MSU's Jenny Du appointed as the next editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
Contact: Daneet Steffens, SPIE
BELLINGHAM, Washington鈥揙n 1 January 2024,聽Qian "Jenny" Du, of 亚洲色吧视频, will become the new editor-in-chief of the (JARS).
Du, the Bobby Shackouls Professor at 亚洲色吧视频, succeeds the journal's current editor-in-chief,聽Ni-Bin Chang, who has held the role since 2014.
An SPIE Fellow since 2015, Du served on the SPIE Publications Committee in 2021-2022, and has several years of experience working as an associate editor for JARS. She also has extensive journal editorial experience through her work as editor-in-chief for the Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2016-2020), and as an associate editor for multiple journals. In both 2021 and 2022, she was included on Clarivate鈥檚 list of highly cited researchers.
Du鈥檚 research focuses on digital image processing and machine learning, and their applications to remote-sensing problems, with particular expertise on hyperspectral image exploitation. Her work covers an extensive range of topics in remote-sensing image process and analysis, including target detection, anomaly detection, change detection, classification, spectral unmixing, dimensionality reduction, band selection, multisource data fusion, real-time processing, parallel computing, data compression, registration and mosaicking, sharpening, visualization, and image super-resolution.
鈥淚鈥檓 deeply honored to be elected as the new editor-in-chief of JARS, and I will follow the footsteps of my predecessors to continue to move the journal to the next level,鈥 said Du. 鈥淎s a Lifetime Member of SPIE, I鈥檓 very happy to have the great opportunity to serve the community in this capacity.鈥
Du received BSci and MSci degrees in electrical engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology; she received an MSci and her PhD from the University of Maryland in 1998 and 2000, both also in electrical engineering. She聽was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Texas A&M University-Kingsville,聽from聽2000-2004. In 2004, Du joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at 亚洲色吧视频.
鈥淛enny Du was chosen as the next editor-in-chief of JARS following an extensive search process by a team of volunteer experts in remote sensing,鈥 said SPIE Journals Manager Gwen Weerts. 鈥淪he was selected from a highly competitive field of candidates, and impressed everyone with her scholarship, volunteerism, and dedication to the remote-sensing community. SPIE is looking forward to the growth of JARS under Jenny鈥檚 leadership.鈥
JARS, one of 14 journals published by SPIE in the聽, publishes peer-reviewed articles on the latest concepts, information, and progress from the remote-sensing community.
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