Intercommission Working Group VII/IV "Derivation of Global Land Cover Data & Environmental Change and Sustainability Indicators"

Terms of Reference:

• Develop methodologies for generation and quality evaluation of global databases for global studies
• Develop algorithms for monitoring aspects of global change such as land use, land cover, land changes
• Evolve strategies for assimilating remotely sensed data into global models
• Stocktaking and compilation of existing and planned Global DB and identification of significant gaps and overlaps
• Development of environmental infrastructures for access and use as one of use case of Global DB
• Standardization, harmonization and integration of Global DB on national, regional and global levels and their promotion
• Development User Access the innovative user access interface for browsing an analysis through increase interoperability on distributed network, e.g. open global standard, 3D Geo-browser and Grid computing
• Develop algorithms, models and sustainability indicators for predicting changes in different eco-systems
• Methodologies for global monitoring, modeling and prediction
• Enhance international cooperation by identifying and generating common environmental sustainability indicators amenable to remote sensing with organizations such as ISCGM, WGISS, ICA, Digital Earth, IGBP

Working Group officers:

Chair Christiane Schmullius Institute of Geography Department of Earth Observation Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena Loebdergraben 32 07743 Jena Germany Tel.: +49-3641-948 8881 E-mail: c.schmullius@uni-jena.de

Co-Chair Tsolmon Renchin Remote Sensing Lab. Research Centre for Geophysics National University of Mongolia Ulaanbatar 38 P.O. Box 38-625 Mongolia Tel: +976-9977-6193 E-mail: tsolmon@num.edu.mn

Co-Chair Hiromichi Fukui Faculty of Policy Management Keio University 5322 Endoh, Fujisawa Kanagawa, 252-8520 Japan Tel: +81 466 49 3497 E-mail: hfukui@sfc.keio.ac.jp

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