HIDEAKI GOTOU
Last Updated :2025/04/03
- Affiliations, Positions
- Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
- E-mail
- hgoto
hiroshima-u.ac.jp
- Self-introduction
- I mainly study tectonic geomorphology to examine crustal movements related to the displacements of active faults. Research methods adopt fieldwork and remote sensing analysis, including interpreting stereo images using aerial photographs and digital elevation models (DEM) and fieldwork. I am studying the topographical development of active faults along the coastal area covering onshore and seafloor topography. I also consider geographic issues related to topography, such as natural disasters and regional development, using the Geographic Information System (GIS).
Basic Information
Academic Degrees
- Ph.D., Hiroshima University
- Master of Literature, Hiroshima University
Educational Activity
- [Bachelor Degree Program] School of Letters : Humane Studies : Geography, Archaeology, and Cultural Heritage
- [Bachelor Degree Program] School of Letters : Humane Studies : Humanities in English Program
- [Master's Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Humanities Program
- [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Humanities Program
In Charge of Primary Major Programs
- Geography, Archaeology and Cultural Properties
Research Fields
- Complex systems;Geography;Geography
Research Keywords
- active fault
- Geomorphology
- Geographical Information System
- Digital elevation model
- Median Tectonic Line
Affiliated Academic Societies
- Association for Japanese Geographer
- Japanese society for Geographical Sociences, 1991
- American Geophisical Union, 2003
Educational Activity
Course in Charge
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, Intensive, Advanced Seminar (Let's go on a geographical excursion)
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Introduction to Geography, Archaeology, and Cultural Heritage
- 2025, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Research Tutorial II
- 2025, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Introduction to Geography
- 2025, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Introduction to Physical Geography
- 2025, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Lecture on Geographic Information System
- 2025, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Exercise in Physical Geography
- 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Geographical Field Work
- 2025, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Exercise in Geographical Information System
- 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Lecture on the Formation of Geo-environment B
- 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Exercise for Geographical Field Work
- 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Seminar in Graduation Thesis on Geography A
- 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Seminar in Graduation Thesis on Geography B
- 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Guidance on Graduation Thesis A
- 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Guidance on Graduation Thesis B
- 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Graduation Thesis
- 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Science History for Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Science History for Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Seminar on Fundamental Physical Geography A
- 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Seminar on Geo-Environmental Evolution A
- 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Advanced Study of Geo-Environmental Evolution
- 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Lecture on Geographical Information System
- 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Seminar on Geographical Information System
- 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Advanced Seminar on Geography A
- 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Advanced Seminar on Geography B
- 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Advanced Geographical Field Work
- 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Advanced Exercise for Geographical Field Work
- 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Special Research
- 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Special Research
- 2025, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , First Semester, Special Research
- 2025, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Second Semester, Special Research
Research Activities
Academic Papers
- ★, Revealing the distribution of active submarine faults off the coast of Oga Peninsula using high-resolution stereoscopic topographic images, Geomorphology, 418, 20221201
- ★, Submarine terraces reveal Late Quaternary tectonic deformation in the intermediate zone between the island shelf and rift zone of the middle part of the Nanseishoto Islands, southwest Japan, EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE, 73(1), 20210319
- Distribution and Characteristics of Slope Movements in the Southern Part of Hiroshima Prefecture Caused by the Heavy Rain in Western Japan in July 2018, Journal of Desaster Research, 14, 894-902, 201909
- Topographic Anaglyphs from Detailed Digital Elevation Models Covering Inland and Seafloor for the Tectonic Geomorphology Studies in and around Yoron Island, Ryukyu Arc, Japan, GEOSCIENCES, 8(10), 201810
- ★, Late quaternary slip rates and vectors on the Median Tectonic Line active fault zone in eastern Shikoku, southwest Japan, QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL, 471, 267-277, 20180401
- ★, Geomorphic features of surface ruptures associated with the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake in and around the downtown of Kumamoto City, and implications on triggered slip along active faults, EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE, 69, 20170202
- Application of UAV Photography to Refining the Slip Rate on the Pyramid Lake Fault Zone, Nevada, BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 106(2), 785-798, 201604
- ★, Extensive Area Map of Topographic Anaglyphs Covering Inland and Seafloor from Detailed Digital Elevation Model for Identifying Broad Tectonic Deformation, Kamae, K ed., Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks: Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident, 65-74, 2016
- Surface fault ruptures associated with the 14 April foreshock (Mj 6.5) of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence, southwest Japan, EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE, 68, 20161103
- ★, Mapping of Fault Geomorphology Using “Structure from Motion - Multi - View Stereo” Photogrammetry with Old / Hi-view Aerial Photography, Active Fault Research, 73-83, 2015
- ★, Active Faults along the Japan Trench and Source Faults of Large Earthquakes, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Engineering Lessons Learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, 254-262, 20120301
- A Trench study on the surface fault rupture in Awaji Island associated with the 1995 Hyogoken-nambu earthquake, 23-27, 19960301
- Active Faulting of the Median Tectonic Line along the Yoshino-gawa Valley, Shikoku, Southwest Japan, The Quat. Res., 37(4), 299-313, 19981031