(e) Detection of Electromagnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions

The DEMETER mission is exploratory in nature and aims primarily to detect electromagnetic signals associated with seismic activity, but also to determine accurately the conditions for observing them, their characteristics, such as the frequency spectrum, and propagation conditions.

The objectives and results of the Detection of Electromagnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions (DEMETER) programme, a scientific research project designed to study the relationship between seismic activity and ionospheric disturbances, were also reviewed.

The Detection of Electromagnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions (DEMETER) satellite is designed for the study of electromagnetic phenomena associated with natural geophysical phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis and for the analysis of disturbances in the electromagnetic environment of Earth that are linked to human activity.

First Advisory Group Meeting of the International Early Warning Programme of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, Bonn, Germany, 26-27 March United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, Bonn, Germany, 30 March Seventeenth Meeting of the Executive Secretariat of the International Charter “Space and Major Disasters”, Tokyo, 11-13 April 36-month Integration Meeting of the Global Monitoring for Security and Stability, The Hague, Netherlands, 16-17 April Annual Stakeholder Meeting of the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System, Graz, Austria, 24-25 April Sustainable Neighbourhood: from Lisbon to Leipzig through Research (L2L), Leipzig, Germany, 9-10 May Asian Conference on Disaster Reduction 2007: Working Together for a Safer World, Astana, 25-27 June International Workshop on Early Warning and Monitoring Earthquake by Using Electromagnetism Detecting Satellite, Jakarta, 25-27 July GMOSS Summer School 2007, Madrid, 2-9 September First GEO Donor Capacity-Building Symposium for Earth Observations, Seville, Spain, 10-11 September Fifth GEO Capacity-Building Committee Meeting, Seville, Spain, 12-13 September The User and GEOSS Architecture XVII, a workshop on the use of Earth observation for managing water and health in Africa, Ouagadougou, 15-16 September AfricaGIS 2007 Conference, Ouagadougou, 17-21 September Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on GEOSS Information Access, Beijing, 10-11 October General Assembly panel on space tools and solutions for climate change, New York, 24 October Third International Geohazards Workshop, Frascati, Italy, 6-8 November Second Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, New Delhi, 7-8 November Eighth Meeting of the United Nations Geographic Information Working Group, Bangkok, 28-30 November GEO Ministerial Summit, Cape Town, South Africa, 30 November Global Forum on the Effective Use of Telecommunications and Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management: Saving Lives, Geneva, Switzerland, 10-13 December

In view of critical new observations made concerning the Earth's atmosphere and global climate, notably from the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC), Detection of Electromagnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions (DEMETER), Challenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP), Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED), Republic of China Satellite (ROCSAT) and Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites, GPS ground-based receivers, airglow instruments and radars, all of which helped to provide clues to the complex plasma variations and electrodynamics of the F-region ionosphere during storms, the Office for Outer Space Affairs organized a session on ionospheric storms and their space weather effects.

The Subcommittee highlighted the increased current and future availability of space-based sensors on board satellites such as the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS), Aqua, Aura, the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite, the China-Brazil Earth Resource satellites (CBERS)-2 and CBERS-2B, the Detection of Electromagnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions (DEMETER) satellite, the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), the Indian National Satellite System (INSAT)-1D, the Indian Remote Sensing satellites (IRS)-1C, IRS-P3, IRS-P4 and IRS-P5 (Cartosat-1), the Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite (KOMPSAT)-2, the Land Remote Sensing satellites (Landsat)-5 and Landsat-7, the Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Sciences coupled with Observations from a Lidar (PARASOL) satellite, the Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite (RADARSAT)-2, the data collection satellites SCD-1 and SCD-2, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, which will contribute further to supporting the various areas of sustainable development.

The Subcommittee highlighted the increased current and future availability of space-based sensors on board satellites such as the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS), Aqua, Aura, the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite, CBERS-2, CBERS-2B, the Detection of Electromagnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions (DEMETER) satellite, the Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) satellites AlSAT-1, BILSAT-1, NigeriaSat-1 and UK-DMC, the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), INSAT-1D, IRS-1C, IRS-P3, IRS-P4 and IRS-P5 (Cartosat-1), KOMPSAT-2, Landsat-5, Landsat-7, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), the observation and communications satellite SAOCOM, the Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Sciences coupled with Observations from a Lidar (PARASOL) satellite, SAC-C, SAC-D, RADARSAT-2, the data collection satellites SCD-1 and SCD-2, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, which will contribute further to supporting the various areas of sustainable development.