Conferences and Meetings

MEETINGS

LUTEA Steering Committee, May 8-9, 1996, Beijing, China

Dennis Ojima, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, USA, Chair
Participants: Zhao Shidong, Fu Congbin, Chuluun Togtohyn, Liu Jiyuan, Kuninori Otsubo
Funding: USGCRP (through START) and Chinese Academy of Sciences

Outcome: Defining the LUTEA research framework and identification of major topic areas for research, including:

	Factors Affecting Changes in Pastoral Systems
	Intensification of Agriculture
	Urban-Rural Interfaces
	Factors affecting Natural and Managed Forest Systems

LUTEA Science Planning Workshop

November 1996
Kyoto, Japan
45 attendees from 10 countries
Funding: APN and USGCRP (through START)

Review of research being conducted in the region on land use/cover change; definition of scope of LUTEA; proposed activities for LUTEA, including:

	Convening a regional workshop for LUTEA researchers
	Developing integrated database, to be accessible to LUTEA scientists within and outside Asia
	Developing a communication structure for the LUTEA network
	Providing research fellowships and training grants for development and analysis of databases

Outputs: Summary report and draft science plan.

Conference on Temperate East Asia Land-Cover in support of LUTEA Studies

May 1997
Sioux Falls, SD
Presentations of research groups actively involved in developing land cover maps in Asia and conducting landuse/cover studies in Asia. 20 attendees from 6 countries (China, Mongolia, Japan, Russia, India, US).
Funding: NASA and START

Outcome: Identify research needs for land cover maps of the Temperate East Asian (TEA) Region

LUTEA Researchers Meeting

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:

	Integration of Social and Physical Data Sets
	Development of Remote Sensing Information for Detecting Land Cover/Land Use Changes
	Verification of Regional Analysis of Land Use Changes
	Analytical Framework for Assessing Sustainable Land Use

Outputs: Book of abstracts published for conference; proceedings forthcoming.

LUTEA Steering Committee Meeting and Database Development Workshop (tentative)

April/May 1999
Funding pending from START
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.