As a result of the geographic data mining methods and the identification of human spatial trajectories provided in the “From Instagram to Science” journal publication, it was chosen for the Best Researcher Award 2022. It was a pleasant surprise. We plan to revolutionise GIS science to help the community deal with pandemics. We want to express our gratitude to the members of the scientific panels that considered our work for this award.
You may read our work here: https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/geo2.113
FROM INSTAGRAM TO SCIENCE (JOURNAL ARTICLE SHARING)
Title: Individual Mobility Pattern in Malaysia During COVID-19 Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) Partial Lockdown
Journal: Geo: Geography and Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.113
Our journal paper was 100% created during the UTM Work From Home (WFH) policy in the year 2021 pandemic. From social media instagram geo-data mining, geo-coding, geo-modelling, geo-analytics, official data correlation and writing, everything was done at home. The Geo: Geography and Environment journal is a Q2 journal with an impact of 12 and located in UK (Wiley Publisher).
Using the new approach we created in GISc, the findings show that when the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) is implemented in Malaysia, the focus areas of Malaysians show uniform and consistent spatial pattern trajectories throughout the country. It is then supported by official data from the Ministry of Health Malaysia with an increase in cases of COVID-19 cases in the hotspot areas identified in this study.
What is unfortunate is that the findings of this study cannot be shared in advance for public use because the evaluation process by the reviewers of this international journal takes some time. However, we understand this enables the expert reviewers to evaluate the new proposed techniques, data, and writing to meet the world standards.
Hopefully, the new GISc techniques introduced in this journal can be used for future reference. Data mining from social media can provide insights into the findings of scientific studies.
P.S: This research is unrelated to the field of 3D GIS. But it shows how our new technique in GIS (2D) can help in predicting COVID-19 hotspots. Please don’t hesitate to read the paper and share it to your acquaintance and students. Thanks!
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.
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.
I was invited to present a topic on Digital Twin at a webinar organized by AECA Solutions Sdn. Bhd. The theme of the webinar is “Road Asset and Infrastructure Mapping”. It will be attended by highway and road concessionaires, maintenance contractors, infrastructure and railway providers, GIS and remote sensing engineers, surveyors, civil engineers, and government authorities interested in digital twin and road monitoring. Hopefully, the presentation and sharing of my research and development (R&D) during this webinar can help the industry outside the university in their daily work. Thank you, AECA Solutions Sdn. Bhd. for the invitation.
THE YEAR 2022: SECOND PATENT FILING AT THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF MALAYSIA (MyIPO)
This year, we successfully registered a patent for our latest invention entitled “A 3D Geospatial Based Wind Flow Modeling System” at the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO).
I believe there is a need for an integrated system that can combine various data sources and then replicate wind flow in urban areas. The air quality index in urban areas can now be calculated at the street level rather than at meteorological monitoring stations, as opposed in the past.
And, of course, this wind simulation is in a 3D geospatial environment. After all, why should we limit our system to 2D space?
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
