UNITED NATION – GLOBAL GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (UN-GGIM)

I had the opportunity to participate in the UN GGIM roundtable session this time. The transition from SDI to GKI is exciting. But in my opinion, on the ground the approach to spatial data sharing in Malaysia is still not a 100%reality. Even between units or departments.

But one day we will be there. Hopefully by then we are still not too late.

P.s: Happy to see my colleague Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse in the session. We managed to get his point of view. Excellent 👍🏻

3DGIS #SDI #GKI #Malaysia #UN #GGIM #roundtables

UTM 106th Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series

UTM 106th Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series

Honored to be the chairman of the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) 106th Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series session. The speaker was Professor Sr. Dr. Alias Abdul Rahman with the lecture title 3D GIS and 3D City Modeling- Current Status and Perspectives. I was chosen to be the chairman because the topic discussed was the topic of my research expertise as well.

This chairman appointment from the UTM Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic and International, becomes a little unusual when this lecture is conducted online (Webex and Facebook Live). But the good thing is that it can be attended by friends of researchers from all over the world. I feel happy to be the chairman of the series this time.

#3DGIS #3Dtalk #3Dfuture #3Dcitymodeling #professorial #inaugural #lecture #series #utm #106th

CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF 3D ASSET MANAGEMENT BASED ON MYSPATA TO SUPPORT SMART CITY APPLICATION IN MALAYSIA

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART CITY AND APPLICATIONS 2020 (SCA2020)

Paper #4

The Malaysian government has issued a procedure for the management of government assets. Among them is MYSPATA. This research article highlights the conceptual model of integrating 3D features in asset management by referring to the standard produced for better and efficient asset management.

Here you go!!!

Title: CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF 3D ASSET MANAGEMENT BASED ON MYSPATA TO SUPPORT SMART CITY APPLICATION IN MALAYSIA

A. A. M. Nasir, S. Azri, U. Ujang, and Z. Majid

International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science,

Volume: XLIV-4/W3-2020, 313–322,

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIV-4-W3-2020-313-2020, 2020

URL: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLIV-4-W3-2020/313/2020/

#3dassetmanagement #3dgis #myspata #smartcity #3dapplication

Majlis Graduan FABU 2020

My excellent students. I’m glad to be their supervisor. Keep flying high guys!

1) Syahiirah Mohd Salleh
2) Nurul Qahirah Dzulkefley
3) Muhammad Aizuddin bin Azlan
4) Glory Annabelle Stephen

#MajlisGraduanFABU2020 #students #gis #studentlife #highereducation #university #3dgis #utm #universititeknologimalaysia #facultyofbuiltenvironmentandsurveying #graduation2020

THE DUTCH RESEARCH COUNCIL ASSESSOR

THE DUTCH RESEARCH COUNCIL ASSESSOR

I like the way how the Dutch works.

They appoint scientific assessors/reviewers based on one’s expertise; expert that based on their research field.

They do not simply appoint any Dutch Head of the Ministry/Department or any Director of an Dutch Institute which are not the experts of the field.

The keyword here is the “expert of the field”.

I’ve been appointed by The Dutch Research Council (NWO) and The Netherlands e-Science Center (NLeSC) as their part of their Scientific Panel to evaluate their researchers proposal submitted for the Dutch research grant application. Definitely I’m not Dutch but the research topics submitted is in my area of expertise.

As an international assessor representative, I need to prepare a comprehensive report and comments. I have managed to complete it in-time even during this strenuous time frame.

“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#dutch #thenetherlands #international #proposal #reviewer #assessor #gis #3dtopology #3dgis #highereducation #research #experts #nwo #nlesc

Happy Faces

HAPPY FACES

Paste it here as a memoir for Final Year Project (PSM 1 defense) of these two students Niveane Albania Linus and Tay Ming Suan. All the best to them!

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit” – Napoleon Hill

THE INTEGRATION OF BIM AND GIS IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECT – A DATA CONSISTENCY REVIEW

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART CITY AND APPLICATIONS 2020 (SCA2020)

Paper #3

Integrating BIM and GIS is not a straightforward task. There are issues from data mismatch and losses. In this research article, we tries to highlight the issues for construction project management.

Here you go!!!

Title: THE INTEGRATION OF BIM AND GIS IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECT – A DATA CONSISTENCY REVIEW
W. N. F. W. A. Basir, U. Ujang, Z. Majid, S. Azri, and T. L. Choon
International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science,
Vol: XLIV-4/W3-2020, 107–116,
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIV-4-W3-2020-107-2020, 2020
URL: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLIV-4-W3-2020/107/2020/

#research #gis #3dgis #university #bim #citygml #highereducation

DIRECT MESSAGE (DM)

(This post is related with my previous post)

There are LI friends congratulating or Direct Message (private message) asking me how I managed to achieved 10 Awards of Excellence for Active Blended Learning in all the courses. And how to get such high access hits in the elearning system.

What I did was, the implementation of the course is structured alike courses offered internationally. Organized by topics and also sub-topics (including exercises and lab tasks).

Perhaps instructors can mirrors some of the courses offered like in Coursera, Udemy, FutureLearn or any MOOC offered online. There you will have an idea how courses are being designed and implemented.

But if you have any tips and hints, please mind to share. I believe this will benefit the students in their learning process. While improving ours.

Below are the student’s feedback about their courses for this semester. Mine are the most left and right (red arrow). This “Satisfaction Index” is important for future reference.

tipssharing #MOOC #highereducation #universityteaching #directmessage #students #studentlife #gis

REQUEST FOR AN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH BOOK REVIEW

REQUEST FOR AN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH BOOK REVIEW

This week ends with an offer to be a reviewer for an upcoming research book. Usually this responsibility is given to me to evaluate journals and conference papers. But this time I have been nominated to review a research book with 12 chapters.

This book/publisher publishes more than 100 journals in both electronic and printed formats. These journals are indexed in recognized indexing agencies, such as Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, MEDLINE/Index Medicus, PubMed, Scopus, Chemical Abstracts, and EMBASE.

I believe I have an academic responsibility to make a positive impact on the society. I call this as “my academic way”.

#research #gis #university #researchers #academicresearch #3dgis

PHD AND MPHIL RESEARCH PROGRESS PANEL

PHD AND MPHIL RESEARCH PROGRESS PANEL

I’m so opportune to see these happy faces of our postgraduate students (researchers) from several parts of the globe. Delighted to give comments for their research progress and supportive feedback for their next semester planning.

8:30am to 4:30pm.
6 future PhDs & 5 future MPhils

A student mentioned that I look serious from beginning till the end. That really made my day.

There was a quote by Harshvardhan Rane:
“My father looked like this serious guy but was actually a very kind person.”

#research #students #highereducation #gis #university #covid19 #academicresearch #researchers