1. Earth Monitoring Working Group Meeting August 25, 2005

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. 20 th 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

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Plans for 21 st 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