Report of the 5th SAFE Workshop in Nagoya, Japan

The 5th Spring SAFE Workshop in conjunction with EO-Mid-year meeting including Climate R³ was held at Nagoya Urban institute in Nagoya, Japan during June 5-6, in fine day with approximately 50 participants.
The venue is in the highest building around there and along with Nagoya Boston museum and ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel. The joint workshop was successfully and fruitfully finished.

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The 1st day, the SAFE workshop was led by co-chairs, Dr. Lal Salamakoon, Director of AIT/GIC and Dr. Toru Fukuda, Director of EORC/JAXA. In the workshop, useful information was shared by some of post prototype executers such as thoughtful way to use the SAFE result. They had attended at the SAFE workshop to participate the ISTS29 held in Nagoya conference center and presented on the own SAFE activities after a long time.

The 2nd day, remaining SAFE workshop was held on the report of reviewing proposals and wrap-up session. The materials of them are up-dated in the web-site to share. After that, the EO-Mid-year meeting was opened led by co-chairs, Dr. Shin-ichi Sobue and Mr. Joseph Andrews of SPU, Australia.
In the meeting, Climate R³, GFOI and CEOD-AP was updated and GCOM-C & HIMAWARI-8/9 for Metrological and non-Metrological activities including the result of the previous meeting held in Australia was informed. In particular, this time also, the person from ADB and JICA participated as donor agency and shared about activities and discussion on the EO WG.

Result of the SAFE Workshop

1. Review result for SAFE proposals

a. Mongolia (Drought monitoring)

b. Vietnam (Rice crop monitoring)

c. Vietnam (Coastal erosion)

d. Indonesia (SAR Rice crop)

e. Malaysia (Agricultural land abandonment)

2. Comments for on-going report

a. Wetlands Mapping (Sri Lanka)

- Consider connection with K&C project
- Encouraged to see through 1 or 2 areas through to policy impact to see benefits of SAFE process

b. Drought (Indonesia)

- Himawari-8 should help improve accuracy

c. Mangrove carbon (Indonesia)

- Consider connection with K&C Global Mangrove

d. Water & Food Security (Cambodia)

- More quick GSMaP NRT data requested
- Importance of getting data to end users (e.g. MOA) stressed

e. Coastal (Bangladesh)

- Consider Sri Lanka experience of impact on policy

Result of EO-Mid-year meeting

SAFE Workshop

- Approve three new prototype proposals and request two proposals to revise to re-submit in the next opportunity
- Check the current situation of on-going prototyping with good shape
- Approve revised TOR with adopting PDM type management

Climate R³

- Australian suggestion to develop broad understanding and evidence base for APRSAF EO activities: CEOD-AP (Continuity of EO Data for Asia-Pacific) Survey - step by step, perhaps starting with 3 SBA (Social Beneficial area) s, also covering in-situ obs.
- Himawari-8/9 & GCOM-C integrated application prospects

GFOI

- APRSAF countries invited to participate and benefit from GFOI Space Data Services for benefit of REDD+ activities

GEOGLAM Asia Rice Crop team

- Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam identified as Phase 1 TDS priorities for a provincial rice crop area estimation
- Space Data requirements identified, including for RISAT to submit it to CEOS ad hoc team meeting in DC in this June
- Study the possibility of entire country rice crop area estimation using SAR in Thailand as a second year

Donors - ADB and JICA

- Note potential for GEOGLAM and GFOI to propose new their projects
- Confirmed benefit of SAFE-type activities for validating space techniques for use on their project
- APRSAF country informed to participate ADB workshop
- Show ADB's interest in collaboration with Asia-RiCE
- Stress data continuity and affordability of earth observation satellite data

General

- Japan's co-chair of EOWG will be changed from Shin-ichi to Imaoka-san

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