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Message from the Incoming Editor-in-Chief
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N 2008, the IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING (JSTARS), a quarterly publication sponsored by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) and co-sponsored by the IEEE Committee on Earth Observations (ICEO), was launched. Its aim was to reflect the growing interest in application themes in the annual IEEE conferences as well as the increasing involvement of GRSS in the ICEO. This new journal was envisaged as a communication and outreach medium for these applications themes. The ICEO is a committee of the Technical Activities Board of IEEE (TAB). It includes the interests of several IEEE committees and councils, and members have taken leadership roles in activities of the Global Earth Observations System of Systems (GEOSS). This new journal has been part of the development plan of ICEO from its inception. A partnership between GRSS and ICEO on developing the new journal has been an obvious opportunity and, from the beginning, both groups have collaborated on the planning for this cosponsored journal. After three volumes, twelve issues, and around 400 submitted papers, JSTARS is now already a recognized venue for peer-reviewed papers on a variety of application themes in Earth observations and remote sensing of relevance to the membership of both groups. The birth and growth of JSTARS has been following the growth of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, one of the fastest growing societies within IEEE. These features are reflecting the growing importance of remote sensing in numerous applications with a high societal impact, such as energy (biomass energy and forest inventory, optimal solar photovoltaic installations, snow cover monitoring for the prediction of hydroelectric energy production, etc.), water (prevention and management of draughts, floods, monitoring of water quality, understanding of the oceanic circulation at mesoscales
and smaller, observations of the temporal and spatial variations in water volumes stored in rivers, lakes, and wetlands in order to fulfill our basic need for fresh water, etc.), and environment (detection of pollutions, measurement of the climate change, monitoring of urban growth and management of urban planning, data assimilation with large scale models, etc.). All these applications require remote sensing observations, with both a wide spatial coverage and a fine spatial resolution, very often together with a high temporal resolution. In order to meet these challenges driven by the applications, new generations of sensors are designed and the number of coming new missions is blooming in all the space agencies across the world. Finally, the optimal exploitation of the data provided by the sensors requires the development of advanced processing techniques: signal and image processing, data analysis, and physical modelling. Welcoming regular submissions, as well as special issues focused on selected topics, JSTARS is intended to be the place for a rapid dissemination of peer-reviewed high-quality papers and to bridge some of the gaps between sensors, methodologies, and applications. Prof. Ellsworth LeDrew, the founding Editor-in-Chief of JSTARS, and Prof. Kun Shan Chen, the Deputy Editor-in-Chief, have been instrumental in successfully starting this new journal and deserve enormous thanks for all their time and effort. Today, it is a great honor and pleasure for me to step in as the new Editor-in-Chief of JSTARS. I welcome and look forward to my term, with the hope to contribute further promotion of remote sensing and its applications, for a better understanding and management of our environment.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSTARS.2011.2114733
JOCELYN CHANUSSOT, Editor-in-Chief Grenoble Institute of Technology, GIPSA-Lab Grenoble, France
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Jocelyn Chanussot (SM’04) received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP), Grenoble, France, in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree from Savoie University, Annecy, France, in 1998. In 1999, he was with the Geography Imagery Perception Laboratory for the Delegation Generale de l’Armement (DGA – French National Defense Department). Since 1999, he has been with Grenoble INP, where he was an Assistant Professor from 1999 to 2005, and an Associate Professor from 2005 to 2007, and is currently a Professor of signal and image processing. He is currently conducting his research at the Grenoble Images Speech Signals and Automatics Laboratory (GIPSA-Lab). His research interests include image analysis, multicomponent image processing, hyperspectral data processing, nonlinear filtering, and data fusion in remote sensing. Dr. Chanussot is the founding President of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing French Chapter (2007–2010) which received the 2010 IEEE GRS-S Chapter Excellence Award “for excellence as a Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society chapter demonstrated by exemplary activities during 2009.” He was a member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing AdCom (2009–2010), in charge of membership 1939-1404/$26.00 © 2011 IEEE
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development. He was the General Chair of the first IEEE GRS-S Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing, Evolution in Remote Sensing (WHISPERS). He is the Chair (2009–2011) and was the Cochair of the GRS Data Fusion Technical Committee (2005–2008). He was a member of the Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2006–2008) and the Program Chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (2009). He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS (2005–2007) and for Pattern Recognition (2006–2008). Since 2007, he has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, and is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
