Overview of Remote Sensing Industry in Malaysia

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Overview of Remote Sensing Industry in Malaysia
Shattri Mansor and K.F.Loh Spatial Numerical
Modeling Laboratory Institute of Advanced
Technology Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang shatt
ri_at_putra.upm.edu.my
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Background

• In Malaysia resource agencies, research
  institutions, academic institutions, non
  government organizations and commercial firms
  have been involved in the RS industry since the
  1980s
• In the last decade this sector has grown by
  leaps and bounds in a much larger information
  industry

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Remote Sensing Industry
Platform Sensors
Data Collection
Data Processing
Support Elements
Industry Intermediaries
Business Segments
End-User
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Malaysian RS industry in a nutshell
Business Segments
Service providers
Data providers
System Suppliers
RS Cliental
Resource agencies
Research agencies
Universities colleges
Private agencies
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Who are the data providers ?

• National Aerospace Agency
• Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency
• Private agencies (Distributors, resellers,
  Value-added Resellers)

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What kinds of data are provided ?

• Government Agencies Radarsat, SPOT, MODIS and
  NOAA-AVHRR
• Private firms - Quickbird, Ikonos, SPOT,
  Radarsat, Orbview, Terrasar and ASTER

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Who are the service providers ?

• Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency
• Department of Surveying Mapping
• Active private agencies are Espatial Resources,
  Skyshine, RESGIS, Jurukur perunding, Innovative
  Mapping Solutions, Geoinfo, Sepakat and
  Geomatika, etc

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What kinds of services are provided ?

• Value added products geometric and
  radiometric corrected
• Consultation project oriented for instance
  oil palm tree counting and land use mapping
• System maintenance and software trouble
  shooting
• Basic remote sensing training

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Who are the system suppliers ?

• Espatial Resources
• Imatera
• Geoinfo
• Information Technology Laboratory
• Ground data solutions

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What kinds of systems are supplied ?

• System for data reception
• System for image processing analysis
• System for airborne data acquisition
• System for UAV mission

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The clientele scenario

• Number of agencies involved in RS
• (2000-2006)

RS clientele has grown by 100, indicating a
positive business scenario both in the public and
private sectors
Source Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency
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The clientele scenario

• Number of RS applications
• (2000 2006)

RS application has grown by 343 , indicating an
overwhelming increase in RS applications in both
the public and private sectors
Source Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency
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The clientele scenario

• Types of data requested by public sector
  (2000-2006)

There was overwhelming demand for RS data from
the public sector, especially with the real time
reception of Radarsat and SPOT data
Source Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency
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The clientele scenario
Types of data requested by private sector
(2000-2006)
There was much stronger demand for SPOT data
from the private sector
Source Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency
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To maintain RS industry health in Malaysia

• Need for certification of practitioners of RS to
  ensure products delivered with minimum standard
  and quality. Policy on this issue should be
  formulated.
• Given the increasing demand for RS data, more
  frequent dialogues with the users should be
  organized by the Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency
  to understand and meet their needs.

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To maintain RS industry health in Malaysia

• The Malaysian Remote Sensing Society, the link
  between the public and private sectors, should
  play a more active role in promoting the use of
  the technology in the private sector
• Need to supply high resolution satellite data at
  affordable price. Malaysia impending launch of
  Razaksat , a microsatellite, is most welcoming as
  it will supply high resolution data sets to
  users at much reduced pricing and better
  revisit capability

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Forecast Process
Internet / Closed Envelope Survey
Literature Search
ANALYSIS
Findings
Interview / focus groups
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The Issues

• Workforce Issues
• Technology Issues
• The use of moderate resolution data
• Federal Government Policy

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Projections Technical Advances

• Greater Ground Resolution
• Increased Channels Bands
• Better Processing software
• Stereo Data
• Greater Processing Speed
• Increased User Friendliness of software
• Increased Data Storage Capabilities
• Artificial Inteligence

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Projections Economic, Political and
Environmental Trends

• RS becoming a Commodity
• Defense/Security
• Cadastral Mapping
• Global warming
• Natural Resources
• Outsourcing/Privatization
• Licensing Issues
• Open Skies Initiative

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The future scenario

• Short term scenario (2008-2013)
• With the current availability of high resolution
  satellite data Quickbird, Ikonos, Orbview SPOT
  5 and TerraSAR, the demand for these data sets is
  bound to increase in the future particularly in
  the fields of urban planning, plantation crop
  management, oceanography and defence
• Demand for airborne datasets especially LIDAR
  and hyper-spectral has been and will be low
  mainly attributed to the high cost of data sets
  and insufficient trained human resource.

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The future scenario

• Long term scenario(2013-2020)
• The Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency and the
  Department of Surveying and Mapping are actively
  building up capability respectively in
  hyper-spectral missions and LIDAR missions.
• These will spearhead new applications development
  especially in plant nutrient study and
  bio-diversity mapping using hyper-spectral data
  sets. Lidar potential applications development
  would reside on flood modeling, terrain analysis
  and virtual reality animation

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The future scenario

• Long term scenario(2013-2020)
• With the potential availability of multi
  frequency and full polarized SAR on a space
  platform, the demand for SAR data sets will
  increase especially for disaster management and
  oceanography applications.
• Micro-satellite and UAV development in Malaysia
  are potential means to cut cost in data
  acquisition andprovide competitive pricing to
  users

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The future scenario

• Long term scenario(2013-2020)
• With the potential availability of multi
  frequency and full polarized SAR on a space
  platform, the demand for SAR data sets will
  increase especially for disaster management and
  oceanography applications.
• Micro-satellite and UAV development in Malaysia
  are potential means to cut cost in data
  acquisition and provide competitive pricing to
  users