TRMM/DMSP 
Real Time Data 
Processing System 
MAFFIN Archive System 
X-Terminal(02) 
Monitor 
WWW, (FTP) server 
SGI Origin 2000 
CD-ROM 
8mm(850XL) 
IRIX 6.5 LAN 
FORTRAN77/90 
C, Workshop, APO, C++,IDL,AVS 
FTP server SAV 
Color Printer 
The WG is working on DMSP processing chain for near real 
time product delivery. 
USER DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES 
The WG has been oriented to pay much attention on user 
development and supports. The first User Identification 
Mission was held at Malaysian Meteorological Service, in 
Kuala Lumpur in July 1998, and the Malaysian Earth 
Monitoring WG was established on 6 January 1999, as well as 
the Indonesian Earth Monitoring WG on 28 September 1998. 
In these User Identification meetings, the WG activities were 
introduced and interactions with those potential users from 
departments of environment, disaster management, 
meteorological service were made. 
The WG had already two User Identification Missions to 
Singapore through SINGREN ( a member of APAN) in January 
and March 1999, and on 13 April the WG’s seminar is planned 
to held at National University of Singapore, presented by both 
the chair and the vice chair. 
It is also planned to undertake the User Identification Missions 
to Thailand and Australia in April and August respectively. 
The figure in the next page shows the topology of current 
contacts with national user groups and the planned Asian 
Pacific disaster network through APAN.