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CONFERENCE REPORTS
ALBERTO MOREIRA, XIUPING JIA, JASMEET JUDGE, AND ANTONIO PLAZA

IGARSS in Yokohama, Japan:
Impressions From the First Days

T

he 39th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2019) was held
28 July-2 August 2019 in Yokohama, Japan, with the
theme "Global Environment Observation and Disaster
Mitigation." The second event of its kind held in Japan
(following IGARSS 1992 in Tokyo), IGARSS 2019 filled
five floors at the Pacifico Yokohama Convention Center,
located directly on Tokyo Bay and easily accessible by
subway (Figures 1 and 2). The setup enabled quick transitions between oral and poster sessions as well as the
exhibition. Yokohama, a commercial hub with one of
the country's major ports, belongs to the Greater Tokyo
Area and is considered the second-largest city in Japan.
The opening and plenary session, held on Monday, 29
July, in the main hall of the conference center, started at
9 a.m. Attendees were informed that Their Majesties the
Emperor and Empress of Japan would participate during
the opening ceremony. Therefore, the plenary room, with
1,000 attendees, was fully occupied, and two additional
rooms provided live streaming for approximately 500
more participants.
OPENING SESSION
WELCOME ADDRESSES
The morning of the first day consisted of the opening
and plenary session, awards ceremony, symposium introduction, and opening ceremony with the attendance
of His Majesty the Emperor and Her Majesty the Empress. Akira Hirose, general chairman of IGARSS 2019,
gave a warm welcome address [Figure 3(a) and (b)]. In
2011, IGARSS had been planned for Sendai, Japan, until
the Tohoku earthquake occurred on 11 March. It was the
most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the country,
a terrific disaster with more than 10,000 fatalities and
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FIGURE 1. The Pacifico Yokohama Convention Center, Tokyo, Japan.

unparalleled damage. It forced the IEEE Geoscience and
Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) to move the symposium
to Vancouver, Canada, on short notice. Eight years later, Hirose and his team were proud to greet more than
2,600 attendees in Yokohama. The participants enjoyed
traditional Japanese hospitality, excellent organization
for the event, and a great working environment.
IEEE President-Elect Toshio Fukuda presented the
organization's statistics [Figure 4(a)]. He noted that the
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