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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.
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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