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Agricultural Research Cooperation and Agroinformatics over APANJuly 1999: 

Agricultural Research Cooperation and Agroinformatics over APAN July 1999 Seishi Ninomiya APAN/AG & AFITA National Agriculture Research Center snino@narc.affrc.go.jp

Outline of APAN: 

Outline of APAN Asia-Pacific Advanced Network APAN is a non-profit international consortium established on 3 June 1997. Mission To prepare high performance network services for research To accelerate collaborations in the Asia-Pacific research communities with the services.

APAN Member: 

APAN Member Regular Member Australia (F) China (after Aug. 99) Hong Kong Indonesia Japan (F) Korea (F) Malaysia Philippines Singapore (F) Thailand Liaison Member Canada USA Europe F = Funding Member

APAN Topology: 

768 Kbps 2 Mbps 768 Kbps 2 Mbps APAN Topology

APAN Exchange Point: 

APAN Exchange Point

APAN Link Information: 

APAN Link Information

APAN Organization: 

APAN Organization Secretariat Network Operation Centers (NOC) APAN Committee (Link Owners) Allocation/User Service Committee

APAN Committee & WG Meetings: 

APAN Committee & WG Meetings 1997 Tokyo, Japan, 2-3 June 1998 Tsukuba, Japan, 2-5 March, with IWS98 Seoul, Korea, 1-3 July, with KRNET98 1999 Osaka, Japan, 19-21 February, with IWS99 Canberra, Australia, 21-24 September 2000 Tsukuba, Japan, 15-17 February

APAN Agriculture Working Group (APAN/AG): 

APAN Agriculture Working Group (APAN/AG) Founded in March 2, 1998 at Tsukuba Most active group in user User Community Area Related working groups Education, Earth Monitoring, BioInformatics Digital Library

APAN/AG Goals: 

APAN/AG Goals Present goals Mirroring Bio-Mirror, WAICENT mirror Enhancement of Cooperation with APAN/Earth-monitoring WG With APAN/BioInformatics WG with APAN/Education WG with AFITA IWS/APAN2000 Establishment of national organisations Investigation on possible projects Future goals Digital Library Metadatabase Multilingual Translator Shared Library & Agents Etc.

Meeting Program in Osaka, 99: 

Meeting Program in Osaka, 99 APAN/AG Group Meeting Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, IRRI, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, USA GIS in Agriculture and Internet 4 invited presentations from IRRI, Japan, Korea, USA 40 attendants from 11 countries/ intl. orgs. Agricultural Applications 6 invited presentations from China, IRRI, Japan, New Zealand 40 attendants from 11 countries/ intl. orgs.

Present Cooperative Activities over APAN/AG: 

Present Cooperative Activities over APAN/AG Bio-Mirror Distance Learning Wild Fire Detection Digital Library & Thesaurus Soil-Mirror Etc.

APAN Bio-Mirror: 

APAN Bio-Mirror In AU , CN , JP, KR, SG & US Contents Biological Sequence Databases Include GenBank,EMBL,DDBJ. Protein Biosequence Databases Include SWISS-PROT*, TrEMBL, PIR. Other Databases Include BLOCKS, ENZYME, PROSITE*, REBASE. Data current totals About 15 Gigabytes Daily Up-date ( 1 GB/month increment)

Distance Learning: 

Internet-based videoconferencing APAN + CGIAR(IRRI) + Thai DOA Distance Learning Thailand ‘97 2-way audio (Pots)+1 way video(Internet) Lecture/discussion on IPM Thailand ‘98 2-way audio, 2 way video & application sharing (Internet) closing ceremonies, remote evaluation of course

Without APAN: 

64 Kbps IVDN connection The “cloud” Without APAN

With APAN: 

. . 128 Kbps 128 Kbps 768 Kbps 2 Mbps Congested 136 Kbps link Still Some Problems Severe (>25%) packet loss at peak Communications With APAN

Wild Fire Detection: 

NOAA NGDC NCAR NASA vBNS NREN STARTAP TransPAC APAN IMnet MAFFIN TRMM data DMSP/OLS data TRMM/DMSP real time networking and rainfall/fire product dissemination Application server Asia Pacific countries Wild Fire Detection

Digital Library & Thesaurus: 

Digital Library & Thesaurus “Digital Encyclopedia of Agriculture” Agricultural Thesaurus Among Asian languages through English Multilingual system FAO/WEICENT mirror AGRIS

Present Issues and Agenda: 

Present Issues and Agenda Way to start up research collaborations Still personal-based incentives Poor inland network infrastructure Good connectivity between centers Does not facilitate communication between centers and clients Computer literacy Too much priority on hardware Unstable funds Voluntary NGO-like activities

New Technologies to be shared over APAN/AG: 

New Technologies to be shared over APAN/AG Decision support by Case Base Search Decision support by Model Bases Good Human Interfaces New Algorithms Low Cost Real Time Remote Image Acquisition Systems Etc.

New Technologies over APAN/AG: 

New Technologies over APAN/AG Decision support by Case Base Search non-reductive approach on knowledge

New Technologies over APAN/AG : 

New Technologies over APAN/AG Decision support by Model Bases DBS for several models Java Applets

New Technologies over APAN/AG : 

New Technologies over APAN/AG Good Human Interface

New Technologies over APAN/AG : 

New Technologies over APAN/AG New Algorithms Fuzzy Logic, Neural Network,……….

New Technologies over APAN/AG : 

New Technologies over APAN/AG Low Cost Real Time Remote Image Acquisition System

New Technologies over APAN/AGOthers: 

New Technologies over APAN/AG Others Multilingual Translators in Asian Languages Internet Real Time Video Stream Integrated GIS

APAN/AG Friends: 

APAN/AG Friends Affiliate Membership CGIAR since Feb., 1999 National Societies for Agroinformatics Indonesian, Japanese, Korean,…. AFITA (Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture) founded in 1998 Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines ,Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, MoU between UCAID and APAN University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development

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