Remote Sensing Awards

Started in 2009, our journal will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2018. With a latest Impact Factor of 3.244 (2016), to acknowledge the authors’ support, we are pleased to announce the “Remote Sensing 10th Anniversary Best Paper Award” as one of the ions of the 10th Anniversary of Remote Sensing in 2019. There will be TEN awards:

1. one special award,
2. two first-class awards,
3. three second-class awards,
4. four third-class awards.

Eligibility for the awards:
Journal papers published from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2018.

Prizes:
There will be ten final winners of this award, and each of them will receive a certificate and bonus based on the class.

• Certificate
• Bonus
  1. Special Award: one winner (1000 CHF)
  2. First-class Award: two winners (800 CHF each)
  3. Second-class Award: three winners (600 CHF each)
  4. Third-class Award: four winners (400 CHF each)

Timeline:

Early January 2019, Award Opens: Section Editors provide their nominations. Late February 2019, Nominations: Editor-in-Chief selects the best paper winner based on the nominations.

Early March 2019, Announcement: Remote Sensing Office informs winners and presents the award.

We are inviting applications for two Travel Awards for postdoctoral researchers and PhD students in the area of remote sensing to attend a conference of their choice in 2019. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee chaired by the Section Editor-in-Chief of Remote Sensing: Dr. Xiaofeng Li.

Candidates’ Requirements:

–– Applicants must be postdoctoral researchers or PhD students involved in remote sensing and related areas;

–– Applicants will attend an international conference in 2019 to present their research (oral presentation or poster);

–– Applicants need to submit the following documents:

1. an abstract of their work;
2. a short CV with selected publications;
3. a short justification letter;
4. a letter of support from their supervisor.

The Award will consist of 800 Swiss Francs.

Please send the applications here (www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/awards) by 30 November 2018. The winner will be announced in Remote Sensing by 14 December 2018.

We are pleased to announce the 2019 Remote Sensing Young Investigator Award. The nominations will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee chaired by the Associate Editor of Remote Sensing: Prof. Dr. Jose Moreno.

Candidates’ Requirements:

•  Ground-breaking contribution to the advancement of remote sensing science or applications
•  Age under 35 years (by 31 December 2018)

Required Application Documents:

•  Curriculum Vitae and list of publications
•  Nomination letter from two recognized scientists in the field of remote sensing
•  Ph.D. certificate

The Award will consist of 2000 Swiss Francs.

Please send your nominations here (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/awards) by
31 October 2018. The winner will be announced in Remote Sensing by 31 January 2019.

Dear Colleagues,

The Remote Sensing Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to Remote Sensing. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

The following referees have been selected to receive “Remote Sensing 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of their reviews in 2018:

The top five winners:

Mahyar Aboutalebi
Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84321, USA.

Stefania Bonafoni
Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, 06125, Perugia, Italy.

Christopher E. Sioris
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Ontario, M3H 5T4, Canada.

Matthieu Molinier
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., PL 1000, FI-02044 VTT, Finland.

Chiman Kwan
Signal Processing, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, MD 20850, USA.

A further five winners:

Andrea Buono
Engineering Department, University of Naples “Parthenope”, 80100 Napoli, Italy.

Majid Nazeer
COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Islamabad 45550, Pakistan.

Antonio Miguel Ruiz-Armenteros
Departamento de Ingeniería Cartográfica, Universidad de Jaén, 23071
Jaén, Spain.

John C. Trinder
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of New
South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.

Nasser Najibi
The City University of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Travel Awards sponsored by Remote Sensing.

Travel Awards were granted to Jing Liu, a PhD student at the University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands and Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier, a postdoctoral researcher at the Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.

Dr. Jing Liu’s research focusses on Earth Observation for forest ecology, in particular the mapping of forest structure using LiDAR and passive remote-sensing technology. Amongst other topics, Jing studied the horizontal and vertical distribution of forest bio-physical variables such as leaf area index and leaf angle distribution, clumping and terrain effects interfering with such retrievals, as well as possibilities for automated segmentation of tree crowns.

Dr. Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier holds a PhD and is conducting research in the field of machine learning for remote-sensing data analysis, including supervised and unsupervised classification and clustering and biophysical parameter estimation. Emma is particularly interested in improving the capacity of support vector machines for classification tasks and in the use of Earth Observation data for land surface phenology.

Each award consists of 800 Swiss Francs to attend an academic conference in 2018.

Prof. Dr. Clement Atzberger
Section Editor-in-Chief of Remote Sensing

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting applications for two Travel Awards for postdoctoral researchers and PhD students in the area of remote sensing to attend a conference of their choice in 2018. The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee presided by the Section Editor-in-Chief of Remote Sensing: Prof. Dr. Clement Atzberger.

Candidates’ Requirements:

1. Applicants must be postdoctoral researchers or PhD students involved in remote sensing and related areas;
2. Applicants will attend an international conference in 2018 to present their research (oral presentation or poster).

Applicants are required to submit the following documents:

1. an abstract of their work;
2. a short CV with selected publications;
3. a short justification letter;
4. a letter of support from their supervisor.

The Award will consist of 800 Swiss Francs.

Please apply by clicking the button above before 28 February 2018. The winner will be announced in Remote Sensing by 16 March 2018.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the journal Remote Sensing, we would like to congratulate Dr. Robert Brewin as the winner of the 2018 Remote Sensing Young Investigator Award.

Dr. Brewin works in the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom, having obtained his PhD in Satellite Oceanography at the University of Plymouth.

He has an outstanding publication record of 58 papers, including 16 in Remote Sensing of Environment,along with some high impact papers in Nature Geoscience and Scientific Reports.

He is Co-Investigator of NERC’s National Centre for Earth Observation, and serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Plankton Research.

He is also Guest Editor for Remote Sensing Journal Special Issue “Remote Sensing of Ocean Colour”.

Dr. Brewin will receive 2,000 Swiss Francs for his ground-breaking contributions to the advancement of remote sensing in oceans and phytoplankton research.

Dr. Alfredo R. Huete
Associate Editor of Remote Sensing

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2017 Best Reviewer Award for Remote Sensing. We greatly appreciate those who have generously given their time to review papers submitted to Remote Sensing. The best reviewers were selected based on quantity, quality and speed. After collecting the data, there were even more excellent reviewers than we expected. Hence, we applied seven additional quotas for this award. Congratulations to the following referees who have been selected to receive a ‘Best Reviewer Award’ in recognition of their significant contributions over the past year.

John C. Trinder
The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

Antonio Pepe
New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

Brian Johnson
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Hayama 240-0115, Japan

Veraldo Liesenberg
Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), 88034-001 Florianopolis, Brazil

Andrea Buono
Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope”, 80143 Napoli, Italy

JingYang Du
University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA

Antonio Novelli
Politecnico di Bari, via Orabana 4, 70125 Bari, Italy

Saeid Gharechelou
Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan

Loris Nanni
University of Padua, Padova 35131, Italy

Liming He
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1 Canada

Have you ever considered guest editing one of our Remote Sensing Special Issues?

To acknowledge and encourage the generous work and precious time of the guest editor team of Remote Sensing Special Issues, we plan to give one guest editor team a monetary award.

Our 2017 Best Guest Editor Award is in recognition of the scientific contribution of the guest editor team that actively collaborates with us to bring the latest advances in the most trending research topics to Remote Sensing. Our editorial office will select the winner based on the number and quality of papers published in the Special Issues.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?

• Closed from 1 June 2016 to 30 June 2017
• Minimum of 15 manuscripts published

What does the winner receive?

• Certificate
• 1200 Swiss Francs (CHF)

When will the winner be announced?

The winner will be announced at the end of 2017 on the journal website.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the two winners of the 2017 Travel Awards sponsored by Remote Sensing:

Travel Awards were granted to Dr. David Chaparro, a PhD student at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, IEEC/UPC, Barcelona, Spain and Dr. Wai Yeung Yan, a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Dr. David Chaparro’s research involves the application of remote sensing data derived from microwave radiometers. During his PhD, he analysed surface moisture and temperature trends to anticipate drought conditions linked to wildfire activity. His results led to the development of a new fire risk model. In his current research, SMAP measurements of soil moisture and vegetation optical depth are being used as indicators of crop yields and phenology.

Dr. Wai Yeung Yan’s research activities focus on improving the radiometric quality of multispectral LiDAR intensity data so as to facilitate applications toward surface classification and object recognition. He developed radiometric and BRDF corrections, and normalization models for different LiDAR sensors, demonstrating significant improvements in data quality and classification accuracy.

The awards consist of 800 Swiss Francs each to attend an academic conference in 2017.

Dr. Alfredo R. Huete
Associate Editor of Remote Sensing