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ICHARM Research Team Wins the Best Research Exchange Award in the 2013 SAT Technology Showcase

A team of ICHARM researchers, Yuya Tatebe*, Takahiro Sayama** and Shigenobu Tanaka***, was awarded the Best Research Exchange Award in the 2013 SAT Technology Showcase held on January 22, 2013, at the Tsukuba International Congress Center. This award is given to researchers who are recognized for excellent achievement in multidisciplinary research areas at the annual meeting of the showcase. The team has been working on flood simulation for emergency response in the case study of the 2011 Thai flood, and presented part of the research results at the meeting this year as “Technology for Monitoring and Forecasting Mega Floods on a Global Scale”. The research was received a lot of attention from participants and won the award for the flood forecasting technology developed by integrating the different expertise of engineering, meteorology and hydrology.

 

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