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Current research also includes studying the amount of
penetration into the vegetation canopy using simultaneous L- and C-band TOPSAR measurements and repeatpass airborne interferometry data collected at lower frequencies (P-band). He was the Chief Scientist for GeoSAR,
a simultaneous X-band and P-band radar interferometer
for mapping above and beneath the canopy, which is now
commercially operated by Earthdata International. He
was the technical lead of the Interferometric Processor
Development Team of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), a shuttle-based interferometric radar used to
map the Earth's topography between !60° latitude.
He is currently the principal investigator of NASA's
UAVSAR program, which is developing a repeat-pass radar
interferometry capability for use on conventional or uninhabited aerial vehicles. Recently, he began working with
the Goldstone Solar System Radar to generate topographic
maps of the lunar surface.
The next to be recognized was Toshio Iguchi with
the citation: "For contributions to spaceborne meteorological
instruments and radar."
Toshio Iguchi (M'97, F'14) received the B.Sc. degree
from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, in 1976, the
M.Sc. degree from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan,
in 1978, and the Ph.D. degree from York University,
Toronto, ON, Canada, in 1983. Since 1985, he has been
with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (formerly the Communications
Research Laboratory), Koganei, Japan. From 1991 to 1994,
he visited the Goddard Space Flight Center, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, MD,
performing the U.S.-Japan collaborative experiment
for measuring rain using airborne radar. Since then, he
has focused primarily on issues related to remote sensing of precipitation from space. In particular, Dr. Iguchi
has been the lead developer of several standard radar science algorithms for both the Tropical Rainfall Measuring
Mission (TRMM) and Global Precipitation Measurement
(GPM) mission.
The next to be recognized was Michael King with the
citation: "For fundamental research in remote sensing of clouds
and aerosols."
Michael D. King (M'01, SM'03, F'14) received the B.A.
degree in physics from Colorado College in 1971, and the
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in atmospheric sciences from the
University of Arizona, Tucson in 1973 and 1977, respectively.
From 1978 to 2008, he was a research scientist with
the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD,
where he served as Senior Project Scientist of NASA's Earth
Observing System (EOS) from 1992-2008. Since April
2008, he has been a Senior Research Scientist with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of
Colorado Boulder. He is team leader of the MODIS Science
Team. As a team member, he was responsible for developing the cloud optical and microphysical property and
Level-3 algorithms. His research experience includes conseptember 2014

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ceiving, developing, and operating multispectral scanning
radiometers from a number of aircraft platforms in field
experiments ranging from arctic stratus clouds to smoke
from the Kuwait oil fires in the Persian Gulf and biomass
burning in Brazil and southern Africa.
Dr. King is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
(AGU) and American Meteorological Society (AMS), and
a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
He received the IEEE Prize Paper Award in 1993.
The next to be recognized was Konstantinos Papathanassiou with the citation: "For contributions to polarimetric
interferometry for synthetic aperture radar."
Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou (AM'01, M'06, SM'09,
F'14) received the Dipl.-Ing. degree (Honors) in 1994 and
the Dr.-Ing. degree (Honors) in 1999 from the Technical
University of Graz, Austria. From 1992 to 1994 he was with
the Institute for Digital Image Processing (DIBAG) of Joanneum Research, in Graz, Austria. Between 1995 and 1999
he worked at the Microwaves and Radar Institute (HR) of
the German Aerospace Center (DLR), in Oberpfaffenhofen,
Germany. From 1999 to 2000 he was an EU post-doctoral
fellow with Applied Electromagnetics (AEL) in St. Andrews,
Scotland. Since October 2000 he is again with the Microwaves and Radar Institute (HR) of the German Aerospace
Center (DLR). Presently he is a senior scientist leading the
Information Retrieval research group at DLR-HR.
His main research interests are in polarimetric and
interferometric processing and calibration techniques,
polarimetric SAR interferometry, and the quantitative
parameter estimation from SAR data, as well as in SAR
mission design and SAR mission performance analysis.
He is member of DLR's TanDEM-X and Tandem-L science
teams, JAXA's ALOS and ALOS-2 Cal-Val teams, ESA's
BIOMASS Mission Advisory Group, and JAXA's Carbon
and Kyoto Initiative. He was awarded with the IEEE GRSS
IGARSS Symposium Prize Paper Award in 1998, the Best
Paper Award of the European SAR Conference (EUSAR) in
2002 and the DLR science award in 2002. In 2011 he was
awarded with DLR's Senior Scientist Award.
The next Fellow to be recognized was Daniele Riccio
with the citation: "For contributions to satellite-based synthetic aperture radar imaging."
Daniele Riccio (M'91, SM'99, F'14) was born in Napoli,
Italy. He received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering (cum laude) from the Università di Napoli Federico II,
Naples, Italy, in 1989.
He is a Full Professor of electromagnetic theory and
remote sensing with the University of Napoli Federico II,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information
Technology. He is a member of the Cassini Radar Science
Team. He was a Research Scientist with the Italian National Council of Research (CNR) at the Institute for Research on Electromagnetics and Electronic Components
(1989-2004). He also was a Guest Scientist with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Munich, Germany (1994
and 1995), and a Visiting Professor at the Universitat
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