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Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF)

Masanobu Tsuji

Executive Secretary, APRSAF (JAXA)

The 7th GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium, Tokyo, 26-28 May 2014

Principles

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 APRSAF (Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum) Regional Cooperation Framework for Space Activities

• Largest space community in the Asia-Pacific region
• Contributing socio-economic benefits in the region
• 20th Anniversary in 2013

 Objectives Promotion and expansion of space activities and applications for socio-economic development in the region.  Participants Space agencies, governmental bodies, international

• rganizations, universities, research institutions, private entities

 Organizers Japan (MEXT, JAXA) and local host organizations

1st APRSAF (1993)  Approx. 60 Participants  15 Countries & Organizations

1993

2013

20th APRSAF (2013)

423 Participants 28 Countries &

Organizations

1992 ISY

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20th Anniversary

 20th session of Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF), was successfully held on 3 - 6 December, 2013 at Melia Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam.

• The forum was co-organized by VAST, MEXT, and JAXA
• 423 participants from 28 countries and 8 international organizations

20th Anniversary in Vietnam

[Theme] Values from Space: 20 Years of Asia-Pacific Experiences

Plenary Session

Asian HOA Panel Discussion

Exhibition EO WG CSA WG SEU WG SEA WG ISS Event Poster Contest Water Rocket

APRSAF-1 1993 Japan APRSAF-2 1994 Japan APRSAF-3 1996 Japan APRSAF-4 1997 Japan APRSAF-5 1998 Mongolia APRSAF-6 1999 Japan APRSAF-7 2000 Japan APRSAF-8 2001 Malaysia APRSAF-9 2003 Korea APRSAF-10 2004 Thailand APRSAF-11 2004 Australia APRSAF-12 2005 Japan APRSAF-13 2006 Indonesia APRSAF-14 2007 India APRSAF-15 2008 Vietnam APRSAF-16 2010 Thailand APRSAF-17 2010 Australia APRSAF-18 2011 Singapore APRSAF-19 2012 Malaysia

2001 4 Working Groups 2005 Sentinel Asia 2008 SAFE 2012 Kibo-ABC 2011 Climate R3

Vietnam APRSAF-20 2013 (c) 2014 Google - Image (c) 2014 NASA TerraMetrics

APRSAF-21 2014

History

Established in 1993, following the Asia-Pacific International Space Year Conference (APIC) in 1992.

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 # of Participants # of Counties+International Organizations

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Participation

 Increasing the number of participants and participating countries/organizations  Increasing participation of high-level officials

Structure

Side Events

Space Environment Utilization (SEU)

Working Groups

Disaster Monitoring

• Sentinel Asia -

Environment Monitoring

• SAFE (Space Application

for Environment) -

Initiatives (Cooperative Projects)

Asian Beneficial Collaboration through "Kibo" Utilization

• Kibo-ABC -

Regional Readiness Review For Key Climate Missions

• Climate R³ -

Space Education and Awareness (SEA) Earth Observation (EO)

Related Projects

UNiversity International FOrmation Mission

• UNIFORM -

Multi-GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Asia

• MGA -

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Activities

Communication Satellite Application (CSA)

• CanSat competition
• REDD+ with EO sat seminar
• Academic conf. on AeroSpace Electronics (ICSANE)
• Capacity building for Space Policy & Law WS

Side Events held at APRSAF-20 Exhibition of Organizations & Private sectors

Increase the focus on using space technologies to solve socio-economic problems in the region.  Establishment of 4 working groups (EO, SEU, SEA, CSA)  Launch of several cooperative projects

• Disaster Management (Sentinel Asia)
• Environment Monitoring (SAFE)
• Climate Change (Climate R3)
• Utilization of the International Space Station (Kibo-ABC)
• Capacity Building Opportunity for Small Satellite

Technology (STAR/UNIFORM)

• Education (Space education seminars, Water Rocket

Contest, etc.)

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Successful Outcomes

Great East Japan Earthquake Devastated Areas Observed by Sentinel Asia Constellation

ALOS THEOS CARTOSAT-2 FORMOSAT-2

13 March 14 March After the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, satellite data were provided through Sentinel Asia framework, which allows us to observe and monitor devastated areas quickly.

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Chinese Taipei

Successful Outcomes

• Sentinel Asia -

Communication satellites Earth observation satellites Positioning satellites

Human network Capacity Building, Outreach

Just after disaster Post-disaster

Information delivering to personal terminals

Pre-disaster

Monitoring Information/data transmission

Information sharing (Web-GIS)

Response:

Emergency observation

Mitigation:

Community education

Preparedness:

Hazard map Early warning system

Recovery:

Monitoring Disaster information

Concept of Sentinel Asia Step 3

Successful Outcomes - SAFE -

BIODIVERSITY AGRICULTURE HEALTH CLIMATE ENERGY ECOSYSTEMS WEATHER WATER SAFE Term

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Reference

20 years of Experience and Beyond

Share Information

Knowing each other

Launch Initiatives

Driving Cooperation

Socio-Economic Outcome

Extract more Value from Space

APRSAF-1 to APRSAF-11

APRSAF-12 to APRSAF-20

APRSAF-21 and Future

For better lives of people in the region

In the past 20 years, APRSAF has created a number of sound results. The new phase of APRSAF will focus on socio-economic outcomes......

GEOSS-AP APRSAF

AWCI AP-BON GFOI GEO GLAM

Ocean Observation and Society

EO WG CSA WG SEU WG SEA WG

Activities on GEOSS-AP and APRSAF

• Sentinel Asia
• SAFE
• Water
• Biodiversity
• Forest/CO2
• Agriculture
• Ocean
• Space Tech
• Education
• ISS

Some of projects could cooperate with each other

Toward More Practical Contribution for the Asia-Pacific Region

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) signed a partnership agreement

• n 23 April, 2014.

The objective of the agreement is to:

• Contribute to solving various development challenges that developing countries are facing
• Work on global issues using aerospace technology

Solving Development Challenges Information Exchange Human Resource Development

Facilitating Wide Use of Space-Related Systems

 Dates and Venue 2-5 December, 2014 Tokyo National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation

“Miraikan”

 Co-Organizers

APRSAF-21, 2014 Tokyo

 Web site http://www.aprsaf.org/