The 6th Symposium of the Institute for Space-Earth Environment Research (ISEE) - Workshop for Interaction of Ocean, Atmosphere, and Land by Remote Sensing and Numerical Model - was held at Nagoya University, Japan on 17-21 December. The 20th Korea-Japan/11th Asia Ocean Color Workshop was also held as part of the 6th symposium, and same as last year, Dr. Genki Terauchi joined this workshop.
He gave a presentation titled “The past and future of NOWPAP’s efforts on remote sensing of marine environment” and introduced CEARAC’s past and on-going ocean remote sensing activities in Session 1- Ocean color: Mission status, program, and operational on the 17th of December.
The symposium provided its participants with hands-on training on 21 December. Under the theme: Monitoring and assessment of water quality by ocean color remote sensing, Dr. Terauchi tried a new approach where participants log in to a common data analysis workstation to experience a procedure of analyzing ocean color remote sensing data while using the functions of NOWPAP Remote Sensing Training Program (https://nowpap-remote-sensing-training.org/npwd/) developed by CEARAC. Next, he demonstrated how to use Seagrass Mapper, CEARAC’s web-based tool for mapping seagrass, with a case study in Nanao Bay, Japan. Then, he gave the participants a hands-on session with Seagrass Mapper. 25 researchers and university students from 7 countries joined this session. The CEARAC’s training course on remote sensing data analysis is basically six-days long, but its essence was compacted into a one-day program for this symposium. Still, the participants learned a lot and voiced their enthusiasm of attending further training courses in the future. CEARAC also plans to continue them for capacity building in marine environmental monitoring techniques, and expects to find partners to jointly organize the training courses in the future.
