PUBLISHED AND WE GOT IT OPEN ACCESS (FOR FREE)!

PUBLISHED AND WE GOT IT OPEN ACCESS (FOR FREE)!

Successfully published our research paper in volume 41 for the third edition this year (2023). The interesting part of our study this time is we observe the habits of litter in the community. Quite surprised with the amount of litter we collected within our research area. With the help of geospatial analysis techniques, we can see trends. 

However, research is only an instrument for studying the effects of this waste. But the most important thing is the attitude to keep our place clean. Please don’t litter everywhere, guys. We talk about the SDGs, the Sustainable City, the Green Life, etc., but it is useless if there is no right “litter” attitude. It all starts with you (and me).

Title: Within cluster pattern identification: A new approach for optimizing recycle point distribution to support policy implementation on waste management in Malaysia.

Journal: Waste Management & Research

Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/0734242X221123489

Quartile: Q2

 #community #research #help #sustainable #wastemanagement #gis #geographicinformationsystems #spatialanalysis #litter #sdg #openaccess #highereducation 

FAREWELL NIKOLAS ANGI PUTRA

FAREWELL NIKOLAS ANGI PUTRA

Having a dinner with these two young lads. Thank you Aprillia Rahmi Utami for coming. And farewell Nikolas Angi Putra! Have a safe trip back to Bandung.

* Nikolas is a student from Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. May he has a wonderful experience in learning GIS at UTM and unforgettable moments with campus life here in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. 

RESEARCH INTERNSHIP

Today our lab received a research internship student from the Institut Teknologi Nasional Malang (ITN Malang), Indonesia. Aprillia Rahmi Utami will be in our lab for 6 months as an official registered Universiti Teknologi Malaysia research student.

Her research is developing the digital campus of her institute. They read and learned about my previous 2018 research project, titled UTM 3D Virtual Campus and they wanted to embark on this research as well.

Thank you ITN Malang and Mr. Ir. Ketut Tomy Suhari, S.T., M.T., IPP. for this wonderful research collaboration.

More research outputs coming for both institutions

#technology #digital #research #project #quality #students #internship #indonesia #teknologi #3dgis #3dcitymodel #3dcitymodelling #gis #digitaltwin #digitalcampus #smartcity #collaboration #nusantara

UTM MICRO-CREDENTIAL (GIS FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES)


UTM MICRO-CREDENTIAL (GIS FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES)

I am delighted to announce our latest course, Geographic Information System (GIS) for Local Authorities.

GIS is a geographic information system, which is an important part of Geo-spatial technology. It has wide applications in local authorities areas.

You are expected to learn the basic knowledge of GIS and the basics of GIS implementation in local authorities. Participants can also put their newfound knowledge to use right away by implementing GIS applications in local authorities.

If you are interested to join the course, register here: 

https://mooc.utm.my/courses/gis-for-local-authorities/

#UTMCDex #UTM #OpenLearning #microcredentials

JOURNAL ARTICLE SHARING

JOURNAL ARTICLE SHARING

This is our first journal publication of this year. The concept of the city with an infrastructure of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) embraces several definitions depending on the meanings of the word “smart” which include: intelligent city, smart city, knowledge city, ubiquitous city, sustainable city, and digital city. Many definitions of the city exist, but this study explores which one has been universally acknowledged. From the literature analysis, it emerges that the term smart city is the most used in the articles to show the smartness of a city. This paper shares exploration of the research from the seven main website digital databases and journals focusing on the smart city from January 2015 to February 2020 to: (a) Time research, to examine the causes of the smart city phenomenon and other concept literature in the last five years; (b) Review of words, to see how and where the smart city specification and relation of different definitions are implemented; (c) Geographical research to consider where smart cities’ greatest concentrations are in the world and determine if Malaysians are interacting with the smart city; and (d) How many papers are published in all of Malaysia from 2015 to 2020 about smart cities. Three steps are followed to accomplish the aim of this study: (1) The analysis which covered a systematic literature review search strategy to gather a representative sub-set of papers on the smart city and other definitions utilizing GoogleScholar, Elsevier, Scopus, ScienceDirect, IEEEXplore, WebofScience, and Springer between January 2015- February 2020; (2) The formation of a bibliometric map based on the bibliometric evaluation using the mapping technique VOSviewer to visualize differences; (3) VOSviewer application program to build initial clusters. The bibliometric analytical findings targeted the word harmony.

Journal name: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

[Urban and Civil Engineering]

Online ISSN : 1307-6892

Articles link:

https://publications.waset.org/10012899/pdf

 #technology #digital #engineering #research #communication #strategy #sustainable #science #smartcities #infrastructure #formation #civilengineering 

MOCK PROPOSAL DEFENSE

Spending my 3 hours time with final-year BSc Geoinformatics students under my supervision. This mock proposal is not obligated; rather, it is intended to teach students the fundamentals of delivering a proposal defence presentation as well as future presentations (after graduation). This is not a lecturer’s KPI; people say it only adds work. But, regardless of what others say, the important thing is that my students gain new knowledge for future use. And we had “makan-makan” at the end of the session.