REPORT
Asian Summer School
2014

Geoinformatics and Issues on Sustainable
Development in Asia

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Sponsors Support:

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

Earth System Science Co., Ltd Japan

SIAM MITSUI PTA Co., Ltd., Thailand

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER

TITLE

PAGE

1

Summary

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2

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3

PurposeParticipants

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Lectures Program

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Field Trips Program

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Comments on Lectures

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8

Comments on Field Trips30

Program Evaluation

41

9

Conclusions for Improvements

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10Appendix 1

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Appendix 2

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1. Summary
With the cooperation of the Chubu Institute of Advanced Studies, Chubu University, and Remote
Sensing and GIS (RS&GIS) Field of Study, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) organized the “Asian
Summer School in Bangkok 2014” program from August 18th to August 29th, 2014 at AIT,
Pathumthani, Thailand. The theme of the program was “Geoinformatics and Issues on Sustainable
Development in Asia”.
A total of 21 participants from 13 universities and organizations located in 11 different countries
participated in this program. From Japan, six participants from Chubu University joined. Among ofparticipants from Japan, there were four undergraduate students (Linguistics, English and English
Culture, International relations and Comparative Culture) and two master students (Bioscience andBiotechnology). Moreover, there are one Taiwanese participants from Feng Chia University (Urban
Planning and Spatial Information), one Indonesian lecturer from Halu Oleo University (Architecture),
one Vietnamese undergraduate students from Ho Chi Minh City University of Science (Oceanology,
Remote Sensing and GIS), one Laotian researcher from Department of Environmental Sciences,
National University of Laos, one GIS staff from Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU),
UNDP, one Cambodian undergraduate from Institute of Technology of Cambodia (general study),
Ph.D Indian student from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (ICTs in spatio-temporal issues innatural resources informatics) and one Indian staff from Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone
Limited (APSEZ). Additionally, there are four Thai participants, one undergraduate students from
Silapakorn University (Environmental Science Department), two undergraduate students from
Srinakharinwirot University (Geography) and one staff from SIAM MITSUI PTA Co., Ltd.,(Environmental Engineer). Lastly, there were three participants from AIT which include one Nepali
master student (RS&GIS), one Burmese master student from Energy and one Sri Lankan undergrad
student from mechatronics.
Several lectures and field trips were conducted during the 12 days of this program. Thirteen lecturers
and two hands-on from Chubu University with the different Field of Study in AIT (Remote Sensing &GIS, Computer Science and Information Management, Energy, Agricultural, and Water Engineeringand Management) and two external lecturers from Feng Chia University and Feng Chia University
were invited to provide the lectures on issues related on Geoinformatics and sustainable developmentin Asia. Moreover, nine visits and field trips were conducted to connect what participants learned from4

Asian Summer School 2014lectures with the real world. Participants visited PASCO (Thailand) (Air Survey Company, Japan),National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC), Srinagarind Dam (hydroelectric power plants in
Thailand), Safari Park Open Zoo & Camp, Space Krenovation Park (GISTDA), Grand Palace, Nitas
Rattanakosin Exhibition Hall, Sunny Bangchak Learning Center (Solar farm) and Ayutthaya Historical
Park. Furthermore, it is also to stimulate motivation of undergraduate students to endeavor start theirown research.
English is used as the mean communication in lectures and daily life during the program. It made adeep impression of importance of globalization to the participants. However, in order to prepare
participants ready for English lectures and communication during the program, English class which isorganized by AIT language center was provided. During the program, we also requested participants
to share their background, interest and expertise that crossed cultural and disciplinary boundaries.
Participants made new friends from different countries as the international society. We received many
positive comments that it is a wonderful time, which support the fact that Asian Summer School 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 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 ofTechnology and Chubu University dated September 16, 2011. This program is also planned by Chubu
University as a milestone towards Asia Campus project of MEXT, Japan, for which Chubu University,
AIT, Pukyong National University and Fuzhou University in China are jointly applying.
In addition, we would like to thank each department and personnel of Chubu University, Division of
Academic Affairs and RS&GIS FoS, 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., Tjapan
for their financial support to establish this program. We would like to thank to each organization andindividual who participated and some of whom shoulder their own expenses.

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2. Purpose
The participants will learn issues what related to sustainable development in Asia, GIS, and how doesit 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 andproblems accompanying the advance in Asia through field trip. All lectures will delivered in English.
The participants will experience absorbing knowledge in English and understand its importance. Thissummer school will help participants to have international sense and awareness of the problem for theparticipants’ thesis.

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3. Participants

Universities and Organizations:

Chubu University

Asian Institute ofTechnology

Adani Ports & SEZ LIMITEDFENG CHIA UNIVERSITY,TAIWAN

Indian Institute ofTechnology,
BombayINDIAN INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY BOMBAY,
INDIA
Institute of Technology ofCambodia

SIAM MITSUI PTA Co., Ltd.,

Myanmar Information
INSITUTE
OF
Srinakharinwirot
Management Unit
TECHNOLOGY
UniversityOF
CAMBODIA,CAMBODIA

Silapakorn University

University of Haluoeo

Vietnam Academic of
Science and Technology

Countries:

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
OF LAOS,
LAOS
SIAM MITSUI PTA Co., Ltd.,THAILANDSILAPAKORNUNIVERSITY,

National Universityof Laos

Feng Chia University

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Chubu University

Hirofumi Abe
Undergraduate Student 3
English Language and Culture

Miyu Hoshino
Undergraduate Student 1
International Relations

Jessica Nakagawa
Undergraduate Student 2
Comparative Culture

Ryusei Kobayashi
Undergraduate Student 2
English Language and Culture

Mari Takazawa
Master Student 1
Bioscience and Biotechnology

Nami Umemoto
Master Student 1
Bioscience and Biotechnology

Srinakharinwirot University

Silapakorn University

Nuttawut Muenkaw
Undergraduate Student 3
Geography

Metinee Thooppradit
Undergraduate Student 4
Geography

Anthikar Marungruenag
Undergraduate Student 4
Environmental Science

SIAM MITSUI PTA Co., Ltd.,

National University of Laos

MIMU

Panita Prucpirojkul
Engineer
Environmental Engineering

Vilakhan Xayaphet
Researcher
Environmental Sciences

Ma Mya Winn
GIS AssistantGeography

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Indian Institute ofTechnology, Bombay

Mrunalini Badnakhe
Ph.D. Student 1
ICTs in Spatio-temporal issues
in natural resources informatics

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Adani Ports & SEZ LIMITED

Feng Chia University

Sujay Chokshi
Sr. GIS Analyst
Master PlanningYi Ting Chen
Master Student 1
Urban Planning andSpatial Information

Asian Institute of Technology

Kannathasan Rajaratnam
Undergraduate Student 4
Mechatronics

Thaw Thaw Phyu Htoon
Master Student 2
EnergyAdani Ports & SEZ LIMITED

Adani Ports & SEZ LIMITED

Chhunhong Kaing
Undergraduate Student 2
General Study

Nguyen Duy Khang
Undergraduate Student 4
Oceanology, Meteorology and Hydrology

Shulaxan Sharma
Master Student 2
RS&GIS

University of Halu Oleo

La Ode Abdul Syukur
Lecturer
Architecture

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4. Lecture program
All lectures delivered by AIT and other staffs.
Date
18 Aug

19 Aug

20 Aug

22 Aug

25 Aug

Topic

Lecturer

English Communication

Language Center

Ubiquitous Geo-informatics

Prof. Kiyoshi Honda

RS/GIS Activities in Myanmar Information Management
Unit

Mr. Khun San Aung

Geoinformatics and Applications

Dr. William Lin

Interoperable Geoinformatics & Location Base Service

Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers

Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat

Mobile video processing platform for agricultural

Dr. Matthew N. Dailey

Hand on : Geospatial Analysis using Free Open
Sources Software (FOSS)

Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat

Food Security: Sustainable Agricultural Production

Dr. Peeyush Soni

Energy: Renewable Energy Resource and Technologies

Prof. Sivanappan Kumar

Climate change and Water Resource

Dr. Sangam Shrestha

Recent Topics in Space Technology

Dr. Shinichi Nakamura

Geoinformatics for Disaster and Sentinel Asia

Dr. Masahiko Nagai

Health GIS

Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi

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5. Field trips program
The participants visited these places.
Date
21 AugField VisitingLine Mapping Section and Orthophoto Section (PASCO)
National Disaster warning center (NWDC)

23 AugSrinagarind Dam (EGAT), Srisawad, Kanchanaburi:
Hydroelectric Power Plants in Thailand

24 AugSafari Park Open Zoo & Camp, Bo Phloi, KanchanaburiSpace Krenovation Park (SKP), GISTDA, Sriracha, Chonburi

26 AugHand on GNSS on the beach, Sriracha, Chonburi
27 AugGrand palace: Emerald Buddha
Nitasrattanakosin Exhibition Hall
Sunny Bangchak Learning Center

28 AugAyutthaya Historical Park

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6. Comments on lectures
All participants were requested to give the feedbacks lectures by submitting everyday homework. The
table below presents the responsibility of participants for their mission.
Name

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20

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23 -24

25

26

27

28

29

1

Hirofumi Abe

O

O

O

O

x

x

O

O

x

x

2

Miyu Hoshino

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

3

Ryusei Kobayashi

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

4

Jessica Nakagawa

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

x

5

Mari Takazawa

O

O

O

O

x

O

O

O

x

x

6

Nami Umemoto

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

7

Mrunalini Badnakhe

O

x

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

8

Nguyen Duy Khang

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

9

Panita Prucpirojkul

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

10

Sujay Chokshi

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

11

Anthikar Marungruenag

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

12

Shulaxan Sharma

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

x

O

13

Thaw Thaw Phyu Htoon

x

O

O

O

x

O

O

O

O

x

14

Chen Yi-Ting

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

15

Rajaratnam Kannathasan

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

16

Nuttawut Muenkaw

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

x

17

La Ode Abdul Syukur

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

18

Metinee Thooppradit

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

19

Chhunhong Kaing

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

20

Vilakhan Xayaphet

O

O

O

O

x

O

O

O

O

x

21

Ma Mya Winn

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

O

x

The meaning of each symbol is described below.
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Some of comments below present the contents of lectures that participants received from eachlectures.
An Intensive English Course (Language Center)
As the purpose of Asian Summer School, Four days intensive English course was conducted during
12-15 August 2014 as an optional course, which provided the skills and tips for participants tounderstand academic lectures, presentation and debating. And the comments of some participant are
shown as below:
 Hirofumi Abe (Undergraduate student 3, English Language and Culture)
I could learn some words that is the kind oftechnical in the class. Watching movies aboutsome speech, introduction about technology andreading the scripts can help me knew more therelated words, contents and what they would liketo inform. Also it can help to improve my listening
skills. So, I could understand Asian Summer
School lectures easier. It was nice and meaningful.
I have no idea to make it better, I think it was best way. And Mr. Matt was good teacher, I am sure.
 Ryusei Kobayashi (Undergraduate Student 2, English Language and Culture)
This class was good but the professor is very knowledge about linguistics and education in English.
Focusing the content can help to understand the Asian Summer School classes. However, before doing
English classes, maybe he needs more preparations because it`s very difficult.
 Nami Umemoto (Master Student 1, Bioscience and Biotechnology)
I cannot listening and speak English in my life. Therefore, it is a good chance to listen to English. And
I have known many important words about Asia summer school lectures. I thought that can improve
my English skills before participating. However, I need study more English and I got motivation fromeveryone. In this class, I studied various topics. Therefore, it helped me to understand the necessary
words and topics. Moreover, it help me to understand more about Geoinformatic lectures.

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English Communication (Language Center)
Learn how to introduce yourself, sharing the participant culturesand ideas, how to improve listening comprehension of lectures
through targeted listening strategy instruction, catch the main
point from presentations and group discussion about the topic“the most impressive technology, introducing the vocabularies
on the issue of Geoinfomatics and Sustainable development.
 Ryusei Kobayashi (Undergraduate Student 2, English Language and Culture)
This class is dedicated about multicultural communication by using English. So, basically what I did
were these. Firstly, we watched some movie while having about 7-hour classes and shared ourreflective idea about those movies by talking with my group mate. On the way of learning doing that,
we were able to share our culture. This is one of the good things that we were able to understandsituation in their country as well. Secondly, we learned about little bit of linguistics. For an example
like, how people who different culture talk differently. Very interesting thing is that language is really
deeply pertaining to their own culture. Thirdly, I got ideas
about what makes interracial communication difficult.
There are many factors around us making ourcommunication difficult. However, one thing we have tokeep in mind is even we use different language. The
understanding of auditory surpasses the understanding ofvisual. so even if people who speak English very well, theywould be separated in two types one side can may have
hard time to communicate with people speaking English or not. So it indicates that not only theincreasing the vocabularies like but also increasing experience. So the more experiences and failures
we have, the better international people we can become. In conclusion, among cultures it is never easy
to communicate one another however one thing for sure is to respect their culture is the most key to bea better English speaker.

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 Nami Umemoto (Master Student 1, Bioscience and Biotechnology)
I think it was good that I could know a member's details. And
the lecture is very interesting for me. Because I was able toknow an example of how to use satellite. I think that the satellite
helps to suppress the damage of the natural disaster.

Ubiquitous Geo-informatics (Prof. Kiyoshi Honda)
Learn about what is the Ubiquitous Geo-informatics? How arecomputers and sensors utilized with Geo-informatics for eachutility? (such as agriculture , disasters and environment)
satellite overview, learn about data assimilation, integration
and application of Remote Sensing, field sensor, UAV andutilization, WEBGIS and geospatial data.
 Nguyen Duy Khang (Undergraduate
Oceanology, Meteorology and Hydrology)

Student

4,

1. The emergence of geo-informatics technologies changed our life. We need to change our thoughts
to the idea of developing these technologies.
2. I can get more information about environment, water resources, land management, civilengineering by using geo-informatics technologies.
3. I can understand about exchange, store and update data in geographic information network.
4. I can get more information about the useful applications in monitoring ground.
5. I can get more information about satellites network system.
6. I can get more useful information about field sensor network and automatic monitoring system.
7. I can know useful applications about unmanned air vehicle image.
8. I can know about Web GIS and methods to bring the application of geographical information
systems to the public through Web GIS.
9. I can get information about soil-Water-Atmosphere-Plant Model (SWAP), and applications of thismodel in monitoring of rice crop through using remote sensing.

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 Chen Yi Tang (Master Student 1, Urban Planning and Spatial Information Engineering)

It is the first lecture's day. Prof. Honda gave a lecture about
remote sensing and satellite, we can learn the basic theory about
RS and satellite, application result with his team and UAV
introduction. Moreover, knowing different of track with Polar
Orbit and Geostationary satellite, the merit of Radar RS,
introducing the International Charter providing a unified systemof space data acquisition, web model and so on. We can realizethat there are different kinds of application in different country, impact for my knowledge!

Online Skype Presentations:
RS/GIS Activities in Myanmar Information Management Unit (Khun San Aung, MIMU)
Learn about the purposes and responsibilities of MIMU,
the application of RS/GIS/GPS at MIMU such as a
spatial data repository, supporting for Humanitarian anddisasters including mapping supports for otherorganization and planning for NSDI. How to apply
RS/GIS for flood mapping system and earthquake.
Additionally, the application of Web GIS for
monitoring water level, mapping settlement (land use/ land cover) and detecting biodiversity.
 Thaw Thaw Phyu Htoon Thaw (Master Student 2, Energy)
I learned about basic web GIS to identify the location of area (e.g. google map). It's very useful tool
for me because I use street view and map view for finding new places when I arrived to AIT, everything
was new to me and I don't know where the shopping malls and restaurants. It helps me to find the way
and also gives me directions and bus number. Google has also the services of multimedia mapping
which shows the places where the picture was taken and historical mapping can help to see the location.

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 Nuttawut Muenkaw (Undergraduate student 3, Geography)
Water management to prevent flooding. Or predict areas prone to flooding. And also for use inagriculture. Using GIS applications or remote sensing as an aid in forecasting. This information isstored to record the data. GIS and Web Cast For the public to study Web GIS information which was
not only water management. It includes information on the traffic. The last of these data will be reported
in real time so that we are always learning.
Geoinformatics and Applications (William Lin, GIS Research Center, Feng Chia University)
Learn about the introduction of Geoinformatics (GIS,
GPS and Remote Sensing) and the applications of it suchas land adaptability, route planning. Moreover, how to
use spatial statistics for geographic phenomena andmaking decisions analysis. The application of using
Geoinformatics for landslide monitoring and water
resource management including Fleet Management
System (FSM).
 Anthikar Marungruenag (Undergraduate Student 4, Environmental Science)
I have learned that the application of GIS and RS, such as google maps or even checking in on
Facebook. I have learned about LBS, which is an information about the position, location andcomponents of LBS including mobile device, communication network, GPS, and data providing.
 Ryusei Kobayashi (Undergraduate Student 2, English Language and Culture)
It was really informative. He told me at the beginning that the number of cell phone that sold isrelatively bigger than the number of babies given. So, it indicates that most of people will havecellphone. It would be more sustainable in near future. I hope the time when we just take a picture ofbuilding, we can know more information from that.
 Chhunhong Kaing (Undergraduate Student 2, General Study)
He was talking about how RS&GIS works. And I remembered that he was a civil engineer, yet hecontinued his further education about RS&GIS! It is very nice for me, it is alike!

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 Chen Yi Tang (Master Student 1, Urban Planning and Spatial Information Engineering)
I'm excited that I can hear my teacher, William's sound in
Thailand! I feel not lonely anymore, thanks for his online
lecture for us. He introduced the theory of GIS andapplication on landslide, traffic, monitoring of cars, land use
suitability analysis, we can know the different way to use on
GIS! Although it almost is used for disaster, but they havedifferent way to analyze. Dr. William also presented the web
GIS in different way as well.

Interoperable Geoinformatics & Location Base Service (Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat)
Learn 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 data archives andapplications.
 Jessica Nakagawa (Undergraduate Student 2,
Comparative Culture)
I learned that mapping nowadays become very easy
because of these mapping (Ubiquitous GIS/Mobile GIS) and we can look for the place, the time you
take to get there. In addition if we want to go in anywhere we can know because of this mapping thatwas created of Web services.
 Miyu Hoshino (Undergraduate Student 1, International Relations )It was impressive to me that application of remote sensing. I had thought that almost stopping develop
the technology of GPS. But I heard about application examples today and I was surprised. I thought
there are many things to expect.

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 Ma Mya Winn (GIS Assistant, MIMU )I have learned about Web coverage services (Web Coverage Services will be include satellite images
and digital elevation modal the data will be returned geo tiff), Web Feature Service that will be getwith point line, polygon and will return with GML and Web Map Services for getting the informationand images, we can use get capabilities request and get map request and get feature info.

Introduction of GPS (Dr. Sarawut Ninsawut and Mr. Sanit Arunpold)

Learn about the concept of GPS (GPS Segments
and the component of GPS), How to get thecoordinate by using GPS (Coordinate Calculation),error

sourcesthataffects

theGPS, GPSapplications (for navigating, mapping,/GIS andsurveying) and GPS Measurement Techniques.

 Nguyen Duy Khang (Undergraduate Student 4, Oceanology, Meteorology and Hydrology)
I can know more about the GPS concept. - Before, identifying point of references were The Sun, Moon,stars and we did not know exactly our position. GPS is the Global positioning system, the componentof the GPS consist of Space segment, control augment, user segment. Moreover, I know how we candetermine the distance from satellite. We need measure time difference between same part of codefrom satellite signal and from ground receiver signal. And then, we will have delay time. We candetermine us position. We can obtain position from3 satellites. But we want obtain our position withhigh accuracy we need more and more satellites
crossover together. So, to eliminate the error
sources because of the orbit error, clock error, rovererror, atmosphere error and the error total of sources
can make accuracy go down. Additionally, I learned
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connect multi-GNSS. I can get more information about GPS applications to use for consumer products(watch, smart phone,), sport, training, tourism, mapping for GIS, navigation service and public
transport management. For GPS measurement techniques, I know the procedures of Post processing(determine rover station by base station and logging the data both base and rover in the same time) and
Real-time kinematic (using for enhancing the precision of positioning data.)
 Mrunalini Badnakhe (Ph.D. Student 1, ICTs in Spatio-temporal issues in natural resources
informatics)
The topic is new and ice breaking for me as I am working in Agro-informatics lab. The importance ofimage processing application in agriculture added much more values to my knowledge. As per thislecture I found the new ideas for the step for future research.
 Ryusei Kobayashi (Undergraduate Student 2, English Language and Culture)
I was able to know how satellite understand the size of object so it was really interesting. It was way
difficult for me to understand how cameras capture the objects because of luck of my understanding ingeometry. Totally, the lecture was really interesting but when it comes to numbers. It was beyond mydescription. But it does not mean that my interest to this field has stopped moreover I will pursue tounderstand what is thisMachine Vision in Agriculture (Dr. Matthew N. Dailey)

Learn about image processing in the context of
Vision Systems. The useful of image 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 and occupancy grids and a high-throughput system for automatic
phenotype measurement.

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 Hirofumi Abe (Undergraduate student 3, English Language and Culture)
Robots for agriculture. If I was a farmer and had to sell the crops, the customer wants know many
details about the product. Then I need to count or estimate the crops amount, but how? Dr. Matthew
told us the system for crop mapping. It can recognize what is crop or not. It's easy for us to recognizethat but robot. So the challenge is let robots recognize the things what we want them to do that.
 Vilakhan Xayaphet
Firstly, He explained about image processing and 3D structures and the basic of 3D objects and taking
pictures using camera. Using cameras, robots and sensors, the productivity of agriculture can beincreased by monitoring there is certain diseases or not so that it also helps to control the quality. But,
there are also problems with weather such as rain, sunlight direction, intensity since the cameras are
outdoor. There are 7 noise free correspondences necessary to get relative 3D positions of the cameras.
He explained about vacuum cleaner and mobile video processing for agricultural crap mapping to findfruit regions and perform 3D reconstruction of the point regions. Shift Descriptor can classify fruits
and non-fruits and identify whether there is disease or not.

Hand on: Geospatial Analysis using Free Open Sources Software (Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat)
Learn about how to free open source software(FOSS) for analyzing the Geo-spatial data. In
this case, QGIS is the FOSS that used foranalyzing the land suitability. The participantslearned how to use the tools that GIS provided
for vector analysis such as Query tool, Buffer
tool, Intersect tool and the step of analyzing
data by working on the case study: finding thesuitable area for being the farm.
 Thaw Thaw Phyu Htoon (Master Student 2, Energy)
We have learned how to choose the best land which meet our requirements using software (OGIS
analysis). We were trying to find the land in Swellendam Town which distance is not more than 500
meters from the road and also within reasonable distance from a school and also the area of the landshould be 100 and 150 ha. Then we were going step by step instruction. First choosing the town, the21Asian Summer School 201422

land size (area) and the distance from the road and also from the school. If we go and check ourselves
without using software (OGIS) it will take a lot of time and money for travelling. We have learned that
we can solve the problem within an hour or minutes using the software. SO, it is very useful tool to dosuch a find land and I like the software even I am not familiar with it. I am very sure that it is very
useful tool for today society.
 Mari Takazawa (Master Student 1,Bioscience and Biotechnology)
Today, I used “QGIS” at first time. At first, I
couldn't understand how to use but many people
tough me all. I knew when I want to setup, towrite commands by myself.


Chhunhong

Kaing(Undergraduate

Student 2, General Study)
I have done a great job on app on GIS. But it's very complicated and I still cannot get the core of thislecture. However, I still enjoy this lecture because it's very great.
 Jessika Nagakawa (Undergraduate Student 2, Comparative Culture)
I learned how to use QGIS and actually I could familiarize with GUI QGIS and to perform simple
vector analysis in QGIS by using following the book. Also, I could know how useful of the QGIS
program. Thank you.
Agriculture Evolution and Agricultural Technology (Dr. Peeyush Soni)
Learn about the water usage in different aspects,
trend of Agriculture during 1960 – 2000, the foodconsumption and the agricultural land between thedeveloping countries and consumer countries, thecomparison between population growth (it means theincreasing of food demands) and agriculture
production (GDP and the other index parameters)
and the sustainable agriculture that affects the foodsecurity in the world.

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 Metinee Thooppradit (Undergraduate Student 4, Geography)
Agriculture was started by a man known to find food by hunting. Later in the agricultural revolution
and was known to spread out. They have to address the agricultural industry to provide enough food tohumans today. So the introduction of new technology into the era of modern agriculture technology
and tech sessions. Most of the farm is located in the temperate zone. Future agricultural production will
be sufficient to meet demand. And agricultural areas in Asia, with about 1 - 1.3 ha.
 Hirofumi Abe (Undergraduate student 3, English Language and Culture)
Today, agriculture population decrease, but consumption number increase. So it is big problem. If all
people have only vegetables and don't waste the food and share equally, 10 million people can have ameals healthy. Now, foods we have are changing in the world.
 Anthikar Marungruenag (Undergraduate Student 4, Environmental Science)In this class, I received the knowledge about the changing of our world is changing. The crisis isexpending because population have increased and human need more and more consumptions, such as
food, natural resources, etc. I think if human consume the natural resources more but they have notchanged anything. The resources can be empty in the future. Organization should take a priority toagricultural development.
 Nuttawut Muenkaw (Undergraduate student 3, Geography)
To consume agriculture from the past until now, there is a tendency to consume higher due toincreasing of population size that is likely the production decreasing. Due to lower farm workers(changing the work to other occupations), it might affect the higher cost of food production.

Renewable energy: To address climate change and sustainable development(Prof. Sivanappan Kumar)
Learn about the overall resource uses, energy and sustainable development in social, economic andenvironmental, energy system, the trend of energy in the world (production and consumption), theenergy for achieving sustainable development, the renewable energy options in the future options andthe case study of utilizing renewable energy.

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 Jessica Nagakawa (Undergraduate Student 2, Comparative Culture)
In this lecture I could notice that nowadays people use
a lot of energy and is increasing day by day. Each
person on the planet uses on average over 8 tons of
natural resources per year or 22 kg per day. In addition,
when we eat, our bodies transform the energy stored in
the food into energy to do work. Finally I learned that
there are 3 pillars of sustainable development Social, Economic and Environmental.
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Ma Mya Winn (GIS Assistant, MIMU)

I have learned about Energy source, energy carrier and End use equipment. In energy source, oil, gas,coal, biomass, nuclear and renewable are included as a primary energy. In energy carrier, Liquids,
industrial manufacturing and power generation will be effective. In End use equipment, Mobility,
Consumer choices and building should be included. Sustainable Development that meets the needs ofthe present without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their own needs. Finally,
Sustainable development is very important because people live longer and population is increasing
continuously. Resources for well- being are getting scarcer and climate changes will be one of thefactors.

Climate change and Water Resource (Dr. Sangam Shrestha)
Learn about what is the climate change in global? The
impact of climate change in environment and theadaptation of human for climate change such as thephysical construction to avoid or reduce the impacts ofclimate change including policy for legislation,knowledge development and public norms for reducerisk and related impacts.
 Chhunhong Kaing (Undergraduate student 2, General Study)
The global concerning, global climate change! Sound incredible but it has been occurring! This lecture
was focused on this and water resources management. I gained more knowledge about the climate

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to get and use properly the water in many types. This topic was interesting to me.
 Mrunalini Badnakhe (Ph.D. Student 1, ICTs in Spatio-temporal issues in natural resources
informatics)
I learned about the climate change. The effect of climate change in the world. The adapting conditions
with the different examples.
 Chen Yi Tang (Master Student 1, Urban Planning and Spatial Information Engineering)
We can know the different meaning between climate and weather, as follow the continuing increase
will be the climate change, like the world temperature. If temperature keep increasing, it will bringraising sea level in somehow, snow are melting, and enhance the rate to happen flood, even make acountry drown. And how we can adapt the climate change.

Recent Topics in Space Technology: Space Debris Issue (Dr. Shinichi Nakamura)
Learned about space technology in Japan, the history of space development, the meaning of spacedebris and the increasing of objects in the space that leads the growth of number of space debris(increasing by breakup, collision, and unbundling). Additionally, how to treat satellite at end ofoperation.
 Chhunhong Kaing (Undergraduate Student 2, General Study)
I was surprised by his mathematic equation. It
challenged my brain and remind me mymathematic knowledge. Not only this, he had
told about the negatives in space development.
Space debris and the satellite orbits, they are
related to my interest. The collision of thosespace debris cause tremendous effects tosatellite and our environment as well. So spacedevelopment can be a part to cause the terrible thing for the planet.

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 Ma Mya Winn (GIS Assistant, MIMU )A satellite in orbit around the Earth does not fall into the Earth because the force of Gravity between
the satellite and Earth is exactly balanced by the centripetal reaction force of the satellite constantly
changing direction.
Space debris hits window of space shuttle in 1983. About 0.4 mm depth of hole on the window ofspacecraft were damaged by the small pieces of satellite debris.
Debris orbiting Earth pose great risk to the operating satellites and other space objects, and thecontinuous increase in debris population increases the probability of a collision. The devastation thatspace debris may cause isn’t too far from the depiction although real life is a tad less dramatic.
The key assets in Collision Avoidance are:a. The telescopes, radars and satellites help in detecting, classifying and estimating orbitalparameters of space debrisb. Computers in Joint Space Operations Center cranking through the large volumes of data obtainedby the surveillance network and identifying dangerous stuff up therec. Computers, qualified personnel and procedures at Mission Control Center Nami umemoto (Master Student 1, Bioscience and Biotechnology)
I was surprised that there was many debris and flying object of 94% in space is Space Debris too. Evensmall debris has big kinetic energy in orbit. I understand that Space Debris is very danger.

Geo - informatics for Disaster, and Sentinel Asia (Dr. Masahiko Nagai)
Know about RS and collaboration of JAXA, ALOS dataapplications, utilization of earth observation satellite(EOS) data, concept of Sentinel Asia and international
agreement among space agencies.
 Thaw Thaw Phyu Htoon Thaw
(Master Student 2, Energy)
He explained about applications for GIS. ALOS (advanced land observation satellite) JAXA analysis
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Pakistan government. Also monitored earthquake in Haiti January 13, 2010, forest monitoring at theWest Rondonia during 11 years. The disaster occurrence in Asia is 40% and damage is 90% that means
Asia does not prepare well for natural disaster. And he explained about flood in Thailand in 2011 andUbiquitous sensor network to monitor volcano so that the people do not need to go the hazard area to
get the data. Moreover, mobile phone are used as human sensors. More and more people are using
mobile phone and that can be used as data collection machines so that if natural disasters are happen
government can reach to help the people for example preparing of crews for saving and helping ofpeople. Therefore, it is important to have the actual data of how many people are there in a particulararea. Also, it can be used in train stations in order to detect the abnormal people by movements andmovement of taxis can detect bad roads, raining or not by sensing the wiper of the taxis.
 Mrunalini Badnakhe (Ph.D. Student 1, ICTs in Spatio-temporal issues in natural resources
informatics)
I learned about JAXA activities, simulation systems, difference mapping technology and real time
monitoring systems and location based system like tracking system.
 Shulaxan Sharma (Master Student 2, RS&GIS)
I learned more about mapping required during the disaster management. Some data can be directly
used from the internet which are near real time ex. Global Rainfall Map. Moreover, uing of GNSS for
disaster management and the concept of Sentinel Asia. I have knew that 39% of the disaster occurs
only in Asia in which 49% damage are there with 53% killed and 88%

affected and organization

providing data in emergency observations for sentinel Asia constellation. Additionally, I gained more
knowledge about the application of UAV and sensors for disaster.
Health GIS (Dr.Nitin K. Triphati)
Learn about Geomedicine by using GIS as the tools for decision making and planning. How to apply
geography to link the human health and social well-being for managing environmental inventories andexposure the phenomena. Additionally, the application of GIS for health in many case studies such as
the exploring climatic factors contributing to malaria prevalence in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, the impact
of climatic variability on diarrhea incidences in Chiang Mai, Thailand and the monitoring of
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 Chhunhong Kaing (Undergraduate Student 2, General Study)
He told us about the GIS uses to observe the diseases
occurred in any area and also the factors affect to ourhealth. In addition, he also showed the health map,easy for controlling and solving the problems in time.
He also mentioned about the geo and telemedicine fornowadays society. He provided the data of Dengue
Fever, Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever and Malaria byLine graph and table. Even it was a bit complicated but I still thought that it was very fantastic.
 Thaw Thaw Phyu Htoon (Master Student 2, Energy)
He explained about health management using GIS that is a person's health data can be collect and savein the server since he or she is born so that it is easy to medical checkup when something happen (bloodgroup, weight, blood pressure, heart rate) can be measured and can be easily read on computer screen
by different doctors and can avoid to ask the same questions to the patients. And GIS also help the oldpeople and the people who has heart problems can monitor from hospital by using sensors and can help
them. Nowadays, the doctor from one country can ask suggestions for some decisions from the doctorfrom another country so that it can save money for travelling.
 Ryusei Kobayashi (Undergraduate Student 2, English Language and Culture)
Most people want to be health and want to go to good hospital but some people cannot do that easily.
GIS technique can be used for people who do not have access to good hospital because if they haveinternet access it means they can be checked by good doctor. I hope this tech will be developed Mari Takazawa (Master Student 1,Bioscience and Biotechnology)
My major is analytical chemistry in environment. So I had thought my study is far from human health.
But today’s lectures changed me. The air and water contamination have related for human health I
think. So I was surprised that is relating animal, culture and distance.

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7. Comments of field trips
PASCO

PASCO company corporations and company’s

activities,

capabilities of remote sensing and production line. Observe line
mapping, orthophoto and 3D map process sections.
 Ryusei Kobayashi (Undergraduate Student 2, English Language and Culture)
PASCO is actually Japanese company running in somecountries. The company in Thailand usually gets some jobs
from Japan and they will do the job but the most interesting
thing is the maps what I usually see are not possibly made by
Japanese. Before I went there, I thought all the map is madeby Japanese people. I really appreciate that. Actually what I
observe is that this job is require to know knowledge about computer literacy, Geographic filed. These
technology is combined. It means that education in Thailand is pretty much high. And I was also able
to know the idea that Thailand has high potentiality because education is one of the indicators that what
is situation in Thailand. For that reason, it was really great know that people in Thailand.
 Metinee Thooppradit (Undergraduate Student 4, Geography)
As a company with many branches, including Thailand, their work is mainly related to adjustments toortho photo. And projects that have been coming from Japan. Including photogrammetric (mms) to be
used in mobile, witch will the only program in the rescue work. And in other ways, which I'll get to
Spokane as objects.
 Nami Umemoto (Master Student 1,Bioscience and Biotechnology)
I had known PASCO Co. But I knew that it was acompany of Tokyo Japan for the first time. I wasinteresting to see mobile mapping system. And I was
surprised that there was a Japanese plenty. I think that
I want to use Arc GIS. And I want to study CAD.

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 Mrunalini Badnakhe (Ph.D. Student 1, ICTs in Spatio-temporal issues in natural resources
informatics)
I learned about the company's product and services, the network of company in the world, their work
culture. They are using high technology software and equipment. The 3D plotting data set for 3D
visualization and analysis.
National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC)
Learn about Thailand early warning system, risk
map, supporting section, database modeling andinternational corporations. And we have chance
to interact with staffs and visit operation rooms.
 Ma Mya Winn (GIS Assistant, MIMU )NDWC have many preparedness for natural disaster like Sound Alert system, broadcasting system,
SMS sending system, Sending message from HQ torespective Disaster warning &watching tower etc. The newtechnology for me is they are setting buoy into the sea andocean to measure weather parameters such as air
temperature, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction
and to report these data via satellite radio links such as the
purpose-built Argos System or commercial satellite phone
networks to meteorological centers for use in forecasting
and climate study. May be anchored (moored buoys) or allowed to drift (drifting buoys) in the open
ocean currents. Position is calculated by the satellite.
 Nuttawut Muenkaw (Undergraduate student 3, Geography)
Study of disaster management system caused by nature. And learn to take refuge from natural disasters,
which will prevent the loss more includes listening to alarm when the disaster.The equipment on thesurvey and monitoring of disaster. Watch live out the room calling station tomato wine when thedisaster.

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 Hirofumi Abe (Undergraduate student 3, English Language and Culture)
NDWC works for people all over the world to protect us from disasters. It tells us disasters information
through the SMS, Fax, TV or some media. NDWC prepares for tsunami, NDWC puts Buoy on theocean every 2 years. It has sensors and when earthquake occur, it sends the information to NDWC
through satellites. And we could get the information that coming tsunami and how much it is. We need
the information because if we don't know tsunami is coming, we might be panic and we mightn't donothing. We need any disaster's information for our preparation.
 Sujay Chokshi (Sr. GIS Analyst, Master Planning)
Discuss on the types of disaster, geological, hydrological, meteorological, forest fire including theoverall work of NDWC and also the demo. Discussing on GTS (Global Telecommunication System),
GIN (Government Information Network), WEC (Web Emergency Center) and giving the demo on
DDSS (Disaster Decision Support System).

Srinagarind Dam (EGAT), Srisawad, Kanchanaburi: Hydroelectric Power Plants in Thailand
Experienced in one of dam in Thailand, where is anembankment dam on the River Kwai in Si Sawat,
Kanchanaburi, Thailand. The main purpose areriver

regulationandhydroelectric

power

generation. Construction on the dam began in 1974
and it was complete in 1980.
 Chen Yi-Tang (Master Student 1, Urban Planning and Spatial Information Engineering)
There is a different part with the other dams, like floating solar farm, its detective function is reallyinterested me, because it can chase sun when sun change track, it's really making me curiosity on it andwe can see the drainage in closely distance, knowing how's the function for hydro-power.
 Ryusei Kobayashi (Undergraduate Student 2, English Language and Culture)
We have the legs to go right direction that is friendly to people and the globe or the legs to walk forward
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for generating energy is nowadays the well-known problem all over world especially in Japan. What
we have to do is that we should find the effective energy that
we can use instead of using the power of new clear. Actually
without the power of new clear, we have some obstacles. What
I observe

is that I saw the infinite potential of renewableenergy "water power generation" To overcome the obstacles, I
hope we make progress on it.
 Shulaxan Sharma (Master Student 2, RS&GIS)
The Srinagarind Dam is an embankment dam on the Khwae
Yai river in Si Sawat District of Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand. The main purpose of the dam isriver regulation and hydroelectric power generation. The dam's power station has a 720 MW capacityof which 360 MW is pumped storage. The Srinagarind Dam is a 140 m (459 ft) tall and 610 m (2,001ft) long embankment dam. It withholds a reservoir of 7,470,000,000 m3 (6,056,028 acre·ft). The dam's
power station has an installed capacity of 720 MW and contains three 120 MW Francis turbines andtwo 180 MW Francis pump-turbines. The pump-turbines serve the dam's pumped-storage capability
and generate electricity during peak hours. In off-peak hours, the pump turbines return water from thelower reservoir back into the upper reservoir. It also helps to maintain the ecosystem of the surrounding
areas. Moreover, the extra water is sometimes used for the irrigation to the nearby locations.

SAFARI PARK OPEN ZOO & CAMP, Bo Phloi, Kanchanaburi
Experienced in a nature theme park, a tourism attraction, and seeing a wide variety of animals such as
tigers, lions, bears, elephants, deer, zebras, llamas, flamingos, giraffes etc.
 Chhunhong Hong (Undergraduate Student 2 , General Study)
I wondered whether if it would be fun or not. The first seen was a veryhuge tiger lied on a bed, it seemed so lazy. My feeling backed andrefreshed. We started our trip into an adventurous jungle. I saw deer,
tigers, bears, lions, giraffes and zebras, they were too closed to me andI could feel them. Giraffes put their heads into the bus and I fed them.
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and continued to visit the crocodiles and elephants' shows. It wasadmirable but I don't like crocodiles' shown! Finally, open zoo trip
ended with the mixture of happiness, tiredness, pleasure andunforgettable memories. Hope to visit there again.
 Chen Yi-Tang (Master Student 1, Urban Planning and Spatial
Information Engineering))
This is a very special experience that we can closely touch animals,
feeding the food, observing their actions, especially for giraffes,
they almost get into van and find food, that's my first time to touch giraffes' head, poor zebra their foodalready were eaten by giraffes, really nice experience for this open zoo
Space Krenovation Park (SKP), GISTDA
Visiting

theNew

Geo-Informatics

and

Space

Krenovation Park at the Thaichote Satellite Control
Station in Chon Buri province, GISTDA role on spacetechnology in Thailand, implement projects and future
works.
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Hirofumi Abe (Undergraduate student 3, English Language and Culture)

The satellites SKP has connect to SKP just 4 times in a day so SKP should estimate it in 8 ours' orbit
and send commands in the times. The satellites has two cameras and the each camera has different
function.One has a two Spector camera .The other has a color camera. The two images makes moreclearly and colorful images of the land.
 Thaw Thaw Phyu Htoon (Master Student 2, Energy)
When we arrived there, they showed the video which reflect the history of industrial revolution and
GPS and satellite. And then, they explained about the satellite that send to the space orbit and thatsatellite can contact 4 times per day with ground station; 2 times a day and 2 times at night. Thatsatellite helps to forecast weather and send images to the earth. For power supply, solar PV panels areAsian Summer School 201434

installed on the satellite which harvest solar radiationfrom the sun and generate electricity and some ofelectricity are stored in the batteries and use it at night
time. Solar PV panels are fixed and only satellite can be
adjustable from the earth station. The barrier for thetechnology is the life time of the batteries which is only
about 5 years and now already over. But they hope thatit can work more months. Then we got a chance to see the actual size of the satellite (the model), we
have seen the lens, the solar panels which are very interesting. We have a lot of knowledge from thevisit.

Hand on GNSS on the beach, Sriracha, Chon Buri

Learning how to use GPS/GNSS in real life through the seeking
game. The participants learned to use GPS by finding out thecaps of water bottle of which latitude and longitude are marked
and saved in the device which has the compass and also canrecord the data. Then, using the devices such as base station
which is connected to the satellite and the GPS is connected tothe base station, find out the caps using GPS according to thecompass and the Navigation system.
 Chhunhong Kaing (Undergraduate Student 2, General Study)
This was the first time for me to be in such that game. Not only fun, but I can gain the knowledge
related to RS&GIS, benefits for my future education. I can understand how to find the position of
objects hidden at somewhere when we knew the coordinates of those objects using GIS equipment.
This has improved my knowledge in GIS, incredibly.
 Chen Yi Tang (Master Student 1, Urban Planning and Spatial Information Engineering)
Basically we can learn how a use GPS to find specific things, but need to set position beforehand, andhow to control the GPS moving. Although the team more behind get more highest score, I saw a good

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leader will get team members' support and believe to achieve the target, it need to be more steady forme, thanks for it can be practice.
 Nguyen Duy Khang (Undergraduate Student 4, Oceanology, Meteorology and Hydrology)
I have learned that Global navigation satellite system very important and accuracy: small errors (mm.
or few cm) and the applications of Global navigation satellite system
in many areas of our lives. Moreover, I learned about teamwork skills
and increasing friendship of all participant in the course.
 Ma Mya Winn (GIS Assistant, MIMU)This is the first experience in GNSS. I have learned a lot of things fromthis machine. It can support exact locations for the objects of the earth. It is using multiple satellites
for its navigation system. And also I have got a team spirit from this hand on exercise. I also have more
confident regarding point collection because our group can mark 5 points within 5 .21 minutes out of
the time giving ten minutes.

Grand palace: Emerald Buddha
Sightseeing grand palace where made up of numerous buildings,
halls, pavilions set around open lawns, gardens and courtyards. Highlights are the temple of the Emerald Buddha and queen Sirikit
textiles museum.

 Mrunalini Badnakhe (Ph.D. Student 1, ICTs in Spatiotemporal issues in natural resources informatics)
The main attraction point is the royal monastery of the emerald Buddha which is a sign of peace. The
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ancient time, fine arts are still also maintained properly. One thing I learned about the accuracy andclarity in work maintained by the ancient people are may be more than current era.
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Nuttawut Muenkaw (Undergraduate student 3, Geography)

A Thai man was proud and glad that there is a very beautiful
temple. Make the international appreciation of the beautiful
temple and also know the history of the Grand Palace.

Nitusrattanakosin Exhibition Hall
Experienced on the advanced technologies - such as presentation devices, models, four-dimensional
multi-media technique, multi-touch and multi-media animation technologies- are used in presenting
the exhibitions about Rattanakosin City through interactive
self-learning devices. The content is divided into nine
topics in nine halls. It invites the public to learn, appreciate
and take pride in Thailand's artistic and cultural legacies of
the Rattanakosin Era.
 Sujay Chokshi (Sr. GIS Analyst, Master Planning)
One of the great experience to visit this place where is the one of the good governance for the publicawareness where people can know the culture of the country. A story of the Thai culture wasparticularly interesting. The Thai culture felt that there were many things more brilliant than Japan.
 Thaw Thaw Phyu Htoon Thaw (Master Student 2, Energy)
Rattanakosin is the former name of Thailand capital city in 1792 and then it was changed to Bangkok
to the present time. Firstly, we all walk through 12 old communities of Rattanakosin in one place to see
the lifestyle and history. The King Rama I, founded the city by planning in similar ways of Ayutthaya
era apart from material construction of the city, the King also raised the morale of people and raise
Buddhism arts and culture so that Siam retained its unity and stability. We saw them in 4 dimensional
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lifted to another level of the building. It was amazing creation and technology they used are very goodto understand all in a short period of time. And then, we had a chance to see the Emerald Buddha in all
3 seasonal attires in one visit and we pass through thespecific area only for court ladies and we saw arts of noble
ladies. And we have learned about the entertainments ofThailand with various arts since ancient time with Shadow
Play, Masked Performance, Thai classical plays, dancesand puppet shows. We saw them in 360 degree view sitting
all friends in circular shapes and it had a lot of fun andknowledge. Finally we got a chance to see the architectures of Thailand such as in Palace, temples andhouses in Rattanakosin and the changes in each era and the lifestyle have been developed withtechnological advances. We get a lot of knowledge of Thailand history today by seeing real things andmodels.
 Vilakhan Xayaphet (Researcher, Environmental Sciences)
I have got a lot of knowledge from this exhibition such as modernize performances, abilities ofdeveloping and improving tourism interests, using advantages technologies and recreation places forthe visitors.
Sunny Bangchak Learning Center
Observing the big b i g p r o j e c t f r o m B a n g c k a kPetroleum, and studying on producing clean energy
from solar cell. This project use Solar Cell more than
150000 pieces which it can produce and distribute theElectric energy for Electricity Generating Authorityof Thailand. Moreover, it also reduce to importenergy from other countries.
 Ryusei Kobayashi (Undergraduate Student 2, English Language and Culture)
First time, I saw directly the solar farm. Besides this, I had obtained a lot of knowledge as well. I knew
the spots of the maximum solar radiation in Thailand, and that solar energy can reduce the carbon

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dioxide in the environment. Moreover, the next generation, Micro LG will be the one to abstract the oil
while we are using palm oil to abstract nowadays. One more silly knowledge is I know how to store
solar energy. Study municipal waste water treatment process, there is the limitation about land use
because the plant is set in urban area. They consume more electricity than other plants for pumping
process. Biogas and solar cell should be applied to reduce an electricity cost.
 Metinee Thooppradit (Undergraduate Student 4, Geography)
Knowledge regarding the operation of solar
cells that can be used in industrial andenvironmental friendly and there is algae thatcan be used to extract the oil, which isbordered by the energy of interest. How tomake going through the various steps to be oil,but other parts of the algae, it can also be used
to their benefit, as well.

Historical world heritage capital (Ayutthaya)Experienced in cultural and historical heartland of
Thailand’s former capital city "Ayutthaya". And observed
rural house’s architecture and floating market.
 Sujay Chokshi (Sr. GIS Analyst, Master Planning)
It was really good place where we can know the culture of
Buddhism. The place is well maintained for the tourist
place
 Nami Umemoto (Master Student 1, Bioscience and Biotechnology)
A Buddha does not has a head. I was surprised it. I was surprised that a pagoda inclined, it seemed to
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 Ryusei Kobayashi (Undergraduate Student 2, English Language and Culture)That place is amazing. That one was the most interesting historical cite. Probably If I have a chance tocome here I would visit that site again.
 Chhunhong Kaing (Undergraduate Student 2, General Study)
Strange feeling when I got there. The old temples with
the Buddha statues looked so sad, and I had learnt somehistories about Ayutthaya there with some photos of
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8. Program evaluation
In this program, the evaluation forms were prepared for receiving the feedbacks from participants inorder to evaluate the weakness points and improve them in the next time. The contents of program
evaluation form are divided into two parts. The first part is the question about overall satisfaction andthe second past is the recommendation from participants. In this evaluation, there are 22 respondents
from 24 participants.

The first part, there are twelve questions and the feedback from participants are presented as the levelsof agreement (absolutely agreed, strongly agreed, moderated agreed, pretty agreed and disagrees). The
results of this part are displayed the level of agreement from participants in each question as the pie
charts.

English class is great academic activity and also benefit inintroduced for all participants.

Absolutely Agreed
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52%

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The lectures on Geoinformatics and issues on sustainable
development in Asia are interesting for us.

5%
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52%

43%

Moderate Agreed
Pretty Agreed
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Lecturers are specialist in his/her career, which help us to meet thelearning needs in this program.

19%
43%
38%

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Lecture materials, facilities, equipment and supplies wereappropriate for the program

Absolutely Agreed

19%
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Moderate Agreed

43%

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Hand on in OpenSource (QGIS) and GPS-GNSS are improved mytechnical Geoinformatics skill

19%

Absolutely Agreed
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33%

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The amount of lecture class, study hours or time dedicated toacademic learning were sufficient for us.

19%

Absolutely Agreed
48%

33%

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Pretty Agreed
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Visiting Geoinformatics organizations (government & private
sectors) are good opportunity to learn and building capacity for us

24%

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Renewable energy camp & activities in Kanchanaburi encouraging
my energy consumption awareness

12%
Absolutely Agreed

19%

Strongly Agreed
69%

Moderate Agreed
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Accommodation (SSH) is comfortable and safety for us.

10%
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19%

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We are happy with the choice of curricular and extracurricular
activities during this program

Absolutely Agreed
33%

Strongly Agreed
67%

Moderate Agreed
Pretty Agreed
Disagreed

We learned the local culture through local life style like places,
food, etc.
5%19%Absolutely Agreed
76%

Strongly Agreed
Moderate Agreed
Pretty Agreed
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We are happy on the quality of food, coffee breaks,
drinks and snacks
5%5%Absolutely Agreed
24%

Strongly Agreed
Moderate Agreed

66%

Pretty Agreed
Disagreed

We are happy on the quantity of food, coffee breaks,
drinks and snacks
5%
Absolutely Agreed

19%

Strongly Agreed
76%

Moderate Agreed
Pretty Agreed
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This program is good chance to have experience inmulticultural environment.

Absolutely Agreed
19%

Strongly Agreed
Moderate Agreed
81%

Pretty Agreed
Disagreed

Overall, how satisfied were you with your Asian Summer School
in Bangkok 2014?

19%

Very satisfied

Pretty satisfied
81%

Moderate satisfied
Fair satisfied
Not at all satisfied

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The rank of preferable visiting during the program
PASCO
Grand palace
Ayutthaya Historical
Nitasrattanakosin Exhibition
Hand on GNSS on beachOpen Zoo
Erawan waterfall
Srinagarind Dam
SUNNY Bangchak
NDWC
0

2

4

6

8

10

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The second part shows the suggestions from participants. There are various comments that very
valuable for improving more efficient in the next time.
Here are the comments that received from participants:

Thanks for these two weeks, appreciate and thankful. I can feel efforts on this program, learn a lot.
Miss you guys, Summer School 2014

It will be better, if we get the chance to work with more GPS instruments.

It would be the most grateful to you if you give training regular Summer School every year
continuously.

Thank for good time!!

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This program is very good and get a lot of knowledge from it. However, the lecture time is quite
long. It’s very hard to absorb all. Some are very technicalThank you for everything! I’m happy to meet everyone!! I’d like to join Asian Summer School
next summer!!! If I get a chance studying in AIT, I’ll improve my English skill!! Many thanks!!

No, everything was pretty good. I will find a possible chance to join again.

For me, It was really wonderful experience. With lots of and I unforgettable memories with
unforgettable cross culture environment.

1) Please add the Hyper- spectral RS in this course.
2) Add more Hand on about GIS & RS.
3) Add more duration for the language course.

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9. Conclusions for improvement

From all suggestions, it can be concluded that the participants were satisfied with the overall of thisprogram. The contents of program can help participant to gain more experience and knowledge,
especially the issue of “Geoinformatics and Issues on Sustainable Development in Asia”. Additionally,
the activities and hands-on were useful for the participants who have the backgrounds on
Geoinformatics to improve their technical skills for their career. Under the international society among
participants, they can learn and exchange the different cultures including making the international
relationships that can expand our networks and make the connections in the future. From last year,
there were the suggestions from the participants to conduct the hands-on, therefore the hands-on about
Geospatial Analysis using Free Open Sources Software (FOSS) and GNSS were organized forparticipants in this year. There were many good responds from participants, but some of them suggested
that more hands-on should be conducted for the next year such as the Hyper- spectral RS or GPS
instruments.
The handouts of lectures were requested from last year. In this year, the handouts of lectures werecollected and distributed to all participants. Therefore, it can help them to prepare themselves and catchup the lessons. However, the lecture time might be long and very technical. It is very difficult tounderstand for some participant especially the participants who do not have the background in
Geoinformatics.
English language is used for studying and there are many technical vocabularies in the content oflectures. Therefore, the intensive English course were conducted for four days in order to give the tips
and skills to catch up Asian Summer School lectures. Moreover, the content of English class was
related to the basic of remote sensing and GIS that provided for participants who do not havebackground for preparing them before the program start.
Food for multicultural were provided as much as possible especially vegetarian food. This type of foodis provided in AIT but this problems have still occurred when the program was scheduled outside AITor the countryside.

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Appendix 1: Summer School 2014 program

Open Ceremony
August 19, 2014

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PASCO
21 August 2014

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National Disaster warning center (NDWC)
21 August 2014

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Srinagarind Dam (EGAT), Srisawad, Kanchanaburi:
Hydroelectric Power Plants in Thailand
23 August 201455

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Safari Park Open Zoo & Camp, Bo Phloi, Kanchanaburi
24 August 201456

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Space Krenovetion Park (SKP), Chiracha, Chonburi
26 August 201457

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Hand on GNSS on the beach
26 August 2014

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Grand palace: Emerald Buddha
27 August 2014

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Nitusrattanakosin Exhibition Hall
27 August 2014

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Sunny Bangchak Learning Center
28 August 2014

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Ayuttaya Historical Park
28 August 2014

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Close Ceremony
29 August 2014

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Appendix 2: Program Evaluation Form
Asian Summer School in Bangkok 2014
Geoinformatics and Issues on Sustainable Development in Asia
2014/8/18 – 2014/8/29
This summer, we are pleasure to joined summer program with you. Please provide your feedback
based on their overall experience. Each participant need only complete this survey once. If you havealready completed a survey, thank you.
Absolutely
AgreedStrongly
AgreedModerate
AgreedPrettyAgreedDisagreed

English class is great academic activity andalso benefit in introduced for all participants

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

The lectures on Geoinformatics and issues onsustainable development in Asia areinteresting for us

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

Lecturers are specialist in his/her career,which help us to meet the learning needs inthis program

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

Lecture materials, facilities, equipment andsupplies were appropriate for the program

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

Hand on in OpenSource (QGIS) and
GPS-GNSS are improved my technicalGeoinformatics skill

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

The amount of lecture class, study hours ortime dedicated to academic learning were
sufficient for us
Visiting Geoinformatics organizations(government & private sectors) are good
opportunity to learn and building capacity forus
Renewable energy camp & activities in
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Absolutely
AgreedStrongly
AgreedModerate
AgreedPrettyAgreedDisagreed

Accommodation (SSH) is comfortable andsafety for us.

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

We are happy with the choice of curricularand extracurricular activities during thisprogram

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

We learned the local culture through local
life style like places, food, etc.

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

We are happy on the quality of food, coffee
breaks, drinks and snacks

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

We are happy on the quantity of food, coffee
breaks, drinks and snacks

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

This program is good chance to haveexperience in multicultural environment.

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

Overall, how satisfied were you with your
Asian Summer School in Bangkok 2014?

Verysatisfied(5)

Prettysatisfied(4)

Moderatesatisfied(3)

Fairsatisfied(2)

Not at all
satisfied(1)

Please rank the top 3 preferable visiting Geoinformatics organizations that you visited during the
program.
(PASCO company, National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC), Srinagarind Dam, Erawan waterfall,Open Zoo in Kanchanaburi, Space Krenovation Park (SKP) by GISTDA, Hand on GNSS on beach,
Grand Palace, Nitasrattanakosin exhibition, Sunny Bangchak Learning Center or Ayutthaya historical
site)
1
2
3

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Suggestions

Thank you!