUI, BOULARBAH SOUISSI, AND ABDELHAMID DAAMOUCHE IEEE GRSS Algeria Chapter Activities and Perspectives T he IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Algeria Chapter is the first such Chapter in the Maghreb and North Africa regions, the second on the African continent after the South Africa Chapter, and the third in the Arab world after those of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. This Chapter was created through the joint participation of Algerian Space Agency (ASAL) researchers [in particular, researchers Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MGRS.2019.2911611 Date of publication: 18 June 2019 from the Center des Techniques Spatiales (CTS), an operational entity of the ASAL] and Algerian scientists participating in GRS fields from various Algerian universities, such as the Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumedienne (USTHB), the Université M'Hamed Bougara (UMB), and the Université Djilali Liabès (UDL) (Figure 1). The research interests of this community range from the design of Earth observation missions (Algerian AlSat satellite missions) through the processing of remote sensing and geospatial data and the exploitation of those data in socioeconomic applications. Mediterranean Sea One Member Boumerdes University Two Members USTHB One Member Tizi Ouzou University One Member Constantine University One Member ENP Six Members CTS Five Members Batna University Two Members Biskra University Two Members Djelfa University Two Members Sidi-Bel-Abbes University FIGURE 1. The geographic distribution of IEEE GRSS Algeria Chapter members. ENP: École Nationale Polytechnique. 174 IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING MAGAZINE JUNE 2019