Title	Grid on Natural Resources (Join session among NR, Grid and Network)
Chair	Ninomiya [NARC-NARO], Suhaimi Napis[UPM]
Objective	In the last few years, APAN-NR has revealed that the idea of Grid is very powerful in the area of natural resource related data management and decision supports, showing some practical implementations. This session is planned to report and discuss the present status and issues of the practical activities related in Grid for Natural Resources.
Target Audience	researchers, engineers, students
Expected No. of Participants	20
Session Chair & Speakers	1. Tile: GLEON and PRAGMA Report Speaker: Peter Arzberger (SDSC, remote presentation) 2.Title: Geo Grid - Global Earth Observation e-Infrastructure Speaker: Satoshi Sekiguchi, Satoshi Tsuchida, Ryosuke Nakamura, Naotaka Yamamoto, Hirokazu Yamamoto (AIST) 3.Title: A way to Successful Agricultural Grid; A Lesson Learnt in Japan Speaker: Seishi Ninomiya (NARC-NARO, remote presentation)
Remarks(including Special arrangements if Any)	A Polycom set is needed. A MCU (maximum of 4 points ) will be provided by NARC-NARO if needed

Last Updated 19 July 2006