Showcase Authors

Author(s): Ryosuke Shibasaki

E-mail: shiba@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliations: Center for Spatial Information Science, Univ. of Tokyo

Member Country/Participating Organization: Japan

Showcase Description

Showcase Title: Global Monitoring of Greenhouse Gases from Space

Showcase Description: This showcase fosters the use of space-based greenhouse gas (GHG) observations and consolidate data requirements for the next-generation GHG monitoring missions. It also establishes an international group in close cooperation with the CEOS Atmospheric Composition constellation and the Carbon Cycle Community of Practice, to initially generate and implement plans for the end-to-end utilization of space-based GHG data, particularly those of GOSAT and OCO to be launched in early 2009. These efforts are coordinated with ground-based systems for validation and build upon, as appropriate, existing observations and products to date – from satellites (e.g. SCIAMACHY and AIRS), aircrafts, and surface-based instruments (in-situ and total column).

Team: Japan (JAXA), CEOS (JAXA), ESA, Japan (RIHN), USA (NASA), USA (NOAA),USA (USDA/Forest Service)

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Showcase Justification

Add value of GEO in general: It successfully demonstrates how GEOSS can contribute to monitoring emission and behavior of GHG from space and to integration with surface-based observation with in-situ observation for ensuring the quality of data

Add value of ADC: Data integration through improved data interoperability is a key to the implementation of GHG monitoring system.

Summit Themes and Focus: Reduction of GHG emission and better understanding on carbon cycles of global ecosystem

Cape Town Declaration: Relevant to the mitigation of global changes though better monitoring and understanding of both ecosystem carbon cycles and human emission activities.

Global goals and assessments: Monitoring and assessing GHG emissions and behavior can provide a basis for exploring better ways of land use and ecosystem management towards the Millennium Development Goals.

Filling gaps, ...: This showcase fills the gaps of GHG emission monitoring efforts by each country and organization and provides more consistent and accurate four dimensional GHG concentration datasets.

Strong future GEOSS: The showcase demonstrates how satellite observation complemented with field survey can provide consistent and comprehensive GHG data, that will provide a sound basis for policy formulation.

Link to high-profile issues: Contributing to the reduction of GHG emission based on better understanding of ecosystem carbon cycles and the impacts of human activities.

Cross-cutting nature: GHG emission and behavior data provide a basis for interdisciplinary analysis and modeling on the interaction of ecosystem and human activities driven by socio-economic systems.

Capacity building: In the process of integrating GHG emission and behavior data from space with surface-based observations experts in developing countries have experience of integrating satellite data and in-situ observation data, that will help them make better informed decision making in land and ecosystem management.