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FIGURE 10. Claudia Paris (left) and Lorenzo Bruzzone (center)

receive the IEEE GRSS Symposium Prize Paper Award from GRSS
President Adriano Camps.

ocean-atmosphere hydrology and from the Université de
Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, in remote sensing in 2005.
He joined the CESBIO in 2006. He is involved in the SMOS
satellite mission and, especially, in soil moisture retrieval.
His field of interest is the passive microwave remote sensing of continental surfaces.
Steven Delwart [Figure 9(l)] received his B.Sc. degree
(honors) in physics and his M.Sc. degree in optics in 1982
from the Imperial College, University of London, United
Kingdom. In 1993, he started his career at Lockheed Missiles
and Space Research Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, in
the Advanced Surveillance Department, where he was involved in the development of and later made responsible for
the calibration of an airborne infrared imaging spectrometer. In 1988, he joined the Orlikon-Bhurle Laser division
in Switzerland to develop low-power carbon dioxide laser
applications, derived from the Air Defense Antitank Missile
System laser head. In 1993, he joined the ESA as a performance engineer for the medium-resolution imaging spectrometer on board the ENVISAT ("environmental satellite"),
where he was responsible for developing both the engineering and scientific algorithms, including calibration. His involvement in SMOS started in 2004, with the development
of the scientific algorithms and the coordination of the
validation team. He has managed the algorithm evolution
and data product validation activities for SMOS during the
exploitation phase.
IEEE GRSS SYMPOSIUM PRIZE PAPER AWARD
The GRSS established the IEEE GRSS Symposium Prize
Paper Award to recognize authors who have presented an
exceptional paper in terms of content and impact on the
GRSS at IGARSS. In selecting the paper, factors considered
include originality, clarity, and timeliness of publication.
The published versions of the papers in the digest shall
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also be evaluated. The prize consists of a certificate and
US$1,250, which is equally divided among the authors.
The 2017 IEEE GRSS Symposium Prize Paper Award
was presented to Claudia Paris and Lorenzo Bruzzone
with the citation "for a very significant contribution to
the field of endeavor of the IEEE GRSS in the paper coauthored by Claudia Paris and Lorenzo Bruzzone and titled
'A Data-Driven Identification of Growth-Model Classes
for the Adaptive Estimation of Single-Tree Stem Diameter in LiDAR Data,' presented at the 2016 International
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 2016,
in Beijing China."
Claudia Paris (Figure 10) received her laurea (B.S. equivalent) and her laurea specialistica (M.S. equivalent) degrees in
telecommunication engineering and her Ph.D. in information and communication technologies from the University
of Trento, Italy, in 2010, 2012, and 2016, respectively. She is
currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Remote Sensing
Laboratory of the University of Trento. Her main research interests include remote sensing, signal and image processing,
light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data analysis, and their
fusion with hyperspectral images. She conducts research on
these topics within projects on the estimation of forest dendrometric variables by using LiDAR and hyperspectral data.
She is working on analyzing multitemporal images acquired
by the ESA Sentinel-2 satellite constellation in the context
of the Scientific Exploitation of Operational Missions Sentinel-2 for the Science ESA program. She is a reviewer for IEEE
Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, J-STARS, and
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.
Lorenzo Bruzzone (Figure 10) received his laurea (M.S.
equivalent) degree in electronic engineering (summa cum
laude) and his Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the
University of Genoa, Italy, in 1993 and 1998, respectively.
He is currently a full professor of telecommunications at the
University of Trento, where he teaches remote sensing, radar, pattern recognition, and electrical communications. He
is founder and director of the Remote Sensing Laboratory in
the Department of Information Engineering and Computer
Science, University of Trento. His current research interests
include the areas remote sensing, radar and SAR, signal processing, and pattern recognition. He promotes and supervises research on these topics within the frameworks of many
national and international projects.
Among others, Bruzzone is the principal investigator of
radar for icy moon exploration instruments in the framework of the ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Mission. He
is the author (or coauthor) of 186 scientific publications in
refereed international journals (134 in IEEE journals), more
than 260 papers in conference proceedings, and 20 book
chapters. He is the editor/coeditor of 16 books/conference
proceedings and one scientific book. His papers are highly
cited (more than 17,700 times), and his h-index is 68.
Since 2009, he has been a member of the Administrative Committee of GRSS; he is also cofounder of the IEEE
International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal
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