Bangkok--9 Apr--AIT
Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS), a collaborative program between the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), have expressed interest to work with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT).
Visiting AIT on 2 April 2013 to deliver a special lecture at the School of Engineering and Technology, SATREPS Program Officer and The University of Tokyo Professor Emeritus Dr. Yoshifumi Yasuoka told AIT Acting President Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai he would like to engage AIT in the near future.
SATREPS is a Japanese government program that promotes international joint research projects targeting global issues and involving partnerships between researchers in Japan and developing countries, Prof. Yasuoka explained. Its focus themes are Environment/Energy (Climate change, Low carbon society, Global-scale-environmental issues), Infectious Disease Control, Natural Disaster Prevention, and Bioresources.
Acting President Worsak welcomed the prospect of direct cooperation with SATREPS. Noting the storied history of partnership between AIT and Japan, including many notable former faculty members, he called for even stronger ties in the future. “We want to be closer to Japan,” he informed.
Later, Prof. Yasuoka delivered his lecture titled: “How can remote sensing contribute to combating global warming?” Welcomed by Geoinformatics Center Director Dr. Masahiko Nagai, his presentation surveyed the latest remote sensing technologies and their applications with an emphasis on observation of global warming. He also explained remote sensing positioning in three cycles, including the phenomenon cycle, cause-effect cycle (DPSIR cycle) and the research activity cycle (observation to countermeasure cycle).
More details about SATREPS are available at this link: http://www.jst.go.jp/global/english/
Photo caption: Dr. Yoshifumi Yasuoka