Construction of past environmental information platform of Southeast Asia using declassified satellite images

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24682008
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
Allocation Type	Partial Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Human geography
Research Institution	Chubu University
Principal Investigator	WATANABE Nobuya 中部大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (10365497)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help	¥8,580,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,980,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥6,630,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,530,000)
Keywords	CORONA衛星 / GIS / 情報基盤 / WebGIS / 歴史 / 地理空間情報 / 東南アジア / 地理情報システム（GIS) / 空間情報 / 衛星画像 / 地理情報システム(GIS)
Outline of Final Research Achievements	The purpose of this study is to construct the historical spatial information platform to provide past geographical information of Asia via internet. The platform is expected to support various studies in the Asian region, such as disaster prevention, environmental management, and geography. The process for CORONA satellite image rectification is established and the utilization of rectified data (i.e. making of the topographic classification map) has been employed. Images covering 500,000km square has been processed, which includes Tiawan, Shanghai, Macau, Hongkong, Bangkok, Myanmar etc. Finally, WebGIS based information platform was prototyped and the data are stored in to the platform for the use.