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FIGuRE 4. Letters Prize Paper Award recipients Michelangelo Villano (left) and Alberto Moreira with Society President Kamal Sarabandi.

See Figure 3 for Gerhard Krieger's photo.
Mr. Villano was the recipient of the First Place Student
Paper Award at the European conference on Synthetic
Aperture Radar 2014, Berlin, Germany. He has served as
Guest Editor for the Special Issue "Advances in Antenna
Array Processing for Radar 2014" of the International
Journal of Antennas and Propagation and he has been a
Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and
Remote Sensing, the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Letters, and the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
Gerhard Krieger (M'04-SM'09-F'13): See his bio and
photo in Section 1.
Alberto Moreira (M'92, S'96, F'04) received the B.S.E.E.
and M.S.E.E. degrees from the Aeronautical Technological
Institute (ITA), São José dos Campos, in 1984 and 1986,
respectively, and the Eng. Dr. degree (with honors) from the
Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 1993. From
1996 to 2001, he was the Chief Scientist and Engineer with
the SAR Technology Department, German Aerospace Center
(DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Under his leadership,
the DLR airborne SAR system has been upgraded to operate
in innovative imaging modes like polarimetric SAR interferometry and SAR tomography. Since 2001, he has been the
Director of the Microwaves and Radar Institute at DLR. The
Institute contributes to several scientific programs and space
projects for actual and future airborne and spaceborne SAR
missions like TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, PAZ, Sentinel-1, SARLupe, BIOMASS and Tandem-L. The mission TanDEM-X,
led by his Institute, has successfully started the operational
phase in December 2010. Prof. Moreira is the initiator and
Principal Investigator for this mission. Since 2003, he is also
a Full Professor with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
Germany, in the field of microwave remote sensing. He has
more than 350 publications in international conferences
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and journals and is the holder of 18 patents in the radar and
antenna field. His professional interests and research areas
encompass radar end-to-end system design and analysis,
microwave technologies, techniques and systems, signal
and image processing, and remote sensing applications.
Prof. Moreira served as President of the IEEE Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) in 2010, was the Founder
and Chair of the GRSS German Chapter (2003-2008), has
served as Associate Editor for the IEEE GRS Letters (2003-
2007), IEEE TGRS (since 2005) and IEEE GRS Magazine
(since 2014). He and his colleagues received the GRSS Transactions Prize Paper Awards in 1997, 2001, and 2007, the IEEE
W.R.G. Baker Award in 2012 from the IEEE Board of Directors and were nominated for the Federal Prize for Innovation
and Future Technologies of the German President (2012). He
is also recipient of several awards including the DLR Science
Award (1995), IEEE Nathanson Award for the Young Radar
Engineer of the Year (1999), the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Field
Award (2007), and the IEEE GRSS Distinguished Achievement Award (2014). He has participated as a member of the
technical program committee of more than 50 conferences
and served as general chair and co-chair for several conferences, including IGARSS'12. Since 2012 he is serving as the
Principal Investigator for the Helmholtz Research Alliance
"Remote Sensing and Earth System Dynamics", comprising
of 18 research institutes and 30 associated partners.
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
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