Job title：
Associate Professor
Other affiliations (1)：
Chiba University
Center for Environmental Remote Sensing
Affiliated faculty
Research field (4)：
Environmental dynamics
, Landscape science
, Environmental agriculture
, Forest science
Research keywords (5)：
Forest fire
, Three dimension
, Laser
, Remote Sensing
, Forest
Research theme for competitive and other funds (37)：
2018 - 2022 Forest Management Practice to Prevent Log Flow Damage Through Long-term analysis with Cell Based Distributed Runoff Model
2019 - 2022 Development of Monitoring Technique for Forest Disaster (extended funding)
2019 - 2022 Estimating Forest Carbon Stocks in Interior Alaska by Integrating Field, Airborne and ALOS-2 Satellite Data
2019 - 2022 Monitoring fire refugia after forest fire to identify vegetation recovery status
2019 - 2021 Software development for forest disaster using 3D laser data
2019 - 2021 Development of a model for prediction of idle farmland lending intention by machine learning: Impact assessment on rural communities, and promotion of land accumulation to leaders
2017 - 2020 Development of Comprehensive and Sustainable Forest Resource Information System using Satellite Remote Sensing in Far East Russia
2016 - 2020 Fundamental Measurements and Modeling of Prescribed Fire Behavior in the Naturally Heterogeneous Fuel Beds of Southern Pine Forests
2016 - 2020 Development of Tree Competitive Index using Terrestrial Laser Scanner
2018 - 2019 Structural changes in circumpolar boreal forests and climate change: analyses by stand reconstruction and palynological landscape reconstruction techniques
2018 - 2019 Monitoring plant growth using AI and 3D technology
2016 - 2019 Development of Monitoring Technique for Forest Disaster
2017 - 2018 Development of Plant Health Decision System using Hyperspectral Camera and UAV Data
2015 - 2018 Evaluating Impact Assessment of Forest Disaster Using Terrestrial Laser Scanner
2013 - 2017 Research and Development for Increased Woody Biomass Production through Genome Breeding and High Efficiency Forestry Operations
2016 - 2017 Forest Biomass Estimation through Precision Forestry using UAV
2016 - 2017 Drone data collection for Tsubaki distribution in Kakara Island, Saga
2013 - 2017 Development of Field Sampling Techniques for Biomass Monitoring
2013 - 2017 Estimation of Woody Biomass using Satellite Radar and Terrestrial Lidar
2014 - 2016 Monitoring Technique of Vegetation Recovery from Natural Disaster
2014 - 2016 Three Dimensional Vegetation Map Created from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Terrestrial Laser Scanner
2014 - 2015 Project for estimating forest biomass in Nagasaki
2014 - 2015 Development of Forest Resource Estimating Techniques with Digital Airborne Photographs and Terrestrial Laser 3D data
2012 - 2014 Estimating Carbon Amount using Laser Remote Sensing
2012 - 2014 Stem Volume Estimation of Camelia (Camellia japonica)
2011 - 2014 Developing objective methods for evaluating the effects of silvicultural treatments on carbon sequestration and stock in plantation forests
2012 - 2013 REDD+ project in Vietnam
2012 - 2013 Automatic Forest Survey Techniques using Laser Remote Sensing to Estimate Forest Resources
2011 - 2013 Quantifying Aboveground Biomass Change Caused by Forest Management Activities using Airborne LiDAR and PALSAR
2011 - 2013 Development of Forest Resource Simulation using Airborne and Terrestrial Laser Data
2010 - 2013 Planting local species along highway
2012 - 2013 Restoration Project for REDD+ in Vietnam
2010 - 2012 Tree Biomass and Production Estimation from Terrestrial Laser Scanner
2010 - 2012 Estimating Carbon Amount of Forest for Carbon Trading
2011 - 2012 REDD+ project in Vietnam
2009 - 2011 Software Development for 3-Dimensional Landscape Analysis using Laser Data
2009 - 2010 Building Decarbonizing and Eco-friendly Society in Local Community
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Papers (53)：
Gaku Yahagi, Akira Kato, Tomoki Kato, Toru Mitani. Tree structural transformation of Sukashi-pruning using 3D point cloud data in Japanese garden. Journal of The Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture. 2021. 5. InPress
Andrew T Hudak, Akira Kato, Benjamin C Bright, E Louise Loudermilk, Christie Hawley, Joseph C Restaino, Roger D Ottmar, Gabriel A Prata, Carlos Cabo, Susan J Prichard, et al. Towards Spatially Explicit Quantification of Pre- and Postfire Fuels and Fuel Consumption from Traditional and Point Cloud Measurements. Forest Science. 2020. 66. 4. 428-442
kuromiya kensuke, nakaura tatsuki, kato akira, takahashi terumasa, kobayashi tatsuaki. Relationship between windfall trees in Chiba Prefecture and utility pole damage due to Typhoon No. 15 in 2019. The Japanese Forest Society Congress. 2020. 131. 0. 176-176
Analysis of the windthrow of Sanbu-sugi cultivar of Cryptomeria japonica D. Don and Lithocarpus edulis (Makino) Nakai caused by the Reiwa 1 Boso Peninsula Typhoon. 2021. 47. 1. 105-110
Kato, A. Application of Laser Sensing for Forest Monitoring. magazine OPTRONICS. 2019. 11. 129-133
Kato A, Wakabayashi, H, Osawa, A, Watanabe, M, Moskal L.M, Hudak, A. Forest Fire Disaster Assessment using ALOS 2 and Terrestrial Laser Scanner. Proceedings of ForestSAT 2018. 2018. 65-66
Akira Kato. Evaluating Impact Assessment of Forest Disaster Using Terrestrial Laser Scanner. Final Report of Environment Research and Technological Development Fund (Ministry of the Environment, Japan). 2018
RADARSCAPE -how our landscape is described by radar-
(The 2nd Seminar on Microwave Remote Sensing (SeMIRES 2020) 2020)
Quantifying fire trends from time-series analysis
(The Joint PI Meeting of JAXA Earth Observation Missions FY2019 2020)
Precision Agricultural Management Achieved by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Artificial Intelligence
(International Conference on Resources and Human Mobility (Jointly organized by Mahidol University International College, Thailand, and Chiba University, Japan) 2019)
Estimating fuel consumption at multiple scales from pre- and post-fire TLS and ALS
(Silvilaser 2019, Foz do Iguacu, Parana, Brazil 2019)
2020/11 - Chiba University Award for Advanced Science 3D forest survey technology and application to forest disaster due to climate change
2016/12 - Chiba University President Award
2014/01 - Station for Academic-Industry Collaboration Research Promotion, Chiba University Innovation Award
2013/12 - Chiba University President Award
2011/04 - Chiba University Venture Business Laboratory Nanohana Award (The Futaba Electric Memorial Foundation) and Himawari Award (Chiba Bank)
2010/04 - Chiba University Venture Business Laboratory Nanohana Award (The Futaba Electric Memorial Foundation) and Himawari Award (Chiba Bank)
2009/12 - Chiba University President Award
2008/04 - American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Ta Liang Memorial Award
2008/04 - American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Paul R. Wolf Memorial Award
2007/06 - University of Washington College of Forest Resources, Best Teaching Assistant of the Year Award
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Association Membership(s) (8)：
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY
, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
, THE REMOTE SENSING SOCIETY OF JAPAN
, JAPANESE SOCIETY OF REVEGETATION TECHNOLOGY
, THE JAPANESE FOREST SOCIETY
, THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
, JAPAN SOCIETY OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
