The 4th Sentinel Asia Joint Project Team Meeting (JPTM-4) Philippines, Sep 5-7
Wed, 5 Sep 2007
The 4th Joint Project Team Meeting for “Sentinel Asia” - the Disaster
Management Support System in the Asia-Pacific Region - will be held from
September 5 to 7, 2007 in Manila, the Philippines, organized by the
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in cooperation with the United
Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(UN-ESCAP) and be co-sponsored by the Science and Technology
Coordinating Council-Committee on Space Technology and Applications
(STCC-COSTA) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the
Office of Civil Defense-National Disaster Coordinating Council
(OCD-NDCC), and the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority
(MAMRIA) of the Department of Environment and National Resources (DENR).
The objectives of JPTM-4 are to evaluate the results of enforcing
Sentinel Asia, which is being carried out as activities for 2006 - 2007
(STEP-1) of the disaster management support system for Asia and the
Pacific, and to examine an enforcement design and make plans for next step.
The first Announcement of JPTM-4 is available at::
http://www.aprsaf.org/data/jptm4_pdf/JPTM4_1st_Announcement.pdf