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Detailed insights into grid-enabled IT, satellite data exchange, sensor networks, and Earth observation activities discussed at the APAN Honolulu 2004 meeting, including upcoming workshop plans and collaborative projects.
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APAN Natural Resource Area Report APAN Honolulu 2004 APAN/Honolulu January 29, 2004 East West Center, U. Hawaii
Hawaii WS/Meeting Report APAN Honolulu 2004 • Workshops • Grid-enabled IT framework for Earth System • by Earth System WG • Wireless Sensor Networks and Their Applications in the Environment • jointly by Agriculture WG, Grid WG and PRAGMA • Earth Observation Summit: Planning for Asia Pacific Implementation Activities • by Earth Observation WG • Meetings • NR Area, AG-WG & EO-WG Meetings • Grid com., e-Science com. & Program com. meetings
Agriculture WG APAN Honolulu 2004 • Current Activities • Wireless sensor net project, partially with PRAGMA • Data broker project, partially with PRAGMA • Satellite image archive; SIDaB, with EO-WG • Others • BioMirror • ANDES with EO-WG • Developing (plan) • Collaboration with CAgM/WMO for a global AG-Met system • Multilingual information exchange system • XML standardization for biological data
Earth Observation WG APAN Honolulu 2004 • Roles • Development of distributed archive and access to EO data • Development of interactive mapping / analysis systems • Current Activities • Satellite data transfers from US to MAFFIN, JAXA & NUS-CRISP • Satellite data exchange between AIT-Thailand and MAFFIN • Plans • MAFFIN and NECTEC 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 • Satellite data distributed archive and access based on Grid • Earth Observation Summit • EOWG Is ready to represent APAN for EOS
Earth System WG (ESWG) APAN Honolulu 2004 • Demonstration of Grid-enabled eScience Framework in Earth Science R&D • Pilot project as a eScience under APAN • Further Collaborations with other WG/Committee • Kick-off meeting of GCES • Global Consortium of Earth System based on GRID • Platform for GRID and pure Science • Discussions on future GCES • Members: Regional representatives & on-going projects • Further efforts from AP region to global scale (ESGII(U)*, ES2(K)*,ESME(U), PRISM(E), Earth Simulator(J)) * Grid-based, Pending, Pure science
Grid for NR APAN Honolulu 2004 • Data Grid • Integration of various databases • Eco-management • Integration of various satellite images • Sensor Grid • High resolution ground data acquisitions • Combined with satellite remote sensing • Computational Grid • Bioinformatics • Satellite image analysis • Earth system modeling • eScience
Grid Related Projects in NR APAN Honolulu 2004 • Data brokers • Web Services to provide consistent accesses to heterogeneous databases, partially collaborate with PRAGMA • Changing to Globus/OGSA • Integrations of multi types of brokers • Data exchange standardization platform • BIX & MARKER • Virtual Laboratory for Meteorological R&D • Wireless sensor net • Field monitoring server projects, partially collaborate with PRAGMA • Multilingual data exchange among Asian countries • Dictionaries are getting ready in some categories in some languages, e.g. agrometeorological dic. in Korean. and bioinformatics data in Malaysia
Workshop Plan for Cairns APAN Honolulu 2004 • Satellite Earth Observation Data Archive and Access ( 2 slots) • jointly by EO-WG, e-Science com. • IT for Food Safety and Mutual Recognition Agreement (2 slots) • by AG-WG • Digital Earth and 3D GeoBrowser (6 slots) • by ISDE-J & NR area