Organizing Committee

General Chairs

Liping Di,
IEEE Fellow, Director

CSISS, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

Michael Seablom,
IEEE Member, Associate Director

Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., USA

Mitch Goldberg,
IEEE Member, Distinguished Research Professor

City College of New York for the NOAA Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies (CESSRST), NY, USA

Technical Program Co-Chair

John Kerekes

Rochester Institute of Technology, NY

Jenny Q. Du

Mississippi State University, MS

Jennifer C. Wei

AST, Earth Sciences Remote Sensing NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Jeff Piepmeier

Finance Co-Chairs

Ruixin Yang

Liying Guo

Local Arrangements Chair

Zhengwei Yang

Publicity Chair

Sudhir Shrestha

Social Program Chair

Paolo de Matthaeis

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

Publications Co-Chairs

Zhiliang Zhu

John QU

Social Media Chair

Zhe Guo

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Exhibits Chair

Eugene Yu

George Mason University, VA

Student Activities Chair

Ruixin Yang

Technical Tour Chair

Changyong Cao

TIE Forum Chair

Chen Zhang

George Mason University, VA

Government Liaison Chair

Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez

Private Sector Liaison Chair

Barry Tilton

Tutorial Co-Chairs

Feng Gao

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory (USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab)

Christopher Funk

Kitware, NY

Katarina Doctor

US Naval Research Laboratory

Conference Secretaries

Ruixin Yang

George Mason University

Liying Guo

Eugene Yu

George Mason University, VA

Chen Zhang

George Mason University, VA