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H. Li, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences all in information and communication engineering. He is currently a Professor with Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Coding and Transmission, Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Southwest Jiaotong University, 2001.

J. William and U. Co, His research interests include statistical analysis and processing of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, and signal processing in communications. Dr. Li received several scholarships or awards, especially including the Special Grade of the Financial Support from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation in 2009 and the New Century Excellent Talents in University from the Ministry of Education of China in 2011 In addition, he also has been a Reviewer for several international journals and conferences, such as the, the IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING, IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation, and Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

A. Vladimir, . Krylovm, and . Sc, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Ariana and Ayin research teams at INRIA His research interests are in the field of statistical signal processing and pattern recognition applied to medical and remote sensing imagery, Ph.D.) degree in statistics both from the Lomonosov Moscow State University 2012?2013 he was a research associate with the 2014 he is with the Department of Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications Engineering and Naval Architecture (DITEN) at the University of, 2007.

P. Fan and C. Cie, He is a recipient of the UK ORS Award, the Outstanding Young Scientist Award by NSFC, and the Chief Scientist of a National 973 research project. He served as General Chair or TPC Chair of a number of international conferences, and is the Guest Editor-in-Chief, Guest Editor or Editorial member of several international journals. He is the Founding Chair of IEEE VTS BJ Chapter the Founding Chair of IEEE Chengdu Section. He also served as a board member of IEEE Region 10, IET(IEE) Council and IET Asia-Pacific Region. He has over 200 research papers published in various academic English journals, ComSoc CD Chapter etc), and 8 books (incl. edited), and is the inventor of 20 granted patents. His research interests include high mobility wireless communications, 5G technologies, wireless networks for big data, pp.93-99, 2015.

I. Isbi, Technical Program Chair of a workshop on Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing for Urban Areas Co-chair of the special sessions at IEEE ICASSP, Image Processing and Related Mathematical Fields (IPRM'02); and Publicity Chair of IEEE ICIP 2011 General Co-chair of the workshop Earthvision at IEEE CVPR 2015, 2003.

J. Willaim and . Emery, After working at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, he moved to the University of British Columbia where he created a Satellite Oceanography facility/education/research program. He was appointed Professor of He is an Adjunct Professor of informatics at Tor Vergata University He has authored over 182 refereed publications on both ocean and land remote sensing and two textbooks. Prof. Emery is a Fellow of the, the American Astronautical Society (2011), and the American Geophysical He is the Vice President for Publications of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) and a member of the IEEE Periodicals Committee. He was the recipient of the GRSS Educational Award in 2004 and its Outstanding Service Award, 1975.