IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine - March 2014 - 5

The Chapters column presents the GRSS Distinguished
Lecturer Program that recently updated its portfolio of Distinguished Speakers. This program provides GRSS Chapters with seminars by experts on topics of interest and
importance to the geoscience and remote sensing community. The article describes the program and introduces the
speakers, including the topics of their talks. Note that the
program is structured so that Chapters incur little or no
cost when inviting Distinguished Lecturers. Therefore, I
strongly encourage Chapters to take advantage of this very
important initiative.
The Book Review column presents an overview of Land
Surface Observation, Modeling and Data Assimilation, edited
by Shunlin Liang, Xin Li, Xianhong Xie and published by
World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. The review of this
book was written by Claudia Notarnicola of the EURAC-
Institute for Applied Remote Sensing, Bolzano, Italy.
The Education column presents the results of an extensive survey on graduate courses throughout Europe to
understand patterns and similarities in graduate‐level
educational activities in the field of aerospace science and
engineering. The article emphasizes that there is good coverage of all aerospace aspects in Europe, and substantial
homogeneity among European countries in aerospacerelated education.
The Women in Geoscience and Remote Sensing presents
a short article on Sonia Gallego, who is an international
leader in remote sensing, and provides an example of a successful career.
The Reports section contains an article on the two-day
International Experts Meeting on Microwave Remote

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Sensing organized by the recently established IEEE-GRSS
Gujarat Chapter in association with CEPT University,
Ahmedabad, at the Gujarat University Convention Centre,
Ahmedabad, India, on 16-17 December 2013.
The Industrial Profiles column deals with trends in the
industry of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing
from satellites. The article provides an interesting analysis
of the ongoing activities in SAR remote sensing from satellites and describes the main technological developments,
applications and services provided. Moreover, it briefly
describes the TerraSAR-X next generation program.
The GRSS Member Highlights section, among other
news, contains a brief article that points out that in 2014
IEEE will mark its 50th Fellow Class. This represents five
decades of honoring IEEE Fellows whose extraordinary
accomplishments have changed the world. In addition, the
list of GRSS members elevated to the rank of IEEE Fellow
in 2014 is provided. Congratulations to all them!
Finally, I would like to encourage you to contribute to
the success of the magazine by submitting tutorial papers,
relevant technical articles or column contributions (for
submissions go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/grsm).
Also, proposals for special issues on specific topics of interest to the GRSS community are welcome.
I wish you an enjoyable and productive spring season.
Sincerely,
Lorenzo Bruzzone
Editor-in-Chief
lorenzo.bruzzone@ing.unitn.it
GRS

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