To Travel or Not to Travel: The Hybrid Conference Era [President’s Message]

This year it is nice to once again be writing the September message having just returned from the annual IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) flagship conference, the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). IGARSS was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at the Kuala Lumpur Conference Center, where we enjoyed a week of technical sessions held both in person and online as well as a full agenda of GRSS social events, the Student Paper Competition (SPC), the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, and a map design contest organized by the IGARSS Local Organizing Committee.