Dedicated Earth Monitoring and Disaster Warning Applications by Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)

  • Haruhiro Fujita
  • Christopher Elvidge
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Abstract

The Asia and Pacific region is subjected to a wide range of natural disasters, such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, torrential rains and flooding which trigger devastating impacts and losses to local economy, human lives and ecosystems. Wild fires in the region, predominantly caused by human activities, are also a global-environmental threat causing a further emulation of CO2 after fossil fuel combustion.

To improve methods for taking prompt action against those natural and human-caused disasters, a high performance (in speed and security) data transmission is essential in any early warning system for disasters.

The Earth Monitoring and Disaster Warning Working Group was established in July 1998, within the Asia Pacific Advanced Network Consortium (APAN, 1997). The working group aims for earth monitoring and real time disaster data dissemination by advanced networking applications and services within APAN.

This paper, based upon the Charter of the Earth Monitoring and Disaster Warning Working Group of the APAN (Elvidge, 1998), is prepared and further tuned to cover a wider range of disasters and to elaborate capabilities of the advanced network as requested by the organiser of the conference.

Keywords

Tropical Rainfall Measure Mission Early Warning System Fossil Fuel Combustion Torrential Rain Tropical Rainfall Measure Mission Data 
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References

  1. Asia-Pacific Advanced Network APAN (1997) http://www.apan.net
  2. Elvidge CD (1998) APAN Earth Monitoring and Disaster Warning WG: http://www.apan.net/groups/Earth-Monitor Google Scholar
  3. Fujita H, Aziz LH, Nishibara K (1998) Development of fast dissemination of early warning information on wildfires by APAN network. In: EWC ’98, Programme and Abstracts, Potsdam, p 91Google Scholar
  4. Fujita H, Ueda T, Prakoso JH, Otsuka M (1998) Development of fast dissemination of remote sensed and OIS data of fires by APAN. In: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Remote Sensing of EnvironmentGoogle Scholar

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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003

Authors and Affiliations

  • Haruhiro Fujita
    • 1
    • 3
  • Christopher Elvidge
    • 2
    • 3
  1. 1.Shikoku National Agricultural Research InstituteMinistry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Network (MAFFIN)Zentsuji, KagawaJapan
  2. 2.National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNational Geophysical Data Centre (NOAA-NGDC)BoulderUSA
  3. 3.Earth Monitoring and Disaster Warning Working Group, APANJapan

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