Eligibility

Papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Papers authored or co-authored by the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing or persons involved in the selection process are ineligible.

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

Award Items

Certificate and check for US$2000. In case of multiple authors, each will receive a certificate, and the cash award will be shared among the co-authors.

Frequency

The award shall be presented annually to one recipient, provided a qualified paper is identified. If a suitable paper cannot be identified from among those published during the calendar year, papers published in prior years and subsequently recognized as being meritorious may be considered.

Nominee Solicitation

Nominations for the GRSS TRANSACTIONS Prize Paper Award shall be made by:

• Reviewers of the GRSS TGRS papers
• Associate Editors of GRSS TGRS
• Editor in Chief of GRSS TGRS
• Society members
  
  

The nomination package must be submitted by an IEEE GRSS member, consisting of the following:

• Paper information
• relevant contribution
• originality, clarity and timeliness
  
  

The Editor-in-Chief compiles the list of nominated papers, along with the number of nominations and any other pertinent and appropriate data. The Editor-in-Chief is not allowed to remove any nominated paper from consideration.

The Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations. No paper authored or coauthored by persons involved in the selection process is eligible.

Selection/Basis for Judging

In selecting the paper, factors considered are:

• originality
• clarity
• timeliness of the paper
• IEEE membership is preferable

The AEs look for the papers they reviewed during the year of the award and nominate multiple candidates. All candidates are placed in a candidate pool and sent to all AEs for evaluation and ranking. The top 5 papers are proposed to the EiC who then forwards them to the Publication Awards Committee for evaluation. The process typically starts when the December issue of all journals (TGRS, GRSL, J-STARS) has been published and the EiC forwards the five candidates to the Publication Awards Committee by the end of January. The evaluation process takes from early February to mid-March, to announce the winners in the March AdCom meeting, where the awards are ratified. Typically there are several meetings among committee members to select the candidates. The candidates are notified immediately after the March AdCom meeting, in which the Awards are ratified.

Award Timeline

Presentation

The award shall be presented at an awards ceremony during IGARSS of the following year.

Publication Awards Committee

• Antonio Plaza, University of Extremadura (Spain): Chair

• Liangpei Zhang, Wuhan University (China)

• Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp (Belgium)

• Florence Tupin, Telecom Paris (France)

• Jun Li, China University Geoscience (China)

• Hairong Qi, University of Tennesse (USA)

• Hanwen Yu, University of Electronic Science & Technology (China)