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of Technology. In September 1991,
he joined the Radar Science and
Engineering Section at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL). He was
the supervisor of the Radar System
Engineering and Algorithm
Development Group during 2002-
2007, the deputy manager of the
Climate, Oceans and Solid Earth
Section from July 2007 to March
2009, and the section manager
from April 2009 to 2013 January.
He served as the project scientist of
the NASA Aquarius mission from
January 2012 to September 2013,
the deputy project scientist of the
NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive
mission from 2013 January to September
2013, and the Soil Moisture
Active Passive Project scientist since October 2013. He has
been the principal/coinvestigator of numerous NASA and
U.S. Department of Defense research projects on remote
sensing of ocean salinity, ocean wind, terrestrial snow,
and soil moisture. He has authored four book chapters
and published more than 300 publications and presentations.
He received the 2021 J-STARS Prize Paper Award,
the 2014, 2010, and 2002 GRSS Transactions Prize Paper
awards, the 2000 Best Paper Award at IGARSS 2000, and
the 1995 GRSS Transactions Prize Paper award for a paper
on polarimetric radiometry. He received the JPL Lew Allen
Award for Excellence in 1998, the Ed Stone Award in 2003,
the NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal in
2014, and the NASA Outstanding Public Leadership Medal
in 2017. He was an associate editor
of Radio Science from 2002 to
2006 and editor-in-chief of TGRS
from 2018 to 2022.
IEEE GRSS EDUCATION AWARD
The Education Award was established
to recognize an individual
who has made significant educational
contributions to the field of
GRSS. In selecting the individual,
the factors considered are significance
of the educational contribution
in terms of innovation and
the extent of its overall impact.
The contribution can be at any
level, including K-12, undergraduate,
and graduate teaching, professional
development, and public
outreach. It can also be in any form
(e.g., textbooks, curriculum development,
and educational program
initiatives). GRSS membership or
FIGURE 11. 2023 IEEE GRSS Outstanding Service Award recipient Dr. Simon Yueh.
affiliation is required. The awardee receives a certificate
and a plaque.
The 2023 GRSS Education Award was presented to
Prof. Shutao Li with the citation (see Figure 12) " In recognition
of his significant educational contributions to geoscience
and remote sensing. "
Shutao Li received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees
FIGURE 12. 2023 IEEE GRSS Education Award
recipient Prof. Shutao Li.
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from Hunan University, Changsha, China, in 1995,
1997, and 2001, respectively. Prof. Shutao Li has been a
full professor with the College of Electrical and Information
Engineering, Hunan University, since 2004 and is
currently the vice rector of Hunan University. Prof. Li's
current research interests include remote sensing image
processing, pattern recognition, AI, and applications
in environmental observation, resource
investigation, and precise
agriculture. He has authored or coauthored
more than 300 refereed
journal and international conference
papers. He has received more
than 28,000 citations in Google
Scholar (h-index: 79) and was
selected as a Clarivate Analytics'
Global Highly Cited Researcher in
2018-2022. For his scientific research
contributions, he received
two Second-Grade State Scientific
and Technological Progress Awards
of China (in 2004 and 2006), a Second
Prize of the National Natural
Science Award by the State Council
of China (in 2019), and two First
Prize Hunan Provincial Natural
Science Awards (in 2017 and 2022).
Prof. Li is the founder and head of
the Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory
of Visual Perception and
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