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The importance of Earth observations in the assessment of malaria,

respiratory and ocular diseases in South Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188

A. P. Mitra, National Physical Laboratory, India

AIRNow: the beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191

Phil Dickerson, AIRNow programme director, US EPA

The Air Quality Health Index: using Canadian

Earth observations for health protection from air pollution . . . . . . . . .193

Dave Henderson, Policy Advisor, Air Issues and Sean Daley, Program Officer,

Business Policy, Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada; David

M. Stieb, Medical Epidemiologist, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety

Branch, Health Canada

Energy

Informing decision making in the energy sector using NASA

spaceborne observations and model predictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195

Richard S. Eckman and Paul W. Stackhouse, Jr., NASA Langley Research Center

Space for solar energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .198

M. Schroedter-Homscheidt, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

e.V; P. Stackhouse, NASA Langley Research Center and f. Sarti, European Space

Agency; T. Ranchin, Ecole des Mines de Paris

Winds of change from space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202

Pierre-Philippe Mathieu, European Space Agency, ESA/ESRIN; Charlotte

Hasager, RISOE National Laboratory DTU

Climate

State of the climate – using Earth observations to monitor

the global climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204

Jay Lawrimore, NOAA National Climatic Data Center

GOSAT in practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207

Takashi Hamazaki, GOSAT Project Manager, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Earth observation contributions to assessing Australian terrestrial

ecosystems, carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions . . . . . . . . . .209

Gary Richards, Australian Greenhouse Office; Alex Held & Peter Caccetta,

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Climate monitoring and prediction in Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .212

Man-Ki Lee, Administrator, Korea Meteorological Administration

African Climate Atlas: making IPCC AR4 data available . . . . . . . . . . . .215

Richard Washington, GEO-WCRP-CLIVAR-VACS

Water

Global water quality monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .217

Steven R. Greb, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources; Antti Herlevi, World

Meteorological Organization, and Paul DiGiacomo, National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration, National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service

The observational aspects of water cycle knowledge and applications . . .221

Richard G. Lawford, Director, International GEWEX Project Office

Development of a global in situ soil moisture network . . . . . . . . . . . . .224

Peter J. van Oevelen, International GEWEX Project Office; Thomas J. Jackson,

USDA Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab; Pedro Viterbo, Instituto de

Meteorologica; Dara Entekhabi, MIT, and Yann Kerr, CNES/CESBIO

Weather

The reanalysis of daily weather observations at ECMWF . . . . . . . . . . .226

Manfred Kloeppel, Adrian Simmons and Sakari Uppala, European Centre for

Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

The Thorpex Interactive Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE)

concept and current status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229

Philippe Bougeault, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts,

UK; Co-Chair, GIFS-TIGGE WG, and Zoltan Toth, National Centers for

Environmental Preduction, USA; Co-Chair, GIFS-TIGGE WG

Ecosystems

Mapping global ecosystems – the GEOSS approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231

Roger Sayre, US Geological Survey; Alberto Yanosky, Guyra Paraguay;

Douglas Muchoney, Group on Earth Observations/US Geological Survey

Understanding the coupled human-environmental Earth system:

science without borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .233

Kevin Noone, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)

Global land cover observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235

Martin Herold, Global Observation of Forest and

Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD)

Rapid biological and ecological assessments using

Earth observation data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238

Douglas M. Muchoney, Group on Earth Observations

Monitoring land degradation with long-term

satellite data in South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .240

Konrad Wessels, Remote Sensing Research Unit, Meraka Institute and

Department of Geography, University of Maryland, and Stephen Prince,

Department of Geography, University of Maryland

The business of capacity-development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243

Ehrlich Desa, Joannes Berque, Mika Odido and Stefano Mazzilli,

UNESCO/IOC; Geoff Holland

Agriculture

Global agriculture in the 21st century: sustainable

production of food, fibre, fuel and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246

Ghassem R. Asrar, PhD, Deputy Administrator, Agricultural Research Service,

United States Department of Agriculture

Sustainable agriculture and Earth observation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .249

Glenn R. Bethel, US Department of Agriculture and Gregory L. Stensaas,

US Geological Survey

Applications of remote sensing in fisheries and aquaculture . . . . . . . . .253

Trevor Platt, Research Scientist; Shubha Sathyendranath, Executive Director,

Partnership for the Observation of the Global Oceans; Venetia Stuart, Project

Scientist, International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group, all of Bedford

Institute of Oceanography, Nova Scotia, Canada

Satellite-based fishery service in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .256

Shailesh Nayak, T. Srinivaskumar and M. Nagarajakumar;

Indian National Centre of Ocean Information Services

Biodiversity

Bridging scaling gaps for the assessment of biodiversity from space . . .258

Michael E. Schaepman, Centre for Geo-Information, Wageningen University and

Alterra; Zbyn

k Malenovský and Lammert Kooistra, Centre for Geo-

Information, Wageningen University’ C.A. (Sander) Mücher, Centre for Geo-

Information, Alterra; Wilfried Thuiller, Université J. Fourier, Laboratoire

d’Ecologie Alpine

Predicting the impact of climate change on

biodiversity – a GEOSS scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .262

Stefano Nativi and Paolo Mazzetti, Italian National Research Council; Hannu

Saarenmaa, Finnish Museum of Natural History; Jeremy Kerr and Heather

Kharouba, Canadian Facility for Ecoinformatics Research; Éamonn Ó Tuama,

Global Biodiversity Information Facility; Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa, National Snow

and Ice Data Center

A possibility of land vegetation observation with SGLI/GCOM-C . . . . .265

Y. Honda, Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS), Chiba University;

M. Moriyama, Nagasaki University; K. Kajiwara, CEReS; A. Ono, Earth

Observation Research Center (EORC), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

The green ocean – observations of marine biodiversity . . . . . . . . . . . .267

D. James Baker, David Farmer and Kristen Yarincik, Scientific Steering

Committee, Census of Marine Life

Reliable Earth observation systems for science and

sustainable development in Southern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .271

J. C. Pauw, South African Environmental Observation Network

Notes & References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .274