Jointly sponsored by NOWPAP and PICES, the Training Course on Remote Sensing Data Analysis was organized on 21-25 October 2013 in Qingdao, China by the NOWPAP Special Monitoring & Coastal Environmental Assessment Regional Activity Centre (CEARAC). With the help of local organizers of the Ocean Remote Sensing Institute of Ocean University of China and the Chinese National Environmental Monitoring Centre (CNEMC) of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the training course was conducted for 23 trainees from China, Japan, Korea, Canada, Cameroon and Oman. The trainees, including postgraduate students, professional researchers and local government officers whose work/studies are related to the marine environment, were selected among 73 applicants by the Organizing Committee. 7 trainers from the NOWPAP countries of China, Japan, Korea and Russia as well as from Germany and USA delivered lectures on remote sensing applications for monitoring and assessment of the marine and coastal environment in the Northwest Pacific. For more details please check here.
Implementation of NOWPAP contributes to the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA) in the Northwest Pacific region.