REPORT

Asian Summer School
in Bangkok 2017
Geoinformatics for Sustainable Agriculture

21 August – 1 September 2017

Sponsors Support:

Visionary Value Japan Inc., Japan(Prof. Shigeo Sakikawa)Adin Research, Inc. Japan(Dr. Koji Sasaki)

Chubu University

Asian Institute ofTechnology

TABLE OF CONTENT

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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 2017”
program from August 21st to September 1st, 2017 at Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani,
Thailand. The theme of the program was “Geoinformatics for Sustainable Agriculture”.
A total of 17 participants, 11 nationalities, came from 12 universities and organizations locatedin 10 different countries participated in this program. The average age of participant in thesummer school are 24 years old. From Japan, six participants from Chubu University joined.
Among participants from Japan, there are six undergraduate students (English language andCulture, Environmental Biology, Food and Nutritional Sciences and International Studies). For
non-Chubu students, there are four graduated students: one Nepalese research assistants from
Asian Institute of Technology (School of Environment, Resources and Development), one Omani
researcher from Nature reserves department of Oman, one Pakistani master student from Instituteof Space Technology (Remote Sensing and Geo-Information Systems) and one Vietnamese
researcher from Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Resources Geography (GIS and Remote Sensing
Research Center). There are seven undergraduate students: one Burmese student from Aung Sett
Kyar Local Development Organization (Anglican Development Department), one Cambodianstudent from Institute of Technology of Cambodia (Department of Geo-resources andGeotechnical Engineering), one Filipino student from Bicol University College of Engineering(Department of Geodetic Engineering), one German student from Hochschule der Medien(Business Informatics and Digital Media) who is exchange student from International College
UTCC Bangkok (Economic and IT), one Nepalese student from Kathmandu University Schoolof Engineering/ Geomatics engineering, one Thai student from Srinakharinwirot University(Geography Department) and one Turkish student from Istanbul Technical University(Geomatics Engineering). The summary of participant is present in Table. 1.
Several lectures and field trips were conducted during the 12 days of this program. 11 lecturers
are from different Fields of Study in AIT (Remote Sensing & GIS, Computer Science andInformation Management, Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Systems and Engineering,Engineering and Water Engineering and Management). In addition, three external lecturers arefrom other organizations which is Michigan State University, Thailand's National Electronics
and Computer Technology Center and Rambhaibarni Rajabhat University (UAV lecture).
Moreover, five visits and field trips were conducted to connect what participants learned fromlectures with the real world. Participants visited Geo-Informatics and Space Technology
Development Agency (GISTDA), Kung Krabaen Bay Royal Development Study Center, The
Golden Jubilee Museum of Agriculture Office, PASCO (Thailand) (Air Survey Company, Japan)
and Bang Kra Chao. Furthermore, it is also to stimulate motivation of undergraduate students toendeavor their own research.
English is used as the main communication in lectures and daily life during the program. It madea deep impression of importance of globalization to the participants. However, in order to prepare
participants to be ready for lectures conducted in English and well communication during the
program, English Communication course organized by AIT language center was provided forparticipants who were welcome to join as pre-program. During the program, we also requested
participants to share their background of study and working, interest and expertise that crossed
cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Aside from study, the participants made new friends fromdifferent countries as the international society and built up good relationship and connection forsupport each other in the future. At the end of the program, we received good responses and many1

positive comments referring to a wonderful time they obtained during the program. This supports
the fact that Asian Summer School in Bangkok 2017 Program ended in large success.
Since 2009, Chubu University and AIT build a cooperative relationship, especially in the field ofGeoinformatics and sustainable development. In September, 2011, Chubu University and AITagreed 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 program isalso 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, Divisionof 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 (Prof. Shigeo Sakikawa), and Dr. Koji Sasaki
for their financial support to establish this program. We would like to thank to each organizationand individual who participated and some of whom shoulder their own expenses.

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Table. 1 Summary of participants
No.

Name

Age

Sex

Country

Grade

Field of study

1Mamoru Sugimura

19

M

Japan

UG2

2

Masamitsu Kotone

20

M

Japan

UG3

3

Misa Nishio

21

F

Japan

UG3

4

Shoki Kobayashi

21

M

Japan

UG3

5

Yoshino Suzuki

19

F

Japan

UG1

6

Yurina Kai

22

F

Japan

UG4

7

Prabhat Joshi

24

M

Nepal

Research
Assistant

English Language and Culture/ College of
Humanities
Environmental Biology/College of
Bioscience and Biotechnology
English Language and Culture/ College of
Humanities
English Language and Culture/ College of
Humanities
International Studies/College ofInternational Studies
Food and Nutritional Sciences/College of
Bioscience and Biotechnology
School of Environment, Resources andDevelopment

8

Salah Khalfan Ali Alsakiti

37

M

Oman

Graduated

Nature Reserves Department

Nature Reserves Department

9

Sumbul Jabbar

27

F

Pakistan

MasterRemote Sensing and Geo-Information
Systems

Institute of Space Technology

10

Ho Lam Truong

25

M

Vietnam

Graduated

GIS and Remote Sensing Research Center

11

Moses Badip Tawng La

23

M

Myanmar

UG4

Anglican Development Department

12

Meakh Sovanborey

21

M

Cambodia

UG4

Department of Geo-resources andGeotechnical Engineering

Ho Chi Minh City Institute ofResources Geography
Aung Sett Kyar Local
Development Organization
Institute of Technology ofCambodia13

Sarra L. Maravilla

21

F

Philippines

UG5

Geodetic Engineering Department

Bicol University

14

Malte Grosse

31

M

Germany

UG4

Business Informatics and Digital Media

Hdm Stuttgart Germany,
UTCC Bangkok

15

Nimisha Wagle

21

F

Nepal

UG4

School of Engineering/ Geomatics
Engineering

Kathmandu University

16

Rungphet Singnawarat

22

F

Thailand

UG4

Geography Department

Srinakharinwirot University

17

Gizem Sacihan

24

F

TurkeyUG4

Geomatics Engineering

Istanbul Technical University

3

University/Organization
Chubu University
Chubu University
Chubu University
Chubu University
Chubu University
Chubu University
Asian Institute of Technology

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

3. Program Admission
There are totally 62 applicants from 15 countries who applied for Summer School in Bangkok
2017. The age of applicants ranges from 20 to 51 years old and most of them are 20-30 year old(50 participants or 80%).

The Percentage of Applicants by Nationalities
from 62 Participants

2%
2%
2%

2%

2% 2%

Nepalese (16)Pakistani (12)2% 2%Filipino (9)26%3%Cambodian (8)Indian (5)3%Bangladeshi (2)Vietnamese (2)Burmese (1)8%German (1)Indonesian (1)Laotian (1)Mongolian (1)

13%
19%

Omani (1)Sri Lankan (1)Yemenite (1)15%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, and potential to
explore research interest from the program.

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4. Participants
Universities and Organizations:

Asian Institute ofTechnology

HdM Stuttgart

Aung Sett Kyar
Local
Development
Organization

Ho Chi Minh City
Instituteof Resources
Geography

Bicol University

Chubu University

Institute of SpaceTechnology

Institute oftechnology
of Cambodia

Nature Reserves
Department

Istanbul Technical
University

Kathmandu
University

Oman

Srinakharinwirot
University

Cambodia

GermanyJapan

Myanmar

Nepal

Oman

Pakistan

Philippines

ThailandTurkeyVietnam

Countries:

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Participants:
Chubu University

Mamoru Sugimura(Japanese)

Masamitsu Kotone(Japanese)

Misa Nishio(Japanese)

2nd-year undergraduate student
English Language and Culture

3rd-year undergraduate student
Environmental Biology

3rd_year undergraduate student
English Language and Culture

E-mail:hf16030-5283@sti.chubu.ac.jp

E-mail:fs15041-4014@sti.chubu.ac.jp

E-mail:hf15032-6749@sti.chubu.ac.jp

Chubu University

Shoki Kobayashi(Japanese)

Yoshino Suzuki(Japanese)

Yurina Kai(Japanese)

3rd_year undergraduate student
English Language and Culture

1st-year undergraduate student
International Studies

4th_year undergraduate student
Food and Nutritional Sciences

E-mail:hf15013@sti.chubu.ac.jp

E-mail:na17081-4581@sti.chubu.ac.jp

E-mail:ft14014-0299@sti.chubu.ac.jp

Asian Institute of Technology

Nature reserves department

Institute of Space Technology

Prabhat Joshi(Nepalese)

Salah Khalfan Ali Alsakiti(Omani)Sumbul Jabbar(Pakistani)

Research Assistant
School of Environment,
Resources and Development

Graduate student,
Nature Reserves Department

E-mail: badiptawngla@gmail.com

E-mail: 81salah@gmail.com

Master student
Remote Sensing and GeoInformation System

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E-mail: sumbul.jabbar90@gmail.com

Ho Chi Minh City Institute ofResources Geography

Aung Sett Kyar Local
Development Organization

Institute of Technology ofCambodia

Ho Lam Truong(Vietnamese)

Moses Badip Tawng La(Burmese)

Meakh Sovanborey(Cambodian)

Graduated student

4th-year undergraduate student

4th_year undergraduate student

Geographic GIS and Remote Sensing
Research Center

Anglican Development Department

E-mail: truong360@gmail.com

E-mail: badiptawngla@gmail.com

Department of Geo-resource andGeotechnical Engineering
E-mail: msovanborey@yahoo.com

Bicol University

Hdm Stuttgart Germany,
UTCC Bangkok

Kathmandu University

Sarra L. Maravilla(Filipino)

Malte Grosse(German)Nimisha Wagle(Nepalese)

5th-year undergraduate student
Geodetic Engineering Department

4th-year undergraduate student
Business Informatics and DigitalMedia

4th-year undergraduate student
Geomatics engineering

E-mail:sarra.maravilla@bicol-u.edu.phE-mail: malte.grosse@googlemail.com

E-mail: wagle1996@gmail.com

Srinakharinwirot University

Istanbul Technical
University

Rungphet Singnawarat(Thai)

Gizem Sacihan(Turkish)

4th-year undergraduate student
Geography

4th-year undergraduate student
Geomatics Engineering

E-mail: badiptawngla@gmail.com

E-mail: gizem.sacihan@gmail.com

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5. Lecture Program
Date
14-20
Aug
21 Aug

22 Aug

23 Aug

25 Aug

28 Aug

Topic

Lecturer/Facilitator

RS-GIS Summer English Communication Program AIT Language Center
Ubiquitous Geoinformatics
Agriculture GIS
Global Climate Change Impact and Water
Resource
Mobile video processing platform for agricultural
Aerospace and Satellite technology
Location Based Services and FOSS
Linking Climate Information, Remote Sensing andModeling for Decision Support in Agriculture
Sensors and Big Data for Society
Agricultural Mechanization
UAV
Hand on : UAV experiment in the field andprocessing
Interoperable Geospatial Data Platform for Smart
Agriculture
Geospatial Analysis using FOSS

29 Aug
30 AugAgribusiness Management: Global Perspective
Smart Farm Initiative in Thailand
Alternative Future for a Ramsar Wetland: A casestudy from North East India
GNSS lecture and Hands on

Prof. Kiyoshi Honda
Prof. Nitin Kumar Tripathi
Dr. Sangam Shrestha
Dr. Matthew N. Dailey
Dr. Tai Nakamura
Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat
Dr. Amor V.M. Ines (online)
Dr. Apichon Witayangkurn
Dr. Peeyush Soni
Dr. Kumpee Teeravech
Dr. Kumpee Teeravech
Prof. Kiyoshi Honda
Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat &Assistant
Dr. John K. M. Kuwornu
Pisut Paiboonrat
Dr.Chitrini Mozumder
Dr. Sanit Arunpold

6. Field Trip ProgramDate
24 Aug
26 Aug
30 Aug
31 AugField Visiting
Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA)
Kung Krabaen Bay Royal Development Study Center
The Golden Jubilee Museum of Agriculture Office
PASCO (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Bang Krachao, Samut Prakan

87. Comments on Lectures
All participants were requested to give the feedbacks on the lecturers by submitting a homework
every day. The main purpose of a homework is to obtain what the participants have learned fromthe lecture and also, to get the comments and suggestions for further improvement. The tablebelow presents the result of participants’ submissions.
Name
Gizem Sacihan
Ho Lam Truong
Malte Grosse
Mamoru Sugimura
Masamitsu Kotone
Meakh Sovanborey
Misa Nishio
Moses Badip Tawng La
Nimisha Wagle
Prabhat Joshi
Rungphet Singnawarat
Salah Khalfan Ali Alsakiti
Sarra L. Maravilla
Shoki Kobayashi
Sumbul Jabbar
Yoshino Suzuki
Yurina Kai

21
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o

22
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o

23
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o

24
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o

August 201725 26 27
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

28
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o

29
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o

30
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o

31
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 from participants
related to that lecture will be presented.

9RS-GIS Summer English Communication Program
Conducted by: AIT Language Center, Date: 14-20 August 2017
The participants learned four skill of English
language including listening, speaking, reading
and writing. Also, they learned about the listening
process including the common problems inlistening and how to apply listening strategies intheir studies and lives. Moreover, the classintroduced the participants to listening andpresentation skills related to topics which
conducted in our program such as Remotesensing, GIS, Environmental problems, Climate Change and Global Warming. The lectures used
many methods in the class such as group discussion, brainstorming, and presentation to help theparticipants communicate efficiently. Furthermore, the participants got chance to communicate
with each other, interview foreigner students and presentation in English.
Masamitsu Kotone (3rd-year undergraduate student, Environmental Biology)“I would like to improve my English and presentation skills from this class.
Furthermore, we learned about type of environmental problems.”
Shoki Kobayashi (3rd-year undergraduate student, English Language and Culture)“I learned some knowledges about international environmental issues. From
this course, we also could study English to improve our skills.”
Misa Nishio (3rd-year undergraduate student, English Language and Culture)“I want to improve my English skills before starting next class. The
instructor is confused what I said. Therefore, I should improve mypronunciation. It was really good opportunity to learn about presentation
skills.”Yoshino Suzuki (1st-year undergraduate student, International Studies)“I joined this class as I want to improve my English skills. Before I studied
this course, I cannot present in public. In this course, I learned some ways
to presentation. This is my important experience.”
Mamoru Sugimura (2nd-year undergraduate student, English Language and Culture)“I joined this class to increase my English skills. I learned about speaking in
English and I am satisfied with this course.”
Yurina Kai (4th-year undergraduate student, Food and Nutritional Sciences)“I decided to join this class for improving my English skill. In this course, I
learnt how to presentation that is good for me.

10Ubiquitous Geoinformatics
Conducted by: Prof. Kiyoshi Honda, Date: 21 August 2017
The participants learned that the ubiquitous geoinformatics mean the acquisition of the geospatial
information by various applications anywhere andreal-time. The topic includes satellite remotesensing, field sensor network, real time mapping,modeling and simulation, and high-performancecomputing. The satellite technology enables thenear real-time information on Earth. Moreover,the lecturer introduces the utilization of high andlow resolution satellite in several benefits.
However, the technology that provide the realtime data is the field sensor network, compass camera and UAV.
Prabhat Joshi (Research Assistant School of Environment, Resources and Development)“I learnt about various sectors in which geoinformatics and associated tools
have been playing a part in getting meaning data for further processing. Theease with which improved data acquisition has been made possible has
revolutionised the simulation of real-time geospatioal data in agriculture,disaster, environment and socio-economic development as a whole. I plan to
use this as guidance while modelling urban water systems while pursuing my
Master's degree.”Misa Nishio (3rd-year undergraduate student, English Language and Culture)“I learned Ubiquitous Geoinformatics. It was my first time to learn about
Geoinformatics. If all people can use GIS it will help them, because it doesn't
have to acquire the data with from the airplane only. I think high school
should provide the students to take GIS class as it is useful for their future.”
Gizem Sacihan (4th-year undergraduate student, Geomatics Engineering)“I had chance to improve my knowledge about the sensor services andprojects/applications. We got both technical and more application side info
about the topics that were covered, which was really nice to have. It gave me
new ideas and topics to do research when I get back to my country.”
Yoshino Suzuki (1st-year undergraduate student, International Studies)“Most of the things I heard for the first time. But, I learned a lot of new system
for future. For example, there are many earthquakes in Japan. Thus, I thinkthat we can use Geoinformatics to know their effects and we know whatshould I do at first. And my uncle said that his farm doesn't use some new
system. Thus, I think that these technologies should be introduced to him
faster.”11

Agriculture GIS
Conducted by: Prof. Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Date: 21 August 2017
The participants learned about the basic ofRemote sensing and GIS. How to apply remotesensing and GIS in agriculture. Furthermore, theapplication of Remote sensing and GIS for
agriculture in many case studies such as Locating
Suitable Site for Cassava Plantation and Biofuel
Industry in Sa Kaeo, Thailand, Land
characterization for precision agriculture by
downscaling of remote sensing and Monitoring
agricultural drought using MODIS Temperature
Vegetation Dryness Index in Mae Nam Chi
Basin, Thailand.
Prabhat Joshi (Research Assistant School of Environment, Resources and Development)“I learnt about the history of remote sensing technology and its application inagriculture, particularly soil quality modelling. I found the concept ofstochastic modelling (downscaling) very interesting and plan to use it for
downscaling global climate models for a smaller region.”
Nimisha Wagle (4th-year undergraduate student, Geomatics engineering)“I learn about how to use GIS and remote sensing in precision agriculture andI also learned about basics of GIS and Remote sensing. I have learnt to use
remote sensing for better yield of crop and crop monitoring. I get knowledge
about use of remote sensing agriculture through the project work done byprofessor's student. I will apply this knowledge in my thesis and project work.
I am doing thesis on water quality monitoring and doing project on crop typemapping using Sentinel images. So, this course will help me to complete mythesis and as well as I will suggest everyone who is doing farming to use remotesensing technique in the farming for the better yield.”Gizem Sacihan (Undergraduate student Geomatics Engineering)“The analyze methods and comparisons were really useful to know. I willprobably try to use those methods (soil salinity level analyzes for example) andsee how it is working in the future.”
Misa Nishio (3rd_year undergraduate student English Language and Culture)“I learned agriculture GIS from this course. We can use that for Japanese
agriculture.”

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Global Climate Change and Water Resources Management
Conducted by: Dr. Sangam Shrestha, Date: 21 August 2017
The participants learned about the water
availability and water management challenges.
Firstly, the lecturer tried to emphasize theparticipants about the current situation about the
global water resources. Secondly, the observed
and expected impact of climate change on water
resources were presented. Thirdly, the lecturer
shows the adaptation to climate change such as
the seawater desalination plant or the reduction
in water demand for irrigation. Finally, the casestudy about the assessment of climate change
impacts on water availability and water transfer was highlighted to show the research on futureclimate scenarios.
Masamitsu Kotone (3rd-year undergraduate student, Environmental Biology)“I learned about Climate Change and Water Resources. The global
warming relates to sea level. Especially, sea level changing by theeffect of global warming. It causes some creature move to other places,
which change the local economy) and some seaweed can't make newgenerations.”
Rungphet Singnawarat (4th-year undergraduate student, Geography)“I learned that climate change refers to any change of air that occurs
due to internal and external processes, or caused by atmospheric or
terrestrial changes that come from human activities. It can be applied
to government policy planning about climate change issues.”
Meakh Sovanborey (4th-year undergraduate student, Department of Georesource and Geotechnical Engineering)“I really learned a lot from Dr.Sangam Shrestha's lecture since it issomething we familiar with. I got to know about the actual meaning ofclimate change and the causes as well as it's affection to the world bothin a good way or bad way. Moreover, I learned about the overview
relates to water resource such as the amount and its consumption fromthe world as well as the relationship between climate change and water
resource. However, since we know the bad side of climate change thatwill affect humanity and ecology system, this is the time we shouldfind the countermeasure and spreading to the whole world throughmedia or education, and of course I will be one as well who will share
this information to my country.”
Shoki Kobayashi (3rd-year undergraduate student, English Language andCulture)“I learned water resources and climate change. The things I learned inthis lecture gave me big topics that are going to be topic of myresearch.”
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Mobile video processing platform for agricultural
Conducted by: Dr. Matthew N. Dailey, Date: 22 August 2017
The participants learned about image processingin 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, 3D geometry and pinhole cameras,
Mapping with stereo vision and occupancy grids
and 3D modeling with time of flight cameras.
Salah Khalfan Ali Alsakiti (Graduate student, Nature Reserves Department)“He give us a new insight about using camera in monitoring with examples incrop monitoring. These technologies will save time and money.”

Ho Lam Truong (Graduate student, Geographic GIS and Remote Sensing Research Center)“I learn something about vision system, it have a lot of applications. Especially,
the application of vision system in agricultural is very helpful. Dr. Matthew N.
Dailey introduced us a Library for Support Vector Machines(https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/). It is very interesting to me. I will
try to learn about it after returning home. I think it is very useful for our researchon agricultural information systems”
Sarra L. Maravilla (5th-year undergraduate student, Geodetic Engineering)“I've learned that we can create a 3D geometry model for a plant through video
sequences and can be used in many application. I'm thinking of developing an
app that would give an automatic 3D model of a certain plant by applying close
range photogrammetry.”
Meakh Sovanborey (4th-year undergraduate student, Department of Geo-resource andGeotechnical Engineering)“I did learn a lot through this course such as the usages of vision system, how to
use SIFT to visualize the texture modeling of objects and use SVM to classify
the different objects by giving an maximum margin between those object (ex:classify/categorize between leaf and fruit). In agriculture, if both SIFT and SVM
success we can do the mapping which can give us lots of information like how
many plant we have or lose or how matured they are, and even how many workor problems we will have to deal with. If possible, in the future I want to use
video processing combine with UAV for monitoring purpose by obtaining
necessary information even agriculture or others.”

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Aerospace and Human Space Technology
Conducted by: Prof. Tai Nakamura, Date: 22 August 2017
This lecture separated into two main sections
which are “Aerospace and Human Space” and“Human Space Technology”. The objectives ofthe space engineering development are to go toouter space, to utilize resources in space, to build
infrastructures in space and to develop newtechnology. In the second part, the scientificresearches in space were presented to give thegeneral information about the Japaneseexperiments on the international space station.
Sumbul Jabbar (Master student, Remote Sensing and Geo-Information System)“The lecture was interesting till the end. I have learned a lot about What spaceengineering is and how it works. Moreover, I can understand the systemengineering and management behind space crafts, working of space stations,space garbage, different steps of air crafts and how it works.”
Salah Khalfan Ali Alsakiti (Graduate student, Nature Reserves Department)“The lecturer introduces us about airspace terminology and characteristics ofspace environment. We learn about how much efforts is prepared to havesuccessful trip in space. In addition, the lecturer mentioned about someexperiments done in space.”
Mamoru Sugimura (2nd-year undergraduate student, English Language and Culture)“Humans are attracting in space and I will apply it for watching sci-fi movies.”

Moses Badip Tawng La (4th-year undergraduate student, Anglican Development
Department)“I learned about the aerospace technology and human space technology in ourenvironment and around the earth. Different kinds of satellites are launch fromthe earth and positioned at the ISS in the galaxy.”
Yurina Kai (4th-year undergraduate student, Food and Nutritional Sciences)“I am interested in space debris especially.”15

Location Based Services and FOSS
Conducted by: Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat, Date: 22 August 2017
The participants learned about Location Based
Service, Augmented reality and Virtual reality,
how to apply Geoinformatics data to the Open
Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web service,
web GIS, software development efforts, online
data archives and applications.

Ho Lam Truong (Graduate student, Geographic GIS and Remote Sensing ResearchCenter)“Location-based services (LBS) is a great combination of GIS, the Internet
and mobile devices. With the development of cloud computing technology
and the rise of the number of mobile devices, LBS will have a lot of potential
to create useful applications for humans. I am very interested in theapplication LBS and AR in agriculture field data collection. Farmer or
researcher can afford for data collection process with mobile devices. This
gives me ideas to develop some applications for farmers in the Mekong Delta,
Vietnam.”
Rungphet Singnawarat (4th-year undergraduate student, Geography)“I learned about geographical location services. By using portable devices
such as mobile phones, PDAs or devices. Through the network of service
providers. Location Services It requires specialized equipment to connect tosatellites such as GPS receivers. However, the popularity of LBS and wirelesscommunications has increased to this day. Location Based Service (LBS) isa technology-based service. Wireless allows individuals or organizations toaccurately pinpoint the location of a wireless device user. And learned about
the new technology is AR which is very interesting for me. And I think it canbe applied in many ways. It is suitable for living in modern times and thefuture is modern, convenient and fast.”
Nimisha Wagle (4th-year undergraduate student, Geomatics engineering)“I learned many things from this lecture. I learned working principle oflocation based service. Different application of location based service andlearned about Augmented reality and virtual reality. I learned about how
augmented reality can be used to solve the real-life problem and how canthings be made easier. I will use the learning from this lecture in my future
work. as well as I will use the location based services in my daily work to
make it easier”

16Linking Climate Information, Remote Sensing and Modeling for Decision
Support in Agriculture
Conducted by: Dr. Amor V.M. Ines (online), Date: 23 August 2017
From this course, the participants learned about
the linking of the climate information to develop
the model for supporting in Agriculture. Firstly,
the topic about the climate risk management ispresented. Secondly, this management can help inthe decision in both of local and regional scale.
The decision at the local scale is farmers’ decision
analysis such as risk index for planning optimal
supplementary irrigation in dryland agriculture.
On the other hand, the decision at the regional
scale is the food security such as Philippines crop
yield prediction. Finally, the topic is the
improving information for decision support that
can increase the lead time and accuracy for decision support.
Malte Grosse (4th-year undergraduate student, Business Informatics and Digital Media)“Interesting research papers about El Nino and the effects on agriculture.
Interesting was the huge variety of public accessible data - will use this innear future for some side projects.”
Yurina Kai (4th-year undergraduate student, Food and Nutritional Sciences)“I've learned that decision analysis is important for both small-holder
agriculture and lager-scale farmers. For improving the decision support,
geoinformatics is a useful tool in improving the decision support,
geoinformatics is a useful tool. And also I've learned some current cause
study related to decision analysis for agriculture.”
Moses Badip Tawng La (4th-year undergraduate student, Anglican Development
Department)“I'd learned about the remote sensing, climate information and modeling for
decision support in agriculture. Fertilizer management and also water stressof plant.”
Sumbul Jabbar (Master student, Remote Sensing and Geo-Information System)“I learnt about climate change, effect of its change on fertilizers and risk
management considering the factors. I will apply it to analyze the crops
growth with the climate change.”17

Sensors and Big Data for Society
Conducted by: Dr. Apichon Witayangkurn, Date: 23 August 2017
The participants learned about the different of
data, information and knowledge. Also, theylearned about big data including meaning,
characteristics (i.e. Volume, Variety, Velocity
and Veracity), development and services &infrastructures. Moreover, the case studies andapplications such as Mobile phone as Humansensors and Emergency Evacuation.

Shoki Kobayashi (3rd-year undergraduate student, English Language and Culture)“I learned about big data and current uses of it. I had really nice time to hear
recent information which is useful in the future”

Gizem Sacihan (4th-year undergraduate student, Geomatics Engineering)“I had chance to have some further knowledge and idea about big data. It will
help me to come up with new ideas on terms of data collection or new
projects.”
Sarra L. Maravilla (5th-year undergraduate student, Geodetic Engineering)“I have learned the difference between data, information and knowledge. Datais the raw data represented by things and events, while information is the datathat has been processed to make it meaningful and lastly knowledge is theinformation plus decision parameters. I have also learned that Facebook dataand other social networking data like twitter and Instagram is a form of big
data and that it needs a larger capacity other than the current computing system
today. Moreover, big data has 4 Vs, Volume (data is increasing exponentially),
Variety (different types of data), Velocity (data should be processed fast) andVeracity (incomplete data).”
Sumbul Jabbar (Master student, Remote Sensing and Geo-Information System)“I learned about the concept of big data and its use. Difference between
database and big data applications. Got to know different applications that areusing big data. I will apply it to develop some application using big data.”

Mamoru Sugimura (2nd-year undergraduate student, English Language and Culture)“I have learned sensors and big data. So, I will apply it for my future.”18

Agricultural Mechanization
Conducted by: Dr. Peeyush Soni, Date: 23 August 2017
The main topic of the lecture is about themechanized agriculture and sustainability in
Asia-Pacific region: issues and challenge. Firstof all, the lecturer presented the global context
and world food security. Then, the mechanized
agriculture is the one of important thing toincrease agricultural production. Then, thesustainable agriculture is presented which havethree elements that are people, profit and planet.
Meakh Sovanborey (4th-year undergraduate student, Department of Geo-resource andGeotechnical Engineering)“I get to know about the concept of Sustainable Agriculture, an importanceideal relate to agriculture, which will be an effective countermeasure to foodmanagement problem in the future due to the increasing of the world
population. The concept of Sustainable Agriculture is to increase productivity,
labor, profit etc. using Human+Machine (= Mechanical Agriculture) as well as
decreasing the impact to environment. In this case, Agricultural Mechanization
will take an importance role in Sustainable Agriculture by not increasing thesize of machine used in agriculture, but use the technology application to adapt
convenience and affordable tools for everyone. Nowadays, we are standing
very far from Sustainable Agriculture, for achieving this ideal we have to startfrom now and education and advertisement will come first, then put them into
practice accompany by contribution from every fields relate to agriculture.”
Misa Nishio (3rd-year undergraduate student, English Language and Culture)“I learned Agricultural Mechanization. It is the issue about growing
population, which is hunger and malnutrition. However, we are in less thanhalf of the productive. Fifty percent increase in world population by 2050 while
we have little new land to bring into production. Agricultural development in
the AP region. Asian economic are undergoing in major transformation phase.”
Rungphet Singnawarat (4th-year undergraduate student, Geography)“I learned about the Mechanised agriculture is the process of using agricultural
machinery to mechanize the work of agriculture, greatly increasing farmworker productivity. In modern times, powered machinery has replaced many
farm jobs formerly carried out by manual labour or by working animals suchas oxen, horses and mules. Mechanisation was one of the large factors
responsible for urbanisation and industrial economies. Besides improving
production efficiency, mechanisation encourages large scale production andsometimes can improve the quality of farm produce. On the other hand, it candisplace unskilled farm labour and can cause environmental degradation (suchas pollution, deforestation, and soil erosion), especially if it is appliedshortsightedly rather than holistically.
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UAV lecture and Hand on : UAV experiment in the field and processing
Conducted by: Dr. Kumpee Teeravech, Date: 25 August 2017
The UAV lecture was conducted at Rambhai
Barni Rajabhat University, Chanthaburi. The
UAV lecture separate into three sessions. Firstly,
the lecturers presented the definition of UAV andthe its components, which are platform andsensor. Secondly, the lecturer showed the UAV
flight by the field experiment that using the DIY
UAV to capture the image inside the university.
Moreover, the participants learned about the useof “Mission Planner” which is the open source
application for flight planning. Finally, thelecturers taught the participants to use “Agisoft photoscan” for processing the UAV image to be
3D model.
Sumbul Jabbar (Master student, Remote Sensing and Geo-Information System)“About UAV, its components, working and how it is being utilized inagriculture sector, and processing of its collected data. I can use thisknowledge to produce different analysis regarding agriculture and othersectors.”
Sarra L. Maravilla (5th-year undergraduate student, Geodetic Engineering)“I have learned the components of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) namely,
platform (the vehicle type for the sensors like fixed wing, and multi-rotors,etc.), positioning sensors (Inertial Measurement Unit which includes
gyroscope and accelerometer), measurement sensors (commercial cameras),
main controller (APM or A2), data link telemetry for connecting thecontroller to the UAV and lastly the ground control system. I have also
learned that the term drone is the nickname for the UAV. And also, the 4 steps
in Structure from Motion (SfM), the feature detection, feature reconstruction,
sparse reconstruction and dense reconstruction. We have done those 4 steps
during the hands-on.”
Gizem Sacihan (4th-year undergraduate student, Geomatics Engineering)“I learned more about UAV and 3d modelling. It will be very useful for me
because I will be working on aerial photographs and 3d modelling next
semester in my internship”
Prabhat Joshi (Research Assistant School of Environment, Resources and Development)“I learnt about the fundamentals of UAV including its components andapplications. Most importantly, I learnt about the 3D model construction fromdigital surface models (DSM). I have long been interested in this topic, and I
hope to use this knowledge to bring 3D models of various watersheds tosimulate hydrologic and hydraulic features during my studies and career in
the near future.”
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Interoperable Geospatial Data Platform for Smart Agriculture
Conducted by: Prof. Kiyoshi Honda, Date: 28 August 2017
From this course, the participants learned theimportance of using geospatial data as the needof precision farming for higher productivity.
Moreover, the impact of climate change also theone challenge for smart agriculture. The lecturer
also demonstrated the topic about Agriculture
4.0 which have the objective to change mass
production to lean production. Finally, thefuture of smart agriculture was emphasized toparticipants which are vertical integration tohorizontal integration. Moreover, the sensors
will be the important components that can help for smart agriculture.
Malte Grosse (4th-year undergraduate student, Business Informatics and Digital Media)“I really like the idea to establish an international API. different file/dataformats causing a lot of issues, especially in the sensor environment.”

Misa Nishio (3rd-year undergraduate student, English Language and Culture)“I learned Interoperable Geospatial Data Platform for Smart Agriculture.
Growing population, increasing demand and living standard, however, wehave limited Land development and irrigation infrastructure, these are need ofprecision farming for higher productivity. Impacting crop growth, extreme
event, need of adaption, risk assessment and scenario are climate change
variability. He said no technology to predict for several months. verticallntegration to Horizontal integration, interoperable information platform, theseare future things.”
Sarra L. Maravilla (5th-year undergraduate student, Geodetic Engineering)“I have learned that precision farming using ICT is really a need for higher
crop productivity. And because of climate change which directly influences
agriculture, we need to perform scenario simulation to be able to know what
will happen in the future given by a set of parameters. And I will apply mylearning from this course in my future research study.”
Yoshino Suzuki (1st-year undergraduate student, International Studies)“I learned about some system. Many young generation can use this system andmore effectively. Even if it's difficult for me to understand this system.
However, if I could understand more about how to use it, it's very good systemfor our life. As it can be applied for everything.”

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Hand on: Geospatial Analysis using FOSS
Conducted by: Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat, Date: 28 August 2017
The participants learned about QGIS analysis
which is provided common functions andfeatures to provide a GIS data viewer.
Furthermore, they learned about Vector analysis.
They got chance to use QGIS software tounderstand GIS applications and solve sample
problem (dataset) using analysis tools.

Moses Badip Tawng La (4th-year undergraduate student, Anglican Development
Department)“Today, I have used the QGIS software. That is my first time to use it and try
to do mapping project. I learned how to make map, how to calculate thedistance and how to use to solve a problem. This is very useful and I got very
adventure experiences of QGIS mapping within at the lecture.”
Yoshino Suzuki (1st-year undergraduate student, International Studies)“It's difficult for me to understand this system because this is first time. It'svery good system for our life. It can be used for everything.”

Ho Lam Truong (Graduate student, Geographic GIS and Remote Sensing ResearchCenter)“QGIS is a very powerful open source software. It provides the same GIS
functionality as commercial software such as ArcGIS. I learned how to open
spatial data, how to queries, how to analyze spatial data, how to create a
simple map in QGIS software. With a sample dataset about agriculture, I
understand the steps for analyzing agricultural data based on different
situations. QGIS is open source software but it provides full functionality of
GIS software. So, I think it is very useful for our researches when we cannot
buy commercial software licenses.”
Shoki Kobayashi (3rd-year undergraduate student, English Language and Culture)“It was first time to use this kind of application, but I could make map throughthe system. This kind of opportunity will make my presentation or researchmore interesting!”

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Agribusiness Management: Global Perspective
Conducted by: Dr. John K. M. Kuwornu, Date: 29 August 2017
The participants learned about food andagribusiness such as growth of the food andagribusiness system, contemporary issues inagribusiness and systems approach to agroindustrial analysis. Moreover, the lecturer
explains more sample case studies.

Salah Khalfan Ali Alsakiti (Graduate student Nature reserves department)“I was very interactive lecture.we learn about the concept of agribussiness andits relation to food. Also, how things change with time regarding agribussinessand the challenges associated with it. In addition, that all process are in relatedchanges(cycle) which interact with each other.”
Masamitsu Kotone (3rd-year undergraduate student Environmental Biology)“I leaned about agribusiness management. If I open a business of agriculture, itwill be very important.”

Malte Grosse (Undergraduate student Business Informatics and Digital Media)“Very interesting to see all stakeholders who are involved into the foodproduction process. There are many steps in these processes which can be
optimized by using iot.”
Ho Lam Truong (Graduate student Geographic GIS and Remote Sensing Research Center)“I learned about the growth of the food and agribusiness system. The modern
food and agribusiness system is the chain includes: input supply sector; the farm
sector, the processing and distribution sector. The contemporary issues inagribusiness includes: globalization, information and ICT, food quality andsafety, biotechnology, consumer driven supply chain. I think on the trend of
globalization and the development of information technology, the production
and distribution of agriculture should be related to business. We need to know
about our customers and their needs.”
Nimisha Wagle (Undergraduate student Geomatics engineering)“In this lecture I learned about the agribusiness in global perspective. I learned
about the sectors of modern food and agribusiness system. I also learned about
different components of them. I learned about the keys issues i.e. contemporary
issues in the agribusiness. I also learned about systems approach to agro
industrial analysis and. Learned about the various linkages which play great rolein agro industry.”23

Smart Farm Initiative in Thailand
Conducted by: Mr. Pisut Paiboonrat, Date: 29 August 2017
The participants learned about the smart
agriculture project in Thailand. The lecturer
started with the new technology and innovation
approach for Thailand 4.0. The role of ICTs inagriculture is the one important topic forsupporting the smart farmers. The example ofE-agriculture solutions is the data visualization
named “AgriMap and What2Grow” provided
as web mapping service. Not only the location
based service, there are also the development inArea based service such as field operators from
UAV or sensor.
Rungphet Singnawarat (4th-year undergraduate student, Geography)“learned about Smart Farm or Intelligent Agriculture. It is a new farming modelthat will make farming practices immune to climate change. By applying climate
information at both the sub-level and the macro level. Used in management Carefor the crop To be consistent with the weather. Including weather preparedness
will change in the future. By the way. High precision farming or high precision
agriculture.”
Yoshino Suzuki (1st-year undergraduate student, International Studies)“I learned some problem about the current agriculture such as lack of farmer likes
young generations and climate change. It need new production and change in theway of life. We should think about new technology, utilization of knowledge andinformation.”
Ho Lam Truong (Graduate student, Geographic GIS and Remote Sensing Research Center)“1. Today, the world is changing (more population, climate change, reduction infarm land...). The application of high technology to agriculture is necessary.
Based on the development of technology, we can produce more agricultural
products with high quality. Today, the definition of farmers has changed. They
may be traditional farmers, new generations of farmers, or scientists.
2. The applications on this WebGIS platform and mobile applications, sensor
network system, remote sensing etc. is being used very effectively in Thailand.
3. I will try smart agricultural software that are introduced by Dr. Pisut
Paiboonrat in this lecture.”
Moses Badip Tawng La (4th-year undergraduate student, Anglican Development
Department)“Smart farms are growing by utilizing science and technology to be faster andmore efficient while growing and producing food supply. Smart farming touches
every aspect of farming technology, from water conservation and animal welfare
to sustainability and habitat conservation.”24

Alternative Future for a Ramsar Wetland: A case study from North East India
Conducted by: Dr. Chitrini Mozumder, Date: 29 August 2017
The participants learned the meaning of wetland
and its importance. The wetland is the area thatwater is the primary factor controlling theenvironment, plant and animal. The lecturer
demonstrated the case study in “Deepor Beel
Wetlands, Assam, India”. The main objective of
this research is to simulate urban and agricultural
growth.

Masamitsu Kotone (3rd-year undergraduate student, Environmental Biology)“I learned about wetland. This is my first time to heard about the wetland.
Moreover, this lecture let me realize that there is some problem if the riverdisappears.”
Sarra L. Maravilla (5th-year undergraduate student, Geodetic Engineering)“I have learned the importance of wetlands in the ecosystem and disastermanagement (acts as a natural storm water basin) and learned that we need totake care our wetlands from the growing population of our country.”
Mamoru Sugimura (2nd-year undergraduate student, English Language and Culture“I have learned India's society and it was our first time a woman's professor so
I'm really interested in it.”
Meakh Sovanborey (4th-year Undergraduate student, Department of Geo-resource andGeotechnical Engineering)“Wetland refers to area where water is the primary factor controlling theenvironment and the associate plant and animals. In Dr.Chitrini Mozumder'slecture had also shown about the importance of wetland as its habitat (nesting,spawning, resting site for aquatics and land species or food chain productionetc.). Moreover, it still relates to hydrology (protect other area from wave
action and erosion, storage etc.), as well as contribution to protect water quality
or water filtration and purification. Beside from that, from the lecture we get toknow that wetland is worth to protecting and preserving by showing the
economic data from different countries. In order to preserve wetland, we needto deal with its major problem, population growth. Since the increasing of
population, it also increases the demand and pollution that reduce the wetland.
A lesson about wetland also have been put into our education since secondary
school, and of course we have been preserving wetland as well.”25

GNSS lecture and Hands on
Conducted by: Dr. Sanit Arunpold, Date: 30 August 2017
The participants obtained the basic knowledge andconcept about GNSS which are GNSS products,
GNSS requirements, GPS segment, the principle ofmeasurement, orbit comparison and GPS positioning.
Moreover, they learned how use GPS. Moreover, theylearned GPS type and application.

Shoki Kobayashi (3rd-year undergraduate student, English Language andCulture)“I learned the uses of satellite and used one of them for real. It was thefirst time to use that kind of machine, but it was useful. I hope I willcontinue to use for my research.”
Salah Khalfan Ali Alsakiti (Graduate student, Nature Reserves Department)“We learn about GNSS and how gps works. The game part in this class
was very good in which we find out the locations.”

Masamitsu Kotone (3rd-year undergraduate student, Environmental Biology)“I leaned about GPS and GNSS. I’m surprised Japan have many GPS
antenna. I usually use GARMIN device when I ride bicycle. I need toknow how that device is receive the data from satellite.”
Prabhat Joshi (Research Assistant School of Environment, Resources andDevelopment)“This lecture on GNSS helped me understand the progression andapplications of navigation systems to detect the space and time
dimensions of an object to a pinpoint accuracy. I will use this knowledge
in my further studies and profession for spatial and temporal analyses ofobjects.”
Gizem Sacihan (4th-year undergraduate student, Geomatics Engineering)“We have learned about GPS applications and the technical knowledge
behind it. I will use it for both my technical and personal life for sure.”26

8. Comments on Field Trip
GISTDA Sriracha
Date: 24 August 2017
GISTDA is a public and core organization ofThailand. GISTDA was established on
November 3, 2000. GISTDA is responsible forspace all technology and geo-information
activities. Today, GISTDA is developing aworldwide network of distributors to allow theusers to use and access to all GISTDA
products.

Yurina Kai (4th-year undergraduate student, Food and Nutritional Sciences)“I have learned the basic information about satellite system and I have
known the satellite of Thailand name Theos. I have also seen the actual dataacquisition of satellite.”
Salah Khalfan Ali Alsakiti (Graduate student, Nature Reserves Department)“It was the first time I have visited an agency that manage space satellite.
They teach us about Thai satellite and introduce us about their center andvarious applications that satellite support the country.”
Shoki Kobayashi (3rd-year undergraduate student, English Language and Culture)“I learned about the satellite system and the fundamental of RS and spacesatellite technology. We also could see many facilities even satellite control
center. This opportunity was one of the greatest memory.”
Nimisha Wagle (4th-year undergraduate student, Geomatics engineering)“I have learned about the Thai satellite Theos and the all the project that
Thailand currently working on. I learned about the satellites and its types
and the application of the Theos. I learned about the band designation of
the Theos. I visited the science museum and learned about the gyroscopeand viewed the history of the earth. I saw the map of the earth. It was goodexperience for me.”27

Kung Krabaen Bay Royal Development Study Center
Date: 17 August 2017
Kung Krabaen project is the Royal initiative,
which is “To consider a suitable area fordevelopment of Fisheries and Agriculturalactivities on Chanthaburi coastal zone”. The fourmain objectives of this project are 1) To Preserveof natural resources on mountain in order toprevent degradation of forest, soil and freshwater.
2) To provide the suitable technique andknowledge for the agricultural extension on
lowland. 3) To manage the coastal zone such as
mangrove areas or seawater irrigation for shrimp
culture. 4) To develop oriented tourism for showing the centre’s awareness. With this program,the participants got a chance to observe the harvesting shrimp. Then, the participants went to the
crab bank and the growing of vegetation inside the project.
Rungphet Singnawarat (4th-year undergraduate student, Geography)“I learned Khung Kraben Bay Royal Development Study Centre is situated on
the coast of Chanthaburi Province and was established in 1981 as a result of His
Majesty the King’s concern about the deterioration of the mangroves. His
Majesty recognized the importance of the mangroves to people’s lives andsought to rehabilitate the fisheries and mangrove forests in this region andmaintain the equilibrium of the ecosystems. Besides the development of coastal
marine resource management and sustainable ecosystems in the region, theCentre’s goal is to promote the preservation of natural resources for the local
people and visitors.”
Sumbul Jabbar (Master student, Remote Sensing and Geo-Information System)“Different procedures that are being used to save the endangered species,
irrigation system, different techniques that can be applied in the home garden
and can be source of income by learning in the center.”Gizem Sacihan (4th-year undergraduate student, Geomatics Engineering)“I had chance to have knowledge about the current developments andapplications about farming and ship farming. It was nice to not to just hear about
it but also to have chance to visit the fields.”
Malte Grosse (4th-year undergraduate student, Business Informatics and Digital Media)“Very interesting is the low cost and high sustainable agriculture(tomates/melons). The area is very calm and beautiful. The supporting to local
shrimp farmers is really good. It is very good that the King supported theseprojects.”

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The Golden jubilee Museum of Agriculture Office
Date: 30 August 2017
This museum is the learning tourist attraction,
which have both of indoor and outdoor museums.
The participants have the chance to observe at
The King Loves Us Museum”. This museum
shows the talents of His Majesty the King in
agriculture, royal rituals related to agriculture.
Moreover, the museum also presented about thetraditional of Thailand such as market, old style
shop or old house. After the sightseeing aroundthe museum, the participants viewed the 3D
animation about the talents of His Majesty theKing in the Rainmaking story.
Sarra L. Maravilla (5th-year undergraduate student, Geodetic Engineering)“I've seen and learned the traditional farming lifestyle of Thailand people. I've
learned how good their King was whenever there are problems and difficulties
with regards to agriculture and farming as it was shown in the short movie
presented in the museum.”
Meakh Sovanborey (4th-year Undergraduate student, Department of Geo-resource andGeotechnical Engineering)“We live with nature, so we have to preserve it but we need the cooperationfrom everyone. Beside from that, I got to know more about Thailand by seeing
lots figures and structures indicate to Thai's culture.”
Yurina Kai 4th_year undergraduate student, Food and Nutritional Sciences“I learned about history of agriculture in Thailand. I got to know about Thaiking’s contribution to the agriculture sectors of Thailand.”Rungphet Singnawarat (4th-year undergraduate student, Geography)“I learned about the honor and genius of the Thai monarchy and therelationship. In agriculture from past to present Including Royal Projects,
Royal Duties and Royal Ceremonies involving with the agriculture. I think it
can be applied in everyday life. There are enough economic theories that canbe applied.”
Moses Badip Tawng La (4th-year undergraduate student, Anglican Development
Department)“Today, when I'd finished my lunch, I'd visited to the Golden Jubilee Museumof Agriculture Office in the afternoon. The museum depicts the developmentof agriculture and modern agricultural technology, forestry, fishery, animalhusbandry, and ecology. I'd watched the 3D movie as well.”29

PASCO (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Date: 31 August 2017
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.

Moses Badip Tawng La (4th-year undergraduate student, Anglican Development
Department)“PASCO company is high technological Japanese company running in somecountries and they are working mainly is to adjustment to ortho photo, convert
to 3D mapping. The one of my observation is very important which is datacollecting. Before they are doing their mapping 2D or 3D whatever firstly they
are collecting and surveying to get the real data.”
Prabhat Joshi (Research Assistant School of Environment, Resources and Development)“I learnt about the human resource and management team required to produce
reliable geospatial data that could be used for everyday use.”
Meakh Sovanborey (4th-year undergraduate student, Department of Geo-resource andGeotechnical Engineering)“From PASCO, I got to know how RS and GIS actually contribute in businessas there are many projects like Mapping from Arial photography, Orthophotoproduction, GPS, MMS, POI, surveying which PASCO have been working on
and have been finished processed by many applications. Seeing engineers
working real time from up close really get me motivated and know more about
how hard and time-consuming it is to work on project relate Geospatial.”
Nimisha Wagle (4th-year undergraduate student, Geomatics engineering)“Today we went to PASCO which is the world's leading geospatial lab andwhose headquarter is in Japan which does mapping from aerial photography,
Orthophoto production , GPS survey, POI and many more. Today we went to
the different units of the Thai PASCO and learned different things like how tomake ortho photo from the images and how to digitize the image from theorthophoto how to add POIs etc..”

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Bang Krachao, Samut Prakan
Date: 31 August 2017
Bang Krachao have been known as the “green
lungs” of the Bangkok. The participants havethe opportunity to go to “Herbal Joss StickHome”, which is the eco-tourism for teaching
the adaptation of agricultural or natural
products. In this place, the participants learned
how to color the fabric with the traditional waysof Thailand. Then, we moved to the “SriNakhon Kuenkran Park” for cycling the bicycle.
This park are famous as they are the oasis oftrees, lakes, and trails.
Meakh Sovanborey (4th-year Undergraduate student, Department of Geo-resource andGeotechnical Engineering)“Painting fabric by ourselves is really enjoyable. We learned how to create
many patterns like colorful large spiral or shell out of single color or various
colors. Beside from that cycling around Bang Kra Chao is also excited since
we can enjoy nature by watching birds, fishes and trees while cycling. I also
learned the real name of an animal species that I thought it was Komodo
dragon, but actually they are water monitor or tree monitor.”
Shoki Kobayashi (3rd-year undergraduate student, English Language and Culture)“We experienced some activities through the trip of Bang Kra Chao. We
enjoyed cycling in the park and dyeing. It was first time to do that, so a thing I
dyed will be good memory for my life.”
Yurina Kai 4th_year undergraduate student, Food and Nutritional Sciences“I learned that how to make traditional dyed clothes. I could also make it easily
and happily.”

Yoshino Suzuki (1st-year undergraduate student, International Studies)“I learned Thai traditional stuff. It's interesting for me!”Mamoru Sugimura (2nd-year undergraduate student, English Language and Culture“I have learned how to make colorful fabric”

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

Overall Satisfaction with English Communication
ProgramVery Satisfied
Satisfied
NeutralDissatisfied
Very Dissatisfied
Very Satisfied
100%

The lectures on Geoinformatics and issues on sustainable
development are interesting for you
Agree
24%

Strongly Agree
Agree
NeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree
Strongly Agree76%

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

Strongly Agree

Agree
Agree
35%

NeutralStrongly Agree59%

DisagreeStrongly Disagree

Lecture materials, facilities, equipment and supplies wereappropriate for the program
Disagree6%
Neutral12%

Strongly Agree
Agree
NeutralStrongly Agree53%

DisagreeAgree
29%Strongly Disagree

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Hand on in OpenSource (QGIS) and GPS-GNSS are
improved your technical Geoinformatics skill
Neutral6%

Strongly Agree
Strongly Agree
35%

Agree
NeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree

Agree
59%

The amount of lecture classes, study hours or time
dedicated to academic learning were sufficient for you
Disagree18%

Strongly Agree
Agree

Neutral6%

NeutralStrongly Agree
59%

Agree
17%

DisagreeStrongly Disagree34Visiting Geoinformatics organizations (government &private sectors) are good opportunity to learn and build
capacity for you
Agree
24%

Strongly Agree

Agree
NeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree
Strongly Agree76%

Accommodation at Sirindhorn Science Home (SSH) is
comfortable and safe for you
Neutral6%

Strongly Agree

Agree
18%

Agree
NeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree
Strongly Agree76%

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You are happy with the choice of curricular andextracurricular activities during this program
Disagree6%Strongly Agree

Agree

Agree
29%

NeutralDisagreeStrongly Agree
65%

Strongly Disagree

You learned the local culture through local life style likeplaces, food, people, etc.
Neutral6%

Strongly Agree
Agree
23%

Agree
NeutralDisagreeStrongly Agree
71%

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Strongly Disagree

You are happy with the quality and taste of food, drinks
and snacks provided for your study brake
Neutral12%

Strongly Agree

Agree
NeutralAgree
29%
Strongly Agree59%

DisagreeStrongly 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 the Summer
School in Bangkok 2017 program
Neutral6%

Very Satisfied

Satisfied
18%

Satisfied
NeutralDissatisfied
Very Dissatisfied
Very Satisfied
76%

Top rank preferable organizations
Bang Kachao
5%

GISTDA

PASCO
27%

GISTDA
42%

Kun Kraben Bay
The Golden Jubilee
PASCO

The Golden Jubilee
8%

Bang Kachao
Kun Kraben Bay
18%

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The second part shows suggestions from participants as follows.
❖ This course is good opportunity for me to meet scientists and scholars in the field of
remote sensing, GIS, agriculture, computer science, environment and etc. I am reallyinterested in lectures. Because the lectures are very suitable for my work. Teachers
introduced about modern technologies and smart applications in agriculture. So, I will
study about them after returning home. I have very interesting and useful field trips. It
helped me understand more about culture and development of Thailand. I am very
grateful for the help of teachers and assistants.
❖ This camp has many experiences. Both knowledge and good friends. Thank You forthis camp.
❖ This program is really get me motivated and I got to learned a lot more than expected.
Thank to this program, my point of view is really change a lot to a better side. My mostappreciations are I got to enjoy the lectures, my stay in Thailand as well as my visiting
to many different places. My only request is I want to have more lecture than that,
because all the lectures is very interesting.
❖ Everything was managed perfectly and I would like to thank to AIT :)❖ I'd enjoyed all the lectures in the class and visiting outside for sensing are very niceopportunities to get the experiences. I'm very appreciate for this summer school at the
AIT, which is the participants are come from different backgrounds, countries andmulti-national. Thank you!
❖ I'm really happy to attend this camp. In addition, I would like to say thank you to all
lecturers and assistants. They always helped us and be nice to us.
❖ I have good experience here. I leaned about new things. And I made new friends whocome from other countries.
❖ The hands-on exercises should be expanded and the theoretical lectures should becomplemented with practical exercises.
❖ Thank you❖ It was a really nice time. Really good job Peam & Nut done. Few minor things I would
improve in organization: half day classes, and afternoon practical trainings, because
three classes per day is a bit hard to listen too. Thank you all khab.
❖ Thank you all for everything it was great to be in here. I hope I was a good participant.
I love you all <3❖ Thank you for three weeks. I can't speak English enough, but I really happy to join thisprogram. I thought that I should be more study English. This program is very important
experience for my life. I will change my life.
❖ I had a good time three week. Thank you so much, Nut and Peam. I made new friends
who tell me about their religion, culture and lifestyles. I realize that it is important tounderstand other countries. I want to know more about English to be able tocommunicate with other people from other countries.
❖ Thank you very much for nice organization. I hope if we could receive electronic
version of course materials (as black and white handout sometime not easy to read afterclass). I wish if there was more practical exercise in the lab.
❖ I had so many new learnings and had so many awesome experiences. Thank you! All
the best! :)❖ It was very difficult to understand all lectures but I'm interested in agriculture from
Summer School. I'm so happy to meet many people.
❖ Overall is good. I enjoyed the stay at the Thailand.

3910. Conclusion and Recommendation
The Asian Summer School in Bangkok 2017 Program was organized by the cooperation from
AIT and Chubu University which it aims the participants to gain more experience and knowledge,
especially in the issue of “Geoinformatics for Sustainable Agriculture”. Additionally, activities
such as hands-on were provided for the participants to improve their technical skills for theircareer. Furthermore, under the international society, they could learn and exchange the different
cultures via many Field Visit and activities such as Pizza Party and field trip at Chanthaburiprovince to build a good relationship with each other.
According to the result of program evaluation, 76% of participants voted that they are verysatisfied in the overall satisfaction of the program. In parts of the satisfaction of each statement
had the average score in 4 to 5. The participants voted that the multicultural environment of thiscamp had the highest score.
Anyway, there was some suggestion from participants obtained from program evaluation.
Mostly, participants gain knowledge, friendship and new experiences. Some students realized
the importance of English skill and have the motivation for focusing on practicing the English
skills after going back to hometown. Some students mentioned about the difficulties ofunderstanding all the lectures as our lecturers come from many countries and have different
accent. However, the organizer solved this problem by recording the video during the class andupload them for the participants. Moreover, some participants commented that the three-weekperiod of this camp was not sufficient and recommend us to have longer period for this camp.
Some participants also want to have more lecture as all lectures during the camp were interesting.
For the lecture classes, some participant also suggested that we should organize the program to
be only half day classes and change the program in the afternoon to be practical training.
However, they have some limitation about the management such as transportation, budget andstaff. Furthermore, some participants commented about the lecture material or handout. Someparticipant wanted the color version of course material and some participant complain that they
were some lecture that do not provide the lecture material. The organizers solve this problem by
uploading the electronic version of material and send them to the participants. However, lack ofsome lecture material occurred as it was the problem of requesting the lecture material from thelecturer that should process in advance. Furthermore, the participants also mentioned about thesound system facilities during the online lecture that should be clearly and loudly.
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 who requested
to eat only some certain food. Hence, to discuss about preferable types of food for individual
participant should be done before starting the program. In addition, the requirement about the
spicy or non-spicy food should be added to registration form.
In summary, the program achieved the main purpose that the participants could gain someexperience and knowledge related to GIS for sustainable agriculture. According to the evaluation,
most of the participants were very satisfied with the program and from the assignment asked tosubmit, the participants could give interesting answer with their deep understanding andinspiration from each lecture. Also, this program could successfully motivate the participants togain more enthusiasm for exploring knowledge in RS-GIS and pursue higher education level in
AIT or other universities. Most importantly, the program could build international relationshipwhich will be expanded our RS-GIS network, and finally become strong connection which will
support each other in the future.

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Appendix 1: Program Photo Gallery

Opening Ceremony
21 August 201641

Lectures
21 August -1 September 201742

Relax Time: Pizza Party & Presentation
21 August 201743

Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency(GISTDA)
24 August 201744

Chanthaburi province
24 - 27 August 201745

Kun Kraben Royal King Project
26 August 201746

Hand on : UAV experiment in the field and processing
24 August 201747

Hands Geospatial Analysis using FOSS
28 August 201748

Relax Time: Party with GIS & Remote Sensing Student
29 August 2017

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GNSS
30 August 201750

The Golden Jubilee Museum of Agriculture Office
30 August 201751

PASCO (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
31 August 201752

Bang Krachao
31 August 201753

Individual Presentation & Closing Ceremony
1 September 201754

Appendix 2: Questionnaire

SurveySummer School in Bangkok 2017
Geoinformatics for Sustainable Agriculture
21 August - 1 September2017
Strongly
Agree

Agree

NeutralDisagreeStrongly
Disagree

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

3. Lecture materials, facilities, equipment
and supplies were appropriate for the
program

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

4. Hand on in OpenSource (QGIS) and
GPS-GNSS are improved your technicalGeoinformatics skill

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

5. The amount of lecture classes, study
hours or time dedicated to academic
learning were sufficient for you

(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)

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

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.

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Very
Very
Satisfied Neutral Dissatisfied
Satisfied
Dissatisfied

12. Overall, please rate yoursatisfaction score for the Summer
School in Bangkok 2017 program

(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
Kun Kraben Bay Royal Development Study Center
Bang Kachao
GISTDAThe Golden Jubilee Museum of Agriculture OfficeComment & Suggestion:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for your cooperation

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