August 28, 2007  11:00 -12:30 
GEO Grid Session 

1. Introduction to Earth Monitoring Working Group
Pakorn Apaphant (15 min) 

2. (VTC) Extraction of Urban Area Using ASTER Imagery and the Existing Land Cover Data on GEO Grid
Koki Iwao, AIST (25 min) 

3. (VTC) Validating land cover maps with Degree Confluence Project information on GEO Grid
Koki Iwao, AIST (25 min) 

4. (VTC) Validating Global Digital Elevation Models with Degree Confluence Project information and ASTER-DEM on GEO Grid
Koki Iwao, AIST (25 min) 
 
August 28, 2007 14:00 -15:30 
Remote Sensing Data Network for Regional Application Session

1. Web Mapping Service Development For DMSP Satellite Data (30 min. via VTC)
Ben Tuttle, CIRES University of Colorado and Chris Elvidge, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center

Abstract: During the past year NGDC has been working to improve access to satellite imagery acquired by the U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). The DMSP satellites are in polar orbit collecting fourteen orbits per day. NGDC serves as the long term archive for DMSP data. At night the OLS collects low light imagery with detections for lights from cities and towns, gas flares, fires, and heavily lit fishing boats. Most of the data arrive at NGDC within two hours and are ingested and geolocated in near real time. Global product types offered in the web services are annual cloud free composites, lunar cycle cloud free composites, and daily visible and thermal band mosaics. Two styles of web services are in development: a) WMS (web mapping service) provides visual display of the imagery for users' specified areas of interest, and b) WCS (web coverage service) which provides visual display and download of user specified areas of interst. In the presentation we will review the WMS and WCS functions and product types.

2. (VTC) Long-distance network transferring remote sensing data
Zhang Qing, China Remote Sensing Ground Station (20 min) 

3. (TC)TIEN2 for Remote Sensing Data Transfer
George McLaughlin, TIEN2 (20 min) 

4. ASIAES Update
Pakorn Apaphant, GISTDA (20 min) 
 
August 28, 2007 16:00 -16:30 
EM WG Meeting