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Figure 11. Interactive Session Prize Paper Award recipient MinJeong Jo (right) with Society President Kamal Sarabandi.

(InSAR), multiple-aperture InSAR (MAI) and small baseline subset (SBAS) InSAR processors, and algorithms
related to 3-D deformation mapping by combining MAI
and InSAR and 2-D surface velocity estimation by combining MAI and along-track interferometry.
Joong-Sun Won received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in
geology and geophysics from Yonsei University, Seoul,
Korea, in 1983 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree
in geophysics from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg,
MB, Canada, in 1993. From 1993 to 1996, he was a Senior
Scientist with the Marine Geology Division, Korea Ocean
Research and Development Institute. He is currently a
Professor with the Department of Earth System Sciences,
Yonsei University. His research interests include remote
sensing, tidal flats, geohazard, signal processing, radar
interferometry, and velocity retrieval from SAR data.
Michael Poland received his B.S. degree from the University of California, Davis, in 1997 and Ph.D. from Arizona
State University in 2001. He is currently a geophysicist at
the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory,
where his primary research includes the study of active volcanoes, from the characteristics of magma supply to eruptions
at the surface. Much of his work involves the use of synthetic
aperture radar (SAR), and inteferometric SAR (InSAR) to
map surface changes associated with volcanic activity.
Asta Miklius received her M.S. degree from the University of Illinois in 1988. She is currently a geophysicist at the
U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory,
where she manages the deformation monitoring department. Her research focuses on magma movement and volcano-tectonic processes at active volcanoes as revealed by
deformation of the ground surface.
7. Student Prize PaPer awardS
A total of three prizes are presented including two GRSS
Student Prize Paper Awards (third and second prize) and
the IEEE Mikio Takagi Student Prize (first prize).
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Figure 12. Symposium Interactive Session Prize Paper Award

recipients Hyung-Sup Jung (top left), Joong-Sun Won, Michael P.
Poland, and Asta Miklius.
7.1. IEEE GRSS StudEnt PRIzE PaPER awaRdS
The GRSS Student Prize Paper Award was established to
recognize the best student papers presented at the IEEE
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). It is believed that early recognition of an
outstanding paper will encourage the student to strive for
greater and continued contributions to the Geoscience and
Remote Sensing profession. The award shall be considered
annually. It consists of a Certificate and an honorarium,
$500 for the third prize and $750 for the second prize.
Ten high-quality papers were preselected by the Student
Prize Paper Awards Committee in cooperation with the
Technical Program Committee. At IGARSS 2015 in Milan,
the students presented their papers in a special session and
a jury, nominated by the GRSS Awards Co-Chair, evaluated
and ranked them for the awards.
The Third Prize is presented to Gabriele Cavallaro with
the citation: For the paper "Automatic Morphological Attribute
Profiles."
His advisor is Jon A. Benediktsson, University of Iceland.
Gabriele Cavallaro received the B.S. and M.S. degrees
in telecommunications engineering from the University of
Trento, Trento, Italy, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. At the
present he is a Ph.D. student at the University of Iceland,
Reykjavik, Iceland. His research interests include remote
sensing and analysis of very high geometrical and spectral
resolution images with the current focus on mathematical
morphology and high performance computing.
The Second Student Prize Paper Award is presented to
Subit Chakrabarti with the citation: For the paper "Downscaling
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