IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Award Recipients
(Updated November 2023)
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) | |
| 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 |
|
| 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 | — | — | — |
