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Hosoi Lab
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A lab that uses imaging and sensing to understand everything from individual plants to the global environment.
AboutAbout the lab
Image sensing and spatial information analysis of living organisms and the environment
The Laboratory of Biological and Environmental Information Engineering studies information on living organisms and the environment using information engineering methods centered on image data.
Its subjects span a wide range of scales, from individual plants and plant communities to ecosystems and regional and global environments.
By measuring and analyzing this information, the lab aims to clarify the relationships between living organisms and the environment, and to propose solutions to real-world problems to society.
The lab also aims to apply its research to food production, such as plant factories and precision agriculture, and to global environmental issues, such as global warming and biodiversity conservation.
Key terms
- Remote sensing
- A technology for measuring an object from a distance without touching it, using satellites, drones, and similar platforms
- Geographic information system (GIS)
- A system for analyzing various kinds of information, such as land and plants, by layering it on a map
- Bioimaging
- A technology for studying living organisms and the processes inside their bodies by capturing them as images
NewsLab news
Paper on extracting agricultural greenhouses from satellite images published in Geomatics
Assistant Professor Naito received the Contribution Award from the Japanese Society of Agricultural Informatics
A master's student received the Excellent Presentation Award at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Ecological Engineering
Professor Hosoi received the 2024 Society of Agricultural Meteorology of Japan Award (Academic Award)
The lab accepts applications from prospective students on a rolling basis
ResearchResearch themes
Using biosensing and remote sensing, the lab measures a wide range of scales, from individual plants to the global environment, and works to elucidate and model the functions of living organisms and the biosphere. The research aims to contribute to food production, such as plant factories and precision agriculture, and to solving global environmental problems.
*Illustrative imageInvestigating the global environment with GIS and models
The lab studies the global environment using geographic information systems (GIS) and models that represent the functions of the biosphere.
*Illustrative imageRemote sensing for agriculture and the environment
This research applies remote sensing, a technology for measuring from a distance, to agriculture and the environment. Projects include detecting agricultural greenhouses by combining satellite images with farmland parcel data.
*Illustrative imageMonitoring ecosystems with 3D imaging
This research measures plants and forests in three dimensions to monitor ecosystems. Projects include estimating forest structure and tree shape using LiDAR.
*Illustrative imageInvestigating the functions of living organisms with images
This research uses bioimaging to clarify the functions of living organisms and to analyze their responses to environmental change.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Hosoi Lab consist of faculty, PhD, master's, and undergraduate students, and research students.As of 2026
- ProfessorFumiki HosoiPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorHiroki NaitoPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Agricultural art” Antarsih / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Investigating the global environment with GIS and models: “Globalndvi tmo 200711 lrg” NASA images produced by Reto Stockli and Jesse Allen, using data provided by the MODIS Land Science Team / Public domain (cropped)
- Remote sensing for agriculture and the environment: “Precision Farming in Minnesota - Natural Colour” NASA Earth Observatory, Jesse Allen / Public domain (cropped)
- Monitoring ecosystems with 3D imaging: “Geo-Referenced Point Cloud” Stoermerjp / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Investigating the functions of living organisms with images: “Chlorophyll fluorescence in soy leaf” Ihor Panas / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Bioprocess Engineering Lab): “Flours” Mudd1 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Farmland and Environmental Engineering Lab): “Transplanting rice seedlings by hand into the flooded paddy after mechanical transplanting leaves gaps” Gpwitteveen / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Irrigation and Water Environment Engineering Lab): “Irrigation channel beside a rice field 8298941” 夢の
散歩 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped) - Related lab (Environmental Soil and Water Science Lab): “Soil Profile Containing an Argillic Horizon” Cjrufe / CC0 (cropped)
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