Planning and Managemaent of National Mapping and Surveying

This course is designed for technical managers working at National Surveying and Mapping Organizations (NMO) who envision an effective and efficient management approach of national surveying and mapping projects.We believe NMO has an important mission in each country to develop, maintain, and coordinate fundamental spatial data infrastructure, such as maps and geodetic networks that every sector needs for development.

The participants will learn Japanese systems and approaches related to national survey and mapping projects through lectures and practices, and gain deep insights for better management of NMO through discussions with fellow participants and individual studies.

With the understanding that technologies play key roles in this information age, the course also provides a broad opportunity to upgrade participants' knowledge and skills of contemporary technologies, such as Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS), to a minimum required level to consider a possible application method in each participant's organization.

After finishing this course, a concept how to plan and manage the national surveying and mapping and a concept of institutional strengthening of NMO through the participant's experiences in Japan will be shared.
To achieve the said objective, participants are expected to produce the following outputs by the end of this course:

By the end of the course

1. to master planning and managing skills of surveying and mapping conducted by NMOs, as well as institutional and legal frameworks of NMOs.
2. to master contemporary technologies for surveying and mapping such as GPS, GIS, digital photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
3. to develop an action plan of NMO taken in consideration of his/her own country's socio-economic situation, and make presentation about it.
   
   After returning to his/her country
   
4. to make an evaluation report of the action plan written in Japan based on the audience's opinion of reporting session with attendance of about it.

Curriculum of Planning and Managemaent of National Mapping and Surveying

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Applicants should:

1. be nominated by their government;
2. be employed by national surveying and mapping organizations as a technical official in management levels (Head or Deputy Head of a division), or be engaged in equivalent work for more than seven (7) years;
3. not be working in cadastral survey;
4. be university graduates or equivalent;
5. be proficient in spoken and written English. (Inadequate command of English will hinder training as well as their daily life);
6. over twenty-nine (29) and under forty-five (45) years of age in principle;
7. be in good health, both physically and mentally, to undergo the course of training; and
8. not be serving in the military.
   
   

This training will be performed for six (6) months from early September to early March next year.

Training scenes of Planning and Managemaent of National Mapping and Surveying

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