Annual Report (1998-1999) for Land Use in Temperate East Asia (LUTEA)

This report details activities related to Land Use in Temperate East Asian Project sponsored by the Temperate East Asian Committee (TEACOM). This report includes activities related to field activities, training workshops, Scientific Steering Committee meetings, symposia, and presentations related to LUTEA Project. In addition, new developments regarding the current APN funded project for integrating social-economic data with environmental data is discussed and the minutes of the first meeting is included. This particular effort highlights the involvement of three of the LUTEA visiting scholars, Drs. Liu Chuang, Liu Jiong, and T. Chuluun.

In addition, we are awaiting support for the production of a landcover CD, which NASA is reviewing for funding. Tentative approval has been made, yet funds for this activity is not yet in hand.

March 2-5, 1998

Beijing, China

100 attendees from 9 countries

Funding: APN, USGCRP (through START) and Chinese Academy of Sciences

Plenary Addresses and Poster Presentations on agriculture, forests, grasslands, integrated analysis, land use change, remote sensing and soils.

Working Group Discussions on:

Outputs: Book of abstracts; proceedings forthcoming.

June 1998

Ulanbaataar, Mongolia

15 students and 5 instructors from 5 countries

Funding: APN, USGCRP (through START), NASA and Mongolian Ministry for Nature and the Environment

Training for East Asian scientists in ecosystem modeling, GIS and remote sensing techniques for evaluation of land use and land cover dynamics. Explanation of methodology of coupling information between the analytical tools. Instructors included researchers actively involved in LUCC, GCTE and LUTEA studies. Instructional material drawn land cover analyses and remote sensing coverage developed during May 1997 TEAL Database Workshop.

Outputs: Instructional materials.

20 researchers from China, Mongolia, and US participated in extending transect survey in Mongolian steppe and gobi ecosystems. Plant and samples collected and analyzed for carbon and nitrogen content. Pastoral surveys conducted for land use history information. County level data analysis included with data integration.

Funding: NSF, NASA, CAS, MNE, MAS

Topic: Land Use in Temperate East Asia (LUTEA) Project: Development of Integrated Databases for Improved Assessment of Landcover Changes

Outputs: Presentation abstract.

LUTEA-SSC meeting, March 31-April 2, 1999 Fort Collins, CO, USA

The LUTEA-SSC Meeting reviewed past and future research and network activities. Each of participants presented LUTEA related activities in own country. LUTEA new initiatives such as LUTEA session at 1999 Open Meeting of HDGEC, land-atmosphere interaction paper developed by Fu and Ojima and APN-START working group on data fusion between physical and social sciences were discussed. The participants further developed the LUTEA Science Plan and recommended to finalize it soon. New paragraphs on forest, urban-rural interfaces and LUCC detection using RS information have been written by the LUTEA-SSC members.

Objectives: Finalization of LUTEA science plan and development of strategy to create an integrated database of gridded information to evaluate current land use and to investigate possible policy changes related to C fluxes, greenhouse gas emissions, C sequestration and land use policies.

Participants of the Meeting discussed the biophysical and socio-economic database development issues. It was recognized that we should emphasize on socio-economic database development more since we have much better environmental database. We agreed on socio-economic database priority. Socio-economic data of 1985, 1990 and 1995 at district or sum levels will be collected in China and Mongolia. Following database development was recommended:

The participants were asked to provide meta-data information on variable names, short definition, units of variables, conversion to standard SI units, data on data collected, data format, data source, data availability and distribution status.

A special session of LUTEA at the Meeting was chaired by Prof. Kitamura. Three presentations were presented at this Meeting. Those are:

LUCC activities through LUTEA/START is the most fruitful one among other global change research programs in Mongolia. 1998 LUTEA training workshop at Ulaanbaatar, Transect trip and START fellowship are examples of capacity building in the country through training and research. 9 Mongolian young researchers were trained in RS/GIS and modeling for LUCC studies at Ulaanbaatar workshop and researchers from the Mongolian Steppe Biodiversity Project were trained in ecosystem research during the Transect trip in 1998. T. Chuluun was awarded the START Fellowship to conduct research on climate and land use sensitivity of the Mongolian Steppe. Policy relevant research results conducted with the START Fellowship are:

Recently, an extension of the existing Mongolian LUCC Committee by social scientists and building of the Mongolian IHDP Committee is proposed by T. Chuluun.

Chuluun, T, L. Tieszen and D. Ojima. 1999. Land use impact on C4 plant cover of Temperate East Asian grasslands. The International workshop on "Information basis and modeling for land use/cover change studies in East Asia" hosted by National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan Environmental Agency, January 25-27, 1999 Tsukuba, Japan. (accepted)

Chuluun, Togtohyn & Dennis Ojima. 1999. Climate and grazing sensitivity of the Mongolian rangeland ecosystem. VI International Rangeland Congress, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, July 17-23, vol. 2: 877-878.

Chuluun, Togtohyn and Dennis Ojima. 1999. Simulation of soil carbon changes associated with altered grazing patterns in Mongolia. Journal of Range Management (submitted).

July 11-16, 1999. LUTEA Transect: NECT and Mongolian transect. The Global Change Transects Workshop, Darwin to Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia (by T. Chuluun and D. Ojima).

September 30 - October 2, 1999. Mongolia: Climate variability, nomadic society and turbulent history. International conference on "Nature, Society and History: Long Term Dynamics of Social Metabolism," Vienna, Austria.

Ojima, D.S., X. Xiangming, T. Chuluun and X. S. Zhang. 1998. Asian grassland biogeochemistry: factors affecting past and future dynamics of Asian grasslands. In: Asian Change in the context of global climate change, ed. James N. Galloway and Jerry M. Melillo, IGBP publication series vol. 3, pp. 128-144. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Open Meeting of Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
June 1999
Shonan Village, Japan

GCTE Rangelands Workshop
July 1999

Funding: NASA

1-km land cover maps based on the AVHRR-derived satellite data prepared by EROS-DC

Introduction of database development project and revised budget by Dennis Ojima.

Objectives: Finalization of LUTEA science plan and development of strategy to create an integrated database of gridded information to evaluate current land use and to investigate possible policy changes related to C fluxes, greenhouse gas emissions, C sequestration and land use policies.

Participants of the Meeting discussed the biophysical and socio-economic database development issues. It was recognized that we should emphasize on socio-economic database development more since we have much better environmental database. We agreed on socio-economic database priority. Socio-economic data of 1985, 1990 and 1995 at district or sum levels will be collected in China and Mongolia.

Key questions for this project include:

Outcomes:
Estimated carbon fluxes
Policy issues

The second meeting will be in Beijing, October 25-26, 1999. START meeting on October 27-29, 1999. We should arrive on October 24, 1999. In February 2000, we'll have a final small Symposium, Kobe, Japan. Probably, at the end of the month.

We'll have a lunch Meeting on Friday, June 25, 1999.

Please, review the budget as well. I am hiring Chuluun to work on this project. We asked Liu Chuang to visit for 2 weeks. May be Fischer can make a short visit.

Data sets being used in current regional studies:

China data available:

1998 land cover map of China with 1 km resolution will be created.

China RS based (integrated TM, AVHRR) 1995 land use map will be created. It will have 2 levels with 6 classes at the first level and 24 classes at the second level.

Digital Chart of the World (a new version was published last year):

Rivers
Lakes
Roads

GRID data is published recently.

Mongolian socio-economic database at aimag (21) level, population and livestock data at sum (~300) level.

Japan:
Municipal 3300
Prefecture 47

Other land use and cover maps are available.

(1985, 1990, 1995 at county or district or sum levels)

Number of people working in agriculture (at sum level)

# of households by agricultural sector (herder, farmer, forestry, fishery, mixed)
Amount of land area (land use and land cover)

? Protected areas

county level data (kg/ha, areas sown, areas harvested, $/kg, excluded areas (disasters etc.) for crops:

For livestock sector (by animal type, kg per animal, in local currency and US$/kg, kg/ha?):

Livestock numbers

Machinery:

Intensification of agriculture (greenhouse, etc.) investment

Land Policy (driving force)

Outputs:

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