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V. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
The re-newborn All Japan Chapter continues to promote
the science and technology in the field steadily, in particular with emphasis on the following points in the forthcoming years. That is, we will:
1) Deepen our cooperation with other chapters, in particular with Asian chapters in South-East Asian countries
as well as India and Mid-East Asian countries, e.g., by
utilizing the distinguished lecturer program. The GRS
field deals with global problems, resulting in the necessity of both local and global cooperation.
2) Enhance our commitment to GRS and IEEE by holding/organizing technical events including future
IGARSS.
3) Extend the industry-government-academia cooperation. The GRSS field covers a wide area from fundamentals to practical applications for solving human beings
problems. The All Japan Chapter, centered at TokyoYokohama area where many related companies and
institutes accumulate, supports researchers to construct
flexible and extendable R&D environment.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author wishes to thank Dr. Motoyuki Sato of Tohoku
University and Dr. Masanobu Shimada of JAXA EORC for
providing materials.

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other companies in the vast fields such as antennas, highfrequency electronics, observation system designing, signal
and information processing, and so on and so forth. Many
companies and institutes concentrate and accumulate in
Tokyo- Yokohama area to conduct their R&D. The GRSS All
Japan Chapter also centers itself in this area to further promote the R&D activities.
Remote sensing technology and geoscience make
progress based on the integration of development in
wide range of fields including electrical, electronic and
information engineering. The GRS importance grows
rapidly and strikingly in Japan that runs in front in the
dark forest of challenging issue complex including earthquakes, floods, warming, etc. Tokyo-Yokohama area is
also changing rapidly to host the 2020 Olympics. It is our
overarching mission to develop equipment and systems,
observe the earth, and analyze the data to find solutions
to the problems.

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FiGURE 7. Images showing the Tokyo Disney Resort area on the
Tokyo Bay coast in Tokyo-Yokohama area observed by (a) JERS-1 in
1992 with resolution of about 18m, (b) original ALOS in 2006 with
10m and (c) ALOS-2 in June 2014 with 3m, respectively. Courtesy of
JAXA Earth Observation Research Center (EORC).

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REFERENCES
[1] A. Hirose, "APSAR 2013 Tsukuba, Japan-Report," IEEE Geosci.
Remote Sens. Mag., vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 83-85, June 2014.
[2] M. Shimada, "JAXA earth observation program digest," IEEE
Geosci. Remote Sens. Mag., vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 47-52, June 2014.

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