Sharing and cooperation in geo-information technology

Aziz, T. Lukman

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Persistent identifier:: 856479470

Author:: Aziz, T. Lukman

Title:: Sharing and cooperation in geo-information technology

Sub title:: ISPRS Commission VI Symposium, April 15 - 17, 1999, Bandung, Indonesia

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (130 Seiten)

Year of publication:: 1999

Place of publication:: London

Publisher of the original:: RICS Books

Identifier (digital):: 856479470

Illustration:: Illustrationen, Diagramme

Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: WG VI/1: EDUCATION

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Title:: Elaboration of Educational Material for the Teaching of Remote Sensing in Developing Countries-EDUCA SeRe PROGRAM. Tania Maria Sausen

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1 International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXII, Part 6. Bandung-lndonesia 1999 Elaboration of Educational Material for the Teaching of Remote Sensing in Developing Countries-EDUCA SeRe PROGRAM Tania Maria Sausen Ministry of the Science and Technology National Institute of Space Research - INPE Division of Remote Sensing - DSR A.v. dos Astronautas 1758 Cx P.515 ZIP CODE 12201-970 Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil Fax Number: (55) (12) 345 6870 E. mail : tania @ ltid.inpe.br INTRODUCTION From the launching of the first remote sensing satellite, in 1972, the developing countries have been making use of data for the study of natural resources. These same countries, as well as the space agencies and the own UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs has worried with the dissemination and transfer of this technology for end users. This is done through systematic training programs offered by these institutions, in these countries. In Spite of all the developed activities, this technology is still not used thoroughly in general by the public and very few teachers make use of the satellite images as didactic resource. These , when they are used, are practically limited to university teachers, that are in some way involved with research in remote sensing. This happens mainly due to lack of training of the university teachers in the area of remote sensing, to the high cost of the satellite images and lack of educational material dedicated exclusively to the teaching of remote sensing. It is also observed is necessary to extend the process of dissemination of technology of remote sensing for primary and secondary students, because it belongs to this community of students that the citizen of the future will appear, that he should understand the relationship between the environment and society, to protect and to preserve the earth. It is also in this phase that these students are choosing their future profession, being, the proper moment to motivate them to work with remote sensing. During the First Workshop on Education in Remote Sensing Mercosul Wide, accomplished in the Camboriu Balneary, State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, from May 20 to 23, 1997, one of the discussed themes was the lack of educational material specifically turned to the teaching of remote sensing , at all levels. This is a problem that doesn’t only happen in the MERCOSUL countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay ) but in general, in all the developing countries, in all continents. During this Education Journey, the Document of Camboriu was generated, that reflects the common position of these countries with relationship to the teaching of remote sensing for the year 2000. In this document several aspects are mentioned about the difficulty of generation of educational material and that certainly they affect the great majority of developing countries development, such as : the information coming from remote sensing data can be used at the different formal teaching levels (primary, secondary, tertiary and graduate degrees); this type information can also be used in informal educational programs, such as extra curricular education, as a tutorial and at long distance education; can be considered as educational material in remote sensing the textbook; pedagogic notebooks for teachers and students; geographical atlas composed by satellite images; letter image; CD ROM with satellite images; videos and slide with satellite images; available tutorials in Internet; bibliography in general in the area of remote sensing; photos and mosaics of different scales and years of coverage; publicity educational material produced by space agencies; images generated in publicity material; showcase of satellite images in paper or digital; specific software for teaching remote sensing and geographical information systems, etc; with regard to the readiness of educational material in remote sensing , it was observed that: there is lack of educational material with emphasis in examples or studies accomplished in the countries of the area; there is little educational material generated by authors and in languages of the area and the same ones are already unupdated, that is mainly observed in the Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries. There is a great variety of educational materials in the English and French languages, although most of is not generated by authors of developing countries; the little existing material is dispersed, specifically in libraries of universities, research institutions and such information many times in inaccessible or is not part of the modernization programs. Such fact makes the learning of remote sensing be limited to the most specializes professionals and is not part of the context of teaching in general; the existing educational material in general constitutes in isolated efforts and in the teachers personal annotations that minister the remote sensing courses and disciplines; total lack of publishers interest for publication of technical books on remote sensing due to the high production cost in face of the reduced demand and need of presenting a great number of

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