- 3rd International Symposium of SSRE -3rd International Symposium of Center
for Space Science and Radio Engineering(SSRE)

28-29 August 2023
80th Anniversary
Memorial Hall,3F
East Campus, UEC- Monday 28 August 2023 -Opening
13:00-13:10

Prof. Hiroshi Kikuchi (SSRE, UEC, Japan)
Prof. Koji Abe (Director, Office for International Strategy, UEC, Japan)
Prof. Yasuhide Hobara (Director, Center for Space Science and RadioEngineering, UEC,Japan)

Session 1
13:10-13:30(20-min)

Chair: Prof. Yasuhide Hobara (SSRE, UEC, Japan)
The Monitoring Vibrations and Perturbations in the Lithosphere, Atmosphere,and Ionosphere (MVP-LAI) system: establishments, observational findings, andfuture plans
Prof. Chieh-Hung Chen (China University of Geosciences, China)
Study of ionosphere modification before large earthquakes-present and future
Dr. Koichiro. Oyama (Kyushu University, Japan)

13:30-13:50(20-min)

13:50-14:20

Session 2
14:20-14:40(20-min)14:40-15:00(20-min)15:00-15:10

Break

Chair: Prof. Hiroshi Kikuchi (SSRE, UEC, Japan)
Winter lightning strikes to aircraft around Komatsu airport, Japan Sea coastal
areaProf. Koichiro Michimoto (Former Prof. of National Defense Academy of Japan,and retired Col. of Japan Air-self Defense Force, Japan)
The newly designed lightning location system named LENTRA
Dr. Mikihisa Saito (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry,Japan)

Break1

- 3rd International Symposium of SSRE Session 3
15:10-15:30(20-min)15:30-15:50(20-min)
15:50-16:10(20-min)16:10-16:30

Chair: Prof. Koichiro Michimoto (Former Prof. of NDA, Japan)
Extraction of weather information from radar signals
Prof. Madhu Chandra (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
Observations of summer thunderstorms with X-band dual polarized phased arrayweather radar and LF/MF band lightning location system
Prof. Hiroshi Kikuchi (SSRE, UEC, Japan)
Water vapor lidar observation for improving of local severe rainfall forecast
Dr. Satoru Yoshida (Meteorological Research Institute, Japan)

Group photoSession 4

Chair: Prof. Chieh-Hung Chen (China University of Geosciences, China)

16:30-16:50(20-min)

Prediction of downbursts using machine learning of total lightning and ground
precipitation data in Japan
Prof. Yasuhide Hobara (SSRE, UEC, Japan)
Analysis of tweek-atmospherics based on measurements at three remotelocationsDr. Alexander Shvets (UEC, Japan / Usikov Institute for Radio-Physics andElectronics, Ukraine)

16:50-17:10(20-min)2

- 3rd International Symposium of SSRE - Tuesday 29 August 2023 -Session 5

Chair: Prof. Madhu Chandra (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)

09:30-09:50(20-min)Applications of stokes vector based data interpretation for polarimetric
Synthetic Aperture Radar
Prof. Fang Shang (UEC, Japan)
Microwave quantitative and qualitative imaging for non-destructive evaluation
applications
Prof. Shouhei Kidera (UEC, Japan)
Development of wideband heterodyne receivers for radio astronomy
Prof. Takeshi Sakai (SSRE, UEC, Japan)

09:50-10:10(20-min)10:10-10:30(20-min)10:30-10:40

BreakSession 6

Chair: Prof. Koichiro Oyama (Kyushu University, Japan)

10:40-11:00(20-min)

Characteristics of bolt-from-the-blue lightning observed in Japan
Dr. Namiko Sakurai (National Research Institute for Earth Science and DisasterResilience, Japan)
Tonga eruption-induced disturbances in lithosphere, atmosphere, and ionosphereand their coupling
Prof. Yang-Yi Sun (China University of Geosciences, China)

11:00-11:20(20-min)11:20-13:00

Lunch

Session 7

Chair: Prof. Takeshi Sakai (SSRE, UEC, Japan)

13:00-13:20(20-min)13:20-13:40(20-min)

New projects in high-energy atmospheric electricity
Prof. Sebastien Celestin (LPC2E, University of Orleans, CNRS, France)
Development of balloon-borne instrumentation for high-energy atmosphericelectricity
Mr. Yanis Hazem (LPC2E, University of Orleans, CNRS, France)
Study of the conditions of production of TGFs using self-consistent modeling
Mr. Pierre Gourbin (LPC2E, University of Orleans, CNRS, France)

13:40-14:00(20-min)14:00-14:10

Break3- 3rd International Symposium of SSRE -Session 8
14:10-14:30(20-min)14:30-14:50(20-min)
14:50-15:10(20-min)

Chair: Dr. Alexander Shvets (UEC, Japan / Usikov Institute for Radio-Physics
and Electronics, Ukraine)
An identification of electron density profile in the lower ionosphere by using atemporal variation of VLF earth-ionosphere waveguide propagation
Mr. Toshiyuki Irie (UEC, Japan)
Total lightning and heavy precipitation characteristics associated with TSs: Early
prediction possibility
Ms. Debrupa Mondal (UEC, Japan)
Modeling atmosphere-ionosphere coupling on gravity waves at two adjacent VLF
networks during typhoon using FDTD method
Mr. Antrisha Setiawan (UEC, Japan)

Closing remarks
15:10-15:15
Prof. Hiroshi Kikuchi (SSRE, UEC, Japan)

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