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Travel Award

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

 
Remote Sensing 2017 Travel Award
 
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

Solmaz Fathololoumi
School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON , Canada
Georgy Nerobelov
St. Petersburg State University

Award Committee

Dr. Alexander Kokhanovsky Chairman
Prof. Timo Balz
Wuhan University
Dr. Frédéric Frappart
ISPA, UMR 1391 INRAE/Bordeaux Sciences Agro
Dr. Stephan Havemann
Met Office, UK
Prof. Xian Sun
Prof. Dr. Gwanggil Jeon
Incheon National University
Dr. Fumio Yamazaki
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience

Winner

Ana Novo
University of Vigo
Renée Mie Fredensborg Hansen
DTU Space and NTNU

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Gerrit de Leeuw Chairman
KNMI
Prof. Timo Balz
Wuhan University
Dr. Frédéric Frappart
ISPA, UMR 1391 INRAE/Bordeaux Sciences Agro
Dr. Stephan Havemann
Met Office, UK
Prof. Xian Sun
Dr. Dimitrios Alexakis
Laboratory of Geophysical - Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeoenvironemnt, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas

Winner

Amen AL-Yaari
Sorbonne University - Laboratoire METIS
Meng Lu
Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Gerrit de Leeuw Chairman
KNMI
Prof. Timo Balz
Wuhan University
Prof. Dr. Chuyuan Wang
Towson University
Dr. Robert Bryant
Dr. Dimitrios Alexakis
Laboratory of Geophysical - Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeoenvironemnt, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Dr. Sofia Bajocco
Council for Agricultural Research and Economics

Winner

Florent Poux
University of Liege
Morgan Crowley
McGill University

Award Committee

Dr. Xiaofeng Li Chairman
NOAA
Dr. Frédéric Frappart
ISPA, UMR 1391 INRAE/Bordeaux Sciences Agro
Dr. Roshanak Darvishzadeh
University of Twente
Dr. Francesca Cigna
National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC)
Dr. Emeritus William Emery

Winner

Hugo Carreno-Luengo
Centre Tecnòlogic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) / Remote Sensing Department
Saman Ghaffarian
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.

Award Committee

Dr. Xiaofeng Li Chairman
NOAA
Prof. Dr. Xiaofeng Yang
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, CAS
Dr. George Petropoulos
Harokopeio University of Athens, Greece
Dr. Henrique Lorenzo
University of Vigo
Prof. Dr. Daniele Riccio

Winner

Jing Liu
University of Twente
Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier
Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), University of Valencia

Winner

David Chaparro
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, IEEC/UPC
Wai Yeung Yan
Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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