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We are pleased to announce the winners of the Remote Sensing 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Remote Sensing Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to us.
The top five winners:
Pedro Pina CERENA, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1000-001 Lisbon, Portugal
Patrick Launeau Sciences de la Terre et de l’Univers de la Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Université de Nantes, 44322 Nantes, France
Lenio Galvao National Institute for Space Research, Remote Sensing Division, São José dos Campos SP 12245-970, Brazil
Veraldo Liesenberg Department of Forest Engineering, College of Agriculture and Veterinary, Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), Avenida Luiz de Camões 2090, Lages SC 88520-000, Brazil
Geoffrey Henebry Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences & Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
A further five winners:
Joshua Hacker Jupiter Intelligence, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Mauri Pelto Department of Environmental Science, Nichols College, Dudley, MA 01571, USA
Petri Räisänen Climate System Research unit, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
Manuel Pulido FernĂ¡ndez GeoEnvironmental Research Group (GIGA), University of Extremadura, 10071 Cáceres, Spain
Ismaila Abubakar College of Architecture and Planning, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
Kind regards, Remote Sensing Editorial Office
Remote Sensing 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Xuguang Cai
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, USA
Hugo Wai Leung Mak
1. Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China; 2. Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Antonio Miguel Ruiz Armenteros
Departamento de Ingeniería Cartográfica, Geodésica y Fotogrametría, Universidad de Jaén, Edificio de Ingeniería y Tecnología A3, Campus Las Lagunillas s/n, Spain
Fabio Rocca
Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Michael J. Abrams
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA
Emiliano Carmona
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Earth Observation Center, Remote Sensing Technology Institute, Germany
Yuriy Kuleshov
Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
Tarmo K Remmel
Department of Geography, York University, Canada
Rolland Fleury
Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de l'Information, de la Communication et de la Connaissance (Lab-Sticc), France
Dongping Ming
School of Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China
Award Committee
Dr. Prasad Thenkabail
Chairman
U.S. Geological Survey
Winner
Mohammad Rostami
University of Southern California
University St, Los Angeles, USA
Jinyao Lin
Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
Veraldo Liesenberg
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil
Yuriy Kuleshov
Bureau of Meteorology, GPO Box 1289 Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia
Benoit Vozel
IETR UMR CNRS 6164, University of Rennes 1, Enssat, 22305 Lannion, France
Winner
Veraldo Liesenberg
Department of Forest Engineering, Santa Catarina State University, Lages, Brazil
Yady Tatiana Solano-Correa
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy
Francesco Marinello
Department of Land Environment Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy
Pedro Melo-Pinto
Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia (ECT ), Centre for the Research and Technology
of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB), Universidade de
Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
Ignacio Bosch
Instituto de Telecomunicaciones y Aplicaciones Multimedia (iTEAM),
Universitat Politènica de València, València, Spain
Juan Soria
Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity & Evolutionary Ecology, University of
Valencia, Paterna, Spain
Chiman Kwan
Signal Processing, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, USA
Benoit Vozel
Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications IETR UMR CNRS 6164,
University of Rennes, Lannion, France
Giuseppe Casula
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology Unit of Bologna, Bologna,
Italy
Simone Cosoli
Ocean Graduate School and the UWA Oceans Institute, The University of
Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
Winner
Veraldo Liesenberg
Department of Forest Engineering, College of Agriculture and Veterinary,
Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), Avenida Luiz de Camões 2090,
Lages SC 88520-000, Brazil
Patrick Launeau
Sciences de la Terre et de l'Univers de la Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Université de Nantes, 44322 Nantes, France
Geoffrey Henebry
Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences & Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
Pedro Pina
CERENA, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1000-001
Lisbon, Portugal
Lenio Galvao
National Institute for Space Research, Remote Sensing Division, São José
dos Campos SP 12245-970, Brazil
Manuel Pulido FernĂ¡ndez
mapulidof@unex.es
Mauri Pelto
Department of Environmental Science, Nichols College, Dudley, MA 01571, USA
Petri Räisänen
Climate System Research unit, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
Ismaila Abubakar
College of Architecture and Planning, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
Joshua Hacker
josh.hacker@jupiterintel.com
Winner
Stefania Bonafoni
Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, 06125 Perugia, Italy
Veraldo Liesenberg
Forest Engineering Department, Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), Lages 88520-000, Brazil
Ryo Natsuaki
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
Daniel Sousa
La Kretz Research Center at Sedgwick Reserve and National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Earth Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
Lorenzo Solari
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA), Geomatics Division, 08860, Castelldefels, Spain
Michael J. Abrams
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
Ram Avtar
Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
Winner
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.
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, Spain
Nasser Najibi
The City University of New York, New York, USA
John Trinder
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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