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In the new setting of ideas the distinction [between particles and waves] has vanished, because it was discovered that all particles have also wave properties, and vise versa.

Erwin C. Schrodinger

Moved to NDA
Professor Kazuo Ouchi left Kochi University of Technology on the 30th of September 2006, and took up a new post in the present department from the 1st of October 2006. Dr.Haipeng Wang was appointed as a lecturer in the Dept. of Communication Science and Engineering, School of Information Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. The Ouchi laboratory at Kochi University of Technology is closed.

PIERS 2006
The Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium (PIERS 2006) was held on 2-5, August, 2006 at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan. From our group, Mr. Haipeng Wang and Prof. Kazuo Ouchi presented one paper each.

SANE 2006 in Kochi
Technical Committee on Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics(SANE) was held on 26, May 2006 at Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan. From our group, Mr. Haipeng Wang (D3) presented a paper. http://www.ieice.org/cs/sane/jpn/

WSANE 2006
Workshop for Space, Aeronautical and NavigationalElectronics (WSANE) 2006 of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) was held on 10-12, April 2006 at the Xi'dian University(Xi'dan University,http://202.117.112.33/EN/index.htm)), Xi'an, China. From our group, Prof. K.Ouchi and Mr. Haipeng Wang presented two papers. Xi'an is known as the capital (north-west of Xi'an) of the Qin dynasty when Qin Shihuang, the first Emperor of China, unified the whole China for the first time over 2000 yearsago, and in the north-west of Xi'an, there are the tomb of Quin Shihuang, and the terra-cotta warriors and horses famed as the "8th Wonder of the World". It is a historic city also known as the starting point of the "Silk Road". http://www.ieice.org/cs/sane/jpn/

IEICE General Conference 2006
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) General Conference was held on 24-27 March 2006, at the Setagaya Campus of the Kokushikan University, Tokyo Japan. Mr. Haipeng Wang (D3) presented a paper. http://www.toyoag.co.jp/ieice/G_top/g_top.html

SAR Workshop 2006 in Sendai
The annual workshop on the methodology and applications of synthetic aperture radar was held on 1, Febrary 2006 at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. From our group, Mr. Haipeng Wang, (D3) presented a paper.

Symposium on Real Time Disaster Observation Using SAR Data
The symposium was organized by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED) and held at Kochi University of Technology on 16 March 2006, inviting researchers from Finland and China. From our group Professor Kazuo Ouchi presented a paperdescring the SAR research activity in KUT.

International Workshop on Modelling and Data Analysis in Environmentrics, Geostatistics and Related Areas
The workshop was held at Kyushu University on 17-18 November 2005 on the statistics and remote sensing. The 5 world-leading foreign scientists and 6 Japanese scientists were invited to present and exchangethe recent work, and to discuss the future collaboration. From our group, Professor Kazuo Ouchi was invited to present a paper. http://www.math.kyushu-u.ac.jp/stat/Workshop0511/

The 27th RESES
The 27th Symposium on Remote Sensing for Environmental Sciences (RESES) was held on 27-29, August 2005 at the ShonanInternational Village, Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan. Among 14 papers, Professor Kazuo Ouchi presented a paper on a statistical method for estimating forest biomass from high-resolution polarimetric SAR.

PIERS 2005
The Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium (PIERS 2005) was held on 22-26, August 2005 at Hangzhou, China. From our group, Mr. Haipeng Wang presented two papers. http://www.piers.org

IGARSS 2005
IEEE International Geoscience And Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) was held on 25-29, July 2005 at COEX, Soul,Korea. From our group, Mr. Haipeng Wang presented two papers. http://www.igarss05.org

SANE 2005
Technical Committee on Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics(SANE) was held on 27, May 2005 at Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan. From our group, Mr. Haipeng Wang presented two papers. The invited paper was presented by professor Tomonao Hayashi, Chiba Institute of Technology (also Emeritus professor of Tokyo University) on "Whale ecology observation satellite (WEOS) system". This presentation has a close relationship with Kochi Prefecture where whaling was once an eminent industry. http://www.ieice.org/ken/program/index

WSANE 2005
Workshop for Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics (WSANE) 2005 of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) was held on 3-5, March 2005 at KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute), Daejeon, Korea. From our group, Prof. K.Ouchi presented two papers. http://www.ieice.org/event/workshops-e.php?society=cs

SAR Workshop 2005
The latest annual workshop on the methodology and applications of synthetic aperture radar was held on 11, January 2005 at EORC/JAXA, Tokyo, Japan. 19 papers were presented, and the student leader of our group, Mr. Haipeng Wang, (D2) presented two papers. http://www.eorc.nasda.go.jp/ALOS/workshop/jindex.htm

The 37th Japan Remote Sensing Conference
The 37th Japan Remote Sensing Conference was heldon 1-2, December 2004 at Hitachi Civic Center, Japan. From our group, Ms. Eriko Takenaka (UG3), Mr. Koichi Kitamura (graduated in 2004), Mr. Yoshichika Hara (M2), and Mr. Haipeng Wang (D2) attended, and 3 papers were presented. http://www.rssj.or.jp/

IEICE Society Conference 2004
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Society Conference was held on 21-24, September 2004 at Tokushima University, Japan. Prof. Ouchi presented a paper. http://www.ieice.org/jpn/event/program/2004S/index.html

The 26th RESES
The 26th Symposium on Remote Sensing for Environmental Sciences (RESES) was held on 4-6, September 2004 at Gokeikan, Shizuoka, Japan. Among 13 papers, Mr. Haipeng Wang (D1) presented a paper. The 22nd RESES (2000) was held in Kochi. For details, please have a look at the following.
http://www.env.kochi-tech.ac.jp/ouchi/event/event-e.htm

SANE 2004 in Kochi
Following the previous year, Kochi University of Technology hosted the workshop of the Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics (SANE) 2004 of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) on 28 May 2004. 13 papers on remote sensing and general topics were presented. http://www.ieice.org/cs/sane/jpn/

The 36th Japan Remote Sensing Conference
The 36th Japan Remote Sensing Conference was heldon 15-16, May, 2004 at Chiba University, Japan. Professor K.Ouchi and Mr. Haipeng Wan (D1) attended and Mr. Wang presented a paper. http://www.rssj.or.jp/

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