Outline
In recent years, the food security has become a major concern in many countries throughout the world and a lot of research have been conducted on this topic worldwidely. This food security is a multifaceted subject and has complicated interrelationship among many factors. In our lab, we highlight aspects of the 'availability' and the 'stability' in particular in scope of the food security. Along this line, our research is focused on development and improvement of food production system which should consider environmental conservation and also can contribute to the food security for sustainable society in the end. In addition to the research, implementation of the developed system is also a key activity at our laboratory for improvement of the system, deepening of knowledge on the research results and expanding of the research through involving more people from more different fields.
For the research and the implementation, variety of spatial information such as satellite data, GIS, meteorological data and field investigation data is utilized for analysis and diagnosis of environmental and agricultural situation.
Moreover, in order to realize the sustainable development and improvement of agriculture and society, we are confident that the education to all people concerned in food production is quite important. So, in our laboratory, priority is put on both research and education and the two activities are conducted closely together like two wheels of a car moving ahead together. And since the food security is quite international subject, our activities always invite various researchers and people from every corner of the world.
Examples of research & implementation projects
(Grants for the projects are from government and company.)
- Environmental conscious IT agriculture -Development of agricultural system with environmental conservation through precision farming-
- Research on response of trees against dry and heat stress
- Diagnosing growth of potato by remote sensing
- Creation of agricultural community through new land use and IT agriculture
- Development of traceability system with information sharing using spatial information
- Development of damage assessment system for rice with use of satellite data and ground observation data
- Development of effective support system for sugar beet cultivation using satellite data
- Research on yield forecast of rice through scale up approach with use of satellite data
- Estimation of carbon stock in upland field and prediction of carbon stock change
- Construction of evaluation and information supply system on cedar pollen scattering
- Development and dissemination of advanced basin model in Asia -toward adaptation of climate changes-
- Research on indemnification for water saving in Citarum watershed, Indonesia
- Development and implementation of effective damage assessment method for agricultural insurance utilizing satellite data
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