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academics and professionals with expertise in radiative transfer, electromagnetic scattering, and the optical
bidirectional ref lectance distribution function (BRDF).
The workshop, led by Prof. Shi, former cochair of the MIRS
TC, and Prof. Yang Du, deputy editor-in-chief of the GRSS
Remote Sensing Code Library, is the latest activity sponsored
by the MIRS TC. The workshop's participants are shown
in Figure 3.
In 2019, the MIRS TC organized nine papers for an invited session, Physical Modeling in Optical and Microwave
Remote Sensing, during the International Geoscience and
Remote Sensing Symposium. MIRS sessions were also organized for the 2019 Specialist Meeting on Reflectometry
Using Global Navigation Satellite Systems and for the 2019
Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium.
The MIRS TC addresses the technical space between basic electromagnetic theory and data collected by remote sensing
instruments. It focuses on models and techniques used to take
geometric, volumetric, and material composition descriptions
of a scene, along with their electromagnetic (e.g., scattering,
absorption, emission, optical BRDF, dielectric properties,
and so on) attributes and predicts the resulting observation
for a given remote sensing instrument. To become an MIRS
member, visit https://www.grss-ieee.org/tc_lists/tclist_signup
.html?tc=MIRS to complete a membership form.

AUTHOR INFORMATION
Jiancheng Shi (shijc@radi.ac.cn) received his B.A. degree from

the University of Lanzhou, China, in 1982 and his M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees in geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in 1987 and 1991, respectively. He
has been with the Institute for Computational Earth System Sciences (later the Earth Research Institute), UCSB, as a research
professor. In 2010, he joined the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital
Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, as a director and
senior research scientist. He has published more than 300
journal and conference papers. His research interests include
microwave remote sensing of water-cycle-related components.
He is a fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics and a Fellow of the IEEE.
Sharmila Padmanabhan (sharmila.padmanabhan@jpl
.nasa.gov) received her Ph.D. degree from Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, in 2009. She is currently a section
staff member with the Instrument Electronics and Software
Section, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena. Her research interests include millimeter-wave, submillimeter-wave, and infrared instrumentation for remote sensing, calibration/validation and
performance assessment of microwave radiometers, and
geophysical retrieval algorithm development.
GRS

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