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◗ Dr. Yann Kerr from CESBIO, Toulouse, France
◗ Dr. Gerhard Krieger from the German Aerospace Cen-

ter, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
◗ Dr. Riccardo Lanari from the CNR, Naples, Italy
◗ Prof. Shunlin Liang from University of Maryland, College Park, MD, U.S.A.
◗ Prof. Christian Pichot from Universite de Nice-Sophia
Antipolis, France
Six out of the eleven new Fellows attended the Plenary
for their recognition: Dr. Mihail Datcu, Prof. Paolo Gamba,
Prof. Akira Hirose, Dr. Yann Kerr, Prof. Shunlin Liang, and
Prof. Giles M. Foody, The others were recognized with a
round of applause.
Dr. Mihai Datcu was elevated to Fellow grade with the
citation: "For contributions to information mining of high resolution synthetic aperture radar and optical Earth observation images."
Mihai Datcu received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
electronics and telecommunications from the University
Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB), Romania, in 1978 and
1986, respectively. In 1999, he received the title "Habilitation à diriger des recherches" in computer science from
University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. Since 1981,
he has been a Professor with the Faculty of Electronics,
Telecommunications and Information Technology, UPB,
working in signal/image processing and Electronic Speckle
Interferometry. Since 1993, he has been a scientist with
the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen,
Germany. He is developing algorithms for analyzing Very
High Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (VHR SAR)
and Interferometric SAR (InSAR) data. He is engaged in
research related to information theoretical aspects and
semantic representations in advanced communication systems. Currently, he is Senior Scientist and Image Analysis
research group leader with the Remote Sensing Technology Institute of DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen. Since 2011, he
is also leading the Immersive Visual Information Mining
research laboratory at the Munich Aerospace Faculty and
is director of the Research Center for Spatial Information
at UPB. He has held Visiting Professor appointments with
the University of Oviedo, Spain, University Louis Pasteur
and the International Space University, in Strasbourg,
France, University of Siegen, Germany, University of Camerino, Italy, and the Swiss Center for Scientific Computing, Manno, Switzerland. From 1992 to 2002 he had a
longer Invited Professor assignment with the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich. Since 2001, he has
initiated and led the Competence Centre on Information
Extraction and Image Understanding for Earth Observation, at ParisTech, Telecom Paris, a collaboration of DLR
with the French Space Agency (CNES). He has been Professor holder of the DLR-CNES Chair at ParisTech, Telecom Paris. His interests are in information and complexity theory, stochastic processes, Bayesian inference, and
Image Information Mining (IIM). He and his team have
developed and are currently developing the operational
IIM processor in the Payload Ground Segment systems
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Figure 5. Mihai Datcu (right) receives his Fellow recognition from

IEEE President Peter Staecker.

Figure 6. Paolo Gamba (right) receives his Fellow recognition
from IEEE President Peter Staecker.

for the German missions TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, and
the ESA Sentinel 1 and 2. He is the author of more than
200 scientific publications, among them about 50 journal
papers, and a book on number theory. He is a member of
the European Image Information Mining Coordination
Group (IIMCG) and of the Data Archiving and Distribution Technical Committee (DAD TC) of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.
Prof. Paolo Gamba was elevated to Fellow grade with
the citation: "For contributions to very high resolution remote
sensing image processing of urban areas."
Paolo Gamba (SM'00, F'13) is currently Associate Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Pavia,
Italy. He received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering "cum laude" from the University of Pavia, Italy, in 1989,
and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the
same University in 1993. He is a Fellow of IEEE, and since
January 2009 he has been serving as Editor-in-Chief of the
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. He has been the
organizer and Technical Chair of the biennial GRSS/ISPRS
Joint Workshops on "Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over
Urban Areas" since 2001. The next conference in the series,
JURSE 2013, is going to be Sao Paulo in April 2013. He also
served as Technical Co-chair of the 2010 IEEE Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii, July
2010, and will serve as Technical Cochair of the 2015 IEEE
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, in Milan,
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