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Agenda of 4th SAFE Workshop - 22 and 23 May 2012

< Last Update: 04 Jun. 2012 >

Co-Chairs:
Mr. Joe Andrew (DIISR)
Dr. Shinichi Sobue (JAXA)

Day-1: SAFE WS (22 May 2012)

Time	Agenda Item(s)
9:00-10:00	Pre-Review Board Meeting (Closed Meeting) Explaining situation of applications (SAFE secretariat, 5min) Sharing review point for each new proposals, etc
10:00-10:30	Registration
Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:30-10:50	Opening remark (Co-Chairs) Introductions Agenda adoption
10:50-11:00	Report on GCOM-W1 launching (JAXA) Document download (PDF)
11:00-11:15	SAFE Overview and APRSAF-18 SAFE WS report (Mr. Tomoyuki Nukui) Document download (PDF)
Presentation on new prototype proposals
11:15-12:30 Each 15mins	1. "Water and Food Security under the Climate Change in the Western Cambodia" Document download (PDF) So Im Monichoth, Department Of Meteorology (DOM), Ministry Of Water Resources And Meteorology (MOWRAM) Zoom
11:15-12:15 Skype	2. "The use of satellite remote sensing for paddy production estimation for strengthening food security to deal with climate change in Indonesia"(Tentative) Document download (PDF) Rizatus Shofiyari, Indonesian Center for Agricultural Land Resources Reserch and Development (ICALRD), IAARD - MOA Zoom
	3. "USE OF HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR GLACIER CHANGE DETECTION IN WESTERN MONGOLIA" Document download (PDF) ERDENETUYA Magsar (PhD), Environmental Information Center/National Remote Sensing Center (NRSC) of Mongolia Zoom
12:45-13:45	Lunch
Presentation on new prototype proposals (Cont.)
	4 "Assessment of Morphological Changes in the Meghna Estuary of Bangladesh" Document download (PDF) Md. Sohel Rana, Remote Sensing and GIS Unit, LGED, Dhaka Zoom
On-going Prototype Report
13:45-15:00 Each 25 mins	Pakistan: Monitoring Water Cycle Variations and Assessing the Climate Change Impacts on them in Pakistan/Flood in Pakistan Document download (PDF) Dr. Rasul Ghulam, PMD @Skype
14:15-14:45 Skype	Thailand: Use of satellite data derived ocean color and SST information for Thailand Fishery Document download (PDF) Dr. Ishikawa on behalf of Dr. Phutchapol Suvanachai, Department of Fisheries Zoom
	Sri Lanka: Modeling ocean frontal zones using high resolution satellite and float data to locate tuna fish aggregations in Sri Lankan waters Document download (PDF) Mr. Jagath Rajapaksha, NARA Zoom
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break, Review Board meeting
15:30-16:20	Vietnam: Carbon stock calculating and forest changes assessment toward REDD+ for mangrove Document download (PDF) Mr. Dien Tien Vu, FIPI Zoom
	Sri Lanka: Mapping and Change Detection of Wetlands in South Eastern River Basin in Sri Lanka using Optical and PALSAR Remote Sensing Document download (PDF) Mr. Ajith Gunawardena, Ast. Director, Geo-Informatics Unit Central Environmental Authority Zoom
16:20-	Review board meeting report (Co-chairs) Document download (PDF) Zoom
16:50	Wrap-up SAFE workshop (Co-chair) Document download (PDF) Zoom
16:50 - 17:00	(Group Photo) Adjourn

Day-2: SAFE WS (23 May 2012)

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Time	Agenda Item(s)
10:00-10:30	Registration & Coffee
Opening of the session
9:00	Report of the Day 1 discussion Revision of the agenda Self introduction for new participants
Special Session conducted by Australian organizer
Each 15mins	Theme: Earth observation activities in Australia
9:20-10:10	Use of remotely sensed data for monitoring agricultural crops and pastures biomass at paddock and farm level in Western Australia Document download (PDF) Dr. Waqar Ahmad (Principal Research Scientist and Group Leader in Spatial Informatics; CSIRO Centre for Environment and Life Sciences) Zoom
	Mapping Surface Composition Using Earth Observation Data: Their Contribution Towards Climate Change Knowledge Document download (PDF) Cindy Ong (CSIRO Earth Science & Resource Engineering) Zoom
	TBD Professor Mervyn Lynch (Remote Sensing & Satellite Research, Curtin University)
10:10-10:30	Morning Tea
10:30-11-20	Monitoring Australian continental land cover changes as a component of assessing the role of vegetation dynamics on terrestrial carbon cycling Document download (PDF) Dr Peter Caccetta (Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Mapping and Monitoring Research Group) Zoom
	Fire and Flood - Successes in Developing EOS Operational Systems to support disaster mitigation and resilience using cross-discipline approaches Document download (PDF) Dr Matthew Adams (Satellite Remote Sensing Services, Landgate) Zoom
	Radar Satellites and Disaster Management Jack Scott (Thales Australia)
Concluding Session
11:20	Clarify the condition on the review result of Cambodia proposal. Document download (PDF) So Im Monichoth, Department Of Meteorology (DOM), Ministry Of Water Resources And Meteorology (MOWRAM) Adoption of the conclusions and report to EO working group at APRSAF-19 / Wrap up Document download (PDF)
12:10	Closing remark by General Dr. Michael Green, General manager, DIISR Adjourn

PM of Day-2: Technical Tour
Day-3 and Day-4: Climate R3 Workshop