Theses / Alumni
Theses, dissertations and alumni of our laboratory.
Records before April 2022 relate to the Grassland Laboratory at the Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University.
Research students
October 2023 – March 2024
Yuuki Akiyama
- Affiliation
- Dairy Research Center, Hokkaido Research Organization
- Hometown
- Niigata
- Research
- Forage growth prediction through data assimilation of remote sensing observations and crop models
Doctoral students
March 2016
Jihyun Lim, PhD (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Toward the Efficient Grazing Management with Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
Rena Yoshitoshi, PhD (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Agro-Environmental Study on Grazing System: Sensing Grazing Behavior and Spatial Modeling.
September 2012
Endan Suwandana, PhD
- Thesis title
- Comparative Study on Water Quality Assessment between Urban and Rural Watersheds: A Case Study of Ciliwung and Ciujung Watersheds, Indonesia
Master’s students
September 2025
Qinggeer, MSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Effects of cattle manure distribution on pasture productivity in grassland ecosystems
March 2025
Shoji Okoshi, MSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Remote sensing of grasslands: Scaling up from drones to satellites
September 2015
Phan Trong Dung, MSc
- Thesis title
- Detecting Flood from MODIS Satellite Data in Red River Delta, Vietnam
Nguon Vichet, MSc
- Thesis title
- Flood Monitoring in Southern Cambodia from MODIS Satellite Data
March 2015
Wang Zuomin, MSc
- Thesis title
- Irrigation Pond's Water Quality Assessment in Higashi-Hiroshima using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
Syakhboel Hafiz, MSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Soil Status Assessment in Grazing Pasture by Hyperspectral Measurement
Dewita Yani, MSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Hyperspectral Sensing on Legume Content in Grass-Legume Mixture
September 2014
Nguyen Van On, MSc
- Thesis title
- Satellite Monitoring on Land Surface Temperature and Its Spatial Variety Relation to Land Cover Change in Red River Delta, Vietnam
Fan Xinyan, MSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Visible-NIR Camera for Monitoring in a Italian Ryegrass (Lolium Multiflorum) Meadow Field
September 2013
Yuan Fang, MSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Study on Application Use of Aerial Photograph in a Small Scall Grazing System
Im Nara, MSc
- Thesis title
- Land Use Lnad Cover Effects on Water Quality in Cheung Ek Lake by Using Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS)
Gong Zhe, MSc
- Thesis title
- Satellite Monitoring for Land Degradation in Inner Mongoila Grasslands
March 2013
Rena Yoshitoshi, MSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Monitoring Animal Activity with GPS-Tracking and Supporting Technologies in a Grazed Pasture
September 2012
Jihyun Lim, MSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Spectral Assessment for Herbage Biomass and Nutritive Status in Italian Ryegrass Field from Proximal Sensing
March 2012
Tomoki Tachikawa, MSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Development of Hyperspectral Imaging System for Estimating a Rice Grain Quality and Its Selection
Kaori Douhata, MSc
- Thesis title
- Spatial distribution of weeds invasion in an Italian ryegrass field monitored using GIS
Undergraduate theses
March 2026
Mio Ogata, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- How does grazing intensity affect vegetation dynamics in a horse pasture during the first year after grassland renovation?
Saori Hara, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Effects of temperature increases on first-cut biomass dynamics of Orchardgrass meadows - A system dynamics simulation of forage growth -
Miyu Matsunaga, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Field evaluation of hot water treatment for suppressing seedling emergence of Sicyos angulants and drone-based distribution mapping
Haruka Yokoi, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Development of a behavioral discrimination model for grazing sheep using accelerometers and deep learning
March 2025
Misato Itoh, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Assessing the forage quality status using field hyperspectral measurements
Minoho Ohno, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Spatial distribution of the Rudbeckia laciniata species in the suburban of Obihiro city using smartphones
Kasumi Kakiuchi, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Development of drone-based detection method for Rumex obtusifolius and its control measure
Uta Kamiya, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Spatial distribution of legume grasses in horse pastures in relation to the foraging habitat of equines
March 2024
Hiroto Kitamoto, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Relationship between cow nad dung's spatial distributions in pastures
Kiichiro Yoshikawa, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Spatial distribution of Rudbeckia laciniata L. in the suburban area of Obihiro city
March 2023
Shoji Okoshi, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Remote sensing on forage crop fields: Factors affecting the herbage biomass estimation after second cuttings
Yura Kato, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Is it possible to detect cow's dung on pasture from drone?
Yuki Tanaka, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Weed detection in pastures from drone imagery with object-based image analysis (OBIA)
March 2015
Satomi Mano, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Three-dimensional Back Posture Measurements on Back Posture of Dairy Cow and Its Relation to Milk Production and Blood Ingredients
March 2014
Yukako Kuzuhara, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Three-dimensional Back Posture Measurements on Dairy Cow and Its Relation to Milk Production
March 2013
Shota Tominaga, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Study on Distinguishing Cattle Grazing Behavior using Accelerometer
March 2011
Ryo Mizoguchi, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- Genetic Algorithms (GA) based Waveband Selection with Partial Least Squares (PLS) Regression for Estimating Pasture Mineral Contents
Rena Yoshitoshi, BSc (Agriculture)
- Thesis title
- IT Technologies for Monitoring Spatial Distribution of Cattle Grazing Behavior