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• Historical Background of Center for Environmental Remote Sensing
• April 1963 Institute of Natural Color Technology (INCT) was established in Faculty of Engineering
  
  April 1976 Division of Remote Sensing Image Processing was established in INCT
  
  April 1986 INCT was reorganized to Remote Sensing and Image Research Center (RSIRC) as an independent center in Chiba University
  
  April 1995　RSIRC was reorganized and expanded to Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS) as a joint research center open to all universities. Composed of three-division programs and one development and operations department.
  
  April 2004 All national universities including Chiba University have been changed to “National University Corporations” and reorganized to two research areas and Satellite Data Processing Office.
  
  April 2010 CEReS was authorized as “Joint Usage / Research Center” by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
  
  April 2017 The Department of Environmental Remote Sensing,comprising researchers of the Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS), was newly established in Chiba University
  
  October 2021 The structure of three-division programs reorganized to five-division programs.
  
  October 2025 We will reorganize to eleven-division programs.