By contrast, ground monitoring in inaccessible locations is difficult and expensive, and can be hazardous for conservation officers when confronted by illegal loggers and miners.Ī long-standing research interest for me has been on the intersection of long-term demographic transition and anthropogenic environmental pressures. For example, raw images from NASA, ESA and JAXA satellites can be freely downloaded from the internet and mapped using open access software such as Quantum GIS. This is a particularly valuable contribution to global environmental knowledge for developing countries especially, because the techniques and software used are low-cost and can be independently adapted to a broad range of needs. Hirose travels the world for Japan Space Systems training researchers, educators, governmental officers, and others in the mapping of satellite remote sensing imagery to monitor and express geographical and geomorphological change. Japan Space Systems is a semi-governmental organization associated with Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). I had been invited by the University of Sheffield’s Energy2050 Group to co-convene with Professor Asuka of Tohoku University a panel presentation at the Japanese Pavilion at the COP21 site on ‘Population Decline and Climate Change in the 21st Century’. He was there promoting Japan Space Systems’ work in environmental monitoring and training. Hirose at the UNFCCC COP21 Meeting in Paris, in December 2015. Senior Lecturer and Director of Research and Innovation, SEAS
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