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6 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
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123 WOMEN IN GRSS
129 TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
133 CHAPTERS
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Dr. James L. Garrison
Editor-in-Chief
School of Aeronautics and
Astronautics
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
USA
E-mail: jlg@ieee.org
Dr. Farid Melgani
University of Trento, Italy
E-mail: farid.melgani@unitn.it
Dr. Linda Hayden
Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing
Education and Research
Elizabeth City State University, USA
E-mail: haydenl@mindspring.com
Dr. Irena Hajnsek
ETH Zürich and DLR
Switzerland
E-mail: Irena.Hajnsek@dlr.de
Dr. Michael Inggs
University of Cape Town
South Africa
E-mail: mikings@gmail.com
Dr. John Kerekes
Cochair, Conference Advisory Committee
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
E-mail: kerekes@cis.rit.edu
Dr. David M. Le Vine
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
E-mail: David.M.LeVine@nasa.gov
Dr. Gail Skofronick Jackson
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
E-mail: Gail.S.Jackson@nasa.gov
Dr. Marwan Younis
DLR, Germany
E-mail: marwan.younis@dlr.de

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Dr. Paolo Gamba
University of Pavia, Italy
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The Aerospace Corporation, USA
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University of Colorado, USA
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), USA
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University of Trento, Italy
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Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
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German Aerospace Center, Germany
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USDA-ARS Hydrology and
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