Earth Monitoring Working Group Meeting

August 25, 2005

Roles

• Establish and operate EO data transfers to support both science and government near-real-time applications.

• Development of distributed archive and access to EO data.

• Development of interactive mapping / analysis systems.

• Participate in EO application projects.

Co-Chairs and Vice-Chair

• Co-chairs• Dr. Pakorn Apaphant, GISTDA• Dr. Chris Elvidge, NOAA/NGDC

•Vice-chair • Prof. Fukui of JAXA

• 2 years term <Jan 2005 –Jan 2007>

On-Going Activities

• DMSP data transfers from NGDC to MAFFIN-Japan. • Near real time (NRT) delivery of nighttime OLS data of the

AP region and global SSMI from multiple satellites. • NRT delivery established in early 2000.

• DMSP data transfers from NGDC to NUS-CRISP Singapore.

• Near real time delivery of nighttime OLS data of the SE Asia region from multiple satellites. Data also passed to the Meteorological Service of Singapore.

• Established in early 2000.• Data exchange between AIT-Thailand and MAFFIN.

• NOAA-POES => MAFFIN. DMSP => AIT.• TRMM data transfers from NASA-GSFC to JAXA• Seminars/Workshops in APAN meeting• monitoring@apan.net

20th APAN meeting

• Working Group Meeting• Workshop

• Earth Monitoring: Technology and Applications

• 1 two hour session• 7 presentations• EO Satellite Construction• Applications on Natural Resource Management

• New coming Participants <NSPO/Taiwan> <MACRES/Malaysia>

Opportunities

• FORMOSAT-2• Launched in May 2004• 2 m. PAN, 8 m. MSS• Successfully used for disaster monitoring• Provided free downloadable images on NSPO

website• ALOS

• Early 2006 launch schedule• Widely distribute the data to Recipients including

GISTDA, ESA, NOAA, NASA, ACRES. • APAN bandwidth to be used in distribution.

• THEOS • Plan to launch in 2007• GISTDA plans to use network to distribute data.

Opportunities

• Digital Asia Network • continues to build and may need

expanded bandwidth in the future.• Satellite Image Network for Natural

Hazard Management in Asia• To be established in this October 2005• APAN Network to be used

Plans for 21st APAN Meeting

• January 22-26, 2006• Akihabara Convention Hall, Tokyo, Japan• Pre APAN Workshop

• DMSP Data User Workshop • 1 day (Jan 21 or 22)• Coordination with MAFF

• APAN Workshops• 3 workshops• Building a MODIS data Archive in Japan

• 3 ninety minute sessions• Satellite Image Network for Natural Hazard Management in

Asia • 1 ninety minute session

• Technology Development • 1 ninety minute session