Ann uncement : Remote Sensing 2017 Best Guest

Guest Editors help invite many high-quality papers for Remote Sensing. To acknowledge and encourage the generous work and precious time of the guest editor team of Special Issues in Remote Sensing, we launched the Best Guest Editor Award last year for Special Issues closed from 1 June 2016 to 31 June 2017. In total, 40 Special Issues were closed from 1 June 2016 to 31 June 2017 and these Special Issues contributed 607 papers, with an average of 15 papers per Special Issue. A particular highlight was the Special Issue titled “Earth Observations for Geohazards” [1] edited by Prof. Zhenhong Li and Prof. Roberto Tomas. This Special Issue covered innovative Earth Observations methods and applications for monitoring and modeling geohazards. There were 44 papers [2–45] published in it. All of the publications in this Special Issue were cited and they contributed a total of 203 citations for the journal by the end of 2017. The paper focused on imaging land subsidence induced by groundwater extraction using radar interferometry [2] was highly cited, with 16 citations by the end of 2017. We are greatly excited to announce the winners: Prof. Dr. Zhenhong Li (Newcastle University, UK) and Prof. Roberto Tomas (University of Alicante, Spain) (Figure 1).

Guest Editors help invite many high-quality papers for Remote Sensing.To acknowledge and encourage the generous work and precious time of the guest editor team of Special Issues in Remote Sensing, we launched the Best Guest Editor Award last year for Special Issues closed from 1 June 2016 to 31 June 2017.
In total, 40 Special Issues were closed from 1 June 2016 to 31 June 2017 and these Special Issues contributed 607 papers, with an average of 15 papers per Special Issue.A particular highlight was the Special Issue titled "Earth Observations for Geohazards" [1] edited by Prof. Zhenhong Li and Prof. Roberto Tomas.This Special Issue covered innovative Earth Observations methods and applications for monitoring and modeling geohazards.There were 44 papers  published in it.All of the publications in this Special Issue were cited and they contributed a total of 203 citations for the journal by the end of 2017.The paper focused on imaging land subsidence induced by groundwater extraction using radar interferometry [2] was highly cited, with 16 citations by the end of 2017.
We are greatly excited to announce the winners: Prof. Dr. Zhenhong Li (Newcastle University, UK) and Prof. Roberto Tomas (University of Alicante, Spain) (Figure 1).
Guest Editors help invite many high-quality papers for Remote Sensing.To acknowledge and encourage the generous work and precious time of the guest editor team of Special Issues in Remote Sensing, we launched the Best Guest Editor Award last year for Special Issues closed from 1 June 2016 to 31 June 2017.
In total, 40 Special Issues were closed from 1 June 2016 to 31 June 2017 and these Special Issues contributed 607 papers, with an average of 15 papers per Special Issue.A particular highlight was the Special Issue titled "Earth Observations for Geohazards" [1] edited by Prof. Zhenhong Li and Prof. Roberto Tomas.This Special Issue covered innovative Earth Observations methods and applications for monitoring and modeling geohazards.There were 44 papers  published in it.All of the publications in this Special Issue were cited and they contributed a total of 203 citations for the journal by the end of 2017.The paper focused on imaging land subsidence induced by groundwater extraction using radar interferometry [2] was highly cited, with 16 citations by the end of 2017.
We are greatly excited to announce the winners: Prof. Dr. Zhenhong Li (Newcastle University, UK) and Prof. Roberto Tomas (University of Alicante, Spain) (Figure 1).Sensing (mainly SAR, InSAR, and GNSS) and their application to geohazards (e.g., earthquakes, landslides, and land subsidence), infrastructure stability, and precision agriculture.He specializes in the development of InSAR atmospheric corrections and time-series algorithms for precisely mapping surface movements, and has made several original contributions to the direct estimation and/or mitigation of atmospheric effects on InSAR measurements.His recent major achievements include: (i) the generation of the first interferogram from the Chinese Gaofen-3 mission together with some collaborators, which is also the first interferogram from Chinese civilian radar missions; and (ii) the release of the Generic Atmospheric Correction Online Service for InSAR (GACOS).He has investigated a series of large earthquakes (e.g., Sumatra (Indonesia, 2007), Wenchuan (China, 2008), Yushu (China, 2010), Van (Turkey, 2011), Tohoku (Japan, 2011), and Gorkha (Nepal, 2015)) and active landslides (e.g., Huangtupo, Shuping, and Daguangbao landslides, China).Being the lead PI of STFC Newton Agri-Tech PAFiC project, he is also an investigator of the Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tectonics (COMET), the consortium Looking Inside the Continents from Space (LICS), and the CBDRRiC project within IRNHiC.
Prof. Roberto Tomas is full professor in geotechnical engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering in the University of Alicante (UA), Spain.He received the Master's degrees in Civil Engineering and Geological Engineering and his Ph.D. in Engineering Geology in the UA.He was awarded the National Graduation Award for Higher University Education for his Master's study and the Extraordinary Ph.D. Award for his Ph.D. research, respectively.
He is UA-based Director of the Associate Research Unit IGME-UA of ground movements monitoring using radar interferometry (UNIRAD), leader of the Geotechnical and Structural Engineering (INTERES) research group, and is a collaborator of the Geohazards InSAR laboratory and Modelling Group of the IGME.He is also member of the UNESCO Working Group on Land Subsidence and coordinator of the Spanish Working Group on land subsidence.
His main research is in the field of the application of remote sensing techniques for monitoring and modelling of natural hazards (with emphasis in landslides and land subsidence) and infrastructures, as well as for rock mass characterization.He has investigated InSAR land subsidence in the Vega Baja and Media of the Segura River (Spain), the Guadalentín Valley (Spain), Madrid (Spain), and Beijing (China), and landslides such as Aitana deep seat (Spain), Huangtupo (China), and Daguangbao (China).
Since 2011, he has been a visiting scientist at the University of Glasgow (UK), Newcastle University (UK), Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (Ecuador), and Universidade do Minho (Portugal).Additionally, he was recently granted an international research-fellowship to spend three months at the University of Florence (Italy) in 2018.
He has led or been involved in more than 40 national and international research projects, as well as over 50 research contracts with companies.He is a reviewer of more than 30 international journals and conferences, and a member of the editorial boards of several international scientific journals.Furthermore, he is the author of more than 80 scientific articles (53 in SCI) and more than 150 proceedings and book chapters.He has successfully supervised six Ph.D. Theses.For more detailed information, visit: personal.ua.es/en/roberto-tomas.
On behalf of the Remote Sensing editorial board members and editorial staffs, we wish to congratulate the two outstanding Guest Editors for their accomplishments.
Dr. Zhenhong Li is Chair Professor of Imaging Geodesy in the School of Engineering at Newcastle University.He received a BSc degree (with distinction) in geodesy from Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping (now Wuhan University), Wuhan, China, in 1997, and a Ph.D. degree in GPS, geodesy, and navigation from University College London, London, UK, in 2005.Professor Li has approximately twenty years of research experience in Space Geodesy and Remote Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 238; doi:10.3390/rs10020238www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensingProf.