Environmental Monitoring from Space of East Asia

1991年11月15日至18日，在韩国科学技术院举办了由韩国科学技术联合会和日本空间研究所支助的第一期“从空间进行环境监测”讲习班。作为讲习班的结果，EMSEA（东亚空间环境监测）项目是根据双方的协议形成的，目的是促进韩国和日本科学界在遥感领域组织良好的研究活动。从那时起，每年秋季举行定期会议“东亚空间环境监测”，规模越来越大。演讲内容涵盖海洋学、气象学、水文学、土地利用、林业、植被、水质监测等地球环境的广泛领域，以及相关的数据处理和数据库。1997年，日本19人，韩国29人; 1998年，日本18人，韩国49人; 1999年，日本22人，韩国68人。这个项目对韩国方面产生了很大的影响。Choi教授开发了EMSEA项目，最近在韩国科学技术院建立了一个新的遥感中心，这一领域的韩国科学家人数迅速增加。通过这一项目，已向日本空间研究所和韩国科学经济研究所联合提出了土地利用、气溶胶、海洋学和植被领域的合作研究方案。《对EMSEA项目的贡献》是一本由双方34篇有记录的论文组成的文集，它总结了该项目面向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.