Earth Monitoring Working Group Meeting Pakorn Apaphant EMWG Co-chair 24 th APAN Meeting August 28-31, 2007 Xi-An, China

24 th APAN Meeting, Xi’An August 28-31, 2007 Earth Monitoring Working Group Natural Resource Area Natural Resource Area –Agriculture –Earth Monitoring –Earth System Established: July 1998 Established: July 1998 Co-Chair: Pakorn Apaphant, Ph.D. Co-Chair: Pakorn Apaphant, Ph.D. Koki Iwao (AIST) (replace Hirokazu Yamamoto, AIST) Vice Chair: Chris Elvidge, Ph.D. Vice Chair: Chris Elvidge, Ph.D Members from 12 countries 60++ Members from 12 countries –India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, USA, Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, and Singapore

24 th APAN Meeting, Xi’An August 28-31, 2007 EM Workshop –Aug 28, sessions on August 28, 2007 – –GEOGrid (3 presentations) – –Remote Sensing Data Network for Regional Application (5 presentations) About 25 participants

24 th APAN Meeting, Xi’An August 28-31, 2007 Current Activities AIST is using GEOGRID to share ASTER image and existing land covered data Several Applications have been conducted through GEOGRID such as – –extraction of Urban Area Using ASTER Imagery and the Existing Land Cover Data – –Validating land cover maps with Degree Confluence Project information – –Validating Global Digital Elevation Models with Degree Confluence Project

24 th APAN Meeting, Xi’An August 28-31, 2007 Current Activities NOAA has developed and implemented Web Mapping Service For DMSP Satellite Data – –Products generated with IDL and Ruby – –Web Services Provided with Open Source – –Examples of Products   Global Composites , Lunar Cycle Composites, and Gas Flaring

24 th APAN Meeting, Xi’An August 28-31, 2007 Current Activities China Remote Sensing Ground Station Capabilities – –Three ground stations at Sana, Kashi, Miyun to receive satellite data – –covering the entire China. Long-distance network transferring remote sensing data – –File transfer acceleration techniques are applied to improve the service   Data compression   Catche   TCP protocol in network transfer

24 th APAN Meeting, Xi’An August 28-31, 2007 Current Activities AFFRIC/MAFFIN implements – –A Satellite Image Database System (SIDaB) – –Automatic Forest Fire Information Reporting (AFFIRE) System – –Vegetation Dry Condition Monitoring AFFRIC/MAFFIN has continued updating the EMWG website Thailand has implemented ASIAES clearing house system – –Metadata of Satellite Image for natural hazard management

24 th APAN Meeting, Xi’An August 28-31, 2007EM-WG Sessions in Hawaii Meeting (25 th ) Sessions in Hawaii Meeting (25 th APAN) –Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (3) –EM Information network for Natural Hazard Management (1) –Cross Calibration Collabaration (1)