Student Prize Paper Awards

To recognize the best student paper(s) 2nd and 3rd place papers presented at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). The award shall be considered annually. 

Past Award recipients

Eligibility

The Symposium Technical Program Committee (TPC) requires that, to be eligible:

  • The (first) author must be a student under 33 years of age at the time of the IGARSS submission deadline.

  • The student must be in a degree program (PhD students included) at the time of submission of the IGARSS paper.

  • The student must be an IEEE and GRSS member

  • The student contribution should be more than 60% of the content of the presented paper

  • Each student can only submit one paper for consideration in the contest.

  • The student must be registered and attend IGARSS and present the paper.

  • The student is expected to be present at the IGARSS award ceremony to receive the award.

  • The student will publish the paper in the IGARSS proceedings.

Multiple eligible authors are allowed. Compliance with the eligibility criteria will be assessed through an online procedure.

Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society/Council governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations.

Exceptionally, upon properly certified request, the awards committee can extend by up two full years the eligibility requirements, in case of documented forced leave from job, which do not allow for working (e.g., parental leave, health issues, war). The extension, as decided by the awards committee, will also not exceed the sum of continuous periods (floor rounded to the month) of properly certified forced leave.

 

Prize

A maximum of two awards (2nd and 3rd place) in rank order will be presented after awarding the 1st place best student paper with the IEEE Mikio Takagi Student Prize of $1,250. Second and Third place prize winners of this award will receive $1,000 and $750, respectively, and each awardee will receive a Certificate. If there are multiple eligible authors, the honoraria will be shared. No travel allowance is provided.

Frequency

The award shall be presented annually. Award will be given only if a suitable awardee is identified.

Nominee Solicitation

The Student Prize Paper Award is announced in the Call for Papers for each International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, and such papers entered must be so noted. To be considered for the GRSS Student Prize Paper Award, the first author must submit a ready-to-publish 2-column, 4-page Proceedings Paper to enable the Award judges to select the Finalist Papers. Each of the submitted papers will be evaluated by the Symposium Technical Program Committee (TPC).

The GRS Society Symposium Award Committee selects 10 finalists according to the TPC evaluation. To be eligible, it is required that:

  • The first author must be a student under 33 years of age at the time of the IGARSS submission deadline.

  • The student must be in a degree program (PhD students included) at the time of submission of the IGARSS paper.

  • The student must be an IEEE and GRSS member.

  • The student contribution should be more than 60% of the content of the presented paper

  • Each student can only submit one paper for consideration in the contest.

  • The student must be registered and attend IGARSS and present the paper.

  • The student is expected to be present at the IGARSS award ceremony to receive the award

  • The student will publish the paper in the IGARSS proceedings.

Multiple eligible authors are allowed. Compliance with the eligibility criteria will be assessed through an online procedure. Self-nominations are permitted.

Basis for Judging

Criteria for the candidate selection are significance, innovation, quality of presentation, and quality of the paper in the Digest.

Schedule

January

The deadline for submitting to the IGARSS Student Paper Competition is typically in January, although this may change based on the timeline and procedure provided by the official IGARSS submission system.

March

Best 10 student paper finalists are selected and notified

July/August

Best 10 student papers presented at IGARSS.

July/August

Award recipients are notified at IGARSS.

July/August

Announced publicly at IGARSS awards ceremony.

Presentation

The awards will be presented at an awards ceremony during the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS, together with other IEEE GRSS awards.

Symposium Awards Committee

  • Giampaolo Ferraioli (Region 8), Chair

  • Francesca Bovolo (Region 8)

  • Alejandro Frery (Region 10)

  • Lianru Gao (Region 10)

  • Akira Hirose (Region 10)

  • David M. Le Vine (Region 1-6)

  • Mary Morris (Region 1-6)

  • Paul Siqueira (Region 1-6)

  • Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair (Region 10)

  • Gülşen Taskin (Region 8)

  • Emmanuel Trouvé (Region 8)

  • Tatiana Solano-Correa (Region 9)

Contact: grss-award-symp@ieee.org