Name NASAHARA Kenlo
Position Associate Professor
Affiliation Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences/Doctoral Program in Sustainable Environmental Studies
Supervision Master/Doctor
Office 生物農林学系棟 E104
Email nasahara.kenlo.gw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Telephone +81-29-853-4897
Specializations remote sensing, ecology, watershed management, disaster management
Professional Experience 2000-2002: visiting scientist, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG), University of Montana
2007-present: leader, Ecology Research Group, Earth Observation Research Center (EORC), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Research Topics Remote sensing, Vegetation, Volcano
Publications (selected list)
- Nishida, K., Satow, K. Aniya, M., Casassa, G. and Kadota, T.(1995): Thickness change and flow of Tyndall Glacier, Patagonia. Bulletin of Glacier Research, 13, pp. 29-34.
- Nishida, K. and Narita, H.(1996): Three-dimensional observations of ice crystal characteristics in polar ice sheets, Journal of Geophysical Research, 101(D16), pp. 311-317.
- Nishida, K., Nemani, R. R., Running, S. W., Glassy, J. M. (2003): An operational remote sensing algorithm of land surface evaporation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D9), 4270, doi:10.1029/2002JD002062.
- Terunuma, T., Nishida, K., Amada, T., Mizuyama, T., Sato, I., Urai, M. (2005): Detection of traces of pyroclastic flows and lahars with satellite synthetic aperture radars. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(9), pp. 1927-1942, DOI: 10.1080/01431160512331326576.
- Iwao, K., K. Nishida, T. Kinoshita, and Y. Yamagata (2006), Validating land cover maps with Degree Confluence Project information, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L23404, doi:10.1029/2006GL027768.
- Nasahara, K. N., H. Muraoka, S. Nagai, H. Mikami (2008): Vertical integration of leaf area index in a Japanese deciduous broad-leaved forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 148/6-7, pp. 1136-1146, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2008.02.011.
- Motohka, T., K. N. Nasahara, A. Miyata, M. Mano, and S. Tsuchida (2009): Evaluation of optical satellite remote sensing for rice paddy phenology in monsoon Asia using continuous in-situ dataset. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30(17), 4343 - 4357, DOI: 10.1080/01431160802549369.
- Nasahara, K. N. (2009): Simple algorithm for estimation of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) using satellite data. SOLA (Science Online Letters on the Atmosphere), Vol. 5, 037-040, doi:10.2151/sola.2009-010 [PDF]
- Nagai S., Nasahara K.N., Muraoka H., Akiyama T.and Tsuchida S. (2010): Field experiments to test the use of the normalized difference vegetation index for phenology detection. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 150: 152-160.
- Motohka, T., Nasahara, K., Oguma, H., and Tsuchida, S. (2010): Utility of Green-Red Vegetation Index for remote sensing of vegetation phenology. Remote Sensing, 2(10), 2369-2387.
- Mizunuma, T., Koyanagi, T., Nasahara, K.N., Mencuccini, M., Wigate, L., Grace, J. (2011) The comparison of several colour indices for the photographic recording of canopy phenology of Fagus crenata in eastern Japan. Plant Ecology & Diversity, 4(1), 67-77, DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2011.563759. (First published on: 07 April 2011)
- Sasai, T., N. Saigusa, K.N. Nasahara, A. Ito, H. Hashimoto, R.R. Nemani, R. Hirata, K. Ichii, K. Takagi, T.M. Saitoh, T. Ohta, K. Murakami, Y. Yamagichi, T. Oikawa, Satellite-driven estimation of terrestrial carbon flux over Far East Asia with 1-km grid resolution, Remote Sensing of Environment, accepted. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.03.007
- Motohka, T., K.N. Nasahara, K. Murakami, S. Nagai (2011) Evaluation of sub-pixel cloud noises on MODIS daily spectral indices based on in situ measurements. Remote Sensing, 2011, 3(8), 1644-1662; doi:10.3390/rs3081644.
- Sasai, T., Nakai, S., Setoyama, Y., Ono, K, Kato, S., Mano, M., 2, Murakami, K., Miyata, A., Saigusa, N., Nemani, R.R., Nasahara, K.N. (2012) Analysis of the spatial variation in the net ecosystem production of rice paddy fields using the diagnostic biosphere model, BEAMS. Ecological Modelling, 247, 175-189, doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.08.016.
- Potithep, S., Nagai, S., Nasahara, K.N., Muraoka, H. Suzuki, R. (2013) Two separate periods of the LAI-VIs relationships using in situ measurements in a deciduous broadleaf forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 169, 148-155.
- Noda, H.M., Motohka, T., Murakami, K., Muraoka, H., and Nasahara, K.N. (2013) Accurate measurement of optical properties of narrow leaves and conifer needles with a typical integrating sphere and spectroradiometer. Plant, Cell and Environment, DOI: 10.1111/pce.12100.
- Hadano, M., Nasahara, K.N., Motohka, T., Noda, H., Murakami, K., Hosaka, M. (2013) High-resolution prediction of leaf onset date in Japan in the 21st century under the IPCC A1B scenario. Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1002/ece3.575
- Nagai, S., Saitoh, T.M., Noh, N-J., Yoon, T-K., Kobayashi, H., Suzuki, R., Nasahara, K.N., Son, Y-H., Muraoka, H. (2013) Utility of information in photographs taken upwards from the floor of closed-canopy deciduous broadleaved and closed-canopy evergreen coniferous forests for continuous observation of canopy phenology. Ecological Informatics, 18, 10-19.
- Nagai S., Saitoh T.M., Kurumado K., Tamagawa I., Kobayashi H., Inoue T., Suzuki R., Gamo M., Muraoka H., Nasahara K.N. (2013) Detection of bio-meteorological year-to-year variation by using digital canopy surface images of a deciduous broad-leaved forest. SOLA, Vol. 9, 106-110, doi:10.2151/sola.2013-024.
- Noda HM, Motohka T, Murakami K, Muraoka H, Nasahara KN (2013) Reflectance and transmittance spectra of leaves and shoots of 22 vascular plant species and reflectance spectra of trunks and branches of 12 tree species in Japan. Ecological Research, DOI:10.1007/s11284-013-1096-z.
- Nagai S, Inoue T, Ohtsuka T, Kobayashi H, Kurumado K, Muraoka H, Nasahara KN (2014) Relationship between spatio-temporal characteristics of leaf-fall phenology and seasonal variations in near surface- and satellite-observed vegetation indices in a cool-temperate deciduous broad-leaved forest in Japan. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 35(10), 3520-3536
- Tomoharu Inoue, Shin Nagai, Taku M. Saitoh, Hiroyuki Muraoka, Kenlo N. Nasahara, Hiroshi Koizumi (2014) Detection of the different characteristics of year-to-year variation in foliage phenology among deciduous broad-leaved tree species by using daily continuous canopy surface images. Ecological Informatics 22, 58-68.
- Mizuochi H, Hiyama T, Ohta T, Nasahara KN (2014) Evaluation of the surface water distribution in north-central Namibia based on MODIS and AMSR series. Remote Sensing, 6, 7660-7682; doi:10.3390/rs6087660
- Nagai S, Saitoh TM, Nasahara KN, Suzuki R (2014) Spatio-temporal distribution of the timing of start and end of growing season along vertical and horizontal gradients in Japan. International Journal of Biometeorology, DOI 10.1007/s00484-014-0822-8.
- Yang W, Kobayashi H, Suzuki R, Nasahara KN (2014) A simple method for retrieving understory NDVI in sparse boreal forests by MODIS BRDF data. Remote Sensing, 6(12), 11936-11955; doi:10.3390/rs61211936
- Nagai S, Yoshitake S, Inoue T, Suzuki R, Muraoka H, Nasahara KN, Saitoh TM (2014) Year-to-year blooming phenology observation by using time-lapse digital camera images. Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, 70(3), 163-170.
- Nasahara KN, Nagai S (2015) Development of an in-situ observation network for terrestrial ecological remote sensing — the Phenological Eyes Network (PEN). Ecological Research, DOI 10.1007/s11284-014-1239-x
Courses at MES/DSES Remote Sensing (English)
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