IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine - June 2017 - 95

Software and Data Sets
BY FAWWAZ ULABY

Remote Sensing Code Library

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orward progress in remote sensing science and technology relies on the free exchange of results and ideas
as well as the dissemination of remotely sensed data
acquired by ground-based, airborne, and spaceborne
sensors. An important ingredient is the family of computer codes and algorithms used by scientists and engineers to analyze data, model and calibrate sensors,
and associate sensor output with the physical parameters of the observed scenes. Scientific journals and
meetings-such as IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and the IEEE International Geoscience and
Remote Sensing symposia-play an important role in facilitating the exchange of scientific information, but their
domains do not encompass computer codes. For the most
part, remote sensing computer codes remain hidden from
public view. But no more!
The Remote Sensing Code Library (RSCL) is an IEEE
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society initiative to establish a large family of remote sensing computer codes-contributed by members of the remote sensing community
and their host institutions-for use by other members of
the community not only to verify and extend published
results but to also reduce the duplication of time and effort invested in the development of these codes. The RSCL
invites researchers to submit their codes, which will then
be reviewed by an editorial team to ensure relevance and
quality. Accepted codes will become citable in the literature,
just like journal publications. When an individual uses code
from the RSCL and includes results based on that code in a
journal or symposium publication, he or she is expected to

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cite the code and its authors. The RSCL is available online at
rscl-grss.org/.
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The RSCL's scope covers a wide
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range of computer languages, senLITERATuRE, juST LIkE
sor types, and application areas,
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including the following:
◗ C o m p u t e r c o d e l a n g u a g es:
C, C#, C++, Fortran, Fortran77,
iOS, Java, Javascript, Hypertext Preprocessor, Python,
Ruby on Rails, and Structured Query Language.
◗ Sensors: radar altimeter, microwave radiometer,
microwave spectrometer, synthetic aperture radar, scatterometer, global positioning system,
optical radiometer, lidar altimeter, doppler lidar,
laser-induced florescence, and differential absorption lidar.
◗ Applications: geophysical instrument processing and
calibration, as well as both geophysical and instrument processing and calibration.
EDITORIAL TEAM
The RSCL's editorial team includes
◗ Fawwaz Ulaby (Figure 1), editor-in-chief, University
of Michigan, United States
◗ John Kerekes (Figure 2), associate editor, Rochester
Institute of Technology, United States
◗ Leland Pierce (Figure 3), associate editor, University
of Michigan, United States
◗ Yang Du (Figure 4), associate editor, Zhejiang University, China
◗ Javier Plaza Miguel (Figure 5), associate editor, University of Extremadura, Spain.

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