Yu Hashimoto, first-year student at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems received IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Student Prize Paper Award, Second Prize.

Name of award and short explanation about the award
The IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Student Prize Paper Award is selected from papers submitted to the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), a flagship international conference held annually by IEEE GRSS, which first author is a student under the age of 33, and is awarded to those who made outstanding presentations in the special sessions during thy symposium.
At IEEE IGARSS 2024, Athens, Greece from July 7 to 12, 2024, the three best students were awarded out of 10 finalists selected from 375 submissions.
This is the first time that a student from a Japanese university has received this award since the establishment of the award in 1998.

About awarded research
Y. Hashimoto, R. Natsuaki, A. Hirose, "RFI Detection using Degree of Polarization for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar"In this research, the authors proposed a novel radio frequency interference (RFI) detection method using Degree of Polarization (DoP) which focuses on the difference of polarization states between RFI and useful signals.

Your impression & future plan
I am so honored to receive this award.
I sincerely thank my supervisors, Prof. Akira Hirose and Ryo Natsuaki, and my lab-mates for their kind support.