Japan-India-Russia Symposium on Geospatial data forEnvironmental Monitoring (JIRSGEM)-2019
Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University
16th – 18th October 2019

JIRSGEM-2019 symposium was organized at Graduate School of Environment in
Hokkaido University, Japan. All the speaker and attendees were well received by Dr. RamAvtar. Purpose of this meeting was to discuss about advanced application of geospatial
data for environment monitoring. This event also included technical sessions, poster
presentation, was an open event, welcomed for all participants. The event wasinaugurated by Executive Director of Global Land Programme Japan Nodal office, Prof.
Teiji Watanabe. After the inauguration and welcome speech, we officially started withtechnical session. The technical session was followed by poster presentation on the sameday. Further the event was ended with a closing remark by Prof. Shiro Tsuyuzaki. On thenext day, hands on trainings on POLSAR were conducted by Dr. Ram Avtar, Prof. G. Singhand Prof. D. Singh. Eventually, on the third day, the symposium ended with the final
session of Field excursion to Hokkaido University Botanical garden. Summary of eachspeaker and details of complete event are specified in the Annexure 1 - 2.

Day 1 – Presentation and Seminar(16th October 2019)

Day 2 – PolSAR hands on training (17th October 2019)

Day 3 – Field excursion to Hokkaido University Botanical Garden (18th October 2019)

Annexure-1
Programme Schedule (JIRSGEM-2019)
Date/Times

Event/Presentation
Resource Person
Day 1 - October 16, 2019 (Wednesday) Room E-206

09:00-9:30
9:30-9:40

Registration
Inauguration and welcome speech

9:40-9:50
9:50-10:50
9:50-10:10

Group Photo
Technical Session-I
Remote monitoring of forest change in thenorth of Russia since 2000

Prof. Teiji Watanabe, Executive Director,
Global Land Programme Japan Nodal
office, Japan
Chair: Prof. Gulab Singh
Dr. Olga Tutubalina, Moscow State
University, (MSU), Russia

10:10-10:30
10:30- 10:50
10:50-11:00
11:00-12:00
11:00-11:20
11:20-11:40
11:40-12:00

Efficient Application of Polarimetric
Information with Artificial Intelligence forMixed Pixel Analysis
Application of UAV in agriculture and dairy(2016-2019)
Coffee BreakTechnical Session-II
Glacier movement in Himalaya using DInSAR
Study of forest vegetation in central SakhaYakutia, Russia, using satellite radar imagery
Glacial lakes and glacier lake outburst floods(GLOFs) in Nepal Himalaya

12:00-13:00
13:00-14:40
13:00-13:20

Lunch breakTechnical Session-III
Monitoring spatio-temporal urban expansion inDelhi and Bangladesh

13:20-13:40

Multi-sensor data analysis for agricultural
applications
A novel approach towards forest fragmentationsusceptibility: An example from Indian
Himalaya

13:40-14:00

14:00-14:20

Applications of UAVs to detect health ofyoung oilpalm in Malaysia

14:20-14:30
14:30-15:50
14:30-14:50

Coffee breakTechnical session-IV
Data Processing for Remote Sensing
Applications: Challenges and Issues

14:50-15:10

Mapping and analysis of forests in central Kolapeninsula using Sentinel-1 SAR imagery
Using blockchain technology to keep
ownership while sharing information and data
Distribution of Marine litter in Rusha,
Shiretoko Peninsula

15:10-15:30
15:30-15:50
15:50-16:50

Poster and networking session with Coffee
breakApplications of the Robust Decision-Making
Framework in Assessing Policy Measures on
Urban Water Management under the Contextof Climate Uncertainty and Urbanization
Digital Building Height (DBH) Modeling by
remote sensing approach: A case study on
Dhaka Metropolitan Area (DMA), Bangladesh
Land Surface Temperature Variations andGreen Cover Loss During 1990-2019 in theCoastal City of Panaji, India
Use of satellite remote sensing data in
Climatology of Tropical Cyclone recurvature
frequency over the Indian Ocean

Prof. Dharmendra Singh, Indian Institute ofTechnology Roorkee (IITR), India
Prof. Kanichiro Matsumura, Tokyo
University of Agriculture, Japan
Chair: Teiji Watanabe
Prof. Gulab Singh, Centre for Resource
Engineering (CSRE), Indian Institute ofTechnology Bombay (IITB), India
Dr. Polina Mikhailyukova Moscow State
University, (MSU), Russia
Mohan Chand, Graduate School ofEnvironmental Earth Science, Hokkaido
University, Japan
Chair: Prof. Olga Tutubalina
Dr. Huynh Vuong Thu Minh, Dr. RamAvtar Graduate School of Environmental
Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
Igor Sereda, Moscow State University,(MSU), Russia
Dr. Amit Kumar Batar*, Prof. Teiji
Watanabe, Prof. Hideaki Shibata *Field
Science Center for Northern Biosphere,
Hokkaido University, Japan
Stanley Anak Suab, Dr. Ram Avtar
Graduate School of Environmental
Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
Chair: Prof. Kanichiro Matsumoto
Dr. Ashwani Aggarwal, Electrical andInstrumentation Engineering Department,Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering andTechnology, India
Anna Sozontova, Moscow State
University, (MSU), Russia
Benjamin Collett and Franz Bergmeier
Rankoshi Mountain Lab, Hokkaido, Japan
Yu Sugita Graduate School ofEnvironmental Science, Hokkaido
University, Japan
Chair: Prof. Dharmendra Singh/Dr.
Ram Avtar
Nguyen Hong Duc Graduate School ofEnvironmental
Science,
Hokkaido
University, Japan
Md. Mustafizur Rahman Graduate Schoolof Environmental Science, Hokkaido
University, Japan
Manish Ramaiah Graduate School ofEnvironmental Science, Hokkaido
University, Japan
Raveena Raj Graduate School ofEnvironmental Science, Hokkaido
University, Japan

16:50-17:00

09:30-12:30
12:30-13:30
13:30–15:30
16:00- 17:00
10:00-12:00

Detection of Soiling on Photovoltaic Solar
Panels Using Optical satellite data on Google
Earth Engine
Correcting Topographic Effect on Landsat-8
Images: An Evaluation of Topographic
Correction Using Different DEMs in Indonesia
Significant decrease of mangrove forests
through the last three decades in southeastern
coastal areas of Vietnam
Closing remark

Hitesh Supe Graduate School ofEnvironmental Science, Hokkaido
University, Japan
Deha Umarhadi Graduate School ofEnvironmental Science, Hokkaido
University, Japan
Huynh Thi Cam Hong Graduate School ofEnvironmental Science, Hokkaido
University, Japan
Prof. Shiro Tsuyuzaki, Graduate School ofEnvironmental Science, Hokkaido
University, Sapporo, JapanDay 2 – October 17, 2019 (Thursday) Room (C04-2)

PolSAR hands-on-training-I Prof. G. Singh/Prof. D. Singh/ Dr. Avtar
Lunch break
PolSAR hands-on-training-II Prof. G. Singh/ Prof. D. Singh/ Dr. Avtar
Round table discussion
Day 3 - October 18, 2019 (Friday)
Field excursion to Hokkaido University Botanical Garden

Organizers:• Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan• GLP Japan Nodal Office• Moscow State University, Russia• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Convener:Dr. Ram Avtar (Assistant Professor), Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science,
Hokkaido University, Japan
Co-convener:
Prof. Watanabe Teiji, Hokkaido University, Japan

Summary of speakers

Annexure-2

9:50 - Dr. Olga Tutubalina
Monitoring of forest changes caused because of climatogenic factors. Analysis involved
use of MODIS LAI, GSV, UAV survey (100m) technologies. The study’s purpose was todetermine an algorithmic relation between tree species, height, Above Ground Biomass(AGB) and Diameter at Breast Height (DBH).

10:10 - Prof. Dharmendra SinghIntroducing fusion technique that could help in monitor agricultural land at low cost. Thistechnique combines information from satellite Landsat-8 data and drone data, togenerate high resolution and high precision results.

10:30 – Prof. Kanichiro Matsumura
Describing new application of UAV in agricultural field by measuring and determining
highly fertilized area. Details of techniques utilized like BNDVI to make observation insync with harvesting season at the given test site. Details of integrating satellite data with
UAV data for better data output.
11:00 - Prof. Gulab Singh
Tracking Glacier movement using DInSAR technology. More than 9000 glaciers could bemonitored by incorporating pixel tracking and offset tracking methods. It also discussed
how phase information is helpful in detecting glacier movements.
11:20 - Dr. Polina Mikhailyukova
Discussing detection of different types of tree species in forest using SAR technology.
Applied H alpha dual Pol Decomposition.

11:40 – Mohan Chand
Detection of change in glacier and glacier lake outburst flood over the years using Landsat
image collection and UAV survey.
13:00 - Dr. Ram Avtar
Application of SAR in monitoring rice cropping in Vietnamese Mekong Delta region.
Identifying different types of rice cropping system distributed across the region.

13:20 – Igor Sereda
Utilization of UAV and satellite multi sensor for agricultural applications. Use of GNDVI(Green Normalized Differential Vegetation Index) and SAFY (Simple Algorithm For Yield)
to estimate yield production.

13:40 - Dr. Amit Batar
Detection of non-healthy forest area also know as fragmentation of forest using Remotesensing. Incorporating Landsat 5 and Landsat 8 satellite images to generate model.

14:00 – Stanley Anak SuabMonitoring Oil palm farm to determine health of plants using UAV. Measuring crownprojection area and NDVI to further classify trees into different categories of healthindexes.
14:30 – Dr. Ashwani Aggarwal
Discussing Challenges and issues faced while processing of data generated from Remotesensing technologies. Wide range of applications as well as their preprocessing methods
were examined.
14:50 – Anna Sozontova
Using Sentinel -1 SAR data for mapping vegetation area in central Kola peninsula.
Discusses how some limitations of using Radar data.
15:10 – Benjamin Collette and Franz Bergmeier
Introduces Rankoshi Mountain Labs and its core aspects like Education, Technology andIncubator. It also introduces its blockchain technology implemented in their system forbetter data security.
15:30 – Yu Sugita

Detection of marine litters at and around the shore of outlying region of Shiretoko
Peninsula in Hokkaido prefecture of Japan. It emphasizes the use of Remote sensing
technology in effective spotting of litters in remote areas.