Masanobu Shimada

Dr. Shimada is a Professor of Tokyo Denki University, school of science and engineering, an invited researcher of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and a guest Professor of Yamaguchi University. He graduated from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Kyoto University in 1977, and received an M.Eng. from the university in 1979. In the same year, he joined the National Space Development Agency of Japan (now JAXA). Since then, Dr. Shimada has performed spaceborne microwave sensing research, i.e., scatterometer and synthetic aperture radar at JAXA.