The Nippon Foundation/GEBCO Training Project, held at the University of New Hampshire, USA, is a program under which maritime experts from around the world are brought together to become experts in deep-ocean mapping. The program's ultimate goal is to create a cadre of such experts, working together all over the world. GEBCO is an acronym for the General Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean, and is an organization with formal links to the International Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, and the International Hydrographic Organization. It is in the process of developing a world-wide chart of the ocean floor.
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 | Jose Gianella |
| Personal Profile | Jose Gianella is a Navy Officer from the Peruvian Navy. His rank is Commander and he is a hydrographer. His duty passes through a frigate (1990), jungle duty (1991), and during 1992 attendant in peruvian Cat. B Hydrographic Course. He also studied at IMO-IMA Hydrography Course in Trieste-Italy and attended several courses and meetings like OMG multibeam course, (IALA) meeting, ABLOS meeting in Monaco, IBCCA meeting at Boulder, Colorado, and Caris conferences. During his hydrographic career was commander of a hydrographic vessel (BAP Melo, (1997), surveyor in the Survey Department at the Peruvian hydrography Office (1993-1995). He was responsible for installing multibeam echo sounder onboard AEH-174 and was it's commander (2002). He was head of Cartographic Department the Peruvian hydrography Office (2003-2004). For the last three years he was involved in Peruvian baselines building (2003-2005). |
 | Leonardo Humbert |
| Personal Profile | Leonardo Humbert is a Lieutenant in the Mexican Navy. Leonardo received his Bachelor's Degree in Naval Sciences from the Mexican Naval Academy. He also received Specialty in Hydrography and Cartography in the Oceanographic Institute of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, and finished the course on Harbour and Costal Hydrography at the International Maritime Academy in Italy to get the Cat "B". Leonardo has participated in several surveys within the Coasts of Mexico, and was Executive Officer of the first Hydrographic ship of Mexico ARM "Rio Tuxpan". |
 | Yasutaka Katagiri |
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 | Vasudev Mahale |
| Personal Profile | Vasudev Mahale obtained his M.Sc. degree in Electronics from Goa University, and a Post-graduate Degree in computer hardware and networking from Goa, India. Later on he joined the National Institute of Oceanography, Dona-Paula, Goa, India, and worked as a Research Assistant for the past four years. His experience includes acquisition and processing of multibeam bathymetric data acquired using various MBES systems. He has also worked on the single beam echo sounder data for sea bed classification employing Artificial Neural Networks. He is mainly interested in backscatter analysis and employing signal processing techniques for studying the sea bed and water column. Vasudev is very eager in taking home the advance accepts of Hydrography that he would be learning here at CCOM. |
 | Nguyen Thanh |
| Personal Profile | Nguyen Thanh is a researcher who comes from the Research Institute for Marine Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries in Vietnam. Mr. Thanh received a B.A in Geodesy from the Hanoi University of Mining and Geology in 1999. Mr. Thanh is currently focusing on ocean mapping and application of GIS technology to marine fisheries field. |
 | Muhammad Yazid |
| Personal Profile | Muhammad Yazid is a lieutenant in The Indonesian Navy Hydro-oceanographic Service. He received his BSc in Geodesy from the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics, University Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He also attended Officer Hydrographic Course in the Royal Australian Navy (Cat "B") in 2001, Marine Cartography Course in the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) 2005. He has worked at the Charting Division and ENC from 2002 - 2006. Muhammad hopes that on the completion of the training in CCOM he will focus on the bathymetric aspects and multibeam technology in the Indonesian Navy Hydro-oceanographic Service. |