| Gr. |
Principal Investigator |
Research Organization |
Reseach theme |
| Land |
Yoshiaki Honda (PI team leader) |
Chiba Univ. |
Plannning and preparation for validation of the atmospheric corrected reflectance |
| Kenlo Nasahara |
Tsukuba Univ. |
Development of integrative information of the terrestrial ecosystem |
| Koji Kajiwara |
Chiba Univ. |
Development of above-ground biomass and vegetation roughness index algorithms using SGLI multiangle observation and investigation of validation and applications |
| Masao Moriyama |
Nagasaki Univ. |
Development of land surface temperature, shadow index, and fire detection algorithms for GCOM-C1/SGLI |
| Kiyonari Fukue |
Tokai Univ. |
Algorithm Development of Global Land Cover Classification using High Precision Ortho Surface Reflectance Data |
| Noriko Soyama |
Tenri Univ. |
Development of algorithms and validation methods of global and cover classification |
| Kanako Muramatsu |
Nara Women's Univ. |
Gross primary production algorithm development and validation |
| Masahiro Tasumi |
Miyazaki Univ. |
Research on development of ET-Index Map as a GCOM Land Products |
| Takayuki Kaneko |
Tokyo Univ. ERI |
Improvement of active volcano monitoring system in east Asia by using SGLI : preparation for realtime high spatial-resolution obsercation |
| Koji Nakau |
Hokkaido Univ. |
Algorithm development and validation of wild file detection using SGLI |
| Kazuhito Ichii |
Fukushima Univ. |
Improvement of terrestrial carbon cycle by effective use of various GCOM-C1 SGLI products |
| Rikie Suzuki |
JAMSTEC |
Investigation of carbon cycle of vegetation in cold districts through collaboration of SGLI and in-situ observations |
| Masataka Takagi |
Kochi Univ. of Technology |
Mapping tender green and autumn color by satellite data fusion |
| Kazuo Mabuchi |
Chiba Univ. |
Improvement of application methods of GCOM products by mutual use of a climate model and satellite remote sensing data |
| Atmosphere |
Takashi Nakajima (Atmos leader) |
Tokai Univ. |
Global observations of cloud area and properties from GCOM-C SGLI for improving climate change study and cloud science. |
| Itaru Sano |
Kinki Univ. |
Algorithm development for aerosol retrieval and its validation based on combined use of polarization and radiance measurements |
| Toshiro Inoue |
Tokyo Univ. |
Remote sensing and modeling of atmospheric aerosols using SGLI |
| Makoto Kuji |
Nara Women's Univ. |
Retrieval and validation of cloud geometrical properties |
| Hiroshi Ishimoto |
Meteorological Res.Inst. |
Construction of aerosol and ice particle scattering database for advanced remote sensing algorithms |
| Akihiro Yamazaki |
Meteorological Res.Inst. |
Improvement of aerosol and cloud radiation measurements system for providing GCOM-C1 validation data |
| Hitoshi Irie |
Chiba Univ |
Validation plan of GCOM-C aerosol, cloud and radiation products by SKYNET in-situ observation network |
| Kazuma Aoki |
Toyama Univ. |
Study of influence of temporal and spatial scale of solar radiation measurements on validation of GCOM-C/SGLI |
| Tadahiro Hayasaka |
Tohoku Univ. |
Evaluation of GCOM-C1 Surface Radiation Budget Products Associated with Cloud and Aerosol Properties |
| Jérôme Riedi |
LOA - Univ. Lille1/CNRS |
Remote sensing of clouds and aerosols properties from SGLI on GCOM-C1 Migrating POLDER/MODIS synergistic algorithms to SGLI |
| Ocean |
Mitsuhiro Toratani (Ocean leader) |
Tokai Univ. |
Atmospheric correction for SGLI ocean color data |
| Takafumi Hirata |
Hokkaido Univ. |
Development and calibration of GCOM-C ocean algorithms to derive marine biogeochemical and ecosystem variables towards satellite-model integrated analysis |
| Joji Ishizaka |
Nagoya Univ. |
Data Collection for Validation of Coastal Ocean Algorithms and Products，including Primary Production and Red Tide |
| Toru Hirawake |
Hokkaido Univ. |
Development of algorithms to estimate net primary productivity and phytoplankton functional types |
| Futoki Sakaida |
Tohoku Univ. |
Development of long-term and high-resulution SST timeseries and climatology for improvement of the GCOM-C/SGLI SST algorithm |
| Robert Frouin |
Scripps Inst. of Oceanogr. |
Algorithms to Improve the Standard Atmospheric Correction of SGLI Ocean-Color Imagery and Compute the Fraction of PAR Absorbed by Phytoplankton |
| Koji Suzuki |
Hokkaido Univ. |
Highly frequent and accurate observations of marine phytoplankton pigments and light regimes using state-of-the-art technologies. |
| Hiroshi Kobayashi |
Univ. Yamanashi |
Establishment of validation methods for development of coastal ocean-color algorithm coupled between atmosphere and ocean system |
| Seiichi Saitoh |
Hokkaido Univ. |
Application of GCOM-C datasets to sustainable development and management for ecosystem-based fisheries and aquaculture |
| Amane Fujiwara |
National Inst.of Polar Res. |
Application of GCOM-C datasets to assess the responses of phytoplankton communities to recent environmental changes in the Pacific side Arctic Ocean |
| Bryan Franz |
NASA |
NASA ocean color processing and data analysis support for SGLI |
| Menghua Wang |
NOAA |
Development and Implementation of Atmospheric Correction Algorithm for SGLI/GCOM-C Ocean Color Products |
| Cryosphere |
Knut H. Stamnes |
Stevens Inst. of Tech. |
GCOM-C1/SGLI snow/ice products: Upgrades，testing，and validation |
| Teruo Aoki (Cryos leader) |
Meteorological Res. Inst. |
Study of improvement and new development of GCOM-C/SGLI snow and ice algorithms and their validation by in-situ measurements and climate models |