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ALOS Principal Investigators List (2nd RA) - By Research Field

SAR Calibration & Validation Optical Image Processing Land Use & Land Cover Geology Geography Disaster Management Agriculture Snow & Ice Vegetation Mapping, Forest & Wetland Hydrology & Water Resource Ocean International Polar Year

As of Nov. 2, 2009

Vegetation Mapping, Forest & Wetlands
No.	Name	Organization	Reseach Title	Country
307	Masayuki TAMURA	Kyoto University	Extraction of mangrove forests using remotely sensed imagery	Japan
311	Toshihisa HONMA	Hokkaido University	Verification of the wild fire expansion simulation with present vegetation	Japan
314	Masato KATOH	Shinshu University	Application for forest resource management using ALOS data	Japan
315	Erxue Chen	Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF)	Forest structure information extraction from polarimetric ALOS PALSAR data	China
316	Rikie SUZUKI	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology	Biomass mapping by ALOS/PALSAR over boreal forest in Alaska accompanied with ground-based forest survey	Japan
327	Shiv Mohan	Space Applications Center (ISRO)	Evaluation of Palarimetric, Ienterferometric and Differential Interferometric Techniques for the Vegetation and Land Subsidence Study	India
331	Xiufeng Wang	Hokkaido University	Analyses on the status of vegetation environmental change in the Asia subarctic zone (mainly the northeast, China)	Japan
332	Nguyen Thanh Hoan	Chiba University	Combination of Optical and Microwave data of ALOS for Tropical Forest Mapping	Japan
335	Manabu WATANABE	Tohoku University	Measurement of northern environment by using L-band SAR polarimetry data	Japan
369	Guo Zhifeng	Chinese Academy of Sciences	Forest Characterization and Biomass Estimation in Northeastern China Using ALOS Data	China
376	Janet Nichol	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Estimating the carbon storage capacity of Hong Kong's vegetation	China
423	Lu Xi Xi	National University of Singapore	Assessing forest change associated sediment modifications for large tropical estuaries using ALOS PALSAR data	Singapore
427	Bryan Mercer	Intermap Technologies Corporation	Forest Height and Biomass Estimation Using Space-borne Polarimetric SAR Data	Canada