Prof. Makoto Omura


Prof. Omura arriving at Sydney International Airport, 2nd July 2001. Prof. Omura will be a visitor in SNAP until the 29th September 2001, assisting Linlin Ge with the project on the integration of GPS and InSAR results.


Prof. Chris Rizos and Prof. Makoto Omura (left).

 

Makoto Omura holds a B.Sc., M.Sc. and D.Sc., all obtained from the Kyoto University, Japan. Makoto is currently an Associate Professor in the
Department of Environmental Science at the Kochi Women's University of Japan. His research interests are InSAR application for monitoring of
active volcanoes and Antarctic ice sheet, continuous monitoring of crustal movements on active faults and those near a plate boundary by using strainmeters and tiltmeters, and open-pit mining management by combining GPS and digital photogrammetry.