The Precipitation Radar (PR) onboard Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite can measure the three dimensional structure of rainfall global scale. …
A mirage is a occurring phenomenon in layers of different atmospheric temperature.
This picture is apparition mirage in night off the west coast of Okinawa on February, 2012. …
A view from the top of PANDA allows us to enjoy its beautiful color of the sea below our eyes. If you climb up PANDA, you will find a mysterious cave called "Apo-gama" by the local people …
NICT Okinawa welcomes visitors for facility tour and exhibition hall.
Visitors will find plenty of interesting contents such as our latest research facilities …
The Okinawa Electromagnetic Technology Center was opened to the public on November 22, 2014.
We had tours of Phased Array Radar and …
Many parameters are required for the detection of moving targets such as cars and ships in SAR images as well as for the measurement of their speeds. In particular, when shipwrecks or …
The Okinawa Electromagnetic Research Center have observed beacon (18.9 GHz) from WINDS at three point (Onna, Nago, and Oogimi) of Okinawa island. …
Since 2006, our laboratory has been developed a high performance airborne SAR called as the Pi-SAR2, which can observe the ground irrespective of day/night and …
The phased array weather radar was developed by NICT, Univ. Osaka and Toshiba, has started continuous observation at Osaka from June 2012. The radar observes rainfalls …
Our laboratory developed the mobile precipitation observation system (MPOS) for rain observation using the weather radar. Rain drop size distribution measurement …
The NICT promotes research and development of remote sensing technology to reduce the damage of severe weather disasters caused by localized heavy rainfalls. We developed …
Further news for "Comparison of millimeter-wave radar observations" on July 25 is introduced.
High-sensitivity Ground-based …
This photo shows a device which can measure phase variations of digital terrestrial broadcasting wave with a few degrees resolution in real-time, developed with software …
Normal weather radars hardly detect cloud echoes because cloud particles are so small that they don't have enough radar reflectivity to detect. We have been developing …
In this study, statistical median diameters (D0) of rainfall are estimated by using TRMM/PR and CloudSat/CPR data. The estimation method uses the differences in the Mie …
The Okinawa Electromagnetic Technology in collaboration with Nagoya Univ and et have conducted research studies over the past year at the Tsushima observatory site …
The picture below shows a 1/50 scale model of the EarthCARE satellite which is scheduled to be launched in 2016.
(The real dimension of the diameter …