We acknowledge and appreciate all the researchers who submitted their research proposals in response to the 10th GOSAT Research Announcement (RA). All proposals were reviewed by our assigned reviewers and their review results were evaluated by the RA Selection and Evaluation Committee. The Committee's final decision was approved by the Three Parties (JAXA, NIES, and MOE), which we are pleased to announce here. Please find the selected proposals listed below. Each selected proposer will be requested to execute the Joint Research Agreement with the Three Parties to initiate the research.
*** Validation ***
Principal Investigator
Ann Mari Fjaeraa
Research Organization
NLU Norwegian Institute for Air Research (Norway)
Research theme
Absolute and Relative Validation of GOSAT CH4 products over Scandinavian and Arctic Areas
*** Data application ***
Principal Investigator
Zulfa Hanan Ash'aari
Research Organization
University Putra Malaysia (Malaysia)
Research theme
Impact of historical land-use/land cover conversion by oil palm plantation on greenhouse gas emission in Peninsular Malaysia
*** Data application ***
Principal Investigator
Hibiki Noda
Research Organization
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) (Japan)
Research theme
Application of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence; Estimation of photosynthetic production by terrestrial ecosystem
Schedules for the 10th RA
The 8th GOSAT RA PI Meeting June 6-June 7, 2016 (at Kyoto, Japan)
Submission of the Progress and Interim Reports: March 1 every year
First submission of the progress and interim reports: March 1, 2017
Submission of the final report of the research results: On completion of the Joint Research
