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strongly encourage chapters to take advantage of this very
important initiative. The second article describes the inauguration of the new Bangalore Section Chapter of the GRSS,
which is one of the most recently formed chapters of GRSS.
The article also describes the workshop on "Mathematical
Morphology and Pattern Recognition: Theory and Applications", organized on March 26-28, 2013, at the Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore Centre, India.
The Organization Profiles column describes the Wallops
Flight Facility (WFF) of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The article describes the Suborbital and Special
Orbital Projects developed at this facility and describes the
related activities.
The Education column presents an article that introduces
the new Director of Education of IEEE GRSS, Prof. Michael
Inggs. The article addresses future plans of GRSS on education and presents the Remote Sensing Summer School
2013 (actually a Winter School since it is being held in the
Australian winter), which will be held on July 18-19, 2013,
shortly before IGARSS 2013 in Melbourne, Australia.
The Women in Geoscience and Remote Sensing presents
a short article that discusses the unconscious bias, which

can affect academic and work environments in ways that
are still being studied and discovered.
The Conference Reports column contains two contributions. The first is an article describing the Workshop on
Reflectometry using GNSS and Other Signals of Opportunity
(GNSS+R 2012) held at Purdue University, West Lafayette,
USA on October 10-11, 2012. The second report describes
the 9th International Conference of the African Association
of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE), held in El
Jadida, Morocco, from October 29 to November 2, 2012.
As a final remark, I encourage you to contribute to the
success of the Magazine by submitting tutorial, technical,
educational, and organization profiles articles that are of
interest to our community.
I wish you a relaxing and productive summer, and I am
looking forward to meeting many of you at IGARSS 2013
in Melbourne.
Sincerely,
Lorenzo Bruzzone
Editor-in-Chief
lorenzo.bruzzone@ing.unitn.it
GRS

Australian Government
Geoscience Australia
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