Guidelines for Authors
1.Papers may only be written in Japanese or English.
2. Titles may not indicate that the paper is part of a series, for example, “Part 1” or (1).” Only acomplete papers may be submitted. Exceptions may be made for submissions solicited fromacademic institutes.
3. To ensure that they are judged objectively, the names and positions of authors may not bewritten
on original papers, technical reports, research bulletins and commentaries. This information is tobeincluded on the separate submission form and submitted along with the paper. Please number thelines. Do not write an acknowledgment in the first paper.
4. Original papers, technical reports, research bulletins and commentaries must include anabstract (overview). Normally the abstract is between 100 and 200 words. Japanese summary isunnecessary.
In addition, English papers should have an abstract in Japanese, with 300 to 400 characters asstandard.
5. Chapters are numbered “1, 2, 3…” sections are numbered “1.1, 1.2, 1.3…” and items arenumbered “1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3…” Acknowledgments, footnotes and bibliographies are not numbered
6. In principle, reference materials closely related to the topics addressed in original papers
technical reports, research bulletins and commentaries are placed at the end of said papers. ForJapanese manuscripts, write the Japanese reference materials in alphabetical order first, and theEnglish reference materials later in alphabetical order. Materials by the same author are listed by yearof publication. If said author has published more than one paper in the same year, these papers are indicatedas 2000a, 2000b, etc in the order of quotations. Please follow the examples provided below. Referencematerials are indexed in the text of the paper by author’s name and year of publication. When quoting theWEB page, if the author does not have an author name, enter the organization name or part of thesubject, and specify the year of access.
1) Papers in journals:
Wang, J., 2003a. Three-dimensional measurement from space for monitoring
deforestation. Photogrammetria, 42(1), pp. 12-23.
2) Books:King, J., 2001b. Remote Sensing for Global Environmental Studies. Elsevier,
Amsterdam,345pp.
3) Edited compilations:
Sato, K., 1980. Arial Photograph and Satellite Imagery. Technology of Photograph(Tanaka, J., ed.), pp. 63-82, Showa Shoten, Osaka.
4) Web pages:Estes, T., 1999. Report on the ISPRS WG VIII/8 Workshop “Global EnvironmentalMonitoring”, Stuttgart, Germany.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/tools/gis/isprs48.html (accessed 12 Sep. 2003)

7. Drawings, tables and photographs are numbered (Ex: Figure 1, Table 1, Photo 1). List these on aseparate sheet of paper with their captions.
8. In principle all submitted papers should adopt standard international (SI) notation. The
gravitational system of units may also be included alongside the SI units.

9. The following comments apply to the submission of final papers that have been approved forpublication.
(1)The author's name, affiliation, and acknowledgments should be included only in the finalmanuscript.
(2) Digital documents are to be submitted as text files or as Microsoft Word documents. MicrosoftExcel may be used to produce the tables. Raster image data files must be in the TIFF or EPS
format.
(3) Drawings, tables and photographs are limited in size to 212mm (H) × 148mm (W) in the final
printed layout. The printed resolution of digital images must be at least 300dpi for gray-scale
imagesand 1200dpi for line drawings. Please indicate the desired positions for each drawing, table andphoto in the right-hand margin of the paper.
(4) A brief introduction to the author may be appended at the end of original papers, technicalreports,research bulletins and commentaries. This introduction should include the author’s
curriculum vitae,field of specialization, qualifications, results and positions. If you choose toinclude such an introduction, please indicate this intention in the appropriate column in thesubmission form and write the introduction on a separate sheet (a photo portrait may be included).
This introduction must be no longer than 150 letters in Japanese or 75 words in English and thephoto portrait must be no larger than 30mm (H) × 20mm (W). Photo portraits may be submitted on
paper or as digital.

(Enacted September 10,2003)(Enacted November 9,2015)(Enacted May 9,2018)