Researcher Information

• College of Agriculture/Department of Agri-Environmental Sciences/Professor

Academic Background

• Mie University/生物資源学研究科/生物圏保全科学専攻/2008/03/Completion/Ph.D.
• 三重大学大学院/生物資源学研究科/水産生物生産学専攻/2003/03/Completion/修士（生物資源学）
• 三重大学/生物資源学部/生物資源学科/2001/03/Graduation/学士（生物資源学）

Career

• 2015/04/～ Present/Tamagawa University/College of Agriculture/Associate Professor
• 2015/02/～/2015/03/National Institute for Environmental Studies/Center for Global Environmental Research
• 2014/12/～/2015/01/Kyushu University/Graduate School of Engineering
• 2009/12/～/2014/11/Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University/College of Asia Paicific Studies/Assistant Professor
• 2008/04/～/2009/11/Kyoto University/Center for Southeast Asian Studies/Postdoctral Researcher

Field of Research

• Environmental dynamic analysis/-

Research Keyword

• Satellite remote sensing, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

License

Academic Thesis

• Correlation between field-measured grain moisture content and C-band SAR backscatter: Potential use of Sentinel-1 SAR data to estimate optimal harvest timing in rice crop cultivation  /Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment/Shoko Kobayashi & John Philip Matthews/2026/02/21
• Analysis of the Relationship between L-band SAR Backscatter and Understory Weed Density in Eucalyptus Plantation Forests/GIScience & Remote Sensing/S. Kobayashi*, M.S. Fujita, Y. Omura, and J. P. Matthews/2024/06
• Evaluating Threatened Bird Occurrence in the Tropics by Using L-Band SAR Remote Sensing Data/Remote Sensing/S. Kobayashi*, M.S. Fujita, Y. Omura, D.S. Haryadi, A. Muhammad, M. Irham, S. Shiodera/2023/02/09
• Rice Crop Monitoring Using Sentinel-1 SAR Data: A Case Study in Saku, Japan/Remote Sensing/S. Kobayashi*, H. Ide/2022/07/06
• Yearly Variation of Acacia Plantation Forests obtained by Polarimetric Analysis of ALOS PALSAR Data/IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing/S. Kobayashi*, Y. Omura, K. Sanga-Ngoie, Y. Yamaguchi, R. Widyorini, M.S. Fujita, B. Supriadi and S. Kawai/2015/10/27

MISC

• ALOS-2/PALSAR-2データを用いたユーカリ植林地における下層植生密度の推定/小林祥子/日本リモートセンシング学会 第75回学術講演会論文集/75/61/～/62/2023/11/22
• Sentinel-1 SARデータによる水稲生育モニタリング - 穂の水分量の推定/2023
• Evaluation of Understory Vegetation in Eucalyptus Plantation by L-band SAR Data/S. Kobayashi and Y. Omura/Proceedings of the 66th Spring Conference of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan/66/80/～/81/2019
• Feasibility Study on Evaluation of Weed Density in Eucalyptus Plantation by Microwave SAR Data/S. Kobayashi and Y. Omura/Proceedings of the 65th Fall Conference of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan/65/20/～/21/2018
• Species richness estimation of tropical bird communities from polarimetric L-band SAR/S. Kobayashi, M.S. Fujita, Y. Omura/Proceedings of The 64th Conference of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan/2018

Bibliography

Conference

• Correlation between field-measured grain moisture content and C-band SAR backscatter: Potential use of Sentinel-1 SAR data to estimate optimal harvest timing in rice crop cultivation/International Symposium on Remote Sensing (ISRS) 2026/2026/05/13
• (招待講演) マイクロ波衛星リモートセンシングを用いた稲の収穫適期予測を目指して/2026/01/30
• Weed Density Evaluation in Eucalyptus Plantation forest using ALOS-2/PALSAR Data/Joint PI Meeting of Global Environment Observation Mission, FY2019/2020
• (招待講演) 植林地の効率的な管理を目指したマイクロ波衛星画像による下層植生密度の推定/2019
• Weed density evaluation in Eucalyptus plantation forests using ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 data/Joint PI Meeting of Global Environment Observation Mission FY2018,/2019

Works

Competitive research funds

• 科研費 （基盤C：研究代表者）マイクロ波衛星リモートセンシングを用いた水田単位のコメの収穫適期予測/International Collaboration
• 科研費 （基盤C：研究代表者）マイクロ波合成開口レーダによる森林構造解析と熱帯の鳥類多様性との連関の検証/Collaboration in Japan
• 科研費 （若手研究B：研究代表者）マイクロ波合成開口レーダ偏波散乱解析による熱帯早生樹の森林バイオマス推定/Collaboration in Japan
• (文科省・宇宙利用促進調整委託費）偏波合成開口レーダデータを用いた大規模植林地のマイクロ波散乱メカニズムの解明とバイオマス推定手法の開発/Collaboration in Japan
• 科研費（新学術領域：研究分担者） 泥炭湿地における大規模植林が水・熱循環および周辺環境に与える影響評価手法の構築/Collaboration in Japan

Patents

Academic Society and Social Activity

• 日本リモートセンシング学会/Japan

Committee Career

• Boad of Directors, Remote Sensing Society of Japan/2025/06/～ Present
• 日本リモートセンシング学会　学術委員/2018/01/～ Present
• 日本リモートセンシング学会 表彰委員/2025/06/～ Present
• Local Organizing Committee: International Symposium on Remote Sensing (ISRS) 2026/2025/～/2026/05
• 地球惑星連合（JpGU）　合成開口レーダセッション　副コンビーナ/2017/01/～/2019/01

Reward

Social Contribution

Media Coverage

Academic contribution

Other

Example of Education Method

Created Textbooks

Other

• 2024/担任　農学部環境農学科2年2組担任
• 2023/担任　環境農学科1年1組
• 2022/担任　環境農学科2年1組
• 2021/担任　環境農学科1年1組
• 2020/担任　環境農学科1年1組

Teaching　Experiences

• 玉川大学農学部/Comprehensive Agri-environmental Studies
• 玉川大学農学部/地球環境科学
• 玉川大学農学部/基礎生物学実験
• 立命館アジア太平洋大学/GIS and Remote Sensing
• 立命館アジア太平洋大学/Introduction to Environmental Issues

Course taught (Course for regular students)

• 2025/Spring semester/Comprehensive Agri-Environmental Studies/学科科目
• 2025/Spring semester/Ecology/学科科目
• 2025/Spring semester/General English A/学科科目
• 2025/Spring semester/General English B/学科科目
• 2025/Spring semester/Natural Resource Management/学科科目

Course taught (Course for correspondence students)

Other subjects

• 2025/特別授業/出張講義（桜美林高等学校）
• 2025/特別授業/出張講義（豊島学院高等学校）
• 2024/特別授業/出張講義（千葉英和高等学校）
• 2023/特別授業/出張講義（東京都立豊島高等学校）
• 2022/特別授業/出張講義（文京学院大学女子高等学校）

Practical experience at school sites

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