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Table 1 List of ACRS's
City,Country Date
1st Bangkok, Thailand 1980
2nd Beijing,China 1981
3rd Dhaka,Bangladesh 1982
4th Colombo,Sri Lanka 1983
5th Kathmandu,Nepal 1984
6th Hyderbad, India 1985
7th Seoul,Korea 1986
8th Jakarta, Indonesia 1987
9th Bangkok, Thailand 1988
10th Kualalumpur,Malaysia 1989
11th Guangzhou, China 1990
12th Singapore 1991
13th Ulanbaatar,Mongolia 1992
Table 1 shows the Asian Conferences on Remote
Sensing organized by AARS with respect to date,
venue, number of participants and presented papers.
The influences of ACRS are as follows.
(1) ACRS offers a good chance for Asian scientists
to communicate frankly through ACRS and its
cultural program, which encourages personal
contact and regional cooperation.
(2) ACRS offers an opportunity for Asian scientists
to present technical papers, which stimulates them
to improve the quality of research and
presentation technique and to exchange technical
information.
(3) ACRS offers a field for Asian scientists to think
of Asian unique problems including deforestation,
desertification, disaster monitoring, sustainable
development, human impacts etc.
(4) ACRS offers a place for Asian scientists to
cowork for common interest, for example
publication of the book on " Applications of
Remote Sensing in Asia and Oceania " that has
been published in October, 1991.
As it is impossible for the author to review all
symposia which were held in Asia, the author will
make comments only to those major symposia in
which the author participated in these four years.
Countries
Participants
Papers
.11/5-7 12 159 42
.10/29-11/4 16 167 95
.12/4—7 17 169 60
.11/10-15 20 187 83
.11/15-18 15 171 49
.11/21-26 12 342 109
.10/23-28 17 136 62
.11/23-29 21 226 125
.11/23-29 30 478 113
.11/23-29 30 441 87
.11/15-21 22 513 162
.10/30-11/5 28 225 94
.10/7-11
14th Tehran, Iran 1993.
(1) The 16th ISPRS Congress, Kyoto, Japan,
July 1988
The Congress has been held in Asia for the first
time with a big impact on Asian scientists to have
communicated with the most advanced researchers
and academicians as well as to have had opportunities
of highly advanced exhibits. The author as the
Congress Director is still now proud of the success
of the Congress. In conjunction with ISPRS,
Mongolia, Nepal and Vietnam joined ISPRS
membership through AARS activities. It would be a
good example of contribution of the regional
member's activity to ISPRS.
(2) IAF Congress, Bangalore, India, October
1988
The author was invited as one of four key note
lecturers at the opening session as well as the
Chairman of the session on the International Remote
Sensing Coordination Activities representing ISPRS
too. It was nice to have met key scientists in remote
sensing and/or global change monitoring who used to
be not much involved in ISPRS activity for example,
Prof. U.R.Rao, Director of ISRO, India, Dr. I.
Rasool, NASA, USA and Dr. F.B.Henderson III,
Geosat Committee, USA.
Frankly speaking the sessions and the papers on
remote sensing presented at IAF Congress are not
very much active nor interesting. However personal
channels should be kept for future cooperation with
ISPRS.
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