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Columns &
Departments
3 From the editor
5 President's message
46 sPace agencies
54 technical committees
59 chaPters
67 education
74 women in grs
76 conFerence rePorts
97 distinguished lecturer
Program

98 grss memBer highlights
99 calendar
100 2014 index

Editorial Board 2014
Dr. Lorenzo Bruzzone
Editor-in-Chief
University of Trento
Department of Information Engineering
and Computer Science
Via Sommarive, 5
I-38123 Povo, Trento, ITALY
E-mail: lorenzo.bruzzone@ing.unitn.it
Dr. William Blackwell
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Lexington, MA 02420-9108, USA
E-mail: wjb@ll.mit.edu
Dr. Michael Inggs
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch, 7701, RSA
E-mail: mikings@gmail.com
Dr. Gail Skofronick Jackson
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Code 612
Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
E-mail: Gail.S.Jackson@nasa.gov
Dr. John Kerekes
Co-Chair, Conference Advisory Committee
Rochester Institute of Technology
54 Lomb Memorial Dr.
Rochester, NY 14623, USA
E-mail: kerekes@cis.rit.edu
Dr. Alberto Moreira
Director of the Microwaves and Radar Institute
German Aerospace Center
Oberpfaffenhofen
82234 Wessling, DE
E-mail: alberto.moreira@dlr.de
Dr. Fabio Pacifici
DigitalGlobe
E-mail: fpacific@digitalglobe.com
Dr. Stephen Volz
NASA Earth Science Div.
300 E St., SW
Washington, DC 20546, USA
E-mail: svolz@nasa.gov

GrS officErS
President
Dr. Melba M. Crawford
Purdue University, USA
Executive Vice-President
Dr. Kamal Sarabandi
University of Michigan, USA
Vice-President of Meetings and Symposia
Dr. Adriano Camps
Universitat Politecnica de
Catalunya-Barcelona Tech, Spain
Vice-President of Publications
Dr. William Emery
University of Colorado, USA
Vice-President of Technical Activities
Dr. John Kerekes
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Vice-President of Professional Activities
Dr. Wooil M. Moon
University of Manitoba, Canada
Vice-President of Information Resources
Dr. Steven C. Reising
Colorado State University, USA
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