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APAN/NR Organization. Director : Seishi Ninomiya/NARO-NARC Deputy Directors : Shinichi Sobue/NASDA-SPPD Royol Chitradon/NECTEC Shoba Ranganathan/NUS Secretary General :Shuhaimi Napis/UPM Agriculture WG
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APAN/NR Organization • Director : Seishi Ninomiya/NARO-NARC • Deputy Directors : Shinichi Sobue/NASDA-SPPD • Royol Chitradon/NECTEC • Shoba Ranganathan/NUS • Secretary General :Shuhaimi Napis/UPM • Agriculture WG • Co-Chair : Seishi Ninomiya/NARC • Co-chair : Ronnie S. Natawidjaja/UNPAD • Secretary :Pauline Fakalata/NARC • Bioinfomatics WG • Co-Chair : Tan Tin Wee/NUS • Luo Jingchu/Peking Univ. • Secretary : Tan Tin Wee/NUS • Earth Monitoring and Disaster Warning WG • Chairs : Chris Elvidge/NOAA-NGDC • Shin-ichi Sobue/NASDA-SPPD • Vice-Chairs : Genya Saito/NIAES • Pakorn Apaphant/GISTDA • Secretary : Shin-ichi Sobue/NASDA-SPPD
Fukuoka Meeting Report • Participants China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Taiwan, APRTC,MAFFIN, WMO • Pre-Workshop • Utilization of Earth Monitoring Satellite (A full day) • In-session Workshop • Asian Dust and Weather DB Sharing (2 slots) • Multilingual Services over Asia Pacific (3 slots) supported by JIRCAS • Joint sessions • NR-DE WG Joint (1 slot) • NR-Grid WG Joint (1 slot) • Regular Sessions • 2 slots by EM
Agriculture WG • Infrastructure Upgrades • Inland links and international links • contents enrichments • Agricultural Grid activities • GIS applications, crop application etc. • data broker development • wireless field monitoring servers • Multilingual Services over Asia Pacific • dictionary, thesaurus, ontology development • application localizer • machine translator • Mirrors • Bio-, FAO, IRRI • Joint projects with EM
EM Conclusions • Digital Asia Network offers exciting new opportunities – expressions of interest in participation are sought • Next steps are necessary to build on the idea of a “Shared Online Fire Information System for SE Asia” • Opportunities exist for APAN forum to serve as framework for cooperation in developing a regional-scale “Asian dust” initiative (as part of broader meteorology scope) • The CEOS Grid efforts could contribute • Propose to hold the Asian Dust pre-workshop at Busan by EM with AG • Interest in Grid applications is increasingly rapidly. NR and Grid WG efforts are highly complimentary. Further joint sessions will be planned