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JAXA and its Capacity Building Activities for the Asia-Pacific Region

12 November 2008

Space Applications and Promotion Center (SAPC)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

http://www.jaxa.jp

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　　 At the UN WSSD (World Summit on Sustainable Development) which was held in September 2002, the Government of Japan proposed the following 3 activities and they were registered as part of Japan’s Type-II projects:

© Ministry of Foreign

Affairs of Japan

１ . Capacity Building Activities in cooperation with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) ;

２ . Pilot Project using Satellite Data with Thailand; and

３ . Pilot Project using Satellite Data with Indonesia.

JAXA’s Asia-Pacific JAXA’s Asia-Pacific Earth Observation Pilot ProjectEarth Observation Pilot Project

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Objectives of JAXA’ ｓ C.B.

Activities 1. Provide necessary technical know-how to RS & GIS users in

the Asia-Pacific region as a contribution by the Government of Japan to the capacity building activities recognized in WSSD, UNWCDR, EO Summit, GEOSS and CEOS;

2. Use Japanese satellite data archived for more than last 25 years for sustainable development, planning and monitoring purposes in the region;

3. Develop in-house capacities of prospective users in the region by working on project-based training programs;

4. Identify future space technology needs in the region for better service of forthcoming Japanese satellite data programs.

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JAXA's PresentCapacity Building Activities as of JFY2008

Mini-Projects

in cooperation with 　

　　 GIC-AIT

Specialized Training

in Japanfor the Mini-Projects' High Achievers an

d Lectures

Sentinel Asia Project

-System Operation Trai

ning-

OrganizingAsia Water Cycle Initiative (AWCI) Meetings

ALOS Pilot Project

with Indonesian LAPAN

JAXA’s Present Capacity Building Activities

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JAXA’s Present Capacity Building Activities for

the Asia-Pacific Region

(1) Mini-Projects

in cooperation with

GIC-AIT

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14-Year History of JAXA’s Capacity Building Activities in cooperation with GIC-AIT

1. For last 14 years starting from April 1995, JAXA has been entrusting a responsibility to the Geo-Informatics Center, Asian Institute of Technology (GIC-AIT) to carry out various training programs mainly focusing on RS and GIS development of the Asia-Pacific nations.

2. The contents of the training programs have sometimes changed by the needs of the times, and now we concentrate on the Mini-Projects which is a problem-solving type of training.

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GIC-AIT

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Outline of JAXA’s Capacity Building Activities in cooperation with GIC-AIT

1. Number of Trainees (JFY1995 ～ 2008) :

More than 1200 from 27 countries

2. Annual Budget JAXA Spends for Capacity Building

Activities through AIT:

Approx. $US 300,000

3. Staff of GIC-AIT:

There are about 12 Asian staff

under Dr.Lal Samarakoon who

is also JAXA’s invited scientist.

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Scenes from JFY2007 Mini-Projects

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Newly Started Selection-System with JFY2007 Mini-Projects

　　 At the 3rd Sentinel Asia JPTM (Joint Project Team Meeting) held in Singapore in March 2007, JAXA announced, from the JFY2007, it would start selecting 10 Mini-Projects focusing on Disaster Management through the offer for public participation due to the following 2 reasons:

1. To open the door of the Mini-Projects to all the Sentinel Asia JPT member-organizations who are interested in developing their capacities in RS/GIS mainly for disaster management.

2. To facilitate Sentinel Asia Project, which is a disaster information sharing support system, by using Mini-Projects as a means of supporting it.

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JFY2008 Mini-Project Selection-Results

1. During April and June 2008, JAXA and GIC-AIT received 33 proposals from 62 organizations of 14 Asian countries through their websites.

(Case of JFY2007: 28 proposals from 49 organizations of 13 Asian countries.)

２． In August 2008, JAXA finally selected 11 　　 proposals as its 2008 Mini-Projects based 　　 on technical evaluation made by GIC-AIT.

3. The first stage of the JFY2008 Mini-Projects successfully completed at GIC-AIT

(3 weeks from September 22 to Oct.10.)

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JFY2008 Mini-Projects （ 1～ 5） (1)Bangladesh: 　　 Flood Map Improvement and Flood Risk Assessment in Context of 　 　　 Probable Seal LevelRise: A Case Study at Matlab, Bangladesh (2)Bhutan: 　　 Landslide Hazard Zonation Mapping for Sustainable Development 　 　　 in view of Climate Change (3)Cambodia: 　　 Development of GIS Database in Flood Prone Areas of Kratie Province, Cambodia (4)Indonesia: Influence of Climate Variation and Vegetation Greenness on Fire Occurrence – A Case Study in Riau Province and Central Kalimantan Province (5)LaoPDR: Application of Remote Sensing and GIS for Flood Risk Mapping in Naguem River

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JFY2008 Mini-Projects (6～ 11） (6) 　 Malaysia: 　 Mapping of Mangroves and Aquaculture Activities in the 　 Fisheries Reserves of Sabah using RS & GIS (7) 　 Mongolia: 　 Drought and Land Degradation Study using MODIS Data (8) 　 The Philippines: 　 Effects of Drought on Rice Production in Nueva, Ecija, Philippines (9) 　 Sri Lanka: 　 Risk Profile on Sea Level Rise for Coastal Zone Management, 　 Galle District, Sri Lanka (10) Thailand: Flood Hazard Mapping in Nan Province under the Nan River Basin, Thailand (11) Vietnam: Establishment of RS Information Database for Flood Monitoring and Warning System in Thua Thien Hue

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JFY2008 Mini-Project Participants

With the JAXA researcher as one of the trainers of the 2008 Mini-Projects

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JAXA’s Present Capacity Building Activities

for the Asia-Pacific Region

(2) Specialized Training in Japan for the Mini-Projects’ High

Achievers and Lecturers

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Specialized Training in Japan for Mini-Projects’ High Achievers & Lecturers

From JFY2006, JAXA started to invite once a year highest achievers and lecturers of the Mini-Projects to Japan in order to let them have a training opportunity in their respective fields in cooperation with some specialized organizations located in Japan.

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Specialized Training in Japan for Mini-Projects’ High Achievers & Lecturers

4 Cooperation Organizations for 2008:

University of Tokyo (UT)

Keio University (KU)

United Nations University (UNU)

International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) under the auspices of UNESCO operated by an independent administrative institution so-called Public Works Research Institute (PWRI) of Japan.

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JAXA’s Present Capacity Building Activities

for the Asia-Pacific Region

(3) ALOS Pilot Project

with Indonesian LAPAN

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ALOS Pilot Project with Indonesia

LAPANRESTEC

Support

Agreement

Cooperation Framework

JAXA

ImplementationAgency

①BPPTDESDIM:

ImplementationAgency

①BAKOSURTANAL:

ImplementationAgency

①CReSOS:

ImplementationAgency

①ITB:②IPB:

③UNSYIAH:

ImplementationAgency

①MOF:

Letter, Agreement, Contract…..

Naturalresource

mapBase map

Coastal zonemanagement

Regionalｌ and use map Forest map

ImplementationAgency

①ISORI,MOA:

Agriculture

Dec. 2005 – March 2009

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ALOS Pilot Projects with 8 Indonesian Organizations

JAXA’sCounterpart

National Institute of Aeronautics and Space of the Republic of Indonasia （ LAPAN ）

ParticipatingOrganizatios:

4Government

Offices & 4 　

Universities

Indonesian Soil Research Institute （ ISORI ） ,Ministry of Agriculture

Geology Development and Research Centre, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Natural Resources （ DESDM ）

National Coordinating Agency for Surveying and Mapping （ BAKOSURTANAL ）

Center for Forestry Mapping, Ministry of Forestry （ MOF ）

Center for Remote Sensing and Ocean Sciences （ CReSOS), Udayana University

Remote Sensing Center, Bandung Institute of Technology （ ITB ）

Regional Development Study Center, Bogor Agriculture University （ IPB ）

Syiah Kuala University （ UNSYIAH ）

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Scenes from the conference held for reporting the JFY2007 Final Results in March 2008 at LAPAN with about 50 participants

スルラン課長の発表

ALOS Pilot Project with Indonesia

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JAXA’s Present Capacity Building Activities

for the Asia-Pacific Region

(4) Organizing Asia Water

Cycle Initiative (AWCI)

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Water is qualified as one of the 9 public social benefit fields of GEOSS.

Water is considered as the following 2 of their five tasks: (1) Understanding of water cycle and water management; and (2) Mitigation of wind and flood damages which should be urgently worked out utilizing earth observation. JAXA is one of the organizers of the AWCI symposia and the other r

elated meetings for the purpose of planning and carrying out its capacity building activities as well as providing the satellite data-sets.

1st Asian Water Cycle Symposium: Nov.2005 in Tokyo, Japan 2nd Asian Water Cycle Symposium: Jan.2007 in Tokyo, Japan 3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium: Dec.2007 in Ohita, Japan

AWCI in cooperation with GEO, MEXT of Japan, UT, UNU, APN to contribute to GEOSS

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The 3rd

AWCI

Symposium

held in Ohita

Pref., Japan,

in Dec. 2007

AWCI in cooperation with GEO, MEXT of Japan, UT, UNU, APN to contribute to GEOSS

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JAXA’s Present Capacity Building Activities

for the Asia-Pacific Region

(5) Sentinel Asia Project

– System Operation Training –

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http://www.aprsaf.orghttp://www.aprsaf.org//

Sentinel Asia establishing

Disaster Management Support System

Communication Satellite Applications

Earth Observation

Space Education & AwarenessISS

Working Groups

[History] Established in 1993 after the Asia-Pacific International Space Year Conference (APIC) held in 1992[Organizers] MEXT, JAXA and co-host organizations Past co-organizers: Government or related entities of Mongolia, Malaysia, Korea, Thailand, Australia, Indonesia, India[Next Session] APRSAF-15 will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam, Nov or Dec, 2008 co-hosted by MOST, VAST, MEXT and JAXA

Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum

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Sentinel AsiaSentinel Asia

APRSAF*

Space Community

Satellite Image

Contents

Promotion of Utilization

Capacity Building

Web-GISData / Meta Data Management

Information Sharing Platform

Contents

Digital Asia

Digital Earth / Web-GIS

Community

Digital MapSocial / Economic DataSatellite Image

Disaster Reduction Community

Disaster Information

Contents

Utilization (User)

ADRC**Member Countries

Framework of Sentinel Asia

UN/ESCAP, UN/OOSA,ASEAN, AIT, etc.

International Community

International Cooperation

** Asian Disaster Reduction Center

Joint Project Team (JPT)Join Project Team consists of total 51 organizations including 44 agencies from 18 countries and 8 international organizations as of September 2008.

Voluntary and best-efforts-basis initiative by participating organizations

* Asian Disaster Reduction Center

* Asian-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum

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Scenes from past System Operation Training in Bangkok in 2007 & 2008

From JFY2007, JAXA started to organize the system operation training for the Sentinel Asia Project twice a year by inviting 10 to 20 people from the member organizations of the project as its trainees.

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http://dmss.tksc.jaxa.jp/sentinel/

Sentinel Asia Website

Number of Sentinel Asia Joint Project Team (JPT) members as of 2008:

51 organizations from 20 countries and eight (8) international organizations

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Thank you Thank you very muchvery much

& & Domo Arigato Gozaim

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