Support to multi-national environmental conventions and terrestrial carbon cycle science by ALOS and ADEOS-II -the Kyoto & carbon initiative

The Kyoto & Carbon Initiative is an international collaboration initialised by NASDA in 2000 [1], set out to support dataand information needs raised by certain multinational environmental conventions and by global carbon cycle science, through provision of data products and high level information derived from ALOS, JERS-1 and ADEOS-II data. The conventions primarily in focus are the UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, to which fineresolution, multi-scale information about the status and changes in forests and wetlands will be derived. There is apparent synergy with terrestrial carbon cycle science information needs, where improved spatial information about carbon pools, sources and sinks at local, regional to global scales are of high priority. Support to the UN Millennium Development goal on water access, as well as to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, are

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