Opening and Plenary Session

Location: Fort Worth Convention Center, Ballroom ABC

Opening and Awards Session

08:45
Welcome to IGARSS 2017
Saibun Tjuatja, General Co-Chair
08:50
Welcome to Fort Worth
Dennis Shingleton, Fort Worth Mayor Pro Tem
09:00
Welcome from IEEE
Marina Ruggieri, Director & Vice President, IEEE Technical Activities
09:10
Welcome from IEEE GRS Society
Adriano Camps, President, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
09:20
Major Awards and Recognitions
Master of Ceremony: Werner Wiesbeck
2017 IEEE Fellows in GRSS
2017 IEEE GRSS Education Award
2017 IEEE GRSS Outstanding Service Award
2017 IEEE GRSS Distinguished Achievement Award
10:00
Coffee Break

Plenary Session

10:30
Welcome and Introduction
David Kunkee, General Co-Chair
10:35
NASA’s Earth Science Program: Innovative Approaches to Advancing Science and Improving Life on Our Planet
Michael Freilich (NASA Earth Science Division)
10:55
Presentation by Huadong Guo (CAS Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Institute)
11:15
ESA Earth Observation Programmes and International Collaboration
Maurice Borgeaud (European Space Agency)
11:35
A Global Earth Observation System of Systems for a Global Agenda
Barbara Ryan (GEO Secretariat Director)

Symposium Introduction

11:55
IGARSS 2017 Technical Program
Joel Johnson and Kun-Shan Chen, Technical Program Co-Chairs
12:10
IGARSS 2017 TIE Forum
Boon Lim, TIE Forum Chair
12:15
Closing Remarks
Saibun Tjuatja and David Kunkee, General Co-Chairs
12:20
Lunch