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MARTTI HALLIKAINEN, WERNER WIESBECK, MAHTA MOGHADDAM, AND PAOLO GAMBA

Awards Presented
at the IGARSS 2016 Banquet

he IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society's
(GRSS's) 2016 Publications Awards were presented at
the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Symposium (IGARSS) Awards Banquet on 14 July at the National Museum of China (Figure 1), which is located on the
east side of Tiananmen Square, opposite the Great Hall of the
People. Its basic functions include collecting cultural relics
and artworks, exhibitions, public outreach, history and art
research, and cultural communication.
Banquet attendees were welcomed by IGARSS 2016 General Cochairs Ji Wu and Ya-Qiu Jin. 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 Session Prize Paper Award
◗ Three Student Prize Paper Awards
◗ Early Career Award
◗ Chapter Excellence Award.

field of endeavor of the IEEE GRSS in the paper coauthored
by Charles-Alban Deledalle, Loïc Denis, Florence Tupin,
Andreas Reigber, and Marc Jäger, entitled 'NL-SAR: A Unified Nonlocal Framework for Resolution-Preserving (Pol)
(In)SAR Denoising,' published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 2021-2038,
April 2015."
Charles-Alban Deledalle [Figure 3(a)] received the engineer degree from EPITA, France, in 2008; the master of science and technology degree from Université Paris VI, France,
in 2008; and the Ph.D. degree in signal and image processing
from Telecom ParisTech, France, in 2011. He made a postdoctoral fellowship in applied mathematics at Université
Paris IX, France, in 2012. He is currently a CNRS researcher
at Institut de Mathematiques de Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux, France. His research interests include image denoising, reconstruction, variational and statistical modeling,
and parameter estimation. He received the IEEE ICIP Best
Student Paper Award in 2010 and the ISIS/EEA/GRETSI Best
Ph.D. Award in 2012.

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 winning
paper, factors that are considered are originality and clarity of the paper. The award consists of a certificate and an
honorarium of US$3,000 that is equally divided between
the authors.
The 2016 Transactions Prize Paper Award was presented to Charles-Alban Deledalle, Loïc Denis, Florence
Tupin, Andreas Reigber, and Marc Jäger (Figures 2 and 3)
with the citation "for a very significant contribution to the
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MGRS.2016.2615243
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FiGUre 1. The venue for the Awards Banquet was the National
Museum of China.

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