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Senate. He teaches telecommunications, pattern recognition, and remote sensing there and has also taught at the
University of Cagliari, Italy, and University of Trento, Italy. His research interest is pattern recognition for remote
sensing image analysis. Serpico is head of his university's
Image Processing and Pattern Recognition for Remote
Sensing Laboratory and has supervised more than 70
M.S. degree students and many Ph.D. degree candidates
in information and communications technology. Some
of his students became well-known experts.
Serpico contributed to the foundation and management of two engineering programs, one in telecommunications engineering and on in engineering for natural
risk management. From May 2003 to April 2019, he was
chair of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Information
and Communication Technologies, Genova, Italy. He was
project manager on numerous research initiatives and an
evaluator of project proposals for European Union, Italian Space Agency, and Italian Ministry of Education and
Research programs. He has authored or coauthored more
than 200 articles published in journals and conference
proceedings, and he received the Best Paper Award at the
2010 IEEE Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal
Processing and the Interactive Symposium Paper Award
at IGARSS 2016. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and guest-edited
two special issues of that publication as well as one special issue of Proceedings of the IEEE. From 1998 to 2002,
he chaired Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers and EUROPTO conferences on signal and image
processing for remote sensing. He was cochair of IGARSS
2015 in Milan, Italy.
GRSS OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD
The GRSS Outstanding Service Award was established to
recognize an individual who has given service for the ben-

FIGURE 8. Simone Pettinato (right) receives the 2019 GRSS Out-

standing Service Award on behalf of Prof. Paolo Pampaloni from
GRSS President Gamba.
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efit and advancement of the Society. The award is considered annually but is not presented unless a suitable candidate is identified. The following factors are suggested
for consideration: leadership innovation, activity, service
duration, breadth of participation, and cooperation. GRSS
membership is required. The awardee receives a certificate
and plaque.
The 2019 Outstanding Service Award (Figure 8) was
presented to Paolo Pampaloni, head of research at the
Institute of Applied Physics, Italian National Research
Council, Florence, with the citation "in recognition of his
outstanding services for the benefit and advancement of
the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society." (Pampaloni could not be present; Simone Pettinato accepted
the award on his behalf.) His research focuses on active
and passive microwave remote sensing. From 1968 to
1979, he was involved in radio astronomy with the Arcetri
Astrophysical Observatory, Florence. Since 1980, he has
been with the Italian National Research Council, Rome.
From 1983 to 1996, he was an ESA consultant for microwave radiometry as a member of various working and advisory groups. He served as an X-band-SAR (X-SAR) project scientist, deputy team leader of the X-SAR/Spaceborne
Imaging Radar-C project, and principal investigator or
coprincipal investigator of several international projects.
Pampaloni held positions as adjunct professor, tutor, external referee, and examiner of Ph.D. students at several
institutions. He was the Italian official member of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Commission
F: Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing (2005-2013)
and president of the Microwave Remote Sensing Center
[CeTeM (1993-2011)]. He was general chair of the Joint
CeTeM-IEEE GRSS Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry (MicroRad) in 1988 and 1999, and he is a permanent member of the MicroRad Steering Committee.
Pampaloni served as general chair of IGARSS 1995
and chair of the IEEE Central and South Italy Section
(2002-2005) and the unified IEEE Italy Section (2005-
2006). He was a member of the GRSS Major Award committee (2010-2017), a member of the GRSS Publication
Awards committee (2008), guest editor of the IGARSS 1995
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing special
issue, and guest coeditor of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing special microrad issue (2009).
Since 1997, he has been associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. He founded the
Golden Florin Award in 1995 (which since 2014 has been
included among the GRSS major awards), and he chairs
the Joint CeTeM-GRSS Golden Florin Award Committee. He authored or coauthored more than 180 papers in
international journals and conference proceedings and
seven monographs, and he edited three books with VSP
Press. He presented invited papers at the Global Atmospheric System Studies Conference and the Progress in
Electromagnetic Research Symposium as well as URSI
and IGARSS meetings. He is Life Fellow of the IEEE.
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