05/07/2018
BELS Training Course and Workshop!
From 22 to 24 May 2018, in the framework of the H2020 BELS project, NAVIS Centre, with the support of the Department of Survey, Mapping and Geoinformation (DOSMG - Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment) organized a two-day traning course, followed by a one-day workshop on European Global Navigation Satellite System (E-GNSS) for Sustainable Development in South East Asia.
The two day training course aimed at providing participants with fundamentals on GNSS, and precise positioning technologies. There were 41 participants from 8 ASEAN Member State countries. As for Vietnamese participants, beside those from Hanoi, the training course had many attendees representing the Department of Natuaral Resources and Environment of most of the provinces in the Northern part of Vietnam. This was also the first time that NAVIS run an international training course with the course design, lectures, experiments, and experimental equipments, all made by the Centre (with some material supports from ISMB and UPC). This fact proves the significant growth of the Centre in recent years, and the Centre now is ready to become an international GNSS hub in the region.
During the training course, the participants also paid a visit to the DOSMG to experience the National CORS Data Centre managed by DOSMG, also visited one of its CORS station located in Ba Vi district, which is 50km far away from Hanoi.
The succesful two-day training course was followed by a one day workshop, which is also the last of the series of 10 one-day workshop that the BELS project organized in the South East Asian region in the last 3 years. The workshop had 92 participants from Vietnam and other 7 ASEAN Member States. The opening speeches were given by Prof. Dinh Van Phong - Vice President of HUST, and Ms. Axelle Nicaise, Head of Politics, Press & Information Section at the EU Delegation to Vietnam.
There were 19 presentations from Vietnamese and international experts covering from the fundamentals of GNSS to the updated topics on GNSS applications in aviation and UAV survey. In the afternoon of the workshop day, the representatives from the ASEAN member staters also present their country reports on the use of GNSS in each country. That session brought the audience with the status of the development of the GNSS technology in the region. The workshop was concluded with a panel dicussion, in which the participants shared their views and opinions on how to develop the field in the SEA region, one of the most motivated region in the World, but doesnot own any satellite navigation system.