APAN Natural Res ource Area APAN Natural Resource

APAN Natural Res ource Area APAN Natural Resource Area Report APAN/Cairns July 7, 2004 Room A, Hilton Hotel, Cairns, AU Seishi Ninomiya 1 1/16/2022

APAN Natural Res ource Area Cairns WS/Meeting Report • Workshops and sessions – Digital Earth & 3 D Geo. Browser (6 slots) • by ISDE-J & Earth Observation WG – IT for Food Safety and Mutual Recognition Agreement (1 slot) • by Agriculture WG – Advances in Image Archives, Access, and Services (2 slots) • by Earth Observation WG & e. Science committee – A part of Network Research Workshop (1 slot) • By Xin Li • Meetings – NR Area, EO-WG & AG-WG Meetings – Grid com. , e-Science com. , Program com. & e. Culture Bo. F meetings 2 1/16/2022

APAN Natural Res ource Area 3 1/16/2022 Director and WG Chairs • We’d like to finalize all at the APAN/Bangkok • The present members’d like to serve as the interim director, deputy-directors and chairs for NR, AG-WG, EO-WG and ES-WG

APAN Natural Res ource Area Working Groups • Agriculture WG – – Wireless sensor net project, partially with PRAGMA Data broker project, partially with PRAGMA Multilingual information exchange others • Earth Observations and Disaster Monitoring WG – Development of distributed archive and access to EO data – Development of interactive mapping / analysis systems – Satellite data transfers from US to MAFFIN, JAXA & NUSCRISP – Satellite data exchange between AIT-Thailand MAFFIN – Plans • Archive and service of NOAA’s NPP and NPOESS data, and NASA’s GEO-Cover global Landsat database • Precipitation monitoring in the AP region using microwave imagery • Earth Observation Summit • Earth System WG 4 1/16/2022 – Grid-enabled e. Science Framework for Earth System partially with WMO – Global Consortium for Earth System Development

APAN Natural Res ource Area Workshop/Session Plan for Bangkok • AG-WG – Success stories of APAN/AG-WG projects (2 slots) – Multilingual information exchange (1 -2 slots) • EO-WG – Asia Pacific Disaster Warning and Response Workshop (2 slots) – Digital Asia Network & Web Map Services Workshop (1 slot) – GEO Initiative Update (1 slot) • ES-WG – Cyberinfrastructure for Future Earth System (2 slots) • NR tutorial – Field. Server; filed monitoring and wireless sensor network (4 slots) • Related coms. – e. Science (2 slots) – e. Culuture (2 slots) 5 1/16/2022