Wed, 21 Nov 2007
The APRSAF-14’s first announcement has been distributed. The forum will
be held in Bangalore, India, and jointly be organized and co-sponsored
by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the Ministry of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan and
the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
While the APRSAF is designed to be an active forum to promote concrete
cooperative activities to address common issues at the regional level,
the APRSAF-14 will be held under the main theme of “Space for Human
Empowerment” with the aim to strengthen and enable the countries of the
Asia-Pacific region to improve the quality of life of their people
through enhanced use of space-based systems, activities and services.
Following the APRSAF-13 which was held in December 2006 in Jakarta,
Indonesia, the APRSAF-14 will focus, among others, on the Sentinel Asia
Project which was initiated as the first step to build a disaster risk
management system in the Asia Pacific region and has been steadily
growing with strengthened cooperation among relevant agencies in the
region since its initiation.
The summary report of the Project will be presented at the APRSAF-14 and
participants will discuss next steps towards this goal with special
emphasis on capacity building for exploitation of space-based imagery.
The first Announcement of APRSAF-14 has been posted on the APRSAF website:
http://www.aprsaf.org/text/ap14_info.html
