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The department consists of appropriate laboratories equipped 
for teaching and research as well. The image-processing 
laboratory consists of the following sections: analog and digital 
photogrammetry. The analog section is equipped with analog 
stereoscopic plotting instrument (Wild B-8, A-8). The digital 
section has DMS softcopy photogrammetry and SOCOPH. 
Socoph is a digital softcopy photogrammetry software 
developed by our staff (Suparman, 1998). This software is 
based on a PC platform. A number of PC has been used for 
laboratory works of the student. 
The Internet Prospect 
The satellite technology used for earth observation has been 
developed substantially during last three decades. However, the 
data processing of those satellites has been seldom undertaken 
at remote server systems due to the lack of high performance’s 
data communication. If this available, the real time data 
processing will then becomes a reality. For Indonesia this mean 
that remote sensing subject within the ITB curriculum will play 
an important role to produce product such as disaster (e.g. fire, 
typhoon, flood caused by torrential rain, etc). With this 
possibility the dissemination of fire detection 
product provided for example, by NOAA to local fire fighting 
forces, NGO’s and broadcast media/press and research 
organization is not a real problem anymore. Related products 
using GIS technology such as fire’s early warning system can 
also be produced. 
The requirement to establish high performance network services 
for R&D was recognized at the APEC Symposium for Realizing 
the Information Society Field of R&D Activities in March 1996 
as well as the APEC Test-bed Forum in June 1996. In result, 
some volunteers agreed to work towards setting up Asia-Pacific 
Advanced Network (APAN). In this regard, ITB was decided as 
an APAN node. As an APAN node, ITB is responsible for 
disseminating product for quick domestic distribution. In case 
of disaster product the local disaster information reported by the 
end users to the APAN nodes can be published through the 
www. This may consider the prospect of Internet as an integral 
part of the whole learning process. 
The APAN Network Topology is shown in Figure I. 
4, CONCLUSION 
Since its beginning the surveying education program in ITB has 
been developed gradually. The ultimate goal of achieving a 
Bachelor of Engineering in Spatial Information is targeted for 
vision 2007 in ITB’s effort to be a Center of Excellence in 
spatial information education and training. The spatial 
information scientist will become an important component of 
the total spatial profession in the next decade. 
Figure 1. The APAN Network Topology. 
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