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Conference REPORT
Martti Hallikainen, Werner Wiesbeck, and MaHta MogHaddaM,
IEEE GRSS Awards Committee Co-Chairs

GRSS Publications Awards and Special Awards
Presented at IGARSS 2015 Banquet

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he IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society's
2015 Publications Awards and Special Awards were
presented at the IGARSS Awards Banquet on July 30 at the
Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci. Situated in the heart of Milan, this Museum
is the largest Museum of Science and Technology in Italy,
and one of the most important ones in Europe. The Museum hosts the largest collection of machines' models in the
world, realized based on Leonardo da Vinci's drawings.
The Award Banquet was in the Sala delle Colonne, the antique library of the Olivetan monastery that now hosts the
Museum, which is accessed from the Leonardo Gallery.
Banquet attendees were welcomed by IGARSS 2015
General Co-Chairs Vito Pascazio and Sebastiano Serpico. The following awards were presented by GRSS
President Kamal Sarabandi, Publications Awards Chair
Martti Hallikainen, and Special Awards Chair Mahta
Moghaddam during the dinner:
◗ Transactions Prize Paper Award
◗ Letters Prize Paper Award
◗ J-STARS Prize Paper Award
◗ Highest Impact Paper Award
◗ Symposium Prize Paper Award
◗ Symposium Interactive Prize Paper Award
◗ Three Student Prize Paper Awards
◗ Early Career Award
◗ Chapter Excellence Award

1. IEEE GRSS TRanSacTIonS
PRIzE PaPER awaRd
The GRSS established the Transactions Prize Paper
Award to recognize authors who have published an
exceptional paper in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience
and Remote Sensing during the past calendar year.
When selecting the paper, other factors considered are
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FIGuRE 1. The venue for the Awards Banquet was Sala delle
Colonne of the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci.

FIGuRE 2. IGARSS 2015 General Co-Chairs Vito Pascazio (right)
and Sebastiano Serpico.

originality and clarity of the paper. The Award consists
of a Certificate and an honorarium of $3,000, equally
divided between the authors.
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