Seminar on remote sensing
Seminar on remote sensing
JAKARTA (JP): The various uses of satellite remote sensing
technology will be discussed in an international seminar
organized by the Indonesian Society for Remote Sensing next week.
J.A. Katili, a senior remote sensing expert and deputy speaker
of the House of Representatives/People's Consultative Assembly,
will be the key speaker, organizers said yesterday.
The seminar, sponsored by the directorate general of
technology for natural resources, will take place at Hotel
Indonesia from Nov. 24 through 25.
About 500 remote sensing experts from across the country will
join personnel from the European Space Agency, as well as people
from Australia, Germany, France and the United States at the
symposium.
They will discuss 44 papers with various topics, including the
remote sensing in Geographic Information System, radar remote
sensing satellite system, the mapping of shallow seabeds with
airborne laser, and the application of remote sensing for shrimp
ponds, rain monitoring and electricity networks.
The rapid progress in technology in Indonesia has enhanced the
remote sensing industry as there is a demand in various fields
for the application of the system.
Remote sensing expert Indroyono Soesilo from the Agency for
Technology Application and Assessment told journalists yesterday
that there were more than 300 orders to take pictures via
satellite for data inventory during the past year.
Most of the orders came from forest concessionaires, who
needed the images to monitor and manage forests. The technology
also applied in the government's projects of regional planning.
According to regulations, a forest concession holder has to
take a satellite picture of the forest for data inventory once
every two years, Soesilo said. He said there are about 500 forest
concessionaires, which means that the remote sensing market would
remain strong.
Soesilo said that currently the pictures were not taken by
Indonesian satellites, "I hope that one day we will have our own
satellites."
There are 120 remote sensing centers throughout the country,
24 of them are managed by the private sector.
Indonesia first applied the remote sensing technology in
1972.(sim)