Remote Sensing of the Planet Earth
My interests is in remote sensing using thermal infrared region. Multi-spectral thermal infrared remote sensing data is a useful tool for mapping earth surface composition.
- Remote Sensing and GIS for agriculture and environmental application
- Modeling surface emissivity variation
- GOSAT P.I.
List of past research projects
- Mapping and modeling surface emissivity in high accuracy and high spatial resolution using ASTER data (October 2001 - October 2003 in USDA/ARS)
- Developing the method for estimating broadband and window emissivity using spectral libraries
- Applied the method to ASTER data and create broadband and window emissivity maps over study areas. EOS/ASTER is the fist spaceborne sensor which has multi-bands in thermal infrared region with high spatial resolution (90m). This sensor is developed by MITI, Japan and is launched on December 18th, 1999.
- Evaluation of weathering process using thermal infrared remote sensing (1994-1996, in Univ. of Tokyo)
- Measurement of thermal infrared (8 to 12 micro meter) spectra of terrestrial materials (1994-1996, in Univ. of Tokyo)
- Developing a tool for calculating emissivity from MicroFTIR data (1994-1996, in Univ. of Tokyo)
- The software EEM (->click here to download) has developed with Think C 5.0
- System requirements
- OS: Macintosh System 7.1 or later (It also works on classic environment of OS X)
- CPU: 68020 or later (including PowerPC, probably G3, G4)
- My bibliography is available.
- Project related
- Application of Remote Sensing Data
- Getting Remote Sensing Data
- For person in Japan: RESTEC provides many satellite image, such as ADEOS, JERS-1, MOS, LANDSAT, SPOT, IRS, RADARSAT.
- About satellites: NASDA EOC WWW Server HomePage
- For high resolution image: DigitalGlobe is distributing QuickBird imagery with 0.61 m resolution.
- Resources
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