IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Award Recipients

(Updated August 2025)

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.

YearMajor AwardsSpecial 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)
2025Motoyuki SatoAnthony MilneJohn RichardsTrond Løke

Kolkata Section Chapter
Student Chapter Award: Fudan University Student Branch

noneShutao LiXiang Li
2024Simonetta PalosciaWerner WiesbeckFranz MeyerMassimo Comparini

Bombay Chapter
Student Chapter Award: IIT Indore Chapter

Avik BhattacharyaGusatu Camps-VallsMing-Liang Tao
2023Howard ZebkerSimon YuehShutao LiR. Schingler

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

Feng XunoneHaonan Chen
2022William EmeryShiv MohanAkiro HiroseRebecca MooreBrazil Chapter & Wuhan Student Branch Chapter, ChinaLizhe WangMihai DatcuDanfeng Hong
2021K.-S. ChenP. GambaA. CampsR. ModrzewskiTunisia Chapter & Universidad de el Savador Student Branch ChapterRiadh AbdelfattahMelba CrawfordGemine Vivone
2020R. LanariM. CrawfordJ. BenediktssonYu OkadaU. Michigan Student ChapterBing ZhangLiangpei ZhangRashmi Shah
2019V. ChandrasekarP. PampaloniS. SerpicoW. ScottKolkata ChapterAshish GoshGiles FoodySi-Wei Chen
2018Masanobu ShimadaPaul A. RosenGiorgio FranceschettiMiguel Belló-MoraBrazil Chapter & Los Angeles ChaptersA. FreryJ. BenediktssonBegum Demir
2017Yoshio YamaguchiJohn P. KerekesAlbin J. GasiewskinoneShanghai Chapter & France ChapternoneJosé Bioucas DiasJun Li
2016D. M. Le VineJ. F. ChanussotW. M. MoonnoneBeijing
Chapter
nonenoneZhu Xiao Xiang
2015Ya-Qiu JinL. BruzzoneM. HallikainenTurkey
Chapter
nonenoneF. Pacifici
2014A. MoreiraCh. S. RufnonenonenonenoneFeng Xu
2013R. LangnoneK. SarabandinoneC. López-Martínez
2012D. MassonetnoneM. SatoWNY ChapterM. O. Román
2011T. JacksonM. ShimadaR. BamlernoneF. Meyer
2010J. van ZylT. I. LukowskiJin-Ya-QuiFrench
Chapter
2009J-S. LeeB. EmeryV. Chandrasekarnone
2008L. TsangW. MoonY. Yamaguchinone
2007G. FranceschettiJ. BenediktssonE. PottierSouth Italy Chapter
2006D. GoodenoughA. GasiewskiF. UlabyJapan
Chapter
2005K. SarabandiW. BoernerD. Solimini
2004P. PampaloniCh. LutherB. Emery
2003E. WestwaterR. NarayananD. Landgrebe
2002W. WiesbeckT. JacksonN. Khazenie
2001W. KeydelJ. Gatlin
2000J. KongL. Tsang
1999M. HallikainenJ. Smith
1998A. IshimaruW. Keydel
1997B. McIntoshV. Salomonson
1996D. StaelinA. Blanchard
1995J. ReaganD. Goodenough
1994C. SwiftM. Hallikainen
1993K. RaneyR. Doviak
1992D. LandgrebeC. Swift
1991E. SchandaK. Itten
1990noneK. Raney
1989A. FungJ. Reagan
1988G. GuyotD. Landgrebe
1987Ch. ElachiA. Sieber
1986V. SalomonsonK. Tomiyasu
1985J. R. WaitB. McIntosh
1984D. C. HoggK. Carver
1983F. UlabyJ. Eckerman
1982R.K. MooreF. Ulaby
1981H.N. Kritikos
YearPublications 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
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

2021Hanwen Yu, Ning Cao, Yang Lan, Mengdao XingKun 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

2020Bo Du, Lixiang Ru, Chen Wu, Liangpei ZhangShane CloudeGreg Badura, Charles M. BachmannYushi Chen, Hanlu Jiang, Chunyang Li, Xiuping Jia, Pedram GhamisiStefano Zorzi, Friedrich FraundorferChia-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

2019Feifeng Liu, Xuezhen Fan, Tian Zhang, Quanhua LiuQingyun Yan, Weimin HuangHannah Joerg, Matteo Pardini, Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos P Papathanassiou,Yushi Chen, Zhouhan Lin, Xing Zhao, Gang Wang, Yanfeng GuPatrick Knobelreiter, Christoph Vogel, Thomas PockZhongbo Hu, Jordi J. MallorquiXun Liu

Sean Peters,

Tianzhu Liu

2018John R. Kendra, Andrew L. Ashworth, Thomas E. Merryman, Aref Fouladi, Nathan E. CrowHoward A. ZebkerEmanuele Santi, Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Simone Pettinato, Tomoyuki Nomaki, Mieko Seki, Keiji Sekiya, Takashi MaedaYi Chen, Nasser M. Nasrabadi, Trac D. TranAdrián Pérez-Suay,
Gustau Camps-Valls, Claudia Paris, Lorenzo Bruzzone,
Diego Fernán- dez-Prieto
Robert M. Beauchamp, V. ChandrasekarTianlin Wang

Daniele Marinelli,

Lina Zhuang

2017Xiao Xiang Zhu,
Sina Montazeri, Christoph Gisinger, Ramon F. Hanssen, Richard Bamler
Michelangelo Villano, Gerhard Krieger, Alberto MoreiraMartin Unwin, Philip Jales, Jason Tye,  Christine Gommenginger, Giuseppe Foti, Josep RoselloYann 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 BruzzoneFrancesco Barisione,
David Solarna, Andrea De Giorgi, Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano Serpico, and Michael Benson, Leland Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi
Homa Ansari

Yi Liu,

Omkar Pradhan

2016Charles-Alban Deledalle, Loïc Denis, Florence Tupin, Andreas Reigber, Marc JägerKang Liu, Gellert MattyusLouis-Philip Rousseau, Christoph H. Gierull, Jean-Yves ChouinardAlessandro Ferretti, Alfio Fumagalli, Fabrizio Novali, Claudio Prati, Fabio Rocca, Alessio RucciRibana Roscher, Christoph Römer, Björn Waske, Lutz Plümer, Claas Grohnfeldt, Xiao Xiang ZhuMatthew Parkan, Devis Tuia, Maria Vakalopoulou, Konstantinos Karantzalos, Nikos Komodakis, Nikos ParagiosYing Qu

Joakim Strandberg,

Zhou Zhang

2015G. KriegerM. 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

2014S. H. Yueh,
W. Tang,
A. G. Fore,
G. Neumann, A. Hayashi,
A. Freedman, J. Chaubell,
G. S. E. Lagerloef
R.K. RaneyA. 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

2013T. Meissner, F. J. WentzL. 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

2012A. 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

2011A. 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

2010S. 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

2009L. 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

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

J. Kim,

M. Tello

2007I. 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

2006P. 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

2005D. 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

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

H.-C. Chang,

E. Key,

T. Mette

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

M. F. Iapaolo,

S. Padmanabhan,

B. K. Hornbuckle

2002M. 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

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

J. Hanafin,

D. C. Heinz,

M. Herold

2000R. 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

1999R. K. RaneyF. 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

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

L. Bruzzone,

E. J. Kim,

J. R. Piepmeier

1997A. 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
1996S. 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
1995J. 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
1994J. 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
1993M. D. King,
Y. J. Kaufman,
W. P. Wenzel,
D. Tanre
N. Khazenie,
T. F. Lee
1992V. 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
1991J. B. Lee,
A. S. Woodyatt,
M. Berman
M. R. Drinkwater,
R. Kwok,
E. Rignot
1990J. Dozier,
Z. Wan
A. M. Guarnieri,
C. Prati,
F. Rocca
1989D. Evans,
T. Farr,
J. van Zyl,
H. Zebker
T. Le Toan,
H. Laur
1988R. J. Woodham,
M. H. Gray
H. Derin,
P. A. Kelly,
K. D. Hartt
1987W. E. Leberl,
G. Domik,
J. Raggam,
M. Kobrick
P. Hoogeboom,
J. C. M. Kleijweg,
D. Van Halsema
1986M. Simaan,
A. Stogryn
P. Degauque,
J.-P. Thery
1985A. J. DevaneyJ. Cihlar,
T. K. Hirose
1984J. J. Kormylo,
J. M. Mendel
R. Haydn,
J. Bodechtel,
D. Meissner,
H. Laucht
1983J. Goldhirsh,
J. Rowland
C. Elachi
1982K. Balick,
R. K. Scoggins,
L. E. Link, Jr.
M. T. Halbouty