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 | 
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| 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) 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 | 
| External Activity | AERONET | 
| 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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