All GRS-S members are requested and encouraged to become active in nominating candidates for GRS-S Awards.

2007 IEEE GRS-S Transactions Prize Paper Award
awarded to Ingo Walterscheid, Joachim H. G. Ender, Andreas R. Brenner, and Otmar Loffeld with the citation: For a very significant contribution to the field of endeavor of the IEEE GRS Society in the paper entitled “Bistatic SAR Processing and Experiments,” published in the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 44, Issue 10, Part 1, Oct. 2006, pp. 2710 - 2717

2007 IEEE GRS-S Letters Prize Paper Award
awarded to Stéphane Guillaso, Andreas Reigber, Laurent Ferro-Famil,and Eric Pottier with the citation: For a very significant contribution to the field of endeavor of the IEEE GRS Society in the paper entitled “Range Resolution Improvement of Airborne SAR Images,” published in the IEEE Letters on Geo-science and Remote Sensing, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Jan. 2006, pp. 135 - 139

2007 IEEE GRS-S Symposium Prize Paper Award
awarded to Chris Ruf, Sidharth Misra, Steven M. S. Gross, and Roger De Roo with the citation: For a very significant contribution to the field of endeavor of the IEEE GRS Society in the paper entitled “Detection of RFI by its Amplitude Probability Distribution” presented at the 2006 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 2006 in Denver/USA, IGARSS’06 Proceedings.

2007 IEEE GRS-S Interactive Session Prize Paper Award
awarded to Brent Allen Williams and David Long with the citation: For an exceptional paper posted in the Interactive Session of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS’06 entitled “An Improved High Resolution Wind Ambiguity Removal Procedure for SeaWinds,” presented at the 2006 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July/Aug. 2006 inDenver/USA, IGARSS«06 Proceedings.

2007 IEEE GRS-S Chapter Excellence Award
awarded to the IEEE GRS South Italy Chapter with the citation: “For excellence as a GRS-S Chapter demonstrated by exemplary activities during 2006”.

GRS-S Student Prize Paper Awards
The First 2007 GRS-S Student Prize Paper Award was awarded to Stefan Sauer with the Citation: For the paper “Multibaseline POL-InSAR Analysis of Urban Scenes for 3D Modeling and Physical Feature Retrieval at L-Band.” His advisor is Prof. Eric Pottier from the University of Rennes, France.

The Second 2007 GRS-S Student Prize Paper Award was awarded to Karan Jumani with the Citation:
For the paper “An Investigation of PN Sequences for Multi-static SAR/InSAR Applications.” His advisor is Kamal Sarabandi from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

2007 IEEE Mikio Takagi Student Prize
awarded to Brent A. Williams with the Citation: For the paper “Hurricane Wind Field Estimation from SeaWinds at Ultra High Resolution” His advisor is Prof. David G. Long from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.

Certificate of Recognition
A Certificate of Recognition is presented to Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa with the citation: “For his dedication and contribution to standardization in support of Earth Observations.”

GRS-S Distinguished Achievement Award (DAA)
IEEE memberships is not required, but is recommended
The Distinguished Achievement Award was established to recognize an individual who was made significant technical contributions, usually over a sustained period, within the scope of the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. In selecting the individual, the factors considered are quality, significance and impact of the contributions; quantity of the contributions; duration of significant activity; papers published in archival journals; papers presented at conferences and symposia; patents granted; advancement of the profession. The award is considered annually and presented only if a suitable candidate is identified. The awardee receives a plaque and a certificate.

GRS-S Education Award (EA)
Member or Affiliate Member of the IEEE
The purpose of this award is to reward significant educational contributions in the field of remote sensing. The award shall be considered annually but will only be awarded when an outstanding recipient is identified. The awardee receives a certificate.

GRS-S Outstanding Service Award (OSA)
Must be an IEEE GRS-S member.
The Outstanding Service Award was established to recognize an individual who has given outstanding service for the benefit and advancement of the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. The award shall be considered annually but not be presented if a suitable candidate is not identified. The following factors are suggested for consideration: leadership, innovation, activity, duration, breadth of participation and cooperation. The awardee receives a certificate.