Group of Informatics for Remote Sensing
Group of Informatics for Remote Sensing (IRS)
(former "Research Group of Informatics for System Sensing (ISS)") is
the Cooperative Group, the Course of Systems Science and Informatics
(SSI), the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology (IST),
Hokkaido University, Japan, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
(JAXA) established in April 2008.
The objective of the group is to study sensing technologies for global and local issues, i.e. global environmental issues, disaster monitoring, forest fires, water resources, agriculture and food issues, snow and ice, and mapping based on Earth observing satellite data. Forming the research is necessary for gaining not only engineering knowledges e.g. image and data processing and handling, geometry, radiometry, and radiative transfer theory, but also scientific knowledges for resolving the issues.
A lecture of "Informatics for Remote Sensing" will be held in November as an intensive seminar. If you are interested in, please use the contact link above.
What's New
| Oct. 29- Nov. 14 2025 Planned |
"Lectures on Informatics for Remote Sensing" will be held by onsite live style
as a series of lectures. The schedule is available on here (in Japanese, pdf 58 KB).
A student who is a member of other courses and would like to take the class, please contact us by e-mail before the lecture just in case. |
| Nov. 26-27 2025 Planned |
"The 79th (Autumn 2025) Conference" of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan will be held at the Kochi City Culture-Plaza CUL-PORT, Kochi, Japan. |
| Aug. 3-8 2025 | "2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Simposium" (IGARSS 2025) was held in Brisbane, Australia. |
| June 29 2025 | “IBUKI GW” (GOSAT-GW) was successfully launched from the JAXA Tanegashima Space Center aboard the H-IIA Launch Vehicle Fight No. 50. |
| June 4-5 2025 | "The 78th (Spring 2025) Conference" of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan was held at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ibaraki, Japan. |
| Apr. 1 2025 | "Member" has been updated for new fiscal year 2025. |
| Nov. 26-27 2024 | "The 77th (Autumn 2024) Conference" of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan was held at the Yamaguchi Center for the Promotion of Health, Yamaguchi, Japan. |
| Oct. 2-18 2024 | "Lectures on Informatics for Remote Sensing" was held by onsite live style as a series of lectures. The schedule is available on here as reference (in Japanese, pdf 59 KB). |
| July 7-12 2024 | "2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Simposium" (IGARSS 2024) was held in Athens, Greece. |
| July 1 2024 | “DAICHI-4” (ALOS-4) was successfully launched from the JAXA Tanegashima Space Center aboard the H-3 Launch Vehicle Fight No. 3. |
| June 5-6 2024 | "The 76th (Spring 2024) Conference" of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan was held at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ibaraki, Japan. |
| May 29 2024 | EarthCARE, a collaborative project between Japan and Europe to study cloud aerosol radiation, was launched by SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. |
| Oct. 24-Nov. 9 2023 | "Lectures on Informatics for Remote Sensing" was held by onsite live style as a series of lectures. The schedule is available on here as reference (in Japanese, pdf 51 KB). |
| July 16-21 2023 | "2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Simposium" (IGARSS 2023) was held in Pasadena, California, US. |
| June 1-2 2023 | "The 74th (2023 Spring) Conference" of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan will be held at the College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University. |
| Apr. 14 2023 | "Member" has been updated for new fiscal year 2023. |
| Nov. 29-30 2022 | "The 73rd (Autumn 2022) Conference" of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan was held by hybrid style at "Mie Center for the Arts, Mie" and online. |
| Oct. 12-28 2022 | "Lectures on Informatics for Remote Sensing" was held by onsite live style as a series of lectures. The schedule is available on here as reference (in Japanese, pdf 68 KB). |
| July 17-22 2022 | "2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Simposium" (IGARSS 2022) was held by hybrid style at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and virtual online. |
| May 16-18 2022 | "International Symposium on Remote Sensing 2022" (ISRS 2022) was held by online. |
| Apr. 1 2022 | "Member" has been updated for new fiscal year 2022. |
| Nov. 15-16 2021 | "The 71st (2021 Autumn) Conference" of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan was held by hybrid style at "Paruse Iizaka, Fukushima" and online. |
| Oct. 27-Nov. 12 2021 | "Lectures on Informatics for Remote Sensing" was held by online live as a series of lectures. The schedule is available on here as reference (in Japanese, pdf 61 KB). |
| July 12-16 2021 | "2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Simposium" (IGARSS 2021) planned to hold in Brussels, Belgium was changed to hold by virtual online. |
| July 1 2021 | Mr. Kasai's paper published in the Geographical Studies of the Hokkaido Geographical Society in JFY2017 won the "2021 Best Paper Award of the Hokkaido Geographical Society". |
| May 17-18 2021 | "The 70th (2021 Spring) Conference" of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan was held by online. |
| Apr. 1 2021 | "Member" has been updated for new fiscal year 2021. |
| Dec. 21-22 2020 | "The 69th (2020 Autumn) Conference" of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan was held by online. |
| Nov. 4-20 2020 | "Lectures on Informatics for Remote Sensing" was held as a series of lectures. The schedule is available on here as reference (in Japanese, pdf 59 KB). |
| Sep. 26-Oct. 2 2020 |
"2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Simposium" (IGARSS 2020) planned to hold in Waikoloa, the Big Island of Hawaii, US, was changed to hold by virtual online. |
| May 13-14 2020 | "The 68th (2020 Spring) Conference" of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan has been canceled due to the spread of COVID-19. |
| Apr. 1 2020 | "Member"
has been updated for new fiscal year 2020. Dr. Hiroshi Murakami become the Visiting Associate Professor. |
| Mar. 31 2020 | Dr. Masahiro Hori was left the Visiting Associate Professor. |
| Nov. 28-29 2019 | "The 67th (2019 Autumn) Conference" of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan was held at The Gifu Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Japan. |
| Nov. 5-21 2019 | "Lectures on Informatics for Remote Sensing" was held as a series of lectures. The schedule is available on here as reference (in Japanese, pdf 210 KB). |
| July 28-Aug. 2 2019 |
"2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Simposium" (IGARSS 2019) was held at the Pacifico Yokohama, Japan |
| June 4-5 2019 | "The 66th (2019 Spring) Conference" of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan was held at Tokyo Denki University Saitama Hatoyama Campus, Japan. |
| Apr. 1 2019 | A little bit deray, but "Member" has been updated for new fiscal year 2019. |