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Toda-Mizoguchi Lab
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A river engineering lab that investigates and protects river flow together with topography, vegetation, and the habitats of living things.
AboutAbout the lab
Protecting watershed environments through river flow and topography.
The Toda-Mizoguchi Lab (commonly known as Suiri-ken) studies river flow, topography, and the conservation of watershed environments.
It works on topics such as changes in vegetation within rivers, evaluation of the habitats of aquatic organisms, and prediction of damage to levees and railways caused by floods.
Its research combines field biological surveys and aerial photography with UAVs (drones) with numerical computation and machine learning.
Rivers overseas are also subjects of study, such as floods caused by glacial lake outbursts in Bhutan and riverbank erosion in Bangladesh.
Key terms
- Habitat
- A place where living things live, find food, and grow.
- UAV
- An aircraft that flies without a person on board, such as a drone.
- Airborne laser bathymetry
- A method that shines a laser from an aircraft to measure the terrain not only on land but also under the water.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies a wide range of topics related to rivers and watersheds, including river vegetation and the habitats of living things, damage to levees and railways from floods, and changes in water temperature. By combining field surveys with numerical computation, it aims to build evaluation methods that can be used in river management.
*Illustrative imagePrediction model for river vegetation and habitats
A model for predicting changes in river vegetation, developed for the Nagara River, the Kumozu River, and others, is incorporated into software that calculates flow and riverbed change. This allows the analysis to extend all the way to evaluating the habitats of living things in one run. The lab also works on medium- to long-term predictions with climate change in mind, and on developing river management technologies.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating the habitats of aquatic organisms
The lab clarifies how important the riverbed environment is among the factors that determine the habitats of living things. By combining field biological surveys and UAV aerial photography with numerical computation, it makes visible the habitat conditions that organisms prefer, aiming to build evaluation methods that can be used in river management.
*Illustrative imageMore advanced and efficient river channel management
Using survey data from airborne laser bathymetry (ALB) and 3D scanners, the lab extracts the height, thickness, and amount of trees over wide areas of rivers and uses them in flow analysis. It also studies evaluating habitats by surveying topography and vegetation with UAVs and using image analysis and machine learning.
*Illustrative imageMonitoring technology for river environments
Focusing on river vegetation, the lab studies monitoring technology that uses airborne laser bathymetry data. It develops technology that automatically reads vegetation distribution with machine learning, and technology that identifies individual trees that could obstruct flood flows, aiming to establish ways of acquiring basic information that help balance flood control and the environment.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Toda-Mizoguchi Lab consist of faculty, researchers, secretaries, and doctoral program, master's program, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorYuji Toda
- LecturerYuta Mizoguchi
- Assistant ProfessorYuexia Zhou
- Project ProfessorTakashi Tashiro
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Asse River, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, near Beynes-0916” Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Prediction model for river vegetation and habitats: “Woluwe river riparian zaventem” Caramelia14 / CC0 (cropped)
- Evaluating the habitats of aquatic organisms: “Gravel river bed of the Water of Feugh - geograph.org.uk - 445115” Nigel Corby / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- More advanced and efficient river channel management: “USGS employee prepares unmanned aerial vehicle for takeoff” Public domain. / Public domain (cropped)
- Monitoring technology for river environments: “River Monitoring ( )” U.S. Geological Survey from Reston, VA, USA / Public domain (cropped)
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