The employee of Meisei Electric, whose proposal has been selected for the Fourth Research Announcement on the Earth Observations issued by the Earth Observation Research Center (EORC) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in FY 2024, has been certified as the Principal Investigator (PI), in succession from the Third Research Announcement on the Earth Observations.

JAXA, which aims at the national resilience and the solution of climate change / socio-economic issues, has realized that a POTEKA ground surface observation technology must be necessary for the achievement of these aims. The employee will challenge for the technology to assimilate POTEKA observation data with JAXA/GSMaP (*) and NASA/IMERG (**) in near real time, and will confirm the effects of disaster prevention and mitigation for linear rainbands, typhoons, etc.

A Principal Investigator of JAXA is usually selected from the researchers of a university and a research institution. The employee is the only one who is selected from a private company. The employee will regularly participate the overseas space agency’s meeting with JAXA and appeal the private company’s values of Meisei Electric domestically and internationally.


（*）JAXA/GSMaP
https://sharaku.eorc.jaxa.jp/GSMaP/index_j.htm
（**）NASA/IMERG
https://gpm.nasa.gov/data/imerg