APN Project Report

Guoqing LiNRSCC/CEODE

Presented to WGISS-27, Toulouse, FranceMay, 2009

Outlines

What is APN? WGISS contribution to APNApproved APN projectsFollowing activities

What is APN?

The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) is an inter-governmental network for the promotion of global change research and links between science and policy making in the Asia-Pacific Region.

HQ in Japan

WGISS contribution to APN

Dr. Martha, the WGISS chairwoman, forwarded the information of APN 2007 call to us.

WGISS partners submitted a proposal to answer APN call.

APN Project

WGISS members involved in this proposal

WGISS contribution to APN（ cont）

Topic of the proposalInter-agency Earth Observation information collaborate technologies changing the Globe Change research in Asian Pacific Region

WGISS contribution to APN（ cont）

The target of this project is to bring the experience and knowledge on EO from

CEOS/WGISS to scientists in the AP area, discuss how to use the new EO information

technology, find appropriate approaches to develop their

global change models based on this new EO capability and support,

call for cooperation on building the AP regional GC scientific data sharing platform.

WGISS contribution to APN（ cont）

What’s WGISS role?Initial idea of such proposal.Playing the leadership in the application. Professional experience on this topic. Main force of the proposal team.Main force of the project team.

ProposedAPN

T-Workshop

Next Generation SDI

Spatial Data

Data Processing

Data accessing

Model

Application

Knowledge

GlobalChange

GlobalChangeEarth

Observation

EarthObservation

Scientists of

Global Change Research in

AP area

Experts on

Advance EO Data technology

And architecture

Training workshop

KnowledgeTransfer

Tools SkillTraining

Hand BookCall on

GC-APWG

Collaboration with Others

APNAPNProjectProject

UNGAIDUNGAID/eSDDC/eSDDC

CEOS/CEOS/WGISSWGISS

GEO/ADCGEO/ADC

ISCU-APISCU-AP

IEEEIEEE

ASCASC

CODATA/ CODATA/ TGDCTGDC

Approved APN Proposal

The first seed grant project was approved at the April of 2008 (USD10,000)With target to make much better communication Bangkok meeting, July of 2008

The second project was approved last month, April of 2009 (USD$38,000)Training workshop in East Asia Area.

APN hopes WGISS and ICSU can support to operate such projects continually for SE Asia and Pacific island countries in the following three years.

Following activities in 2009

APN+ICSU+WGISS+UNGAID joint workshop in ISDE-6 conference10th of September, 2009Beijing, China

APN international training workshopSeptember 12~15, 2009Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Who will be there ? WGISS: Guoqing Li, Chuang Liu, Dingsheng Liu, Pakorn A.,

Luigi Fusco, Jean-Pierre Antikidis GEO ADC: Jiashen ZhangCODATA: Chuang Liu, Paul Uhlir, Togtoh Chuluun IEEE: Liping Di, UNGAID: Chuang Liu ISCU-AP: Mohd Nordin HasanASC: Chuang LiuAPN HQ: Linda Anne Stevenson

and other participants from Japan, South Korea, Russia and Malaysia.

Totally attendees will be about 40 persons.

We need support from WGISS…

Welcome other WGISS members to attend both Beijing and Ulaanbaatar meetings.

Hope WGISS can identify some materials (handbooks,

recommendations and showcases) to be disseminated and published to this APN project, before 1st of July.

Topic related also:Data democracyCODATA whitepaper on data sharing principle

Thank you!