REPORT
Asian Summer School in Bangkok
2015
Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development

17 – 28 August 2015	 Asian Institute of Technology

	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  

Sponsors Support:

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

Chubu University

Asian Institute of Technology

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

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1. Summary
Chubu Institute of Advanced Studies, Chubu University, and Remote Sensing and GIS(RS&GIS) Field of Study, jointly organized the “Asian Summer School in Bangkok 2015”
program from August 17th to 28th, 2015 at Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani,
Thailand. The theme of the program was “Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development”.
A total of 18 participants, 12 nationalities, came from 12 universities and organizations
located in 11 different countries participated in this program. From Japan, five participantsfrom Chubu University joined. Among participants from Japan, there are four undergraduate
students (Environmental Biology, Education, English and Culture, and MechanicalEngineering) and one master student (Civil Engineering). Moreover, there is one Taiwanese
master student from Feng Chia University (Urban Planning and Spatial Information), one
Indonesian undergraduate student from Bogor Agricultural University (Civil andEnvironmental Engineering), one Nepalese undergraduate student from Kathmandu
University (Civil and Geomatics Engineering), and three Thai students which two students
are undergraduate students from Srinakharinwirot University (Geography) and another one
from Khon Kaen University (Geoinformatics). Furthermore, there are also two participantsfrom AIT. The first one is undergraduate student from Myanmar studying in Civil
Engineering and the last one from Sri Lanka studying in Industrial Engineering. Not only
student participated in this program, but also staff and researcher. There is one Vietnamese
researcher from Vietnam National University (Cartography-Remote Sensing and GIS), one
Filipino research associate from University of Philippines (Geodetic Engineering), one
Cambodian graduated from Royal University of Agriculture and currently working in
Wildlife Conservation Society, Cambodia as SMART Database Management Assistant, one
Pakistani research assistant from Institute of Space Technology (Remote Sensing and GIS),
and one staff from SIAM MITSUI PTA Co., Ltd. working as Safety and Environment
Manager.
Several lectures and field trips were conducted during the 12 days of this program. 14
lecturers are from different Fields of Study in AIT (Remote Sensing & GIS, Computer
Science and Information Management, Energy, Agricultural, and Water Engineering andManagement). Moreover, five visits and field trips were conducted to connect whatparticipants learned from lectures with the real world. Participants visited PASCO (Thailand)(Air Survey Company, Japan), National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC), Sirindhorn
International Environmental Park and Mangrove Forest, The Regional Integrated MultiHazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES), Energy Conservation Building,and Ayutthaya Historical Park. Furthermore, it is also to stimulate motivation ofundergraduate students to endeavor their own research.
English is used as the main communication in lectures and daily life during the program. It
made a deep impression of importance of globalization to the participants. However, in orderto prepare participants to be ready for lectures conducted in English and well communication
during the program, English Communication course organized by AIT language center wasprovided for participants who were welcome to join as pre-program. During the program, we
also requested participants to share their background of study and working, interest andexpertise that crossed cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Aside from study, the participants
made new friends from different countries as the international society and built up good
relationship and connection for support each other in the future. At the end of the program,
we received good responses and many positive comments referring to a wonderful time they1

obtained during the program. This supports the fact that Summer School in Bangkok 2015
Program ended in large success.
Since 2009, Chubu University and AIT build a cooperative relationship, especially in thefield of Geoinformatics and sustainable development. In September, 2011, Chubu University
and AIT agreed on the Memorandum of Understanding about the academic cooperation. This
Asian Summer School program falls within the scope of the Memorandum of Understanding
between Asian Institute of Technology and Chubu University dated September 16, 2011. This
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, also AIT for the tremendous supports suchas preparing a handbook, a detailed schedule of lecture and field trip, and any other logistics
support. Also special thanks to Visionary Value Japan Inc., Japan, Adin Research Inc., Japan,
Earth System Science Co., Ltd., Japan for their financial support to establish this program.
We would like to thank to each organization and individual who participated and some ofwhom shoulder their own expenses.

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

23. Program Admission
For Summer School in Bangkok 2015, this is the first time that the application wasannounced publicly starting from the beginning of 2015. This is different from the past thatthe program usually recruited the participants from the universities and organizations whichhave the connection with AIT and Chubu University. According to the application by thischannel, there are totally 118 applicants from 17 countries who applied for Summer School in
Bangkok 2015. The age of applicants ranges from 19 to 44 year old and most of them are 2530 year old.

In order to select potential candidates, Prof. Honda and Dr. Sarawut, coordinator of the
program, made a decision based on certain criteria, background of study, experience, andpotential to explore research interest from the program. As a result, there were 5 participantsfrom Philippines, Indonesia, India, and Nepal who were selected to join the program.
However, just one day before the first day of the program, one participant from India
canceled joining the program with his private reason. Finally, only 4 participants from
Philippines, Indonesia, and Nepal participated the program with this first time public
admission.

34. Participants
Universities and Organizations:

Asian Institute ofTechnology

Bogor Agricultural
University

Chubu University

Feng Chia
University

Institute of SpaceTechnology

Kathmandu
University

Khon Kaen
University

Siam Mitsui PTA
Co., Ltd.

Srinakharinwirot
University

University ofPhilippines

Vietnam National
University

Wildlife
Conservation
Society, Cambodia

Countries:	
  

Japan

Thailand

Vietnam

Myanmar

Korea

Cambodia

Philippines

Taiwan	
 Indonesia

Pakistan

Nepal

4

Sri Lanka

Participants:
Chubu University

Kohei Yamamoto(Japanese)

Takuya Hamajima(Japanese)

Satoko Mano
(Japanese)

4th-year undergraduate student
Environmental Biology

2nd-year undergraduate student
Education

4th-year undergraduate student
English and Culture

Chubu University

Feng Chia University	
 Masataka Murase(Japanese)

Nungna Wi(Korean)Chang, Yu-Lun(Taiwanese)

1st-year master student
Civil Engineering

4th-year undergraduate student
Mechanical Engineering

1st-year master student
Urban Planning & Spatial
Information

Khon Kaen University

Srinakharinwirot University

Napassorn Sutthiprapa(Thai)

Chomchanok yoothawee(Thai)

Pitchaya Phutmalay(Thai)

4th-year undergraduate student
Geoinformatics

4th-year undergraduate student
Geography

4th-year undergraduate student
Geography

5Vietnam National
University

Huynh Yen Nhi(Vietnamese)
Researcher
Cartography-Remote Sensing and
GIS

University of Philippines

Coleen Dorothy U Carranza(Filipino)
Research Associate
Geodetic Engineering

Bogor Agricultural
University

Alfi Bagus Prasetyo(Indonesian)
4th-year undergraduate student
Civil and Environmental
Engineering

Wildlife Conservation
Society, Cambodia

Kathmandu University

Brosethy Son(Cambodian)

Sumesh K.C.
(Nepalese)	
 Muhammad Tayyab Afzal(Pakistani)

SMART Database Management
Assistant

4th-year undergraduate student
Civil and Geomatics Engineering

Research AssistantRemote Sensing and GIS

Siam Mitsui PTA Co., Ltd.

Chayawich Jeerasthanakul(Thai)
Safety and Environment Manger

Institute of SpaceTechnology

Asian Institute of Technology

Wai Lu Zaw(Burmese)

Kasvinda Kulathunga(Sri Lankan)

4th-year undergraduate student
Civil and Infrastructure

4th-year undergraduate student
Industrial Engineering

64. Lecture Program
Date

Topic

11-14
Aug
17 Aug

RS-GIS Summer English Communication Program

AIT Language Center

Ubiquitous Geoinformatics
Interoperable Geoinformatics & Location Base
Service
Health GIS
GNSS Technology
Recent Topics in Space Technology: Space Debris
Issue
Geoinformatics for Disaster and Sentinel Asia
Big Data for Society
Global Climate Change and Water Resources
Management
Satellite Monitoring of Asian Regional Air Quality
Hand on : GNSS
Hand on : Crowdsourcing for Geospatial data
(OSM)
Natural Resources Management in Asia
Energy: Renewable Energy Resource andTechnologies
Public Transportation Problems and Green Solutions
in Bangkok
Hand on : Geospatial Analysis Using FOSS
Spatial and Livelihood Dimension of Sustainability
for Asian Cities
Machine Vision in Agriculture
UAV Demonstration
Current Status of Wastewater and Fecal Sludge
Management in Thailand

Prof. Kiyoshi Honda
Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat

18 Aug

20 Aug

21 Aug

24 Aug

25 Aug

26 AugLecturer

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

5. Field Trip Program
Date

Field Visiting

18 AugPASCO (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
National Disaster Warning Center (NWDC)
Sirindhorn International Environmental Park and Mangrove Forest
The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa andAsia (RIMES)
Energy Conservation Building	 Ayutthaya Historical Park

22 Aug
26 Aug
27 Aug7

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

Name
Kohei Yamamoto
Takuya Hamajima
Satoko Mano
Masataka Murase
Nungna Wi
Chang, Yu-Lun
Napassorn Sutthiprapa
Huynh Yen Nhi
Chomchanok yoothawee
Coleen Dorothy U Carranza
Alfi Bagus Prasetyo
Brosethy Son
Sumesh K.C.
Pitchaya Phutmalay
Muhammad Tayyab Afzal
Chayawich Jeerasthanakul
Wai Lu Zaw
Kasvinda Kulathunga

August 2015
17

18

19

20

21

23

24

25

26

27

O
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x

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

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RS-GIS Summer English Communication Program
Conducted by: AIT Language Center, Date: 11-14 August 2015
The participants learned how to introduce
themselves. Also, they learned about the listening
process including the common problems inlistening and how to apply listening strategies intheir studies and lives. Moreover, the class also
introduced the participants to listening andpresentation skills related to topics conducted in
Summer School in Bangkok 2015 program such
as RS-GIS, Urbanization and Mapping Population,
Environmental GIS, Climate Change and Global
Warming. The lectures used many methods in the class such as teaching, group discussion,brainstorming, and preseason in order to help the participants communicate efficiently.
Kohei Yamamoto (4th-year undergraduate student in Environmental Biology)“I was worry about my English skills which are listening and speaking. And I
thought I had to study technical terms about GIS. I could know the way of
how to speak about the difficult subjects. This course is very valuable for me
because I could prepare myself for the summer school.”
Satoko Mano (4th-year undergraduate student in English and Culture)“I joined English class because I wanted to improve my English and enjoyclass with my friends. I think my English skill is better than before. Before I
took this class, I did not know about GIS, RS and so on, but now I could
know a lot about that. And also it is important that we should not be shy.
Thank you so much, I enjoyed this English class.”	
  Takuya Hamajima (2nd-year
undergraduate student in Education)“I joined this class because I wanted to
improve my English skill. I was a little
understanding how to pronounce and how
to use grammar correctly. However, after I
finished the class, I have more confidence
to use English in my daily life.”
Masataka Murase(1st-year master student in Civil Engineering)“I am not good at English. However, I
attended English class in order toparticipate in the Asian summer school.
The class was very fun. Teaching method
was very easy to understand. I hope I havemore time to study English class.”

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Ubiquitous Geoinformatics
Conducted by: Prof. Prof. Kiyoshi Honda, Date: 17 August 2015
The participants learned about what Ubiquitous Geo-informatics
is and how computers and sensors are utilized with Geoinformatics for each utility such as agriculture, disasters andenvironment, satellite overview, data assimilation, integration
and application of Remote Sensing, field sensor, UAV andutilization, WEBGIS and geospatial data.

Coleen Dorothy U Carranza (Research Associate in Geodetic Engineering)“From this course, I appreciated the different examples of the use of GIS. We
may not be aware but there are vast applications around us. I guess, it now
and in the future, it will be difficult to remove geospatial applications in our
everyday life.”
Muhammad Tayyab Afzal (Research Assistant in Remote Sensing and GIS)
“It was very informative lecture for me. Today I learned about many crucial
topics like UAV flight mechanism and how it captures imageries and for what
purpose such imageries can be used and about Rapid Eye Constellation with a
combination of 4 synchronized satellites. I will try to use this learning in a
research related to disaster management or where frequent updated satellite
imageries are required for emergency services.”
Chang, Yu-Lun(1st-year master student in Urban Planning & Spatial Information)“In fact, Geoinfomatics is always in our life. We used it every time, but wedon't know we are using it. We knew when we sent e-mail or something toother, e-mail will be save in cloud. Cloud is became more and more importantin our life. We can save file, photo, message, etc. in cloud. It is very
important for us. The UAV in Taiwan is very common. The GIS Center in my
University is develop in UAV. We have a Facebook named '鳥的觀點'. It
always show the photo by UAV. So it's not strange for me. But theappearance of UAV is different. Maybe I can share that to my classmate in
Taiwan.”Sumesh K.C. (4th-year undergraduate student in Civil and Geomatics Engineering)“I'm doing project on ""Crop Health and Growth Monitoring through the Useof Low Altitude Remote Sensing"". From this course, I learned about thedifferent parameters to be considered in agriculture like precipitation,
temperature, soil type, nutrition present in the soil etc., how these parameters
affect the growth and health of the plants and finally affect the yield, plus
development of models, re-calibration and validation. This lecture act as agate way for me to explore more on techniques to monitor crop health and10growth.”Interoperable Geoinformatics & Location Base Service
Conducted by: Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat, Date: 17 August 2015
From this course, the participants learned about the
integration of general IT and geospatial data, how tointeroperate Geoinformatics data to The Open Geospatial
Consortium (OGC) web service, web GIS, softwaredevelopment efforts, online data archives and applications.

Alfi Bagus Prasetyo(4th-year undergraduate student in Civil and Environmental Engineering)“I've learned about some AR (augmented reality) and VR (Virtual reality). It
is fun to know about these. About AR, it looks like Here Maps from Nokia.
There is awesome. After this course, I understood the difference between VR
and AR. Maybe in the future, we can make some glasses which we can see
through the world like who is he/she? How tall is she/he? Who has thisbuilding? Where are the yard (there's build hotel after yard)?”
Huynh Yen Nhi (Researcher in Cartography-Remote Sensing and GIS )“The Web GIS technology is growing strongly over the world. Dr. Sarawut
gave me a quick overview of them, especially the Augmented Reality
technology. My agency has a web GIS group. I will retransmit about the
information that I learned from Dr. Sarawut today.”
Chomchanok yoothawee (4th-year undergraduate student in Geography)“This course I learned about Location-based service for the spatial solving
including basic webGIS, application of LBS Example: Cane (GIS). The
farmers will shoot nature of the disease on a farm to the doctor for checking aparticular type of disease. When doctor finish, the doctor will report diseaseor pest, guidance to the farmer. I think this application can help farmers in thepresent.”
Napassorn Sutthiprapa (4th-year undergraduate student in Geoinformatics)“I learned about Location Based Service and AR. In this time smartphone is
the most popular of electronic shipments. It can use every time or everywhere
whenever you want to check in or use as navigator. It's easy for users. LBSs
are information services with mobile device. So there are mobile devices,11GPS, community network, Service and Data Provider. AR technology is
indirect real time. It can view of physical with real environment bysmartphone, camera, computer or tablet. It's present about information ofplace, building and everything on your device. So I think, I want to apply
with my project that Transit Trip Planner Application with KKU Shuttle Bus
on Android Operating System. I think, Stop Bus should have AR tab to show
bus line information when user uses my app. I will try my best for that.”

Health GIS
Conducted by: Prof. Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Date: 17 August 2015
The participants learned 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 applicationof GIS for health in many case studies such as the
exploring climatic factors contributing to malaria
prevalence in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, the impact ofclimatic variability on diarrhea incidences in Chiang
Mai, Thailand and the monitoring of distribution of diseases.
Chayawich Jeerasthanakul (Safety and Environment Manger)“GIS is everywhere and links with our health by Climate change
consequences via 3 case studies about how human health affects in somevariable climatic conditions. Using GIS (climate variability) modeling toprevent human diseases is one solution to save millions of human. I may
apply this principle to my work about analyzing health of employee toinvestigate if it relates to climate condition or not and how can we
promote/prevent/provide solution to save company welfare.”Kasvinda Kulathunga (4th-year undergraduate student in Industrial Engineering) 	
 “This was also a great lecture which lead myself to think about health factor
in agriculture. Gained so much knowledge about diseases in Thailand. Mostof them were factor based knowledge which was an interesting thing. This
lecture taught me how to work wisely in prevention of diseases. The methods
that were taught will help me to save lot of money and time when working inindustry which has a health concern.”
Coleen Dorothy U Carranza (Research Associate in Geodetic Engineering)“I was interested in the correlation between the occurrences of diseases withclimate variability. Coming from a tropical country, I would be interested insearching if similar studies are done in the Philippines because we also havehigh incidences of contagious dengue and malaria cases.”

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Brosethy Son (SMART Database Management Assistant)“I like this course so much because we can understand the process to get the
Health GIS by using another data to save everyone in the world. I hope that
we can apply Health GIS to help another country. (ex. mapping for detecting	  on malaria)”

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GNSS Technology
Conducted by: Dr. Shinichi Nakamura, Date: 18 August 2015
From this class, the participants learned about what
inside a mobile phone and how a mobile phone candecide position by using GPS signal. Furthermore, thelecturer also introduced the principle of GNSS
technology, GPS and other uses of GNSS.

Masataka Murase(1st-year master student in Civil Engineering)“I was able to know many things about the satellite. GPS knew that there arevarious kinds in different countries. I am interested in errors of the GPS
receiver. It is an issue to consider whether acceptable extent with respect toerror. I do not think that only high accuracy is good. I think that important touniform the system for the acceptable range.”
Sumesh K.C. (4th-year undergraduate student in Civil and Geomatics Engineering)“It was quite informative to me actually. I'd attended some lectures on
GPS/GNSS,history, its principle, gone through mathematics too how thecoordinate of the receiver is determined, 3 segments (User segment, Space
Segment, Ground Segment), sources of error, how to minimize errors, about
Augmentation Systems, DGPS and its principles and read on my own too.
I've already done tracking using GPS and used DGPS for Ground Control
Point Establishment and land shift due to massive earthquake at Nepal of 7.8
magnitude.
I'm now quite interested in coding to extract the positional information ofsatellites from the RINEX file. Dr. Shinich showed us different ways tocontrol the error in position. I'll study or look more on error minimization
through the use of dual frequency receiver and hope I can get that receiver
someday. I can now try to develop some location based application andnavigation as well as early warning systems by constant monitoring of thepermanent GPS receiver location.”
Kohei Yamamoto (4th-year undergraduate student in Environmental Biology)“I didn't know that GPS was operated by USA military, so first I was
surprised. Before I took this lesson, I had no knowledge of satellite, but I
could get information about it, for example, what kinds of satellite there are
and what satellite does. If USA and India open their secret information, GPSsystem will be more developed and we can know the world better than
before. Moreover, the accident such as disappeared plane will be solved.
Lastly, following Dr. Nakamura’s word, I'll respect my mobile phone.”14

Recent Topics in Space Technology: Space Debris Issue
Conducted by: Dr. Shinichi Nakamura, Date: 18 August 2015
The participants learned about space technology inJapan, the history of space development, the meaning ofspace debris and the increasing of objects in the spacethat leads the growth of number of space debris(increasing by breakup, collision, and unbundling).
Additionally, how to treat satellite at end of operation.

Muhammad Tayyab Afzal (Research Assistant in Remote Sensing and GIS)“The topic Space Debris was very new and interesting to me. It developed
more interest in myself towards Space technology and it changed myperspective towards space law and relevant phenomena .I will try to use thislearning in studies related to the health of the earth orbit and debris in thespace.”
Satoko Mano (4th-year undergraduate student in English and Culture)“I learned about space debris in this class. It is serious problem because thenumber one problem is Broken pieces of satellite in the space. Why spacedebris is danced? Because even small space debris, it has enough energy todestroy satellite. And now, space debris increases day by day. If it falls into
the earth and hits someone, they might be dead so I wonder what support I
should do for the space debris.”
Pitchaya Phutmalay (4th-year undergraduate student in Geography)“I have known that a small pieces of space debris can damage a satellites orspacecraft and when it falls to the earth, it can damage to property and ofcourse, people. In the future, we should develop the machine to protect theproperty from space debris.”
Wai Lu Zaw (4th-year undergraduate student in Civil and Infrastructure)“From this course, we can know and understand how the satellites orbits
around the earth in detail. And then about the space debris issue which is
becoming the problem for human beings. And we can learn how the spacedevelopment can support us.”15

Geoinformatics for Disaster and Sentinel Asia
Conducted by: Dr. Masahiko Nagai, Date: 18 August 2015
The participants learned about RS and collaboration of
JAXA, ALOS data applications, utilization of earth
observation satellite (EOS) data, concept of Sentinel
Asia and international agreement among space agencies.

	 Kohei Yamamoto (4th-year undergraduate student in Environmental Biology)“Today, I am very interested about this lecture because it relates to my major.
Moreover, I study hard about disaster which it can save not only my life but
also others. And I thought that the most important thing is distributing
information about the disaster to local rescue from experts. Dr. Nagai's work
is very necessary. If the disaster happens, we need to circulate the information
to people with very correct report.”	
 Coleen Dorothy U Carranza (Research Associate in Geodetic Engineering)“Coming from a country that experience disasters yearly, this topic is very
interesting. I have always wanted to use remote sensing such as analyzing
radar imagery to examine ground movement and deformation related toearthquake or landslide occurrence. As Dr. Nagai mentioned, disastermanagement is an interdisciplinary work which requires collaboration withdifferent agencies. Scientists should not be limited processing and analysis
but also in dialogues and discussions with local people so that disasters canbe prevented. This kind of topic is interesting for me, and having a
background in geology, I hope later on I could also pursue studies on using
remote sensing for analyzing landslide and earthquake phenomena”
Chang, Yu-Lun(1st-year master student in Urban Planning & Spatial Information)“OMG! Disaster scared me such as earthquake, tsunami, flood, etc. The
weather is changing all the time. However, we can survey it by using satellite.
The disaster happens every time in the world, just like last night. We cannot
control it. However, maybe we can calculate where the disaster is and when it
will happen and try to prevent it.”
Masataka Murase(1st-year master student in Civil Engineering)“I learned about the disaster. Japan is a country where disaster happens a lot.
Asia were also able to know that the weak against disaster. There are various
ways with respect to countermeasures. But I do not know which the best is. I
think that it must be considered as long as it continues to live on Earth.
People is important to think about it.”16

Big Data for Society
Conducted by: Dr. Apichon Witayangkurn, Date: 20 August 2015
From this course, the participants learned how to use ICT
for data processing and data management. The lecture
also introduced the participant to know Hadoop which isthe data storage and it can manage the data efficiently.

Napassorn Sutthiprapa (4th-year undergraduate student in Geoinformatics)“I learned about Big Data for Society. Data or information has many records
so we must use ICT for data processing and data management. It's speed ofprocessing, Flexible searching and sorting, real time response and accuracy of
results etc. Data processing has 3 steps which are input, processing andoutput. Input step is the process through which collected data is transferred
into form include verification, coding and storing. Processing step is
processing mean real data manipulation include classification, calculations
and summarizing. Last step is generating and storing on the storage media foruser such as map and graphics. I just have known Hadoop free software. It'svery interesting and very fast retrieving. I need to learn more about this in the
future. So I will apply for creating web map services with heavy data in GIS
and RS.”
Chayawich Jeerasthanakul (Safety and Environmental Manger)“I have learned about 1) how to classify data (text, number), information(data+meaning), and knowledge (information+rule) 2) What is big data mean
the datasets that exceed capacity of current computing systems for ex., social
network, mobile phone data. 3) Big data processing system: Hadoop whose
concept is distributed storage and parallel processing. Some big data forevaluating affecting from explosion incident case of smell release toenvironmental issue can be applied by using mobile phone data simulation.
(For industrial estate area).”
Chomchanok yoothawee (4th-year undergraduate student in Geography)“This course I learned about Big data for society. The meaning of the datacharacteristics of good quality information including accuracy, up to date,relevance, completion, on time, appropriately present, intelligibility. When wecompile and process data quality, these data will be used effectively or thedeveloped for ability to access information.”17

Global Climate Change and Water Resources Management
Conducted by: Dr. Sangam Shrestha, Date: 20 August 2015
The participants learned about what the climate change inglobal is, the impact of climate change in environment
and the adaptation of human for climate change such as
the physical construction to avoid or reduce the impactsof climate change including policy for legislation,knowledge development and public norms for reduce risk
and related impacts.
Alfi Bagus Prasetyo(4th-year undergraduate student in Civil and Environmental Engineering)“This lecture was interesting for me. The lecturer explained it very well about
Climate Change and Water Resource. It was explained about weather,climate, water management, adaptation, and RCP just like my thesis. It will
becoming improvement for my knowledge. Also, this lecture can support mythesis.”Satoko Mano (4th-year undergraduate student in English and Culture)“I learned global climate change and water resources management. Generally
involve increases in storage capacity or abstraction from water courses. How
do we supply or increase water? Increasing storage capacity by building
reservoirs and dams and rainwater harvesting for domestic use because
rainwater is free! And also improvement of water use efficiently byrecycling.”
Coleen Dorothy U Carranza (Research Associate in Geodetic Engineering)“Climate change is an interesting topic because it is an issue that all of us will
have to deal with in the coming years.
The case studies that Dr. Shreshta provided showed the importance ofincorporating climate change scenarios for future planning of infrastructuresand urban development programs. Also, his work is interesting because water
is a commodity that all of use depend on. Studying the impacts of climatechange on the available water supply we will have shown that generally,
climate change will cause less available fresh water in tropical areas.”
Huynh Yen Nhi (Researcher in Cartography-Remote Sensing and GIS )“Dr. Sangam Shrestha's lectures are very interesting and exciting. I learned alot of knowledge about climate change and how to adapt. Vietnam also has
numerous research projects on climate change. This lesson was my originalbasis of climate change.”

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Satellite Monitoring of Asian Regional Air Quality
Conducted by: Prof. Oanh Nguyen Thi Kim, Date: 20 August 2015
From this class, the participants learned about air
pollution and its types, sources, causes, and effects.
Moreover, they learned about how to monitor air
pollution by several methods. Lastly, they learned
about how satellite can monitor the air pollution basedon case study.

Muhammad Tayyab Afzal (Research Assistant in Remote Sensing and GIS)
“It was very informative to know how particulate matter affecting our air
quality in an acute way so the emission in one place disturb the quality of air
in different place also. I will use this learning to find and correlate aerosol
optical thickness and amount of emission that is being transferred from one
specific area which I will be considering the Study area.”
Coleen Dorothy U Carranza (Research Associate in Geodetic Engineering)“This topic is interesting because it is new to me. I do not really know how
air pollution is monitored or studied using geospatial data. I was able to learn
that there are some available satellite data such as modis that can be used to
study and measure the amount of particulate matters in the atmosphere.
However, studying air pollution seems to be complex because climate andweather conditions need to be incorporated into the study. This makes thatsystem more complex and challenging to study.”
Masataka Murase(1st-year master student in Civil Engineering)“It was a good opportunity to think about pollution. Pollution by PM2.5 ofChina we were able to recognize anew. I was possible to know the other air
pollution also. Pollution affects human health. Japan has experienced avariety of pollution. I think it is important to go to convey the experience toother countries by taking advantage of the experience.”
Chayawich Jeerasthanakul (Safety and Environment Manger)“I have learned about 1. Pollutant type and how it affect to our environmentand health. 2. Air quality monitoring. 3. Application of satellite monitoring in
the world. These knowledge can be applied for air pollution monitoring in
Rayong industrial estate by using satellite data analysis.”	  20

Hand on: GNSS & Crowdsourcing for Geospatial Data (OSM)
Conducted by: Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat, Date: 21 August 2015
The participants learned the principle of GNSS andknew how it works. Also, they had opportunity to use
GNSS receiver in AIT and analyzed the result.
Furthermore, afternoon session, they were assigned task
to position the certain things in AIT and then located andgave the information by using Openstreetmap.

Alfi Bagus Prasetyo(4th-year undergraduate student in Civil and Environmental Engineering)“We learn to apply GPS GNSS system. We learn something new. The open
source software help us to know about how to digitize a map. We make a mapof some place like toilets, coffee shop, worship place, and many others in AIT
campus. This can be useful to everyone if they search some place like that.
This improved my knowledge. This can be applied to give an important
information.”
Kohei Yamamoto (4th-year undergraduate student in Environmental Biology)“Today, I knew how to make map and where receiver locates. Receiver date
was so amazing, open area's date is very clear but around the building's date
was not accurate. Therefore, buildings cut OSS the wave from the satellite.
So if I can find that wave that isn't cut off from buildings, the accuracy oflocation information date become better. When cars, mobile phones,
motorbikes and everything have a GPS date then we will not need waiting
and not be lost.”	 Takuya Hamajima (2nd-year undergraduate student in Education)“I was able to learn more about how to use the GPS. 	
  I thought
OpenStreetMap is interesting, because I can make maps by myself. I want toteach and use in the classroom when I become a teacher”
	 Brosethy Son (SMART Database Management Assistant)“We can use high accuracy GPS to collect good quality data from satellite,
and we can use that data with open source software to know about accuracyof data that we collect from the field. And one more we can use data from
OSM to know place that it's better than Google map because everything canaccess to OSM to update new data and can know some information from theplace in OSM. OSM data is a good because it can help everyone to know
about the place that they want to go and they can get more information from
OSM.”

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Natural Resources Management in Asia
Conducted by: Prof. Rajendra Shrestha, Date: 24 August 2015
The participants obtained the basic knowledge about
natural resource in the world. Moreover, they learned
how the world population relates to the consumption ofnatural resource and its effects becoming issues in Asia.
Lastly, they learned about natural resources management
philosophy and actions according to sustainable
development strategy.

Huynh Yen Nhi (Researcher in Cartography-Remote Sensing and GIS )“I learned the basics of natural resources from lecture of Prof. Rajendra
Shrestha. I was provided on the status of resources in Asia. In addition, I also
learned how to protect and manage natural resources sustainably before thechallenge of climate change. The above knowledge regarding the study at myuniversity.”
Chayawich Jeerasthanakul (Safety and Environment Manger)“What I have learned is about the challenge how to manage natural resource
efficiently. Surprising, we have use natural resource about 1.5 time over as
ecological footprint. We have borrow the natural resource from the future.
How the next generation can survive in the next decade year. Also the natural
resource management is well managed together in the sector for example, theforest, biodiversity, water management, land degradation, sustainability ofwildlife, fisheries, coastal resource and the last one, mitigation effect ofclimate change. How I can apply in the next future? Using eco efficiency
index (ecological footprint) as KPI (key performance index) to monitor ourbusiness performance in sustainable development (business/environment/ andsociety).”
Napassorn Sutthiprapa (4th-year undergraduate student in Geoinformatics)“I learned about Natural Resources Management in Asia which is the
management of natural resources in an integrated recognizing the values ofconservation and productive uses to achieve sustainability such as ensuring
sustainability of forest, conserving biodiversity and reducing landdegradation. Ensuring sustainability of forest which certification of forests
details the concepts and approaches required to meet the desired international
standards of forest. Conserving biodiversity is preserve natural and animal.
Reducing land degradation is seriously affects land resources in many
tropical. So I think, I will apply GIS and RS to build database of forest or
something in the web map service or web map online to preserve energy.”

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Energy: Renewable Energy Resource and Technologies
Conducted by: Prof. Sivanappan Kumar, Date: 24 August 2015
The participants learned about the overall resource
uses, energy and sustainable development in social,economic and environmental, energy system, thetrend of energy in the world (production andconsumption), the energy for achieving sustainable
development, the renewable energy options in the
future options and the case study of utilizing
renewable energy.

Muhammad Tayyab Afzal (Research Assistant in Remote Sensing and GIS)“The session was very informative in which I got to know how little effort inalternative energy sector can reduce the input energy cost and how we can get
the maximum useful output from the minimum amount of input energy. I will
try to search and analyze the alternate energy resources in my country.”
Chomchanok yoothawee (4th-year undergraduate student in Geography)“From this course, I have learned about renewable energy resources andtechnologies. Energy is a property of objects which can be transferred to otherobjects and learned about the comparison of energy consumption each year.
Also, I know that a new technology is renewable energy. Renewable energy
can be used again and again, and will never run out. Finding new energy, theequivation energy efficiency for example the creation of new technologies.”
Nungna Wi (4th-year undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering)“We have learned about Renewable energy resource and technologies. WhenI design an airplane, I want to make it that use renewable energy resources.”

Pitchaya Phutmalay (4th-year undergraduate student in Geography)“Energy is a property of object which can be transferred to other object orconverted into different forms, but cannot be created moving object, thepotential energy stored by an object's position in a forced. It can be chemical,
nuclear, gravitation or mechanical. According to sustainable development, inthe future we can use renewable resources replace non-renewable resources
for benefit of people all of the world, such as the conversion process doesn't
produce greenhouse gases, creates jobs and increase income to local
community, etc.”24

Public Transportation Problems and Green Solutions in Bangkok
Conducted by: Dr. Surachet Pravinvongvuth, Date: 24 August 2015
The participants learned how Thailand manage public
transportation preparing for ASEAN Community. The
historical data and background of traffic problem inThailand was introduced. After that, the policy andstrategies in each types of transportation such as masstransit, Taxi, boat, etc. were also introduced based on
Green Solutions.

Pitchaya Phutmalay (4th-year undergraduate student in Geography)“Public transport service, which has been described in this lecture was almost
what is already in Japan. The contents which has been described is that wasless to know new There are many things to know. At the same time I could gotell other countries Japanese technology was I think important. I now think
about the importance of going to spread as well as development.”
Huynh Yen Nhi (Researcher in Cartography-Remote Sensing and GIS )“Dr. Surachet Pravinvongvuth gave me an overview of the traffic situation in
Bangkok. He also gave new technologies and alternative vehicles to solve
traffic problems in Bangkok. Traffic problems in Bangkok is the same as in
the developing countries, including Vietnam. In Ho Chi Minh City, traffic
problems is particular concern. In the future, if I have the opportunity toconsult on issues of HCMC traffic, I will remember lecture of Dr. Surachet
Pravinvongvuth.”
Chayawich Jeerasthanakul (Safety and Environment Manger)“Learning the current problem of Thai transportation: 85% relies on road,
12% marine, 2% rail, and 1%airway. The easily way to increasing capacity israil not road. Many solution were studied for BKK to reducing private car
such as Decentralization, Transit oriented development (TOD), Enforcement
for land use plan, Use technology information etc. (every solution I agreed). I
definitely agree with Dr. Surachet lecture. The fault of transportation problem
in Thailand is political issue. I agree with concept Rich people can pay forusing their car. Since the existing infrastructure is not accommodated us,
everyone have to use own private car. It was very difficult to overcome these
problem, I think the pricing mechanism is quite affecting quickly.”	
 
	
  
	
  

	
  

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Hand on: Geospatial Analysis using Free Open Sources Software (FOSS)
Conducted by: Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat, Date: 25 August 2015
The participants learned about how to use 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 participants learned
how to use the tools that GIS provided for vector
analysis such as Query tool, Buffer tool, Intersect tooland the step of analyzing data by working on the casestudy: finding the suitable area for being the farm.
Masataka Murase(1st-year master student in Civil Engineering)“It was my first time to have very good experience with QGIS. I had that
ArcGIS was used. I knew about basic knowledge such as layer. It is very
simple calculation of QGIS is the first time knew in this lecture. I thought up
the efficiency of the work by using it in combination with QGIS and ArcGIS.
I wanted to know more deeply about QGIS.”
Kasvinda Kulathunga (4th-year undergraduate student in Industrial Engineering) 	
 “I learned to use basic software features of Geospatial during this lecture
which I think will be useful in the future if I work in the field related to GIS.
Some of the map editing were pretty easy and some were little complex. But
overall outcome was amazing. We can attain so many details though a little
process and I think this type of software can be very useful in logistics andtransportation engineering.”
Sumesh K.C. (4th-year undergraduate student in Civil and Geomatics Engineering)“There are lots of commercial geospatial software in the market that can dothe similar task but the biggest problem for us is the cost to use/get thatsoftware. Whereas free and open source software like Quantum GIS (QGIS)
can be used to perform similar geospatial analysis which has a very large
community of programmers and users.
Today, we did suitability analysis of land for housing/settlement based on
different constraints on roads and schools and got knowledge about thedifferent spatial operations that can be used depending upon our interest.
I can now apply the knowledge gained to perform different types ofsuitability analysis like for location of dumping site, location of water tank,location of hospital, location of school, location of industry and its branches
etc. I can now feel the importance of using open source software. I'll like toexplore QGIS more and the algorithms behind the spatial operation likebuffer, intersect, clip, etc.”
	
  

	
  

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Spatial and Livelihood Dimension of Sustainability for Asian Cities
Conducted by: Dr. Sohee Minsun Kim, Date: 25 August 2015
The participants learned about urbanization and its
effects. Furthermore, the lecturer introduced how GIS
and remote sensing is important for spatial analysis suchas site survey and mapping, land use identification, etc.

Coleen Dorothy U Carranza (Research Associate in Geodetic Engineering)
The concept of "peri-urban" zones is interesting because these are transitions
areas to rural and the highly urbanised central business districts ofmegacities. It would be interesting to look at the characteristics of theboundaries of these peri-urban zones because they are not sharp but rather
fuzzy. Though I am not sure I would like to have megacities because I thinkhaving clusters of developed cities is more manageable and sustainable thanhaving a single megacity. I live in Manila which also has high rate of urban
population increase. This phenomenon causes a lot of problems not only inthe spatial aspect but also in environment, safety, and security. In addition,
people find it difficult to leave megacities because the opportunity for
employment is not present elsewhere.
Chang, Yu-Lun(1st-year master student in Urban Planning & Spatial Information)“Urbanization is become more and more important in our life. People all over
the world are moving to city. City becomes bigger and bigger. So urban
planning is solution for this problem. But when city becomes bigger, living is
also problem. So many people need somewhere to live. But area is notenough for those people. Building becomes higher together with price ofhouse becoming higher also. Finally, people cannot pay for this high price.”
Chayawich Jeerasthanakul (Safety and Environment Manger)“I feel Pro. Kim has been alert and very active. AIT is good chance to workwith her. Urbanization planning is used to design the land use and separatingarea. Let’s say, separating between urban city and rural area to manage all of
purpose efficiency such as transportation, agriculture area managing, or
architecture view. If we have plan to develop the new area, we have toconsider urban planning in sustainable development in that area. That means
economy (urban growth) increasing with environmental and society
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Machine Vision in Agriculture
Conducted by: Dr. Matthew N. Dailey, Date: 25 August 2015
The participants learned about image processing in thecontext of Vision Systems. The useful of image processing inall phases 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 highthroughput system for automatic phenotype measurement.
Coleen Dorothy U Carranza (Research Associate in Geodetic Engineering)“This was a bit mathematical and computational but the applications are very
interesting. It would be interesting to also use computer vision in to facilitate
irrigation schedule of crops based on the water content present in the soil. If thecamera or sensor can determine of the soil is already dry, it would provide a signal
to water or irrigate the crops.”
Brosethy Son (SMART Database Management Assistant)“I can know about the processing of the Vision System that can help to theagriculture land and we can use make smart phone to remote the farm machine toharvest in the farms. but before we can succeed with this, we need to make thesystem and collect the information from the farm (For what kind that you need touse) and then, we build those with Microsoft Software to make robots understandabout the time and age of fruit to the correct one. Also, I learned the process wecan use with 3D or RGBD data and Quard-copter to capture the image and then we
can use to analysis. For this course we can apply for agriculture land to help thefarmers to process the big farm.”
Sumesh K.C. (4th-year undergraduate student in Civil and Geomatics Engineering)“The lecture was very interesting. We had some idea about vision system, its
application and parts, estimation of 3D points (epipolar geometry) pinhole camera
model, how the simple mobile camera can be used in agriculture for monitoring
crop health and growth with examples. In vision system, information means theobject of our interest in the image. The position of the camera, its translation androtation and intrinsic parameters (focal length, principal point, distortions) plays
important role in estimation of 3D points based on the multiple images. Multiple
images captured from different position of the scene can be used to generate 3D
point cloud based on the Structure from Motion algorithm and can be used tomonitor the fruit and decide whether the fruit is suitable for harvesting or not.”
	
  

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UAV Demonstration
Conducted by: Prof. Kiyoshi Honda, Date: 26 August 2015
The participants learned about structure and design ofUAV. Also, they learned about the configuration of thedirection by sing remote sensing. They also obtained
experience by demonstration of how to use UAV inorder to capture the image in AIT.

Sumesh K.C. (4th-year undergraduate student in Civil and Geomatics Engineering)“Prof. Honda showed the way how UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) or UAS(Unmanned Aerial System) or simply drone can be used in wide range offields from nuclear power plant radiation damage assessment to feature
identification and recognition to how it can be used in agriculture formonitoring crop health and growth. With the rapid technologicaladvancement, lots of sensors are available cheaply which can be used in lotsof application. These days, concept of open source software and hardware isincreasing and we can simply reduce the cost by using those. UAV is just aplatform on which sensors according to our interest are mounted to capture
the data. The photogrammetry knowledge is very important for flightplanning: flying height, along and across track overlap, speed of the UAV,
information about the sensor dimension etc. UAV can fly autonomously after
we upload the flight plan on its control board using 2.4 GHz trans-receiver.
The captured data or imagery can be processed using wide range ofcommercial and open-source software.”Napassorn Sutthiprapa (4th-year undergraduate student in Geoinformatics)“I learned about Potential of UAV for field sensing. I was knew Modeling on
Big Data for Scenario Simulation such as Cloud & Data Integration with
Real-time update system. I saw UAV for field sensing, camera and Real-timedata at AIT. It was fun and impressive for me. I think that UAV can takephoto for natural disaster emergency for solver problem quickly and migrate
people in disaster area.”
Kasvinda Kulathunga (4th-year undergraduate student in Industrial Engineering) 	
 “I learnt a lot during this session. I learnt things that I never even thought of.
Mapping from UAV was never seen easy as Prof. Honda showed it us. I
believe this method can be used in the industry as well. As an example forplanning an industrial zones with rich industrial plant that suits logistics andtransportation. I also believe this mapping tech can be used to protect theenvironment when doing an industry.”
	
  
	
  

	
  
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Current Status of Wastewater and Fecal Sludge Management
Conducted by: Dr. Thammarat Koottatep, Date: 26 August 2015
The participants learned about the current status of waterand fecal sludge management (FSM) in Thailand also
the factors affecting to FSM. Also, they learned about
the recovery process through establishing FSM businessin Thailand.

Kohei Yamamoto (4th-year undergraduate student in Environmental Biology)“If Thailand can make sewage treatment works all of the country, sanitationis good and then tourists will come to Thailand more than before. Disease
will decrease when sanitation is improved. Government of Thailand have toinvent for sewage treatment works for municipality.”	 Coleen Dorothy U Carranza (Research Associate in Geodetic Engineering)“The topic is interesting because perhaps this is a field that a few people try
to endeavor. There are many applications in environmental, health, andsanitation but perhaps only a few try to deal with human wastes. I think thatthe application of the study is very beneficial to local community and it also
helps to reduce the impact we have on the environment.”
Pitchaya Phutmalay (4th-year undergraduate student in Geography)“I've learned about Current status of wastewater and fecal sludge management
In Thailand. It has four factors strongly affected to FSM (Fecal Sludge
Management) including Organization resources, O&M, Financial aspect andPolicy. In the future, I think we can apply this method to improve the problem
about wastewater and fecal sludge to get better than ever.”Chomchanok yoothawee (4th-year undergraduate student in Geography)“In this course, I've learned about current status of waste water and fecal
sludge management in Thailand. The factors that are responsible for better
fecal sludge management includes but not limited to organization resources,
O&M, financial aspect and policy. In the future, I think, we can apply thesestrategies to provide the solution to the problem about waste water and fecal
sludge and can carry forward research in agriculture.”
	
  

	
  

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7. Comments on Field Trip
PASCO (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Date: 19 August 2015
PASCO (Thailand) Co., ltd. is the company offering afull range of professional services in Aerial Photography,
Digital Photogrammetry & Mapping, Surveying and GIS,
both in Thailand and internationally. With this program,the participants got a chance to observe line mapping,orthophoto and 3D map process sections.

Nungna Wi (4th-year undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering)“We have learned about orthophoto, GIS, and so on. It was interesting for me
to know how to make a map. We can use some map applications easily andquickly. But I understood that it takes much time and many photos to make amap.”Napassorn Sutthiprapa (4th-year undergraduate student in Geoinformatics)“I learned about PASCO company in Thailand. PASCO builds a high of highquality map. There are many products and services such as Aerial Photo
Acquisition by plane, Digital Ortho Photo and 3D plotting. PASCO has many
steps for team work such as survey, edit and QC. PASCO Team is a map
professional. I will bring 3D plotting to analysis with Urban planning in the
future.”Masataka Murase(1st-year master student in Civil Engineering)“It was a good experience to be able to actually see the Japanese companies
that are working abroad. It was possible to know that it is involved in thecreation of maps commissioned the Japanese Government. I was able to knowthat there are criteria specified with respect to precision. I was surprised that
the Japanese way of thinking is presented as a rule in the company. To spreadthe idea from the state of the Japanese in the company I thought it was
something to improve the atmosphere of the company.”
Chang, Yu-Lun(1st-year master student in Urban Planning & Spatial Information)“OMG! It's really cool! 3D Mouse so surprise me! I never see that! It makethe map quickly and correct. Drawing the map by 3D glasses is a magic! The
map before finishing need so many steps like drawing, checking, thendrawing, checking, and then drawing, checking...It is very high quality. QC
part is very important in company. It has double checking the map and sends
the map back the last part. It must be very careful!”

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National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC)
Date: 19 August 2015
National Disaster Warning Center – NWDC is an organ
under Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry ofInformation and Communication Technology. NDWC
has the main role to warn the disaster arising from multinatural hazard. With this program, the participantslearned 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.
Coleen Dorothy U Carranza (Research Associate in Geodetic Engineering)“Because the Philippines also experience a lot of disasters, the visiting thenational disaster center was very interesting for me. Capt. Song was also very
passionate for his job. His explanation of the methods and processes they doin order to provide early warning to people living in Thailand was clear andcomprehensive. I hope we can also have a similar strategy in the Philippines.”
Muhammad Tayyab Afzal (Research Assistant in Remote Sensing and GIS)
“It was one of the best disaster warning center that I have ever visit. It lookedvery good that Thai government is so keen to help their people and otherpeople of the other countries also. I learned today the various steps involved
before issuing a disaster warning. I will try to share these knowledge with myfriends and family and research circle so that we all get to know about thestandards and importance of disaster warning.”
Alfi Bagus Prasetyo(4th-year undergraduate student in Civil and Environmental Engineering)“The presenter explained it very well about NDWC work. Also, We can see
the simulation about informing the disaster. So I got some experience and it iscool. Maybe in the future, in my country, Indonesia, I can apply more
efficient warning. There are so many crucial areas where disasters coming
such as Earthquake, Tsunami, Strom, Eruption, Avalanche, and many. Also
we need some counseling to people about prevention and mitigation if
disaster coming and less vandalism for warning tower is also needed.”
Huynh Yen Nhi (Researcher in Cartography-Remote Sensing and GIS )“Human faces future disasters. Especially, extreme events occur more andmore in the coastal region. I think that functions of National Disaster
Warning Center is very important for many countries, including Vietnam.
After returning to Vietnam. I will access to web address of the NDWC tolearn more and introduce to my colleagues about it.”
	
  

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Sirindhorn International Environmental Park and Mangrove Forest
Date: 22 August 2015
Sirindhorn International Environmental Park aims to bea center for training and distributing knowledge innatural conservation along with methods for energy
saving. The park also provides eco-tourism for public to
encourage people awareness about the significance ofenvironment and conservation for sustainable
development. With this program, the participants learned
how to sustainably develop and preserve the mangrove
forests and environment at Hua Hin. Get a close touchwith mangrove forest and release crabs to the sea.
Alfi Bagus Prasetyo(4th-year undergraduate student in Civil and Environmental Engineering)“I learned about how to save the nature. There's a lot of species of Mangrovein Sirindhorn park. Around 20 to 23 species grow in this park. Besides, we
also release some conservative animal just like crab to the nature. It can savecrap species who still farm in big amount around the world. This is a little
movement to save our nature. If one person can put 1 Mangrove or releaseconservative animals, it can be very advantageous for our nature.”
Sumesh K.C. (4th-year undergraduate student in Civil and Geomatics Engineering)“This was my first experience to mangrove forest as I'm from the landlocked
country, Nepal and this is my first visit to International Country, after India.
There are many species of Mangrove at Sirindhorn International
Environmental Conservation Park area. Sirindhorn International
Environmental Conservation Park organizes different seminars, programs toaware the people about the degrading environmental situations and the way to
improve it. Mangroves protect shorelines from damaging storm and hurricane
winds, waves, and floods. Mangroves also help prevent erosion by stabilizing
sediments with their tangled root systems. They maintain water quality andclarity, filtering pollutants and trapping sediments originating from land.”Muhammad Tayyab Afzal (Research Assistant in Remote Sensing and GIS)
“It was very much interesting and exciting to see the appreciable conservationof natural habitat and some unique species of mangroves of its own kind likeshort leaf/long leaf mangrove and Hybrid mangrove which I had never seen
before coming here. This park is the only one of its own kind due to its
versatile services and facilities. Really glad to know that Thai government isso keen to conserve such Quasi natural heritage”

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and Asia (RIMES)
Date: 26 August 2015
RIEMS is an international and intergovernmental
institution, owned and managed by its Member States,
for the generation and application of early warning
information. The participants learned how RIMES runs
its service such as analysis of risks to climate change,
development of decision support tools, weather andclimate forecasting, and so on.

Huynh Yen Nhi (Researcher in Cartography-Remote Sensing and GIS )“We've learned a lot in a short time at RIMES Office. They work very
professionally. Their projects have been of great help to countries in theprevention and disaster assessment. After returning to Vietnam, I will learn
the forecast model that they used. Then compare with the models had in
Vietnam.”
Pitchaya Phutmalay (4th-year undergraduate student in Geography)“I've learned about how to use technology in disaster mitigation. The
importance of forecasts and warnings in disaster mitigation depend on risk
knowledge, lead time, location-specific, translating forecast into risk
information, and communication risk and capacity gaps in using forecastbased risk information for disaster mitigation. In the future, we might have atechnology with high accuracy to forecast and warning in disaster mitigation.
It will be useful for the people in risk area.”
Napassorn Sutthiprapa (4th-year undergraduate student in Geoinformatics)“I learned about The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning
System for Africa and Asia (RIMES) is an international andintergovernmental institution, owned and managed by its Member States, forthe generation and application of early warning information. RIMES provides
regional early warning services and builds capacity of its Member States inthe end-to-end early warning of tsunami and hydro-meteorological hazards
and building capacity and providing actionable warning information towards
forearmed, forewarned and resilient communities. I saw weather,temperature, air pressure that processed from 25 August 2015 + 74 hours forwarning typhoon storm. So I think that warning on mobile operating with realtime data.”

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Energy Conservation Building
Date: 27 August 2015
Energy Conservation Building in Honor of His Majesty
the King is the celebration on the King on Throne
Project on occasion of the fifty year anniversary of His
Majesty the King's coronation. The participants learned
about the building design and construction adopted theadvanced energy conservation technology by natural
system of Thailand climatic weather and coolingenvironment.
	
 Kohei Yamamoto (4th-year undergraduate student in Environmental Biology)“I thing that Energy Conservation Building is a good place to learn how tosave energy because we can study happily as same as children can. Especially
young age people should learn from this building so, it should have morebuildings like this and open to the public also invite many children. In the
future, big building like a shopping mall should think about how to conserve
energy by applying the principle obtained from this building's system.”	
 Chang, Yu-Lun(1st-year master student in Urban Planning & Spatial Information)“I learned that so many ways can help save energy. The roof, wall andwindow of the building have different material quality and structures. Thisbuilding is made and constructed by caring energy saving ways. I learned
what kind structure is better for environment and energy saving. If I havechance to make building for myself, I will use those ways.”
Coleen Dorothy U Carranza (Research Associate in Geodetic Engineering)“It was interesting to see how the different methods for conservation ofenergy is being applied. This could be applied to households as well. Scienceand engineering plays vital role in developing sustainable and energy
efficient communities. Perhaps in the future when I built a house, I willconsider incoming solar radiation and also different energy saving materials.”Muhammad Tayyab Afzal (Research Assistant in Remote Sensing and GIS)
“I learned how natural solar light can be used as a source of energy in ourdomestic and commercial purposes and we can reduce the energy
consumption by adapting some basic energy saving techniques.”

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Ayutthaya Historical Park
Date: 27 August 2015
The Ayutthaya Historical Park covers the ruins of the oldcity of Ayutthaya, Thailand. With this program, theparticipants had a chance to visit the highlights such as
Wat Yai Chai Mong Kol and Wat Ma Ha Tat which they
could see the Buddha’s head inside the tree. Also, they
enjoyed with elephant at elephants’ village and learned
Thai culture and architecture from the city in Ayutthaya.

Sumesh K.C. (4th-year undergraduate student in Civil and Geomatics Engineering)“This was my first experience to mangrove forest as I'm from the landlocked
country, Nepal and this is my first visit to International Country, after India.
There are many species of Mangrove at Sirindhorn International
Environmental Conservation Park area. Sirindhorn International
Environmental Conservation Park organizes different seminars, programs toaware the people about the degrading environmental situations and the way to
improve it. Mangroves protect shorelines from damaging storm and hurricane
winds, waves, and floods. Mangroves also help prevent erosion by stabilizing
sediments with their tangled root systems. They maintain water quality andclarity, filtering pollutants and trapping sediments originating from land.”
Masataka Murase(1st-year master student in Civil Engineering)“I was overwhelmed by the spectacular landscape in Ayutthaya. I have avariety of feelings to Buddha statue. I thought it was so different from all
there are various forms in the Buddha statue.”
Brosethy Son (SMART Database Management Assistant)“I can learn about the historical in Ayutthaya, elephants’ village, pagoda. I
can visit the beautiful place in Thailand. I learned processing to organizing on
Eco-tourism in historical place and learn the Thailand culture.”
Pitchaya Phutmalay (4th-year undergraduate student in Geography)“I've visited elephant village in Ayutthaya. It was my first time to get closer
with baby elephants so that I was so excited. And then we were going tohistorical park that have the ruins of old city in Ayutthaya. I'm so impressive
even if the weather was very hot.”
	
  

	
  

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

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The second part shows suggestions from participants as follows.
v It is good trip and travel. But study hard and eating hard. In conclusion, it's a goodand very carefully in camp ASS 2015. Thank you for giving me this good
opportunity and carefully is good. Thank you Professor and all staff in ASS 2015.
v During this program, I am so sleepy every time in the class but I am so happy to
study with everyone. My suggestion is that we can have more time to spend
together in order to build up friendship. Thank you very much and good
relationship with everyone.
v This summer school was fun for me and I was glad to study GIS and so on. Thank43you very much.
v Please make the program for one month to get more experience and knowledge.
Thanks.
v Thank you so much. I have a nice 2 weeks in Thailand. The lectures are very usefulfor me and my research. I learned some different in different countries and I gained
knowledge and information in GIS from different countries. Thank you very much.
I will miss you, everything and everyone.
v I wish I can attend one more time. I love everyone in this program. Thank you verymuch.
v GISTDA would be good institution to visit.
v Good application/ hands-on for GIS but not for remote sensing --> Maybe using
LANDSAT or single RS image processing?
v Maybe 2 hours lecture a bit too much. Perhaps 1.30 hours lecture. Maybe startearlier for lecture 8:30.
v I really enjoyed the program. All lecture are very interesting and highly motivating.
Maybe we can increase one more week but add 'single' project' for studentsv I highly appreciate the efforts of the summer school organizing team management.
The way they designed the whole program is very appreciable and worth precise.
Keep it up the good work Summer School Team.
v I am glad to come to Thailand. I spent great time. I am very happy to get great
opportunity. Thank you so much.
v This program was very valuable time for me. So please continue but sometimes we
could get power point file. Then I wanted the document only that. Thank you foreverything.
v Some class maybe difficult for me to study. We study very hard. The class start
very early. Field trip is good.
v I am very happy to join this program. For some lecture, it is difficult to understandfor me because I don't have the basis. I am very interesting in the topic of climatechange and water resource. Maybe for next time, it'll be good to more application
than only lecture.
v This is my first time is it outside Nepal. It's good to participate on such 'Educational
Program' which flourishes our knowledge to next level. Before being to Thailand, I
was just confused about my destiny or what I'm interested in. Being here, I got agood opportunity to know what sorts of field are open to me. I just loved andenjoyed the program fully. And I'm fully satisfied with it. AIT is very good forengineering and technological study. I will even like to apply here for my further
study in Geoinformatics.
v Thank for attention. Thank you for the very good time. It became a very goodexperiencev Some class and some lectures are difficult form. We study very hard!
v I myself believe apart from academic, this program is a great way to meet new
people and learn. A very special gathering for Asian countries. Extra-curricular
activities were great and it was a great way to explore Thailand.
v Talking about the academics during the program I think it was very informatics forthe people who were already interested about the subject. For others it was a brandnew experience to GIS. I like to suggest some sports or games for the next summer
school to enhance the good relationship among students. And I also thank Mr. Taeand Ms. A for the great support during the program. They really made the event a
fun.
v 2 sessions of lecture in the afternoon is too much. Sirindhorn is quite OK, safe. I

44think most of people from aboard want to look around the city.
v Home work every day is one kind of tool to summarize the idea. If we can completewith in the last lecture class is better. Just use about 20-30 min to summarize thelearning. After the lecture is nothing to serious. Just talk and study culture eachother.
v Lecture 1 hours then brake 10 min. Lecture 1 hours then close session. Thensummarize learning about 20-30 min. After that lunch, talk with in group for eachother study.
v More work shop is preferred for discussion & learning.
v Thai dessert is good choice of brake for these learning courses.
v Program after the class in every day class is seem to be very interested foreveryone. Please create more fun activities, night market for shopping, sight-seeing
the city, feeling about urban city for ex,. BTS, MRT, Railway, Public bus. Maybe
we can create game, like finding the destination in Bangkok, by using Thai
Transportation from specific point to another, like Hua Lam Pong to Siam paragon,
then, Chatu Chak Market, etc. in order to learn how to spend life in Thai city.
	
  

	
  

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9. Conclusion and Recommendation
The Summer School in Bangkok 2015 Program was organized by the cooperation from AITand Chubu University which it aims the participants to gain more experience and knowledge,
especially in the issue of “Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development”. Additionally,
activities such as hands-on were provided for the participants who have the backgrounds on
Geoinformatics to improve their technical skills for their career. Furthermore, under theinternational society, they could learn and exchange the different cultures via many Field
Visit and activities such as Pizza Party and vacation at the beach in Hua Hin to build a good
relationship with each other.
Anyway, there is some suggestion from participants obtained from program evaluation.
Mostly, Hand on is more requested from the participants in order to understand aside fromthe lecture, especially for the participants who do not have basic knowledge about GIS andRemote Sensing. Moreover, this activity can also help the participants have a chance to work
as a team and build up friendship. For RS-GIS Summer English Communication Program
conducted by AIT Language Center, this class was very useful and fun and helped
participants who do not have background in RS-GIS understand the lecture and communicate
well with the lectures and classmates according to the evaluation.
For time and lecture schedule, it should be reconsidered since some lectures started at 12:30
and some Muslim participant could not attend the class because they needed to pray at
Muslim Prayer Hall in AIT at 12:45 – 13:00. For accommodation and food, the participants
were satisfied with accommodation since it was safe, convenient and surrounded by goodenvironment. Moreover, the organizer tried to provide food for multicultural as much as
possible. However, there were some participants who requested to eat only some certain food.
Hence, to discuss about preferable types of food for individual participant should be done
before starting the program.
For field visit, the participants also requested to visit some places such as GISTDA and otherattractions in the center of Bangkok. Unfortunately, this year program was affected byterrorism in Bangkok. As a result, the program had to cancel and changed the scheduleleading the participants to miss an opportunity to visit GISTDA and other attractions.
Furthermore, the program became more complicated to organize smoothly according tounstable schedule.
Since this year is the first time of public announce for application, it got much interest frommany applicants in Asia. However, it is also risky that the selected participant might decide tocancel joining the program closely to the starting date, like the case of one participant from
India. In the future, the application from this channel should have a commitment by someways from participants.
In summary, the program achieved the main purpose that the participants could gain someexperience and knowledge related to GIS for sustainable development. According to theevaluation, most of the participants were very satisfied with the program and from theassignment asked to submit, the participants could gave interesting answer with their deep
understanding and inspiration from each lecture. Also, this program could successfully
motivate the participants to gain more enthusiasm for exploring knowledge in RS-GIS andpursue higher education level in AIT or other universities. Most importantly, the program46

could build international relationship which will be expanded our RS-GIS network, andfinally become strong connection which will support each other in the future.

Appendix 1: Program Photo Gallery

Opening Ceremony
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Hands On GNSS & Crowdsourcing for Geospatial data (OSM)
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Sirindhorn International Environmental Park and Mangrove Forest
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The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System
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Appendix 2: Questionnaire

SurveySummer School in Bangkok 2015
Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development
17 – 28 August 2015
Strongly
Agree

Agree

NeutralDisagreeStrongly
Disagree	
 

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

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

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

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

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

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

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

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

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

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score for the Summer School in Bangkok
2015 program

Very
SatisfiedSatisfied

NeutralDissatisfied

Very
Dissatisfied

(5)

(4)

(3)

(2)

(1)

Please rank only top 3 of preferable organizations/ attractive places that you visited during
the program in order of satisfaction, from 1 to 3, where 1 is the most preferable.
PASCO company
National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC)
SIRINDHORN International Environmental Park & Mangrove forest
RIMES office
Energy Conservation Building at Klong5
Ayutthaya Historical Park
Comment & Suggestion:	
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