Warm welcome to Mr. Nevil Wickramathilaka to Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He is a lecturer from the Department of Spatial Sciences, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka. He will be doing his MPhil study in UTM under my supervision. We will be working together in creating an improvisation equation for green areas via 3D city modelling. Welcome to the group!
Throwback [24 May 2022] – First initial meeting call for UTM Metaverse project. It is a brainstorming session in bringing UTM to a new niche area which is developing metaverse for UTM.
I was able to give an idea on how to incorporate metaverse in the university. Among the advantages of creating a metaverse in the university are; students can socialize virtually, this includes going to lectures, sports, tadarus, and so on. Its a new concept (future new norm), which can be tested in the university.
At this ceremony, seven (7) students under my supervision received their degrees. May they succeed in the future and overcome the challenges in the industries. All of my students are currently employed in the geoinformation profession. All the best to them! I am thrilled about this success!
Noorain Nawawi (Doctor of Philosophy – Supervisor)
THE SCA 2022 INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
As a member of the international technical program committees, I would like to extend an invitation to any researchers interested in submitting their research papers to the 7th Smart City Applications International Conference, held in Castelo Branco, Portugal, from October 18-21, 2022. The 7th International Conference on Smart City Applications is a multidisciplinary forum co-organized by the IPCB – Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco in partnership with the Mediterranean Association of Sciences and Sustainable Development (Medi-ADD). Among the related topics are:
3D City Modeling and Visualization
Location-Based Services
Geographic Information Systems
Remote Sensing
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
GeoInformation for Mobile
Collective Sensing and Geo-spatial Big Data
Laser Scanning
Processing of Spatial Imagery
Geo AI
Urban Informatics
Geospatial Cloud Computing
Wireless and Mobile GIS
The purpose of the event is to bring together research scientists and engineers to debate and exchange experimental and theoretical results, creative designs, case studies, and ideas that create new trends in the field of smart cities. You are welcome to check out the website conference at https://medi-ast.org/SCA22/index.html. The paper submission link is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca22.
Our new journal paper (Modern City Issues, Management and the Critical Role of Information and Communication Technology) published in the International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA). It is a Web of Science and Scopus indexed journal that focuses on publishes research, review and survey papers which offer a significant contribution to the computer science literature, and which are of interest to a wide audience.
Opportunity to be on a jury of five finalists for The 2022 Esri Young Scholars Award. Quite excited to see the results of the students’ work in using ESRI technology for GIS works. This award offers university students from across the country the chance to win a free trip to Esri UC – the world’s largest geospatial technology conference – held in San Diego. Open to undergraduate and postgraduate students studying spatial disciplines, the competition celebrates excellence, innovation, and creativity in using GIS applications to drive positive outcomes. Students can enter by submitting a project, software development, application or research paper leveraging GIS. This can be a current passion project or work completed in the previous university year. Thank you ESRI, for organizing this event for the students.
Our recent journal publication in Geomatics and Environmental Engineering Vol. 16 No. 2 (2022).
This article created a new topological intersection model called the 36-Intersection Model for 0 dimension up to 3 dimensional spaces. Feel free to read the article below with tons of new improved mathematical equations (if you don’t mind):
Salleh, S., Ujang, U., & Azri, S. (2022). Representing 3D Topological Adjacencies between Volumes Using a 36-Intersection Model. Geomatics and Environmental Engineering, 16(2), 127–155. https://doi.org/10.7494/geom.2022.16.2.127
Fortunately, I was chosen as one of the Quick-Win Research Grant recipients for 2022. Only 31 research proposal were accepted out of a total of 203 submissions. Approximately 15% proposals granted.
I am highly thankful to UTMSpace for entrusting this project to me. Quick-Win research grant 2022 is a one-year research funding. I was granted RM50,000 and specified KPIs to accomplish.
Today we had a productive discussion with PLAN Malaysia. We’re attempting to determine how we might assist in determining Malaysia’s readiness to realise a smart city.
Thanks to i-Plan Malaysia for the comprehensive explanation as well as a quick overview of the Malaysia Urban Observatory (MUO).
