Integrated Environmental Monitoring is lead by Dr. WATANABE, National Institute on Environmental Studies (NIES), and Prof. Liu, Chinese Academy of Science.

IEM has established a network of receiving stations of MODIS satellite data, in Beijing, Urumuchi in China, Singapore and Australia, and also set up ground-based observation sites to validate the satellite data.

The aim of IEM is to detect and monitor environmental disasters and degradation of natural resources such as floods, droughts, dust storms, forest fires, air and water pollution, and desertification.

IEM also assesses ecosystem services such as water, heat, and carbon cycling, biodiversity and food production in the Asia-Pacific region