DAY 1- Workshop for Policy Makers

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

PLENARY 1: OVERVIEW

Overview of GEO activities for Water and Capacity Building, and expectation of this Workshop (Antti Herlevi, Senior Programme Officer, GEO Secretariat)

Overview of IGWCO and its Capacity Building activities including the result of March Workshop (R. Lawford, Director, International GEWEX Project Office)

Report of activity on Asian Water Cycle Symposium (T. Koike, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo)

PLENARY 2: CAPACITY BUILDING AND BEST PRACTICES FOR APPLICATIONS OF EARTH OBSERVATIONS FOR WATER MANAGEMENT- INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL PROGRAMS

GISTDA (Surachai)

LAPAN (O. Roswintiarti, Head, Natural Resources and Environmental Monito) (Video)

JAXA/Earth Observation Program and Water Management Services (R. Oki, Senior Researcher,JAXA )

WMO (R. Lawford, Director, International GEWEX Project Office)

UN-ESCAP (Ti Le-Huu, Officer-in-Charge of Water Resources, Environment and Sustainable Development Division)

UNU (S. Herath, Senior Academic Programme Officer, UN University)

AIT (L. Samarakoon, Director, Geoinfomatics Center)

Mekon River Committee (Hong Tien, Program Coordinator)

PLENARY 3: CAPACITY BUILDING AND BEST PRACTICES FOR APPLICATIONS OF EARTH OBSERVATIONS FOR WATER MANAGEMENT- NATIONAL PROGRAMS

Activities in Japan (T. Koike, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo)

Activities in China (. Ai, Deputy Director, International Project Office of MAIRS)

Activities in Mongolia (D. Azzaya, Director,Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology)

Activities in Vietnam (Thi Tan Thanh Nguyen, Deputy Director, Upper-Air Meteorological Observatory)

Activities in Lao PDR (Somphanh Vittaya, Hydrologist, Deputy Chief of Hydrological Division)

Activities in Cambodia (Bunnavuth Ku, Assistant,National Committee for Disaster Management)

Activities in Myanmar (Tin Yi, Staff Officer, Department of Meteorology and Hydrology)

Activities in Indonesia (Joesron Loebis, Chairman, Indonesian Hydrology Society)

Activities in Philippine (R. T. Perez, Wether Services Chief, Flood Forecasting Branch)

Activities in Sri Lanka (Nihal Rupasinghe, Chairman,Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau)

Activities in Bhutan (Nado Rinchhen, Deputy Minister, National Environment Commission)

Activities in Nepal (K. P. Sharma, Deputy Director General, Department of Hydrology and Meteorology)

Activities in India (R. Kumar, Scientist, National Institute of Hydrogy)

Activities in Bangladesh (Sazed K. Chowdhury, Superentend Engineer, Bangladesh Water Development Board)

Activities in Iran (Mohammad Javad Abedini, Faculty Member, Civil Engineering) (Video)

Activities in Uzbekistan (Sergey Myagkov, Deputy Director,Hydrometeorological Research Institute)

Days 2 - Workshop for Earth observation providers and water resource managers

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

PLENARY 4: AVAILABLE DATA, TOOLS AND OPPORTUNITIES

ICHARM (K. Fukami, Chief, Hydrogic Engineering Research Team)

MAHASRI (J. Matsumoto, Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University)

PUB (S. B. Weerakoon, Associate Professor, University of Peradeniya)

JEPP (M. Yamanaka, Senior Scientist, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology(JAMSTEC))

CliC in Asian Region (T. Ohata, Program Director, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology(JAMSTEC))

CEOP (T. Koike, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo)

MAIRS (L. Ai, Deputy Director, International Project Office of MAIRS)

ISRO Space Application Center (Y. V. N. Krishnamurthy, Head, Regional Remote Sensing Center)

Sentinel Asia (H. Kai,Associate Senior Engineer,JAXA)

EWBMS: water resources monitoring and flow forecasting on the basis of geostationary satellite data (A. Rosema, Director, Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing)

ITC: FROM “BUILDING CAPACITY” TO “BUILDING ON CAPACITY” (Ms. Marjan Kreijns)

DAY 3 - Workshop for Earth observation providers and water resource managers

Thursday, September 28, 2006

PLENARY 5: REPORTS FROM WORKING GROUPS

Report from Working Group I: Flooding (Co-Chairs: K. Fukami +Tanka Kafel, Senior Project Researcher,Geoinformatics Center,AIT)

Report from Working Group II: Drought (Co-Chairs: L. Ai, Deputy Director, International Project Office of MAIRS + D. Azzaya, Director,Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology)

Report from Working Group III: Water Quality (Chair: Bilqis Amin Hoque, Chairperson and Head of Research, Environment and Population Research Center)