[From the Editor]

It is with great pleasure that the Editor-in-Chief welcomes you to the first issue of the second year of publication of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. After the initial phase of the magazine, in the second year we plan to enrich the content of this publication by establishing new columns containing many new contributions of interest to the geoscience and remote sensing community at large. As one can observe in the four issues of GRSM during 2013, the magazine contains tutorial papers, technical papers on geoscience and remote sensing topics, and papers that describe relevant applications of and projects based on topics addressed by our society. All technical papers undergo blind review by multiple reviewers. The review process is managed on the IEEE Manuscript Central web site, as is done for the three GRSS journals. The magazine also contains regular columns on education in remote sensing, remote sensing systems, standard data sets, women in geoscience and remote sensing, and book reviews. Other topics will appear in the future. Starting with the June issue, we will publish an extensive column in which space agencies will report on their recent news and major achievements. This will keep readers up-to-date on the latest developments of space agencies and the most interesting news on novel satellites and Earth Observation programs.