Data Assistant
Resume:
Akira Hirano
Social Sciences Division
Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS)
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Phone: +81-29-838-**** Fax: +81-29-838-****
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Summary of Qualifications:
Twenty-two years' professional experience in environmental applications with solid background in remote sensing and GIS techniques. Fluent in both Japanese and English, various computer languages (C, C++, FORTRAN, Visual Basic, AWK, HTML). Other skills include familiarity with operating systems (Windows, Macintosh, Unix, Linux) in addition to network and system administration. Research software knowledge of ArcGIS, ERDAS Imagine, and ENVI.
Employment:
October 2006
Present
JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (JIRCAS)
Social Sciences Division
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Senior Researcher Engaged in research projects for enhancing more benevolent use of recent satellite remote sensing data for agricultural land use assessment. Currently working on pasture resources monitoring and mapping in Mongolia. Responsible for past research activities in study areas in China, Mongolia and Indonesia.
April 2005
September 2006
JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (JIRCAS)
Development Research Division
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Adjunct Research Associate Conduct research on recent agricultural land use change assessment in Burkina Faso, Africa using various satellite remotely sensed data. Liaised with researchers from other universities and research institutes in Japan on a routine basis.
April 2002
March 2005
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Doctoral Program in History and Anthropology
University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Assistant Professor Responsible for carrying out the environmental mapping in a semi-arid region of northern Kenya for a collaborative research on the pastoral community and its interactions with the surrounding ecosystem. Also funded by a university research grant to organize a digital index of Japanese topographic maps and published the end-product to the world wide web.
January 1996
March 2002
CENTER FOR REMOTE SENSING AND MAPPING SCIENCE (CRMS)
Department of Geography, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Research Assistant Engaged in wetland vegetation GIS database construction for the Everglades National Park in south Florida, and vegetation mapping project in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Specialized in the use of hyperspectral image data. Other duties include being a lab assistant in remote sensing, GIS, global positioning systems (GPS), image processing courses, compilation of remote sensing course materials, in-house GIS data management, orthophoto constructions from stereo aerial photographs, and assessment of NASA earth observing satellite Terra s ASTER image data-post launch.
April 1994
December 1995
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Visiting Scientist Duties included production of soil map using Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data in Hokkaido island, monitoring of deforestation in the Philippines using Japanese MOS satellite data, environmental assessment using GIS techniques, temporal monitoring of Patagonian glacier movement using satellite image data. Presented research results at scientific conferences (Japan, Thailand, and the United States).
April 1992
March 1994
KOEI, Co.
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Programmer/Project Designer Designed computer assisted instruction (CAI) software for language acquisition. Developed software with C language as well as supporting the development of machine level routines with Assembly language.
Education:
January 1996
December 2001
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Athens, GA
Ph. D. in Geography (Remote Sensing/GIS)
April 1989
March 1992
UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
M.S. in Environmental Sciences
April 1985
March 1989
UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
B.A. in Earth Science
Selected Publications in English:
Waisurasingha, C., A. Hirano, M. Aniya, J. Sang-Arun, and W. Sommut, 2008. Application of remote sensing and GIS for improving rice production in flood-prone areas: A case study in Lower Chi-river basin, Thailand, JARQ, vol. 42, no. 3, pp.193-201.
Hirano, A., and H. Bambang, 2007. Looking into smallholder coffee plantation with ALOS data in Lampung Province, Indonesia, Proceedings, ACRS: 28th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, CD-ROM unpaginated.
Hirano, A., K. Toriyama, and H. Komiyama, 2006. Spatiotemporal characterization of Mongolian grassland based on vegetation trend analysis, Proceedings, ACRS: 27th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, CD-ROM unpaginated.
Hirano, A., X. Sun, and S. Sato, 2004. Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data for Africa: Potential applications to research in the semi-arid regions of Northern Kenya, Journal of African Studies, vol. 65, pp. 37-44.
Hirano, A., 2004. Topographic mapping from space for arid and semi-arid lands in northern Kenya, Proceedings, GISDECO 2004: Seventh International Seminar on GIS for Developing Countries, pp. 22-1-22-8.
Hirano, A., M. Madden, and R. Welch, 2003., WETLANDS, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 436-448.
Hirano, A., H. Lang, R. Welch, and H. Lang, 2003. Mapping from ASTER stereo image data: DEM validation and accuracy assessment, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, vol. 57, pp. 356-370.
Hirano, A., 2001. Digital stereoscopic and hyperspectral data for environmental mapping applications, Ph. D. Dissertation, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 126 p.
Hirano, A., T. R. Jordan, and R. Welch, 2001. ASTER DEM accuracy validation, Proceedings of the Joint Workshop, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), Vol. XXXIV, Part 4/W5, Commission IV, p. 41.
Hirano, A. and M. Aniya, 1995. Global environmental monitoring with remote sensing data: glacier variations in the Northern Patagonia Icefield, Proceedings, Sixth International Space Conference of Pacific Basic Societies, American Astronautical Society (AAS), pp. 713-725.
Hirano, A., G. Saito, and N. Mino, 1995. Monitoring deforestation in Luzon, the Philippines using satellite data, Proceedings, 16th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Asian Association on Remote Sensing (ACRS).
Selected Presentations:
"Establishment of a baseline for future grassland monitoring in Mongolia"
AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2007.
"Topograhpic mapping using ASTER stereo for the semi-arid lands in northern Kenya"
ASTER Science Team Meeting ASTER Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, 2004.
"Mapping sedentarization of the Rendille pastoralists in Marsabit, northern Kenya using remotely sensed image data"
AAG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2003.
"ASTER DEM accuracy validation"
ASPRS Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, 2001.
"Empirical approach to using standard hand-held global positioning system measurements for controlling satellite stereo models"
AAG Annual Meeting, New York, NY, 2001.
"Suitability of hyperspectral image data for wetland vegetation mapping"
ASPRS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2000.
"Global environmental monitoring with remote sensing data. -- Glacier variations in the Northern Patagonia Icefield --"
Sixth International Space Conference of Pacific Basic Societies, American Astronautical Society (AAS), Marina Del Ray, CA, 1995.
"Monitoring deforestation in Luzon, the Philippines using satellite data"
16th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Asian Association on Remote Sensing (AARS), Thailand, 1995.
"Monitoring glacier frontal variations using satellite data. -- San Rafael Glacier, Patagonia, South America --"
JSPRS, Japan, 1995.
"Monitoring deforestation in Luzon, the Philippines using remote sensing data"
International Symposium on Vegetation Monitoring, Japan, 1995.
"Comparing satellite data derive land use map and an existing land use map. -- The Camiling district, the Philippines --"
JSPRS, Japan, 1995.
Professional Societies:
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)
Association of American Geographers (AAG)
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
Japan Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (JSPRS)
The Remote Sensing Society of Japan (RSSJ)
Japan Association of Arid Land Studies (JAALS)
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