IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Award Recipients

(Updated July 2024)

Please note that if an award is not presented in a particular year, the cell in the table is listed as “none”. A dash (-) is listed for the years in which an award was not yet established.

Year Major Awards Special Awards
Distinguished Achievement
Award (DA)		 Outstanding
Service Award (OSA)		 Education Award (EA) Industry Leader
Award (ILA)		 Chapter Excellence
Award (CEA)		 Regional Leader Award (RLA) David Landgrebe
Award (DLA)		 Gold Early
Career Award (ECA)
2024 Simonetta Paloscia Werner Wiesbeck Franz Meyer Massimo Comparini

Bombay Chapter
Student Chapter Award: IIT Indore Chapter

Avik Bhattacharya Gusatu Camps-Valls Ming-Liang Tao
2023 Howard Zebker Simon Yueh Shutao Li R. Schingler

Beijing Section Chapter, Changsha & Student Chapter Award: University of Southern California, GRSS-APS-SSCS Chapter

 Feng Xu none Haonan Chen
2022 William Emery Shiv Mohan Akiro Hirose Rebecca Moore Brazil Chapter & Wuhan Student Branch Chapter, China Lizhe Wang Mihai Datcu Danfeng Hong
2021 K.-S. Chen P. Gamba A. Camps R. Modrzewski Tunisia Chapter & Universidad de el Savador Student Branch Chapter Riadh Abdelfattah Melba Crawford Gemine Vivone
2020 R. Lanari M. Crawford J. Benediktsson Yu Okada U. Michigan Student Chapter Bing Zhang Liangpei Zhang Rashmi Shah
2019 V. Chandrasekar P. Pampaloni S. Serpico W. Scott Kolkata Chapter Ashish Gosh Giles Foody Si-Wei Chen
2018 Masanobu Shimada Paul A. Rosen Giorgio Franceschetti Miguel Belló-Mora Brazil Chapter & Los Angeles Chapters A. Frery J. Benediktsson Begum Demir
2017 Yoshio Yamaguchi John P. Kerekes Albin J. Gasiewski none Shanghai Chapter & France Chapter none José Bioucas Dias Jun Li
2016 D. M. Le Vine J. F. Chanussot W. M. Moon none Beijing
Chapter		 none none Zhu Xiao Xiang
2015 Ya-Qiu Jin L. Bruzzone M. Hallikainen — Turkey
Chapter		 none none F. Pacifici
2014 A. Moreira Ch. S. Ruf none — none none none Feng Xu
2013 R. Lang none K. Sarabandi — none — — C. López-Martínez
2012 D. Massonet none M. Sato — WNY Chapter — — M. O. Román
2011 T. Jackson M. Shimada R. Bamler — none — — F. Meyer
2010 J. van Zyl T. I. Lukowski Jin-Ya-Qui — French
Chapter		 — — —
2009 J-S. Lee B. Emery V. Chandrasekar — none — — —
2008 L. Tsang W. Moon Y. Yamaguchi — none — — —
2007 G. Franceschetti J. Benediktsson E. Pottier — South Italy Chapter — — —
2006 D. Goodenough A. Gasiewski F. Ulaby — Japan
Chapter		 — — —
2005 K. Sarabandi W. Boerner D. Solimini — — — — —
2004 P. Pampaloni Ch. Luther B. Emery — — — — —
2003 E. Westwater R. Narayanan D. Landgrebe — — — — —
2002 W. Wiesbeck T. Jackson N. Khazenie — — — — —
2001 W. Keydel J. Gatlin — — — — — —
2000 J. Kong L. Tsang — — — — — —
1999 M. Hallikainen J. Smith — — — — — —
1998 A. Ishimaru W. Keydel — — — — — —
1997 B. McIntosh V. Salomonson — — — — — —
1996 D. Staelin A. Blanchard — — — — — —
1995 J. Reagan D. Goodenough — — — — — —
1994 C. Swift M. Hallikainen — — — — — —
1993 K. Raney R. Doviak — — — — — —
1992 D. Landgrebe C. Swift — — — — — —
1991 E. Schanda K. Itten — — — — — —
1990 none K. Raney — — — — — —
1989 A. Fung J. Reagan — — — — — —
1988 G. Guyot D. Landgrebe — — — — — —
1987 Ch. Elachi A. Sieber — — — — — —
1986 V. Salomonson K. Tomiyasu — — — — — —
1985 J. R. Wait B. McIntosh — — — — — —
1984 D. C. Hogg K. Carver — — — — — —
1983 F. Ulaby J. Eckerman — — — — — —
1982 R.K. Moore F. Ulaby — — — — — —
1981 — H.N. Kritikos — — — — — —
Year Publications Awards
Transactions
Prize Paper Award (TPPA)		 Letters Prize
Paper Award (LPPA)(Presented
since 2005)		 J-STARS Prize Paper
Award  (J- STARS)

Highest Impact Paper Award

(HIPA)

 Symposium Prize
Paper Award
(SPPA)		 Symposium Interactive
Prize Paper Award
(ISPPA)		 Mikio Takagi
Student Prize (MTStP)		 Student
Prize Paper Award
(StPPA)
1st Prize (-2006)
2nd
Prize
3rd
Prize
2024

Xian Sun, Peijin Wang, Wanxuan Lu, Zicong Zhu, Xiaonan Lu, Qibin He, Junxi Li, Xuee Rong, Zhujun Yang, Hao Chang, Qinglin He, Guang Yang, Ruiping Wang, Jiwen Lu, Kun Fu

Marco Lavalle, Chiara Telli, Nazzareno Pierdicca, Unmesh Khati, Oliver Cartus, Josef Kellendorfer

Binghai Gao, Yi Hen, Xueye Chen, Xiaoyun Zheng, Lifeng Zhang, Qing Zhang, Jiangang Lu

Shutao Li, Weiwei Song, Leyuan Fang, Yushi Chen, Pedram Ghamisi, Jon Atli Benediktsson

Emanuele Ferrentino, Christian Bignami, Ferdinando Nunziata, Maurizio Migliaccio, Salvatore Stramondo

Shivam Pande, Nassim Ait Ali Braham, Yi Wang, Conrad M. Albrecht, Biplab Banerjee, Xiao Xiang Zhu

Marta Bottani 

Yu Hashimoto, Jihanne El Haouari 

2023

Lee Balick, Randy K. Scoggins,
L.E. Jr. Link

Claudia Paris, Daniele Marinelli, Lorenzo Bruzzone

Haonan Chen, Shun Yao

Ceyuan Yang, Gong Cheng, Junwei Han, Lei Guo, Xiwen Yao

Brent Minchew, Mark Simons, Minyan Zhong

Lei Yang,
Paul Siqueria

Andreas Benedikter

Maxwell Nogueira Peixoto,

Kazem Bakian-Dogaheh
2022

Gengke Wang,
Hang Yi,
Jie Han, Huina Li, Tingting Shi, Xiaoguo Guan,
Yong Xie,
Zui Tao

Andrea Albright, Craig Glennie

Simon H. Yueh, Rashmi Shah, Xiaolan Xu, Bryan W. Stiles

Gui-Song Xia, Jingwen Hu, Fan Hu, Baoguang Shi,
Xiang Bai, Yanfei Zhong, Liangpei Zhang, Xiaoqiang Lu

Emanuele Dal Sasso,
Inès Meraoumia, Loïc Denis, Florence Tupin

Pierre-Yves Declercq,
Atefe Choopani, Alain Dassargues, Xavier Devleeschouwer

Narayana Rao Bhogapurapu

Elisa Sbalchiero,

Jakob DeLong
2021 Hanwen Yu, Ning Cao, Yang Lan, Mengdao Xing Kun Song, Xichuan Liu, Taichang Gao,
Min Yin, Binsheng He

Runyu Fan,
Ruyi Feng,
Lizhe Wang,
Jining Liyanage,
Xiaohan Zhang

Gong Cheng, Peicheng Zhou,
Junwei Han

Sean T. Peters, Nicole L. Bienert,
Dustin M. Schroeder, Matthew R. Siegfried, Alexander Gruber,
Gabrielle De Lannoy

None Selected

Martina Pastorino

Thomas Teisberg,

Isaac Gerg
2020 Bo Du, Lixiang Ru, Chen Wu, Liangpei Zhang Shane Cloude Greg Badura, Charles M. Bachmann Yushi Chen, Hanlu Jiang, Chunyang Li, Xiuping Jia, Pedram Ghamisi Stefano Zorzi, Friedrich Fraundorfer Chia-Hsiang Wang,
Chia-Hsiang Lin,
Jose Bioucas Dias,
Wei-Cheng Zheng,
Kuo-Hsin Tseng and Michal Kawulok, Szymon Piechaczek, Krzysztof Hrynczenko, Pawel Benecki, Daniel Kostrzewa, Jakub Nalepa		 Riley Culberg

Eric Loria,

Zhenjie Liu
2019 Feifeng Liu, Xuezhen Fan, Tian Zhang, Quanhua Liu Qingyun Yan, Weimin Huang Hannah Joerg, Matteo Pardini, Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos P Papathanassiou, Yushi Chen, Zhouhan Lin, Xing Zhao, Gang Wang, Yanfeng Gu Patrick Knobelreiter, Christoph Vogel, Thomas Pock Zhongbo Hu, Jordi J. Mallorqui Xun Liu

Sean Peters,

Tianzhu Liu
2018 John R. Kendra, Andrew L. Ashworth, Thomas E. Merryman, Aref Fouladi, Nathan E. Crow Howard A. Zebker Emanuele Santi, Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Simone Pettinato, Tomoyuki Nomaki, Mieko Seki, Keiji Sekiya, Takashi Maeda Yi Chen, Nasser M. Nasrabadi, Trac D. Tran Adrián Pérez-Suay,
Gustau Camps-Valls, Claudia Paris, Lorenzo Bruzzone,
Diego Fernán- dez-Prieto		 Robert M. Beauchamp, V. Chandrasekar Tianlin Wang

Daniele Marinelli,

Lina Zhuang
2017 Xiao Xiang Zhu,
Sina Montazeri, Christoph Gisinger, Ramon F. Hanssen, Richard Bamler		 Michelangelo Villano, Gerhard Krieger, Alberto Moreira Martin Unwin, Philip Jales, Jason Tye,  Christine Gommenginger, Giuseppe Foti, Josep Rosello Yann H. Kerr, Philippe Waldteufel, Philippe Richaume, Jean Pierre Wigneron, Paolo Ferrazzoli,
Ali Mahmoodi, Ahmad Al Bitar, François Cabot,
Claire Gruhier, Silvia Enache Juglea, Delphine Leroux, Arnaud Mialon, Steven Delwart		 Claudia Paris, Lorenzo Bruzzone Francesco Barisione,
David Solarna, Andrea De Giorgi, Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano Serpico, and Michael Benson, Leland Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi		 Homa Ansari

Yi Liu,

Omkar Pradhan
2016 Charles-Alban Deledalle, Loïc Denis, Florence Tupin, Andreas Reigber, Marc Jäger Kang Liu, Gellert Mattyus Louis-Philip Rousseau, Christoph H. Gierull, Jean-Yves Chouinard Alessandro Ferretti, Alfio Fumagalli, Fabrizio Novali, Claudio Prati, Fabio Rocca, Alessio Rucci Ribana Roscher, Christoph Römer, Björn Waske, Lutz Plümer, Claas Grohnfeldt, Xiao Xiang Zhu Matthew Parkan, Devis Tuia, Maria Vakalopoulou, Konstantinos Karantzalos, Nikos Komodakis, Nikos Paragios Ying Qu

Joakim Strandberg,

Zhou Zhang
2015 G. Krieger M. Villano,
G. Krieger,
A. Moreira		 S. Stramondo,
P. Vannoli,
V. Cannelli,
M. Polcari,
D. Melini,
S. Samsonov,
M. Moro,
C. Bignami,
M. Saroli		 T. J. Jackson, M. H. Cosh, R. Bindlish,
P. J. Starks, D. D. Bosch,
M. Seyfried, D. C. Goodrich,
M. S. Moran,
J. Du		 G. Vivone,
R. Restaino,
G. Licciardi,
M. Dalla Mura,
J. Chanussot		 M.-J. Jo,
H.-S. Jung,
J.-S. Won,
M. P. Poland,
A. Miklius		 F. Condessa

S. Chakrabarti,

G. Cavallaro
2014 S. H. Yueh,
W. Tang,
A. G. Fore,
G. Neumann, A. Hayashi,
A. Freedman, J. Chaubell,
G. S. E. Lagerloef		 R.K. Raney A. Ferrán,
S. Bernabe,
P. G. Rodriguez, A. Plaza		 M. Shimada, O. Isoguchi, T. Tadono,
K. Isono		 D. Liu,
P. T. Boufounos		 R. Sabia,
M. Marconcini, T. Katagis,
D. Fernández Prieto,
M. Portabella		 J. Wu

X. Kang,

W. He
2013 T. Meissner, F. J. Wentz L. Gómez-Chova,
R. Jenssen, G. Camps-Valls		 S. S. Khan,
R. Guida		 M. Fauvel,
J. Benediktsson, J. Chanussot, J. R. Sveinsson		 Y. Cui,
Y. Yamaguchi, H. Kobayashi,
J. Yang		 S. Farrar,
M. Labanda,
M. M. Jacob,
S. Masuelli,
S. Biswas,
H. Raimondo, L. Jones		 P. Ghamisi

O. Ponce,

R. Akbar
2012 A. Villa,
J. Benediktsson, J. Chanussot, Ch. Jutten		 D. Reale,
G. Fornaro, A. Pauciullo, X. Zhu,
R. Bamler		 D. Perissin,
T. Wang		 L. Miao,
H. Qi		 B. P. Salmon,
W. Kleynhans,
F. van den Bergh,
J. C. Olivier,
W. J. Marais,
K. J. Wessels		 A. Bergeron,
L. Marchese,
B. Harnisch,
M. Suess,
M. Doucet,
P. Bourqui,
M. Legros,
N. Desnoyers,
L. Guillot,
L. Mercier,
M. Savad,
A. Martel,
F. Châteauneuf		 U. Srinivas

E. Izquierdo-Verdiguier,

H. Li
2011 A. Abrardo,
M. Barni,
E. Magli,
F. Nencini		 G. Camps-Valls,
J. Mooij,
B. Schölkopf		 M. Durand,
E. Rodríguez,
D. E. Alsdorf,
M. Trigg		 — S. Valero,
P. Salembier,
J. Chanussot		 O. Sjahputera,
G. S. Scott,
M. K. Klaric,
B. C. Claywell,
N. J. Hudson,
J. M. Keller,
C. H. Davis		 X. Duan

M. Dalla Mura,

A. Elsherbini
2010 S. H. Yueh,
S. J. Dinardo,
A. Akgiray,
R. West,
D. W. Cline,
K. Elder		 D. J. Lary,
L. A. Remer,
D. MacNeill,
B. Roscoe,
S. Paradise		 — — X. X. Zhu,
N. Adam,
R. Bamler		 M. Tanase,
M. Santoro,
J. de la Riva,
F. Perez-Cabello		 B. Williams

W. Di,

A. Mims
2009 L. Li,
P. W. Gaiser,
M. R. Albert,
D. G. Long,
E. M. Twarog		 A. Gambardella,
M. Migliaccio		 — — F. J. Meyer,
J. Nicoll		 Ch. Melsheimer,
G. Heygster,
L. Toudal Pedersen		 S. Misra

X. Xu,

D. Tuia
2008 G. Krieger,
A. Moreira,
H. Fiedler,
I. Hajnsek,
M. Werner,
M. Younis,
M. Zink		 S. R. Cloude — — M. Dehmollaian,
K. Sarabandi		 R. Croci,
F. Fois,
D. Calabrese,
E. Zampolini,
R. Seu,
G. Picardi,
E. Flamini		 S. Prasad

J. Kim,

M. Tello
2007 I. Walterscheid,
J. H. G. Ender,
A. R. Brenner,
O. Loffeld		 S. Guillaso,
A. Reigber,
L. Ferro-Famil,
E. Pottier		 — — C. S. Ruf,
S. Misra,
S. Gross,
R. D. De Roo		 B. A. Williams,
D. Long		 B. A. Williams

S. Sauer,

K. Jumani
2006 P. Heas,
M. Datcu		 B. Penna,
T. Tillo,
E. Magli,
G. Olmo		 — — K. Czuchlewski,
J. K. Weissel		 M. Etaya,
R. Nakano,
H. Shimoda,
T. Sakata		 —

F. Bovolo,

A. Meta,

E. C. Zaugg
2005 D. W. Draper,
D. G. Long		 L. Alparone,
S. Baronti,
A. Garzelli,
F. Nencini		 — — R. Bamler,
M. Eineder		 J. W. Kim,
D.-C. Lee,
J-H. Yom,
J.-K. Pack		 —

P. Prats,

C. Surussavadee,

C. Fang
2004 P. Lombardo,
C. J. Oliver,
T. M. Pellizzeri,
M. Meloni
Y. J. Kaufman,
D. Tanre,
J.-F. Leon,
J. Pelon		 — — — J. P. Dugan E. Colin,
C. Titin-Schnaider,
W. Tabbara		 —

H.-C. Chang,

E. Key,

T. Mette
2003 S. H. Yueh,
W. Wilson,
S. DiNardo		 — — — N. Ebuchi,
S. Kizu		 B. T. Tolton —

M. F. Iapaolo,

S. Padmanabhan,

B. K. Hornbuckle
2002 M. Dowd,
P. W. Vachon,
F. Dobson,
R. Olsen		 — — — W. R. Scott Jr.,
G. D. Larson,
J. S. Martin,
Ch. T.Schroeder		 N. A. Goodman,
J. M. Stiles		 —

F. W. Chen,

C. G. Brown,

L. Ying
2001 A. Reigber,
A. Moreira		 — — — S. H. Yueh,
B. W. Stiles,
W.-Y. Tsai		 M. Shimada —

J. Hanafin,

D. C. Heinz,

M. Herold
2000 R. Touzi,
A. Lopes,
J. Bruniquel,
P. W. Vachon		 — — — L. Cazzani,
C. Colesanti,
D. Leva,
G. Nesti,
C. Prati,
F. Rocca,
D. Tarchi		 H. Lee,
J. G. Liu		 —

E. Hernandez-Baquero,

F. Qiu,

J. Lahtinen,

H. Ren
1999 R. K. Raney — — — F. J. Solman, III,
J. P. Kerekes,
M. Shields,
D. H. Staelin		 A. P. Camarillo-Sandoval,
B. Escalante-
Ramirez,
A. Varela-Lopez		 —

D. Didascalou,

M. Schroder,

C. Wilsen
1998 C. S. Ruf,
S. Beus		 — — — K. P. Papathanassiou,
S. R. Cloude		 A. Schistad Solberg,
E. Volden		 —

L. Bruzzone,

E. J. Kim,

J. R. Piepmeier
1997 A. Moreira,
J. Mittermayer,
R. Scheiber,		 — — — O. Johannessen
M. Miles,
E. Bjorgo		 C. M. Bachmann,
E. Clothiaux,
D. Q. Luong,
M. Kemppainen,
T. Auer,
I. Mononen,
M. Hallikainen		 — —
1996 S. H. Yueh,
W. J. Wilson,
F. K. Li,
S. V. Nghiem,
W. B. Ricketts		 — — — J. van Zyl,
H. A. Zebker,
S. Hensley,
D. Haub,
W. Wiesbeck		 Not presented — —
1995 J. Way,
E. J. Rignot,
K. C. McDonald,
R. Oren,
R. Kwok,
G. Bonan,
M. C. Dobson,
L. A. Viereck,
J. E. Roth		 — — — T. J. Jackson,
J. Aleksa,
C. T. Swift,
P. E. O’Neill,
K. G. Kostov		 A. J. Blanchard,
M. C. Byrd,
B. D. Jersak,
B. Krenek		 — —
1994 J. T. Johnson,
J. A. Kong,
R. T. Shin,
D. H. Staelin,
K. O’Neill,
A. W. Lohanick		 — — — A. Gustavsson,
P. O. Frölind,
H. Hellsten,
T. Jonsson,
B. Larsson,
G. Stenström		 K. C. McDonald,
R. Zimmermann,
R. Oren,
J. Way		 — —
1993 M. D. King,
Y. J. Kaufman,
W. P. Wenzel,
D. Tanre		 — — — N. Khazenie,
T. F. Lee		 — — —
1992 V. C. Vanderbilt,
S. L. Ustin,
K. M. Berger,
W. F. Caldwell,
J. A. Clark,
B. D. Ganapol,
E. S. Kasischke,
S. N. Martens,
R. E. Pettigrew,
R.A. Rousseau		 — — — B. C. Gao,
A. F. H. Goetz,
J. A. Zamudio		 — — —
1991 J. B. Lee,
A. S. Woodyatt,
M. Berman		 — — — M. R. Drinkwater,
R. Kwok,
E. Rignot		 — — —
1990 J. Dozier,
Z. Wan		 — — — A. M. Guarnieri,
C. Prati,
F. Rocca		 — — —
1989 D. Evans,
T. Farr,
J. van Zyl,
H. Zebker		 — — — T. Le Toan,
H. Laur		 — — —
1988 R. J. Woodham,
M. H. Gray		 — — — H. Derin,
P. A. Kelly,
K. D. Hartt		 — — —
1987 W. E. Leberl,
G. Domik,
J. Raggam,
M. Kobrick		 — — — P. Hoogeboom,
J. C. M. Kleijweg,
D. Van Halsema		 — — —
1986 M. Simaan,
A. Stogryn		 — — — P. Degauque,
J.-P. Thery		 — — —
1985 A. J. Devaney — — — J. Cihlar,
T. K. Hirose		 — — —
1984 J. J. Kormylo,
J. M. Mendel		 — — — R. Haydn,
J. Bodechtel,
D. Meissner,
H. Laucht		 — — —
1983 J. Goldhirsh,
J. Rowland		 — — — C. Elachi — — —
1982 K. Balick,
R. K. Scoggins,
L. E. Link, Jr.		 — — — M. T. Halbouty — — —

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