| Commission VIII President | Haruhisa Shimoda | Japan |
| Vice President | Yasushi Hirokawa | Japan |
| Science Secretary | Kohei CHO | Japan |
| Administrative Secretary | Yoshiaki Honda | Japan |
| WG VIII/1 - Disaster Management | ||
| Chair: Piero Boccardo | Co-Chair: T. Srinivasa Kumar | |
| Co-Chair: Robert Backhaus | Secretary: Fabio Giulio Tonolo | |
| Regional Coordinator: Tsehaie Woldai | ||
| WG VIII/2 – Health | ||
| Chair: Amelia Budge | Co-Chair: Richard Kiang | |
| Secretary: Stanley Morain | ||
| WG VIII/3 - Atmosphere, Climate and Weather | ||
| Chair: Tatsuya Yokota | Co-Chair: Jhoon Kim | |
| Secretary: Hideaki Nakajima | ||
| WG VIII/4 – Water | ||
| Chair: Taikan Oki | Co-Chair: Wesley Berg | |
| Co-Chair: Peter Troch | Regional Coordinator: Christian D. Kummerow | |
| WG VIII/5 - Energy and Solid Earth | ||
| Chair: Thomas Cudahy | Co-Chair: Yoshiki Ninomiya | |
| Co-Chair: Carlos Roberto de Souza Filho | Secretary: Ian Lau | |
| WG VIII/6 - Agriculture, Ecosystems and Bio-Diversity | ||
| Chair: Shibendu Shankar Ray | Co-Chair: Yoshiaki Honda | |
| Co-Chair: Ross S. Lunetta | Secretary: N.R. Patel | |
| WG VIII/7 – Forestry | ||
| Chair: Haruo Sawada | Co-Chair: Yousif Hussin | |
| Co-Chair: Ronald McRoberts | Secretary: Yasumasa Hirata | |
| WG VIII/8 – Land | ||
| Chair: Alfredo R. Huete | Co-Chair: Carsten Juergens | |
| Co-Chair: Ryutarou Tateishi | Secretary: Dennis G. Dye | |
| WG VIII/9 – Oceans | ||
| Chair: W. Timothy Liu | Co-Chair: Joji Ishizaka | |
| Co-Chair: Samantha Lavender | ||
| WG VIII/10 – Cryosphere | ||
| Chair: Josefino Comiso | Co-Chair: Beata Csatho | |
| Secretary: Kohei Cho | ||
| ICWG IV/VIII - Updating and Maintenance of Core Spatial Databases | ||
| Chair: Ammatzia Peled | Co-Chair: Costas Armenakis | |
| Co-Chair: Zhao Renliang | Secretary: Andrea Ajmar | |
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