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the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Silver Spring, Maryland. He has won numerous
awards, including the NASA Technical Contribution Award,
NASA Group Achievement Award for the Algorithm Team and
Post Launch Team for Global Precipitation Management, Outstanding Advisor Award, CSU Innovations Award, and NOAA/
National Weather Service Directors Medal of Excellence. He
served as general chair of IGARSS 2006, and he is the international chair of URSI and URSI Commission F: Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing. He has also been chief editor of
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.
The major award winners are pictured together in
Figure 11.

FIGURE 10. Prof. V Chandrasekar (right) receives the 2019 GRSS
Distinguished Achievement Award from GRSS President Gamba.

meteorological radar systems available for research. Chandrasekar has been a visiting professor at the National Research Council of Italy, Rome; an affiliate scientist at the
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California;
a NASA Goddard Distinguished Visiting Scientist; and a
Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and IIT Kharagpur. He served as research director for
the Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere at the National Science Foundation Engineering
Research Centers, Alexandria, Virginia. He has coauthored
two textbooks, five general books, and more than 245
journal articles. He has served as an academic advisor for
more than 40 Ph.D. degree students.
In addition to the IEEE, Chandrasekar is a fellow of
URSI; the American Meteorological Society, Boston; and

SYMPOSIUM INTRODUCTION
AND TECHNICAL PROGRAM
Prof. Hiroyoshi Yamada, Prof. Irena Hajnsek, and Prof.
Akira Iwasaki, technical program cochairs, introduced
IGARSS (Figure 12) and provided statistics regarding paper
submissions and participant registration (Table 1). China
had the highest number of paper submissions, followed
by the United States, Japan, Germany, India, France, Italy,
Canada, and Brazil.
The technical program was organized in 13 parallel sessions; nine technology, industry, and education forums; and
20 parallel poster sessions. In addition, 4-min short presentations of interactive content for selected posters were held
in a separate room, followed by interactive discussions in
the poster area. In accordance with the symposium's theme,
four special subthemes were selected for presentation during
the oral sessions and the plenary session, including monitoring natural disasters and hazards, new space initiatives
in remote sensing, big data and machine learning, and identification of remote sensing indicators for climate change.

FIGURE 11. The GRSS major award recipients pose with GRSS Major Awards Chair Alberto Moreira (left) and GRSS President Gamba (right):

(from left) Prof. Chandrasekar, Dr. Scott, Dr. Pettinato (for Prof. Pampaloni), and Prof. Serpico.
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