JAXA/INPE Sign "Letter of Intention" for Space Cooperation

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It follows one communicates published in english on the day (08/11), in the site "www.jaxa.jp", announcing that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the INPE signing “Letter of Intention” in cooperation for REDD+ using DAICHI.

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JAXA and INPE Signing Letter of Intention in

Cooperation for REDD+ using DAICHI

November 8, 2010 Updated

JAXA and the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciai (INPE), a Brazilian national space research institute, signed a Letter of Intention (LOI) to cooperate in the program on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+) using the JAXA's Advanced Land Observing Satellite "DAICHI."

JAXA will verify the effectiveness of observations by the DAICHI's synthetic aperture radar to measure tropical forestry in cooperation with INPE in order to contribute to the cooperative action plan agreed at the Ministerial Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity last month. The plan is designed mainly to provide more support to developing countries in parallel with the REDD+.

JAXA and INPE will compare JAXA's high resolution image data acquired by the DAICHI synthetic aperture radar and INPE's local observation data to verify the accuracy.

Source: Website of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)