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every year. • Guest from foreign countries • 2008:Jeff McKenna, Claude Philipona, Christopher Schmidt • 2009: Arnulf Christl, Chris Holmes, Eugenio Realini, Gerald FENOY • 2010: Paul Ramsey, Luiz Motta, Jeff McKenna, Gerald FENOY • 2011: Sanghee Shin, Maning Sambale, Frans Thamura • 2012: Massimiliano Cannata, Paolo Cavallini, Kyoung Tae Doh • 2013: Yann Chemin, Jeff McKenna, Heegu Park • 2014: Jeff McKenna, Andrea Antonello, Silvia Franceschi, “Bom maker" Kim 24
USING FOSS4G - APPROACH OF AN MEXT FUNDED PROJECT IN JAPAN, from 2009 to 2014 • Developing the customized platform of FOSS4G tool. • Making tutorial about processing the satellite data with FOSS4G tool. • Constructing the e-learning contents of satellite data usage. 27