Abstract
Remote Sensing (RS) can provide the enormous time series data at different level of scale and Geographic Information System (GIS) can manage, aggregate, analyze and find the potential solutions for specific purpose based on RS datasets as well as socio-economic datasets in spatial dimension. RS/GIS deserve the broad application from science to business as well as political issue that has been already demonstrated from many previous researches. The leading institutions such as AIT/STAR, Thailand and CSSTE-AP, India are serving Geo-informatics education and training at graduate level or equivalent in the Asia Pacific region. However, these institutions are unable to give access to everyone because of limited space, time, resources and cost in some extent. The experiences from USA, Canada and Europe have showed that the distance learning through Tele-education system using Internet technology is very practical, resourceful and cost effective.

The RS/GIS education system at Gigabit rates Internet satellite age is now under investigation in STAR program. This will be realized when Japanese NASDA WINDS Satellite is placed in orbit around 2005. As precursor, AIT will be participated in i-Space pilot experiment “Asia e-learning Pilot Experiment by Multi-point Distant Learning Network System” with University of Tsukuba and KDDI under NASDA. The pilot experiment will be started in this year as a model case in AIT and will find its potentiality for widening and strengthen the educational activities of STAR program. In this paper, an outline of pilot experiment system and applicability of such Tele-education system to RS/GIS education using high data rate satellite link will be presented.