Professional Activities

• Awards
    - 2020 U.S. Department of State Meritorious Honor Award
    - 2019-2020 National Academies Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. Department of State
    - 2017 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Outstanding Service Award
    - 2011 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Data Fusion Contest Winner>
    - 2009 Principal Investigator Millionaire Award, Rochester Institute of Technology
    - 1998 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Prize Paper Award
  
  
• Conference Activities
    - Technical Program Chair for the 2026 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS'26) held in Washington, DC, USA
    - Technical Program Chair for the 2016 and 2017 Systems and Technologies for Remote Sensing Applications Through Unmanned Aerial Systems (STRATUS) Workshop (STRATUS 2017) held in Rochester, New York, USA
    - Co-General 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 - 2025 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposia (IGARSS)
    - Member of Technical Committee for the 2009-2016 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)
    - Chief Financial Officer of IEEE GRSS (2017 to 2024)
    - Founding Chair of IEEE GRSS Modeling in Remote Sensing Technical Committee (2015-2017)
    - Member of the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society's Administrative Committee (AdCom) (2010-2015)
    - Vice President of Technical Activities IEEE GRSS (2011-2015)
    - 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
    - SPIE
  
  
• Member of
    - American Geophysical Union
    - Eta Kappa Nu
    - Tau Beta Pi
    - Society for Imaging Science and Technology
    - Phi Kappa Phi
  
  
• Journal Special Issue Editor for
    - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine Special Issue on Hyperspectral Imaging, June 2019
    - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing Special Issue on Methods for the Processing and Analysis of Remotely Sensed Spectral Imagery: In Memory of Professor David A. Landgrebe, submission open June 2021
    - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing Special Issue on Quantitative Land Remote Sensing: Modeling and Estimation, February 2019
    - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing Special Issue on Modeling and Simulation of Remote Sensing Data, November 2017
    - 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
    - AGU GeoHealth
    - AMS Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
    - Applied Optics
    - Artificial Intelligence Review
    - ASPRS Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing
    - Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
    - EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
    - Frontiers in Marine Science
    - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
    - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
    - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
    - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
    - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
    - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
    - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
    - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
    - Infrared Physics and Technology
    - International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
    - International Journal of Remote Sensing
    - International Journal of Remote Sensing Letters
    - MDPI Remote Sensing
    - MDPI Sensors
    - OSA Optics Express
    - OSA Optics Letters
    - Remote Sensing of Environment
    - Remote Sensing Letters
    - Science of the Total Environment
    - SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
    - National Aeronautics and Space Agency
    - National Science Foundation
    - U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation
    - Several remote sensing textbook proposals
  
  
• Past 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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