The meeting will be held as a special session of the Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) Earth Monitoring and Disaster Warning Working Group (EM-WG). A preconference workshop will be held on January 21, and the conference itself will be held January 22 through 24.For details see meeting announcement in PDF or MSWord format, or visit http://www.jp.apan.net. (When you click the APAN link, you may be asked if you want to install a language pack. If you click "Cancel" in the Language Pack Installation dialog box, an English version of the APAN site should then open normally.)