| Name | Institution | Topics |
| Dr. Yakoub Bazi | King Saud University, United Arab Emirates | Markov Random Fields, SVMs, Morphological Operators, Regression, Genetic Algorithms, Biophysical Parameter Estimation |
| Dr. Subrahmanyam Bulusu | University of South Carolina, US | Satellite Oceanography |
| Dr. Michele Dalponte | Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy | LiDAR, Forestry, Hyperspectral, Fusion |
| Dr. Xiaoli Deng | University of Newcastle, Australia | Altimetry |
| Dr. Yang Du | Zhejiang University, China | Electromagnetic Scattering, GPR, Numerical Analysis |
| Dr. Hongliang Fang | Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences | Optical Remote Sensing, Vegetation, Radiative Transfer |
| Dr. Giampaolo Ferraioli | Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie, Universita` degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy | Statistical Signal and Image Processing, Radar Systems |
| Dr. Gianfranco Fornaro | IREA – NRCI, Italy | Airborne and Spaceborne SAR Processing, SAR and InSAR Tomography |
| Dr. Bo-Cai Gao | Navy Research Lab, US | Solar and Thermal Remote Sensing, Ocean Color |
| Dr. Pedram Ghamisi | Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany) | Hyperspectral Data, Multisensor Data Fusion, Machine Learning |
| Dr. Luis Gómez-Déniz | Universidad Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain | Filters, Statistics, Optimization |
| Dr. Frederic Jacob | French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development LISAH Joint Research Unit, FRANCE | Optical and Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing, Vegetation, Biophysical Variables, Energy and Water Fluxes |
| Dr. Rui Jin | Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China | Heterogeneity, Uncertainties, Geostatistics |
| Dr. Hyung-Sup Jung | University of Seoul, Republic of Korea | SAR Interferometry, Multi-Sensor Fusion, Sensor Modeling, Geohazard Remote Sensing |
| Dr. David Long | Brigham Young University, US | Microwave Scatterometry |
| Dr. Xiaoqiang Lu | Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China | Machine Learning, Hyperspectral Remote Sensing |
| Dr. Tom Lukowski | Ottawa, Canada | Calibration, Image Quality, Target Detection |
| Dr. Nelson Mascarenhas | Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil | Image Processing and Pattern Recognition |
| Dr. Stefania Matteoli | National Research Council (Italy) | Hyperspectral, LIDAR, Image Processing, Spectroscopy |
| Dr. Sidarth Misra | Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Nasa - (JPL), US | Radiometry, Calibration, RFI |
| Dr. Mario Montopoli | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy | Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Weather Radar Signal Processing, Passive Radiometry, Rain Attenuation Impairments |
| Dr. Gabriele Moser | University of Genova, Italy | Feature Extraction, Feature Reduction, Hyperspectral, Images |
| Dr. Mario Parente | Univ. of Massachusetts, US | Optical Mixing, Signal Detection, Multidimensional Signal Processing |
| Dr. Javier Plaza | Department of Technology of Computers and Communications University of Extremadura, Spain | Neural Networks and High-Performance Computing |
| Dr. Xiaolan Qiu | Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IECAS) | SAR Data Processing, SAR Image Understanding |
| Dr. Michael Schmitt | Tecnical Univeristy of Munich, Germany | SAR Remote Sensing, Multi-Sensor Data Fusion, Deep Learning |
| Dr. Michal Shimoni | Royal Belgian Military Academy, Belgium | Accuracy, Feature Extraction, Hyperspectral Sensors |
| Dr. C. K. Shum | Ohio State University, US | Satellite Geodesy |
| Dr. Gemine Vivone | University of Salerno, Italy | Image Fusion, Target Tracking |
| Dr. Cheng Wang | Xiamen University, China | Point Cloud Processing, LiDAR, Remote Sensing for smart cities |
| Dr. Chenglu Wen | Xiamen University, China | Lidar, Machine Learning |
| Dr. Begum Demir | TU Berlin | Image Analysis and Processing |
| Dr. Emmanuel Trouve | University Savoie Mont Blanc, France | SAR/PolSAR/InSAR Image Analysis, Multitemporal Data, Satellite Image Time Series, Surface Displacement Measurement, Change Detection, Application to Cryosphere, Glacier Monitoring |
| Dr. Michelangelo Villano | German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen | SAR System Design, Advanced SAR Acquisition Modes, SAR Ambiguities, Planned and Future SAR Missions |
| Dr. Si-WeiChen | National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China | Radar Polarimetry, Scattering Modeling and Interpretation, Target Detection, Classification and Recognition, Machine Learning, Natural Disaster Investigation |
| Dr. Xudong Kang | Hunan University, Changsha, China | Image Fusion, Feature Extraction, Image Enhancing, Image Restoration, Object Detection, Image Classification, Ocean Remote Sensing, Hyperspectral and Thermal Image Processing |
| Dr. Juan-Lopez Sanchez | University of Alicante, Spain | Agriculture, PolSAR, PolInSAR, DInSAR |
| Dr. Teng Wang | Peking University, China | Radar remote sensing: SAR/InSAR, time- series analysis, pixel-offset tracking, change detection. |
| Dr. Anthony Doulgeris | UiT Tromso, Norway | Polarimetric SAR Analysis and Interpretation |
| Dr. Junshi Xia | RIKEN, Japan | Multiple classifier system, Hyperspectral data classification, Multiple kernel learning, Dimensionality reduction, Urban remote sensing |
| Dr. Claudia Notarnicola | EURAC, Italy | Retrieval of biophysical parameters (soil moisture, vegetation, snow) by using optical images and SAR images, Environmental monitoring, Optical and SAR data processing, Electromagnetic models, Data fusion |
| Dr. Xiangrong Zhang | Xidian University, China | Remote sensing image analysis, understanding and applications with machine learning and pattern recognition methods, including object detection and tracking, remote sensing image segmentation and classification, scene classification, and change detection. |
| Dr. Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA | Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) techniques to retrieve geophysical parameters from land surfaces, as soil moisture, height and water content of vegetation, and snow thickness, and also from water surfaces, as the water level, wind speed retrievals over the ocean, GPS reflections from CYGNSS, TDS-1 and SMAP in receive mode to sense wetlands, polar sea ice and freeze/thaw state. |
| Dr. Shengqi Zhu | Xidian University, China | New System Radar Signal Processing, Airborne/SpaceborneSAR, SAR-GMTI, Parameter Estimation, ArraySignal Processing |
| Dr. Raffaele Solimene | University of Campania“Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy | Microwave Radar imaging, GPR prospecting, TWI imaging, Inverse scattering, RCS estimation, Vital sign detection, Array Signal Processing |
| Dr. Bertrand Le Saux | ONERA, France | Classification of big remote sensing data, deep learning, interactive learning, change detection,information based on discriminative learning algorithms, 3D semantic mapping, object detection and recognition for UAV perception and on-board sensors (camera, LiDAR). |
| Dr. Diego Reale | National Research Council (IREA-CNR),Italy | SAR tomography, SAR interferometry and differential SAR interferometry; Application of SAR tomography/interferometry on very high resolution SAR data for the monitoring of the built environment and critical infrastructures. |
| Dr. Jianwei Ma | Harbin Institute of Technology, China | Seismic data processing and analysis, Geophysical inversion, seismic exploration, compressed sensing, sparse transforms, deep learning, data assimilation. |
| Dr. Ronny Hänsch | German Aerospace Center, Germany | Machine Learning,Computer Vision,Classification,Synthetic Aperture Radar, Ensemble Theory, Random Forests, Artificial Neural Networks, probabilistic models,Deep Learning, Photogrammetry, Structure from Motion and 3D Reconstruction, Image Processing,Feature Extraction, Segmentation, Object Recognition and Classification |
| Dr. Claudio Persello | University of Twente, Faculty ITC, The Netherlands | UAV images and photogrammetric point clouds;Multispectral VHR satellite images;Hyperspectral images;deep learning;convolutional neural networks;SVM and kernel methods; Supervised, semi supervised and active learning;Transfer learning and domain adaptation;Feature selection/extraction; Classification map accuracy assessment;Mapping of agriculture fields;Forest inventories;Ground sample collection optimization. |
| Dr. Antonio Pepe | National Council Research (CNR) of Italy | Radar Signal Processing, Advanced DInSAR algorithms, efficient processing of ScanSAR and stripmap data and the development of StripMap-ScanSAR interferometry, Multiple Aperture Interferometry, noise filtering and phase unwrapping. |
| Dr. Eun-Jung Holden | Faculty of Science (FS), The University of Western Australia | Geophysics image analysis, geodata analytics, computational geoscience, geophysics, remote sensing, visualization, text mining, deployable AI, Machine Learning/Deep Learning for geophysical data analysis |
| Dr. Lefei Zhang | Wuhan University, China | Artificial intelligence, Machine learning/Deep learning, Hyperspectral images, Image processing, pattern recognition, Image inpainting , |
| Dr. Gaofei Yin | Southwest Jiaotong University, China | Canopy radiative transfer modelling, biophysical parameter retrieval, remote sensing product validation |
| Dr. Haikel Hichri | King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | Machine Intelligence, Deep learning, Large scale VHR Remote Sensing image analysis, Pattern Recognition, and Computer Vision, Change detection, Markov random Field, interactive segmentation, level-set, support vector machine, Gaussian process classification |
| Dr. Wenfeng Zhan | Nanjing University, China | urban thermal anisotropy, disaggregation of land surface temperature, temporal interpolation (or extrapolation) of satellite-derived LSTs, and urban heat island |
| Dr. Juan Mario Haut | University of Extremadura, Spain | Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) through supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised approaches, metric learning, active learning, reinforcement learning, Classification techniques, unmixing algorithms, super resolution methods, pan-sharpening, band selection methods, HPC |
| Dr. Hossein Aghababaei | Assistant Professor, University of Twente, The Netherlands | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR), radar polarimetry, SAR processing, polarimetric SAR processing, classification, change detection, SAR tomography and polarimetric SAR tomography (TomoSAR and PolTomoSAR), spectral estimation and array signal processing, forestry and vegetation mapping |
| Dr. Eric Truslow | Technical Staff at Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Lincoln Laboratory (MIT-LL), Lexington, MA | hyperspectral imaging, detection theory, statistics and probability, |
| Dr. Haipeng Wang | Fudan University, Shanghai, China | SAR image processing/interpretation, Polarimetric SAR, forest biomass inverse by SAR, Deep learning in SAR image |
| Dr. Javier Bosch Lluis | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA | Reflectometry, GNSS-R, SigOps, Radiometry, Radiometric Retrievals, Radiometric Calibration, Active/Passive Instruments, Digital Beam forming, Sounders, Digital Spectrometers, Digital Backends, RFI mitigation, CubeSat instruments, Smart instruments. AI applied to instruments, i.e.: Autonomy (not AI applied to data) |
| Dr. Jie Cheng | Institute of Remote Sensing Science and Engineering, Faculty of geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, P. R. China | land surface temperature; thermal-infrared remote sensing; radiative transfer modeling; estimate of land surface essential climate variables; surface radiation budget; atmospheric remote sensing. |
| Dr. Ramona-Maria PELICH | Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) | synthetic-aperture radar (SAR), image processing, signal processing, detection, classification, data fusion. |
| Dr. Saeid Homayouni | Center Eau Terre Environnement, INRS, Quebec, Canada | Optical & SAR Earth observations for agricultural and environmental applications |
| Dr. Weiqiang Li | Institute of Space Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). | GNSS Processing, Bistatic Radar Signal Processing, Microwave Remote Sensing |
| Dr. Xiangtao Zheng | Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. | Multi-modal image analysis, Cross-modal image interpretation, Pattern recognition, Deep neural networks |
| Dr. Xinming Wu | School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) | Exploration Geophysics, Deep learning in Geoscience, Image processing |
| Dr. Yang Xu | Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China | Hyperspectral image analysis, Optical Remote Sensing images, Multimodal remote sensing fusion, Remote Compressive Sensing |
| Dr. Hai Liu | Guangzhou University, China | subsurface sensing, non destructive testing (NDT), space exploration, ground penetrating radar (GPR), signal processing, deep learning, radar system, antenna, synthetic aperture radar ( SAR) |
| Dr. Cheng Hu | Beijing Institute of Technology , China | Geosynchronous Synthetic Aperture Radar signal processing, Entomological Radar signal processing, Deformation Measurement Technique for Ground Based Synthetic Aperture Radar, Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar signal processing |
| Dr. Amanda Ziemann | Los Alamos National Laboratory ( LANL), USA | multi-sensor analysis and sensing capabilities, data fusion, multispectral imaging, hyperspectral imaging, SAR imaging, neural networks, Big Data, mathematical and statistical modeling, detection algorithms (change, target, anomaly), signal detection |
| Dr. Behnood Rasti | Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF), Exploration Division, Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR), Germany | Signal and Image processing, Deep/Machine Learning, Remote Sensing Image Analysis, Image Fusion, Feature Extraction, Denoising , Restoration, Unmixing , Image Classification, Regression, SAR Despeckling Denoising , Land cover Mapping,(Multispectral) LiDAR Fusion, Hyperspectral , Denoising /Restoration, |
| Dr. Josaphat Tetuko SRI SUMANTYO | Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Chiba University | Microwave Remote Sensing, Synthetic Aperture Radar (Drone, Airborne, Spaceborne : Hardware and Software), SAR image signal processing, and applications ( InSAR and Polarimetric) |
| Dr. Emmett Ientilucci | Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY | hyperspectral detection, algorithm development, atmospheric compensation, spectral variability, BRDF effects, radiative transfer modeling, Radiometric Calibration |
| Dr. Sanyi Yuan | State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resource and Prospecting,China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China | Geophysical techniques, seismic waves, geophysical signal processing, machine learning |
| Dr. ANDREA BUONO | Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope | Synthetic aperture radar, polarimetry, coastal and ocean applications (target detection, coastline extraction, pollution monitoring, land use/land cover classification) |
| Dr. Masoud Mahdianpari | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland | Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), PolSAR, Multi-spectral, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Geo Big Data, Classification, Wetland Mapping, Forest Monitoring, Geospatial Information System |
| Dr. Dalton Lunga | Geospatial Science and Human Security Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US | Machine learning, computer vision, image analysis and processing, multimodal analytics, explainableAI, content-based object search and retrieval. |
| Dr. Esra Erten | Istanbul Technical University | SAR, PolSAR, Agriculture, Uncertainity quantification, Machine Learning, Point Cloud Data |
| Dr. Qian Shi | Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou, China | Land Use and Land Cover Classification, -Remote Sensing Image Understanding, Machine Learning and Deep learning |
| Dr. Xian Sun | Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences | Machine learning, object detection, multi-sensor data fusion |
| Dr. Yue Li | College of Communication Engineering, Jilin University | Property analysis of seismic background noise - Mathematical modeling of seismic random noise based on wave equation. - Novel attenuation method of seismic background noise based on deep-learning, sparse transform, low-rank, and time-frequency analysis. - Microseismic data processing mainly includes denoising, arrival picking, and signal-to-noise ratio enhancement. - Seismic inversion main includes migration and full waveform inversion (FWI). |
| Dr. Jefersson Alex dos Santos | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil | Machine learning, Deep learning, Computer vision, Image Segmentation, Image Processing, Feature Extraction/Selection |
| Dr. Raquel Rodriguez Monje | Jet Propulsion Laboratory – California Institute of Technology | Radar, sub- and millimeter- wave technology, microwave passive components |
| Dr. Jianzhe Lin | New York University | Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Remote Sensing Image Processing, MultiMedia, Medical Image Processing, Signal Processing, Visualization |
| Dr. Junjie Wu | School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, P.R.China | Synthetic aperture radar, Inverse synthetic aperture radar, radar imaging |
| Dr. Sicong Liu | Tongji University | Multitemporal Analysis, Multispectral/Hyperspectral Remote Sensing |
| Dr. Weimin Huang | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Memorial University, Canada | ocean (wind, wave, current, target) remote sensing; high-frequency (HF) surface/sky wave radar; marine radar; GNSS-R; electromagnetic (EM) scattering from rough surface (e.g., sea surface); applications of machine learning in remote sensing |
| Dr. José Luis Lisani | Universitat of Illes Balears (UIB, Spain) | Color processing, denoising, image registration, object detection, tracking, satellite image processing |
| Dr. Haibin Di | Schlumberger in Houston, Texas, US | Implement deep neural networks into various geoscience applications, including seismic denoising , seismic well tie, stratigraphy interpretation, property estimation, and new energy site characterization |
