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FROM THE EDITOR
BY JAMES L. GARRISON

Welcome to the March Issue

ith this March 2020 issue, my third year as editor-in-chief of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Magazine begins. This is the first of a two-part special issue on interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR).
A total of 12 articles were accepted, which necessitated
their distribution over two issues, testimony to the volume of InSAR research and applications available in recent years.
The special issue starts off with four review articles
covering various InSAR-based deformation monitoring
techniques. These are followed by three tutorial and review articles on deformation monitoring applications.
(The June issue will include two articles on SAR tomography and three articles focused on topics related to InSAR
ground moving-target indication, polarimetric InSAR,
and interferometric phase denoising.) A guest editorial,
on page 6, summarizes the topics of the individual articles. I would like to thank our three guest editors: Prof.
Mengdao Xing from Xidian University, China; Prof. Vito
Pascazio, full professor of telecommunications at the University of Napoli Parthenope, Italy; and Dr. Hanwen Yu
from the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping at
the University of Houston, Texas.
In addition to the feature articles, we have two "Chapters" columns about the Kolkata Chapter in India and
the Student Chapter at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. Our "Technical Committees" column invites par-

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ticipation in the 2020 version of the popular Data Fusion
Contest sponsored by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote
Sensing Society (GRSS) Image
Analysis and Data Fusion Technical Committee. The "Women
THIS IS THE FIRST OF A
in GRSS" column introduces the
TWO-PART SPECIAL ISSUE
Inspire, Develop, Empower, Advance (IDEA) Committee, created
ON INTERFEROMETRIC SYNto promote a broader and stronger
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mission of diversity and inclusion within the GRSS. In addition, 2020 Society President Paolo
Gamba writes about "Creating an Open Community of
Communities" in his "President's Message."
As we begin 2020, I look forward to improving the role
of the magazine in educating and informing our community. This cannot happen without continued input from
you, our GRSS members. Tutorial and feature articles, intended to inform and educate readers in the broad remote
sensing community, are welcome as are contributions to
our regular columns: "Chapters," "Space Agencies," "Women in GRSS," "Education," "Software and Data Sets," and
"Conference Reports." Articles presenting original research,
however, should be submitted to one of the Society's three
research journals: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote
Sensing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, or IEEE Geoscience and Remote
Sensing Letters. Manuscripts should be submitted through
Manuscript Central at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/
grsm. Proposals for special issues are also encouraged and
should be sent to jlg@ieee.org.GRS

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