View GRSS Chapters in a map.
An overview of GRSS and ideas for running a chapter are here.
Chapter Chair Presentations from IGARSS2018 are here.
For help in managing a local chapter we have gathered together some Resources.
GRSS Ambassadors contact list is here.
Announcements
The GRSS Chapter Committee has been chaired by Farid Melgani (melgani@disi.unitn.it) since January 2017 under the portfolio of the VP for Professional Activities, David Kunkee (David.Kunkee@aero.org).
All Chapters are required to provide to the Chapter Committee Chair a report about the activities in the previous year **by January 15**. Chapter Chairs are reminded that their reports will be considered to select outstanding activities to be funded by the Society, and the Chapters to be considered for the Chapter Excellence Award. GRSS established a Chapter Excellence Award to recognize excellence in a GRSS or Joint Local Chapter demonstrated by exemplary local GRSS activities during the previous year. The award shall be considered annually and presented only when a deserving Chapter is identified.
How to set up a Chapter
The procedure to establish a new Chapter requires four steps.
First of all, one needs to find at least 12 GRSS members “in good standing” willing to be founders of this Chapter. These people must be IEEE and GRSS Members/Senior members/Fellows (but not student members or affiliate members) who paid their fees for the current year.
Then, it is required to prepare a petition collecting the IEEE membership numbers and the signatures of these people. In addition, it is required to write a business plan for the first year of the Chapter.
The third step is asking for the approval of the parent Section, i.e., the Section(s) of the geographical area(s) to which the Chapter pertains. Please note that some of them have other requirements in addition to those listed above (e.g., the members must come from more than one university, must have been IEEE members for at least one year, and paid their fees for the current year. The 12 founding members must be members of IEEE for at least 6 months.)
Finally, these documents and the Section approval must be provided via e-mail to the IEEE MGA staff for final approval, pending the agreement of GRSS officials.
If the chapter to be established is in Mainland China, special conditions apply. The revised petition form (valid ONLY for Mainland China) is available here.
The procedure to establish a chapter is described in detail in the IEEE web site, at http://www.ieee.org/societies_communities/geo_activities/chapters/creating_a_chapter.html, where you will also be able to find a template for the petition.
GRSS Chapters and Contact Information |
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| Chapter Location | Joint with (Societies) | Chapter Chair | E-mail Address |
| Region 1: Northeastern USA | |||
| Boston Chapter, MA | GRS | Francesca Scire Scapuzzo | fscire@alum.mit.edu |
| Springfield Chapter, MA | AP, MTT, ED, GRS, LEO | Paul Siqueira | siqueira@ecs.umass.edu |
| Western New York Chapter | GRS | Emmett Ientilucci | emmett@cis.rit.edu |
| Region 2: Eastern USA | |||
| Washington, DC & Northern VA Chapter | GRS | Zhuosen Wang | wangzhuosen@gmail.com |
| Dayton Chapter | AP, MTT, GRS | Andrew Terzuoli | a.j.terzuoli@ieee.org |
| Region 3: Southeastern USA | |||
| Atlanta Chapter, GA | AES, GRS | Kristin Bing | kristin.bing@gtri.gatech.edu |
| Eastern North Carolina Chapter | GRS | Linda Hayden | haydenl@mindspring.com |
| Melbourne Chapter, FL | GRS, AES | William Junek | wjunek@knights.ucf.edu |
| Region 4: Central USA | |||
| Central Illinois Chapter | LEO, GRS | Weng Cho Chew | w-chew@illinois.edu |
| Southeastern Michigan Chapter | GRS | Leland Pierce | lep@umich.edu |
| University of Michigan Student Chapter | GRS | Tianlin Wang | wangtl@umich.edu |
| Region 5: Southwestern USA | |||
| Front Range Chapter, CO | GRS | Neill Kefauver | w.neill.kefauver@lmco.com |
| Region 6: Western USA | |||
| Alaska Chapter, AK | GRS | Franz Meyer | fjmeyer@alaska.edu |
| Los Angeles Chapter, CA | GRS | Mark Lamb | markalanlamb2000@yahoo.com |
| Region 7: Canada | |||
| Ottawa Chapter, ON | OE, GRS | Yifeng Zhou | yifeng.zhou@crc.gc.ca |
| Quebec Chapter, Quebec, QC | AES, OE, GRS | Yves DeVillers | yves.devillers@drdc-rddc.gc.ca |
| Toronto Chapter, ON | SP, VT, AES, UFF, OE, GRS | AliReza Sadeghian | asadeghi@ryerson.ca |
| Vancouver Chapter, BC | AES, GRS | David G. Michelson | dmichelson@ieee.org |
| Winnipeg Chapter, MB | AES, GRS | Dustin Isleifson | Dustin.Isleifson@umanitoba.ca |
| Region 8: Europe, Middle East and Africa | |||
| Algeria Chapter | GRS | Boularbah Souissi | b.souissi@yahoo.com |
| Benelux Chapter | AES, GRS | Mark Bentum | m.j.bentum@utwente.nl |
| Croatia Chapter | AES, GRS | Davor Bonefacic | davor.bonefacic@fer.hr |
| France Chapter | GRS | Mauro Dalla Mura | mauro.dalla-mura@gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr |
| Germany Chapter | GRS | Irena Hajnsek | irena.hajnsek@dlr.de |
| Central-North Italy Chapter | GRS | Frank Marzano | marzano@diet.uniroma1.it |
| South Italy Chapter | GRS | Antonio Iodice | iodice@unina.it |
| Saudi Arabia Chapter | GRS | Haikel Hichri | hhichri@ksu.edu.sa |
| South Africa Chapter | AES, GRS | Colin Schwegman | CSchwegmann@csir.co.za |
| Spain Chapter | GRS | Maria Piles | maria.piles@uv.es |
| Switzerland Chapter | GRS | Othmar Frey | otfrey@ethz.ch |
| Turkey Chapter | GRS | Esra Erten | eerten@itu.edu.tr |
| Ukraine Chapter | AP, MTT, ED, AES, GRS, NPS | Nickola T. Cherpak | cherpak@ire.kharkov.ua |
| United Arab Emirates Chapter | GRS | Saeed Hussain Al Mansoori | Saeed.AlMansoori@mbrsc.ae |
| United Kingdom & Rep. of Ireland (UKRI) Chapter | GRS | Lai Bun Lok | l.lok@ucl.ac.uk |
| Region 9: Latin America | |||
| Argentina Chapter | GRS | Jorge Luis Márquez | j.l.marquez@ieee.org |
| Student Branch Bogotá, Columbia | GRS | Laura Daniela Martin Beltran | dmartinb@correo.udistrital.edu.co |
| Brazil Council | GRS | Veraldo Liesenberg | veraldo@googlemail.com |
| Student Branch, Campinas, Brazil | GRS | Rosa Correa Pabón | grss@ige.unicamp.br |
| Chile Chapter | GRS | Carlos Cardenas | carlos.cardenas@umag.cl |
| Guadalajara Chapter, Mexico | GRS | Iván Villalón | villalon29@gmail.com |
| Universidad de el Salvador Student Branch, El Salvador | GRS | Alba Saravia | marisela.saravia@fia.ues.edu.sv |
| Region 10: Asia and Pacific | |||
| All Japan | GRS | Hiroyoshi Yamada | yamada@ie.niigata-u.ac.jp |
| Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales Chapters, Australia | GRS | Xiuping Jia | X.JIA@adfa.edu.au |
| Bangalore Chapter, India | GRS | Saroj K. Meher | saroj.meher@isibang.ac.in |
| Student Branch, Beijing Chapter, China | GRS | Ying Yang | yangying@radi.ac.cn |
| Beijing Chapter, China | GRS | Ji Wu | wuji@nssc.ac.cn | Bombay Chapter, India | GRS | Avik Bhattacharya | avikb@csre.iitb.ac.in |
| Changsha Chapter, China | GRS | Shutao Li | shutao_li@hnu.edu.cn |
| Chengdu Chapter, China | GRS | Ling Tong | tongling@uestc.edu.cn |
| Delhi Chapter, India | GRS | O.P.N. Calla | opnc06@gmail.com |
| Gujarat Chapter, India | GRS | Shiv Mohan | shivmohan.isro@gmail.com |
| Harbin Chapter, China | GRS | Bin Zou | zoubin@hit.edu.cn |
| Hyderabad Chapter, India | GRS, CIS | Naresh Mallenahalli | naresh.k.m@ieee.org |
| Changchun Chapter, China | GRS | Kai Zhao | zhaokai@iga.ac.cn |
| Indonesia Chapter | GRS, AES | Arifin Nugroho | arfnugroho2008@gmail.com |
| Islamabad Chapter, Pakistan | GRS, AES | Fahim Arif | fahim@mcs.edu.pk |
| Kolkata Chapter, India | GRS | Ashish Ghosh | ash@isical.ac.in |
| Malaysia Chapter | GRS | Ewe Hong Tat | eweht@utar.edu.my |
| Nanjing Chapter, China | GRS | Tao Cheng | tcheng@njau.edu.cn |
| Netaji Subhash Engineering College Student Branch, India | GRS | Arijit De | arijitde33@gmail.com |
| Seoul Chapter, Korea | GRS | Hoonyol Lee | hoonyol@kangwon.ac.kr |
| Shanghai Chapter, China | GRS | Feng Xu | fengxu@fudan.edu.cn |
| Singapore Chapter | AES, GRS | Yilong Lu | EYLU@ntu.edu.sg |
| Taipei Chapter, Taiwan | GRS | Yang-Lang Chang | ylchang@ntut.edu.tw |
| Wuhan Chapter, China | GRS | Liangpei Zhang | zlp62@whu.edu.cn |
| Student Branch, Wuhan, China | GRS | Yonghao Xu | yonghaoxu.whu@gmail.com |
*Abbreviation Guide for IEEE Technical Societies
| AES | Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society |
| AP | Antennas and Propagation Society |
| CIS | Computational Intelligence Society |
| ED | Electron Devices Society |
| EMB | Engineering in Medicine and Biology |
| GRS | Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society |
| LEO | Lasers & Electro-Optics Society |
| MTT | Microwave Theory and Techniques Society |
| NPS | Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society |
| OE | Oceanic Engineering Society |
| SP | Signal Processing Society |
| UFF | Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society |
| VT | Vehicular Technology Society |
GRSS Ambassadors
GRSS has nominated Ambassadors in some countries where the minimum number of members to create a new Chapter has not yet been reached. Ambassadors serve as a contact point in such countries to develop specific activities and to ease the participation of the local community in GRSS initiatives.
Contact Information:
Egypt: Mohammed Salem (mohammed.salem@guc.edu.eg)
Iceland: Jakob Sigurdsson (jakobs@hi.is)
Iraq: Ayad Fadhil (amfadhil@gmail.com)
Israel: Stanley Rotman (srotman@bgu.ac.il)
Kenya: Hunja Waithaka (hunja@eng.jkuat.ac.ke)
Morocco: Kamal Labbassi (labbassi@ucd.ac.ma)
Lebanon: Elias M. Nassar (enassar@ndu.edu.lb)
Nigeria: Samuel Dekolo (sam.dekolo@gmail.com)
Oman: Andy Kwarteng (kwarteng@squ.edu.om)
Thailand: Chinnawat Surussavadee (pop@alum.mit.edu)
Tunisia: Riadh Abdelfattah (riadh.abdelfattah@supcom.tn)