ALOS Principal Investigators List (2nd RA)
- Vegetation Mapping, Forest & Wetland

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