Supporting Multi-national Environmental Conventions and Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Science by Remote Sensing

[ABSTRACT] Climate change and environmental degradation are issues of major concern amongst the general public in most parts of the world, as our current actions affect us now and for generations to come, at any level from local to national, to regional and global. In efforts to curb and reverse the current destructive trends, a number of environmental conventions and declarations have been discussed and, in some cases, ratified. To adequately follow-up implementation however, requires the availability of systems for monitoring and surveillance of the environment and its changes over time, and given the spatially extensive, cross-border nature of the human-induced and natural phenomena concerned - e.g. fire, land cover change, drought - Earth Observation techniques have a natural potential to substantially support this cause, if properly integrated with field measurements and ancillary data. This paper describes the Kyoto & Carbon Initiative, which is an international collaborative project initialised in 2000 by NASDA(since Oct. 2003 known as JAXA), that is set out to support data－and information needs raised by certain multi-national environmental conventions and by global carbon cycle science, through provision of data products and high level information derived from ALOS, JERS-1 and ADEOS-11 data [1］. The conventions primarily in focus are the UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, to which fine-resolution, multi-scale information about the status and changes in forests and wetlands will be derived. There is apparent synergy with terrestrial carbon cycle science information needs, where improved spatial information about carbon pools, sources and sinks at local, regional to global scales are of high priority. The Kyoto & Carbon Initiative is also set out to support the UN Millennium Development goal on water access, as well as to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Recognising the limited usefullness of the fragmented and local-focus data observation schemes characteristic for most fine resolution Earth Observation missions to date, dedicated Data Acquisition Strategies are being implemented for ALOS (launch 2005) and ADEOS-11 (Dec. 2002 -Oct. 2003), with particular emphasis on ALOS’polarimetric L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) and the 250 metre resolution Global Imager (GLI) sensor on ADEOS-Ⅱ.

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/103841/

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/103841/BA71215281-9-P001.pdf

千葉大学環境リモートセンシング研究センター

Chiba University. Center for Environmental Remote Sensing

会議発表用資料

BA71215281

Proceedings of the CEReS international symposium = CEReS国際シンポジウム資料集

9

1

10

2003-12-16

publisher

環境リモートセンシング研究センター「CEReSシンポジウム資料集」