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 remote sensing in department of civil Engineering, college of industrial technology, Nihon University.
－ Recent Research
- 1) Spectral approach for growing analysis of Racomitrium under outdoor condition (contract research activities)
- 2) A Methodological Approach for Dtermining Buildings Appropriate for Evacuation after a Tsunami Using LiDAR Data (College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University research grant)
- 3) Evaluation of beach erosion by time-series analysis of Satellite SAR data (JSPS KAKENHI ,Grant Number 24760421)
- 4) Relationship analysis between beach erosion and ground deformation in Japan (6th ALOS-2 Research Announcement)
－ 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. 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, and JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists B (grant number 60514164) as a principal investigator from 2012 to 2014. He has been active in a collaborative research of JAXA using ALOS-2 data as a principal investigator since 2016.
