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Session Global Roads-Asia
Chair Chris Elvidge (NOAA) and Koki Iwao (AIST)
Objective The objective of the workshop is to explore the collaborative development of a free and openly available database of streets and roads in Asia using a combination of data sources and methods. The backbone of the development would be an on-line system for importing and generating street and road data on a georeferenced base of satellite images.
Target Audience Earth Monitoring WG, Agriculture WG, eScience and Global Collaboration communities
Program Details 9:00-10:30 Session One: Overview (Chair – Elvidge, NOAA)

1. Global Roads Project: rational and status
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Alex de Sherbinin, CIESIN and Chris Elvidge, NOAA

2. What is the status of street and road data in APAN (brief country reports)

Japan (Koki Iwao)
Thailand (Pakorn)
India (Badrinath)
China (TBD)
Singapore (Liew Soo Chin)
Philippines (Carlos Pascal)
Others

11:00-12:30 Session Two: Applications for street / road data (Chair Pakorn, GITDA)

1. Spatial evaluation of harvesting cost considered road arrangementdownload
T. KINOSHITA (National Institute for Environmental Studies), K. INOUE (The University of Tokyo), K. IWAO c, H. KAGEMOTO (The University of Tokyo), Y. YAMAGATA (National Institute for Environmental Studies).

2. Philippines Roads and Road Safety Plans: Use of Geoinformatics Mapping, Issues and Challenges for Socioeconomic Development Carlos M. Pascual, Mariano Marcos State University

3. Estimation of carbon monoxide emissions - the importance of road data.
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Chris Elvidge and Harald Stark, NOAA

14:00-15:30 Session Three: Results from Test Data (Chair Koki Iwao, AIST)

1. Extraction of road data using ASTER, PRISM and GoogleMap. download
Shibasaki, University of Tokyo

2. Results from AIST download
Koki Iwao, AIST

3. Results from NOAA
Ben Tuttle, University of Denver

16:00-17:30 Session 4: Definition of a Pilot Project in Asia (Elvidge and Iwao)download

Selection of pilot project area

Definition of methods

Planning who will do what

Establish a schedule

Discussion (All)

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Remark Room Type: Class room shape, Video Conference Facility needed

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