REPORT
Asian Summer School in Bangkok 2016
Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development

15 – 26 August 2016

Sponsors Support:

Chubu University

Asian Institute of Technology

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Summary
PurposeProgram Admission
Participants
Lecture Program
Field Trip Program
Comments on Lectures
Comments on Field Trip
Program Evaluation
Conclusion and Recommendation
Appendix 1: Program Photo gallery
Appendix 2: Questionnaire

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1. Summary
Chubu Institute of Advanced Studies, Chubu University, and Remote Sensing and GIS(RS&GIS) Field of Study, jointly organized the “Asian Summer School in Bangkok 2016”
program from August 15th to 26th, 2016 at Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani,
Thailand. The theme of the program was “Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development”.
A total of 16 participants, 10 nationalities, came from 11 universities and organizations locatedin 9 different countries participated in this program. The average age of participant in thesummer school are 22 years old. From Japan, six participants from Chubu University joined.
Among participants from Japan, there are five undergraduate and one graduate students(Bioscience and Biotechnology, English language and Culture, Management, Computer
Science and International Studies). For non-Chubu students, there are six graduated students:
Two Vietnamese, one doctoral student from Feng Chia University (GIS research Centre,
Taiwan) and another researcher from Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Resources Geography (GIS
and remote sensing research center), one Indian master student from Maharshi Dayanand
University (Geoinformatics), one Nepalese master student from Sirindhorn International
Institute of Technology (School of Information, Communication and Computer Technologies),
one Sri Lankan graduate student from Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka (Department ofRemote Sensing and GIS), one Pakistani master student from COMSATS Institute ofInformation Technology (Department of meteorology). There are four undergraduate students:
one Filipino student from Bicol University College of Engineering (Department of Geodetic
Engineering), one Cambodia student from Institute of Technology of Cambodia (Department of
Geo-resource and Geotechnical Engineering) and two Thai students which are students from
Srinakharinwirot University (Geography) and another one from Khon Kaen University(Geoinformatics). The summary of participant are present in Table.1
Several lectures and field trips were conducted during the 12 days of this program. 14 lecturers
are from different Fields of Study in AIT (Remote Sensing & GIS, Computer Science andInformation Management, Transportation Engineering, Environmental Engineering andManagement, Natural Resources Management, Urban Environment Management and Water
Engineering and Management). Moreover, six visits and field trips were conducted to connect
what participants learned from lectures with the real world. Participants visited PASCO(Thailand) (Air Survey Company, Japan), National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC),
Sirindhorn International Environmental Park, Thai-Danish Dairy Farm, Geo-Informatics andSpace Technology Development Agency (GISTDA), Energy Conservation Building, andAyutthaya Historical Park. Furthermore, it is also to stimulate motivation of undergraduate
students to endeavor their own research.
English is used as the main communication in lectures and daily life during the program. It
made a deep impression of importance of globalization to the participants. However, in order toprepare participants to be ready for lectures conducted in English and well communication
during the program, English Communication course organized by AIT language center wasprovided for participants who were welcome to join as pre-program. During the program, we
also requested participants to share their background of study and working, interest andexpertise that crossed cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Aside from study, the participants
made new friends from different countries as the international society and built up good
relationship and connection for support each other in the future. At the end of the program, we
received good responses and many positive comments referring to a wonderful time theyobtained during the program. This supports the fact that Summer School in Bangkok 2016
Program ended in large success.
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Since 2009, Chubu University and AIT build a cooperative relationship, especially in the fieldof Geoinformatics and sustainable development. In September, 2011, Chubu University and
AIT agreed on the Memorandum of Understanding about the academic cooperation. This Asian
Summer School program falls within the scope of the Memorandum of Understanding between
Asian Institute of Technology and Chubu University dated September 16, 2011. This programis also planned by Chubu University as a milestone towards Asia Campus project of MEXT,
Japan, for which Chubu University and AIT jointly applying.
In addition, we would like to thank each department and personnel of Chubu University,
Division of Academic Affairs and RS&GIS FoS, also AIT for the tremendous supports such as
preparing a handbook, a detailed schedule of lecture and field trip, and any other logistics
support. Also special thanks to Visionary Value Japan Inc., Japan, Adin Research Inc., Japan,
Earth System Science Co., Ltd., Japan for their financial support to establish this program. We
would like to thank to each organization and individual who participated and some of whomshoulder their own expenses.

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Table. 1 Summary of participants
No.

Name

Sex

Age

Country

Grade

1

Taichi Fujii

M

24

Japan

M2

2

Fabio Kimura

M

21

Japan

UG3

3

Ryosei Narita

M

21

Japan

UG3

4

Yugo Naito

M

20

Japan

UG3

6

Hinako Imae

F

19

Japan

UG1

5

Haruka Iesaki

7Duong Thi Loi

9Suman Ghimire

8
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

F

20

Japan

UG3

F

28

Vietnam

Doctoral

M

23

Nepal

MasterParamjit Singh Bhambra

M

Pathira Arachchilage
Kalani Randima Lakshani

F

25

Sri Lanka

Graduated

Kanxa Javed

F

25

Pakistan

MasterChanpich Chea

M

22

Cambodia

UG4

Phattamon Heawchaiyaphum

F

Mary Ruth Bongon
Areeyaporn Sutthawong
Phan Quoc Tran Kha

F
F

M

25

India

Field of study

21

Philippines

21

Thailand21
24

Thailand
Vietnam

MasterGraduate School of Bioscience andBiotechnology
English Language and Culture/ College of
Humanities
English Language and Culture/ College of
Humanities
Management/College of Business
Administration and Information Science
Computer Science/College of Engineering
International Studies/College of International
Studies
GIS research centre, FCU, TAI CHUNG,TAIWAN
Geoinformatics
School of Information, Communication andComputer Technologies (ICT)
Department of Remote Sensing and GIS
Department of meteorology

UG5

Department of Geodetic Engineering
Department of Geo-resource and GeotechnicalEngineering
Geography

UG4
UG4

Researcher

3

Geographic Information System

GIS and remote sensing research center

University/Organization
Chubu University
Chubu University
Chubu University
Chubu University
Chubu University
Chubu University
Feng Chia University

Maharshi Dayanand University
Sirindhorn International Institute ofTechnology, Thammasat University

Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka

COMSATS Institute of Information
Technology
Bicol University College of Engineering
Institute of Technology of Cambodia
Srinakharinwirot University

Khon Kaen University
Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Resources
Geography

2. Purpose
The participants will learn issues what related to sustainable development in Asia, GIS, andhow does it contribute to issues. Then they will understand the present situation and problemsof Asian countries prosperously developing, and the value of GIS as a tool. Also they willrealize the rapid progress and problems accompanying the advance in Asia through field trip.
All lectures will delivered in English. The participants will experience absorbing knowledge inEnglish and understand its importance. This summer school will help participants haveinternational sense and awareness of the problem for the participants’ thesis.

3. Program Admission
For Summer School in Bangkok 2016, this is the first time that the application was announced
publicly starting from the beginning of 2016. This is different from the past that the programusually recruited the participants from the universities and organizations which have theconnection with AIT and Chubu University. According to the application by this channel, there
are totally 77 applicants from 16 countries who applied for Summer School in Bangkok 2016.
The age of applicants ranges from 20 to 48 year old and most of them are 20-30 year old (62participants or 80%).

The Percentage of Applicants by Country
from 77 Participants
Nepal (13)4%

3%

1%1%1%
1%1%

India

(12)

Pakistan

17%

Philippines
Sri Lankan

5%VietnamThailand

5%
16%

6%

Cambodia

(6)

8%

8%

(6)

(5)

(4)

(4)

Ethiopia(2)

Bangladesh(1)

Bhutan (1)
14%

(6)

Mongolia
Egypt

8%

(11)

(3)

Indonesia(1)

Tanzania

(1)

Mali

(1)

In order to select potential candidates, Prof. Honda and Dr. Sarawut, coordinator of the
program, made a decision based on certain criteria, background of study, experience, andpotential to explore research interest from the program.

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4. Participants
Universities and Organizations:

Bicol University
College ofEngineering

Chubu University

COMSATS Instituteof Information
Technology

GIS ResearchCenter, Feng Chia
University

Ho Chi Minh City
Institute ofResources
Geography

Institute ofTechnology ofCambodia

Khon Kaen
University

Maharshi Dayanand
University

Sabaragamuwa
University of
Sri Lanka

Sirindhorn
International
Institute ofTechnology

Srinakharinwirot
University

Countries:Japan

ThailandPhilippine

Vietnam

Cambodia

India

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

Nepal

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BrazilParticipants:

Fabio Kimura(Barzil)

Chubu University

Ryosei Narita(Japanese)

Taichi Fujii(Japanese)

3rd-year undergraduate student
English Language and Culture

3rd year undergraduate student
English Language and Culture

E-mail:fabirou2525@gmail.com

E-mail:katatsumuriazuki@gmail.com

E-mail:gr15018-0827@sti.chubu.ac.jp

Yugo Naito(Japanese)

Haruka Iesaki(Japanese)

Hinako Imae
(Japanese)

3rd-year undergraduate student
Management/College of Businessand Information ScienceE-mail:bh14071-7025@sti.chubu.ac.jp

Srinakharinwirot University

Areeyaporn Sutthawong(Thai)

Chubu University

3rd-year undergraduate student
Computer Science/College ofEngineering
E-mail:iesakiharu@yahoo.co.jp

Graduate student
School of Bioscience andBiotechnology

1st-year undergraduate student
International Studies/College ofInternational Studies

E-mail:na16015-6716@sti.chubu.ac.jp

Khon Kaen University

Maharshi Dayanand University

Phattamon Heawchaiyaphum

Paramjit Singh Bhambra(India)(Thai)

4th-year undergraduate student
Geography

E-mail:Uuuaim_sut@outlook.co.th

4th-year undergraduate student
Geographic Information System
E-mail: Phatt.nn@gmail.com

Master student
Geoinformatics
E-mail:param2gisrs@gmail.com

Institute of Technology of

Ho Chi Minh City InstituteFeng Chia University

6Cambodia

of Resources Geography

Chanpich Chea
(Cambodian)

Phan Quoc Tran Kha(Vietnam)4th-year undergraduate student
Department of Geo-resource andGeotechnical Engineering
E-mail:chanpich4477@gmail.com

Researcher
GIS and remote sensing
research center

Duong Thi Loi(Vietnam)

Doctoral student
GIS research Centre, FCU

Sirindhorn International
Institute of Technology

E-mail:phanquoctrankha@outlook.com

Bicol University College ofEngineering

E-mail: duongloi1710@gmail.com

Suman Ghimire(Nepal)Mary Ruth Bongon(Philippines)

Kanxa Javed(Pakistan)

Master student
Communication and Computer
Technologies (ICT)E-mail: ghimire.aiesecer@gmail.com

5th-year undergraduate student
Department of Geodetic
Engineering

E-mail: maryruth.bongon@bicol-u.edu.ph

COMSATS Institute ofInformation Technology

Master student
Department of meteorology
E-mail: kanxajaved@gmail.com

Sabaragamuwa Universityof Sri Lanka

Pathira Arachchilage Kalani Randima Lakshani(Sri Lanka)
Graduated student
Department of Remote Sensing and GIS
E-mail: kalanirandima3@gmail.com

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5. Lecture Program
Date

9-12
Aug
15 Aug

16 Aug
18 Aug

19 Aug

22 Aug

24 Aug

Topic

Lecturer

RS-GIS Summer English Communication Program

AIT Language Center

Ubiquitous Geoinformatics
Ubiquitous Computing and Location-Base Service(LBS) for the Spatial Problem Solving
Health GIS
Geoinformatics for Disaster and Sentinel Asia
Aerospace and Human Space Technology
Big Data for Society
Mobile video processing platform for agricultural
Public Transportation Problems and Green Solutions
in Bangkok
Satellite Monitoring for Air Quality Management

Prof. Kiyoshi Honda
Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat

Hand on : Geospatial Analysis using Free Open
Sources Software (FOSS)
Hand on : Crowdsourcing for Geospatial data
(OSM)
Natural Resources Management in Asia
Sustainable Mega-Cities and Urban Planning
Geospatial and Space Technologies in International
Development Projects
UAV Demonstration
Global Climate Change and Water Resources
Management
Current Status of Wastewater and Fecal sludge
Management in Thailand

Prof. Nitin Kumar Tripathi
Dr. Masahiko Nagai
Prof. Tai Nakamura
Dr. Apichon Witayangkurn
Dr. Matthew N. Dailey
Dr. Surachet
Pravinvongvuth
Prof. Oanh Nguyen Thi
Kim
Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat
Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat
Prof. Rajendra Shrestha
Dr. Sohee Minsun Kim
Dr. Hiroyuki Miyazaki
Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat
Dr. Sangam Shrestha
Dr. Thammarat Koottatep

6. Field Trip Program
Date

17 Aug
21 Aug
23 Aug
25 AugField Visiting

PASCO (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
National Disaster Warning Center (NWDC)
Thai-Danish Dairy Farm
Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA)
Ayutthaya Historical Park
Energy Conservation Building8

7. Comments on Lectures
All participants were requested to give the feedbacks on the lecturers by submitting ahomework every day. The main purpose of a homework is to obtain what the participants havelearned from the lecture and also, to get the comments and suggestions for further
improvement. The table below presents the result of participants’ submissions.

Name

Fabio Kimura
Ryosei Narita
Taichi Fujii
Yugo Naito
Haruka Iesaki
Hinako Imae
Areeyaporn Sutthawong

Phattamon Heawchaiyaphum

Paramjit Singh Bhambra
Chanpich Chea
Phan Quoc Tran Kha
Duong Thi Loi
Suman Ghimire
Mary Ruth Bongon
Kanxa Javed

Pathira Arachchilage Kalani
Randima Lakshani

15

16

17

18

O

O

O

O

O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O

O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O

O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O

O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O

August 2016
19

20

22

23

24

25

O

O

O

O

O

O

O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O

O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O

O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O

O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O

O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O

O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O

The meaning of the symbols
O = Submitted
X = Not submitted** = Cannot attend because of urgent task
In this section, each lecture will be briefly described and some of the comments fromparticipants related to that lecture will be presented.

9RS-GIS Summer English Communication Program

Conducted by: AIT Language Center, Date: 9-12 August 2016
The participants learned how to introduce
themselves. Also, they learned about the listening
process including the common problems inlistening and how to apply listening strategies intheir studies and lives. Moreover, the class also
introduced the participants to listening andpresentation skills related to topics conducted in
Summer School in Bangkok 2016 program such as
RS-GIS, Urbanization and Mapping Population,
Environmental GIS, Climate Change and Global Warming. The lectures used many methods inthe class such as teaching, group discussion, brainstorming, and preseason in order to help theparticipants communicate efficiently.
Fabio Kimura (3rd-year undergraduate student in English Language and Culture)“I joined English class because to improve my English skills before taking
the main course. I could learn strategies to listen to a course and the third andfourth day we practiced a lot to listen and write and say the answer We also
did an interview for people from all different countries which was fun andexciting.”
Ryosei Narita (3rd-year undergraduate student in English Language and Culture)“I joined English class because I didn't have a confidence of my English
ability”
Yugo Naito (3rd-year undergraduate student Management/College of Business
Administration and Information Science)“I joined this class because I want to improve my English skill. And I learned
how to listen in English and learned about green energy. It doesn't study inJapan for me because my major is economics, so it was really interesting.”
Hinako Imae (1st-year undergraduate student International Studies/College ofInternational Studies)“I can't speak English well. The class was very fun.”Taichi Fujii (Graduate student School of Bioscience and Biotechnology)“My English skill is not good. I want to study English. And I want to belistening comprehension.”

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Ubiquitous Geoinformatics

Conducted by: Prof. Prof. Kiyoshi Honda, Date: 15 August 2016
The participants learned about what Ubiquitous Geoinformatics is and how computers and sensors are utilizedwith Geo-informatics for each utility such as agriculture,disasters and environment, satellite overview, data
assimilation, integration and application of Remote
Sensing, field sensor, UAV and utilization, WEBGIS andgeospatial data.
Duong Thu Loi (Doctoral student GIS research Centre, FCU)

“I learned lots of useful knowledge about satellite remote sensing, field sensor
network, real time mapping, data assimilation, modelling and highperformance computing. Modelling and simulation are my research directionin the present as well as in the future.”
Suman Ghimire (Master student Communication and Computer Technologies (ICT))“I was highly impressed with his knowledge in the field of Geoinformatics. I
got to know about his research interests in UAV, sustainable forest hydrology
and modeling aspects. I also came to know about his projects at Annapurna
Conservation Area in Nepal where he established some weather stations incollaboration with NTNC and ICIMOD (an INGO working for Mountains
and People). Being a geoinformatics enthusiast interested in field of
Sustainable Forest and Environment, I will try my best to grab as muchknowledge in this field and I am pretty sure he would be a great person to be
guided with.”Paramjit Singh Bhambra (Master student Geoinformatics)“This lecture brush up my some basic concepts of GIS and Remote sensing
and how we can publish or provide GIS information with the help someubiquitous resources like Car Navigation, LBS, sensor etc. I also learned thevarious application of Agriculture, Radar, and U-V imaging.”
Kanza Javed (Master student Department of meteorology)“He gave us basics of geoinformatics in a very detailed or easiest way likewhich satellite have high or low resolutions and what is radio camera data
(SAR) and how we can use these application in different domain to make ourlife better as in agriculture (observation of field , or how much yield we canget ?) Or how real time mapping is helping us to design our life in a better
way.”

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Ubiquitous Computing and Location-Base Service (LBS) for the Spatial
Problem Solving
Conducted by: Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat, Date: 15 August 2016
From this course, the participants learned about the
integration of general IT and geospatial data, how
to interoperate Geoinformatics data to The Open
Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web service, web
GIS, software development efforts, online dataarchives and applications.

Chanpich Chea (4th-year undergraduate student Department of Geo-resource andGeotechnical Engineering)“I love his pronunciation I can listen all what he said. I've know that many
application need GIS. When I chick in in Facebook, I never know that I am
using the LBS. I can be clear about:1) Internet+GIS= WebGIS 2) Internet+mobile= mobile internet
3) Mobile devices+GIS=Mobile GIS then Internet+mobile device+GIS= LBS
I can analysis photo as AR or VR after this class.”
Taici Fujii (Graduate student School of Bioscience and Biotechnology)“I learned the applications that utilize location information data and I learned
about future techniques using it. I thinks AR technology is very interesting.
Now, I am investigating the cause of the animals are attracted to the road,
combining the data of road company and AR. The combined data will reduce
the accident.”
Phan Quoc Tran Kha (Researcher GIS and remote sensing research center)“With this course, I knew the LBS – location base service as an intersectionof three technologies: GIS/spatial database, internet, mobile devices. I also
knew what is augmented reality and virtual reality. That is an interestingknowledge for me. With VR technology, people can see the real life withmore and more information.”
Phattamon Heawchaiyaphum (4th-year undergraduate student Geographic
Information System)“I have learned about technology of GIS in current such as sites, mobile
phones. And I have learned about augmented reality, virtual reality. For apply
in the future. I will applied with my project because my project make about
application of GIS.”

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Health GIS

Conducted by: Prof. Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Date: 15 August 2016
The participants learned about Geomedicine byusing GIS as the tools for decision making andplanning. How to apply geography to link thehuman health and social well-being for
managing environmental inventories andexposure the phenomena. Additionally, theapplication of GIS for health in many casestudies such as the exploring climatic factors
contributing to malaria
prevalence inKanchanaburi, Thailand, the impact of climatic
variability on diarrhea incidences in Chiang Mai,
Thailand and the monitoring of distribution of

diseases.

Mary Ruth A. Bongon (5th-year undergraduate student Department of Geodetic
Engineering)“We can prevent illness and diseases, by analyzing the trends, and using spatial
data to understand more the nature and causes of these illnesses. It may ofseveral factors, but let's look at the bigger picture. Sometimes, this disease is
only for a certain place. So we would think, why is this not happening in theother place and not in the other.”
Areeyaporn Sutthawong (4th-year undergraduate student Geography)“I have learned about GIS can estimate and verify disease. I will apply todevelop health nutrition such as use advantage of topographic feature to create
suitable nutrition for people in theirs landscape.”
Kanza Javed (Master student Department of meteorology)“This is the most domain in which GIS is helping us .by GIS can make buffer
which area got more effect by a particular disease or which can be get effected.
Or measuring the affective which calculation we should prefer.”
Duong Thi Loi (Doctoral student GIS research Centre, FCU)
“I learned really helpful knowledge about the application of GIS for health.
From that, learners can realize the importance of GIS with health. I will spend
time for studying more about this topic to apply for the case study in Vietnam.
Because Vietnam has many problems the same Thailand.)”
Hinako Imae (1st-year undergraduate student International Studies/College of International
Studies)“I learned GIS is useful to solve the health problems like malaria.)”13

Geoinformatics for Disaster and Sentinel Asia

Conducted by: Dr. Masahiko Nagai, Date: 16 August 2016
The participants learned about RS and collaborationof JAXA, ALOS data applications, utilization ofearth observation satellite (EOS) data, concept of
Sentinel Asia and international agreement amongspace agencies.

Fabio Kimura (3rd-year undergraduate student English Language and Culture)“It was interesting to know that it was used in the big earthquake in Japan
Using geoinformatics, they could see how long the wave could reach andalso what building survived or not.”Suman Ghimire (Master student Communication and Computer Technologies)“I learned different approaches and technologies used for monitoring andminimizing the disaster. This session was really valuable as in present
context there are a lot of disasters taking place around the globe and thiscourse was essential for knowing the root causes and adaptation
methodologies. In future I want to apply lessons learned from this session to
help aware people and apply adaptation approaches in my country.”
Phattamon Heawchaiyaphum (4th-year undergraduate student Geographic
Information System)“I learned about disaster that has apply with GIS and satellite calamitous. In
future I will application this knowledge with my field.”
Haruka Iesaki (3rd-year undergraduate student Computer Science/College ofEngineering)“Asia is the most damaged all over the work. I'll use to my study that how to
get user's information by using satellites.”Paramjit Singh Bhambra (Master student Geoinformatics)“I cleared all my concepts about tsunami in this lecture, he also shared someof his personal experience with us that at the time of disaster what he did so
it was very nice and he also showed us the technique which we are using
these days for identifying tsunami, earthquake etc. Disaster management is
my area of interest so it will help me to write any article or this knowledge
help me at the time of my dissertation.”
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Aerospace and Human Space Technology

Conducted by: Prof. Tai Nakamura, Date: 16 August 2016
The participants learned about Space engineering
which addresses outer space observations,
utilizing
resourcesinspace,
building
infrastructures in space and developing newtechnologies.

Kanza Javed (Master student Department of meteorology)“This is very keen and complicated but as an emerging field so we should
focused this. Prof Tai explain that technological parts so good and whichcharacteristics or elements do we have to in mind while talking spaceenvironment.”
Taichi Fujii (Graduate student School of Bioscience and Biotechnology)“I learned living environment in space. Biological experiments in space andabout ISS.”
Duong Thi Loi (Doctoral student GIS research Centre, FCU)“This course provided the knowledge about Aerospace technology andhuman space technology. It is really new knowledge with me. The
knowledge provided is so deep. However, this is also an interesting topic. I
may spend more time to study more about this knowledge in the future.”
Yugo Naito (3rd-year undergraduate student Management/College of Business andInformation Science)“I learned about Space Technology. There are a lot of satellite in space. The
satellite made to cooperate other country. And we can help each othercountry. I was fun to know about it.”
Suman Ghimire (Master student Communication and Computer Technologies)“I flourished my knowledge on the Aerospace Technology from this session.
Although I had curiosity right from my childhood days but never had thebackground theory of what goes behind the satellite launch and its
approaches. This course was really interesting and will definitely apply thelessons learnt from this in future.”

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Big Data for Society

Conducted by: Dr. Apichon Witayangkurn, Date: 16 August 2016
From this course, the participants learned how to use
ICT for data processing and data management. The
lecture also introduced the participant to know
Hadoop which is the data storage and it can manage
the data efficiently.

Mary Ruth A. Bongon (5th-year undergraduate student Department of Geodetic
Engineering)“Data are just numbers or plain texts with no meaning. But when you processthese data and present it on graphs, and such kind, it is called information. So adata with a meaning is information. But how we process and analyze theseinformation and data requires knowledge. There are 3 steps to data processing.
First is the data itself. You need the data to be processes. It is called input. The
next step is data processing. This is the stage where the input is processed byclassification, sorting, converting data into information. After you processed the
input, the output is the final product. But sometimes there are datasets that are
too big. They exceed the capacity of the computing systems. This data is called
big data. One example of big data is GPS traces. Big data can be used fordisaster analysis, like the mobility of the people before and after a disaster. Thiscan be very useful to disaster agencies.”
Chanpich Chea (4th-year undergraduate student Department of Geo-resource andGeotechnical Engineering)“Big data is the newly lesson for me I can learn a lot of data, how to manage
data, how to process data, how to use the data. I will apply it when I start survey
or select data”
Phan Quoc Tran Kha (Researcher GIS and remote sensing research center)“I know about big data before this course, however this course helps me more
understand about the applications as well as using big data in research. These
are new and interesting knowledge. I will apply for my research in the next
time.”
Areeyaporn Sutthwong (4th-year undergraduate student Geography)“I have learned, how to data processing. Big Data is complexity. In the future, I
will apply it with my research.”

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Mobile video processing platform for agricultural

Conducted by: Dr. Matthew N. Dailey, Date: 18 August 2016
The participants learned about image processing in
the context of Vision Systems. The useful ofimage processing in all phases of agriculture,
image processing in pre-harvest applications, thechromatic restoration of an image, mobile robot in
agriculture, 2D mapping with laser range finders,mobile video processing for agricultural crop
mapping, Mapping with stereo vision andoccupancy grids and a high-throughput system for
automatic phenotype measurement.

Hinako Imae (1st-year undergraduate student International Studies/College of International
Studies)“This class was very important for me because I'm interested in agriculture. I
learned that agriculture makes progress every day and GIS is apply improvementof agriculture.”
Chanpich Chea (4th-year undergraduate student Department of Geo-resource andGeotechnical Engineering)“Using robot and sensor, the productivity of agriculture can be increased bymonitoring there is certain diseases or not so that also helps to control thequality. Including weathering. He also explains about vacuum cleaner andmobile video processing for agriculture crap mapping to find fruit religion andperform 3D reconstruction of the point religion. In my country, Agriculture is
the priority sector. So I hope that it will be appear in my country. There is much
useful advantage when we apply GIS agriculture applications to this sector.”
Ryosei Narita (3rd-year undergraduate student English Language and Culture)“I knew high-tech devices are used at agriculture. The devices have Wi-Fi andsolar panel charger, and inform climate, temperature, humidity to farmer. The
farmer can know information of fields by mobile device. Observing with moilingcan apply to ecology, too.”Duong Thi Loi (Doctoral student GIS research Centre, FCU)“This course provided the knowledge about mobile video processing platform
for agricultural. In addition, learners have more understand about role of satellitein agriculture management as well as the role of natural factors to develop ofplants. There are many deep knowledge in this course, and it is maybe asuggestion for my research direction in future.”17

Public Transportation Problems and Green Solutions in Bangkok
Conducted by: Dr. Surachet Pravinvongvuth, Date: 18 August 2016
The participants learned how Thailand
manage public transportation preparing for
ASEAN Community. The historical data
and background of traffic problem inThailand was introduced. After that, thepolicy and strategies in each types oftransportation such as mass transit, Taxi,boat, etc. were also introduced based on
Green Solutions.

Areeyaporn Sutthawong (4th-year undergraduate student in Geography)“I have learned Public Transportation Problem in Thailand. This big problem
because of Thai behavior, government manage, corruption etc. This problem
occur in Developing countries. I think in the future my country should takedevelopment seriously. Apply quality and quantity method.”
Paramjit Singh Bhambra (Master student Geoinformatics)“Traffic jam is one of the leading problem in developing countries so, I
learned the new techniques that how to improve it, about future policies as
well, that if we do such things then we can able to solve this problem, sir also
explain all the problems that what Thailand or Bangkok is facing and it wasvery knowledgeable lecture. Traffic jam is also a big problem in India, as I
am from India, so it will help me to write articles over traffic jam in India,
where I can suggest the points to improve.”
Yugo Naito (3rd-year undergraduate student Management/College of Business andInformation Science)“In Japan case, traffic congestion is not very much, but sometimes we happen
to big traffic congestion, especially developing country has also super bigcongestion. I learned about how to decrease traffic congestion that is solution.
This is an instructive lecture for me.”Mary Ruth Bongon (5th-year undergraduate student Department of Geodetic
Engineering)“Traffic problem is a very big issue especially in most of the developing
countries. Building more roads is not the solution to traffic problems. It will
only cause more difficulty, like more congestion in the inner city and going to
the city is getting more difficult. The most effective way to address thisproblem is to encourage mass transit for public transportation and discourage
car users.”

18Satellite Monitoring for Air Quality Management

Conducted by: Prof. Oanh Nguyen Thi Kim, Date: 18 August 2016
From this class, the participants learned about air
pollution and its types, sources, causes, and effects.
Moreover, they learned about how to monitor air
pollution by several methods. Lastly, they learned
about how satellite can monitor the air pollution
based on case study.
Pathira Arachchilage Kalani Randima Lakshani (Graduate student
Department of Remote Sensing and GIS)“The air pollution in developing countries is a big concern in the world
now.The smaller particles of the air pollutants can cause more health damages.
Ground Based automatic monitoring stations provide the pollution data withgood time resolution. It measures the parameters like solar radiation, winddirection, precipitation, etc.”
Kanza Javed (Master student Department of meteorology)“She explained so well what air pollution is and how it effecting individual aswell as the whole globe. But it’s more alarming in developing countries. Whatshould we have to do to cut % off and how to regularly monitor by remotesensing but it also give uncertainties.”
Taichi Fujii (Graduate student School of Bioscience and Biotechnology)“I learned about air pollution monitoring of Asia. And also learned about air
pollutants. I learned about the problem of air pollution from analysis of a
combination of the measurement data and the satellite image.”
Mary Ruth Bongon (5th-year undergraduate student Department of Geodetic
Engineering)“Air pollution in the developing countries is worse. There are many sources of
air pollution, most of which are from burning. Air pollution is dangerous tothe health. Many people die due to lung diseases. The use of satellites formonitoring of air quality is a big help. We can also monitor the air quality bytraditional ground based monitors. But using satellite is cheaper than that ofground monitoring.”
Yugo Naito (3rd-year undergraduate student Management/College of Business andInformation Science)“I learned about how to connect air pollution and monitoring. Pollution isreally bad our body. Nowadays, there are a lot of pollution problem in the allover the world because of evolution. So we can know where is the mostdangerous area and how much pollution does it have area to use satellite
system.”19

Hand on: FOSS & Crowdsourcing for Geospatial Data (OSM)
Conducted by: Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat, Date: 19 August 2016
The participants learned the principle of
GNSS and knew how it works. Also, they had
opportunity to use GNSS receiver in AIT andanalyzed the result. Furthermore, afternoon
session, they were assigned task to position
the certain things in AIT and then located andgave the information by using Openstreetmap.

PHAN QUOC TRAN KHA (Researcher GIS and remote sensing research center)“Today, I learned about what is the OSM - Open Street Map, how to uploadand download data with OSM. I added the new location in AIT as theartworks and modified the attributes of law son location by OSM. With thiscourse, I knew how to use OSM to collect data for my work, my study andit’s free. I love travel and I can trace my new beautiful places on map by
OSM. It really useful. I learned about how to use QGIS for analyzing theGeo-spatial data. QGIS is the open source software that can do almost
function and analyze in GIS like ArcGIS software. In this course, I used
QGIS to analyzing and find the land suitability with tools as Query builder
tool, Buffer tool, and Map Navigation tool bar. That is actual case in our life.
We want open a new store, we have to know where the land suitability for
move, customers, sourcing is. That is a big economic problem which GIS canresolve them.”
Suman Ghimire (Master student Communication and Computer Technologies)“I learnt several possibilities of mapping for the benefit of community. Opendata has a great potential for humanity. The idea of combining several efforts
to map has a great potential to provide humane solutions to the community.
With the idea from this lecture I will implement it to help my community bylocating its attractions, capacity area and benefit community with free openly
accessible data.”
Yugo Naito (3rd-year undergraduate student Management/College of Business andInformation Science)“This class was really fun for me. I learned how to make map and how to use
to solve a problem. We walked in AIT to make a map. This map was actual.
Our making a map was used like a Pokemon-GO in Pokestop. I could know
how to make Pokestop. Pokemon-GO has needed GIS skills. The skill canuse a lot of areas and it is a very useful. I may connect my major that is
economics. When someone need a help I can help them to use a GIS. I think I
may be able to apply GIS to marketing and a management, so I want to study
the thing and I need to acquire the GIS.”

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Natural Resources Management in Asia

Conducted by: Prof. Rajendra Shrestha, Date: 22 August 2016
The participants obtained the basic knowledge
about natural resource in the world. Moreover,they learned how the world population relates
to the consumption of natural resource and its
effects becoming issues in Asia. Lastly, theylearned about natural resources management
philosophy and actions according to sustainable
development strategy.
Duong Thi Loi (Doctoral student GIS research Centre, FCU)“This course provided for me a lot of useful knowledge. Firstly, it helps me toknow about natural resources and situation of natural resource outlook of
Asia. Secondly, this course provides the knowledge about vital signs andpopulation. Finally, I also gain knowledge about natural resource
management philosophy and actions.”
Areeyaporn Sutthawong (4th-year undergraduate student Geography)“I have learned now natural resources decrease because increasing
population, human activity and extravagant resource consumption etc.
Natural Resources Management is the management of natural resources in an
integrated fashion recognizing the values of both conservation andproductive. I will apply with my way of life. I will use natural resource goodquality and quantity.”
Phattamon Heawchaiyaphum (4th-year undergraduate student in Geoinformatics)“The topic really interesting. It is very vital for sustainable development. We
must learn and create awareness regarding proper and wise use of available
resources as it is limited. We must respect “what nature provide us”. I learned
different adaptation practices that we could follow to get maximum
efficiency. I will apply each and every aspects of the session to help createawareness to the people of my community.”
Fabio Kimura (3rd-year undergraduate student English Language and Culture)“I learnt that natural resources aware very important. Especially water, somecountries do have scarcity of water And even countries that are not facing tothat problem will face. So we should manage carefully.”

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Sustainable Mega-Cities and Urban Planning

Conducted by: Dr. Sohee Minsun Kim, Date: 22 August 2016
The participants learned about urbanization andits effects. Furthermore, the lecturer introduced
how GIS and remote sensing is important for
spatial analysis such as site survey andmapping, land use identification, etc.

Mary Ruth A. Bongon (5th-year undergraduate student Department of Geodetic
Engineering)“The rate of urbanization is increasing every year. And for every twenty
years, people who live in the urban area is increasing by 10%. There areseveral reasons why people move in from rural to urban. More
opportunities in the urban area, the technology is much better than in therural, the decision-making and most of the programs of the government ismore concentrated in the urban area. But because many people isconcentrated in the urban areas, there is pollution everywhere and fordeveloping countries, almost 1/3 of the urban population are slums. Even
though the area is highly urbanized, we must still consider theenvironment. It must be green. And to achieve this one, we must plan andthink on how to attain sustainable development.”
Pathira Arachchilage Kalani Randima Lakshani (Graduate student
Department of Remote Sensing and GIS)“The population growth is very high in urban cities. Especially the growthof slums in mega cities causes lot of problems. So when the population ishigh the pollution becomes high then the vulnerability of the society todifferent phenomena like climate change automatically goes up. Educationfor everyone, policies, Giving more opportunities to women may provide
timely solutions to these problems.”
Fabio Kimura (3rd-year undergraduate student English Language and Culture)“This lecture was very exciting for me. Now people are more moving tocities, and urban cities are with more population and problems. Japan is a
developed country so we have enough transportation and kind of goodenvironment. But other cities have traffic jam, pollution and otherproblems. I don't know how to apply to my future.”22

Geospatial and Space Technologies in International Development Projects
Conducted by: Dr. Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Date: 22 August 2016

The participants learned about the sustainable
technological development. How to maintainenough resources and continue for a long time.
There are three important parts: operator, data
provider and buyer. Now, the Sentinel Asian
project is the big project which provide thesatellite data to community, when disaster ishappening.

Phattamon Heawchaiyaphum (4th-year undergraduate student Geographic
Information System)“I learned about sustainable technology and Learn about research examples
that has been used ABD. In future I will application this knowledge with myfield.”
Yugo Naito (3rd-year undergraduate student Management/College of Business andInformation Science)“GIS can prevent Ebola with cellphone. It was really surprised for me. GIS
have a lot of likelihood. I am interested about GIS.”
Paramjit Singh Bhambra (Master student Geoinformatics)“In this lecture I learned about International development projects, how world
has been working for their development projects and prof. showed us manycase studies as well which help us to make relation among various researches.
He also taught us Asian Development Bank (ABD) and their characteristics.
If I get the opportunity to work in this area then I have the sufficientknowledge to work in this area because of this lecture.”Duong Thi Loi (Doctoral student GIS research Centre, FCU)“This course provided for learner a lot of knowledge. Firstly, I am taught
about sustainable technology and system. Secondly, this course introduces
about how to finance the technology in practices through the specific casestudy. Thirdly, I learn the knowledge about a recent collaboration of GIS and
RS in the Asian Development Bank. Finally, this course provides many
applications of technology in practices such as urban planning, webgis,
infrastructure, flood disaster and urban growth.”23

UAV demostration

Conducted by: Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat, Date: 24 August 2016
The participants learned about structure anddesign of UAV. Also, they learned about theconfiguration of the direction by sing remotesensing. They also obtained experience bydemonstration of how to use UAV in order tocapture the image in AIT.

Hinako Imae (1st-year undergraduate student International Studies/College ofInternational Studies)“This technology is very excited for me. We can research easy if we have it.”
Chanpich Chea (4th-year undergraduate student Department of Geo-resource andGeotechnical Engineering)“Drones are more formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
Essentially, a drone is a flying robot. The aircraft may be remotely controlled
or can fly autonomously through software-controlled flight plans in theirembedded systems working in conjunction with GPS. It is very expansive sowhen we start to operate it, we should be careful doing step by step andeverything with clear job. I can learn how to take off or land of Drone, I also
see the first preparation before we take off our drop to mapping”
Phan Quoc Tran Kha (Researcher GIS and remote sensing research center)“Today, I was tried with drone and It's interesting. With drone and camera,
we can apply to monitoring in agriculture, land use, land cover. With thispractice course, I knew how to control and apply drone. But it’s too expensive
so I think that is also a problem to apply popular.”Paramjit Singh Bhambra (Master student Geoinformatics)“UAV was my 1st time real experience so it was very good. I learned that we
can take photos as per our need to make our research more prominent. The
controllers was very easy so thus it was very user friendly, it goes up to theheight of 400 m but we can only fly up to 90 meters, which is also very goodrange to capture images.”24

Global Climate Change and Water Resources Management
Conducted by: Dr. Sangam Shrestha, Date: 24 August 2016
The participants learned about what the climatechange in global is, the impact of climate change inenvironment and the adaptation of human forclimate change such as the physical construction to
avoid or reduce the impacts of climate change
including policy for legislation, knowledge
development and public norms for reduce risk andrelated impacts.

Taichi Fujii (Graduate student School of Bioscience and Biotechnology)“I learned about factors of various climate change other than greenhousegases. And, I learned what happens if global temperatures increase in the
future.”Duong Thi Loi (Doctoral student GIS research Centre, FCU)

“There are many contents mentioned in this course. Firstly, this course
introduces about a current status of wastewater and FSM in Thailand.
Secondly, I learn about a regulatory framework for DEWAT/FSM in
Thailand and institutional set up of the sanitation sector. Lastly, the lecture
mentions about issues and challenges of wastewater in countries in theworld.”
Chanpich Chea (4th-year undergraduate student Department of Geo-resource andGeotechnical Engineering)“I knew clearly between Climate and Weathering. Climate change because ofchanges in sun's output, Earth's orbit, drifting continents, Volcano eruption,
Greenhouse gases with many impacts. I knew about how to protect andprepare our-self to the climate change such as Structural Adaptation (include
dams, weir, drainage canals, sea walls.) and Non-Structural Adaptation(include policies, legislation & enforcement, Insurance, Early warning
system, etc.). And one more is Case study, it is very interested, "Assessmentof climate change impacts on water availability and water transfer". After thisclass I will have one general knowledge of Climate change.”
Suman Ghimire (Master student Communication and Computer Technologies)“I gained an overview about the global driving factors of climate change andhow those factors are inducing the greatest threat to mankind. Dr. Sangam
Shrestha also described about the long term threats if the situation stillprevails and described some of the sustainable approaches for tackling,
adapting and mitigating such condition. He also explained about thesustainable approaches related to water conservation that are currently being
practiced in developing countries around Asia which I will try to implement
in my country.”25

Current Status of Wastewater and Fecal Sludge Management in Thailand
Conducted by: Dr. Thammarat Koottatep, Date: 24 August 2016
The participants learned about the current status ofwater and fecal sludge management (FSM) in
Thailand also the factors affecting to FSM. Also,
they learned about the recovery process throughestablishing FSM business in Thailand.

Phattamon Heawchaiyaphum (4th-year undergraduate student Geographic
Information System)“I learned about wastewater and fecal sludge management in Thailand. And
have been watching a technology preview of interest. In future I will
application this knowledge with my field.”
Kanxa Javed (Master student Department of meteorology)“Water is the imp thing we have to be worried from now because most of thecities will face this issue very seriously.so we have to develop technologies
that we can recycle our water and can use its again and again. As Singapore isusing it in cooling process.”
Paramjit Singh Bhambra (Master student Geoinformatics)“I learned about waste water problems which we are facing right now and thislecture was very helpful for me because prof. also gave many examples which
my country India is facing right now and we can deal with that so yes it wasvery helpful me to get to know about all these. He also showed us all the latest
technology on which his team was working, thus it was very good to know allthese stuff and the latest technology about this.”
Phan Quoc Tran Kha (Researcher GIS and remote sensing research center)“In this course, I learn about what is the wastewater and fecal sludge. I knewthat wastewater and fecal sludge are the big serious problem of many
developing countries as Thailand, Vietnam, Philippine, Cambodia, Sri Lanka
Then I learn about FSM in Thailand and management, policy points totreatment plant. That’s valuable experience to apply at Vietnam. I was
visited Lab where is have good ideas. This is a nice course.”26

8. Comments on Field Trip

PASCO (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Date: 17 August 2016

PASCO (Thailand) Co., ltd. is the company
offering a full range of professional services in
Aerial Photography, Digital Photogrammetry &Mapping, Surveying and GIS, both in Thailand
and internationally. With this program, theparticipants got a chance to observe line mapping,orthophoto and 3D map process sections.

Taichi Fujii (Graduate student School of Bioscience and Biotechnology)“I learned Company Profile of Pasco, how to convert 3D map from 2D map andhow to take advantage of 3D map. I can grasp the study site in detail by creatinga 3D map. I thought my research width is spread by learning the 3D mapping
technology. I was fun to be a simple experience of 3D mapping. I wanted a timethat I can talk to the Japanese to work in the company.”
Kanxa Javed (Master student Department of meteorology)“Field trip to PASCO actually made thing crystal clear how they handle bug
data or how it import to GIS or manually adding details. That step by stepbriefing about AutoCAD, ArcGIS or summit evolution was very helpful forunderstanding. It would help me when I'll start working on this in my country
and what aspect I do have to focus while I'm mapping for some serious state
purpose”
Duong Thi Loi (Doctoral student GIS research Centre, FCU)
“I have chance to know about the Pasco company formerly known as Thai
Mapping Service Co., Ltd. This company has offered a full range ofprofessional services in Aerial Photography, Digital Photogrammetry &Mapping, Surveying and GIS, both in Thailand and internationally. I also havechance to see the steps to create the digital data and map.”
Chanpich Chea (4th-year undergraduate student Department of Geo-resource andGeotechnical Engineering)“PASCO (Thailand), their work is mainly related to adjustment to ortho photo.
And the recent project is in Thailand (Street view), it is more detail that google
map. It will detail about the type of gate, building (concrete, wooden, etc.),
advertisement, etc. There are using high technology software and equipment.
The 3D plotting data set for 3D visualization and analysis.”27

National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC)
Date: 17 August 2016

National Disaster Warning Center – NWDC is anorgan under Office of the Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Information and Communication
Technology. NDWC has the main role to warn thedisaster arising from multi natural hazard. With
this program, the participants learned about
Thailand early warning system, risk map,
supporting section, database modeling andinternational corporations. And we have chance tointeract with staffs and visit operation rooms.
Mary Ruth A. Bongon (5th-year undergraduate student Department of Geodetic
Engineering)“What I've learned the most form NDWC is that every aspect of what they
are doing is useless if the people in the community doesn't know to utilize it.
The community must be taught how to respond in times of disaster and how
they can utilize every resources they have, especially on how they can use
maps for their safety. Remote Sensing and GIS are very vitals fields in the
NDWC. RS and GIS is the key to disaster preparedness and mitigation.”
Areeyaporn Sutthawong (4th-year undergraduate student Geography)“I have learned that National disaster warning center is center which
communication system quality real-time. It has controlled and ordered when
event. There is work systematically and there is use primarily GIS system. In
the future I think that it should to develop disaster warning application for
smart phone.”
Phan Quoc Tran Kha (Researcher GIS and remote sensing research center)“With the aim of minimizing the damage caused by natural disasters, NDWC
has been established to monitor and warn people when a disaster occurs, suchas floods, earthquakes, forest fires. With the collaboration of many research
centers in the world, NDWC will process information when detecting any
unusual changes and quickly inform the countries of area. At NDWC, I
learned how to get information of natural disasters and warning when there
are natural disasters. That is a useful knowledge for me and everyone. .”28

Thai-Danish Dairy Farm

Date: 21 August 2016
This farm is the beginning of the dairy farm inThailand. The Danish government and theDanish Dairy Farming Association together
offered a promotion project on the raising of
dairy cows. They cooperated with the Thaigovernment to establish the Thai-Danish Dairy
Farm (TDDF) and a training centre in Muak Lek
District, Saraburi.

Haruka Iesaki (3rd-year undergraduate student Computer Science/College ofEngineering)“I learned that the farm is the first farm in Thailand. It's very famous
company. It was established by Thailand and Denmark. This company doesn't
sell only milk.”
Yugo Naito (3rd-year undergraduate student Management/College of Business andInformation Science)“We went to grape farm and cow farm. We ate grape in grape farm. We can
eat grape with skin. It was really delicious. After grape farm, we went to cow
farm. There are a lot of cow farms in Japan, but It was for the first time to go
to cow farm. I learned about how to milk from cow and cow. Milking was
really difficult. It was difference quantity from me to farmer to milk. I had agood day.”Paramjit Singh Bhambra (Master student Geoinformatics)“here I experienced about the milk production of Thailand, here I learned
about how to do milking we also feed the cows, it was very nice and thenafter we also ride a horse and saw cowboy performing the stunts, The guide
showed us about their farms, that how everything has been grown, she only
speaks Thai language but it was very nice to see many things.”
Mary Ruth Bongon (5th-year undergraduate student Department of Geodetic
Engineering)“Thailand has a very diverse culture. And it has a lot of farms. Maybeagriculture is the main industry in Thailand. And the nature is not exploited.
The government and the villagers as well value the importance of nature
that's why they are protecting the nature. And I just observed that even in theprovince, Thailand has a good road and traffic system. It has a wide road.
Unlike in the Philippines, the road are just 10-20m.”

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GISTDA Sriracha
Date: 23 August 2016

GISTDA is a public and core organizationof Thailand. GISTDA was established on
November 3, 2000. GISTDA is responsible
for space all technology and geoinformation activities. Today, GISTDA isdeveloping a worldwide network of
distributors to allow the users to use andaccess to all GISTDA products

Fabio Kimura (3rd-year undergraduate student English Language and Culture)“They have a lot of satellites and use day every day for many things such asurban plan, agriculture, disasters and so on. I didn't know before how
satellites are used so it was very interesting for me. They have to plan andgive a command on the day before. They have to be very strict about that.
The museum was very fun as well. I could have fun just like I am a kid.”
Pathira Arachchilage Kalani Randima Lakshani ( Graduate student
Department of Remote Sensing and GIS)

“GISTDA is the leading agency to provide services for Geo spatial data
based various academic services and research activities. It has mainly aTraining center, Earth Observation Centre and Thaichote Control andReceiving station.
The polar orbiting satellite is every day at 9.00 in the morning.it is overThailand. With the launch of the THEOS satellite, Thailand got the chance toaccess the SPOT and RADARSAT data”
Hinako Imae (1st-year undergraduate student

International Studies/College of International Studies)“I learned there are a lot of high technology in GISTDA and data fromsatellite is very important for us.
”
Phattamon Heawchaiyaphum (4th-year undergraduate student Geographic
Information System)“I learned about product of GISTDA , ThaiChote satellite , learn about The
orbit of the satellite and have been watching the satellite reception etc. Visit
Space Inspirium Space Museum, the first in Thailand. And do fun things suchas watching movies in 3D, test Gyroscope and so on.”30

Ayutthaya Historical Park
Date: 25 August 2016

The Ayutthaya Historical Park covers the ruins of
the old city of Ayutthaya, Thailand. With thisprogram, the participants had a chance to visit thehighlights such as Wat Phanan Choeng and Wat
Ma Ha Tat which they could see the Buddha’s
head inside the tree. Also, they enjoyed withelephant at Ayutthaya floating market and learned
Thai culture and architecture from the city in
Ayutthaya.

Fabio Kimura (3rd-year undergraduate student English Language and Culture)“I was very surprised knowing that existed a big city hundreds years ago, anda lot of people were living there. I felt that it's like Machupichu. We don't
have things like that in Japan so it was very interesting for me.”Suman Ghimire (Master student Communication and Computer Technologies)“Ayutthaya left a good impression on me. As I have a huge enthusiasm forhistory this place was really fit for me. I got to know about the war between
Myanmar and Thailand which still have left it footprints on the site through it
is burnt sites. The overall trip was really entertaining accompanied bywonderful people from different parts of the world.”
Pathira Arachchilage Kalani Randima Lakshani (Graduate student
Department of Remote Sensing and GIS)
“This was a great experience for me to see a proud history in one end of theworld. There were so much of ruins of the old Ayutthaya city spreaded
throughout a large area which was destroyed by Burmese. Most importantly
there are ruins of Buddhist temples, statues and dagoba. The head of Buddha
in Wat Mahathat was really an adorable experience for me as a Buddhist. So I
think Thailand is a country with a proud history as Buddhists.”
Hinako Imae (1st-year undergraduate student International Studies/College ofInternational Studies)“Ayurthaya was very big and beautiful. It was fun for me. I wanted to know
depth of knowledge.”

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Energy Conservation Building
Date: 25 August 2016

Energy Conservation Building in Honor of His
Majesty the King is the celebration on the Kingon Throne Project on occasion of the fifty year
anniversary of His Majesty the King's
coronation. The participants learned about thebuilding design and construction adopted theadvanced energy conservation technology bynatural system of Thailand climatic weather andcooling environment.
Paramjit Singh Bhambra (Master student Geoinformatics)“I get to know many new thing here as this building theme was energy
conservation and we saw many new technology which helps to conserve
energy. They also explained us the importance of energy and many wide
variety of electronic appliance which they develop to conserve electricity andeven they demonstrate each and every thing as well.”Duong Thi Loi (Doctoral student GIS research Centre, FCU)“This is an exciting experience in my life. Because this is very new
knowledge for me. However, It provides for me a lot of interestingknowledge and helps me to more understand about architect and design. I
know how to save energy in building and my own house in the future.”
Ryosei Narita (3rd-year undergraduate student English Language and Culture)“Electric devices are used in our lives, and they must enrich our lives. They
are applied to industry as well. We need to live with nature, so thinking aboutsaving energy and living somehow is very important.”
Chanpich Chea (4th-year undergraduate student Department of Geo-resource andGeotechnical Engineering)“When I arrive here, I was really strange of that building, There are many
type of building such as Pyramid, triangle, etc. The design of building
internal system and material selection that capably block the external heat andmoisture, hence these minimize the building energy use by maintaining still
the value and image of architecture.”32

9. Program Evaluation
In this program, the evaluation forms were prepared for receiving feedbacks from participantsin order to evaluate the program and identify weak point for improving further. The resultsfrom the first part are displayed as the pie charts below.

Overall Satisfaction with English Communication
Program
Neutral17%

Strongly Agree
Agree
NeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree
Agree
83%

The lectures on Geoinformatics and issues onsustainable development are interesting for you
Neutral6%

Strongly Agree
Agree

NeutralAgree
31%

DisagreeStrongly Agree
63%

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Strongly
DisagreeLecturers are specialist in his/her career, which help
you meet the learning needs in this program
Neutral6%

Strongly Agree
Agree

NeutralAgree
31%

DisagreeStrongly Disagree
Strongly Agree63%

Lecture materials, facilities, equipment and supplies
were appropriate for the program
Strongly Agree
56%

Strongly Agree
Agree

Agree
44%

NeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree

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Hand on in OpenSource (QGIS) and GPS-GNSS are
improved your technical Geoinformatics skill
Neutral12%

Strongly Agree
44%

Strongly Agree
Agree

NeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree

Agree
44%

The amount of lecture classes, study hours or time
dedicated to academic learning were sufficient for you
Disagree6%Strongly Agree
50%

Strongly Agree
Agree

NeutralDisagree

Agree
44%

Strongly Disagree35Visiting Geoinformatics organizations (government& private sectors) are good opportunity to learn andbuild capacity for you
Agree
13%

Strongly Agree
Agree

NeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree

Strongly Agree87%

Accommodation at Sirindhorn Science Home (SSH)
is comfortable and safe for you
Agree
25%

Strongly Agree
Agree

NeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree
Strongly Agree75%

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You are happy with the choice of curricular andextracurricular activities during this program
Agree
25%

Strongly Agree
Agree

NeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree
Strongly Agree75%

You learned the local culture through local life style
like places, food, people, etc.
Neutral
6%

Agree
19%

Strongly Agree
Agree

NeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree
Strongly Agree75%

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You are happy with the quality and taste of food,drinks and snacks provided for your study brake
Neutral6%

Strongly Agree

Agree
25%

Agree

NeutralDisagreeStrongly Agree
69%

Strongly Disagree

This program is good chance to obtain experience inmulticultural environment
Agree
6%

Strongly Agree
Agree

NeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree

Strongly Agree
94%
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Overall, please rate your satisfaction score for theSummer School in Bangkok 2016 program
Agree
25%

Strongly Agree
Agree

NeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree
Strongly Agree75%
EnergyTop rank preferable
organizations
Conservation
AyutthayaHistorical Park
19%

Building
6%

PASCO Company
38%

GISTDA
31%

NDWC
6%

PASCO Company

NDWC

GISTDA

Energy Conservation Building
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Ayutthaya Historical Park

The second part shows suggestions from participants as follows.
 Thank you!! This summer school is one of my important experience.
 Thanks to Professor and financial support. Thanks to Mr. Tong & Ms. Kanokwan
for take care us That program should be of a month and also have some off days so students can be
fresh while they're learning.
 The summer school course provided for me the wonderful experiences. I love thiscourse so much. I hope that I have more chance to join with this course in the nexttime.
 Every Thing was pretty good. Thank you very much for arranging this kind of
valuable events for us. Thank you very much. Also forgive for any of my mistakes.
 I love this camp. Camp creating a great experiences and memories of my lives.
 Thanks for the great experience!
 I want say thank you so much for all. I love Thailand. I will come back Thailand
with my family in next time. Cảm ơn về tất cả. Tôi yêu Thái Lan và con người nướcbạn.
 Lecture in English was difficult. However, I got a lot of things. ASIAN summer
school is so good.
 Thank you! I had many fun time!!
 I have to say thank you that I can get memorable knowledge and experience. And I
love Thai food, so much even though my stomach was terrible with them. Tong and
Whan, we couldn't do anything without the guys. They took care of us so muchanytime. We have to payback for their hardworking for us. So Dr. Sarawut, please
don't scold them too much. Plz.
 Thank you everyone for this wonderful opportunity. The summer school was agreat success.
 I appreciate to have chance to study about GIS. I have interesting about GIS, and I
want to study more GIS. Thank you, Wan and Tong. They took care of our grope
every day. Thank you so much.
 Everything was very nice thank you so much for everything, I learned a lot about
various culture and help to make many new best friends. We all were so close inthis 2 weeks that most of the students had tears in their eyes at last moment, it wasvery nice. I learned a lot in this 2 weeks every prof were legends in their field and
we all were very honored to listen them, in just 2 hours of every lecture they taught
so many things, which will surely help me in the future. My best wishes is with thisprogram, Thank you so much once again.

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10. Conclusion and Recommendation
The Summer School in Bangkok 2016 Program was organized by the cooperation from AITand Chubu University which it aims the participants to gain more experience and knowledge,
especially in the issue of “Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development”. Additionally,
activities such as hands-on were provided for the participants who have the backgrounds on
Geoinformatics to improve their technical skills for their career. Furthermore, under theinternational society, they could learn and exchange the different cultures via many Field Visitand activities such as Pizza Party and vacation at Muak Lek District, Saraburi to build a good
relationship with each other.
Anyway, there is some suggestion from participants obtained from program evaluation. Mostly,
participants gain knowledge, friendship and new experiences. Someone suggest to extend theprogram to a month. Someone request one day off for individual activities.
For accommodation and food, the participants were satisfied with accommodation since it was
safe, convenient and surrounded by good environment. Moreover, the organizer tried to provide
food for multicultural as much as possible. However, there were some participants whorequested to eat only some certain food. Hence, to discuss about preferable types of food forindividual participant should be done before starting the program.
For field visit, the participants also requested to visit some places such as Hua-Hin and otherattractions in the center of Bangkok. Unfortunately, this year program was affected byunidentified explode event in Hua-Hin. In this case, we concern about the safe first, then the
program had to cancel and changed the schedule leading the participants to miss an opportunity
to visit Sirindhorn International Environment Park, Mangrove forest at Hua-Hin and otherattractions. Furthermore, the program became more complicated to organize smoothly
according to unstable schedule.
In during the programs, there are some student illness. For Japanese students, the cost of
medical care is covered by health insurance. However, the other participants did not prepare it
from their country. We force them to do endowment only, they need to pay for medical care.
In summary, the program achieved the main purpose that the participants could gain someexperience and knowledge related to GIS for sustainable development. According to theevaluation, most of the participants were very satisfied with the program and from theassignment asked to submit, the participants could gave interesting answer with their deep
understanding and inspiration from each lecture. Also, this program could successfully
motivate the participants to gain more enthusiasm for exploring knowledge in RS-GIS andpursue higher education level in AIT or other universities. Most importantly, the program could
build international relationship which will be expanded our RS-GIS network, and finallybecome strong connection which will support each other in the future.

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Appendix 1: Program Photo Gallery

Opening Ceremony
15 August 201642

Lectures

15-26 August 201643

Relax Time: Pizza Party & Presentation
16 August 201644

PASCO (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
17 August 201645

National Disaster Warning Center (NWDC)
17 August 201646

Hands On FOSS & Crowdsourcing for Geospatial data (OSM)
19 August 2016

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Relax Time: Party with GIS & Remote Sensing Student
19 August 201648

Thai-Danish Dairy Farm
21 August 201649

Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency(GISTDA)
23 August 201650

UAV Demonstration
24 August 201651

Energy Conservation Building
25 August 2016

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Ayutthaya Historical Park
25 August 201653

Individual Presentation & Closing Ceremony
26 August 201654

Appendix 2: Questionnaire

SurveySummer School in Bangkok 2016
Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development
15 – 26 August 2016

Statement
1. The lectures on Geoinformatics andissues on sustainable development areinteresting for you
2. Lecturers are specialist in his/hercareer, which help you meet the learningneeds in this program

3. Lecture materials, facilities, equipment
and supplies were appropriate for the
program
4. Hand on in OpenSource (QGIS) and
GPS-GNSS are improved your technicalGeoinformatics skill
5. The amount of lecture classes, study
hours or time dedicated to academic
learning were sufficient for you

6. Visiting Geoinformatics organizations(government & private sectors) are good
opportunity to learn and build capacity
for you
7. Accommodation at Sirindhorn Science
Home (SSH) is comfortable and safe foryou
8. You are happy with the choice of
curricular and extracurricular activities
during this program
9. You learned the local culture throughlocal life style like places, food, people,
etc.
10. You are happy with the quality andtaste of food, drinks and snacks provided
for your study brake
11. This program is good chance toobtain experience in multiculturalenvironment.

Strongly
Agree

Agree

NeutralDisagreeStrongly
Disagree

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

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12. Overall, please rate your satisfaction
score for the Summer School in Bangkok
2016 program

Very
SatisfiedSatisfied

NeutralDissatisfied

Very
Dissatisfied

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

Please rank only top 3 of preferable organizations/ attractive places that you visited during the
program in order of satisfaction, from 1 to 3, where 1 is the most preferable.
PASCO company
National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC)
Thai-DANISH Dairy Farm
GISTDA
Energy Conservation Building at Klong5
Ayutthaya Historical Park

Comment & Suggestion:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for your cooperation

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