The growing requirements to ecosystem science are to reveal detailed and mechanistic information on the ecosystem structure and function, especially consequences of vegetation processes and micrometeorological field in various terrestrial ecosystems, especially forests in mountainous landscape. The plot scale studies such as ecological process research, eddy covariance measurements and mathematical modelling have been providing us with the information ranging from hourly to yearly scales. In order to extend these understandings to the broader spatial scale from plot to landscape and regional scales, remote sensing has a great role to measure the spatial distribution of ecosystems and to monitor the seasonal and yearly changes of the ecosystem structure.

The objective of this workshop is to address the questions of terrestrial ecosystem studies ranging from plot to region. (1) What could be the intensive research theme in plot scale research for accurate estimation of regional ecosystem functions? (2) What can we find by linking plot scale forest reseach and remote sensing/GIS analysis? (3) What should be measured in forest canopy process by remote sensing? (4) How do we reveal the canopy fluxes and then scale-up with high resolution model? (5) How do we achieve tight linkage between the communities for further ecosystem science?