Environmental Monitoring from Space of East Asia

第一期“空间环境监测”讲习班于1991年11月15日至18日在KAIST举行，该讲习班由KOSEF和JSPS提供支助。作为研讨会的结果，根据双方的协议成立了EMSEA(东亚空间环境监测)项目，以促进韩日两国科学界在遥感领域组织良好的研究活动。此后，每年秋季都会举行定期的“东亚空间环境监测”会议，会议规模越来越大。演讲涉及地球环境的广泛领域，如海洋学、气象学、水文学、土地利用、林业、植被、水质监测以及相关的数据处理和数据库。数字如下：日本19人，韩国29人，日本18人，韩国49人，日本22人，韩国68人。这一项目对韩方产生了很大影响。崔教授开发了EMSEA项目，最近在韩国科学技术研究院建立了一个新的遥感中心，该领域的韩国科学家数量迅速增加。通过这一项目，在土地利用、气溶胶、海洋学和植被等领域向JSPS和KESEF联合提出了合作研究方案。出版了《对EMSEA项目的贡献》，收集了双方34篇有记录的论文，总结了该项目面向21世纪的活动。

The first Workshop on "Environmental Monitoring from Space" supported by KOSEF and JSPS was held at KAIST during 15-18th November, 1991. As the result of workshop the EMSEA (Environmental Monitoring from Space of East Asia) project was formed under the agreements of both parties for the promotion of a well organized research activities in remote sensing fields by scientific communities of Korea and Japan.Since then, regular meetings "Environmental Monitoring from Space of East Asia" have been held every autumn and becomes larger and larger. Presentations are covering wide area of earth environment such as oceanography, meteorology, hydrology, land use, forestry, vegetation, water quality monitoring, and related data processing and database. The number were as follows ; Japan : 19, Korea : 29 in '97, Japan : 18, Korea : 49 in '98, and Japan : 22, Korea : 68 in '99. This project has made a big impact to the Korean side. Prof.Choi developed the Project EMSEA and has established a new remote sensing center at KAIST recently and the number of Korean scientists in this field has been increased very rapidly. Through this project, cooperative research programs have been jointly proposed to the JSPS and KOSEF in the fields of land use, aerosol, oceanography and vegetation. "Contributions to the Project EMSEA", which is collection of 34 papers from both sides with records, was published to summarize its activities towards 21st century.