1. Among the numerous hill in Wuhan
Luojia is the best; on this hill Wuhan university is located

• One of the most beautiful universities in the world
• One of China’s Top University
• The Cradle for fostering innovative talents

Adjacent to the East Lake and at the foot of Luojia Hill, Wuhan University is located in the in the time-honored city of Wuchang in Hubei Province. With a strong cultural atmosphere and the mesmerizing charm of landscape, it is known as “one of the most beautiful universities in the world”, “one of China’s to universities” and “the cradle for fostering innovative talents.”

2. A University with a Hundred-and-Twenty Year History
A Well-Established Foundation

Wuhan University has an experienced vicissitudes in the past 120 years. Numerous people with lofty ideas have endeavored to realize their ambition of building a prosperous and strong country. Straddling three centuries of development the people of Wuhan University have accumulate abundant academic heritage and cultivated profound humanistic spirit. The university has formed the tradition of “respecting scholars, advocating learning” and nurtured the spirit of “improving oneself, advocating perseverance, seeking truth and making innovations”, writing a glorious chapter in the history of modern higher of modern higher learning.

3. A Gathering of Renowned Teachers, A Galaxy of Gifted Talents0

Adhering to the principle of “putting people first” and the strategy of reinvigorating university through human resources. Wuhan University has trained and gathered a faculty of high-quality professionals. The university now has more than 3,600 full-time teachers, including more than 2,500 professors and associate professors, seven academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, eight academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, nine senior professors of Humanities and Social Science, 15 national master teachers, 50 “the Yanglze Scholars Programs” specially-appointed professors and chair professors. 39 laureates of China National Fund of Outstanding Young Scientists, and five creative research groups of the Natural Science Foundation of China.

4. Hall of Humanity, Palace of Science

Wuhan University boasts a relatively complete range of disciplines such as Philosophy, Economics, Law Education, Literature, History, Sciences, Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine and Management. It has six divisions of Humanities, Social Science, Nature Science, Nature Science, Engineering, Information Science and Medicine, totaling 37 collages (departments) and three first-class, third-grade hospitals affiliated to the university. The university now has 123 undergraduate programs, 58 disciplines under master programs, 43 disciplines under doctoral programs, and 38 centers for post-doctoral studies.

5. Concept of “Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship”
Cultivation of Talents

Wuhan University, initiating its efforts to apply the concept of Creativity of Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship to education, has founded “Hongyi School” and the Innovative Experimental Zone for Talent Training Model, and Wuhan University is committed to cultivating interdisciplinary innovative top-notch talents with international vision.

Since its foundation, Wuhan University has fostered over 400,000 professionals and talents of various fields and over 100 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Now the university has more than 100,000 students, which includes over 50,000 full-time undergraduates and more than 20,000 postgraduates.

6. Serving the Society and Benefiting the People

Adhering to the development strategy that highlights the “indomitable spirit”. Wuhan University has created first-class academic achievements Meanwhile, with the advantage of talents and disciplines, Wuhan University is actively taking part in serving the national and local economic and social development, researching to find resolutions to the significant theoretical and practical problems.

Humanity and social workers are actively taking part in contributing plans and ideas to the national and local development, making themselves the “Think Bank” and “Think Tank”. Natural Scientists have also actively participated in scientific research of such state key projects as the Manned Space Project, the Three Gorges Project, the South-to-North Water Division Project, the East-West Electricity Transmission Project and Qinghai-Tibet Railway Project Moreover, they have rendered technical support and medical and health services to the relief work and post disaster reconstruction of Wenchuan (Sichuan) Earthquake and Yushu (Qinghai) Earthquake. Fresh progress has been constantly made in rackling problems in science and technology, evolving the scientific expedition to the North and South Poles, Beidou (Big Dipper) Satellite Navigation, the prevention and control of Aids and SARS, thus making an immense contribution to the development of national innovation system as well as national economy and society.

7. Pluralistic Opening-Up, International Vision

Wuhan University is sticking to the internationalized concept; therefore, the international research cooperation level has been steadily upgraded, international joint training has been more diversified and major breakthroughs in Sino-foreign Joint Educational Programs have been achieved. Duke-Kunshan University founded by the joint efforts of Wuhan University and Duke University initiated precedent of cooperation in running between universities listed in the “985 project” and world-class universities.

Agreements on mutual exchange have been signed with more than 200 universities from over 60 nations and regions, including Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, Oxford University, etc. Four Confucius Institutes have been founded by joint efforts of Wuhan University and University de Paris VII, University of Pittsburgh, etc. Such activities as the Autumn Luojia International Cultural Festival, the Luojia International Summer Camp and the International Exchange Camp of Student Organizations of Wuhan University are now serving as important windows and platform for the cross-cultural communication of the university.

8. Harmonious Campus, Charming Luojia

Adjacent to the East Lake and at the foot of Luojia Hill, the campus boasts the ancient architectural complex blending the eastern and western styles. Natural scenery and stylistic and stylistic diversity combined with a bewildering array of cultural activities paint an elegant picture of human and humanity, and constitute a constitute an enchanting campus of vigorous and vitality.

Introduction

Ministry of Science and Technology of Thailand (Thailand MOST) and Wuhan University has cooperated to establish the Sirindhorn Center for Geo-informatics (SCGI) at Space Krenovation Park (SKP), SriRacha, Chonburi province, Thailand for celebration in honor of Her Royal Highness Princess MahaChakri Sirindhorn and strengthening relationship between People’s Republic of China and Kingdom of Thailand. HRH princess MahaChakriSirindhorn graciously granted the center’s name as “Sirindhorn Center for Geo-informatics (SCGI)”.HRH princess MahaChakriSirindhorn will graciously proceeds over the inauguration ceremony on March 20, 2015.

To promote the center as the International center of technology transfer and capacity building of space technology and geo-informatics, Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Public Organization) : GISTDA, MOSTThailandand Wuhan University, China jointly organize the 1st Sirindhorn Conference on GeoInformatics on March 21, 2015 at the Auditorium of SCGI, SKP, Sri Racha, Chonburi province, Thailand.

Objective

The main objective of this conference is to provide a forum for researchers, educators, students and scientists to exchange ideas, discuss research findings andnew advances in space and geo-informaticstechnology and most importantly, to build new connections with the community in this region.

Organizers

Geo-informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA)

GISTDA is a Thai space research organization. It is responsible for remote sensing and technology development satellites.  In order to enhance the utilization in remote sensing and GIS, GISTDA was established on November 3, 2000 as a public organization which assumes all responsibilities and activities for space technology and geo-informatics applications.

www.gistda.or.th

Ministry of Science and Technology, Thailand

The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) is presently tasked with forwarding the policy and strategic plan for science, technology and innovation and seeing to its effective and substantive implementation, both in terms of research and development as well as in terms of creating cooperative mechanisms between all sectors of society, with a view to promoting economic benefits and enhancing quality of life.  Under the vision of “excelling as the steward or main organization in the development of science, technology and innovation”, the Ministry of Science and Technology aims to create and enrich the intellect of Thai society.

www.most.go.th

Wuhan University

Wuhan University (武汉大学) is located in Wuhan, Hubei, China. The University is administered by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. It was selected by both Project 985 and Project 211 as a major receiver of state funding. The university is situated at Luojia Hill, with palatial buildings blending the Chinese and Western style. It was commonly regarded as one of the most beautiful campuses and top 10 universities for decades in China.

http://en.whu.edu.cn

Keynote Speakers

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PROF. DR. LI DEREN

Wuhan University, China

Speech Title :Earth Observation Satellites of China for Disaster Management

Deren Li is an expert in photogrammetry and remote sensing. He was selected as a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991 and a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1994. He got his bachelor and master degrees from Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping respectively in 1963 and 1981. In 1985, he got his doctor degree from University of Stuttgart, Germany. He was awarded the title of honorary doctor from ETH Zürich, Switzerland in 2008.During his studies in Germany since 1982, Deren Li proposed a new iteration weighted method for gross error location based on a posterior variance estimation, which has since been named “Deren Li Method”. In 1985, he completed theoretical research in the separability of model errors, which advanced the reliability theory of Dutch scientists to the separability phase. His theory has “scientifically solved a hundred-year-baffling problem in geodetic science”. He has won many national and ministerial level prizes, such as The Sci-tech Progress Award, National Excellent Textbook Award, Award of the Excellent Educational Achievements, etc. He has served successively as the President of Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping, Director of Wuhan University Academic Board, Director of the National Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Vice-President of Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Association. He is the standing member of various agency e.g. Division of Earth Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Vice-Director of National Major Scientific Project “High Resolution Earth Observation System”,member of the Euro-Asia International Academy of Sciences, Consultant or Honorary Professor of over 50 universities and so on.

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ASSOCIATE PROF. DR. SOMCHET  THINAPHONG

Chairman Board of Director, GISTDA 

Chairman, National Innovation Agency

Speech Title : ASEAN Cultural Connectivity Through Mapping

Dr. Somchet holds Doctor of Engineering with long standing experiences in various spheres. Received entrepreneur award from Thailand in the year 1992, and served as the Chairman of Entrepreneurship, School of Management, Mahidol University (CMMU).

His experiences in engineering field are extensive. Those included the President of Suvarnabhumi Airport from 1999-2001, Governor of Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT) from 1990-2000. Between 1988-2013, he held 9 Executive Board Directors in Government Enterprises; directly involving in Mega Projects development such as Airports, Seaports, Underground Rapid Transit; and Expressway; and also board director in the field of oil and gas industries at PTTEP, and also Chairman of the Board of the Market Organization, Ministry of Interior in the year 2009-2011.

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PROF. DR. HARUO SAWADA

Professor , Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Visiting professor of the Asian Institute of Technology

Speech Title : Remote Sensing for Global Environment Monitoring

Dr. Haruo Sawada, emeritus professor of the University of Tokyo, has graduated from the University of Tokyo and is a visiting professor of the Asian Institute of Technology. His core area is geoinformatics on natural environment and urban safety.  He has conducted many international research projects of geoinformatics on land ecosystem science, environmental health and natural disasters in Asia and South America as well as in Japan. He has been nominated by various forums and associations in their committees and is currently a vise president of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan. He was awarded the Education, Culture, Sports, Science Minister’s Prize of Japan and the National Medial (Knight) of Cambodia for his research activities.