At the Council meeting held at the 43rd EARSeL (European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories) Symposium held in Bucharest (Romania) between 3-6 July 2023, Prof. Dr. Hüseyin TOPAN, a faculty member of our Department, and Dr. Valerie GRAW, a faculty member of the Institute of Geography at Ruhr University Bochum, were elected as co-chairs of the "Urban Remote Sensing" SIG for July 2023-June 2025. We congratulate the co-chairs and wish them success.