Book/Book Chapter
ENHANCE THE LINK BETWEEN REMOTE SENSING AND IN-SITU OBSERVATION NETWORK FOR BIODIVERSITY MONITORING
Suzuki, R; Muraoka, H; Ishii, R; Remote Sensing Working Grp JBON
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
International Archives of the Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Biodiversity, the variety of life on Earth, maintains
ecosystem services. Since the biodiversity is strongly related to human wellbeing, the monitoring
of biodiversity is significant for global environmental issues. Global Earth Observation System
of Systems (GEOSS) is composed of nine Societal Benefit Areas (SBAs), and biodiversity is one of
the SBAs, with Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Biodiversity Observation Network (BON) as its
primary task. Corresponding to GEO BON, Japanese Biodiversity Observation Network (JBON), the
regional network in Japan, was organized and held the first meeting in May 2009 in Tokyo, Japan.
Following JBON, Asia-Pacific Biodiversity Observation Network (AP BON), the regional BON over
Asia-Pacific region, held the first meeting in July 2009 in Nagoya, Japan. Those BONs have
basically eight working groups (WG) and WG 7 of them is mandated for in-situ and remote-sensing
integration. Remote sensing, by linking with in-situ observation, will provide us plenty of
biodiversity-related information as ecosystem types and their distribution patterns, which could
be the information about habitat structure for organisms. Integrated in-situ observations from
view points of ecology, ecosystem science, and hydrometeorology are required for remote sensing
studies of the biodiversity. Furthermore, those in-situ observations should be networked
systematically for the interdisciplinary exchange of data, observational philosophy, and
technique.
GEO BON; AP BON; JBON; LTER; JaLTER; JapanFlux
Akatsuka, S; Kajiwara, K; Muramatsu, K; Soyama, N; Endo, T; Ono, A;
8th Symposium on Networking the World with Remote Sensing of ISPRS-Technical-Commission
Kyoto, JAPAN