Travel Award
The Remote Sensing Travel Award was launched in 2017, and it is presented every year to encourage junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in the remote sensing technology field, which helps to increase their influence. The application is open from April to October and winners are announced by the end of December every year.
The Prize:
– CHF 800;
– A certificate.
Number of Winners: 2
Remote Sensing Travel Award
Winner announcement: 31 December 2024
Eligibility and Requirements
– Candidates must be postdoctoral fellows, PhD students;– Candidates must have plans to attend an international conference in 2025 (oral presentation or poster).
List of Documents for Application
– Information of the conference the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted;– Curriculum vitae and a list of publications;
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words);
– Letter of recommendation from the candidate’s supervisor, research director, or department head that also confirms the applicant’s status.
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Lei Tian
Nanjing Forestry University
Dr. Valentina Macchiarulo
Department of Geoscience and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Award Committee
Prof. Timo Balz
Chairman
Wuhan University
Dr. Stephan Havemann
Met Office, UK
Dr. Frédéric Frappart
ISPA, UMR 1391 INRAE/Bordeaux Sciences Agro
Dr. Jing Wei
University of Maryland
Winner
Solmaz Fathololoumi
School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON , Canada
Georgy Nerobelov
St. Petersburg State University
Award Committee
Dr. Alexander Kokhanovsky
Chairman
Prof. Timo Balz
Wuhan University
Dr. Frédéric Frappart
ISPA, UMR 1391 INRAE/Bordeaux Sciences Agro
Dr. Stephan Havemann
Met Office, UK
Prof. Xian Sun
Prof. Dr. Gwanggil Jeon
Incheon National University
Dr. Fumio Yamazaki
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience
Winner
Ana Novo
University of Vigo
Renée Mie Fredensborg Hansen
DTU Space and NTNU
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Gerrit de Leeuw
Chairman
KNMI
Prof. Timo Balz
Wuhan University
Dr. Frédéric Frappart
ISPA, UMR 1391 INRAE/Bordeaux Sciences Agro
Dr. Stephan Havemann
Met Office, UK
Prof. Xian Sun
Dr. Dimitrios D. Alexakis
Laboratory of Geophysical - Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeoenvironemnt, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Winner
Amen AL-Yaari
Sorbonne University - Laboratoire METIS
Meng Lu
Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Gerrit de Leeuw
Chairman
KNMI
Prof. Timo Balz
Wuhan University
Prof. Dr. Chuyuan Wang
Towson University
Dr. Robert Bryant
Dr. Dimitrios D. Alexakis
Laboratory of Geophysical - Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeoenvironemnt, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Dr. Sofia Bajocco
Council for Agricultural Research and Economics
Winner
Florent Poux
University of Liege
Morgan Crowley
McGill University
Award Committee
Dr. Xiaofeng Li
Chairman
NOAA
Dr. Frédéric Frappart
ISPA, UMR 1391 INRAE/Bordeaux Sciences Agro
Dr. Roshanak Darvishzadeh
University of Twente
Dr. Francesca Cigna
National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC)
Dr. Emeritus William Emery
Winner
Hugo Carreno-Luengo
Centre Tecnòlogic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) / Remote Sensing Department
Saman Ghaffarian
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Award Committee
Dr. Xiaofeng Li
Chairman
NOAA
Prof. Dr. Xiaofeng Yang
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, CAS
Dr. George Petropoulos
Harokopeio University of Athens, Greece
Dr. Henrique Lorenzo
University of Vigo
Prof. Dr. Daniele Riccio
Winner
Jing Liu
University of Twente
Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier
Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), University of Valencia
Winner
David Chaparro
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, IEEC/UPC
Wai Yeung Yan
Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
