International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXII, Part 6. Bandung-lndonesia 1999 
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EXPERIENCES ON THE EXECUTION OF REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM 
TRAINING COURSE IN THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE INSTITUTE (LAPAN) 
Mahdi Kartasasmita, Mohammad Natsir, Wiweka 
ABSTRACT 
Remote sensing is one of mapping methods and the geographical information system is an instrument that can generate 
information from some spatial and non-spatial data. 
The office of the deputy chairman of LAPAN on remote sensing affair activities are research and public services. The 
public services can be realized as education and training. 
The results are the spreading of information about LAPAN ability in remote sensing data acquisition include its 
processing. 
INTRODUCTION 
The National Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) count for one of 
the Government non-departemental institute that provide 
functional and responsibility to the president of Inonesia. 
According to LAPAN's organizational structure the chairman of 
LAPAN has 4 deputies; Deputy chairman on Administration, 
deputy chairman on space technology affair, deputy chairman 
on space media and deputy chairman on remote sensing affair. 
In the structure under the deputy of remote sensing affair there 
are center of Remote Sensing Technological and the Remote 
Sensing Application center and installation. 
The activities of remote sensing deputy chairman office have 
some special form and characteristics; that are research and 
operational. The range of the research spreads from the land to 
the sea and the environment, from acquisition, to image 
processing research (ground segment). Beside the research 
activities there are also some activities on remote sensing 
operational; from data reception to added value information 
production. And the last but not least some activities on the 
commercial users service. 
Some forms of users servicing activities among others are the 
value added data, and some bilateral cooperation in special 
training course on remote sensing. Some institutions had taken 
the benefit of the program are The Assessment and 
Development of Industry and Technology (BPPIT) of 
Department of Defense, The Assessment and Development of 
Technology Agency (BPPT), The Central Bureau of Statistics 
(BPS), Public Work Department, Local Government of North 
Sumatra, Local Government of East Nusatenggara and so forth. 
Usually, the research and training course contract are base on 
the cooperation experiences have been done for years. 
Training course on remote sensing and geographical 
information system has been performed through some steps 
among others; preparations, execution and evaluation. The three 
steps contain experiences of LAPAN in the recent years on 
organizing some training course in which some institutions 
were involved discussed in this paper. 
TRAINING COUSE PREPARATION 
The first principle components that must be arrange before the 
execution of training course are trainers, training course 
materials and infrastructural thing. The criterion in trainer 
selecting depend on their daily jobs and competency of every 
person/researcher, depend on the educational data of engineers 
from bachelors to doctoral degree. 
From some training courses periods we can see some course 
materials given in the course that are : 
1. The National Aeronautics And Space Conceptions. 
2. Remote Sensing Organizations And Their Activities. 
3. The developments of remote sensing and technology and 
its application. 
4. The advantages and constrains of remote sensing 
technology, the data acquisition vehicles and sensors 
characteristics, future remote sensing satellites and data 
formats. 
5. Systematic corrections 
6. Geometric corrections of image 
7. Enhancement and data ingest 
8. Classifications 
9. Introduction on Radar technology 
10. The application of remote sensing data for land, especially 
for agriculture 
11. Evaluation of Agricultural land use consistency 
12. The application of remote sensing data for marine, 
especially for fish ponds 
13. The application of remote sensing data for environment 
14. Introduction to Geographical Information System concept 
15. Implementation of Geographical Information System 
16. Theoretical and practical interpretation of satellite image 
17. The introduction to Image Processing packet 
18. Image Analysis practice 
19. Case Study 
20. Surveying Study 
21. Position measurements practice 
22. Field surveying 
23. Yield revision, report writing and group seminar 
preparation 
24. Report revision and global seminar preparation 
Infrastructure for training course completion, number ot 
hardware and software requirements, base on the number of 
training course participant. The hardware, use in the training 
course are PCs, digitizer and scanner. Software used in the 
training course are ER-Mapper, Arc View, Arc-Info. All 
hardware are owned by LAPAN itself and coordinated by 
Image Analysis Unit. For position field surveying according 
with area location, we use GPS-Navigation Magellan and 
Garmin. The Landsat-TM digital image requirement, provide by 
data processing technology operational team.