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7. CONCLUSION 
Remote Sensing in Vietnam during the past decade 
has made remarkable progress. In brief,significant 
progress has been made towards the use of remote 
sensing in many natural resources fields in the 
country for economic planning development and for 
environmental management at national and local le- 
vels. 
The promotion of remote sensing to achieve optimum 
application in the country must be undertaken with 
an integrated approach that includes a review of 
existing resources, the development of greater 
awareness-particularly through education and trai- 
ning- and the provision of adequate data sources. 
Recognizing the above mentioned problems and in 
order to accelerate the number of users and reali- 
zed benefits of remote sensing in Vietnam, it is 
therefore recommended : 
(i) As a matter of critical and immediate impo- 
rtance, that an inventory of existing remote sen- 
sing resources be undertaken. 
(ii) That public awareness projects/programmes 
supported by Government for remote sensing applica 
—-tions, research and training must be countinued 
in the comming years. 
(iii) That remote sensing applications, image 
processing, and Geographic Information System ( 
GIS) be included in university and high school cur 
-ricula. 
(iv) That agreements between Vietnam and remote 
sensing provider countries, especially Thailand, 
be put in place to assure data availability. 
(v) That international cooperation covering in- 
formation and experience exchange, joint research 
projects, regional, international seminars/work- 
shops/conferences as well as support from United 
Nations and Industrial countries should be further 
developed. 
In the comming years remote sensing is expected to 
play an important role in all major decision rela- 
ted to national planning, development and use of 
natural resources in Vietnam. 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
The author is thankful to remote sensing and user 
organizations in the country for providing neces- 
sary inputs for the preperation of the report. The 
available assistance by National Committee for 
Space Research and Application, Prof. Nguyen 
Thuong Hung, Mr. Nguyen Ba Nhuan is thankful ack- 
nowledged. Special thank to Dr.R.A.Ryerson from 
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing for English edi- 
torial advice and assistance. 
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