ibukipeople

No.14

We look forward to seeing your full involvement into this great journey to find out the truth of global warming with GOSAT, GOSAT-2, and GOSAT-3

Tsuneo Matsunaga, Director
Satellite Observation Center,
National Institute for Environmental Studies

No.13

Observing Clouds, Diagnosing Environment

Prof. T. Y. Nakajima,
School of Information Science
/Research and Information Center (TRIC)
Tokai University

No.12

Big Stagehands in System Operation for Higher Level Data Processing

- NS Solutions Corporation members operating/maintaining GOSAT DHF at NIES

No.11

Big Stagehands in Higher Level Data Processing

- Fujitsu FIP engineers developing/maintaining GOSAT data processing system at NIES

No.10

Big Stagehands having given birth to GOSAT IBUKI

- NEC team to have developed GOSAT "TANSO" sensor (upper photo)
- Mitsubishi Electric team (in ivory work clothing) to have manufactured GOSAT IBUKI (lower photo)

No.9

Big Stagehands in Level 1 Processing

- Engineers involved in data and image
processing of the First Light
(upper photo)
- Engineers working on Level 1
algorithm development and precision
improvement
(lower photo)

No.8

Big Stagehands in Mission IBUKI

- Mission Operation System operators
to process/provide Level 1 data
(upper photo)
- Satellite Control System operators
to monitor/control IBUKI
(lower photo)

No.7

Atmospheric Trace Gas Research

Professor Takakiyo Nakazawa
Atmospheric Trace Gas Laboratory,
Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies,
Graduate School of Science,
Tohoku University
GOSAT Science Team member

No.6

Sensor Development

Akihiko Kuze
Satellite Applications and Promotion Center
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

No.5

Operation/Management

Hiroshi Watanabe
NIES GOSAT Project Office Manager

No.4

Operation/Management

Masakatsu Nakajima
GOSAT Mission Manager
Satellite Application and Promotion Center,
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

No.3

Validation Research

Isamu Morino
Senior Researcher,
Satellite Remote Sensing Research Section,
Center for Global Environmental Research,
National Institute for Environmental Studies

No.2

Algorithm Research

Tatsuya Yokota
Leader, NIES GOSAT Project
Chief, Satellite Remote Sensing Section
Climate Change Research Program Core Research Project 2 Leader,
Center for Global Environmental Research,
National Institute for Environmental Studies

No.1

Carbon Source/Sink Estimation

Shamil Maksyutov
Deputy Leader, NIES GOSAT Project
Special Senior Researcher,
Center for Global Environmental Research
National Institute for Environmental Studies