Abstract
Remote Sensing Laboratory was established in December, 1983, in National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences for the first time in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan.
Main objectives of our laboratory are, 1) establishment of bio-sensor technology for the crop diagnosis which can be detected crop conditions such as fertilizer levels and water stress, and 2) collection of agricultural information including cropp inventory, yield, soil and other agronomical environmental factors on large area by remote sensing.
Several types of sensors covering almost whole electro-magnetic spectra have made on an experimental basis and examined to extract agricultural information such as biomass, yield, plant nutritions and stereo structure of plant community.
Sensor platforms including robot crane, motortruck with arm, miniature kite-plane and captive balloon have also developed to collect any types of agricultural information at any places.
One of our recent target is to create a portable crop diagnosis meter combining several wavelengths effective for bioinformation, and to apply practically on a farm field for management of crop cultivation.
