Category Archives: Research

Student Internship Presentation

Usually it’s not a compulsory to make any presentation as an internship student. However, if you think about how important it is to make a progress presentation once a week, it will actually help students to improve their confidence and skills in communicating and presenting points to the public. Taking our little precious time to listen to this presentation may change them in the future.

I urge firms or agencies that appoint/hire internship students, educate them to be a career ready person. Don’t because they are internship students, they are only burdened with technical work without focusing on their soft skills development before getting into the industries. Do not blame the students or their institutions if they cant do the tasks. They are still in training.

I would say treat them as internships students and not as “backbenchers”.

#university #highereducation #students #graduate #studentinternship #internship #3dgis

Research Lab SOP

Research Lab SOP

Any laboratory facility must comply with the SOP to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. At the 3DGIS lab, we try to make sure that body temperature checks and entries in and out of the lab are recorded.

To avoid filling in the information manually (using paper form), QR codes are used for students or visitors to fill in their personal information and body temperature (using smartphone). Without the need for any app installation, users recorded information is stored in the cloud database along with user’s gps coordinate location. Indirectly, it facilitates the monitoring of movement in and out of the laboratory.

Due to my habit of computer coding and automation, I could not avoid getting my hand dirty writing some codes for this QR code approach. Quite funny, when the use of paper form can actually solve this matter as well.

Since it can locate user’s gps position, the students said, “we are now in the radar”.

I’m sorry, automation is my “bad” habit 🙂

#gis #3dgis #covid19research #programming #programmingisfun #programmerslife #researchers

PhD Viva-voce

PHD Viva Voce

It was a great feeling to see my PhD student successfully defended her research during the viva-voce session yesterday. I should say that my student Ain is a dedicated and committed person in conducting her research.

Helping her crossed the finishing line is a satisfying moment for me. Maybe that’s the feeling of a football coach when their team scored a goal.

Congratulations Ain!

P.S: PhD title – Accessing Micro-Entrepreneur Social Behavior via Spatial Measurements

#phd #research #researchers #university #gis #academicresearch #highereducation #phdjourney #microentrepreneurs #spatialanalysis #businessloans #social #behavioralscience

 

“Sharing do Caring”

“Sharing do Caring”

Had the opportunity to share my experience on database architecture as well as the value of metadata for successful 3D asset database management systems. This is an ongoing Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) research project at Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying. The implementation will be tested at Johor Bahru City Council to perform their daily asset management tasks.

Apart from that, I also had the opportunity to express my views and discuss how GIS can help to replace the existing implementation of land tax assessment for strata multi-level units (i.e. shopping lot in mall, apartments, etc.). May this help to ease the tasks of Land Office.

#3DGIS #database #architecture #assetsmanagement #metadata #spatialdatabase

Writing a Journal

WRITING A JOURNAL

It was a success a while back when we successfully published a manuscript in this journal. It can be difficult if you don’t have the experience of writing a #journal #manuscript.

But it was a bit of a shock when the manuscript was being the #mostdownloaded #GIS paper in the journal for many years. At that time, the term “open access” was still very relatively uncommon. Each year, appreciation email was sent from the Editor regarding the most downloaded paper of the journal.

Many years later, the #experience of publishing a journal remains a memory. The intention to start writing the manuscript was to share our research works with other #researchers around the world.

“It’s #publish or #perish”

#academicresearch #highereducationresearch #journals #scientificresearch #openaccess #writing #published

Postgraduate’s Presentation – A New Norm

I am honored that I was invited to chair a 3 hours of 20192020 postgraduate progress presentation session. Associate Professor Dr. Zulkepli Majid, Dr. Zamri Ismail and Dr. Shahabuddin Ameruddin were the panel during this presentation.

For your information. This is the first time this presentation session has been entirely virtualized. As chairman, I don’t feel awkward as I used to communicate with international experts online.

Seeing a student presentation, disrupted by the sound of a rooster outside the house, was genuinely surprising. Here’s what we could says about the ‘new norm’.

#highereducationresearch #academia #postgraduate #chairman #research #academic #university

Editorial Office Invitation in Springer Nature Journals

Part of the academic duties is to assist colleagues around the world in evaluating, assessing and recommending on the basis of our scientific research experience and information.

“Reviewing is a time-intensive process – writing a review report can be almost as much work as writing a manuscript! – but it is very worthwhile for the reviewer as well as for the community.

Reviewers:
* ensure the rigorous standards of the scientific process by taking part in the peer-review system.
* uphold the integrity of the journal by identifying invalid research, and helping to maintain the quality of the journal.
* fulfil a sense of obligation to the community and their own area of research.
* establish relationships with reputable colleagues and their affiliated journals, and increase their opportunities to join an Editorial Board.
* can help prevent ethical breaches by identifying plagiarism, research fraud and other problems by dint of their familiarity with the subject area.” – Elsevier, 2020

#research #academic #academia #highereducation #academicresearch #highereducationresearch #journals #scientificresearch

International Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability (IJBES)

Our third published international journal for this year 2020. It’s a Web of Science (WoS) indexed journal with an extensive peer review stages:

Title: “3D Topological Validation of Compact Abstract Cell Complexes (CACC) Data Structure for Buildings in CityGML”

Journal: International Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability (IJBES)

Volume: Vol. 7, No 2, 2020

DOI: 10.11113/ijbes.v7.n2.457

Link: https://ijbes.utm.my/index.php/ijbes/article/download/457/201

Feel free to read and circulate among your research colleagues.

#topology #data #dataanalytics #datamanagement #analytics #bigdata #geomarketing #3d #constellation #datascience #classified #gis  #journal  #datastructure

3D MESH AND POINT CLOUDS (Part 2)

This post is related with my previous post regarding eyescloud3d by eCapture3D lead by Miguel González Cuétara, Guillermo De Miguel Retortillo and their team.

This time, I’m using series of 51 aerial photos taken from DJI Phantom 4 with the altitude of 150m. The images are taken at our Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Johor Bahru campus.

In less than 30 minutes, the outputs are ready. Bare in mind that, there’s no use of mighty computing machine to process this (cloud processing), no prior knowledge needed, no Omega Phi Kappa, just photos and results. There you go. Less hassle. Interesting. Enjoy the campus view!