Constellations of the Earth 2022
Animation with artificial satellite!
This project uses artificial satellites as art tools to look at ourselves from the perspective of space, and depicts countless starry skies and meteors on the ground. Twenty devices that reflect radio waves are arranged in a straight line in an open space such as a riverbed, and the location is imaged from an artificial satellite at two different times on different days. In the second imaging, by moving the reflector on the extension of the straight line where the radio wave reflector was placed in the first imaging, a two-frame “meteor” is drawn as a geoglyph animation.
ALOS-2/4
A one-frame picture is drawn on the ground using a satellite that observes the ground with radio waves.
Radio wave reflector
Participants make their own devices that reflect radio waves from satellites.
Kanazawa college of Art
Faculty and students of Kanazawa College of Art are members of this activity.
JAXA
This activity is carried out as a joint research between Kanazawa College of Art and JAXA.
Technology necessary to draw large animation on the ground
Using two Japanese satellites
This project will use Japan’s advanced radar satellite ALOS-4 in the future. In addition, by using the Quasi-Zenith Satellite QZSS, which is capable of positioning with an error of a few centimeters, the positional relationship between the frames before and after the animation is drawn accurately.
QZSS
“Michibiki”(QZSS) is Japanese satellite for capable of positioning.
RTK
Performs centimeter-level positioning using electronic reference points and RTK positioning method.
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Speaker/Hiroshi Suzuki (Associate Professor, Kanazawa College of Art)/Masato Ohki (Researcher, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency [JAXA])/Sakumi Hagiwara (Professor, Tama Art University)/Mizuho Ishii (Coordinator, ARCUS
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About us
We are artists and scientists.
Hiroshi SUZUKI
Professor at Oil Painting Course, Department of Fine Art, Kanazawa College of ArtRepresentative, Constellations of the Earth ProjectBorn 1972 in Shizuoka, Lives and works in Kanazawa, Ishikawa.
Masato OHKI
Researcher, Earth Observation Research Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency1982 born in Kanagawa, Lives and works in Tsukuba, Ibaraki
