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MILESTONES OF EARTH MONITORING AND DISASTER WARNING
WORKING GROUP OF APAN ON REAL TIME ASIA PACIFIC
DISASTER AND FOOD SECURITY NETWORKING
Haruhiro Fujita and Christopher D. Elvidge
Shikoku National Agricultural Experiment National Oceanic and
Station Ministry of Agriculture, Atmospheric Administration
Forestry and Fisheries. 1-3-1 Senyu, National Geophysical Data Center,
Zentsuji, Kagawa, Japan 765-8508 325 Broadway Boulder, CO 80303
fujitah@skk.affrc.go.jp cde@ngdc.noaa.gov
ABSTRACT
Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) was founded in June 1997, as an international consortium to aim at research development
in computer networking, engineering and applications.lTJIn July 1998, the initiatives on Asia Pacific networking of earth observation
and disaster related warning, focusing on monitoring rainfall and biomass burning using TRMM and DMSP, was proposed and Earth
Monitoring and Disaster Warning Working Group was established formally within APAN.
The WG has paid much user oriented efforts through the repeated missions to South East Asian countries with the APAN networking
scientists representing each country.
The milestones in forming Earth Monitoring National Working Group in Indonesia, Malaysia have been achieved in September
1998, January respectively.
The WG also bond ties with major space agencies, NASA, NASDA, ESA and NOAA for real time satellite data transfer and
processing through APAN and collaborations were presented at IWS99/APAN, February 1999. The new era is open to the WG as
nominated a contact point on “food security applications” at the Network Sub-group of GOIN99, which jointly works with
Committee of Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS).
ABOUT APAN
Asia Pacific Advance Network (APAN) is an international
consortium of member research network consortium, institutes,
national bodies, international bodies and individuals. APAN
was established on 3 June 1997 to provide a high performance
network environment for research and technology development
as an international test bed. The primary members, the network
consortium and owners of Asia Pacific regions, with the liaison
members in USA and Canada are shown in Table 1.
The activities of APAN are mainly driven by voluntary
contribution and efforts of scientists of member institutes, with
the robust international collaborations.
Network resources within APAN is shown in “APAN Link
Information”, where the broadest bandwidth is found in the
TransPAC between IMNet (Japan) and HPIIS (USA).
It is also noted that the communications with South East Asian
countries are made by the satellite systems such as AIII.
“APAN network topology” shows the geological network.
Table 1. Primary Members and Liaison Members
Australia
ACSys
Japan
APAN-JP Consortium
APII/CRL
IMNet/STA
MAFFIN/MAFF
RWCP/ETL
SINET/NACSIS
WIDE/AI3
Korea
APAN-KR Consortium
APII/MIC
KT
Pubnet/NCA
Singapore
SINGAREN(SREN)
USA
Indiana University (vBNS)
AT&T
Canada
CANARIE(CA*net2)