IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine - June 2015 - 2

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Columns &
Departments
3 From the editor
5 President's message
41 sPace agencies
51 technical committees
55 chaPters
61 education
64 book review
66 distinguished lecturer
Program

67 grss member highlights
70 in memoriam
71 calendar

editorial Board 2015
Dr. Lorenzo Bruzzone
Editor-in-Chief
University of Trento
Department of Information Engineering
and Computer Science
Via Sommarive, 5
I-38123 Povo, Trento
ITALY
E-mail: lorenzo.bruzzone@ing.unitn.it

Grs officers
President
Dr. Kamal Sarabandi
University of Michigan, USA
Executive Vice-President
Dr. Adriano Camps
Universitat Politecnica de
Catalunya-Barcelona Tech, Spain
Vice-President of Meetings and Symposia
Dr. David Kunkee
The Aerospace Corp. Environmental
Satellite Systems, USA

Dr. William Blackwell
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
USA
E-mail: wjb@ll.mit.edu
Dr. Michael Inggs
University of Cape Town
South Africa
E-mail: mikings@gmail.com
Dr. Gail Skofronick Jackson
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
USA
E-mail: Gail.S.Jackson@nasa.gov
Dr. John Kerekes
Co-Chair, Conference Advisory Committee
Rochester Institute of Technology
USA
E-mail: kerekes@cis.rit.edu
Dr. Fabio Pacifici
DigitalGlobe
E-mail: fpacific@digitalglobe.com
Dr. Paolo GAmba
University of Pavia
Italy
E-mail: paolo.gamba@unipv.it

Vice-President of Publications
Dr. William Emery
University of Colorado, USA
Vice-President of Technical Activities
Dr. John Kerekes
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Vice-President of Professional Activities
Dr. Wooil M. Moon
University of Manitoba, Canada
Vice-President of Information Resources
Dr. Steven C. Reising
Colorado State University, USA
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