BEING A IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SOCIETY MEMBERM. Dalla Mura, M. Fauvel and E. Trouvé

IEEE France GRSS Chapter http://sites.ieee.org/france-grss/

BEING A IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SOCIETY MEMBERM. Dalla Mura, M. Fauvel and E. Trouvé

IEEE France GRSS Chapter http://sites.ieee.org/france-grss/

The Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the is the largest academic andprofessional society in the world

• The Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) is one of the 38 Societies of IEEE

• GRSS counts about 3800 Members in 94 Countries and 41 Regional Chapters

• www.grss-ieee.org

Our Mission

The Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society seeks to advance science and technology in geoscience,remote sensing and related fields using conferences, education, and other resources.

Fields of Interest

The fields of interest of the Society are the theory, concepts, and techniques of science and engineering asthey apply to the remote sensing of the Earth, oceans, atmosphere, and space, as well as the processing,interpretation and dissemination of this information.

GRSS Publications

The publications of the GRSS consist in three journals, a magazine and a newsletter.www.grss-ieee.org/publications/transactions

Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing JournalOur flagship journal, Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), pub-lishes advances in sensing instruments and techniques used for the acquisition of geo-scientific information as well as techniques for processing, enhancing and interpretinginformation derived from remote sensing instruments. Online access to TGRS is pro-vided with GRSS membership.

Geoscience and Remote Sensing LettersGeoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL) is a quarterly publication for short pa-pers addressing new ideas and formative concepts in remote sensing as well as importanttimely new results. GRSL encourages the incorporation of “extended objects” or “mul-timedia” such as animations to enhance the shorter papers. Online access to GRSL isprovided with GRSS membership.

Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote SensingJournal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing (JSTARS)is our newest journal. JSTARS addresses current issues and techniques in applied remoteand in situ sensing, their integration, and applied modeling and information creation forunderstanding the Earth. Applications include the Earth’s land, oceans and atmosphere.Online access to JSTARS is provided with GRSS membership.

Geoscience and Remote Sensing MagazineThe Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine (GRSM) is an information resource forGRSS members, the greater membership of the IEEE, and the global community of in-dividuals interested in the science and engineering of remote sensing of the Earth’s land,oceans, and atmosphere. It is a quarterly publication featuring articles of general inter-est and, more specifically, tutorials, description of research laboratories, activities of the

Space Agencies, and new satellites and sensors.

GRSS eNewsletterThe GRSS eNewsletter is a monthly publication intended as an information resource foreveryone interested in geoscience, remote sensing, and related topics, and provides avenue for timely highlights of GRSS activities, announcements of upcoming events, aswell as international news from space agencies and industry. The eNewsletter is dis-

tributed to mobile devices as well as traditional web-based platforms. Join today, the subscriptionto the eNewsletter is free!

GRSS Conferences and Workshops

• IGARSS – International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

• MicroRad

• Atmospheric Transmission Workshop

• EUSAR – European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar

• Whispers – Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing

• PRRS – IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing

• JURSE – Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event

• . . . and many more (see http://www.grss-ieee.org/events/)

GRSS Chapters

A Chapter shall be a technical subunit of technical sub-unit of one or more IEEE Sections. Chapters arethe local link to the valuable resources available from IEEE and the 38 IEEE Technical Societies. Theiractivities may include guest speakers, workshops, and seminars as well as social functions. Chaptersprovide Society members with valuable opportunities to network at a local level, enabling their personaland professional growth.More info on chapters: http://www.ieee.org/societies_communities/geo_activities/chapters/index.html

GRSS Technical Committees

The GRSS technical committees (TCs) serve the community by providing independent technical as-sessments, guidance and recommendations for key issues in remote sensing such as future technologydirections or frequency allocation and provide a means to promote and define best practices in thefield. The technical committees are open to all members and are an excellent way to engage in GRSSactivities.

Earth Science Informatics (ESI) The mission of this technical committee is to provide recommenda-tions and responses to issues related to the archiving and distribution of remotely sensed geospatialand geotemporal data, and on how new media, transmission means, and networks will impact thearchiving, distribution, and format of remotely sensed data. The mission also includes the study ofthe impact of media, channel, and network scaling on the archiving and distribution of data.

Frequency Allocations in Remote Sensing (FARS) The FARS TC committee’s mission is to providetechnical assessments, guidance and recommendations regarding matters of frequency sharing andinterference between remote sensing and other uses of the radio frequency spectrum.

Instrumentation and Future Technologies (IFT) The IFT TC committee’s mission is to facilitate, en-gage and coordinate GRSS members and the communities-at-large to: assess the current state-of-the-art in remote sensing instruments and technology, identify new instrument concepts and rele-vant technology trends, and recognize enabling technologies for future instruments. The committeeactively promotes and provides insight to institutions and industry on remote sensing instrumentand technology development.

Image Analysis and Data Fusion (IADF) The IADF TC serves as a global, multidisciplinary networkfor geospatial data fusion. It aims at educating students and professionals, and at promoting bestpractices in data fusion applications. The committee maintains this site and distributes an e-mailnewsletter to all committee members on a regular basis. The IADF TC has two main activities:

• the organization of a special session held annually during the IGARSS meeting, gatheringcutting edge contributions and covering various issues related to data fusion, such as: pan-sharpening, decision fusion, multimodal data fusion, data assimilation, multi-temporal dataanalysis, ensemble methods, etc.

• the organization of the Data Fusion Contest, a scientific challenge held annually since 2006.The Contest is open not only to IEEE members, but to everyone, with the goal of evaluatingexisting methodologies at the research or operational level to solve remote sensing problemsusing data from a variety of sensors.

International Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy (ISIS) The ISIS TC provides a forum for technicaland programmatic discussion and consultation among national space agencies, research institutionsand other spaceborne imaging spectroscopy data providers. Goals of the ISIS TC are to share infor-mation on current and future spaceborne imaging spectroscopy (“hyperspectral”) missions, and toseek opportunities for new international partnerships to the benefit of the global user community.

Benefits of Being a Member

Being a member of GRSS

• You can make a bigger impact on the Remote Sensing field through GRSS

• You can have online access to our three premier journals (TGRS, GRSL and JSTARS)

• You are granted online access to all the contents of both the Magazine (GRSM) and the Newsletterpublished by the Society

• You can participate in our five Technical Committees

• You can attend the GRSS sponsored conferences and workshops (IGARSS, JURSE, WHISPERS,etc) at a reduced rate (saving about 50-170e!)

• You can utilize the resources provided by the Society, such as our Newsletter and Magazine, ed-ucation programs, industrial relations on-line lectures and current state-of-the-art information onGRSS

• . . . and it costs only US$19.00 for IEEE professional members and US$10.00 for IEEE studentmembers!