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these, the Mediterranean and Middle-East Geoscience and
Remote Sensing Symposium (M2GARSS; see https://2020
.m2garss.org/default.asp) will be devoted to practitioners
and scholars from the Middle East and North Africa region
and will be held in Tunis, Tunisia, on 9-11 March 2020.
Two weeks later, another regional conference, jointly organized with the International Society for Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), will be dedicated to Latin
America, i.e., the Latin American GRSS and ISPRS Remote
Sensing Conference (see https://2020.lagirs.org/es/default
.asp) in Santiago, Chile, on 22-27 March 2020. The last,
but not least, regional conference in 2020 will be devoted
to the Indian subcontinent, i.e., the Indian Geoscience and
Remote Sensing Symposium, to take place in Ahmedabad,
India, on 2-5 December 2020. These three conferences are
very important and need to be supported and attended by
the largest possible number of researchers from these three
regions. GRSS volunteers within Meetings and Symposia
and Global Activities portfolios are working hard to support
the organization of these regional symposia. We kindly ask
for your help to spread the word and make these events a
new way for GRSS to better serve local communities.
As usual, we have an exciting period ahead of us.
IGARSS 2019 is coming and will be the first of a number of
events that can help to make our Society a real "community
of communities." Let's help each other make this happen!

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of the Society as well as guest speakers. Moreover, the GRSS
Inspire, Develop, Empower, and Advance Committee is organizing the IEEE Women in GRSS Forum, a session designed to foster discussion and collaboration and to provide professional women members of the GRSS, whether
in industry, academia, or government, the opportunity to
create communities that fuel innovation, facilitate knowledge sharing, and provide support.
And let's not forget the GRSS booth, a traditional landmark of the IGARSS exhibition. Last year, in Valencia,
Spain, this booth was a real experience, with a social media
wall, live-streamed interviews of senior Society leaders, and
a photo contest. This year, the team in charge of the booth
is planning for more, with opportunities to meet the GRSS
vice presidents and directors and collect one of the many
giveaways from the Society and its technical committees.
Don't forget to come by and visit the GRSS booth during
your week in Yokohama!
In addition to managing the IGARSS as our annual flagship conference, the GRSS is working on multiple fronts
to engage more communities on both technical and geographical levels. One area of activity is the organization of
regional conferences. In 2020, we are starting three regional
conferences held in locations far from the IGARSS flagship
conference. The idea is to help communities that cannot
attend IGARSS because of distance, economic issues, or
other barriers by organizing dedicated events. The first of

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