IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Award Recipients

(Updated August 2026)

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) Golden Florin Award (GFA) Chapter Excellence Award (CEA) Student Chapter Excellence Award (SCEA) Regional Leader Award (RLA) David Landgrebe Award (DLA) Gold Early Career Award (ECA)
2026 Jón Atli Benediktsson Xiuping Jia Jade Mortan None Joel Johnson

Sri Lanka Chapter

IEEE University of Electronic Science and Technology of China GRSS Student Branch Chapter Alp Ertürk Qian (Jenny) Du Yan Huang
2025 Motoyuki Sato Anthony Milne John Richards Trond Løke

Kolkata Chapter

Fudan University Student Chapter none Shutao Li Xiang Li
2024 Simonetta Paloscia Werner Wiesbeck Franz Meyer Massimo Comparini

Bombay Chapter

Indian Institute of Technology-Indore Student Chapter Avik Bhattacharya Gusatu Camps-Valls Ming-Liang Tao
2023 Howard Zebker Simon Yueh Shutao Li R. Schingler

Changsha Chapter

University of Southern California Joint Student Chapter Feng Xu none Haonan Chen
2022 William Emery Shiv Mohan Akiro Hirose Rebecca Moore Brazil Chapter Wuhan University Student Chapter Lizhe Wang Mihai Datcu Danfeng Hong
2021 K.-S. Chen P. Gamba A. Camps R. Modrzewski Tunisia Chapter & Universidad de el Savador Student Chapter —Riadh Abdelfattah Melba Crawford Gemine Vivone
2020 R. Lanari M. Crawford J. Benediktsson Yu Okada University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 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 & Metropolitan Los Angeles Chapter —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 — Western New York Chapter —— — M. O. Román
2011 T. Jackson M. Shimada R. Bamler — none —— — F. Meyer
2010 J. van Zyl T. I. Lukowski Jin-Ya-Qui — France 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
2026

Run Shao, Cheng Yang, Qiujun Li, Linrui Xu, Xiang Yang, Xian Li, Mengyao Li, Qing Zhu, Yongjun Zhang, Yansheng Li, Yu Liu, Yong Tang, Dapeng Liu, Shizhong Yang, and Haifeng Li

Carla Geara, Colette Gelas, Louis de Vitry, Elise Colin, Florence Tupin

Yan Yan, Qingjun Zhang, Vito Pascazio, Zhibin Wang, and Taoli Yang

Hao Chen, Zipeng Qi, Zhenwei Shi

Wei Cao, Yicheng Song, Akira Hirose, Ryo Natsuaki

Francesco Mauro, Francesca Dr Falco, Andrea Ceschini, Gabriele Meoni, Alessandro Sebastianelli, Massimo Panella, Paola Gamba, Silvia Liberata Ullo

Sachin Giri

Weihang Li, Kevin De Sousa

2025

Jianlai Chen, Rongqi Xiong, Hanwen Yu, Gang Xu, Mengdao Xing

Ramin Sabry

Qingwang Wang, Liyao Zhou, Pengcheng Jin, Xin Qu, Hangwei Zhong, Haochen Song, Tao Shen

Danfeng Hong, Lianru Gao, Jing Yao, Bing Zhang, Antonio Plaza, Jocelyn Chanussot

Francesco Salvaterra, Francesco Banda, Stefano Tebaldini, Mauro Mariotti D’Alessandro

Avery Nagle, Claire Boryan, Andrew Dau, Arthur Rosales, Luca Sartore, Patrick Willis

Abhinav Verma

Daniel May,
Shengjie Liu

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 — — —