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Working Groups of ISPRS COMMISION VIII
INTERCOMMISSION WG of ISPRS COMMISSION VIII
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
Tel: +39-011-19751851
Fax: +39-011-19751111
E-mail: 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
Tel: +91- 40-2389-5006 / 2388- 6006
Fax: +91-40-2389-5001 E-mail: 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
E-mail: robert.backhaus@unoosa.org
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ITHACA-Information Technology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperation and Action
Via P.C. Boggio61
10138 Torino
Italy
Tel: +39-011-1975-1853
Fax: +39 011-1975-1122 E-mail: fabio.giuliotonolo@ithaca.polito.it
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Regional Coordinator |
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Tsehaie Woldai |
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President
African Remote Sensing Association (AFRSA) |
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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
Tel: +1-505-277-3622 ext. 231
Fax: +1-505-277-3614
E-mail: 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
Tel: +1- 301-614-5375
Fax: +1- 301-614-6268
E-mail: 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
Tel: +1-505-277-3622 ext. 228
Fax: +1-505-277-3614
E-mail: 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: http://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
Tel: +81-29-850-2550
Fax: +81-29-850-2219
E-mail: 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
Tel: +82-2-2123-5682
Fax: +82-2-365-5163
E-mail: jkim2@yonsei.ac.kr
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Atmospheric
Environment Division
National Institute for Environmental Studies
16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
305-8506 Japan
Tel: +81-29-850-2800
Fax: +81-29-850-2923
E-mail: 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
Tel: +81-3-5452-6382
Fax: +81-3-5452-6383 E-mail: taikan@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Url: 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
Tel: +1-970-491-3443
Fax: +1-970-491-8449
E-mail: 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
Tel: +1-520-626-1277
Fax:+1-520-621-1422 E-mail: patroch@hwr.arizona.edu
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Department of Atmospheric Science
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
USA
Tel: +1-970-491-7473
Fax: +1-970-491-8449
E-mail: 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
Tel: +61-8-6436-8630
Fax: +61-8-6436-8586
E-mail: Thomas.Cudahy@csiro.au
Url: 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
Tel: +81-298-61-3975 Fax: +81-298-61-3788
E-mail: 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
Tel: +55-19-35214535
Fax: +55-19-32891097
E-mail: beto@ige.unicamp.br
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CSIRO Exploration and Mining
Australian Resources Research Centre
26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, WA
Australia
Tel: +61-8-6436-8646
Fax: +61-8-6436-8586
E-mail: Ian.Lau@csiro.au
Url: 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 |
National Centre for Crop Forecasting
Ministry of Agriculture
Nr. Krishi Vistar Sadan,
Pusa Campus,
New Delhi - 110 012
India
Tel: +91-98-7196-3449
E-mail: shibendu.ray@gmail.com
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Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS)
Chiba Univ.
1-33 Yayoi-cho Inage-ku Chiba 263-8522
Japan
Tel: +81-43-290-3845
Fax: +81-43-290-3857
E-mail: yhonda@faculty.chiba-u.jp
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
National Exposure Research Laboratory
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
USA
Tel: +1-919-541-4256
E-mail: lunetta.ross@epa.gov
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Indian Institute of Remote Sensing
National Remote Sensing Centre,ISRO
4,KalidasRoad
Dehradun-248001
India
Tel: +91-135-274-5526
Fax: +91-135-274-1987
E-mail: 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/
Co-Chair |
Co-Chair |
Secretary |
Yousif Hussin |
Ronald McRoberts |
Yasumasa Hirata |
International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)
PO Box 6
7500 AA Enschede
The Netherlands
E-mail: hussin@itc.nl
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US Forest Service
Tel: +1-651-649-5174 E-mail: rmcroberts@fs.fed.us
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Forestry and Forest Research Institute
Tel: +81-29-829-8314
E-mail: 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/
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
Tel: +1-818-354-2394
Fax: +1-818-393-6720
E-mail: liu@pacific.jpl.nasa.gov
Url: http://airsea.jpl.nasa.gov
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Faculty of Fisheries
Nagasaki Univ.
1-14 Bunkyo, Nagasaki,852-8521
Japan
Tel: +81-95-819-2804
Fax: +81-95-819-2804
E-mail: ishizaka@net.nagasaki-u.ac.jp
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Managing Director,
ARGANS Limited, Unit 3,
Drake Building, Tamar Science Park
Derriford, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 8BY United Kingdom
Tel: +44-1752-764298
Faxl: +44-1752-772227
E-mail:samantha.lavender@argans.co.uk
ARGANS: http://www.argans.co.uk/
ESA GlobColour: 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
Tel: +1-301-614-5708
Fax: +1-301-614-5644
E-mail: josefino.c.comiso@nasa.gov
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Department of Geology
Univ. at Buffalo
SUNY, 411 Cooke Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260-1350
USA
Tel: +1-716-645-6800/3921
Fax: +1-716-645-3999
E-mail: bcsatho@buffalo.edu
Url: 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
Tel: +81-3-3481-0611
Fax: +81-3-3481-0610 E-mail: 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
ICWG IV/VIII - Updating and Maintenance of Core Spatial Databases
Home Page: http://www.commission4.isprs.org/icwg4_8
Chair |
Co-Chair |
Co-Chair |
Secretary |
Ammatzia Peled |
Costas Armenakis |
Zhao Renliang |
Andrea Ajmar |
University of Haifa
Dept. of Geography and Environmental Studies
Haifa 31905
Israel
Tel: + (972)48-240418; +(972)48-343591
Fax: + (972)48-249605; +(972)48-343763
E-mail: peled@geo.haifa.ac.il
E-mail: peled@rjb-3d.com
Url: geo.Haifa.ac.il/
Url: www.rjb-3d.com
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Geomatics Engineering
Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering
York University
4700 Keele Str
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3,
Canada
Tel: +416-736-2100 x55221
Fax: +416-736-5817
E-mail: armenc@yorku.ca
Url: www.yorku.ca/esse
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Research Lab. of Dynamic and Multidimentional GISs
Natiaonal Geomatics Center of China (NGCC)
1, Baishengcun, Zizhuyuan
Beijing, 100048
China
Tel: +8610-6843-9095
Fax: +8610-6842-4101
E-mail: zhaorl@sina.com
E-mail: zrl@nsdi.gov.cn
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Information Technology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperation and Action (ITHACA)
Politecnico di Torino
Turin 10138
Italy
Tel: +39 011 1975 1852
Fax: +39 011 1975 1122
E-mail: andrea.ajmar@ithaca.polito.it
Url: www.ithacaweb.org
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ICWG IV/VIII Terms of Reference
- Automated and autonomous processes for imaging data-based updating of core spatial databases
- Development of strategy and processes for efficient maintenance of core spatial databases at the 2 5-D and
3D levels at local, regional and global scales
- Updating process through efficient use of information intelligence embedded within the spatial databases
- Theoretical and operational aspects of incremental updating and versioning of vector and raster core spatial databases
- Automated algorithms for security and commercial-based versioning of core spatial databases
- Study
of the special needs for maintaining spatial database subsets for
disaster response and recovery efforts and for search and rescue
operations
- Collaboration with national mapping agencies for understanding operational needs for updating and maintenance of core databases
and other groups, such as EuroSDR, Global Mapping, UNSDI, GSDI and ISPRS WGs
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