1. Civil engineering project/ Traffic engineering
2. Earth system and resources engineering
3. Agricultural environmental engineering/ Agricultural information engineering

research on applications of geospatial data which is acquired by remote sensing techniques and used for disaster prevention and mitigation in various fields:
- Monitoring crop growth using spectral and LiDAR sensors onboard satellites and UAVs
- Estimating forest parameters derived from LiDAR observation data
- Extraction of snow covered areas using satellite data
- Development of the LiDAR-based system for measuring snow on roads and shoulders.

- Data analysis software for remote sensing Data, such as satellite image data and hyper spectral data
- A Spectral Radiometer
- A Thermal Imager
- UAV systems
- LiDAR systems

Acquisition and analysis of geospatial data which is obtained by remote sensing techniques.

Applications of remote sensing techniques to monitor and understand phenomena on the Earth’s land surface, such as crop growth, land cover changes and disaster damage.

Use and application of 3D geospatial data for disaster prevention and mitigation in various fields.

1. Japanese Patent No. 4982769
2. Japanese Patent No.5369282

We developed a method to estimate rice plant height and vegetation coverage using LiDAR data. In addition, we have a small and low cost UAV-based LiDAR system for crop monitoring.