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IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (vol. 15, no. 10,
pp. 1510-1514, Oct. 2018), by Qingyun Yan and Weimin
Huang (Figure 2).
Yan received his B.Eng. degree in electronic science and
engineering from the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 2014 and his M.Eng. degree in
electrical engineering in 2015 from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada, where he is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering. His research interests include tsunami detection
and sea-ice remote sensing using global navigation satellite
system reflectometry.
Huang received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in radio physics from Wuhan University, China, in 1995, 1997,
and 2001, respectively. In 2004, he received his M.Eng.
degree in engineering electromagnetics from the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He was a postdoctoral
fellow with the Memorial University of Newfoundland.
From 2008 to 2010, he was a design engineer with Rutter Technologies, St. John's. Since 2010, he has been with
the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial

FIGURE 1. 2019 IEEE GRSS Transactions Prize Paper Award
recipient Feifeng Liu (right) with GRSS President Paolo Gamba.

FIGURE 2. 2019 IEEE GRSS Letters Prize Paper Award recipient
Weimin Huang (right) with GRSS President Paolo Gamba.

University of Newfoundland, where he is currently an associate professor. He has authored more than 200 research
papers. His research interests include the mapping of oceanic surface parameters via high-frequency ground-wave
radar, X-band marine radar, and global navigation satellite
systems. Huang was a member of the technical program
committee and served as technical program cochair for the
IEEE Newfoundland Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conference in 2012 and 2013. He is currently an associate
editor of IEEE Access and an editorial board member of Remote Sensing. He serves as a regular reviewer for more than
40 international journals and for many IEEE international
conferences, such as IGARSS, RadarCon, the International
Conference on Communications, the Global Communications Conference, and Oceans. He a member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
(NSERC) Electrical and Computer Engineering Evaluation
Group for 2018-2021. He received the Discovery Accelerator Supplements Award from the NSERC in 2017.
IEEE GRSS J-STARS PRIZE PAPER AWARD
The GRSS established the IEEE GRSS J-STARS Prize Paper
Award to recognize authors who have published an exceptional paper in terms of content and impact on geoscience
and remote sensing in J-STARS during the previous calendar year. Such factors as originality, clarity, and timeliness
are considered during the selection of the winning paper.
IEEE membership is preferable. The award consists of a certificate and an honorarium of US$1,500, equally shared
among the authors.
The 2019 IEEE GRSS J-STARS Prize Paper Award was presented for the paper "Sensitivity of SAR Tomography to the
Phenological Cycle of Agricultural Crops at X-, C-, and L-band,"
published in J-STARS (vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 3014-3029, Sept.
2018). It was coauthored by Hannah Joerg, Matteo Pardini,
Irena Hajnsek (Figure 3), and Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou.
Joerg received her Dipl. Tech.-Math. degree in computational mathematics from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 2012. In the same year, she joined the
Radar Concepts Department of the Microwaves and Radar
Institute at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, as a member of the Polarimetric
SAR Interferometry Research Group. She received her doctoral degree on monitoring and characterizing agricultural
crops using polarimetric SAR tomography from the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in May 2018.
Her main research interests include the development of
processing algorithms for polarimetric, interferometric,
and tomographic SAR data; the characterization of electromagnetic scattering mechanisms in agricultural vegetation;
and relating bio- and geophysical variables of agricultural
crops to multiparametric SAR observables.
Pardini received his M.Eng. degree in telecommunication engineering and his Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2006 and 2010,
respectively. In January 2010, he joined the Radar Concepts
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