Introduction:
With the rapid development of new sensors and launching of many sophisticated satellites in recent years, remote sensing has become an important source of data and information for monitoring and modeling of the environment. These advances have made it possible to use the remote sensing technologies in various disciplines from local to global scales, accounting both natural and anthropogenic activities. These developments have widened our vision in addressing various problems and motivated us
to integrate remote sensing with conventional tools and methodologies for innovative solutions. In this seminar, two leading scientists from Japan, Prof. Yoshifumi Yasuoka, University of Tokyo and Dr. Dennis Dye, Frontier Research System for Global Change, Japan are going to present the recent scientific developments in the field of remote sensing and its applications in engineering and environment monitoring.
About the Speakers:
Prof. Yoshifumi Yasuoka is the Deputy Director General of the Institute of Industrial Science under the University of Tokyo. He is a leading
scientist in Japan in the field of remote sensing and image processing. During his long professional career, he has been conducting research in a wide range of issues including environmental modeling and monitoring. One of his areas of interest is the application of remote sensing techniques in civil engineering problems. He is currently serving as the
President of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan.
Dr. Dennis Dye is the Group Leader (Bof the Ecosystem Change Research Program, Frontier Research System for Global Change, Japan. His main research areas are vegetation-climate relations, terrestrial carbon cycle, ecosystem process modeling and terrestrial ecosystem. He has been actively working in estimating photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) from remote sensing data to calculate the Net Primary Productivity (NPP) of terrestrial ecosystems.
All interested persons are cordially invited. For further details, please contact Dr. Dushmanta Dutta of RNUS, SCE at tel. 02 524-5794 or Ms. Kasuna at tel. 02 524-6418.
March 24-26, 2004: 'Reforming Electricity Sectors: The Nordic Power Market' workshop. The workshop will be held from 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. in the AIT Conference Center
Introduction
For more than ten years electricity business has been experiencing a steadily increasing number of electricity sectors being reformed. Thereby some reforms are being described as a 'success', some as a 'good start' and some even as a 'failure'. The used criteria mostly are traded volumes and the downwards price development for success, for failure you find market power, upwards price development and a bad system reliability. In all these reformed electricity sectors you can find companies having successfully adapted to the new conditions, new companies having used the opportunity to start a more or less successful business, but also a proper number of not more existing companies - companies having gone bankrupt, been bought up or even been liquidated.
The Workshop 'Reforming Electricity Sectors: The Nordic Power Market' will give participants an overview over reforms and developments worldwide. Our resource persons from Nord Pool Consulting will enable you to take part in their unique hands-on experience and knowledge from the Nordic Power Market and other selected markets. The workshop is aiming at transfer of knowledge and experience through presentations, working groups and trading simulations.
March 16-17: APNIC DNS Workshop and March 18: APNIC Internet Resource
Management-Essentials. Both events will be conducted in collaboration with AIT from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. in the AIT Conference Center.
Network Engineers, Network Planners, system administrators, persons involved in administering Network Operation Centres or other interested persons who would like to attend the workshop only must complete the online registration form available at:
http://www.apnic.net/training/register-20040316.html
Technical personnel who are responsible for allocating and/or assigning IP addresses such as hostmaster employees of network information centers or ISPs, network planners, designers, and network engineers or other interested persons who would like to attend the workshop only must complete the online registration form available at:
http://www.apnic.net/training/register-20040318.html
Please note that seats are limited and the registration will be on a 'first come - first served' basis. For further inquiries, please contact Ms. Hmone at +66(0)2 524 6611 (for AIT internal user dial 6611 only) or email: a href='mailto:withmone@cs.ait.ac.th'>withmone@cs.ait.ac.th