Faculty of Science and Engineering
Graduate School of Science and Engineering

Academic Staff and Fellows

Itaru Sano
Professor Ph.D
Graduate school/ Electronic Engineering

Understanding of aerosol properties is impotant role in the climate research. The aim of this work is to estimate aerosol properties by remote sensing from space and ground.

Research Area Aerosols, Remote sensing
Teaching (Undergraduate Course) Computer Science
Teaching (Graduate Course) Environmental informatics, Remote Sensing
Research Interests Remote sensing of aerosols: Estimation of optical properties of aerosols based on polarization and total reflectance information
Selected Publications (1) Polarimetric properties of aerosol particles,Earth, Planets and Space, Vol. 50, pp.513-519,(1998)

(2) Optical thickness and Angstrom exponent of aerosols over the land and ocean from space-borne polarimetric data, Adv. Space Res., Vol. 34(4), pp 833-837, (2004)

(3) Suspended particulate matter sampling at an urban AERONET site in Japan, part 2: relationship between column aerosol optical thickness and PM2.5 concentration, J. Appl. Remote Sensing, Vol. 4(1), 043504, (2010)

(4) Regional and local variations in atmospheric aerosols using ground-based sun photometry during Distributed Regional Aerosol Gridded Observation Networks (DRAGON) in 2012, Atmos. Chem. Phys., Vol. 16, 14795-14803, (2016)
Research and Achievements
Affiliated Academic Societies AGU, IEEE, and SPIE
External Activity AERONET, JAXA (AOS, EarthCARE)
Education
(Undergraduate Course)		 Kanazawa Institute of Technology
Education
(Master's/Doctral Course)		 Kanazawa Institute of Technology
Title of Thesis, Institute, Date Algorithms for atmospheric correction and aerosol properties for ocean color remote sensing, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, March 1998.
Biography Research associate, Kindai University (1992), Lecturer (1998), Adjunct research fellow of Curtin University of Technology (1999-2000), Associate professor (2005), Professor (2011)

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