From the editor-in-chief January 2019
2019; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 34; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1109/maes.2019.190101
ISSN1557-959X
Autores Tópico(s)Radar Systems and Signal Processing
ResumoI'll begin with some (extremely!) happy AESS news: It was recently announced that Hugh Griffiths has been appointed by the Queen of England as an "Officer in the Order of the British Empire" (OBE) for "Services to Engineering."I don't know that many details yet, and I'll share them with you when I do (it's quite new news); but I'm sure most of you know Dr. Griffiths well through his service to AESS (he was AESS President 2012 and 2013), his excellent AESS publications (for one example amongst many, see his "Radar Detection and Tracking of German V-2 Rocket Launches in WW2" in this publication, March 2013) and his enormous footprint in the radar research community.But I need also to share unhappy news, that of the passing of Dave Dobson.Dave left us on August 19, 2017 -not recently, and I am sorry we have not previously written of it.To many of us involved in our AES Society, Dave Dobson and AESS Publications were for many years synonymous.If one steps back through old issues of the Transactions and Magazine one can see references to him throughout.The first I saw was news in the February 1964 IEEE Transactions on Aerospace, which reported, regarding the minutes of the Professional Technical Group on AeroSpace contemplating a merger with another PTG, that "considerable discussion" occurred.It listed Dave's name as one of a short list of the meeting's attendees.I note this with a smile on my face because I know that Dave was sometimes opinionated, frequently irascible, often playful, generally right -and always involved.I was hugely saddened to hear, a few years ago, that Dave was not well; and very unhappy to hear that he had passed from us.But it is hard for me to write about him without that smile.Dave was extremely serious about the success and quality of AESS Publications.But he had, I think, a sense of lighthearted joy about what he did, and those of us who worked with him had fun being part of that.When I took over from Dale Blair as chief editor for the AES Transactions, Dale advised me that all I needed to do was "talk to Dave" to get things done.I did; and these talks usually had me laughing and looking forward to when he would get around to discussing, as he always did, "those […] in Piscataway," referring to the good-natured Thirty Years' War between him and IEEE Operations.I don't think I can compare anyone to Dave in terms of giving of himself so completely, selflessly and over such a period of time for the betterment of his profession.We at AESS have been blessed that Dave has made this gift to us.I strongly recommend taking a look at Dale Blair's interview with Dave (Bill Walsh helped) in the June 2015 issue of this magazine, from which a picture above has been extracted.Even better, go to http://resourcecenter.aess.ieee.organd click on "Membership" to see a video of the interview.It makes me smile to hear his voice again.In this month's issue we have four nice articles.First, from Finland, we have a report on the Aalto-1 small satellite, with special attention to the reusable Linux software.We have from universities in Barcelona and Boston, along with the European Space Agency, a report on the vital synchronization issues in deep-space communications.A team from TU Munich and the LSE Space company (near Munich) explain space-based coordination -and especially of satellite communications -of search and rescue operations.Finally, since data security is of increasing importance, authors from Queens U in Belfast, (Northern Ireland) and from Radionavigation in Cork (Ireland), discuss measures to combat spoofing in GNSS systems, especially the associated costs of such.
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