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áSecretariatâ


Chairman Yutaka Ohsawa

áDirectorsâ


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

áPlanning Committeeâ

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

áExternal Affairs Committeeâ
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
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

áPublic Relations Committeeâ
Chairman Chiharu Masaki
Vice chairman Mizuki Kawabata
Member Satoshi Iwai, WangLin Yan, Hideshi Nakamura, Yoh siraishi, Jun Tsutsumi, Yuichi Hashimoto, Hiroaki Satoh, Chizuru Ichikawa, Hideki Nonaka
Functions
  • Maintain homepages
  • Hold events
  • Acquire new members

áConference Executive Committeeâ


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

áAssociation Award Committeeâ


Chairman Teruko Usui
Member Takehiro Morimoto, Sakura Shinoaki
Functions
  • Select award categories
  • Select award recipients
  • Publicize award recipients on the web


áEditorial Committeeâ


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

áEducation Committeeâ


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

áIndustrial Committeeâ


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

áGIS Certification Officeâ


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

áFinance Audit Committee â


Toshiyasu Osaragi
Toshinari Nagasaka
Functions
  • Auditing of the association's financial budgetD

áAffiliated Academic Association Committee â


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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