TOWARD THE OPTIMIZATION OF PC-BASED TRAINING

Since 1992, the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) h ave been co-organising the Regional Remote Sensing Seminar on Tropical Ecosystem Management (Program Chairman: Prof. Shunji Murai) every yea r in some country in Asia. In these seminars, the members of the ISPRS Working Group VI/2 'Computer Assisted Teaching' have been performing a PC-based hands-on-training on remote sensing and GIS for beginners. The main objective of the training was to transfer not only knowledge but also the technology of remote sensing and GIS to the beginners. Th e software and CD-ROM data set provided at the training were well desi gned not only for training but also for practical data analysis. This paper presents an outline of the training and discusses the optimisati on of PC-based training for remote sensing and GIS.