23rd APAN Earth Monitoring Working Group Sessions

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23rd APAN Earth Monitoring Working Group Sessions

• January 23-25, 2007
• Manila

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APAN Earth Monitoring Working Grouphttp//www.aff
rc.go.jp/apan/emwg/

• To utilize the APAN network resources in the
  exchange and distribution of earth observation
  satellite data in a full and open manner with a
  minimum time delay and minimum cost, recognizing
  relevant international instruments, national
  policies andlegislation.
• Preservation and open access to the long term
  record of satellite earth observation data
  through digital archives.
• Open access to a wider range of geospatial data
  of the Asia Pacific region.
• Exchange of open source software for use in the
  access, display and analysis of earth observation
  satellite data.
• Review of information requirements for consumers
  and policymakers in environmental, economic, and
  social arenas to further expand EO data
  utilization.
• Capacity building activities to engage
  participation from all nations in the region and
  to maximize the availability and utilization of
  earth observation satellite data in developing
  countries.
• Exploration and prototyping of innovative
  technologies and distributed methods for
  accomplishing the above.

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Our assets are growing!
APAN Backbone
JAXAs ALOS (Daichi)
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EM-WG

• Membership is open to anyone who attends one of
  our sessions or meetings
• If you are here and would like to be a member
  let us know!
• Co-chair terms end this week
• New chair / co-chairs will serve for two years

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23rd APAN ThemeSaving Lives, Improving Lives
Through Global Collaboration Using Advanced
Networks

• You can find more and more examples..

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Example Unanticipated telecommuting in Colorado
December 21, 2006
Office was closed but continuing work from home
was easy thanks to high bandwidth internet.
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EM Sessions January 23, 2007

• Session 1 1100-1230 Review of Recent
  Disasters in the Philippines
• Chair Elvidge (NOAA)2006 A year of disastrous
  typhoons in the Philippines (Dr. Prisco Nilo,
  Director of PAGASA) Geologic hazard and
  disaster reduction efforts in the Philippines
  (Dr. Renato U. Solidum, Director of Philvolcs)
• Session 2 1400-1530 Role of Remote Sensing in
  Natural Resource Studies
• Chair Elvidge (NOAA) Use of Remote Sensing at
  the National Mapping and Resource Information
  Authority (NAMRIA)
• Geoinformatics mapping for Higher Education
  Institutions and Programs in the Philippines
  (Carlos Pascual, Mariano Marcos State
  University)Pilot Application of Forest Canopy
  Density Mapper (FCDM) in the Philippines
  (Merlinda R. Manila, Department of Environment
  and Natural Resources)
• Application of MODIS satellite landscape
  phenology with AsiaFlux tower measures for
  environmental stress detection (Alfredo Huete,
  University of Arizona)
• Session 3 1600-1730 Japan's Advanced Land
  Observing Satellite (ALOS)
• Chair Isao Nakanishi (JAXA)
• ALOS (Daichi) Status Update (Isao Nakanishi,
  JAXA)Plan for EO data transfer Experiment
  (Mitsuhiko Fuda, JAXA)
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EM Sessions January 24, 2007

• Session 4 900-1030 Disaster and Natural Hazard
  Warning Systems (A)
• Chairs Pakorn (GISTDA) and Fukui (Keio U.)
  TEIN-2 Application Framework (George
  McLaughlin)Introduction on Satellite image
  network for natural disaster management
  (Pakorn)Sentinel Asia status and update
  (Fukui) Satellite image network for natural
  disaster management in Indonesia (TBD)
• Session 5 1100-1230 Disaster and Natural
  Hazard Warning Systems (B)
• Chairs Pakorn (GISTDA) and Fukui (Keio
  U.)ASIA-ES Status and update (Pakorn)
  Overview of the Pacific Disaster Center (David
  Lassner, University of Hawaii) Satellite
  observation of disasters in Southeast Asia
  (Ryoichi Furuta, RESTEC)
• Access to near real time global visible and
  thermal band mosaics from NGDC (Elvidge)
• Session 6 1400-1530 Towards a Global Earth
  Observing System of Systems (GEOSS)
• Chair Elvidge
• The progress report on GEO Grid (Hirokazu
  Yamamoto, AIST)
• Review of the GEO Implementation Plan What Can
  the EM-WG Contribute? (Elvidge)
• Session 7 1600-1730 Aquaculture (joint session
  with AG-WG)
• Chair Elvidge.
• Lights in the Water Satellite detection of
  lights from human activities in and around the
  Philippines (Elvidge) Mapping Coastal
  Aquaculture and Fisheries Structures by Satellite
  Imaging Radar (Nelson Lopez)
• EM-WG meeting

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Joint AG-EM Meeting January 25, 2007

• 900? 1100? 1600?
• Selection and welcome the new AG and EM chairs
  and new NR Area director!
• Review of new EM web site.
• Planning for 24th and 25th APAN meetings.
• Discussion