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The GOSAT Project is a joint effort of the Ministry of the Environment (MOE), the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). This large project involves a great number of people with different backgrounds working together from different angles. The NIES GOSAT PROJECT NEWSLETTER interviewed some of them. (Please note that the pdf file may not open at the specified page depending on the browser you are using.)
2011
s_ay_201104

No.8

The life takes me
here and there.

Dr. Alexey Yaremchuk
Mathematician
Advisor to the Modeling Group

s_tm_201103

No.7

"IBUKI"'s sensor:
changing the game plan

Dr. Taroh Matsuno
Principal Scientist
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)

2010
s_sr_201009

No.6

I believe it is an important point of view,
in terms of giving an adequate explanation to complex matters.

Professor Shuichi Rokugawa
President, the Remote Sensing Society of Japan (RSSJ)
Professor, Department of Technology Management for Innovation
Graduate School of Engineering,
The University of Tokyo

rt_201007

No.5

I give it high marks for the great significance it carries
by being ahead of the world producing CO2 data and distributing them.

Professor Ryutaro Tateishi
Former President, Japan Remote Sensing Society of Japan (RSSJ)
Professor, Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS),
Chiba University

s_hb_201006

No.4

Including a large community of researchers and continuously organizing international meetings is fantastic.

Dr. Hartmut Boesch
Research Fellow,
Earth Observation Science Group,
Space Research Centre,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Leicester,
United Kingdom

s_ht_201004

No.3

"IBUKI" motivates us for our spectroscopic studies.

Dr. Ha Tran
Researcher,
Laboratoire Inter-universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA),
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

s_pr_201003

No.2

The measurement is really useful when we learn something from the satellites that we would not have learned from the surface network.

Dr. Peter Rayner
Senior Expert,
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environment, France

s_dc_201002

No.1

We still need to do some work to fully exploit the information that the data contain.

Dr. David Crisp
Principal Investigator,
Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Senior Research Scientist,
Earth and Space Sciences Division,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology