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The Interview of an APRSAF Member - Malaysian Centre for Remote Sensing (MACRES) - |
| APRSAF Secretariat visited Malaysian
Centre for Remote Sensing (MACRES) to make an interview with
Mr. IR. JAAFAR AHMAD, Deputy Director (Operations), Ms. SALMAH
BINTI KASIM, Head (Corporate Division), Mr. JIMAT BOLHASSAN, Head
(Spatial Data Analysis and Modeling) |
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[ Establishment and Future plan
of MACRES ]
MACRES, MOSTI (Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation) was
established as an R&D center in Aug. 1988 and was fully operational
in Jan. 1990. MACRES will have a new division to handle disaster
management which will be called the Disaster Management Division.
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[ Organization of MACRES ]
MACRES started with a team of 17 professionals and supporting staff,
and total up to 190 posts (including contract researchers). MACRES
is staffed with dedicated professionals to lead the nation in areas
of remote sensing space technology applications for development.
Its manpower development programme continues to strive towards
having full compliment of qualified and trained scientists and
engineers in selected areas of specification to attain the country's
self-reliance in these technologies.
[ The operation of remote sensing ]
There are three segments in the operation of remote sensing. They are
User Segment, Ground Segment and Space Segment. The User Segment means
capacity building and the Ground Segment means ground station and remote
systems. The Space Segment means to develop the capacity to build satellites.
This segment is now being carried out by the Space Agency.They are
going to launch one satellite next year and MACRES will receive the
data from the satellite at their ground station.
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[ MACRES Ground
Receiving Station ]
Currently, MACRES is equipped with computer system for satellite
data image processing, geographic information system and global positioning
system, satellite ground receiving station for real time data acqusition,
microwave remote sensing laboratory (anechoic chamber, mobile scatterometer),
remote sensing digital photographic laboratory,remote sensing data
archiving and retrieval centre, National Disaster Data and Information
(NADDI) System and MACRES GIS Immersive Centre (MAGIC).
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