What’s New
Three specialists from Venezuela visited NIED.
They visited NIED to study about Erosion control dam and Disaster management through the JICA Training Course on the 15th of March, 2007.
Program
- Introduction of NIED (Dr. Sato)
- Introduction of the Data Center (Dr. Hirose)
- Introduction of the Large Scale Earthquake Simulator (Dr. Mikoshiba)
- Introduction of the Large Scale Rainfall Simulator, (Dr. Fukuzono)
- Introduction of the Storm, Flood and Landslide Research (Dr. Nakane)
- Introduction of Landslide Research and the Landslide Mapping Project (Dr. Inokuchi)
- Introduction of Research about Disaster Risk Management (Dr. Usuda)
- Speaker Dr. Nakane
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- Position
- Principle Senior Researcher, Storm, Flood and Landslide Research Department
- Major research subject
- Flood disaster investigation, Hydrology (study of the Real-time flood risk mapping using MP radar/1.Heavy rainfall flash flood run-off in urban and rural areas, 2.Estimation of flood disasters in urban areas, 3. Real-time monitoring system for roads in urban areas, 4. Investigation of heavy rainfall flood disasters, 5. Modeling of the evapotranspiration process on ground surfaces, etc.)
- Speaker Dr. Inokuchi
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- Position
- Principle Senior Researcher,Disaster Prevention System Research Center
- Major research subject
- Landslide map database, Prediction of landslides and urban floods using Multi-Parameter radar, Disaster simulator system, Disaster information laboratory
- Speaker Dr. Usuda
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- Position
- Researcher,Disaster Prevention System Research Center
- Major research subject
- Research project on disaster risk governance (1) Hazard/Risk assessment on interoperable environment of disaster risk information, 2) Disaster risk communication cooperated with local online communication system)
Dr. Hirose at the data center
Dr. Mikoshiba at the large-scale earthquake simulator
Dr. Fukuzono at the large-scake rainfall simulator
Dr. Inokuchi explains about the landslide research and the landslide mapping project
Dr. Usuda explains about the disaster risk management research
Muchas gracias!
