Niigata University announced that Professor Yoshio Yamaguchi of the Faculty of Engineering of the same university was the first Japanese to receive the 2017 Distinguished Achievement Award of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, which is an international conference.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world's largest organization of electrical and electronics engineers. It was organized in January 1884 by the integration of AIEE (American Institute of Electrical Engineers) established in 1912 and IRE (Institute of Radio Engineers) established in 1963.
Among them, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) is an IEEE subcommittee whose specialized research fields are earth science and remote sensing. The Distinguished Achievement Award is a year in which GRSS selects one person in the world who has made the greatest contribution to the fields of earth science and remote sensing over a period of several years, and Professor Yamaguchi's award was the first Japanese achievement.
The award was given to "For contributions to Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Sensing & Imaging and Its utilization", that is, "Sensing, imaging methods and contributions to their utilization in polarized synthetic aperture radar".
