WORKING GROUPS of ISPRS COMMISSION VIII
Remote Sensing Applications and Policies
WG VIII/1 - Disaster Management
Home Page:
www.commission8.isprs.org/wg1/
| Chair |
Co-Chair |
Co-Chair |
Secretary |
| Piero Boccardo |
T. Srinivasa Kumar |
Robert Backhaus |
Fabio Giulio Tonolo |
Politecnico di Torino
Via Pier Carlo Boggio, 61, 10138 Torino
Italy
+39-011-19751851
+39-011-19751111
Piero.boccardo@polito.it
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Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services
″Ocean Valley″, PB No. 21, IDA Jeedimetla P.O.
Hyderabad - 500 055, Andhra Pradesh
India
+91- 40- 2389- 5006 / 2388- 6006
+91- 40- 2389- 5001
srinivas@incois.gov.in
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UN-SPIDER Bonn
UNOOSA Agency
UN-Campus Bonn "Langer Eugen"
Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10
D-53113 Bonn
Germany
robert.backhaus@unoosa.org
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ITHACA-Information Technology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperation and Action
Via P.C. Boggio61
10138 Torino
Italy
+39 011 1975 1853
+39 011 1975 1122
fabio.giuliotonolo@ithaca.polito.it
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WG VIII/1 - Terms of Reference:
- Generation of vulnerability and hazard zone maps for different type of disasters, such as forest fire, cyclone, floods, drought,
volcano eruptions, earthquakes, land slides etc. and identification & assessment of potential risk zones
- Integrate remotely sensed observations and communication strategies with enhanced predictive modelling capabilities
for disaster detection, early warning, monitoring, and damage assessment
- Development of disaster management plans for pre, during and post disaster situations and enhance support for early warning systems,
emergency events mitigation and decision making.
- Collaborate with GEO and take part in GEO task where appropriate
WG VIII/2 - Health
Home Page:
www.commission8.isprs.org/wg2/
| Chair |
Co-Chair |
Secretary |
| Amelia Budge |
Richard Kiang |
Stanley Morain |
Earth Data Analysis Center, University of New Mexico
MSC01-1110,1, Albuquerque
USA
+1-505-277-3622 ext. 231
+1-505-277-3614
abudge@edac.unm.edu
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Earth Science Data Operations Group
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
USA
+1- 301-614-5375
+1- 301-614-6268
richard.kiang@nasa.gov
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Earth Data Analysis Center
University of New Mexico
MSC01-1110,1, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-0001
USA
+1-505-277-3622 ext. 228
+1-505-277-3614
smorain@edac.unm.edu
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WG VIII/2 - Terms of Reference:
- Integrate Earth observations products with enhanced predictive modelling capabilities for early warning and surveillance
of environmental impacts on human health in co-operation with other international, national, and regional organizations and activities.
- Participate in the ICSU initiatives including the GeoUnions Health Group and the Science for Health and Well-being (SHWB).
- Take a leadership role in appropriate GEO health tasks in accordance with the 10-year implementation plan.
- Contribute to the ISPRS book series focusing on environmental effects on human health
- Develop a registry for human health projects and products that use Earth observations and kindred technologies
- Bridge the Earth observing communities of practice and human health communities of practice by including health professionals in
ISPRS sanctioned technical sessions, workshops, and symposia
WG VIII/3 - Atmosphere, Climate and Weather
Home Page:
www.commission8.isprs.org/wg3/
| Chair |
Co-Chair |
Secretary |
| Tatsuya Yokota |
Jhoon Kim |
Hideaki Nakajima |
Center for Global Environmental Research
National Institute for Environmental Studies
16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, 305-8506
Japan
+81-29-850-2550
+81-29-850-2219
yoko@nies.go.jp
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Rm.545 Dept of Atmospheric Sciences
Yonsei University
134 Sinchon-dong, Seodaemoon-gu, Seoul 120-749
Korea
+82-2-2123-5682
+82-2-365-5163
jkim2@yonsei.ac.kr
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Atmospheric Environment Division
National Institute for Environmental Studies
16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
305-8506 Japan
+81-29-850-2800
+81-29-850-2923
nakajima@nies.go.jp
http://www.kankyo.tohoku.ac.jp/
renkei/home.html
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WG VIII/3 - Terms of Reference:
- Enhance retrieving and monitoring status and effects of clouds and aerosols.
- Enhance retrieving and monitoring status and effects of atmospheric greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, methane, etc.
- Enhance retrieving and monitoring capabilities of atmospheric minor constituents and aerosols both in stratosphere and troposphere.
- Enhance the monitoring capabilities of atmospheric winds.
- Increase the accuracy of atmospheric radiative forcing to contribute to the climate models.
- Increase the knowledge of atmospheric processes to improve the climate models.
- Improve the quality of remote sensing data input to numerical weather forecast system to increase the accuracy of weather forecasting and nowcasting.
- Collaborate with GEO and take part in GEO task where appropriate
WG VIII/4 - Water
Home Page:
www.commission8.isprs.org/wg4/
| Chair |
Co-Chair |
Co-Chair |
Regional Coordinator |
| Taikan Oki |
Wesley Berg |
Peter Troch |
Christian D. Kummerow |
Institute of Industrial Science
Univ. of Tokyo
4-6-1 Meguro-ku, Komaba, Tokyo 153-8505
Japan
+1-3-5452-6382
+1-3-5452-6383
taikan@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
http://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~taikan/
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Department of Atmospheric Science
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1371
USA
+1-970-491-3443
+1-970-491-8449
berg@atmos.colostate.edu
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Department of Hydrology and Water Resources
John W. Harshbarger Building
1133 E James E. Rogers Way Tucson, AZ 85721
USA
+1 (520) 626-1277
+1 (520) 621-1422
patroch@hwr.arizona.edu
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Department of Atmospheric Science
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
USA
+1-970-491-7473
+1-970-491-8449
kummerow@
atmos.colostate.edu
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WG VIII/4 - Terms of Reference:
- Implement remotely sensed data to monitor and investigate discharge of pollutants into water transportation and storage system for
investigating sedimentation in reservoirs and contamination of water resources
- Adopt remotely sensed data for monitoring quality and quantity of water resources
- Integrate remote sensing and GIS data for rainfall runoff modelling
- Enhance the capability of monitoring global rainfall as well as snowfall
- Improve the retrieval of soil moisture and latent heat for better understanding of water and energy cycle
- Collaborate with GEO and take part in GEO task where appropriate
WG VIII/5 - Energy and Solid Earth
Home Page:
www.commission8.isprs.org/wg5/
| Chair |
Co-Chair |
Co-Chair |
Secretary |
| Thomas Cudahy |
Yoshiki Ninomiya |
Carlos Roberto de Souza Filho |
Ian Lau |
CSIRO Exploration and Mining
Australian Resources Research Centre (ARRC)
PO Box 1130, Bentley. WA, 6102
Australia
+61-8-6436-8630
+61-8-6436-8586
Thomas.Cudahy@csiro.au
http://www.csiro.au/csiro/
content/standard/ps16a.html
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Geological Remote Sensing Research Group
Geological Survey of Japan, AIST
Central 7, 1-1-1, Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 3058567
Japan
+81-298-61-3975
+81-298-61-3788
Yoshiki.Ninomiya@aist.go.jp
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Post-graduate Program in Geosciences
Department of Geology and Natural Resources Geosciences Institute, University of Campinas
PO Box 6152
Brazil
+55-19-35214535
+55-19-32891097
beto@ige.unicamp.br
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CSIRO Exploration and Mining
Australian Resources Research Centre
26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, WA
Australia
+61-8-6436-8646
+61-8-6436-8586
Ian.Lau@csiro.au
http://www.csiro.au
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WG VIII/5 - Terms of Reference:
- Adopt remote sensing data to non-renewable resource exploration, exploitation and related environmental monitoring, especially
energy (hydrocarbons, geothermal and uranium) and minerals (precious, base metals and commercial minerals).
- Further the implementation and integration of higher level remote sensing products tailored for geological and geomorphological
mapping, especially publicly available, continental-scale mapping opportunities.
- Help facilitate the development of geological and geomorphological product standards and related error assessment derived from remote sensing data
- Foster technology transfer through the sharing of convincing geological and geomorhological case histories derived from remote sensing data
- Help develop mechanisms that facilitate the uptake of geologic and geomorphologic remote sensing information products into
Earth science applications, especially understanding the 3D and 4D (temporal) nature of the solid Earth, such as tectonic activity,
hydrocarbon and minerals systems, water catchment modelling and monitoring, soil processes ( erosion, acidity, salinity and carbon),
and dune systems(with Com.4/2 & 5/6)
- Collaborate with other ICSU GeoUnions; collaborate with GEO and take part in GEO task where appropriate
WG VIII/6 - Agriculture, Ecosystems and Bio-Diversity
Home Page:
www.commission8.isprs.org/wg6/
| Chair |
Co-Chair |
Co-Chair |
Secretary |
| Shibendu Shankar Ray |
Yoshiaki Honda |
Ross S. Lunetta |
N.R. Patel |
Remote Sensing Applications Area
Space Applications Centre, ISRO
Ahmedabad - 380 015
India
+91-79-26914002
+91-79-2691 5823
ssray@sac.isro.gov.in
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Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS)
Chiba Univ.
1-33 Yayoi-cho Inage-ku Chiba 263-8522
Japan
+81-43-290-3845
+81-43-290-3857
yhonda@faculty.chiba-u.jp
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
National Exposure Research Laboratory
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
USA
+1-919-541-4256
lunetta.ross@epa.gov
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Indian Institute of Remote Sensing
National Remote Sensing Centre,ISRO
4,KalidasRoad
Dehradun-248001
India
+91-135-274-5526
+91-135-274-1987
nrpatel@iirs.gov.in
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WG VIII/6 - Terms of Reference:
- Define protocols and methodologies to efficiently and economically utilize remote sensing inputs to monitor crop production, crop vigor, and stresses
for making agricultural decisions
- Development of techniques towards use of remote sensing data and GIS tools for site-specific management of agriculture
- Development of techniques towards use of remote sensing data and GIS tools for monitoring and analyzing human impacts to natural resources
- Improve the knowledge of carbon and nutrient cycles in vegetation
- Enhance the use of active sensors to evaluate and monitor biological and physical processes, which are important in agriculture ecosystems
- Improve the retrieval of crop land and grassland information from remote sensing data through advances in procedures and models for inventorying
and monitoring of vegetation resources and biomass
- Study and promote vegetation bio-diversity and sustainable application with respect to the convention of bio-diversity
- Improve regional/global monitoring of mangroves using remote sensing data
- Assess climate change impact on vegetation using Earth observation data and forecasting models
- Integrate remote sensing data, in-situ and other measurements into a GIS domain to monitor and facilitate study and research of wet lands, and
monitor spatial and temporal changes in the wet land and processes of wet land degradation
- Implement remote sensing and geospatial methodologies in support of sustainable development in wet lands and wet land resources assessment
- Collaborate with GEO and take part in GEO task where appropriate
WG VIII/7 - Forestry
Home Page:
www.commission8.isprs.org/wg7/
| Chair |
Co-Chair |
Co-Chair |
Secretary |
| Haruo Sawada |
Yousif Hussin |
Ronald McRoberts |
Hirata Yasumasa |
Institute of Industrial Science
Univ. of Tokyo
4-6-1 Meguro-ku, Komaba, Tokyo 153-8505
Japan
+81-3-5452-6409
+81-3-3479-2762
sawada@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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ITC
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
hussin@itc.nl
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US Forest Service
+1 651 649-5174
rmcroberts@fs.fed.us
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Forestry and Forest Research Institute
+81-29-829-8314
hirat09@affrc.go.jp
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WG VIII/7 - Terms of Reference:
- Enhance the use of active sensors to evaluate and monitor biological and physical processes, which are important in forest ecosystems. (with Com.1/2)
- Improve the retrieval of forest information from remote sensing data through advances in procedures and models for inventorying and monitoring of
forest resources, stocks and biomass.
- Apply remote sensing techniques and GIS tools to support forest management tasks. (with Com. 4/2, 4)
- Improve the knowledge of carbon cycle including NPP and NEP estimates using land remote sensing data
- Collaborate with GEO and take part in GEO task where appropriate
WG VIII/8 - Land
Home Page:
www.commission8.isprs.org/wg8/
| Chair |
Co-Chair |
Co-Chair |
Secretary |
| Alfredo R. Huete |
Carsten Juergens |
Ryutarou Tateishi |
Dennis G. Dye |
Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science
Univ. of Arizona
429 Shantz Bldg. #38, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0038
USA
+1-520-621-3228
+1-520-621-1647
ahuete@ag.arizona.edu
http://tbrs.arizona.edu
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Carsten Juergens
Geomatics/Remote Sensing Group
Geography Department
Ruhr Univ.
D-44780 Bochum
Germany
+49-234-32-23376
+49-234-32- 14877
carsten.juergens@rub.de
http://www.geographie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ag/geomatik/index.html
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Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS)
Chiba University
1-33 Yayoi-cho Inage-ku Chiba 263-8522
Japan
+81-43-290-3850
+81-43-290-3850
tateishi@faculty.chiba-u.jp
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Dennis G. Dye
Southwest Geographic Science Center
U.S. Geological Survey
2255 N. Gemini Dr., Flagstaff, AZ 86001
USA
+1-928-556-7029
+1-928-556-7169
ddye@usgs.gov
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WG VIII/8 - Terms of Reference:
- Improve the accuracy of land cover mapping and generate global and regional land cover maps
- Improve the accuracy of land cover change detection and generate global and regional land cover change maps
- Apply improved interpretation and mapping methods for urban, sub-urban and peri-urban land cover in transition to help for better
urban planning using remote sensing data
- Monitor urban environment and land cover change for the study of urbanization structure and development processes
- Use remote sensing and GIS for infrastructure development of urban settlements
- Explore, document and monitor natural and cultural heritages (with Com 5)
- Integrate remote sensing data, in-situ measurements and other geospatial data to facilitate research, applications, and monitoring
of arid lands, rangelands and soils
- Improve the monitoring of spatial and temporal environmental changes in arid environments and processes of land degradation, desertification,
salinization, wind and water erosion, ecohydrology, and biogeochemical cycling
- Implement remote sensing and geospatial methodologies in support of sustainable development in arid lands, land resources assessment and management
of arid and dry lands
- Collaborate with organisations such as FAO to improve land use classification schemes
- Collaborate with GEO and take part in GEO task where appropriate
WG VIII/9 - Oceans
Home Page:
www.commission8.isprs.org/wg9/
| Chair |
Co-Chair |
Co-Chair |
| Tim Liu |
Joji Ishizaka |
Samantha Lavender |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
MS 300-323, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena
CA 91109
USA
+1-818-354-2394
+1-818-393-6720
liu@pacific.jpl.nasa.gov
http://airsea.jpl.nasa.gov
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Faculty of Fisheries
Nagasaki Univ.
1-14 Bunkyo, Nagasaki,852-8521
Japan
+81-95-819-2804
+81-95-819-2804
ishizaka@net.nagasaki-u.ac.jp
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ARGANS Limited, Unit 3,
Drake Building, Tamar Science Park
Derriford, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 8BY
United Kingdom
+44 1752 764298
+44 1752 772227
samantha.lavender@
argans.co.uk
http://www.globcolour.info/
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WG VIII/9 - Terms of Reference:
- Measure, characterize, understand, and predict, the storage and transport of momentum, heat, water (salinity), and greenhouse gases in the
ocean and the surface signatures (temperature, salinity, dynamic topography) of ocean response and the surface forcing (wind stress, fresh water,
turbulent and radiative heat flux) from diurnal to decadal time scales, and from coastal to open oceans.
- Understand ocean's role in the changes and interaction among the biological, chemical , and energy/water cycles in the oceans and their
influence on terrestrial and cryospheric changes.
- Coordinate present and future space missions related to ocean observation, and the calibration, validation, and dissemination of their data.
- Collaborate with GEO and take part in GEO task where appropriate
WG VIII/10 - Cryosphere
Home Page:
www.commission8.isprs.org/wg10/
| Chair |
Co-Chair |
Secretary |
| Josefino Comiso |
Beata Csatho |
Kohei CHO |
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Cryospheric Sciences Branch, Code 614.1
NASA/GSFC
Greenbelt, MD, 20771
USA
+1-301-614-5708
+1-301-614-5644
josefino.c.comiso@nasa.gov
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Department of Geology
Univ. at Buffalo
SUNY, 411 Cooke Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260-1350
USA
+1-716-645-6800/3921
+1-716-645-3999
bcsatho@buffalo.edu
http://www.geology.buffalo.edu/
people/faculty/csatho.shtml
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Research & Information Center
Tokai University
2-28-4, Tomigaya, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo, 151-0063
Japan
+813-3481-0611
+813-3481-0610
cho@yoyogi.ycc.u-tokai.ac.jp
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WG VIII/10 - Terms of Reference:
- Improve the retrieval of geophysical parameters relevant to the different elements of the cryosphere.
- Develop strategies and algorithms for assimilating remotely sensed data in models of polar processes.
- Develop long term records and study on-going changes in polar regions.
- Study the changes of ice sheets in Antarctic and Greenland.
- Study the trends and changes of glaciers and glacier lakes.
- Study the trends and changes of sea ice.
- Study the trends and changes of snow cover and snow albedo.
- Monitor the thaw process and changes of permafrost.
- Collaborate with GEO and take part in GEO task where appropriate
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