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Earth MONITORING and DISASTER WARNING WG Natural
Resource Area Report APAN Conference 2002 Phuket,
Thailand 23rd-24th January 2002

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Contents

• Charter
• Chairmanship
• Highlight of EM and pre-workshop for GOFC
• Way forward

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Earth Monitoring and Disaster Warning WG

• Charter
• No need to revise
• http//eos.nasda.go.jp/Apan/charter5.htm
• is to implement remote sensing applications
  within APAN which promote sustainable economic
  development, preservation of the region's biotic
  resources, and early identification of events or
  conditions which may lead to disasters.

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What it does

• The WG will utilize APAN to distribute remote
  sensing data and derived information products to
  new sets of data users which will be developed
  through the APAN nodes.
• The WG will seek to democratize the decision
  making impact of the distributed data through
  local media outlets, universities, government
  laboratories, and non-governmental organizations
  (NGOs).

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Chairmanship and secretariat
Chairmanship (Re-selected) Co-Chairs Chris
Elvidge/NOAA-NGDC Shin-ichi Sobue/NASDA-SPPD Vi
ce-Chair Genya Saito/NIAES Secretariat TBD -
Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan
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Highlight of EM

• About 48 participants
• Three presentations in EM (NR6)
• NASDA, GISTDA and AIT
• NASDA calls the proposal of the pilot experiments
  using I-space infrastructure to utilize
  technological and/or application innovation,
  especially for Natural resources session in
  cooperation with Japanese domestic committee
  chaired by Ninomiya-san
• AIT to introduce Digital Asia Idea and it may be
  good candidate for new APAN project
• Near real time on-line data transfer including
  MODIS may be also one candidate of new APAN
  project

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Concept of Digital Asia by Prof. Honda

• Digital ASIA is an initiative to provide people
  and community with easy access to geo-spatial
  information over the Internet by establishing a
  scheme to integrate and share the GIS and Remote
  Sensing data among all the countries of Asia.
• Emphasis is put on the implementation of regional
  scale dataset on internet by means of new
  preparation or sharing existing dataset, for the
  realization/visualization of resources among
  people.
• The base technology of this project is Web-GIS,
  Open-GIS and Distributed GIS, which makes it
  possible to give easy access to geo-spatial
  information on Internet.
• Remote Sensing is a technology to obtain
  environmental information at near real time basis

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Highlight of pre-Workshop for GOFC

• The GOFC Fire Mapping and Monitoring
  Implementation Team has embarked on an effort to
  improve the understanding and use of satellite
  observations of fires through a series of
  regional calibration / validation activities.
  Satellite observations of active fires and burn
  scars may provide
• data useful in the monitoring and forecasting of
  disasters from fires,especially during the dry
  season caused by climate variability.
  However,little is known about the validity and
  accuracy of the various products and how they
  might be used together for an improved depiction
  of fire events.
• The core activity of the workshop was to initiate
  and plan the intercomparison, calibration, and
  validation of active fire and burn scar products
  from primary systems capable of making wide area
  coverage observations in S.E. Asia. The workshop
  included presentations on the
• SEARIN network, a definition of objectives, a
  review of remote sensing accuracy assessment, and
  multiple presentations from regional scientists
  regarding their experiences in validating fire
  and burn scar observations.
• The plans focus on the collection and analysis of
  multiple sources of satellite imagery and filed
  data in tests sites selected in Thailand,
  Indonesia and Malaysia. The systems to be
  considered include the near real time images from
  MODIS, AVHRR, and DMSP. Reference data sources
  include high spatial resolution data from
  Landsat, SPOT, ASTER,
• which will provide active fire detection and
  burn scar maps for use in performing an accuracy
  assessment of the coarse resolution sources.

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Way forward

• Next EM session Where and When?
• Shanghai, 8/26-28, 2002 ? or
• Fukuoka, January, 2003?
• Joint session with GOFC cal/val team
• WTF network support of relevance
• Special workshop for GOFC or Digital Asia?
• Collaboration with AG and BI?
• Target Theme Food security, Disaster???
• Technology GRID, Data sharing,