Professional Activities

• Conference Activities
    - General Co-Chair for the 2008 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS'08) held in Boston, Massachusetts
    - Theme Coordinator, Session Chair and member of Technical Program Committee, 2004 - 2013 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposia (IGARSS)
    - Member of Steering Committee for the 2009-2013 IEEE Workshops on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolutions in Remote Sensing (WHISPERS)
    - Co-organizer of 2003 IEEE Workshop on Advances in Techniques for Analysis of Remotely Sensed Data
  
  
• Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)
    - Member of the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society's Administrative Committee (AdCom) (2010-2015)
    - Vice President of Technical Activities IEEE GRSS (2011-2013)
    - Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (1999-2012)
    - Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2007-2010)
    - Founding Chair of Boston Chapter of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (1995-2004)
    - Founding Chair of Western New York Chapter of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (2007-2010)
    - Secretary of the IEEE Rochester Section (2010-2011)
  
  
• Senior Member of
    - Optical Society of America
    - SPIE
  
  
• Member of
    - American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
    - American Geophysical Union
    - Eta Kappa Nu
    - Tau Beta Pi
    - Phi Kappa Phi
  
  
• Journal Special Issue Editor for
    - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Special Issue on IGARSS'08, November 2009
    - OSA Applied Optics Feature Issue on Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging, 1 October 2008
    - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Special Issue on the 2003 IEEE Workshop on Advances in Techniques for Analysis of Remotely Sensed Data, March 2005
  
  
• Reviewer for
    - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
    - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
    - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
    - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
    - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
    - ASPRS Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing
    - AMS Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
    - Applied Optics
    - EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
    - International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
    - Optics Express
    - Optics Letters
    - Remote Sensing
    - National Aeronautics and Space Agency
    - National Science Foundation
    - U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation
    - Several remote sensing textbook proposals
  
  
• Member of Scientific Advisory Board for
    -  Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS)
    -  Yellowstone Ecological Research Center (YERC)
  
  
• Ad Hoc Member of Air Force Scientific Advisory Board
    - 1999 Review of Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate
    - 2001 Summer Study on “Sensor Technology for Difficult Targets”
  
  
• Member of NASA Peer Review Panel (1997-2000) for the Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on the Aqua satellite
  
  
• Technology Writer
    -  Imaging Spectrometers Go Commercial published in the July 2006 issue of Laser Focus World
  

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