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June 30, 2026
  • Glacier Recession and “Burst” Sediment Transfer in the Fox Valley – New Zealand
  • International Geomorphology Classes UMS-KU
  • JPGU発表・六甲山地形のマイクロ浸食
  • 研究ニュース・博士課程の澤田さんがニュージランドの大学とオーストラリアの研究所で火山軽石の新研究結果
地形・水文学・災害

地形・水文学・災害

Exploring Sediment Hazards, Disaster Risk, and Environmental Science

Platforms

QGIS - open source GIS desktop platform with numerous open-source plugins (International - Europe-centered development)

Cloud-Compare - Pointcloud Analysis Freeware (French System with several international plugins)

OpenFOAM within (or not) SALOME Platform (French Simulation system)

Dataset

OpenTopography LiDAR, SfM and other pointcloud sources (USA)

USGS Earth Explorer Remote Sensing Data for the whole planet (USA)

  • Education
    • Glossary of terms SABO・砂防 (和英)Jp-Eng
    • Laboratory and PhD Classes
    • UMS – KU Geomorphology Classes
    • Undegraduate Education
  • Photos
    • Asakura Field work with French and Tokyo U. Researchers
    • Photos Hodaka Research Station
    • Photos of Niigata’s coastal dune (2025)
  • PUBLICATIONS
  • Research Presentations
  • Research Projects
    • NOTO PENINSULA EARTHQUAKE PROJECT   能登半島地震災害と防災プロジェクト(土砂災害と水害)
    • Radar detection of in-flow driftwood and large wood
  • TOOLS & CODES
    • 1D Crank-Nicholson Implicit
    • Python Codes
  • The Team
Headlines
  • Glacier Recession and “Burst” Sediment Transfer in the Fox Valley – New Zealand

    2 weeks ago2 weeks ago
  • International Geomorphology Classes UMS-KU

    2 weeks ago2 weeks ago
  • JPGU発表・六甲山地形のマイクロ浸食

    4 weeks ago
  • 研究ニュース・博士課程の澤田さんがニュージランドの大学とオーストラリアの研究所で火山軽石の新研究結果

    1 month ago1 month ago
  • Huazhu Zheng successfully defended his PhD in Shanghai. Congratulation Doctor.

    2 months ago2 months ago
  • 新論文:The Afsarabad Landslide: Geomorphology, mineralogy and geotech published in Environ Earth Sci (IF:2.8)

    2 months ago2 months ago
  • Field work
  • Landslide
  • Taiwan

Shaorin Landslide (Fieldwork in Taiwan)

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  • Field work
  • Landslide
  • Taiwan

Churin Landslide Area photos (Taiwan)

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  • International Collaboration

Dr. Saputra and Dardono from UMS visit the Lab.

kaikikazanbear2 years ago2 years ago01 mins

Looking to continue our collaboration on microplastics, geosciences and international education, two members and good friends of UMS visited Kobe University and the lab.

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  • Point Cloud
  • SfM

Pointcloud Lidar & SfM workshop

kaikikazanbear2 years ago2 years ago01 mins

The pointcloud technology data acquisition and processing short intensive course and workshop is up: PhD and Lab Classes and workshops

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  • Field work
  • Hokkaido

Atsuma-chou field-work (Hokkaido)

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In the aftermath of the 2018 Iburi earthquakes, thousands of mass movements ran downslopes, and sadly took many lives.

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  • Point Cloud
  • SfM

Prof. Gomez talks about Point-cloud Tech at Miyazaki University

kaikikazanbear2 years ago2 years ago01 mins

Prof. Gomez was the first to use SfM-MVS to measure trees while working in NZ, and he presented recent development on data processing to academics and the new generation of students and academic, hoping to increase the use of the method in the field of forestry and agricultural science.

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SABO is the science, engineering and art of sediment disaster risk reduction. It has no real equivalent in the Western part of the world, nor outside Asia. At the laboratory, and from this lense, we are finding solutions to natural hazards and disaster risk reduction, climate change and sustainability issues, concentrating on the island arcs of Japan and Indonesia mostly.

PI: Prof. Christopher Gomez

Come and work, learn, enjoy SABO, Geomorphology and climate change hazards and disaster risks with us. Let's work towards sustainable communities.

Publications

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