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AMSR-E. From 2003 to 2009, he was engaged in work for
calibrating and validating of the ALOS's PALSAR. He is
currently a manager with Solution Service Department of
RESTEC. His research interests include measurement for
ground subsidence using interferometric SAR data.

FIGuRE 9. Recipients of the Highest Impact Paper Award Osamu
Isoguchi and Kazuo Isono.

and large-scale land surface deformations. He has been a
Principal Researcher of JAXA and leading the ALOS and
ALOS-2 science projects. His current research interests
are high resolution imaging for spaceborne and airborne
SARs (PALSAR-2 and Pi-SAR-L2), calibration and validation, and SAR applications including polarimetric SAR
interferometry. He is a guest professor of Tokai University
from 2006.
Osamu Isoguchi graduated from the Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1994 and received the PhD degree
in geophysics from Tohoku University, in 2003. His thesis
was dedicated to the time-dependent ocean circulation
by using altimetry. He is currently working as a Deputy
Senior Scientist at Remote Sensing Technology Center
of Japan, on the ocean application of the PALSAR/PALSAR-2 and a conceptual study of JAXA's altimeter mission
named Coastal and Ocean measurement Mission with
Precise and Innovative Radar Altimeter (COMPIRA). His
research interests are the oceanographic applications of
remote sensing data into coastal studies.
Takeo Tadono (M'04-) received a B.E. degree in 1993,
an M.E. degree in 1995, and a Ph.D. degree in 1998 in
civil engineering from Nagaoka University of Technology,
Niigata Pref., Japan. He is an Associate Senior Researcher
at the Earth Observation Research Center (EORC), Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and is in charge
of calibrating and validating optical instruments on the
Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS). His research
interests are calibration and validation of high-resolution
optical instruments, and development of algorithm for
retrieving geophysical parameters from remote sensing
data, especially soil moisture and snow parameters using
microwave. He is also a Visiting Professor of the Graduate
School of Information Science and Technology (IST), Hokkaido University, Japan since 2008.
Kazuo Isono received the B.E. degree in 1993, the M.E.
degree in 1995 all from the Department of Electro Photo
Optics, Tokai University, Japan. In 1995, he joined the
Remote Sensing Technology Center (RESTEC) of Japan,
Tokyo. From 1995 to 1998, he was engaged in work to
calibrate JERS-1's SAR, ERS-1&2's AIM, and RADARSAT's
SAR. From 1999 to 2002, he was engaged in work to development of the ADEOS-II's GLI and AMSR, and Aqua's
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5. IEEE GRSS SympoSIum pRIzE papER awaRd
The GRSS established the Symposium Prize Paper Award
to recognize the author(s) who presented at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
(IGARSS) an exceptional paper in terms of content and
impact on the GRSS. In selecting the paper, other factors
considered are originality, clarity and timeliness of the
paper. The published versions of the papers in the Digest
shall also be evaluated. Prize: Certificate and $1250,
equally divided between the authors.
The 2014 Symposium Prize Paper Award is presented
to Dehong Liu and Petros T. Boufounos with the citation:
"For a very significant contribution to the field of endeavor of the
IEEE GRS Society in the paper co-authored by Dehong Liu and
Petros T. Boufounos entitled "Synthetic Aperture Imaging Using a
Randomly Steered Spotlight," presented at the 2013 International
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 2013 in Melbourne, Australia, IGARSS'13 Proceedings."
Dehong Liu (M'03-SM'08 ) received the B.S., M.S., and
Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1997, 1999, and 2002, respectively. From 2003 to 2010, he worked at Duke University,
Durham, NC, first as a post-doctoral Research Associate,
then as a Research Scientist and Senior Research Scientist. Since July 2010, he has been with Mitsubishi Electric
Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA, where he
is now a Principal Member of Research Staff. His current
research interests include compressive sensing, radar imaging, and array signal processing.
Petros T. Boufounos is a Principal Member of Research Staff at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) and a visiting scholar at the Rice University
Electrical and Computer Engineering department. Dr.
Boufounos completed his undergraduate and graduate
studies at MIT. He received the S.B. degree in Economics
in 2000, the S.B. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in 2002, and the
Sc.D. degree in EECS in 2006. Between September 2006
and December 2008, he was a postdoctoral associate with
the Digital Signal Processing Group at Rice University. Dr.
Boufounos joined MERL in January 2009. Dr. Boufounos'
immediate research focus includes signal acquisition and
processing, quantization and data representations, frame
theory, and machine learning applied to signal processing. He is also interested in how signal acquisition interacts with other fields that use sensing extensively, such
as robotics and mechatronics. Dr. Boufounos is a senior
area editor at IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He has received the Ernst A. Guillemin Master Thesis Award for his
work on DNA sequencing, the Harold E. Hazen Award
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