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From 2008 until August 2009, he was a postdoctoral republished versions of the papers in the digest shall also be
searcher electrical and computer engineering, University
evaluated. The prize consists of a certificate and an honoof Iceland, Reyjavik, Iceland, followed by a (junior) prorarium of US$1,250, equally divided between the authors.
fessor for remote sensing at the University of Bonn, GerThe 2016 Symposium Prize Paper Award was presented
many, until September 2013. Since then, he has been a
to the following two coauthor teams:
professor for remote sensing and geoinformatics at the
◗ Ribana Roscher, Christoph Römer, Björn Waske, and
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His current research acLutz Plümer (Figure 10) with the citation "for a very
tivities concentrate on advanced concepts for image classignificant contribution to the field of endeavor of the
sification and data fusion, with a strong focus on monitorIEEE GRSS in the paper coauthored by Ribana Roscher,
ing land use cover and land use cover change.
Christoph Römer, Björn Waske, Lutz Plümer entitled
Lutz Plümer [Figure 11(d)] received the diploma degree
'Landcover Classification with Self-Taught Learning on
in computer science from the University of Dortmund in
Archetypal Dictionaries,' presented at the 2015 IGARSS
1986 with a scholarship from the German Academic Scholin July 2015 in Milan, Italy, IGARSS'15 Proceedings."
arship Foundation. He received the Dr. rer. nat. from the
◗ Claas Grohnfeldt and Xiao Xiang Zhu with the citasame institution with summa cum laude in 1989. His thesis
tion "for a very significant contribution to the field of
was on automatic termination proofs for logic programs.
endeavor of the IEEE GRSS in the paper coauthored by
From 1990 to 1997, he was a research associate at the InstiClaas Grohnfeldt and Xiao Xiang Zhu entitled 'Towards
tute of Computer Science III, University of Bonn, Germaa Combined Sparse Representation and Unmixing
ny. In 1994, he received his venia legendi in computer sciBased Hybrid Hyperspectral Resolution Enhancement
ence. His habilitation thesis was on automatic verification
Method,' presented at the 2015 IGARSS, July 2015 in
Milan, Italy, IGARSS'15 Proceedings."
Ribana Roscher [Figure 11(a)] received the Dipl.-Ing.
degree in geodesy from the University of Bonn, Germany,
in 2008. She received her Ph.D. degree in geodesy and geoinformation from the same institution in 2012. From 2013
to 2015, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Geographical Sciences, focusing on
methods for land cover classification and sparse representations for high-dimensional sensor data. From January to
December 2015, she was a visiting researcher at The Fields
Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, University
of Toronto, Canada, joining the thematic program on statistical inference, learning, and models for big data. Since
December 2015, she has been a junior professor for remote
sensing at the University of Bonn, Institute of Geodesy and
Geoinformation. Her current research interest is sparse representation learning for big remote sensing image data.
Christoph Römer [Figure 11(b)] received the Dipl.-Ing.
degree in geodesy in 2009. He received his engineering
FiGUre 10. Alberto Moreira (right) receives, on behalf of Ribana
Ph.D. degree in 2015 at the University of Bonn, Germany,
Roscher, Christoph Römer, Björn Waske, and Lutz Plümer, the Symin the Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation. His
posium Prize Paper Award from GRSS President Kamal Sarabandi.
thesis was on machine learning and
data mining for hyperspectral data
analysis. Since then, he has worked
as a postdoctoral researcher at the
University of Bonn. His current research includes active learning and
unsupervised classification for big
data applications.
Björn Waske [Figure 11(c)] received the degree in applied environmental sciences with a major in
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
remote sensing from Trier University, Germany, in 2002 and the Ph.D.
degree in geography from the Uni- FiGUre 11. The Symposium Prize Paper Award recipients (a) Ribana Roscher, (b) Christoph
versity of Bonn, Germany, in 2007. Römer, (c) Björn Waske, and (d) Lutz Plümer.
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