TEN (10) UNEXPECTED AWARDS FOR 2020

TEN (10) UNEXPECTED AWARDS FOR 2020.

(Covid-19 pandemic changed lot of things)

Never crossed my mind to be awarded with 10 Award of Excellence for my courses taught for year 2020. I wish to thank to Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) for giving me these awards. Active Blended Learning Course award, given to academic courses which fulfilled the requirements in UTM elearning system towards 21st-century learning skills.

Surprisingly, after some careful checking, there are courses which reaches more than 15,000 hits in the elearning system. It means that each student access the system at least five times daily throughout the semester!

I’m not sure if my courses are interesting or difficult until it reaches such a high access hit. Or maybe they are bored at home due to MCO and opt for studying deeper into my courses. Whatever it is, I hope that the knowledge imparted will be useful for students in the future. Let us pray for this pandemic washed away.

“I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.” – Natalie Portman

#highereducation #awardofexcellence #blendedlearning #21stcenturylearning #education #students #3dgis #university #studentlife #covid19pandemic

1ST PATENT APPROVED FOR THE YEAR 2021

1ST PATENT APPROVED FOR THE YEAR 2021

A good kickstart for the first day of the year 2021. Received a patent number for my innovation today. This is a patent intended to improve the efficiency in Search and Rescue Operations using GIS technology. Contact me if you are interested.

#patent #intellectualpropertyrights #searchandrescue #defenceindustry #firefighter #highereducationresearch #3dgis #3dmodeling

BRONZE AWARD FOR INDUSTRIAL ART AND TECHNOLOGY EXHIBITION (INATEX 2020)

BRONZE AWARD FOR INDUSTRIAL ART AND TECHNOLOGY EXHIBITION (INATEX 2020)

This is a teamwork by 3D GIS Research Group, UTM. Our group won the Bronze Medal for this exhibition with an innovation entitled “3D City Modeling towards Smart City Applications”.

INATEX 2020 was participated by 75 participants with various research innovations submitted for this competition. We wish to congratulate to the other winners. Hopefully this exhibition can boost more innovation in this world of research.

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.” – Margaret Heffernan

#research #INATEX #academicresearch #researchers #bronze #medal #3dgis #smartcity #university #3dcitymodelling

PAPER 3 – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART CITY AND APPLICATIONS 2020 (SCA2020)

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/

#BIM #bimmodeling #gis #3dgis # #researchimpact #highereducation

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH GRANT SCHOLAR AWARD 2019

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH GRANT SCHOLAR AWARD 2019

I got a second email congratulating me on successfully received the 2019 Research Grant Scholar Award. In essence, this award honours faculty members who received grant funding for that year. I’m honored to receive this award even though I think there are others who better than me. Again, I would like to say thank you to the Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia for this award.

“Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.” – Denzel Washington

#university #researchscholar #award #year2019 #researchers #research #newnorm

UNIVERSITY SERVICE EXCELLENCE AWARD 2019.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE EXCELLENCE AWARD 2019.

Yet it’s almost at the end of 2020, this award of excellence for the year 2019 was never in mind. I hope this award will be a boost for the year 2021. I would like to say thank you to the Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia for this award.

“If you wanna give me an award, I’ll take it. Just don’t make me go to the party afterwards.” – John Cusack 😄

#serviceexcellence #award #university #utm #2019

PAPER 2 – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART CITY AND APPLICATIONS 2020 (SCA2020)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART CITY AND APPLICATIONS 2020 (SCA2020)

Paper #2

Our second research works published. This is our joint research collaboration and funded by local SME industry. This research is preliminary, still on-going and definitely more to come!

Here you go!!!

Title: EXPLORATORY STUDY OF 3D POINT CLOUD TRIANGULATION FOR SMART CITY MODELLING AND VISUALIZATION
S. A. M. Ariff, S. Azri, U. Ujang, A. A. M. Nasir, N. Ahmad Fuad, and H. Karim
Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLIV-4/W3-2020, 71–79, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIV-4-W3-2020-71-2020, 2020
https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLIV-4-W3-2020/71/2020/

#researcharticle #academicresearch #highereducation #pointclouds #smartcity #modelling #3dgis

CERTIFIED SPATIAL DATA SCIENTIST

FOR SPATIAL DATA SCIENTISTS (MOOC)

It is not easy to be a student in an online course when you yourself is the instructor for the other 4 online courses. But that is not impossible. After almost 2 months trying, succeeded with flying colors. Yes, I’m just an old school student in a new norms school ✌🏻

“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” – Oprah Winfrey

#spatialdatascience #spatialscientists #gis #esri #arcgispro #students #education #teaching #learning #MOOC

Joint Research Publication with ECapture Research and Development SL, an European International Industry

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART CITY AND APPLICATIONS 2020 (SCA2020)

Our recent publication with a fast growing industry, eCapture3D from Europe. Joint research with Miguel González Cuétara together with Guillermo De Miguel Retortillo. A bit hard to execute our research plans during this challenging 2020 year. But it doesn’t means that we should halt.

Here you go!!!

Title: 3D GEOMETRIC EXTRACTION USING SEGMENTATION FOR ASSET MANAGEMENT
Volume XLIV-4/W3-2020
Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLIV-4/W3-2020, 61–69, 2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIV-4-W3-2020-61-2020

*we recommend to try eCapture3D excellent product here: https://ecapture3d.com/eyescloud3d/

#3dgis #3dsegmentation #3dassetmanagement #pointclouds #lidar #smartcity #highereducation #researchwithindustry #academicresearch #assetmanagement

International Industrial Incentive Research Grant

Our works during COVID-19 Movement Control Order (MCO/CMCO/RMCO) is paying off. Thank you to Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying UTM for the wishes. Let’s get our hand dirty!

FABULous #FABU #3dgis #3dmodeling #3dvisualization #3Dcitymodels #noisepollution #research #spatial #spatialcomputing #spatialanalysis #cityplanning #highereducationresearch #highereducation #researchfunding