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:: EDUCATION, TRAINING AND RESEARCH AT ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Shunji Murai, Lal Samarakoon and Kiyoshi Honda

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International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXII, Part 6. Bandung-lndonesia 1999 EDUCATION, TRAINING AND RESEARCH AT ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Shunji Murai, Lai Samarakoon and Kiyoshi Honda Space Technology Applications and Research (STAR)Program School of Environment, Resources and Development Asian Institute of Technology P.O. Box 4 Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand E-mail: murai@ait.ac.th ABSTRACT STAR Program, AIT has reformed and restructured the goals as well as curricula to meet requirements and demands in computer, space and multi-media age. STAR Program has been reorganized with three components of education, training and research that feed back each other in not only academic development but also financial infrastructure. This paper will introduce the organization and several successful results due to the restructuring. INTRODUCTION Since Earth Summit that was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 with the new concept of sustainable development, and Beijing Declaration was announced at Ministerial Conference of UN/ESCAP on Space Technologies for Environmentally Sound and Sustainable Development held in Beijing, China in September 1994, space technology including remote sensing, GIS, GPS, space telecommunication etc. has become a key word of tool for environment and natural resources management in Asia and Pacific. In this regard, a new name of STAR Program replaced the former name of Natural Resources Program at AIT in 1995 with a focus on. space technology rather than application-oriented program. Taking into account the maximum use of benefit as graduate school of AIT, three components of education, training and research have been interactively organized for mutual benefit (see Figure 1). Education for master and doctoral courses at STAR Program is consisted of two fields of study; Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (RS&GIS) and Computer Mapping Technology. STAR Program is fully equiped with PCs and UNIX stations as well as software for high quality computer laboratory sessions. The curricula have been also restructured with a target on computer-assisted teaching. Not only techniques to use the existing software but also capability of software development are now being strengthened in the courses. Short-term training courses with a specific theme will be a big contribution to scientists and engineers in Asia and Pacific who had not chance to study modern and advanced technology in geoinformatics. STAR Program established GIS Application Center (GAC) with financial support of UNEP EAP-AP in 1995.Since then GAC has conducted not only fundamental courses on remote sensing and/or GIS, but also advanced courses with a specific theme such as watershed management, flood mitigation, land use planning etc. with UNIX workstations. Recognizing that research is very poor and technical support to researchers is a key issue in developing countries, STAR Program has jointly established Asian Center for Research on Remote Sensing (ACRoRS) in 1997 with Asian Association on Remote Sensing (AARS) (see Figure 2). ACRoRS will be able to provide researchers with NOAA AVHRR and Japanese Satellite Data such as JERS-1 OPS/SAR at inexpensive rate. 1. Strategic Goals of STAR Program After almost five year argument about the goals in consideration of requirements, demands and geographic location of AIT, STAR Program reached these resolutions as follows. (1) STAR Program should focus on technology oriented courses rather than application oriented ones. There are two reasons behind this goal. One is that a limited number of faculty cannot cover all application fields such as tropical forest, landuse planning, land degradation, tropical coastal zones, disaster management, watershed management etc. The second reason is that high quality graduate students can survive in any application field, if they have a strong technical background. (2) However STAR program should develop applicability of the technology in the Master and Doctor thesis. Because STAR program is a graduate school with only Master and Doctor courses, the students have already engineering or scientific background in a specific field. Therefore, it is not very difficult for these students to apply the high level technology to their speciality. (3) STAR Program should encourage more research and publications of journal papers. This is a philosophy behind this

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