Research & Meetings

18 th Science Team meeting - Announcement

Date: November 7 - 9, 2012 (Wed. - Fri.)

Venue: RESTEC (Remote Sensing Technology Center of JAPAN) HQ (Kamiya-cho, Tokyo)

Agenda

RESTEC (Remote Sensing Technology Center of JAPAN) HQ (Kamiya-cho, Tokyo)

November 7 (wed.), 2012
RESTEC HQ / Kamiya-cho, Tokyo
pdf file
10:00-10:05 Welcome (Masanobu Shimada, JAXA)
10:05-10:15 Introduction and Agenda (Ake Rosenqvist)
10:15-11:30 EORC data processing and ground data collection
·Status & capacity issues (M. Shimada)
·PALSAR mosaics and path image request procedures and EORC product transfer procedures (Keiko Ishii, RESTEC)
·JAXA collection of ground data from K&C Science Teams (Takeshi Motohka, JAXA)
11:30-12:15 Open floor discussion - Data processing and access issues (All)
12:15-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-17:15 Science Team reports - Forestry (20+5 minutes)
·Thuy Le Toan (CESBIO / France)
·Josef Kellndorfer (WHRC / USA)
·Francesco Holecz (sarmap / Switzerland)
·Shaun Quegan (U. Sheffield / U.K.)
15:10-15:30Coffee
·Christian Thiel (FSU-Jena / Germany)
·Johan Fransson (SLU / Sweden)
·Paul Siqueira (Univ. Mass / USA)
~17:15 Adjourn
18:00 Welcome Recetion
November 8 (Thu.), 2012
RESTEC HQ / Kamiya-cho, Tokyo pdf file
10:00-11:45 Science Team reports - Wetlands (20+5 minutes)
·Maycira Costa (U. Victoria / Canada)
·Anthony Milne (UNSW / Australia)
·Kyle McDonald (CUNY / USA)
·Bill Salas (AGS / USA)
11:45-12:15 The GEO-GLAM Asia Rice Monitoring project
·Shin-ichi Sobue (JAXA)
12:15-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-15:10 Science Team reports - Forestry (20+5 minutes)
·Richard Lucas (U.Aberystwyth / Wales)
·Carlos Pedraza (TNC / Colombia)
·Edson Sano (IBAMA / Brazil)
·Maurizio Santoro (Gamma RS / Switzerland)
15:10-15:30 Coffee
15:30-16:00 K&C project issues (Ake Rosenqvist)
16:00-17:30 ALOS-2 Session
·ALOS-2 - system characteristics and development status - M. Shimada
·ALOS-2 Systematic Observation Strategy: status and plans - Ake Rosenqvist
·Open floor discussions: Science Team feed-back
~17:30 Adjourn
November 9 (Fri.), 2012
RESTEC HQ / Kamiya-cho, Tokyo pdf file
10:00-10:30 JAXA EORC global mosaic and forest mapping activities (JAXA EORC team)
10:30-12:15 Science Team reports - Forestry (20+5 minutes)
·Dirk Hoekman (U. Wageningen / The Netherlands)
·Florian Kugler (DLR / Germany)
·Darmawan Mulyanto (Bakosurtanal / Indonesia)
·José Don Alban (FFI / Philippines)
12:15-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:45 Science Team reports - Wetlands (20+5 minutes)
·Lisa Rebelo (IWMI / Laos)
·Richard Lucas / Nathan Thomas (U.Aberystwyth / Wales)
·Bruce Chapman (JPL/USA)
14:45-15:30 The K&C Global Mangrove Watch
·Recent developments (Richard Lucas, Takuya Itoh / RESTEC)
15:30-15:50 Coffee
15:50-16:30 Global Mangrove Watch (cont’d)
16:30-17:15 Summary and conclusions
~17:15 Closing of the KC#18 Science Team meeting