The paper “A Novel Automatic Approach to the Update of Land-Cover Maps by Unsupervised Classification of Remote Sensing Images” by Claudia Paris, Lorenzo Bruzzone, Diego Fernandez-Prieto presented at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2017) hold in July 2017 in Fort Worth (US) got the very prestigious 2018 Symposium Prize Paper Award. The paper was “judged to be of exceptional merit” and resulted the winner out of more than 1000 papers presented in the oral sessions at the symposium. The award was presented at the Banquet of IGARSS 2018 hold in Valencia (Spain) on July 26th, 2018. It consists of a certificate and a honorarium.