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◗◗ Karem Chokmani (Karem.Chokmani@ete.inrs.ca), INRS
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University (Quebec City): Summer School Co-Chair
Sylvie Daniel (sylvie.daniel@scg.ulaval.ca), Laval University (Quebec City): Summer School Co-Chair
Charles Gignac (Charles.Gignac@ete.inrs.ca), INRS
University (Quebec City): Summer School Webmaster
Michael Inggs (Michael.Inggs@uct.ac.za), University of
Cape Town (South Africa): GRSS Education Director
Brigitte Leblon (bleblon@unb.ca), University of New
Brunswick (Fredericton): Summer School Advisor.

B. Program
Thursday, July 10
8:45-9:00 AM
9:00-10:30

10:30-11:00
11:00-12:30

12:30-13:30
13:30-15:00

15:00-15:30
15:30-17:00

17:00-17:15
17:15-18:00
Friday, July 11
9:00-10:30 AM

10:30-11:00
11:00-12:30

12:30-13:30
13:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-17:00

17:00-17:15
17:15-18:00
18:00-22:30

Opening
Wooil Moon (Earth Observation and
Geophysical Application of Remote
Sensing Radars)
Coffee break
Jing Chen (Multi-temporal remote
sensing of leaf area index for modeling ecosystem productivity)
Lunch break
Brigitte Leblon (Use of optical, thermal infrared, radar and hyperspectral
remote sensing for geological mapping)
Coffee break
Wolfgang Boerner (An overview of
fully polarimetric PALSAR imaging
in Geoscience and Remote Sensing)
Break
Round-table with the lecturers.

Jean-Pierre Dedieu (SAR and optical imaging for snow monitoring and
hydropower resources management)
Coffee break
Claudia Notarnicola (Advanced techniques for retrieval of Essential Climate Variables (ECV) from remotely
sensed data)
Lunch break
Nicholas Coops (LiDAR remote
sensing for forestry and hydrology)
Coffee break
Karl Staenz (Towards operational
use of optical remote sensing technologies-two case studies related
to energy and food supply)
Break
Round-table with the lecturers
Social event.

C. The insTruCTors
The 2014 GRSS Summer School courses were delivered by
the following renowned instructors:
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Figure 1. Summer School 2014 organizers. (a) Anita Simic,
(b) Karem Chokmani, (c) Sylvie Daniel, (d) Charles Gignac,
(e) Michael Inggs, and (f) Brigitte Leblon.

1) Dr. Wolgang Martin Boerner: Wolfgang-Martin
Boerner (IEEE SM'75-F'84, LF'92) was born in Finschhafen,
Papua New Guinea in 1937, spent his childhood in Oceania & Austral-Asia, received the B.S. (Abitur) degree from
the August von Platen Gymnasium, Ansbach, Germany;
the M.S. (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in Communications & Electromagnetic Wave Engineering from the Technical University
of Munich, Bavaria, Germany; and the Ph.D. degree in Electromagnetic Engineering Sciences from the Moore School
of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, in 1958, 1963, and 1967, respectively.
From 1967 to 1968 WMB was a Research Assistant Engineer with the EECS Radiation Laboratory of the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. In 1968 he joined the University of Manitoba at Winnipeg, Canada where he was
strongly active in across-Canada research activities on the
advancement of inverse problems in aeronomy and radar
remote sensing and surveillance. Since 1978, he has been
a Professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer
Engineering (formerly EECS), the University of Illinois at
Chicago, and Director of its Communications, Sensing and
Navigation Laboratory.
While at UIC Professor Boerner was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Senior US Scientist, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Senior US Scientist, and
the US Navy Distinguished Senior Professor awards; he
is now a University of Illinois Distinguished Senior Professor Emeritus, and he was awarded the Doctor Honoris
Causa (Dr. H. C.) of the Tomsk State University Cluster in
Tomsk, West Siberia on 2000 October 12, of the University of Rennes 1, Bretagne, France on 2003 April 04, and
of the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany on 2003 April 11-all in recognition for
his profound contributions to the advancements of Electromagnetic Vector Inverse Scattering, Radar Polarimetry,
Interferometry and Tomography. He is a Corresponding
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