K. 付録

Asian Summer School in Bangkok 2015

報告

REPORT

Asian Summer School in Bangkok 2015

Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development

17 – 28 August 2015 Asian Institute of Technology

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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 CHAPTER TITLE PAGE

1 Summary 1 2 Purpose 2 3 Program Admission 3 4 Participants 4 5 Lecture Program 7 6 Field Trip Program 7 7 Comments on Lectures 8 8 Comments on Field Trip 28 9 Program Evaluation 34

10 Conclusion and Recommendation 43 Appendix 1: Program Photo gallery 44 Appendix 2: Questionnaire 57

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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 participants from Chubu University joined. Among participants from Japan, there are four undergraduate students (Environmental Biology, Education, English and Culture, and Mechanical Engineering) 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 and Environmental 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 participants from 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 and Management). Moreover, five visits and field trips were conducted to connect what participants learned from lectures with the real world. Participants visited PASCO (Thailand) (Air Survey Company, Japan), National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC), Sirindhorn International Environmental Park and Mangrove Forest, The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES), Energy Conservation Building, and Ayutthaya Historical Park. Furthermore, it is also to stimulate motivation of undergraduate students to endeavor their own research. English is used as the main communication in lectures and daily life during the program. It made a deep impression of importance of globalization to the participants. However, in order to prepare participants to be ready for lectures conducted in English and well communication during the program, English Communication course organized by AIT language center was provided 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 and expertise 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 they

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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 the field 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 such as preparing a handbook, a detailed schedule of lecture and field trip, and any other logistics support. Also special thanks to Visionary Value Japan Inc., Japan, Adin Research Inc., Japan, Earth System Science Co., Ltd., Japan for their financial support to establish this program. We would like to thank to each organization and individual who participated and some of whom shoulder 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 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 have international sense and awareness of the problem for the participants’ thesis.

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3. Program Admission For Summer School in Bangkok 2015, this is the first time that the application was announced publicly starting from the beginning of 2015. This is different from the past that the program usually recruited the participants from the universities and organizations which have the connection with AIT and Chubu University. According to the application by this channel, 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 25-30 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, and potential to explore research interest from the program. As a result, there were 5 participants from 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.

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4. Participants Universities and Organizations:

Asian Institute of

Technology Bogor Agricultural

University Chubu University Feng Chia

University

Institute of Space

Technology Kathmandu University

Khon Kaen University

Siam Mitsui PTA Co., Ltd.

Srinakharinwirot

University University of Philippines

Vietnam National University

Wildlife Conservation

Society, Cambodia Countries:!

Japan Thailand Vietnam Myanmar

Korea Cambodia Philippines Taiwan

Indonesia Pakistan Nepal Sri Lanka

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Participants: Chubu University

Kohei Yamamoto

(Japanese) 4th-year undergraduate student

Environmental Biology

Takuya Hamajima (Japanese)

2nd-year undergraduate student Education

Satoko Mano (Japanese)

4th-year undergraduate student English and Culture

Chubu University Feng Chia University

Masataka Murase

(Japanese) 1st-year master student

Civil Engineering

Nungna Wi (Korean)

4th-year undergraduate student Mechanical Engineering

Chang, Yu-Lun (Taiwanese)

1st-year master student Urban Planning & Spatial

Information Khon Kaen University Srinakharinwirot University

Napassorn Sutthiprapa

(Thai) 4th-year undergraduate student

Geoinformatics

Chomchanok yoothawee (Thai)

4th-year undergraduate student Geography

Pitchaya Phutmalay (Thai)

4th-year undergraduate student Geography

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Vietnam National University University of Philippines Bogor Agricultural

University

Huynh Yen Nhi

(Vietnamese) Researcher

Cartography-Remote Sensing and GIS

Coleen Dorothy U Carranza (Filipino)

Research Associate Geodetic Engineering

Alfi Bagus Prasetyo (Indonesian)

4th-year undergraduate student Civil and Environmental

Engineering Wildlife Conservation

Society, Cambodia Kathmandu University Institute of Space Technology

Brosethy Son (Cambodian)

SMART Database Management Assistant

Sumesh K.C. (Nepalese)

4th-year undergraduate student Civil and Geomatics Engineering

Muhammad Tayyab Afzal (Pakistani)

Research Assistant Remote Sensing and GIS

Siam Mitsui PTA Co., Ltd. Asian Institute of Technology

Chayawich Jeerasthanakul

(Thai) Safety and Environment Manger

Wai Lu Zaw (Burmese)

4th-year undergraduate student Civil and Infrastructure

Kasvinda Kulathunga (Sri Lankan)

4th-year undergraduate student Industrial Engineering

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4. Lecture Program

Date Topic Lecturer

11-14 Aug

RS-GIS Summer English Communication Program AIT Language Center

17 Aug Ubiquitous Geoinformatics Prof. Kiyoshi Honda Interoperable Geoinformatics & Location Base Service

Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat

Health GIS Prof. Nitin Kumar Tripathi 18 Aug GNSS Technology Dr. Shinichi Nakamura

Recent Topics in Space Technology: Space Debris Issue

Dr. Shinichi Nakamura

Geoinformatics for Disaster and Sentinel Asia Dr. Masahiko Nagai 20 Aug Big Data for Society Dr. Apichon Witayangkurn

Global Climate Change and Water Resources Management

Dr. Sangam Shrestha

Satellite Monitoring of Asian Regional Air Quality Prof. Oanh Nguyen Thi Kim 21 Aug Hand on : GNSS Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat

Hand on : Crowdsourcing for Geospatial data (OSM)

Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat

24 Aug Natural Resources Management in Asia Prof. Rajendra Shrestha Energy: Renewable Energy Resource and Technologies

Prof. Sivanappan Kumar

Public Transportation Problems and Green Solutions in Bangkok

Dr. Surachet Pravinvongvuth

25 Aug Hand on : Geospatial Analysis Using FOSS Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat Spatial and Livelihood Dimension of Sustainability for Asian Cities

Dr. Sohee Minsun Kim

Machine Vision in Agriculture Dr. Matthew N. Dailey 26 Aug UAV Demonstration Prof. Kiyoshi Honda

Current Status of Wastewater and Fecal Sludge Management in Thailand

Dr. Thammarat Koottatep

5. Field Trip Program

Date Field Visiting 18 Aug PASCO (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

National Disaster Warning Center (NWDC) 22 Aug Sirindhorn International Environmental Park and Mangrove Forest 26 Aug The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and

Asia (RIMES) 27 Aug Energy Conservation Building

Ayutthaya Historical Park

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

Name August 2015

17 18 19 20 21 23 24 25 26 27

Kohei Yamamoto O O O O O O O O O O Takuya Hamajima O O O O O O O O O O

Satoko Mano O O O O O O O O O O Masataka Murase O O O O O O O O O O

Nungna Wi O O O O O O O O O O Chang, Yu-Lun O O O O O O O O O O

Napassorn Sutthiprapa O O O O O O O O O O Huynh Yen Nhi O O O O O O O O O O

Chomchanok yoothawee O O O O O O O O O O Coleen Dorothy U Carranza O O O O O O O O O O

Alfi Bagus Prasetyo O O O O O O O O O O Brosethy Son O O O O O O O O O O Sumesh K.C. O O O O O O O O O O

Pitchaya Phutmalay O O O O O O O O O O Muhammad Tayyab Afzal O O O O O O O O O O

Chayawich Jeerasthanakul O O ** O ** ** O O ** ** Wai Lu Zaw x O x x x x x x x x

Kasvinda Kulathunga O x O x x x x O O O The meaning of the symbols

O = Submitted X = Not submitted ** = Cannot attend because of urgent task

In this section, each lecture will be briefly described and some of the comments from participants related to that lecture will be presented.

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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 in listening and how to apply listening strategies in their studies and lives. Moreover, the class also introduced the participants to listening and presentation 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 enjoy class 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.”

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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 to participate in the Asian summer school. The class was very fun. Teaching method was very easy to understand. I hope I have more 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 Geo-informatics for each utility such as agriculture, disasters and environment, satellite overview, data assimilation, integration and application of Remote Sensing, field sensor, UAV and utilization, WEBGIS 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 we don't know we are using it. We knew when we sent e-mail or something to other, e-mail will be save in cloud. Cloud is became more and more important in 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 ' '. It always show the photo by UAV. So it's not strange for me. But the appearance 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 Use of Low Altitude Remote Sensing"". From this course, I learned about the different 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 a gate way for me to explore more on techniques to monitor crop health and

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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 to interoperate Geoinformatics data to The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web service, web GIS, software development 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 this building? 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 a particular type of disease. When doctor finish, the doctor will report disease or pest, guidance to the farmer. I think this application can help farmers in the present.”

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,

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GPS, community network, Service and Data Provider. AR technology is indirect real time. It can view of physical with real environment by smartphone, camera, computer or tablet. It's present about information of place, 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 and exposure the phenomena. Additionally, the application of GIS for health in many case studies such as the exploring climatic factors contributing to malaria prevalence in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, the impact of climatic variability on diarrhea incidences in Chiang Mai, Thailand and the monitoring of 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 some variable climatic conditions. Using GIS (climate variability) modeling to prevent human diseases is one solution to save millions of human. I may apply this principle to my work about analyzing health of employee to investigate 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. Most of 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 in industry 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 with climate variability. Coming from a tropical country, I would be interested in searching if similar studies are done in the Philippines because we also have high 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 can decide position by using GPS signal. Furthermore, the lecturer 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 are various kinds in different countries. I am interested in errors of the GPS receiver. It is an issue to consider whether acceptable extent with respect to error. I do not think that only high accuracy is good. I think that important to uniform 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 the coordinate 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 of satellites from the RINEX file. Dr. Shinich showed us different ways to control 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 and navigation as well as early warning systems by constant monitoring of the permanent 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, GPS system 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.”

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Recent Topics in Space Technology: Space Debris Issue Conducted by: Dr. Shinichi Nakamura, Date: 18 August 2015

The participants learned about space technology in Japan, the history of space development, the meaning of space debris and the increasing of objects in the space that leads the growth of number of space debris (increasing by breakup, collision, and unbundling). Additionally, how to treat satellite at end 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 my perspective towards space law and relevant phenomena .I will try to use this learning in studies related to the health of the earth orbit and debris in the space.”

Satoko Mano (4th-year undergraduate student in English and Culture) “I learned about space debris in this class. It is serious problem because the number one problem is Broken pieces of satellite in the space. Why space debris is danced? Because even small space debris, it has enough energy to destroy 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 or spacecraft and when it falls to the earth, it can damage to property and of course, people. In the future, we should develop the machine to protect the property 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 space development can support us.”

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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 to earthquake or landslide occurrence. As Dr. Nagai mentioned, disaster management is an interdisciplinary work which requires collaboration with different agencies. Scientists should not be limited processing and analysis but also in dialogues and discussions with local people so that disasters can be 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.”

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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 is the 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 of processing, Flexible searching and sorting, real time response and accuracy of results etc. Data processing has 3 steps which are input, processing and output. 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 for user such as map and graphics. I just have known Hadoop free software. It's very 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 for evaluating affecting from explosion incident case of smell release to environmental 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 data characteristics of good quality information including accuracy, up to date, relevance, completion, on time, appropriately present, intelligibility. When we compile and process data quality, these data will be used effectively or the developed for ability to access information.”

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Global Climate Change and Water Resources Management Conducted by: Dr. Sangam Shrestha, Date: 20 August 2015 The participants learned about what the climate change in global 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 impacts of 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 my thesis.”

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 by recycling.”

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 of incorporating climate change scenarios for future planning of infrastructures and urban development programs. Also, his work is interesting because water is a commodity that all of use depend on. Studying the impacts of climate change 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 a lot of knowledge about climate change and how to adapt. Vietnam also has numerous research projects on climate change. This lesson was my original basis 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 based on 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 and weather conditions need to be incorporated into the study. This makes that system 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 of China we were able to recognize anew. I was possible to know the other air pollution also. Pollution affects human health. Japan has experienced a variety of pollution. I think it is important to go to convey the experience to other 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 environment and 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.”

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Hand on: GNSS & Crowdsourcing for Geospatial Data (OSM) Conducted by: Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat, Date: 21 August 2015 The participants learned the principle of GNSS and knew 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 and gave 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 map of 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 of location 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 to teach 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 accuracy of 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 can access to OSM to update new data and can know some information from the place 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 of natural 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 the challenge of climate change. The above knowledge regarding the study at my university.”

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, the forest, biodiversity, water management, land degradation, sustainability of wildlife, fisheries, coastal resource and the last one, mitigation effect of climate change. How I can apply in the next future? Using eco efficiency index (ecological footprint) as KPI (key performance index) to monitor our business performance in sustainable development (business/environment/ and society).”

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 of conservation and productive uses to achieve sustainability such as ensuring sustainability of forest, conserving biodiversity and reducing land degradation. 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, the trend of energy in the world (production and consumption), 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 in alternative 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 and technologies. Energy is a property of objects which can be transferred to other objects 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, the equivation 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. When I 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 or converted into different forms, but cannot be created moving object, the potential energy stored by an object's position in a forced. It can be chemical, nuclear, gravitation or mechanical. According to sustainable development, in the 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.”

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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 in Thailand was introduced. After that, the policy and strategies in each types of transportation such as mass transit, 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 was less to know new There are many things to know. At the same time I could go tell 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 to consult 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 is rail 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 for using 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 for analyzing the land suitability. The participants learned how to use the tools that GIS provided for vector analysis such as Query tool, Buffer tool, Intersect tool and the step of analyzing data by working on the case study: finding 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 and transportation 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 do the similar task but the biggest problem for us is the cost to use/get that software. 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 the different spatial operations that can be used depending upon our interest. I can now apply the knowledge gained to perform different types of suitability 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 to explore QGIS more and the algorithms behind the spatial operation like buffer, 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 such as 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 of megacities. It would be interesting to look at the characteristics of the boundaries 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 think having clusters of developed cities is more manageable and sustainable than having 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 in the 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 not enough for those people. Building becomes higher together with price of house 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 work with her. Urbanization planning is used to design the land use and separating area. 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 to consider urban planning in sustainable development in that area. That means economy (urban growth) increasing with environmental and society friendly.”

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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 the context of Vision Systems. The useful of image processing in all 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 high-throughput 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 the camera 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 the agriculture land and we can use make smart phone to remote the farm machine to harvest in the farms. but before we can succeed with this, we need to make the system and collect the information from the farm (For what kind that you need to use) and then, we build those with Microsoft Software to make robots understand about the time and age of fruit to the correct one. Also, I learned the process we can 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 the farmers 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 the object of our interest in the image. The position of the camera, its translation and rotation 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 to monitor 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 of UAV. Also, they learned about the configuration of the direction by sing remote sensing. They also obtained experience by demonstration of how to use UAV in order 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 of fields from nuclear power plant radiation damage assessment to feature identification and recognition to how it can be used in agriculture for monitoring crop health and growth. With the rapid technological advancement, lots of sensors are available cheaply which can be used in lots of application. These days, concept of open source software and hardware is increasing and we can simply reduce the cost by using those. UAV is just a platform on which sensors according to our interest are mounted to capture the data. The photogrammetry knowledge is very important for flight planning: 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 of commercial 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-time data at AIT. It was fun and impressive for me. I think that UAV can take photo 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 for planning an industrial zones with rich industrial plant that suits logistics and transportation. I also believe this mapping tech can be used to protect the environment 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 water and fecal sludge management (FSM) in Thailand also the factors affecting to FSM. Also, they learned about the recovery process through establishing FSM business in Thailand.

Kohei Yamamoto (4th-year undergraduate student in Environmental Biology) “If Thailand can make sewage treatment works all of the country, sanitation is good and then tourists will come to Thailand more than before. Disease will decrease when sanitation is improved. Government of Thailand have to invent 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, and sanitation but perhaps only a few try to deal with human wastes. I think that the 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 and Policy. 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 these strategies 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 a full 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 and quickly. But I understood that it takes much time and many photos to make a map.”

Napassorn Sutthiprapa (4th-year undergraduate student in Geoinformatics) “I learned about PASCO company in Thailand. PASCO builds a high of high quality 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 the creation of maps commissioned the Japanese Government. I was able to know that 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 spread the 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 make the map quickly and correct. Drawing the map by 3D glasses is a magic! The map before finishing need so many steps like drawing, checking, then drawing, 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 of Information and Communication Technology. NDWC has the main role to warn the disaster arising from multi natural hazard. With this program, the participants learned 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 the national disaster center was very interesting for me. Capt. Song was also very passionate for his job. His explanation of the methods and processes they do in order to provide early warning to people living in Thailand was clear and comprehensive. 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 looked very good that Thai government is so keen to help their people and other people 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 my friends and family and research circle so that we all get to know about the standards 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 is cool. 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 and more 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 to learn 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 be a center for training and distributing knowledge in natural conservation along with methods for energy saving. The park also provides eco-tourism for public to encourage people awareness about the significance of environment 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 touch with 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 Mangrove in 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 save crap 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 release conservative 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 to aware 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 and clarity, 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 conservation of natural habitat and some unique species of mangroves of its own kind like short 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 is so keen to conserve such Quasi natural heritage”

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The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa 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 and climate 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 the prevention 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 forecast-based risk information for disaster mitigation. In the future, we might have a technology 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 and intergovernmental institution, owned and managed by its Member States, for the generation and application of early warning information. RIMES provides regional early warning services and builds capacity of its Member States in the 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 for warning typhoon storm. So I think that warning on mobile operating with real time 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 the advanced energy conservation technology by natural system of Thailand climatic weather and cooling environment.

Kohei Yamamoto (4th-year undergraduate student in Environmental Biology) “I thing that Energy Conservation Building is a good place to learn how to save energy because we can study happily as same as children can. Especially young age people should learn from this building so, it should have more buildings 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 and window of the building have different material quality and structures. This building is made and constructed by caring energy saving ways. I learned what kind structure is better for environment and energy saving. If I have chance 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 of energy is being applied. This could be applied to households as well. Science and engineering plays vital role in developing sustainable and energy efficient communities. Perhaps in the future when I built a house, I will consider 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 our domestic 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 old city of Ayutthaya, Thailand. With this program, the participants 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 to aware 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 and clarity, 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 a variety 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 to historical 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 participants in order to evaluate the program and identify weak point for improving further. The results from the first part are displayed as the pie charts below.

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The second part shows suggestions from participants as follows.

! It is good trip and travel. But study hard and eating hard. In conclusion, it's a good and 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.

! 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.

! This summer school was fun for me and I was glad to study GIS and so on. Thank

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you very much. ! Please make the program for one month to get more experience and knowledge.

Thanks. ! Thank you so much. I have a nice 2 weeks in Thailand. The lectures are very useful

for 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.

! I wish I can attend one more time. I love everyone in this program. Thank you very much.

! GISTDA would be good institution to visit. ! Good application/ hands-on for GIS but not for remote sensing --> Maybe using

LANDSAT or single RS image processing? ! Maybe 2 hours lecture a bit too much. Perhaps 1.30 hours lecture. Maybe start

earlier for lecture 8:30. ! 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 students ! 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.

! I am glad to come to Thailand. I spent great time. I am very happy to get great opportunity. Thank you so much.

! 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 for everything.

! Some class maybe difficult for me to study. We study very hard. The class start very early. Field trip is good.

! I am very happy to join this program. For some lecture, it is difficult to understand for me because I don't have the basis. I am very interesting in the topic of climate change and water resource. Maybe for next time, it'll be good to more application than only lecture.

! 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 a good opportunity to know what sorts of field are open to me. I just loved and enjoyed the program fully. And I'm fully satisfied with it. AIT is very good for engineering and technological study. I will even like to apply here for my further study in Geoinformatics.

! Thank for attention. Thank you for the very good time. It became a very good experience

! Some class and some lectures are difficult form. We study very hard! ! 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.

! Talking about the academics during the program I think it was very informatics for the people who were already interested about the subject. For others it was a brand new 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. Tae and Ms. A for the great support during the program. They really made the event a fun.

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think most of people from aboard want to look around the city. ! Home work every day is one kind of tool to summarize the idea. If we can complete

with in the last lecture class is better. Just use about 20-30 min to summarize the learning. After the lecture is nothing to serious. Just talk and study culture each other.

! Lecture 1 hours then brake 10 min. Lecture 1 hours then close session. Then summarize learning about 20-30 min. After that lunch, talk with in group for each other study.

! More work shop is preferred for discussion & learning. ! Thai dessert is good choice of brake for these learning courses. ! Program after the class in every day class is seem to be very interested for

everyone. 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 AIT and 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 the international 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 from the lecture, especially for the participants who do not have basic knowledge about GIS and Remote 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 good environment. Moreover, the organizer tried to provide food for multicultural as much as possible. However, there were some participants who requested to eat only some certain food. Hence, to discuss about preferable types of food for individual participant should be done before starting the program. For field visit, the participants also requested to visit some places such as GISTDA and other attractions in the center of Bangkok. Unfortunately, this year program was affected by terrorism in Bangkok. As a result, the program had to cancel and changed the schedule leading the participants to miss an opportunity to visit GISTDA and other attractions. Furthermore, the program became more complicated to organize smoothly according to unstable schedule. Since this year is the first time of public announce for application, it got much interest from many applicants in Asia. However, it is also risky that the selected participant might decide to cancel 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 some ways from participants. In summary, the program achieved the main purpose that the participants could gain some experience and knowledge related to GIS for sustainable development. According to the evaluation, most of the participants were very satisfied with the program and from the assignment 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 and pursue higher education level in AIT or other universities. Most importantly, the program

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Appendix 2: Questionnaire

Survey Summer School in Bangkok 2015 Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development

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Statement Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly

Disagree

1. The lectures on Geoinformatics and issues on sustainable development are interesting for you

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

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

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

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

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6. Visiting Geoinformatics organizations (government & private sectors) are good opportunity to learn and build capacity for you

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7. Accommodation at Sirindhorn Science Home (SSH) is comfortable and safe for you

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8. You are happy with the choice of curricular and extracurricular activities during this program

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9. You learned the local culture through local life style like places, food, people, etc.

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

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11. This program is good chance to obtain experience in multicultural environment.

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Dissatisfied 12. Overall, please rate your satisfaction score for the Summer School in Bangkok 2015 program

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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

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