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SUMMARY OF THE 27th ACRS ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2006

By Dr. M. Saandar
Conference Chairman, Day 5. Oct 13, 2006 (Friday)

1. The 27th ACRS Participation

Asian Countries/Regions
Australia	6
China Taipei	83
China	28
India	1
Japan	90
Korea	27
Malaysia	10
Nepal	4
Singapore	4
Sri-Lanka	2
Thailand	40
Vietnam	1
Mongolia	71
Sub-total-13	367

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Non-Asian Countries
France	5
Germany	5
Netherlands	5
Russia	1
Switzerland	1
USA	4
UK	1
Sub-total-7	22
Total-20	389

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2. The 27th ACRS Participation

1. Oral Session	32
1. Agriculture	3
2. Disaster	3
3. GIS	3
4. Forest	3
5. Data Processing	3
6. Urban	2
7. Mapping	2
8. SAR	2
9. Oceanology/Meterology	2
10. Environment/Ecosystem	2
11. Satellite System	2
12. Photogrammetry/Lidar	2
13. Geology	1
14. Land Use	1
15. Hydrology/Water	1

2. Workshop	2 (cancelled 1)
3. Student Session	1
4. Special Session	1
Total	36

Total: Oral presentations 174 presented 168 cancelled 6
Total: Poster presentations 134 presented 126 cancelled 8?
Total: 295 abstracts and 215 full papers
We missed about 40 abstracts and 37 full papers due to the web server problem.
Later recovered it and we apologize

3. The 27th ACRS Exhibition Participation

1	CNCRS (Chinese National Committee for Remote Sensing, China)
2	INFORMATICS AND REMOTE SENSING INSTITUTE OF MAS (Mongolia)
3	MAP PRODUCT OF MONGOLIA LTD. (Mongolia)
4	NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONGOLIA (Mongolia)
5	ERSDAC (Japan)
6	MonMap (Mongolia)
7	UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE (Mongolia)
8	GISTDA (Thailand)
9	SKY C&C (Mongolia)
10	JAXA (Japan)
11	RESTEC (Japan)
12.	DIGITAL GLOBE (USA)
13.	GAIA 3D (South Korea)
14.	INFORMATION AND COMPUTER CENTER, MNE (Mongolia)
15.	ITT VISUAL INFORMATION SOLUTIONS (Japan)
16.	MACRES (Malaysia)
17.	ER MAPPER (Australia)
18.	BEIJING SPOT IMAGE (France)
19.	MONGOLIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Mongolia)

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RECOMMENDATION OF ACRS 2006

The 27th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS) was successfully held at Chinggis Khan Hotel, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from the 9th to the 13th October 2006 with about 400 participants from 20 countries/regions. The conference was jointly organized by Asian Association on Remote Sensing (AARS), the Mongolian Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (MSPRS) and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences (MECS). The opening ceremony was held at Cultural Palace with the participation of His Excellency Dr. Oe Enkhtuvshin, the Minister of Education, Culture and Sciences, Professor Shunji Murai, General Secretary, AARS, Professor John Trinder, Vice President, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), Kaoru Mamiya, Vice President of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Dr. Jugderdemid Gurragchaa, Member of the State Great Hural.

About 350 technical papers relating to remote sensing, geographic information system (GIS), digital photogrammetry and airborne laser scanning were presented in 35 sessions including a plenary session. In addition, three keynote speeches and six invited papers were presented on the first day.

Three pre-conference tutorials were conducted with the main objective being to give Mongolian students some exposure to new remote sensing technologies prior to the ACRS. From the outcomes of the 27th ACRS, the following recommendations were adopted by General Conference.

Recognizing that there are many remote sensing activities in the Asian region such as development of space programs and new sensors and related technologies, information exchange among not only scientists but also policy makers through the Asian Conference on Remote Sensing should be further promoted. Positive participation at ACRS by staff and decision makers of governmental organizations and private sectors should be encouraged.

While in the past ACRS’s have been mainly targeted to applications of remote sensing and GIS at country/regional level for the purpose of sustainable management of natural resources, since global issues such as global warming have been recognized as critical tasks in remote sensing, future conferences should include topics on global issues.

Noting that three dimensional mapping can be achieved using stereo mode satellite data such as SPOT 5 (France), IKONOS (USA), QuickBird (USA), PRISM of ALOS (Japan) and Cartosat (India) etc. as well as airborne digital cameras, topics such as automated generation of digital elevation model (DEM), ortho-imaging and object extraction should be included as topics at ACRS to support national spatial data infrastructure (NSDI).

Recognizing that capacity building particularly for younger generations is urgently required in the new information and communication technology (ICT) age, activities such as pre-conference tutorials, technology transfer caravan, student sessions or student forums should be organized and linked with ACRS and AARS activities.

Considering that the ACRS will celebrate the 30th anniversary in the year 2009, a memorial publication and/or event should be planned under the direction of a specific committee in cooperation of AARS member countries/regions. The following products may be considered:

Cloud free mosaics of Asian Continent: annual/seasonal changes
Image map of capital cities in AARS member countries/regions
A book describing space programs and applications of remote sensing and GIS with focus on disasters and hazards in each member country/region.

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