The Chugoku-Shikoku Chapter of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan was established on May 21, 1988 for the further prevalence of remote sensing research and education in this region, with the cooperations of universities, research institutes, government offices and private enterprises. With this valuable opportunity, we have a plan to introduce our activity in remote sensing.
With the improvment of spatial resolution due to the present sensor technological development, wider availability of the regional observation system as well as the global observation have become possible. In Chugoku and Shikoku area, applied researches of remote sensing on both the land area, including land use, forest and disaster survey, and the sea area including oceanic envirnomental sur-veys of the Seto Inland Sea and its coast are being carried out on the regional basis by the several institutes.
In this paper, we are reporting the feature on case studies related to remote sensing in Chugoku and Shikoku area, as well as the inaugural address as one of the projects commemorating the first year of newly established chapter.
