At the 40 Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS), which was held from October 14 to 18, 2019 in Daejeon, South Korea, Professor Kohei Cho received the ACRS special commendation. The ACRS is one of Asia’s largest international conference on remote sensing, and it is run by the Asian Association for Remote Sensing (AARS), a group of academic societies and space agencies in the region.

The award Professor Cho received was established in commemoration of the 40 year anniversary of the ACRS. It is given to researchers who have contributed to the ACRS for many years.

Professor Kohei Cho and Professor Osamu Uchida were invited to give a lecture entitled “Glocal Monitoring: A New Approach to Disaster Monitoring” at Sendai Technical High School for the annual lecture session given on March 11, the day of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Professor Uchida appeared as a lecturer on the use of social media in times of disaster on TOKYO FM’s Mirai Jugyo (Future Lessons). His appearances aired from March 4 to 7 .

Part 1: Disasters and social media

Part 2: Using different types of social media in a disaster

Part 3: #○○ Disaster

Part 4: Disaster management drills on Twitter and disaster management in the social media era

The Second International Workshop on Glocal Monitoring was held on February 21 and 22 at the University of the Philippines Diliman.
At the workshop, 10 researchers from China, Taiwan, the US, Japan, and the Philippines, presented their research on monitoring disaster situations and environmental changes using remote sensing. It also included discussions with a total of about 100 participants, including participants from various institutions in the Philippines.

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We designed and developed the road reporting system Michi-Repo at the request of Hiratsuka City. The system was officially launched on March 1.

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Professor Kohei Cho gave a lecture at the NPO Kawasaki Citizens Academy. The purpose of the academy is to provide a place for the citizens of Kawasaki City and surrounding areas to continue learning in a highly professional manner and to contribute to the development of a local community that is healthy, rewarding, creative, and unique. The academy requested an easily comprehensible introduction of how global environmental changes can be captured from space, and so we held a lecture by Professor Cho and a tour of the Research and Information Center. About 50 participants attended the session.

https://www.u-tokai.ac.jp/research/news/detail/post_92.html

DITS (Disaster Information Tweeting System) and DIMS (Disaster Information Mapping System), which are outcomes of the glocal monitoring project, were introduced in the quarterly magazine published by QS, which releases the annual QS World University Rankings.

https://www.qs-asia.com/e-book/wownews/files/assets/basic-html/index.html#45

An article related to this project was published in the Nov. 1 issue of Tokai University Newspaper.

Based on the experiences of the September 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake, there was a citizen-participatory workshop entitled, “Urban development around Makomanai Station from the perspective of disaster management and disaster mitigation” in Sapporo on October 6.

The event was intended to promote achievements in DITS/DIMS throughout Japan.

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We exhibited in the poster session at Bousai Kokutai (National Conference of Disaster Management) 2018held on October 13 to 14, 2018 and introduced the Twitter-based disaster information sharing system, DITS/DIMS and the Twitter-based disaster safety confirmation system T-@npi.

The event was held at Tokyo Big Sight and the Sona area (the Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park), and it attracted approximately 12,000 visitors in two days.