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In the practical skill, a hand-on tutorial was prepared to
introduce how to use imagery dataset.. See Table 2 for details
of whole program.
A complemetary material was facilitated to the pupils including
cartography, books and two CD-Roms with spreadsheets,
electronic tutorials, demos of software, sample images,...
(Perez, C,. 2003, Muñoz, C., 2003). See Figure |.
Introduction to PCI Geomatica
Importing and Exporting Data
Basis Analysis of the Image
Using Histograms
How to buy and download Remote Sensing imagery
Convolutions and Filters
Classification Techniques and Applications
Techniques and Aplications of Geolocation
Advaced Analysis of Image
Introduction to fusion of sensors
Principal Components Analysis
Table 2. Planning for practical curriculo.
2.2 Summer Courses in Remote Sensing
This first workshop was a huge success and new people started
to be interested in it. People from our university and other
spaniard universities were demanding this kind of courses. They
wished a way to learn remote sensing in theorical and practical
stuffs. This kind of workshops was not very extended in Spain
indeed.
Some months later, we decided to open our workshop to people
from all of the universities and also to proffesional staff
working in remote sensing areas who wanted to update their
knowledge.
This new course was celebrated in the summer period to help
people coming from other provinces. The workshop was full-
time for a week. The planning was similar to the previous
edition with the same lectures. A heterogeneous collection of
students applied the workshop: biologists, mathematicans,
physics, engineerers, agronomers,...
These kind of courses called complementary and summer
courses have been done for seven times. The test of quality
showed a high satisfaction between the asistance.
Edition Date Location
1 February 2001 | CC Ávila
om July 2001 SC | Salamanca
3" November 2001 | CC | Avila
4^ February 2002 |CC| Ávila
5^ July 2002 SC | Salamanca
e^ July 2003 SC | Salamanca
Fi July 2004 SC | Salamanca
8" (approved) | September 2004 | SC Ávila
Table 3. Complementary Courses (CC) and Summer Courses
(SC) incide University of Salamanca.
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3. COURSES IN PEROU
3.1 Genesis of the network
In 2002 the Agencia Espafiola de Cooperación Internacional
(AECI) an institution depending of Foreign Affair Ministry,
financed the collaboration project between Universidad de
Salamanca (Spain) and Universidad Nacional Mayor de San
Marcos (Perou).
This project lets to teach a new workshop in the Faculty of
Physics of Lima (Perou). The name of this new course was
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. People from Laboratory
of Remote Sensing of this faculty, teachers and other interested
people could apply this course with a great succesfully.
The target of this course was teachers and reseachers in
different areas. The aim was to divulgate remote sensing and
photogrammetry, to do people can use this tool in their
particular discipline and for docents can spread the knowledge
towards universitary students.
This peruvian course was a first glance to know what the
situation of South America countries is in relation to Remote
Sensing. They have a huge necesity to use remote sensing and
they know this discipline is a good tool for them. But their
academical status is economically low and they can not afford
the learning of their personal. Prices of licenses for software,
fares for imagery, specific good books or proffesional training
courses are impossible for a high number of university,
institutions and citizens in general.
With this genesis, it was borned the idea to create an
international academical network where people from Spain
could go South America to show the state of the art in Remote
Sensing and Photogrammetry; and specialist from South
America could visit Spain to learn and show their improvement
to students and reseachers in Spain.
Since this moment, this project the collaboration between Spain
and Perou has been in different aspects of research and
teaching. Several papers have been summited in spanish and
south american conventions of remote sensing (Rojas, J., 2003,
Perez, €. 2003).
3.2 First interchange 'go and return’
A new project was been done in 2003-04 period.
Two workshops were celebrated in Perou with spanish teachers.
In july and august 2003, the basic course of remote sensing was
repeated, and an advanced course called Analysis of Imagery in
Geotechnologie was created. Personnel from several geografical
national institutes were students in both courses.
Moreover, a collaboration into a investigation to make
cartography of vegetation indexes in Perou was finished and the
experience has been publicated in several reviews (Rojas, J.,
2003, Perez, C. 2003, Muiioz, A.L., 2003).
This second year in Perou was a chance to contact with
researchers in other countries. From Bolivia and Argentina
there were people wishing to enter in this inter-atlantic
cooperation. So it is a challenge to more people going into the
