TEACHING AND CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT

As an educator and trainer, I have had the privilege of engaging in various teaching and capacity development activities throughout my career. Some of the key highlights of my experience in this area that I would like to showcase in my portfolio include:

Training on “Digital Terrain Modeling and hydrological” for participants from Department of Agricultural Land Management of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Lao PDR (Jan 2020)

The training on Digital Terrain Modeling and hydrological included essential concepts to understanding digital terrain models (DTMs). DTMs generated using ground-based laser scanning provide high-resolution bare earth models of the terrain surface suitable for the geomorphological studies. These concepts were followed by uses of DEMs that were determine aspects of terrain (slope, aspect, spot elevations), creating of contour lines, and locating terrain features (watersheds, drainage networks, stream channels). In addition, participants learned how to use DEMs to model hydrologic functions. For example, DEMs can generate flow direction which forms the basis of most GIS hydrological analysis and is the basis of watershed delineation as well as stream networking. Once flow direction is known it is possible to determine how many cells flow into a given cell. Participants used ESRI’s ModelBuilder to demonstrate Watershed Delineation Processes.

We conducted a training on "Advance use of ArcGIS (Network Analysis and 3D analysis)" from 27th to 31st of January 2020. In the last day of training, The Director General of the Department of Agricultural Land Management and assistant FAO Representative, Laos came for the Training Closing Ceremony and distributed certificate to the participants.

Training on Mobile Application Development was organized on November 6, 2019, at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University. The training was conducted by 2 instructors with 11 students in attendance. The main objective of the survey was to identify plastic leakage from land-based sources that enter drainage networks and river networks, both directly and indirectly. Settlement areas along the river and/or drainage/sewage networks were considered as potential hotspots for plastic leakage, including accumulation zones. Therefore, field data collection was conducted to gain a better understanding of the flow of plastic waste in the area.

After completing the training on how to use the mobile application, the students divided into groups and went out into the field to collect data. The data collected through the mobile application will be sent to the system immediately after being submitted. All of the data that the students collected is presented in the Web Platform.

Field Data Collection

The lessons learned from this training are as follows:

Introduction to GNSS, GNSS Data Formats, Coordinate System, Software Installation etc. by Dinesh Manandhar, Associate Professor, CSIS, The University of Tokyo
Introduction to QZSS Correction Services by Nobuaki Kubo, Professor, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (TUMSAT)
GNSS Data Processing for high accuracy by Mr. Kaito Kobayashi, Researcher / Doctoral Student, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (TUMSAT)

4. Data Collection in the Field with low-cost receiver and Data Processing

Mobile App Training for Field Data Collection in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand on November 6, 2019.

GNSS Training at AIT, Thailand on February 4, 2023