Elena Donini received the award for the 2017 Best Italian Theses on Remote Sensing by the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. The award was presented by Prof Antonio Iodice, who is the chapter chair. The title of the thesis is “Simulation and Extraction of Lava Tubes Features from Radar Sounder Data of the Moon” (Advisors: Prof Lorenzo Bruzzone and Dr Francesca Bovolo).