Report

Asian Summer School
in Bangkok 2013

Geoinformatics and Issues on
Sustainable Development in Asia

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER

TITLE

PAGE

1

Summary

3

2

Purpose4

3

Participants

5

4

Lecture Program

8

5

Filed Trip Program

9

6

Comments on Lectures

10

7

Comments on Field Trips25

8Program evaluation (feedback based on overall experience of34

participants)
9Conclusions for improvements

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Appendix 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, andRemote Sensing and GIS (RS&GIS) Field of Study, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
organized the “Asian Summer School in Bangkok 2013” program from August 18th to August 31st,
2013 at AIT, Pathumthani, Thailand. The theme of the program was “Geoinformatics and Issues
on Sustainable Development in Asia”.
A total of 24 participants from 13 universities and organizations located in ten different
countries participated in this program. From Japan, seven participants from Chubu University
and one participant from Waseda University joined. Among eight participants from Japan, there
were seven undergraduate students (Applied Chemistry, Communication, Psychology, Chinese,
Commerce and International Relations) and one master student (History and Geography).
Moreover, there are two Korean participants from Pukyong National University (South Korea),
one master student (ITS Lab) and one doctoral student (GIS & GPS Lab), two undergraduate
students from Institut Teknologi Brunei (Civil Engineering), one undergraduate student fromRoyal University of Bhutan (Sherubtse College), one undergraduate student from Taunggyi
University, Myanmar (Geology), one doctoral student from Ho Chi Minh City University ofInformation Technology, Vietnam (IT), One staff from Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia(Civil and Environmental Engineering) and two Indian staffs, one from Center for
Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) and the other from Indian Institute ofTechnology, Bombay (IITB). Additionally, there is one Canadian master student from Kyoto
University (Energy Science) and three Thai participants, two undergraduate students from
Srinakharinwirot University (Geography) and one staff from Siam Cement Group(Environmental Engineer). Lastly, there were two participants from AIT which include one
Nepali undergraduate student (Mechatronic) and one Cambodian master student (RS&GIS).
Several lecture and field trip were conducted during the 12 days of this program. Fourteen
lecturers from Chubu University, seven different Field of Study in AIT (Remote Sensing & GIS,
Computer Science and Information Management, Natural Resource Management, Urban
Environmental Management and Water Engineering and Management) and one external
lecturer from IITB were invited to provide the lectures on issues related on Geoinformatics andsustainable development in Asia. Moreover, ten visits and field trips were conducted to connect
the what participants learned from lectures with the real world. Participants visited PASCO(Thailand) ( Air Survey Company, Japan ), National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC), 5thInternational Conference on Health GIS 2013, MRIGADAYAVAN Palace, SIRINDHORN
International Environmental Park Hua Hin, SIRINART RAJINI ecosystem learning center,
GISTDA(Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency, Thailand), Waste Water
Treatment Plant (Din Dang), Grand Palace and Ayutthaya. Furthermore, the student session
was initiated in this year. The graduated students from AIT and participants from summer
school presented their research and discussed. It is also to stimulate motivation ofundergraduate students to endeavor start their own research.
English is used as the mean communication in lectures and daily life during the program. It
made a deep impression of importance of globalization to the participants. However, in order toprepare participants ready for English lectures and communication during the program, English

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class which is organized by AIT language center was provided. During the program, we also
requested participants to share their background, interest and expertise that crossed culturaland disciplinary boundaries. Participants made new friends from different countries as theinternational 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 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, 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 thank 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 and individual who participated and some of whomshoulder their own expenses.

2. Purpose
The participants will learn issues what related to sustainable development 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 therapid progress and problems accompanying the advance in Asia through field trip. All lectures
will delivered in English. The participants will experience absorbing knowledge in English andunderstand its importance. This summer school will help participants to have international
sense and awareness of the problem for the participants’ thesis.

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3. Participants
Organizations:

Asian Instituteof Technology

Bogor Agricultural
University

Ho Chi Minh City ofIndian Institute ofInformation Technology Technology, Bombay

Ministry of Agriculture &Forests, Bhutan

Pukyong National
University

Center for Environmental Chubu University
Planning and Technology

Kyoto University

Srinakharinwirot
University

Institut Teknologi
BruneiWaseda University

TAUNGGYI UNIVERSITY
Siam Cement GroupCountries:

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Chubu University

Takahiro Kato
Tomomi Ando
Megumi Kashiyama
Yuka Yamazaki
Undergraduate student 2 Undergraduate student1 Undergraduate student 2 Undergraduate student 3
Psychology
Applied Chemistry
Applied Chemistry
ChineseToshihiko Takahashi
Undergraduate student 3
Communication

Hiroaki Sano
Master Student 1,
History & Geography

Waseda University

Taunggyi University

Koki Morigami
Undergraduate student 3
Commerce

Aye Thiri Maw
Master Student 1
Geology

Pukyong National University

Don-Jeong Choi
Doctoral student
GIS & GPS Lab

Sueng-Hyun Kim
Master student
ITS Lab

Yuka Ebata
Undergraduate student 3
International Relation

Ministry of Agriculture &Forests, Bhutan

Karma Tanzing
IT Engineer, Council for RNR
Research of Bhutan (CoRRB)

Institut Teknologi Brunei

Gloria Lau Cheng Yee
Undergraduate student 2
Civil Engineering

Haji Mohammad Iqzat
Bin Haji Jamil
Undergraduate student 2
Civil Engineering

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Ho Chi Minh City University ofInformation Technology

Nguyen Thi Hong
Doctoral Student
IT

Bogor Agricultural
University

University of Alberta/
Kyoto University

Andik Pribadi
Researcher
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Michael H. Couch
Undergraduate student 4
Energy Science

Srinakharinwirot University

Asian Institute of Technology

Sirapach Mangkang Pornwimol Sawangchom
Sainglong Kaing
Sunny Amatya
Undergraduate student 4
Undergraduate student 4 Undergraduate student 2 Master Student
RS&GIS
Geography
Geography
Mechatronic

Siam Cement Group

Jaruwat Kitiyanan
Engineer
Environmental Engineer

Center for Environmental
Planning and Technology

Hardi Panchal
Researcher
Geomatics

Indian Institute ofTechnology, Bombay

Suryakant Ashok Sawant
Researcher
Resources Engineering

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

20 Aug

22 AugTopic
English Communication

26 Aug

29 AugLanguage Center

Ubiquitous Geo-informatics

Prof. Kiyoshi Honda

Rural-Informatics in decision making

Dr. J. Adinarayana

Overview of Geo-informatics

Dr. Nitin K. Tripathi

Geo-Information in Urban Development Planning

Dr. Humayun RashidApplications of Geo-informatics

Dr. Lal Samarakoon

Machine Vision in Agriculture

Dr. Matthew N. Dailey

Urban Environmental Management in Asia
23 AugLecturer

Prof. Vilas Nitivattananon

Geo-informatics for Disaster, and Sentinel Asia

Dr. Masahiko Nagai

Disaster Information Dissemination

Dr. Akiyuki Kawasaki

Student Session :• Carbon Capture and Storage: Risk and Public Perception by Micheal Couch• 3D Modeling and Geovisualization by Hardik Panchel• Sensor Web Enablement for Water and Pest/Disease Management in Horticulture
by Suryakant Ashok Sawant• Web GIS Application to Disseminate Disaster Information Based on User
Preferences by Ramesh De Silva• Development of Location Based Service Application Using Augmented Reality
Technology for Historical Tourism on iOS Platform by Jittin Chaitamart
Interoperable Geoinformatics & Location Base Service

Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat

Climate change and Water Resource

Dr. Sangam Shrestha

Natural Resource in Asia

Dr. Rajendra Shrestha

Computer Modelling for Environmental Science

Dr. Raphael Duboz

Introduction to Spatial Information Engineering

Dr. Naohiko Kohtake

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5. Field trip program
The participants visited these places.
21 AugLine Mapping Section and Orthophoto Section (PASCO)
National Disaster warning center (NWDC)

23 Aug5th International Conference on Health GIS 2013 (Mapping, Monitoring andManaging Health)24 AugMRIGADAYAVAN Palace
SIRINDHORN International Environmental Park Hua Hin

25 Aug
27 Aug
28 AugSIRINART RAJINI ecosystem learning center
GISTDA: Head office
Historical world heritage capital(Ayutthaya) & Elephants house
Waste water treatment plant (Din Dang)
Grand palace: Emerald Buddha

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6. Comments on lectures
Some of comments below present the contents of lectures that participants received from eachlectures.
English Communication (Language Center)! Learn how to introduce yourself, learn how to
improve listening comprehension of lectures throughtargeted listening strategy instruction, catch the main
point from presentations and group discussion about
the topic “the most impressive technology.

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Haji Mohammad Iqzat Bin Haji Jamil (Undergraduate 2, Civil Engineering)

The listening and comprehension skill testing are fun learning and as a moderate level English
speaker, I, myself find it quite challenging but
manageable to follow through till the end. The
intention was great, with the lecturer preparing
the whole passage of what the person in thevideo is talking. I think that was a job well done.
Overall, the workshop is a very successful one
where at one time, our participants were mixed together toform 8 groups of three people. There were many interestingsuggestions and I would say all of them are very good ones, allof which are contributed by each of the participants about therelevant topic. Almost all of the participants had the chance totalk and present their work to the whole class. About Mr.
Matthew's teaching, he is a great teacher and he knows how tohandle and make the class becomes fun. He speaks at a suitable speed that English beginners
find it easy to follow to. In conclusion, I acquired many crucial things from the workshop such as
an improved English usage and also management of time to prepare a short presentation by
talking to the whole class. I would say that the workshop is also like a good ice breaker to break
the awkwardness between ourselves.
• Takahiro Kato (Undergraduate student 2, Psychology)

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I learned two types of strategies to improve to listen to English. One was top-down strategy andthe other was bottom-up strategy. To use the strategies help me improve my English. During thelecture, I recognized that I was not good at listening English, but I was motivated to improve.

Ubiquitous Geo-informatics (Prof. Kiyoshi Honda)! Learn about what is the Ubiquitous Geo-informatics?
How are computers and sensors utilized with Geoinformatics for each utility? (such as agriculture , disasters
and environment ) satellite overview, learn about data
assimilation, integration and application of Remote Sensing,field sensor, UAV and utilization, WEBGIS and geospatial
data.
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Hiroaki Sano (Master student 1, History & Geography)

Ubiquitous is very important into the future from the current. Furthermore, it is possible toobtain great effect by combining the ubiquitous and Geoinformatics. For example, managementof disasters and agriculture corresponds to it.
Besides, we can handle and get the information.
There is a photography and observation bysatellites and sensors. In addition, somemanagement of information by cloud, also
processing speed improvement of GPGPU. On
the other hand the technology developed, I felt
there is a problem. It is that how to solve thedigital divide of people.
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Suryakant Sawant (Researcher,Resources Engineering)

In the beginning speaker provided intuition on what is Ubiquitous and how Geo-Informatics hasreached to this stage.
1.) Advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based systems (i.e. WirelessSensor Network, cloud computing, Remote Sensing, etc.) are providing information at different
spatio-temporal resolution. Geo-Informatics has reached to the level that it facilitates/ assists
for better decision making.
2.) In addition to satellite based systems, ground level real time applications for disaster early
warning, precision agriculture, water management, etc. have provided insights into the
Geoinformatics applications.
3.) The sensor based initiative "Sensor Asia" has provided better information for sectors such as,environmental, agriculture monitoring, etc. Also it provides OGC standardized interoperable
platform for data and information discovery through platform independent architecture.

A S I A N S U M M E R S C H O O L I N B A N G K O K 2 0 1 3 | 124.) The UAV application in agriculture monitoring was also discussed to provide the insights
into advances in the Geoinformatics.
5.) The modeling techniques were discussed to provide insight into various application(agriculture, disaster early warning, management, etc.) and converting sensory data into user
specific useful information.
How this topic was useful for me:
Through application of sensor based systems in economically important citrus crop it will bepossible to have interactions between weather and crop pest/disease and water management
problems. The statistical and machine learning techniques such as multivariate regression,
support vector regression, etc. can be used to design the semi-automatic systems for assisting
citrus cultivating farmers of the selected study area.
Rural-Informatics in decision making (Dr. J. Adinarayana)(Online Skype Presentation)! Learn about how to apply informatics for ruraldevelopment planning and managing, integration of Geo–
ICT and sensor network for Agriculture and environment
monitoring as real time and using the information for thedecision supports about crop cultivation.
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Andik Pribadi (Researcher, Civil and Environmental
Engineering)Geoinformatics is very useful to be applied in planning and managing rural development.
GeoFARMatics is a new term that dealing with application of geoinformatics to support farming
activities, which is the common activities in rural area.

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Michael H. Couch (Undergraduate student 4, Energy Science)

Covered watershed and other land resource issues and the plotting of relevant data to help withthe decision making processes involved in alleviating such challenges.
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Sainglong Kaing (Master Student 2, RS&GIS)

I have learned that GeoSense is a real time decision support system in precision farming. One
research is quite interesting and related to my research interest is "Groundwater-Disease-Yield
Interactions".

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Overview of Geo-informatics (Dr.Nitin K. Triphati)! Learn about Geoinformation Technologies (GIT) androle of GIT, application of GIS in various sectors i.e.
Industry, health, urban planning and management
needs and Way forward GIT based Development.

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Sunny Amatya (Undergraduate student 2, Mechatronic)

Decision can be made from information; information is taken from data. GIT is the combinationof Remote Sensing, Global Positioning System and Geographical Information. 200+ band in thesatellite gives us advantage to take picture to get some data that can be converted into
information for application in different field namely, sustainable planning, decision
management, health care, education and business.
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Tomomi Ando (Undergraduate student 2, Applied Chemistry)I think Geoinformatic technology is great because this system improves healthcare, education,business, urban planning and management and so on.
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Haji Mohammad Iqzat Bin Haji Jamil (Undergraduate 2, Civil Engineering)

Decisions making are pretty important in information technology. Geographic Information
Technology (GIT) is to make a table of records from satellite data, aerial photos and digital
maps. I.e. Usage of GIS too are fully used to obtain it. GPS are used for map mapping and also
the important car navigation.
Urban planning needs to have fully detailed maps and its growth modelling. Transportation
networks, water networks, commercial and residential zones, disaster management and even gas
pipelines way. This requires a really complete and complex city planning. With the help of GIT,
it is much easier rather than it was. Considerations are also need to be taken such asenvironmental and people-friendly, sustainable planning and management. Decisions making
and GIT are really important for such situations.

Geo- Informatics in urban development planning (Dr. Humayun Rashid)! Learn about the role of Geoinformations for urban development planning in Srinagar City,
India because of faulty planning and the application of Geoinformatics for studying urban land
use transformation trend in Srinagar city.
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Application of Remote sensing, GIS and Open source tools for city planning was discussed. The
special emphasis was given on solving health related regional (case study of Srinagar City India)
issues through application of Geospatial Technologies (GST).
1.) The mountainous regions are deprived of health facilities and there is need for GST based
applications to address this issues.
2.) Through case study speaker provided insights into, how GIS could help to take decisions
regarding location of health center and help development planner.
3.) This session/talk provided insights into health as a prominent sector which needs GIS
applications for better resources planning.
How this topic was useful for me:
In hilly and mountainous regions the government policies for location of health care center
based on population density cannot be better option. There is need for taking into consideration
regional geographic advantage and disadvantage into considerations in such remote areas. In
addition to this there is need for better information dissemination mechanism in this regions
through multi-modal (mobile, Internet, etc.) communication platforms. Application of GIS in
Health related applications has large potential in developing countries.
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Andik Pribadi (Researcher, Civil and Environmental Engineering)Geoinformatics has been successfully applied to solve public health problem in JammuKashmir. The need of public health facilities in term of number and location can be determinedusing geoinformatics analysis.

Applications of Geo-informatics (Dr. Lal Samarakoon)! Learn about applications of Geoinformatic for project in thisregion by the cooperation of GIC and regional organizations
such as coastal erosion modelling in Sri Lanka, potential ofspace technology for REDD in Combodia, cyclone hazard
modeling in Bangladesh, flood risk analysis in Srilanka,landslide Mapping in Tajikistan, habitat suitability mapping inPakistan, drought analysis in Lao PDR and land degradation in Mongolia.
• Tomomi Ando (Undergraduate student 2, Applied Chemistry)I think that GIS system is very useful. Application of Geoinformatics is great and coastal
Signficance is a large-scale under taking. I think REDD can contribute environmental program.
In addition, hazard map is great system, because it can explain disaster dates and relate disastermanagement plan.
• Haji Mohammad Iqzat Bin Haji Jamil (Undergraduate 2, Civil Engineering)
There are three remote sensing techniques such as satellite images, aerial photographs andground sensor system. There were many risk assessments such as flood, landslides hazard,

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drought, volcano, cyclone, land use/land cover, biomass or land degradation, vetor borne
diseases, coastal erosion. Carbon dioxide are released due to daily human activities such as
deforestation.
Microwave data, optical remote sensing data are implemented to quantify amount of carbon
dioxide present. So that the analytical reports can be stored for references and to come up withsolution tackle such problem.
Land use/land cover change map generation through high resolution satellite images using
maybe the most recent Landsat 8. Under the cyclone risk case study, participatory GIS (PGIS)
which survey the local people and from these survey, opinions and problems are heard and thiswill create opportunities for the government to provide answers for the locals.
Data predictions are possible through regression analysis so that future appearances of disasterwould be able to be predicted and the people nearby would be able to evacuate safely.
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Toshihiko Takahashi (Undergraduate student 3, Communication)

Geoinmaticsis a revolutionary new enable technologies, and harnessing its potential is withinyour reach at the Geomatics Institute at Fleming.
The term geomatics refers to a set of fast-growing technology-based disciplines focusing on thegathering, analysis, dissemination and management of geographic information.
Machine Vision in Agriculture (Dr. Matthew N. Dailey)! Learn about image processing in the context of
Vision Systems. The useful of image processing in allphases of agriculture, image processing in pre-harvest
applications, the chromatic 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.
• Pornwimol Sawangchom (Undergraduate student
4, Geography)
This lecture renders me to know about 3D geometry and pinhole camera.
Appearance: chromatic restoration, mobile robots in agriculture, statistical inference tools, 2D
mapping with laser range, mapping with stereo vision and occupancy grids.
Mobile video processing for agricultural crop mapping. 3D modeling with time of flight cameras
and conclusion about doing research.
• Sirapach Mangkang (Undergraduate student 4, Geography)

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ICT has means to improve quality and productivity in all of these phases. 3D models, object
categories, object poses, camera poses are kind of information.
Important applications of vision systems include: Mobile robot navigation,Industrial inspection
and control, Military intelligence, Security, Human-computer interaction, Image retrieval fromdigital libraries,Medical image analysis,3D model capture for visualization andanimation,Agricultural monitoring.
Vision sensors are information-rich, cheap, and light weight. Fixed cameras have limited of viewand resolution. Mobile vision sensors require solutions to challenge problems.
• Hiroaki Sano (Master student, History and Geography)
This lecture was difficult for me. There are several things that I feel interesting. First, I learned
that it is very difficult to make 3D object. Then, I learned that this technology will contributesignificantly to the management and harvest of agriculture. Finally, I was interested in two
issues. The first is that it is not yet exactly be the user desires this technique. The second is thatthe cost

Urban Environmental Management in Asia (Prof. Vilas Nitivattananon)! Learn about overview of urbanization in Asia, the physicalenvironment in urban areas, urban environmental problems,management, measures and instruments. And know about
Southeast
Asia
urban
environmental
management
applications; (SEA-UEMA) project.
• Sunny Amatya (Undergraduate student 2, Mechatronic)
The things that I learned from this lecture is about data regarding the urban management in
Asia, the rate of urbanization in different major hubs in Asia and future predictions of the data
and the consequences to unmanaged urbanization in the city areas, the populated city of theworld and predicted to be populated city in the world and the correlation between economy andenvironment. Moreover, I got ideas on the drainage management and waste management inmajor city of Asia including the possible solution for the development of the sustainable future
being, policy, legal measurements, planning, economy and participatory tool.
• Yuka Ebata (Undergraduate student 3, International Relation)
I'm interested in environment associated with urban development. I learned about UNDP and
FAO. I like his class.
• Don-Jeong Choi (Doctoral student, GIS & GPS Lab)I understood for the problems of urbanization and learned more about application ways forurban analysis including motivation to related topic.
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There is need to understand the growth of cities in Asian countries through Geospatial
Technologies. This session emphasized on growing cities across Asia and the effect of such
uncontrolled growth on both environment and humans. The talk motivated to understand needfor planning the development of growing cities. From environment and resources management
perspective there is need to implement strategies to reduce effect on environment. Also, there isneed to carry out "Environment Impact Analysis" (EIA) study of all such vulnerable cities toavoid the damage from uncontrolled environmental (earthquake, floods/ splash floods, etc.)
events. The session motivated to think of various applications of Geospatial technologies someof them are, 1. GIS based flood prediction models, 2. GIS and WSN based real time flood
monitoring systems, 3. Need for GIS data sharing (updated hydro-geomorphological, river waterlevels, etc.) among Asian countries and 4. Robust mechanisms and models for early warning
systems.
Geo - informatics for Disaster, and Sentinel Asia (Dr. Masahiko Nagai)! Know about RS and collaboration of JAXA, ALOS
data applications, utilization of earth observation
satellite (EOS) data, concept of Sentinel Asia andinternational agreement among space agencies.
• Sainglong Kaing (Master student 2, RS&GIS)
I've known and learnt that geoinformatics are quite
important for regional and global study, especially fordisaster management. For example, Sentinel Asia is responsible the managing disaster in Asia.
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Aye Thiri Maw (Master student 1, Geology)

I got more information about JAXA, company and the difference of the real spatial world anddigital copy (GIS or spatial databases) that use for applying to the flood, land cover, earthquake,
forest, rain fall for the map.
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Andik Pribadi (Researcher, Civil and Environmental Engineering)

At the beginning of presentation, Dr. Nagai introduced JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency and its activities, including using satellite to create map of the world (mapping).
Nowadays, the world has entered a new era in mapping for creating digital copy of the realworld. Research flow for mapping technology consist of three parts: Monitoring systemdevelopment, Information/data processing and analysis, and Data interoperability
arrangement.
He also explained the Sentinel Asia, which is a voluntary initiative by a collaboration between
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Management in the Asia-Pacific region, this initiative was started in Feb 2006, and now has
many organizations member from 25 countries. Its activities include mitigation/preparedness,
response and recovery phase of disaster strike.
Disaster Information Dissemination (Dr. Akiyuki Kawasaki)! Learn about the demonstration of initial result ofcomparing disaster information gathering behaviorof Thai and Japanese during the Thai flood and the
Tohoku earthquake and tsunami disaster in 2011•

Gloria Lau Cheng Yee (Undergraduate 2, civil
Engineering)

As unprocessed public goods, information flows
between and among people and groups in the form of
verbal, non-verbal, or written interactions” whether
memes, messages, or meanings” that serve as precursors to problem-solving and decisionmaking. Interactions instigated directly or indirectly by a disaster could be deemed disaster
information.
As processed public goods, information” whether a meme, message, or meaning” influences the
lives of those who experience it. When life-sustaining or life-fulfilling information is absent,
inaccessible, or useless because it is inaccurate orinterrupted as the result of a hazard” natural, civil, or
technological, the persons affected may be said to beexperiencing an information disaster. An information
disaster hinders the access to or effective use of disaster
information.
Traditionally, map dissemination on mobile devices anddesktops occur using web services resident on powerfulback-end servers. Recently, there has been a paradigm
shift towards implementing GIS servers on embedded
systems. For instance, research on architectural elements of GIS on embedded mobile platforms
has been performed. These systems, however, still rely on back-end services running on
powerful servers. A recent set of natural emergencies have also triggered the use of map servers
during emergency response management.
Crowdsourcing refers to using a human network to solve a computationally expensive problem.
With the growing popularity of smartphone devices, several crowdsourcing based applications
have been designed. For instance, common applications include image tagging and search, andvehicle tracking and mapping. Crowdsourcing approaches have also been adopted to extract
information during the aftermath of a natural disaster. While most crowdsourcing approaches
are used to populate backend servers, our system uses crowdsourcing in a disconnectedenvironment.

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Sirapach Mangkang (Undergraduate 4, Geography)

Disasters fall into two major categories. These include man -made and natural disasters. Thereis a major difference between these two and it is important to learn more about the same inorder to increase your knowledge on the occurrence and causes of each and hence ensure thatdisaster preparedness is heightened.
Disaster makes the biggest economic loss, for example, in Tohoku (earthquake and tsunami)
USA (hurricane Catharina), Koba (earthquake) and Thailand (flood)
The Sentinel Asia initiative is a collaboration between space agencies and disaster management
agencies, applying remote sensing and web- GIS technologies to support disaster managementin the Asia Pacific region.
Students Session! Exchange the research experience of each university/organization (Alberta University/Kyoto University, CEPT,IITB and AIT) by participant’s presentation (Micheal,
Hardik, Suryakant, Remash and Jittin).
• Andik Pribadi (Researcher, Civil and Environmental
Engineering)
I got many knowledge and interesting information fromparticipant presentations. I got the idea of theirpresentation even though I still do not understand clearly
about the concepts. I was impressed by the research aboutaugmented reality since it is a new thing for me. The demonstration of AR implementation was
also very interesting.

• Sunny Amatya (Undergraduate student 2, Mechatronic)
From Micheal's presentation, I got ideas on the process of compressing CO2 under soil for the
better environmental sustainability. The two major economies, Canada and Japan and theirparts on carbon foot print and mitigation on the disaster.
From Surya's presentation, I got the idea on the water management and pest management for
horticulture in India. More ideas on the data mining technique required.
From Hardick’s presentation, he presented ideas on the 3D modeling and visualization and its
further application on the indoor modeling for emergency.
The idea on the Augmented Reality for data resourcing and trip management.

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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 dataarchives and applications.
• Haji Mohammad Iqzat Bin Haji Jamil(Undergraduate student 2, Civil Engineering)
The world is a much better place when it started to have geospatially-enabled IT. I.e. The
introduction and launch of Google Earth. Since then Multimedia mapping methods are available
worldwide such as the geotagging using GPS. Crucial for transportation purposes and in
addition, with ubiquitous GIS and augmented reality services would make it much rather usefuland praise worthy.
Interoperability of Open Geospatial consortium (OGC), OGC web services (OWS), SOS,
Dynamic 3Dgeneration would be an advantageous situation.
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Sainglong Kaing (Master Student 2, RS&GIS)

I've learned that the standardization is so important interoperability because the different
software will be costly and with limitations of usage, the data will be different from one anotherin term of its type, knowledge of expertise are very limited to perform any analysis using thiskind of software, and the distribution is not broaden enough. Thus, the Open Geospatial
Consortium (OGC) is introduced for solving this problems.
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 the adaptationof human for climate change such as the physical construction
to avoid or reduce the impacts of climate change including
policy for legislation, knowledge development and public norms for reduce risk and related
impacts.
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Tomomi Ando (Undergraduate student 2, Applied Chemistry)

I learned relation between climate change and water resource. And I learned impact of climatechange and water cycle. So, water cycle affects climate change. For example, snow melting andice connects increasing sea level. This is serious problem.
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Weather VS Climate: The difference between weather andclimate is a measure of time. Weather is what conditions of
the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is
how the atmosphere "behaves" over relatively long periods oftime.
Biosphere: The biosphere is the global sum of all ecosystems.
It can also be called the zone of life on Earth. Thermal
expansion of water due to increase in tempertature andmelting of glaciers are the major cause to water level rise.
• Suryakant Sawant (Researcher, Resources Engineering)This session started with the basic concepts of weather
and climate change. The factors affecting climate changesuch as, 1.change in solar output, 2. Earth's orbital
characteristics and 3. Continental drift are altogether
responsible for the climate change. Effects of climatechange such as, temperature rise, increase in rainfall oversome areas, glacier melting, sea level rise, etc. werediscussed and provided insights into the plausible effects
of climate change on present leaving conditions. In orderto reduce the impact of climate change two main
strategies were discussed, first climate change mitigation and second adaptation. In which
adaptation includes the measures taken to enhance the leaving conditions after climate change.
These strategies include the structural and non structural options. In structural option building
check dams, soil water conservation structures, rainwater harvesting, etc. were discussed.
Whereas non- structural approach includes the public policy and governancedecisions/measures to mitigate the climate change impact. The session also included a casestudy on Assessment of Climate Change impacts on Irrigation water requirement and rice yieldin Ngamoeyeik irrigation project Myanmar.
This session enhanced the understanding about climate change and issues, also the mitigation
strategies to adapt in such conditions. The new Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) based
rice crop modeling tool called Aqua Crop shown capability to simulate the rice crop yield.
Statistical downscaling of Global Circulation Model (GCM) can be useful for predicting theregional meteorological data to grid level. From case study it was clear that there is need forforecasting the impact of climate change on irrigation water requirement of rice crop.

Natural Resource in Asia (Dr. Rajendra Shrestha)! Study what is a natural resource? and key of Natural
Resource Management (NRM) in Asia such as land, forest,
biodiversity, fresh water, coastal and marine, atmosphere.

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Suryakant Sawant (Researcher, Resources Engineering)

Explained about natural resources definitions, their characteristics etc. Through example of
Manila, Philippines and Yellow river, China motivated to think on the pressure.

• Hiroaki Sano (Master student, History and Geography)
I learned the transformation of Asia as seen from the natural resources in this lecture. Sincemodern era, the population of the world has increased significantly. Thereby, the range of urban
is spread out significantly. I learned that it is possible to compare the photograph that aspect. In
addition to this, it was possible to see how the terrain and land on the earth is changing greatly.
From the above, I felt what human beings should be considered more seriously about the land
use of the earth.
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Michael H. Couch (Undergraduate student 4, Energy Science)

An understanding of the true meaning of natural resources and their utility and the challenges
of sustainability given their limitations and population growth. Highlighting the key
requirements of sustainable development and protection of our resources. Of course, with afocus on how GIS can be applied to help monitor and demonstrate the efficient use of existing
resources.
Computer Modelling for Environmental Science (Dr. Raphael Duboz)! Learned about the companion of modeling for supporting
complex systems that are used in environment issue. In thislecture, surveillance and control systems in animal epidemiology
is the topic that were explained as the case study of model incomplex system.

• Suryakant Sawant (Researcher, Resources Engineering)
A new paradigm of simulation complex systems was
explained in initial part further explaining the need forparticipatory approach in modeling. The session motivatedto think on how large and complex environmental systems
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modeling technique PARDI was introduced with a case study on Thailand and Cambodian avian
flu problem in animal husbandry sector. The session briefly covered the motivation, paradigm ofmodeling the real world systems and a case study. This would help in my study on citrus crop
pest disease epidemiology. The ant colony algorithm was explained in a very interactive manner.
I think to increase the understanding there should be some hands on experience with thismodeling technique.
• Sainglong Kaing (Master student 2, RS&GIS)
I have learned from this lecture that complexity is something can be predicted or fullunderstand. The complex system can be understood by decomposing the complex object tounderstand each unit of object. This is called Model which is not the prediction of the future but
to understand it. Thus the cycle of a model, which will
never stop is starting from [1] Questions - what wewant to do, [2] Knowledge - use knowledge tounderstand it, [3] Models - model it from what weunderstand, [4] Simulations - simulate the models, [5]Analysis - analysis the result from the simulation, [6]Answers/Decisions/Actions - if the result is answered
the questions, accept it; if not, adjust models andrepeat the step. Thus the steps of conceptual modelingis PARDI: Problem (P), Actors (A), Resources (R),
Dynamics (D), and Interactions (I).

Introduction to Spatial Information Engineering (Dr. Naohiko Kohtake)! Learned about space technology in Japan, space
applications and the application of space technology
such as disaster and agriculture.
! Suryakant Sawant
Engineering)(Researcher,

Resources

This session introduced about space applications inJapan. The initiatives for space technology applications in environment, agriculture, disastermanagement, etc. In addition the student satellite project œCANSAT was also explained toprovide insights into the application of space technology and develop understanding about it isapplication into various field of studies.
! Sainglong Kaing (Master student 2, RS&GIS)
I have learned about the space systems starting from the ground, transportation to the space byrocket, and observation station (Satellite). CanSat is a leading training program which is firstly
introduced. If it's successful, Micro Satellite can be the next step. Moreover, Systems
Engineering is an interdisciplinary approach which works in three steps:

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7. Comments of field trips
PASCO! PASCO company corporations and company’s activities,
capabilities of remote sensing and production line. Observeline mapping, orthophoto and 3D map process sections.
• Suryakant Sawant (Researcher, Resources Engineering)
The company uses approach of Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS)
applications for 3D urban mapping, Street mapping, terrain evaluation and mapping, etc. From
this visit it is clear that there is growing need for
applications of Geospatial Technologies (GST) in
natural resources mapping and management. The
company develops solutions based on datasets
such as, aerial imagery, elevation data, satellite
image, etc. Through this fine resolution datasets it
is possible to identify the changes in the land use,
growth of urban areas, potential sites prone tolandslides, etc. Through discussions with company
manager it was clear that there is need for fieldlevel surveys to validate the information generated
from this datasets.
In country like India there is need and high potential for such GST application based companies
to facilitate the existing public (government) sector initiatives in natural resources monitoringand management. The technologies such as 3D mapping and high resolution aerial photography
have wide applications in agricultural drought monitoring, crop insurance, urban planning,transportation, etc.
The data processing tasks are too laborious, time
consuming and susceptible to various errors(machine and human induced). Hence, there is
wide scope for developing more robust software
applications to process the data at higher rate
therebyreducing
latencyinfinal
outcome/application.
The visit has motivated to think on availability ofdatasets from various sensing platforms, also weare in the era where gap between the rate of datacollection has increased very wide than dataprocessing/ use. There is need for Spatial Data Infrastructures to provide such fine resolution
data freely to everyone who needs (e.g. Landsat initiative), this may increase the use and bringout many advanced applications and utilities for public good.

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Pornwimol Sawangchom (Undergraduate student 4, Geography)

I think I go to the PASCO (Thailand) Company. I
have vast knowledge about geography program. For
example, Arc GIS, Auto CAD and Info program. This
program is used for making images to 3D analysis tofurther use in the future.
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Sunny Amatya (Undergraduate student 2,
Mechatronics)

Information on the background of PASCO. The work
carried out in the system. Technology andmethodology used to get perfect mapping and 3D
image of the areas.

National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC)! Learn about Thailand early warning system, risk map,
supporting section, database modeling and international
corporations. And we have chance to interact with staffs
and visit operation rooms.
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Sirapach Mangkang (Undergraduate student 4,
Geography)

Thailand now has the best warning system in Southeast
Asia, eight years after the Andaman coast was ravaged by a devastating tsunami on Boxing Day
in 2004. Before monstrous waves hit Thai shores and killed over 8,000 people in six provinces
along the southern coast, no one knew Tsunami coming. All
disaster will change with the early alert system and instruments
installed by the National Disaster Warning Center along theAndaman coast over the past eight years, backed by necessary
regulations. Now, ample time for evacuation is assured withstreamlined regulations, in a bid to save lives within two minutes(after tsunami waves start to form), the speed can be calculated
and know exactly when tsunami will reach the shore. Messages
could be sent out immediately after the calculation.
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Gloria Lau Cheng Yee (Undergraduate student 4, Civil Engineering)

Following the catastrophic 2004 tsunami disaster, the Government of Thailand took immediate
action to establish a National Disaster Early Warning System.
It is responsible fordisseminating warning messages on all kinds of natural disasters.

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• Hiroaki Sano (Master student 1, History & Geography)
Large tsunami was rushed to the Tohoku region ofJapan in March 2011. I've heard that there isexperience the tsunami rushed to Thailand in thepast. It is observed to changes in the wave byplacing buoy on the sea. In addition, it was also
made mechanism such as can safely emergency
bulletin using the satellite. This has been done inJapan. I think that it's a very important thing.
However, it is a problem to useless at that time. I
thought that it was not only works, that people
understand the disaster is important.
• Andik Pribadi (Researcher, Civil and Environmental Engineering)
During this visitation, we got explanation on the National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC)
profile, history and activities. This institution use remote sensing data to monitor and predict
disaster occurrence. They also have developed some models to simulate the tsunami wave on the
Indian Ocean as well as South China Sea which can give impact to Thailand. We also observed
the office and facilities to deal with disaster warning in Thailand.

Mrigadayavan palace! Experienced in one of palace in Thailand, where
was commissioned by King Vajiravudh to serve as aholiday villa. Construction took place during 1923–
24, and was overseen by Italian architecture.
• Sunny Amatya
Mechatronics)(Undergraduate student 2,

The architecture of the palace, the measures carried out toconserve the palace by the princess. The royal lineage of thecurrent dynasty. The measures carried out to conserve thepalace.
• Pornwimol Sawangchom (Undergraduate student 4,
Geography)
At Mrigadayavan Palace render I know about the Background Andhave located on Bang Kra
Beach in Cha-am County. It was constructed in 1923 under King Rama VI's command to be hissummer palace. The palace was built from materials from the dismantled buildings of the oldresidence at the nearby Chao Samran Beach.

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I was very impressed because Mrigadayavan palace is a beautiful place full of art and cultural lifeof the people in the past. Although the weather is hot, but I'm happy.
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Andik Pribadi (Researcher, Civil and Environmental Engineering)

I enjoyed the trip to this palace. The palace is so peaceful, with beautiful beach scenery. During
the trip, the guide explained the history of the palace as well as the Thai Kingdom genealogy.
The palace was commissioned by King Vajiravudh to serve as a holiday villa, which wasconstructed during 1923-1924. The palace, which also known as the Deer Palace, and its
ornaments faced corrosion problem due to corrosive sea wind.

The Sirindhorn International Environmental Park
! Learn how to sustainably develop and preserve the mangrove forests andenvironment at Hua Hin. Get a close touch with planting mangrove andreleased the crab into the sea.
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Sainglong Kaing (Master Student 2, RS&GIS)

It's a kind of local learning center for mangrove ecosystem where the students from theneighboring areas are volunteering and come to visit and learn about the mangrove ecosystem.
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Suryakant Sawant (Researcher, Resources Engineering)

The visit to mangrove forest explained the importance ofconservation of coastal areas. During visit explanation by
Prof. Honda on mangroves as a natural break to tsunami
disaster explained the interrelationships between natural
resources, remote sensing and geographic information
system and field surveillance. The understanding between
continuum of natural resources, Geospatial technologies anddisaster mitigation/management was clear. In addition tothis various improvements in traditional and improved
methods to catch aquatic animals (fish, crab, etc.) was clear. The exhibition of various species ofbirds, animals and mangrove plants showed the importance of such initiatives to conserve theecosystem. The visit was best example of environmental awareness through eco-tourism
approach. This approach is one of the effective ways to explain the need for conservation ofenvironment and natural resources to common people.
In India there is huge potential for such initiatives. One of such initiative of eco-tourism in India
is Saguna.

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SIRINART RAJINI ecosystem learning center! Learn how to sustainably renovate, develop and preserve the mangrove
forests and environment from the abandoned aquaculture farm at Cha Am.
Get a close touch with Nature studies path Located.

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Suryakant Sawant (Researcher, Resources Engineering)

The place offers a huge amount of experience and knowledge in terms of mangrove trees.
Professor Honda too explained that the available of the mangrove trees can help to minimize
down impacts caused by floods or tsunami. Hence, it is planted in a very huge scale of land. We
proceed onto climb floors of tower to see these amazing views from the top. After that we also
went into the exhibition site where we study history of the mangrove forest and also the royalfamily involvement in helping to grow these trees. For example, there is a mangrove tree thatwere plated by his majesty the king of Thailand. The place is also called "the grand old man ofmangrove" mainly because they are now over 60 years old which is like if an old people's age. I
find it interesting for this visit since it caters so many stuffs such from trees growing to full
history and also its advantes or usages that Thai used for generations and generations.
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Tomomi Ando (Undergraduate student 2, Applied Chemistry)

When I looked around mangrove forest in Mangrove Ecosystem Learning Center, I saw
mangrove which does not straight. I think raising mangrove is difficult.
• Pornwimol Sawangchom (Undergraduate student 4, Geography)
Sirinath Rajini Mangrove Ecosystem Learning Center render I know about the history
mangroves in Thailand first mangrove study center is an epic achievement, developed on aderelict prawn farm, to celebrate His Majesty 50th year on the throne, and animals that live inthe surrounding example fish crab Etc.

GISTDA: Head office! Learn about Geo-informatics applications,
GISTDA role on space technology in Thailand,
implement
projects
andfutureworks.
Additionally, we learn about mapping withsatellite data.

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Sunny Amatya (Undergraduate student 2, Mechatronics)

The satellite launched by Thailand and the countries
covered by it. The use of data for Natural Resource
Management, Agriculture, Disaster Management,
Urban Planning, National Security and Cartography.
The recent use in flood monitoring, canal river
encroachment, runover dykes, storm pattern, rainfall
record and work with FROC. Their initiatives during
the 2011 flood. The possible clients of GISTDA is in themarketing system.
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Sirapach Mangkang (Undergraduate student 4, Geography)

GISTDA at chaegwattana is head Office. GISTDA have
objective for Developing geo-informatics and spacetechnology as a non- boundary knowledge for thecountry development. THEOS is the first operational
earth observation satellite of Thailand. The THEOS
program was developed by GISTDA, EADS Astrium, theprime contractor, initiated work on the satellite in 2004.
On October 1, 2008, THEOS was successfully launchedby Dnepr launcher from Yasny, Russian Federation.
Today, GISTDA is developing a worldwide network of
distributors to allow the users to use and access to all
GISTDA products.
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Toshihiko Takahashi (Undergraduate student 3, Communication)

GISTDA is recognized in the international satellite market and with business alliances. It was
active when the flood occurred in It was going to protect the city design.
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Suryakant Sawant (Researcher, Resources Engineering)

GISTDA was founded in year 2000 and works on the space research and application. The
session by Dr. Preesan Rakwatin provided an insight into activities of GISTDA such as, satellite
program, Thai satellite Thaichote-1 (THEOS), application of the remote sensing and GIS
techniques in disaster, agriculture, water resources management. In addition to studies within
Thailand GISTDA activities also include the application of RS and GIS in natural resources
monitoring and management in other Asian countries (Cambodia, Vietnam, etc.). The agency
also acts as a RS data provider of various international satellites such as, MT-SAT,TERRA/AQUA-MODIS, RADARSAT - 1 and 2, Quick Bird, Rapid Eye, etc.

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Historical world heritage capital (Ayutthaya) & Elephants house! Experienced in cultural and historical heartland of
Thailand’s former capital city "Ayutthaya". And observed
rural house’s architecture and floating market.
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Andik Pribadi (Researcher, Civil and Environmental
Engineering)

I really enjoyed the trip to Ayutthaya, the capital city ofancient Ayutthaya Kingdom. It is a beautiful city that has
many historical heritages. During this trip, I got information
about the greatness of the Ayutthaya Kingdom that
controlled the whole Indochina Peninsula, and some part of
Malay Peninsula. I was also impressed by the elephant attraction in the elephant village and thedinner on boat also very nice.
• Pornwimol Sawangchom (Undergraduate student 4, Geography)
Ayutthaya province is a significant one for Thailand several hundred years. I am go at Ayutthaya
province Makes me feel happy. I have go to the Floating market, Elephant Farm, Archaeologicalsite and diner on the boat. It is very nice but the weather is very hot.
• Hiroaki Sano (Master student 1, History & Geography)
There are many temples in Japan. However, the image was different from the temple of Japan.
I specialize in geography. I have two questions from its position. The first, is that why did build atemple there. The second is that what brought effect around by building a temple there.
In order to understand this, I have to learn deeply the history of Thailand. While I think I wantto learn deeply the history of Thailand, I learned the importance of understanding the history ofJapan as Japanese.

Waste water treatment plant (Din Dang)! Visit waste water treatment plant at Din Dang. We
observed how to manage the waste water by Bangkok
Metropolitan Administration (BMA) to operate andmaintain under waste water treatment plant (DinDang).

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• Karma Karma Tanzing (IT Engineer, Council for RNR Research of Bhutan)
Waste water treatment plant is (Din dang) doing great work for the beneficial of sanitary urban
area (City) and environmental friendly. I felt such kind of plant is very much needed
immediately in Bhutan for the waste water treatment.
• Jaruwat Kitiyanan (Environmental Engineering, Siam Cement Group)
Study municiple 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.
• Haji Mohammad Iqzat Bin Haji Jamil (Undergraduate 2, Civil Engineering)Dindaeng water treatment plant has beentreating water in 8 districts of a populationof one million. The current capacity of theplant is 200,000 m3 and its maximum
capacity 350,000 m3 per day. In the plant,
anaerobic bacteria and aerobic bacteria areused to treat water. They used oxygen todigest any impurities occurring in thewater. This is somewhat similar to the
Algae which is grown in unclean water andafter it grows, it will help to clean the waterand also it serves as a bio-energy due to it being nutrient-full.
The cost of treatment are measured in terms of power consumptions, which is 2 Baht per cubic
meter. Dindaeng plant does not use separate system, i.e. mixed
between waste water drainage system and storm water drainage
system. Because there will be more water whenever there israin.
Remote sensing and GIS technology are used locally, not by or
through the satellite, however they are used to monitor
mechanical or chemical operations. In conclusion, if it happens
to be over the max capacity, a meeting would be declared byhigh ranking officials and decisions would be made such as
opening a canal and redirecting the water towards it.

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

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Sainglong Kaing (Master Student 2, RS&GIS)

The grand palace consists of many buildings built at different eras and in different purposes.
The buildings were designed by different architectures such as Thai, Sri Langkan, Cambodian,Indonesian and Britain. The museum is a collection of valuable items in terms of history andThai artistic features such as Thai coins, royal Thai decoration and regalia.
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Andik Pribadi (Researcher, Civil and Environmental Engineering)

I've seen an amazing complex of palace during
this trip. The Grand Palace is the greatest
palace in Thailand that was first constructedduring 16th century at the order of King Rama
I. Later, several building have been added inthis complex by the next King. The buildingarchitectures in this complex are also
influenced by culture of another country. Now,
the King (Rama IX) and the royal family do notstay in this palace anymore, but the palace still used for official events. Inside the complex, there
is also museum that kept many valuable historical artifacts.

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8. Program evaluation
In this program, the evaluation forms were prepared for receiving the feedbacks fromparticipants in order 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 partis the question about overall satisfaction and the second past is the recommendationfrom participants. In this evaluation, there are 22 respondents from 24 participants.
The first part, there are twelve questions and the feedback from participants arepresented as the levels of agreement (absolutely agreed, strongly agreed, moderated
agreed, pretty agreed and disagrees). The results of this part are displayed the level ofagreement from participants in each question as the pie charts.

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

Overall, I am very pleased to say I am very satisfied with this program. It is a great experience togain knowledge and gain new friends in a very difference environment. All the lecture andfacilities are very kind and helpful throughout our journey.
Halal food for outside AIT situations, more activities at night or after dinner, sport activities(football etc.), and musical activities.
Lunch break must be longer, reason is lunch and praying time for Muslims maybe from 12.00 –1:15 P.M.
Thank you
Good!!! No suggestions. Everything is will be fine.
- Group presentation/Group works and group discussion will be some additional programs.
- Pre- evaluation and post - evaluation forms can be also included to evaluate.
- Practical session for better understanding.
- Anyway it was wonderful camp.
This program is very good for me because this is the first time and experience of my life. So thisprogram is very enjoying and thank you for everything. Thank you very much for your helpful.

It was fun being in this summer school! Thank you Ms.A & Ms.Ploy, Dr.Sarawut and Prof.
Honda! Keep up the good work! Please shorten the lecture time?

- I do need the lectures not to be technically too specific.
- Souvenir is preferable (T-shirt, key chain summer school).
- Break time between each lecture to be increase.
- Practical work for better understanding.

- Practical sessions should be scheduled.
- Hand out (Lecture Material) should be distributed to the participants before the lecture.
Therefore, they can prepare for the lecture and be able to understand easier.
- Halal food may be better prepared. However, I enjoyed the foods in this summer
school. They were great!

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Overall summer school, program was excellent.
1) There is needed for reshuffling of lectures/ sessions, e.g. Natural resources in Asia
(Prof. Rajenda Shestha) for the first day, etc.
2) Some hands on exercise on open source GIS/RS platform such as QGIS, etc.
3) Prof. Raphael Duboz session on second day is un-participatory approach fromparticipants.
4) First day English class should not be changed, it is must.
Training material should be printed. This can help attendants more understand the lectures.
As Japanese, if this program is intended for Japanese who don’t have knowledge of GIS and canspeak English in low level. I think, you should choose representative of Japanese in light ofEnglish skill and hold a class of GIS before this program.

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9. Conclusions for improvement
From all suggestions, it can be concluded that the overall of this program was good. 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”.
Moreover, under the international society among participants, they can learn the
different cultures and make the international friendships. However, there are somesuggestions from participants and they can be expounded as below.
The handout of lectures should be distributed to the participants before the classbecause they can prepare themselves in each lesson. Additionally, hands on is required
for more understand in the lectures.
Because of various field of study among all of participants, many participants do nothave the background about Geoinformatics. Additionally, English language skill is the
obstacle so that some participants cannot catch up the content of lectures. Thus, English
class should be extended for one week in the next time for participants who has low
English language skill and the basic of remote sensing and GIS should be provided forparticipants who do not have background for preparing them before the program start.
Food for multicultural should be provided especially Halal food or vegetarian food.
Eventually, this type of food is provided in AIT but this problem occurred when the
program was scheduled outside AIT or the countryside. Moreover, the break time ortime for praying should be extended for Muslim participants.

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Appendix 1: Summer School 2013 program

Open Ceremony(20 AUG 2013)

Self-Introduction(20 AUG 2013)

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PASCO (21 AUG 2013)

National Disaster warning center(NWDC) (21 AUG 2013)

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MRIGADAYAVAN Palace (24 AUG 2013)

SIRINDHORN International
Environmental Park,
Hua Hin (24 AUG 2013)

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SIRINART RAJINI ecosystem learning center (25 AUG 2013)

GISTDA(27 AUG 2013)

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Historical world heritage capital (Ayutthaya) &Elephants house (27 AUG 2013)

Waste water treatment plant (Din Dang)(28 AUG 2013)

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Grand Palace(28 AUG 2013)

Closing ceremony(30 AUG 2013)

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Appendix 2: Program Evaluation Form
Asian Summer School in Bangkok 2013
Geoinformatics and Issues on Sustainable Development in Asia
2013/8/18 – 2013/8/31
This summer, we are pleasure to joined summer program with you. Please provide yourfeedback based on their overall experience. Each participant need only complete this survey
once. If you have already completed a survey, thank you.
Absolutely
AgreedStrongly
AgreedModerate
AgreedPrettyAgreedDisagreed

English class is great academic activity
and also benefit in introduced for allparticipants

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

The lectures on Geoinformatics andissues on sustainable development in Asia
are interesting for us

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

Lecturers are specialist in his/her careerwhich help us to meet the learning needsin this program

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

Laboratory instruction, facilities andequipment were appropriate for the
program

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

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

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

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

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

Environmental camp & activities in Hua
Hin encouraging my environmental
awareness

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

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Accommodation (SSH) is comfortable
and safety for us.

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

Absolutely
AgreedStrongly
AgreedModerate
AgreedPrettyAgreedDisagreed

Preparation stuffs like handout, remark
messages, welcome email, etc. are helpful
for our preparation

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

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

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

This program is good chance to haveexperience in multicultural environment.

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

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Thank you!