Japanese
Associate Professor
Tomohito ASAKA, Ph.D
E-mail: asaka.tomohito@nihon-u.ac.jp
－ Contact Information
Adress: 1-2-1 Izumi, Narashino, Chiba 275-8575 JAPAN.
Tel. / Fax. : 047-474-2451
－ Biography
- Tomohito Aasaka was born in Shizuoka, Japan on December 27th 1979. He received his Ph.D. in engineering from Nihon University in 2007. From 2007 to 2008, he was a post-doctoral researcher of high technology research center, college of industrial technology, Nihon University. In 2008, he gained a position as research assistant of Nihon University, where he is now an associate professor. He teaches basic structural dynamics, computer aided design practice, surveying practice, applied surveying and geoinformatics at department of civil Engineering, college of industrial technology, Nihon University.
－ Recent Research
- 1) Efficiency of reinforced slopes inspection by UAV and earth observation satellite data (JSPS KAKENHI ,Grant Number 21K04292)
- 2) Generation and evaluation of digital terrain models using Multi-footprint Observation Lidar and Imager (The third Research Announcement on the Earth Observations (EO-RA3), PI No. ER3MLF002)
－ Membership and Activities
- Tomohito Asaka is a member of the Japan Society of Civil Engineering (JSCE), Remote Sensing Society of Japan (RSSJ), Japan Association of Surveyors and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.
- He received the best presentation awards of national meeting of JSCE in 2004, and the young authors paper award of RSSJ in 2015, the best paper award of RSSJ in 2022.
- He had performed a collaborative research of JAXA using ALOS data as a principal investigator from 2007 to 2011, the government-subsidized projects of MLIT as a co-investigator from 2009 to 2011, JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) as a principal investigator from 2012 to 2014 (grant number 60514164) , JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) as a principal investigator from 2018 to 2022 (grant number 18K04398) .
- He is currently engaged in a collaborative research of JAXA using MOLI data as a principal investigator, and JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) as a principal investigator (grant number 21K04292).
