Researchers

SANO Itaru

SANO Itaru
Professor
Faculty Department of Informatics / Graduate School of Science and Engineering / Science and Technology Research Institute / Cyber Informatics Research Institute / Graduate School of Informatics
Researchmap https://researchmap.jp/Earth_observatory

Education and Career

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Apr. 2011 - Today , Kindai University Faculty of Science and Engineering 教授
  • Apr. 2005 - Mar. 2011 , Kindai University Faculty of Science and Engineering 助(准)教授
  • Apr. 1998 - Mar. 2005 , Kindai University Faculty of Science and Engineering 講師
  • Apr. 1992 - Mar. 1998 , Kindai University Faculty of Science and Engineering 助手

Research Activities

Research Areas

  • Environmental science/Agricultural science, Environmental dynamics
  • Natural sciences, Atmospheric and hydrospheric science

Research Interests

光散乱, 偏光, エアロゾル, リモートセンシング, SGLI, AERONET, SKYNET, PM2.5, 光散乱シミュレーション, エアロゾル光学特性

Published Papers

  1. Regional Characteristics of Aerosols in the Nara Basin by Direct Solar Radiation Measurements
    Sayaka KIKUCHI; Rena TANAKA; Kaho KOBAYASHI; Makoto KUJI; Itaru SANO; Tadahiro HAYASAKA
    (Journal of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan  45  (3)  , 181-191, Sep. 2025  , Refereed
  2. Derivation of BBA Plume Properties by Taking Advantage of the Characteristics of GCOM-C/SGLI
    Sonoyo Mukai; Makiko Nakata; Itaru Sano; Toshiyuki Fujito
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing  17  , 9790-9796, 2024  , Refereed
  3. Development and classification of Japanese-region-specific aerosol modes based on 10-year sky radiometer observations
    Kobayashi, H; H. Irie; M. Momoi; T. Ohno; H. Yamamoto; P. Khatri; I. Sano; H. Okumura; H. Kobayashi
    SOLA  2023  , Refereed

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Books etc

  1. Atmospheric Aerosols: Life Cycles and Effects on Air Quality and Climate , Sandro Fuzzi; Stefania Gilardoni; Alexander A. Kokhanovsky; Walter Di Nicolantonio; Sonoyo Mukai; Itaru Sano; Makiko Nakata; Claudio Tomasi; Christian Lanconelli , Chapter 9 , Wiley , Jan. 2017

MISC

  1. Significance of Simultaneous Observations of Polarization and Radiance with SGLI , Sonoyo Mukai; Makiko Nakata; Itaru Sano; Souichiro Hioki; Toshiyuki Fujito , Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering , 12730 , 2023
  2. Analysis of BBA-Events by SGLI'S Simultaneous Observation of Polarization and Radiance. , Sonoyo Mukai; Makiko Nakata; Itaru Sano; Souichiro Hioki , IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium(IGARSS) , 3913 , 3916 , 2023
  3. Availability of polarization information for hazy aerosol analysis , Sonoyo Mukai; Itaru Sano; Makiko Nakata; Souichiro Hioki , Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering , 12265 , 2022

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Awards & Honors

  1. 平成14年 日本リモートセンシング学会論文賞

Research Grants & Projects

  1. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Long-range transport and deposition of bioaerosols over East Asia , Kindai University
  2. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Influence of mountain topography on aerosol transportation , Kindai University
  3. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Improved algorithms for aerosol retrieval based on multi-spectral radiance and polarization measurements , Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics

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