Our mission:

Recently, climate change issues including the increase of natural disasters, desertification, and the reduction of  bio-diversity, have continued to rise. With the economic chaos started from the end of fall 2008, it is time for people living on the Earth to start thinking seriously about the approaching end of humankind. Looking back to the history of life on the Earth, it can be divided to the four ages, i.e. the age of the creation when the earliest form of life started, the age of reconstitution when the eukaryotes  were created,  the age of diversification when many kinds of animals were born, and at present times, the age of the brain when the human being  has increasingly contributed to the shaping of the Earth system (influence of human activity). With our willingness, we can decide about the ideal way of human life on the Earth.  We need to understand the Earth accurately and the human society so that we can make correct choices.
For this, spatial information, and connections between short and long term time sequential information at all scales are crucially needed. Remote sensing is one of the most effective technologies that offer such information to the human being. .

Terms of Reference:

• Forestry, vegetation, agricultural and biodiversity studies and applications;
• Hydrology, oceanography, coastal zone, snow and ice applications;
• Atmospheric and weather studies and applications;
• Geology, pedology and geomorphology studies and applications;
• Monitoring and management of land and water resources;
• Land use, human impact and ecosystem analyses;
• Disaster monitoring, mitigation and damage assessment;
• Hazardous waste and environmental pollution assessment;
• Infrastructure, transportation and communications studies and applications;
• Satellite and aerial remote sensing policies;
• Cooperation with international environmental programs and strategies;
• Earth Observation activities to support sustainable development.
  

Technical Commission Officers:

President	VICE PRESIDENT	SCIENTIFIC SECRETARY	ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY
Haruhisa SHIMODA Research & Information Center, Tokai University 2-28-4, Tomigaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0063 Japan Tel: +81-3-3481-0611 Fax: +81-3-3481-0610 Email: smd@keyaki.cc.u-tokai.ac.jp	Yasushi HORIKAWA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency-JAXA 2-1-1 Sengen, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki Japan Tel: +81-29-868-5075 Fax: +81-29-868-5963 Email: horikawa.yasushi@jaxa.jp	Kohei CHO Research & Information Center, Tokai University 2-28-4, Tomigaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 151-0063 Japan Tel: +81-3-3481-0611 Fax: +81-3-3481-0610 E-mail: cho@yoyogi.ycc.u-tokai.ac.jp	Yoshiaki HONDA Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS), Chiba University 1-33, Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8522 Japan Tel: +81-43-290-3845 Fax: +81-43-290-3857 E-mail: yhonda@faculty.chiba-u.jp