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TIANLIN WANG AND DAVID MAYERS

Activities of the GRSS University
of Michigan Student Chapter

he IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)
University of Michigan Student
Chapter was established on 5
September 2018. It serves as a
focal point for graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in geoscience and remote
sensing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The Chapter
seeks to foster interdepartmental
and interdisciplinary activities
within the university community and facilitate engagement with
the broader GRSS community.
The chapter officers are as
follows:
FIGURE 1. Some of the GRSS Chapter workshop participants.
◗◗ chair: Tianlin Wang
◗◗ vice chair: David Mayers
◗◗ secretary: Rajeswari Balasubramaniam
◗◗ Prof. James Garrison: "Remote Sensing With Signals of
Opportunity"
◗◗ treasurers: Huanting Huang and Navid Barani Lonbani
◗◗ Young Professionals (YP) representative: Rachel
◗◗ Prof. Chris Ruf: "Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite
Norris
System (CYGNSS)"
◗◗ webmaster: Maryam Salim
◗◗ Dr. Andrew O'Brien: "Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R)"
◗◗ advisors: Dr. Leland Pierce and Dr. Laura Balzano.
The Chapter has organized and hosted a series of techni◗◗ Prof. Joel Johnson: "Ultrawideband Microwave Radiomcal activities to bring together researchers, students, and
etry"
professionals. Our objective is to provide more opportu◗◗ Dr. Roger De Roo: "Wideband Autocorrelation Radiomnities and support to students and young professionals for
etry (WiBAR)"
their career development.
◗◗ Prof. Steven Reising: "Temporal Experiment for
Storms and Tropical Systems-Demonstration (TEMIEEE GRSS WORKSHOP ON MICROWAVE
PEST-D) CubeSat Mission"
REMOTE SENSING
◗◗ Dr. Darren McKague: "Global Precipitation MeasureThe Chapter hosted a workshop on microwave remote sensment (GPM)"
ing on Saturday, 23 November 2019. In addition to a panel
◗◗ Dr. Ruzbeh Akbar: "In Situ Sensor Networks for Satellite
discussion, 10 distinguished lecturers from research labs
Soil Moisture Calibration and Validation"
and academia volunteered to share presentations on their
◗◗ Panel discussion: "Future of Microwave Remote Sensing."
work as follows:
More than 50 people participated in this workshop
on site, and around 30 others attended remotely
◗◗ Prof. Leung Tsang: "Electromagnetic Wave Modeling"
(Figure
1). The slides and videos of this workshop
◗◗ Prof. Kamal Sarabandi: "Polarimetric Radar Calibration"
were uploaded to the GRSS website for future viewing:
http://w w w.grss-ieee.org/microwave-remote-sensing
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MGRS.2020.2970825
-workshop-2019/.
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