Akira Hirose received the Honor of Distinguished Lecturer (DL), IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), to start serving as a DL from January 2014
1 January 2014

Serving as Distinguished Lecturer is honor, and also a service to the Society. The Distinguished Lecturer Program provides GRSS Chapters with talks by experts on topics of interest and importance to the Geoscience and Remote Sensing community. Briefly, the chapters contact lecturers and make arrangements for a visit. The cost of travel is reimbursed by the Society.

Detarils and current lecturers are found at
http://www.grss-ieee.org/education/distinguished-lecturers/