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In order to get this extra information, 159 questionnaires were 
sent to these professionals. From this, 64 professionals have 
returned them. This representative sampling of 40% allowed 
knowing more detailed information about their academic and 
professional life, as follows. 
The number of former students who answered the questionnaire 
can be seen per year of course conclusion, in table 6: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
Titles | Number | Prior to the | After the 
International International 
Course on Remote | Course on 
Sensing Remote Sensing 
Master 19 8 LI 
Doctor 4 | 3 
Total 23 9 14 
Table 3. Former students with Master and Doctor Degree. 
Students in post | Brazil | Peru | Mexico | Cuba 
graduation program 
Master 4 ] - - 
Doctor 4 - 1 1 
Total 8 1 1 1 11 
  
  
Table 4. Former students in Post Graduation Programmes 
(Master and Doctorate) 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
Edition/Year Number of Students 
First (1985-1986); Seventh (1993) 7 
Second (1987-1988) 8 
Third (1989); Ninth (1995); Twelfth 11 
(1998) 
Fourth (1990); Fourteenth (2000) 6 
Fifth (1991) 9 
Sixth (1992); Tenth (1996); Fifteenth 10 
(2002) 
Eighth (1994) 13 
Eleventh (1997) 12 
Thirteenth (1999); Sixteenth (2003) 14 
Total of former students (1985- 159 
2003) 
  
  
  
  
Table 5. Number of former students per course edition. 
Up to now 101 men and 58 women have attended to the 
International Course. 
Primary considerations of these results can be done, as follows: 
e — Geography (43) and Geology (21) are the main areas of the 
students who took part in the course besides Engineering 
(55) which has a variety of sub areas; 
e Brazil (49), Peru (17), Argentina (13), Colombia (10) and 
Cuba (10) are the countries of 62% of the former students; 
e The course population for the period is composed of 63,576 
of men and 36,5% of women; 
oe Twenty-three professionals have already gotten their 
diploma in Post Graduation Programmes, 19 are Masters 
and 4 are Doctors. From this total 14 have gotten their 
Master and Doctor diplomas after participating in the 
International Course; 
e Currently, there are 11 professionals from Brazil, Peru, 
Mexico and Cuba studying in Post Graduation courses; 
e The performance of these students in each course edition 
has been very good around the average of 9.0. 
After analyzing these primary results, it was discussed the need 
and the importance of searching more complete information 
about the academic and professional career of these former 
students. 
The main objective of this task is to assess the current 
procedures, which have been taken to improve the course 
quality or even to establish new guidelines and goals to be 
reached. A secondary objective is to follow their career and to 
keep their data updated in order to inform them about news and 
events in the Remote Sensing and GIS area. 
  
  
  
Year Number 
1985-1986; 1994 3 
1989 6 
1990; 1995 | 
1991, 1992, 1996, 2000 2 
1993; 1999 5 
1997, 1998 7 
2002 8 
2003 10 
Total 64 
  
  
  
Table 6. Number of professionals/year of course conclusion. 
This table shows that at least one former student in each course 
edition has answered the questionnaire. Therefore, there was not 
a representative in the second edition of the course, 1987-1988, 
designed for African students. 
It is important to state that in 2001 the International Course on 
Remote Sensing and GIS was not held due to the modernization 
and improvement of its Computer Science Laboratory. 
These former students came from Argentina (7), Bolivia (2), 
Brazil (22), Chile (1), Colombia (7), Cuba (5), Dominican 
Republic (1), Ecuador (2), Mexico (5), Peru (7), Uruguay (2) 
and Venezuela (3). Among them, 44 are men and 20 are 
women, and they are in the following age group: 26 to 30 (12), 
31 to 40 (28), 41 to 50 (19), 51 to 60 (2) and 60 to 69 (3). 
They are graduated on the following areas: Administration (1), 
Agricultural (1), Agrology (1), Architecture (1), Biology (4), 
Computer Sciences (5), Engineering (Aerial photo geodesy. 
Agricultural, Cadastral, Cartographic, Civil, Environmental, 
Forest, Geodesy, Geological, Geophysics, Surveying, Zoo 
technician) (26), Geography (17), Geology (6), Military (1), and 
Oceanography (1). 
Regarding their academic progression, 23 have already gotten 
their Master Degree in the following areas: Environmental 
Management, Environmental Sciences, Forest and Ecology 
Sciences, Geological Sciences, Sustainable Development, 
Natural Resources, Technical Cadastre, Underground 
Exploration, Geosciences, Geodynamics, Geography, Tourist 
Administration, Irrigation and Drainage, Forest and 
Environmental Handling, Agricultural Production, Water 
Resources and Remote Sensing. 
They have studied in Post Graduation Programmes in Research 
Centres, Public and Private Universities from Brazil, Colombia, 
Ecuador, Mexico and United States. 
In addition, 6 former students have gotten their Doctor Degree 
in the following areas: Agricultural Sciences, Computer 
Sciences, Engineering, Geography and Remote Sensing Applied 
to Natural Resources, and they have studied in Post Graduation 
Programmes in Public and Private Universities from Argentina, 
Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.