Committee

Secretariat

[ Chairman ]
Yutaka Ohsawa

Directors

[ General secretary ]
Osamu Imai
[ Treasury ]
Shiro Ochiai
[ Public relations ]
Mizuki Kawabata
[ Newsletter ]
Yoshio Saitoh
[ SIG ]
Osamu Imai

Planning Committee

[ Chairman ]
Yasushi Asami
[ Vice chairman ]
Hiromichi Fukui
[ Member ]
  • Akira Nishizawa
  • Syoichi Ohki
  • WangLin Yan
  • Hiroyuki Kohsaka
  • Tohru Ohba
  • Satoru Takagi

Functions

  • Plan GISA future
  • Develop and amend rules
  • Plan applications for grants such as scientific research by JSPS
  • Coordinate industry-government-academia alliance

External Affairs Committee

[ Chairman ]
Takashi Oguchi
[ Vice chairman ]
Masanori Nagashima
[ Member ]
  • Tetsuro Esaki
  • Satoshi Sekiguchi
  • Masumi Zaiki
  • Chinatsu Yonezawa
  • Toru Ishikawa
  • Midori Sasaki
  • Masahiko Morozumi
  • Michio Nogami
  • Yuji Murayama
  • Kenji Tani
  • Hideto Satoh

Functions

  • Correspond to Japan Geoscience Union
  • Support Science Council of Japan members
  • Correspond to KAGIS (or other overseas GIS-related associations)
  • Correspond to other associations
  • Correspond to supporting members and acquire new members

Public Relations Committee

[ Chairman ]
Chiharu Masaki
[ Vice chairman ]
Mizuki Kawabata
[ Member ]
  • Satoshi Iwai
  • WangLin Yan
  • Hideshi Nakamura
  • Yoh siraishi
  • Jun Tsutsumi
  • Yuichi Hashimoto
  • Hiroaki Sato
  • Sachie Nakayama
  • Hideki Nonaka

Functions

  • Maintain homepages
  • Hold events
  • Acquire new members

Conference Executive Committee

[ Chairman ]
Yukio Sadahiro
[ Member ]
  • WangLin Yan
  • Mamoru Koarai
  • Osamu Imai
  • Kohichi Hirata
  • Morishige Ohta
  • Eiichi Masaki
  • Shiro Ochiai
  • Hideto Satoh
  • Nobuto Takahashi
  • Yutaka Ohsawa
  • Hideo Makino

Functions

  • Select conference venue
  • Organize conference programs and speakers
  • Edit and publish conference proceedings
  • Open conference programs and proceedings contents to the public
  • Manage other conference issues

Association Award Committee

[ Chairman ]
Teruko Usui
[ Member ]
  • Takehiro Morimoto
  • Sakura Shinoaki

Functions

  • Select award categories
  • Select award recipients
  • Publicize award recipients on the web

Editorial Committee

[ Chairman ]
Hidenori Tamagawa
[ Vice Chairman ]
  • Yuji Murayama
  • Mamoru Koarai
  • Yutaka Ohsawa
  • Hideo Makino
  • Tetsuro Esaki
  • Takashi Oguchi
  • Kaoru Saitoh
  • Yuichi Hashimoto
  • Keiji Yano
  • Keiichi Okunuki
  • Mizuki Kawabata
  • Yoshiki Wakabayashi

Functions

  • Develop basic plans such as editorial rules of Theory and Applications of GIS
  • Review GISA journal articles
  • Edit GISA journals
  • Understand and manage editorial work
  • Deal with other issues related to editorial and publication work

Education Committee

[ Chairman ]
Atsuyuki Okabe
[ Member ]
  • Yuji Murayama
  • Satoru Itoh
  • Hiroyuki Kohsaka
  • Keiji Yano
  • Hiroshi Kawazoe

Functions

  • Work on overall education including school education, curricula, continued education
  • Cooperate with Japan Geoscience Union

Industrial Committee

[ Chairman ]
Keiichi Okunuki
[ Member ]
  • Yuichi Hashimoto
  • Hiroaki Abe
  • Hideo Makino
  • Shin Yoshikawa
  • Satoshi Iwai
  • Masataka Takagi
  • Toshio Yamazaki
  • Hayao Miyagi

Functions

  • Exchange information and cooperate with related associations and regional offices

GIS Certification Office

[ Chairman ]
Teruko Usui
[ Vice chairman ]
Morishige Ota
[ Member ]
  • Morishige Ohta
  • Jun Yamashita
  • Sachio Kubo
  • Tohru Ohba
  • Masataka Fuchimoto
  • Eiichi Masaki
  • Osamu Hirashita
  • Hiroaki Sakashita
  • Chiharu Masaki
  • Takamasa Sakai

Functions

  • Investigate GIS certification systems
  • certify and issue certifications

Finance Audit Committee

  • Toshiyasu Osaragi
  • Toshinari Nagasaka

Functions

  • Auditing of the association's financial budget.

Affiliated Academic Association Committee

  • Japan Geoscience Union Takashi Oguchi
  • Japanese Geographical Union Michio Nogami
  • Cooperation Council for Association related to Human Geographical Society of Japan Yuji Murayama

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Publications

cover:PublicationsGISA publishes Theory and Applications of GIS and Papers and Proceedings of the Geographic Information Systems Association of Japan.

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