Face-to-Face Dialogue with the Editor-in-Chief: IEEE GRSS Journal
This event is an exclusive two-part session for remote sensing researchers, focusing on high-impact publishing strategies and peer review excellence. Led by William (Bill) Emery—IEEE Fellow, Professor at the University of Colorado, and EiC of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine (GRSM)—and Xiuping Jia—IEEE Fellow, globally renowned remote sensing expert, and EiC of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), the event delivers insider insights from top IEEE GRSS journal leaders to empower academic success.
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- Qingshuihe Campus, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)
- No. 2006, Xiyuan Avenue Pidu District, Chengdu
- Chengdu, Sichuan
- China
- Building: Binnuo Café
- Starts 17 March 2026 11:30 PM UTC
- Ends 02 April 2026 04:00 PM UTC
- No Admission Charge
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Bill Emery
Introduction of GRSM: High-Impact Remote Sensing Journal Publishing & Contribution
This lecture unpacks core insights of GRSM, the top remote sensing journal with an impact factor of 16.4. It covers the journal’s publishing rules, unique white paper submission process, hot Special Issue topics, column setup, practical contribution methods, and its future development plans, delivering valuable publishing guidance for the remote sensing community.
Biography:
William (Bill) Emery has been teaching at the University of Colorado since 1987 and is an IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, and a member of the American Astronautical Society. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine (GRSM).
He has been invited to teach courses and lectures at a number of research institutions around the world and has received the University of Colorado School of Engineering Distinguished Research Award, the IEEE Earth Science and Remote Sensing Society Education Award, and the AGU Best Evaluator Award.
Xiuping Jia
Leveraging Peer Review to Become a Better Author
Publications provide a global platform for communicating research outcomes, and peer review is one of the key elements ensuring the quality of published work. As the number of paper submissions has increased significantly in recent years, peer review has become an increasingly demanding service that scholars provide to the research community. At the same time, it offers a valuable opportunity to strengthen our own research and communication skills. This talk will provide an overview of the responsibilities of reviewers. Expectations for a good reviewer will be explained, including how to understand and respect different perspectives and provide constructive reviews as we would hope to receive as authors. Practical tips on how to use the peer-review process to improve authorship will also be shared and discussed.
Biography:
Xiuping Jia (M’93 –SM’03 –F’21) received a B.Eng. degree from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in January 1982. Later she received a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, from The University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1996 and 2005, respectively, via part-time study. She has a lifelong academic career in higher education which she is always passionate about. Dr Jia has authored or co-authored more than 300 papers on various topics including remote sensing data correction, hyperspectral feature reduction and image classification using machine learning techniques. She has co-authored the remote sensing textbook titled Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis [Springer-Verlag, 3rd (1999) and 4th eds. (2006)]. Dr. Jia is the author of Field Guide to Hyperspectral / Multispectral Image Processing, SPIE, 2022. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.