The Takeda Award Message from Chairman Awardees Achievement Fact Awards Ceremony Forum 2001
2002

Achievement Facts Sheet
World Environmental Well-Being

Executive Summary
Achievement and Creativity
1. Introduction
2. Elachi's pioneering achievement in remote environmental monitoring by space borne microwave radar
3. Development of spaceborne precipitation radar by Fugono and Okamoto
4. Enhancement of the value of human life
REFERENCES
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REFERENCES

1) Okamoto, Ken'ichi, Chikyu Kankyo Keisoku (Ohmsha, Tokyo, 1999).
2) Elachi, C., "Spaceborne Imaging Radar: Geologic and Oceanographic Applications," Science 209, 1073-1082 (1980).
3) Engheta, N., Elachi, C., "Radar Scattering from a Diffuse Vegetation Layer over a Smooth Surface," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 20, 212-216 (1982).
4) Elachi, C., et al., "Spaceborne Radar Subsurface Imaging in Hyperarid Regions," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 22, 383-388 (1984).
5) Elachi, C., et al., "Overview of the Shuttle Imaging Radar-B Preliminary Scientific Results," Science 232, 1511-1516 (1986).
6) http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/
7) http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/sirc-pkt.html
8) Evans, D.L., et al., "The Shuttle Imaging Radar-C and X-SAR Mission," EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 74, 145, 157-158 (1993).
9) Evans, D.L., et al., "Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar: Current Status and Future Directions," NASA Technical Memorandum 4679 (NASA, 1995).
10) http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/overview_dir/rain_gauge.html
11) Fugono, N., Journal of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan 18, 1-4 (1998).
12) Kozu, T., et al., "Development of Precipitation Radar Onboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Satellite," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 39, 102-116 (2001).
13) http://www.eorc.nasda.go.jp/TRMM/gallery/tev2/tev2_high_j/tev2_high_14j.pdf
14) http://www.eorc.nasda.go.jp/TRMM/channel/PR-earth/nettai.htm
15) Iguchi, T., et al., Rain as seen from Space, 4-year Observation from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Satellite (Japan Advance Plan Co., Inc. 2002).
16) http://www.eorc.nasda.go.jp/TRMM/channel/PR-earth/hifuku.htm
17) http://www.eorc.nasda.go.jp/TRMM/channel/PR-earth/moisture.htm
18) Rosenfeld, D., et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98, 5975-5985 (2001).
19) Rosenfeld, D., et al., Geophysical Research Letters 26, 3105-3108 (1999).
20) http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/eng/outline/outline01.html
21) http://www.eorc.nasda.go.jp/TRMM/gpm/index.html
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