- Efforts to achieve NEC's environmental business vision
- A world first: New technology to eliminate the need for standby power in ICT equipment
- Plastic Made from Straw and Nut Shells
- Obayashi Corporation
- A bioplastic with a biomass ratio of more than 75%
- Optimizing Power and Space with ECO CENTER
- Observing Greenhouse Gases Around the Earth from Space
- Monitoring the forests from space
- High-Performance Workplaces
- e-Learning
Masanobu Shimada
The ALOS Science manager
Earth Observation Research Center (EORC)
Career
- 1979
- The National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA, former Japan
- Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA))
- He designed a NASDA scatterometer.
- 1985-1995
- The Earth Observation Center
- He developed data processing subsystems for optical and SAR data (MOS-1, SPOT, and JERS-1).
- 1990
- Visiting scientist, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- 1995
- The ALOS Science manager (ALOS CAL/VAL, rainforest mapping projects and SAR interferometry projects)
- Earth Observation Research Center (EORC)
Education
- 1977 & 1979
- BS and MS degrees in aeronautical engineering, Kyoto University
- 1999
- PhD in electrical engineering, the University of Tokyo
