The ASEAN-Pakistan Geoinformatics Workshop was successfully held in Islamabad, Pakistan, on 10-12 September 2007. Supported by the Government of Pakistan, the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) and the ASEAN Sub-Committee on Space Technology and Applications (SCOSA) jointly organised the Workshop.

The 3-day Workshop provided an opportunity for ASEAN and Pakistan to share their work and experience in applying geoinformatics technologies such as geoscience, geographic information system (GIS), remote sensing (RS), for various purposes in many fields such as disaster mitigation, landuse planning, public works, forest fire monitoring and detection, agricultural yield assessment, telecommunication etc. A visit to SUPARCO was also organised for the ASEAN participants to keep them abreast with the day-to-day work of SUPARCO and its satellite data processing facilities.

The ASEAN Member Countries and Pakistan expressed interest to pursue further collaboration through multilateral and bilateral arrangements. Future activities will focus on capacity building in three thematic fields namely (i) disaster management, (ii) assessment of agricultural production, and (iii) landuse/landcover mapping. The Workshop also recommended that Pakistan participate in the 10th ASEAN Science and Technology Week (ASTW), scheduled to be held in Manila in July 2007. The event will feature technical conferences and exhibition of the state-of-the art of technologies including those in space technology applications.

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