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FIGuRE 5. Letters Prize Paper Award recipient R. Keith Raney with

Society President Melba Crawford.
scaling SAR processing algorithm, hybrid-polarimetric
SAR architecture, and on-board processing for the delayDoppler altimeter. He has over 400 major presentations
and significant publications, including "Space-Based
Remote Sensing Radars," Chapter 18 in The Radar Handbook, 3rd Edition, M. Skolnik, Ed.: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
Dr. Raney served on the GRSS AdCom for 8 years (1984-
1992) and was President for two terms (1988, 1989). He is
a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Electromagnetics
Academy, and an Associate Fellow of CASI. Honors include
the IEEE Millennium Medal 2000, and the IEEE 2007 Dennis J. Picard Medal for radar technologies and applications.
3. IEEE GRSS J-STARS PRIzE PAPER AwARd
The GRSS established the J-STARS Prize Paper Award to recognize the author(s) who published in the IEEE Journal of
Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote
Sensing during the previous calendar year an exceptional
paper in terms of content and impact on the GRS Society.
When selecting the paper, other factors considered are originality, clarity and timeliness of the paper. IEEE membership is preferable. The Award consists of a certificate and
an honorarium of $1,500. If the paper has more than one
author, the honorarium shall be shared.
The 2014 J-STARS Prize Paper Award is presented to
Angel Ferrán, Sergio Bernabé, Pablo G. Rodriguez, and
Antonio Plaza with the citation: "For a very significant contribution to the field of endeavor of the IEEE GRS Society in the
paper co-authored by Angel Ferrán, Sergio Bernabé, Pablo G.
Rodríguez, and Antonio Plaza entitled "A Web-Based System for
Classification of Remote Sensing Data," published in the IEEE
Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and
Remote Sensing, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 1934-1948, 2013."
Angel Ferrán Frías was born in Mérida (Extremadura,
Spain) in 1975. He received the Technical Engineering
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FIGuRE 6. J-STARS Prize Paper Award recipients Pablo Rodríguez
(left) and Antonio Plaza with Society President Melba Crawford.

Computer degree from the University of Extremadura
(UEX) in 1999 and the Master of Engineering Computer
degree from Polytechnic of Caceres (UEX) in 2012. He
joined "Proactiva Medio Ambiente" Madrid, Spain in
1999, as analyst-programmer in an international project
about computerized accounting. In 2003 he was in charge
of that project. From 2005 to 2009 he worked as Sap Programmer in Extremadura Health Service. Since 2009 he
worked in the development computer projects department of the Government of Extremadura. He is currently
collaborating on researching projects with the groups
"Gim" and "Hypercomp" at the Polytechnic School of
Caceres. His research interests include Earth Observation, Remote Sensing and Web Programming.
Sergio Bernabé received the M. Sc. degree in 2010
from the University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain, and
a joint Ph.D. degree in computer engineering between the
University of Iceland and the University of Extremadura,
Spain, in 2014. He has been a visiting researcher with
the Institute for Applied Microelectronics, University of
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain and also, with the
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

FIGuRE 7. J-STARS Prize Paper Award recipients Angel Ferrán and

Sergio Bernabé.
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