IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

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🌍 Behind the Journal – Meet the Experts! We’re thrilled to introduce Dr. Marianna Biscarini, Associate Editor of IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS (GRSL), from Sapienza University of Rome. 📌 Expertise: Atmospheric remote sensing, radiopropagation, atmospheric…

🎓 Spotlight on Prof. Antonio Plaza Chair of the IEEE GRSS Fellow Evaluation and Publication Awards Committees, Prof. Plaza has shaped GRSS through his roles as Director of Education, Chapter President, and Editor-in-Chief of top IEEE journals. As Full Professor at the…

🌟 Article of the Week 🌟 This week’s featured article from IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters showcases groundbreaking work at the frontier of remote sensing research. 🔍 This Week's Highlight: Title: Landslide Volumetric Analysis Using Cartosat-1-Derived DEMs Authors:…

🚀Join the IEEE GRSS Earth Science Informatics (ESI) Technical Committee at IGARSS 2025 for Tutorial FD-02 —a full-day, hands-on session on the lifecycle of large-scale AI models in the cloud, with a special focus on deploying and fine-tuning geospatial foundation models. 🗓️…

📢 Journal Metrics That Matter — Clarivate JCR 2025 Highlights We are thrilled to share that the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine (GRSM) has been ranked #1 out of 64 journals in the Remote Sensing category of the Clarivate Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2025, with an…

🌟 Meet Prof. Alberto Moreira Chair of the IEEE GRSS Major Awards Committee since 2017, Prof. Moreira has been a pillar of the GRSS community. He has served as President in 2010 and Co-Chair of IGARSS 2012. He leads the Microwaves and Radar Institute at DLR and is a professor at…

📢 Call for Papers – Special Issue in IEEE J-STARS! “Advancing Urban Remote Sensing for Sustainable and Resilient Cities” This J-STARS Special Issue, inspired by the discussions and innovations presented at JURSE 2025 (technically co-sponsored by GRSS), aims to showcase…

Don’t miss this! Join us for the award ceremony Wednesday, July 23: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

📢 Explore the FLAME 3 Wildland Fire Dataset – a UAV-collected, multi-spectral dataset for wildfire detection and segmentation 🔥 Captured over prescribed burns using RGB and thermal sensors 🖼️ Includes 738 image quartets (622 Fire, 116 No Fire), each with raw RGB, thermal,…

🌟 Article of the Week 🌟 This week’s featured article from IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (J-STARS) showcases groundbreaking work at the frontier of remote sensing research. 🔍 This Week's Highlight: Title: Detecting Forest…

🎉 Celebrate with us at the EO4SDG Mini-Projects & Earth at Risk Image Contest 2024 Award Ceremony! 📣Hear from our winning teams as they present their inspiring proposals and stories behind their outstanding EO data images. 🏆 First Place Team: Di Jiang, Shiyi Li, Irena…

🎉 IEEE GRSS IDEA at the CSRS2025 – 3MT™ Competition Highlights! The IEEE GRSS IDEA Committee, in collaboration with our sister society, the Canadian Remote Sensing Society (CRSS-SCT), proudly organized the 3-Minute Thesis (#3MT™) Competition during the 46th Canadian Symposium…

🌐 GRSS India Professional Chapter Chairs and Student Branch leaders came together for the first time on 29 June at IIIT Bhubaneswar to shape the future of GRSS in the region! Discussions included InGARSS 2025 updates, early preparations for InGARSS 2026, growth of GRSS in…

🌐 Supporting Frequency Allocations in Remote Sensing 🌐 Microwave remote sensing depends on clean, interference-free access to the radio frequency spectrum. But growing demand from commercial systems poses real threats to data quality. The GRSS Frequency Allocations in Remote…

📢 Rescheduled Webinar Glacier Hydrology and Ice Dynamics — Coupled Modeling to Understand Seasonal Velocities, Surges, and Floods 👩🏻‍💻 Speaker: Dr. Aleah Sommers, Dartmouth College, USA 🗓️ Date: Tuesday, 15 July 2025 🕘 Time: 9:00 AM ET (UTC-5) 🔗Register today:…

📢 Explore the NOAA Arctic Seals 2019 Dataset – a massive collection of aerial imagery for marine wildlife detection ❄️ Captured during flights across Alaska by NOAA Fisheries Science Center 🖼️ Includes ~80,000 color and thermal (IR) images 📦 Annotated with 28,000 bounding boxes…

🛰️ Call for Proposals: Help Shape the 2026 Data Fusion Contest! 🛰️ We're excited to extend this community-wide invitation to submit proposals for the 2026 edition of the IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest! If you have a bold idea, compelling datasets, or a vision for advancing…

🚀 For IEEE Fellow Akira Hirose, being part of IEEE GRSS has meant more than just professional affiliation. It has been a bridge linking fundamental research in physics and mathematics with meaningful, real-world applications in Earth observation. 🌍 Through GRSS, his research…

🎉 GRSS Members: Your Publishing Perks Are Here! Your membership comes with real advantages, including discounted publishing in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL). As of 1 June 2025, corresponding authors who are GRSS members will have their overlength page…

🌟 Article of the Week 🌟 Here’s this week’s must-read contribution to the field from Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Section within IEEE Access 🔍 This Week's Highlight: Title: Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Globally Distributed Landslide Detection Authors: Omid…