David Long was elevated to Fellow of the IEEE on 15 November 2007 "for contributions to systems and applications of radar scatterometry and synthetic aperture radar in land and ice studies." Each year, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group for IEEE's most prestigious honor. David Long joined the BYU faculty in 1990 and is the director of the Microwave Earth Remote Sensing (MERS) Laboratory. Dr. Long is currently the Director of the BYU Center for Remote Sensing.