Doctor/Master Programs in Risk and Resilience Engineering, University of Tsukuba
College of Policy and Planning Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Doctor/Master Programs in Risk and Resilience Engineering, University of Tsukuba
College of Policy and Planning Sciences, University of Tsukuba
When you consider to send a message to me, please read messages described below in advance.
Your research plan/proposal is the most important material for the consideration. Please tell me your passion/reason why you are interested in our lab.
Both English and Japanese are OK, but please keep in your mind (especially for potential master course students) that our graduate school lectures are currently done by Japanese (of course you can take some supports from colleagues or professors).
Most of cases, some knowledge about mathematics, physics, and Earth science is required.
Basically, you should choose "Degree program in Risk and Resilience Engineering". Even though you can also choose "Degree program in Policy and Planning Sciences", this course may be chosen when your research topic is close to Social science rather than Geoscience and/or civil engineering.
Seasons of application for graduate school exam are basically July and December (for entrance in April). Foreign applicants are in advance required to obtain reference number for submittion. Please contant me more than 2 months before submission. When your research proposal can be accepted to me, I will obtain your reference number and tell it to you.
Our lab's interests are natural/artificial phenomena/changes on Earth by Geodetic and Remote Sensing tools. In particular, we use Earth observation data obtained from space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Interferometric SAR (InSAR), one of powerful SAR analysis techniques, illuminates very small surface variation (deformation) without any ground instruments.
Currently, we have several research topics and interests like:
Investigation of causes inducing surface didspalcement (e.g. earthquake, volcanic activity, subsidence, landslide, and so on)
Development of InSAR noise correction techniques due to atmosphere, water cycle, earth tide, phase unwrapping error.
Application of SAR/InSAR to socio-economic science and urban planning.
Geodetic meteorology/Climatology using GNSS and InSAR.
etc
If you have an interest in these research topics, please do not hegitate to contact to us!