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1982, respectively. In 1978, he joined the Systems and
Signals Laboratory CNRS/Supélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France,
where he was the Waves Division Leader from 1991 to
1992. During the 1989-1990 academic year, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA. From 1993 to 1995, he was with
the Sophia Antipolis Computer Science, Signals and Systems Laboratory, University Nice-Sophia Antipolis/CNRS,
Valbonne, France. In 1996, he joined Electronics, Antennas
& Telecommunications Laboratory (LEAT) and from 2000
to 2011, he was Director of LEAT. In 2006 he was the local
co-organizer of the 1st European Conference on Antennas
and Propagation (EuCAP 2006) in Nice, France. He has
organized and chaired numerous special sessions in International Symposiums and IEEE Conferences (including
AP-S conferences) and Workshops. He received in 1983 the
European Microwave Prize. He has been elected in 2012 as
a member of the IEEE AP-S AdCom. His research activities
are concerned with scattering and propagation of Electromagnetic Waves, radiation of antennas, inverse scattering
(Microwave Imaging and Tomography, Antenna Synthesis,
Complex Permittivity Reconstruction, Object Detection
and Recognition) for applications in Radar, Civil engineering, non-destructive evaluation (NDE), non-destructive
testing (NDT), geophysics engineering, security and military applications, antennas, telecommunications, and
medical domain (bio-engineering), VLF/LF frequencies,
microwaves and millimetre waves.
The Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society is proud to
have a total of eleven new Fellows, working in Italy, France,
Germany, the U.S., UK, India, and Japan. This is another
indication on the international nature of our Society.
IEEE GRSS GOLD EaRLy CaREER awaRD
The GRSS GOLD Early Career Award is to promote,
recognize and support young scientists and engineers
within the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society that
have demonstrated outstanding ability and promise for
significant contributions in the future. Selection factors

FIGuRE 13. Carlos López-Martínez (right) exchanges a few words
with GRSS President Melba Crawford after receiving the GOLD Early
Career Award from her. IGARSS General Cochair Simon Jones is in
the background.
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include quality, significance and impact of contributions,
papers published in archival journals-papers presented
at conferences and symposia, patents, demonstration of
leadership, and advancement of profession. The candidate must be an IEEE GRSS Graduate of the Last Decade
(GOLD) member at the time of nomination and making
contributions in a GRSS field of interest. Previous award
winners are ineligible. The Award consists of a Certificate
and honorarium.
The 2013 GOLD Early Career Award is presented to Dr.
Carlos López-Martínez from Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, with the citation "In
recognition of his outstanding ability and promise for significant
contributions in the future."
Carlos Lopez-Martinez received the MSc. degree in
electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in
1999 and 2003, respectively. From October 2000 to March
2002, he was with the Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik
and Radar Systeme IHR, German Aerospace Center, DLR,
Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. From June 2003 to December 2005, he has been with the Image and Remote Sensing Group-SAPHIR Team, in the Institute of Electronics
and Telecommunications of Rennes (I.E.T.R.-CNRS UMR
6164), Rennes, France. In January 2006, he joined the
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, as
a Ramón-y-Cajal researcher, where he is currently associate professor in the area of remote sensing and microwave
technology. His research interests include SAR and multidimensional SAR, radar polarimetry, physical parameter
inversion, digital signal processing, estimation theory and
harmonic analysis. He is associate editor of IEEE Journal of
Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing and he served as guest editor of the EURASIP Journal
on Advances in Signal Processing. He has organized different invited sessions in international conferences on radar
and SAR polarimetry. He has presented advanced courses
and seminars on radar polarimetry to a wide range of organizations and events. Dr. López-Martínez has authored
or coauthored more than 100 articles in journals, books,
and conference proceedings in the Radar Remote Sensing and image analysis literature. He received the Student
Prize Paper Award at the EUSAR 2002 Conference and
coauthored the paper awarded with the First Place Student
Paper Award at the EUSAR 2012 Conference.
IEEE GRSS MajOR awaRDS
The call for nominations for the GRSS Distinguished
Achievement Award, GRSS Outstanding Service Award
and the GRSS Education Award are published in the GRS
Magazine. The nomination forms are available on the GRSS
home page (http://www.grss-ieee.org/about/awards/).
Any member, with the exception of GRSS Administrative
Committee members, can make nominations to recognize deserving individuals. Typically the lists of candidates comprise three to five names. An independent Major
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