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Earth Monitoring Working Group Meeting

Earth Monitoring Working Group Meeting. Pakorn Apaphant EMWG Co-chair 24 th APAN Meeting August 28-31, 2007 Xi-An, China. Earth Monitoring Working Group. Natural Resource Area Agriculture Earth Monitoring Earth System Established: July 1998 Co-Chair: Pakorn Apaphant, Ph.D. <GISTDA>

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Earth Monitoring Working Group Meeting

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

  2. Earth Monitoring Working Group • Natural Resource Area • Agriculture • Earth Monitoring • Earth System • Established: July 1998 • Co-Chair: Pakorn Apaphant, Ph.D. <GISTDA> Koki Iwao (AIST)(replace Hirokazu Yamamoto, AIST) Vice Chair: Chris Elvidge, Ph.D. <NOAA> • 60++ Members from 12 countries • India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, USA, Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, and Singapore • http://www.affrc.go.jp/apan/emwg/

  3. EM Workshop –Aug 28, 2007 • 2 sessions on August 28, 2007 • GEOGrid (3 presentations) • Remote Sensing Data Network for Regional Application (5 presentations) • About 25 participants

  4. 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

  5. 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 1992-2003, Lunar Cycle Composites, and Gas Flaring

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. EM-WG • Sessions in Hawaii Meeting (25th APAN) • Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (3) • EM Information network for Natural Hazard Management (1) • Cross Calibration Collabaration (1)

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