Organizing Committee
General Chair
Liping Di,
IEEE Fellow, Director
CSISS, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
General Chair
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
General Chair
Michael Seablom,
IEEE Member, Associate Director
Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., USA
Technical Program Co-Chair
Jenny Q. Du
Mississippi State University, MS
Technical Program Co-Chair
John Kerekes
Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
Technical Program Co-Chair
Jeff Piepmeier
Technical Program Co-Chair
Jennifer C. Wei
AST, Earth Sciences Remote Sensing NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Finance Co-Chair
Liying Guo
George Mason University, VA
Finance Co-Chair
Ruixin Yang
George Mason University, VA
Local Arrangements Chair
Zhengwei Yang
Publicity Chair
Sudhir R. Shrestha
Chief, Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division (SMCD), NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellites Applications and Research (STAR)
Social Program Chair
Paolo de Matthaeis
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Publications Co-Chair
John Qu
George Mason University, VA
Publications Co-Chair
Zhiliang Zhu
Social Media Chair
Zhe Guo
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Exhibits Chair
Eugene Yu
George Mason University, VA
Student Activities Chair
Ruixin Yang
George Mason University, VA
Technical Tour Chair
Changyong Cao
TIE Forum Chair
Chen Zhang
George Mason University, VA
Government Liaison Chair
Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez
NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR)
Government Liaison Chair
Upendra Singh
NASA Technical Fellow for Sensors and Instrumentation at the NASA Engineering and Safety Center
Private Sector Liaison Chair
Barry Tilton
Senior Technologist, KBR Inc.
Private Sector Liaison Chair
Frank Avila
Tutorial Co-Chair
Katarina Doctor
US Naval Research Laboratory
Tutorial Co-Chair
Christopher Funk
Kitware, NY
Tutorial Co-Chair
Feng Gao
United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory (USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab)
Conference Secretary
Liying Guo
George Mason University, VA
Conference Secretary
Ruixin Yang
George Mason University, VA
Conference Secretary
Eugene Yu
George Mason University, VA
Conference Secretary
Chen Zhang
George Mason University, VA
Summer School Program Co-Chair
Ramesh Singh
Summer School Program Co-Chair
John Qu
George Mason University, VA
Promotion Co-chair
Sirish Uprety
Senior Faculty Specialist CISESS/ESSIC, University of Maryland College Park, USA