December ’16 OGC Technical and Planning Committee Meeting took place on December 4-8, at Feng Chia University (FCU) in Taichung, Taiwan. Ｍore than one hundred participants of government, commercial, academic and research organizations coming from 18 countries met at FCU for the most important geospatial event…
During 7th to 10th Nov., Prof. Jimmy and Dr. How represented GIS.FCU to attend the GEO Plenary XIII in St. Petersburg, accompanied with Dr. Franz who represented the National Space Organization (NSPO) of Taiwan. Several separated side events were hold for various purposes regards to global observation issues. The plenary was hosted by ROSCOSMOS and ROSHYDROMET, the official space and environmental monitoring organizations of Russian government. There were more than 300 representatives and delegates from 46 nations and 50 international organizations, and many exhibitions from the U.S., China, Euro, Japan, and Russia…
The OGC TC/PC meeting had been held at Orlando, Florida during September 19th – 23th , 2016. There were few hundreds of experts joined this meeting for discussion on various spatial related issues. Dr. Jimmy Chou and Julia Kuo represented GIS.FCU to join this event. In addition to participating the Domain Working Group, they also successfully promoted the GSDI 15th World Conference and the December 2016 OGC TC/PC Meeting hosted by GIS.FCU…
Director of GIS.FCU, Chou Tien-Yin, was invited by the Dallas-Fort Worth Area Chapter (DFW) of the USA Chinese Institute of Engineers (CIE/USA) to visit Dallas, Texas from August 26th to 27th. Dr. Chou had speech “Spatial Environmental Monitoring Application on Big Data and Cloud Computing” in the 2016 Annual Conference with Smart City and Smart Life theme…
2016 International Conference on INTERNET STUDIES (NETs) had been successfully held on July 22th to July 24th in Osaka, Japan. Nets provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange research results and share development experiences on Internet studies. Dr. Feng-Cheng (Francis) Lin attended this conference and published two papers. These two papers were the results of MOST project and SWCB project in 2016. After Nets 2016, Dr. Lin showed the ideas of GIS-related technology, so that GIS.FCU can know each other with scholars and researchers from Taiwan…
Director Dr. Jimmy Chou of GIS.FCU and Dr. Lung-Shih Yang, Senior Vice President of Feng Chia University, joined the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Congress (ISPRS Congress). It was held during July 12th -19th at Prague Congress Center, Prague, Czech Republic…
WCCA is one of most important congress for applications of agriculture information technology in Europe. WCCA paid more effort on promotion in Asia, and held conferences with AFITA in recent years. WCCA-AFITA 2016 took place at the Sunchon National University from June 21st to 24th, 2016. Chou Tien-Yin, Director of GIS.FCU, and many famous scholars of TAITA attended in this conference, and had great interoperability with many kinds of experts in agriculture…
GIS.FCU has been devoted to develop and expend on an international scale. We are ready to showcase our new UAV model EL-HD1 on the Communic Asia 2014, from 17th to 21st of June in Singapore. EL-HD1 is capable to transmit a 1920*1080 60p’s Full HD immediately, with a maximum distance of 4 kilometer. It has participated in many major events such as New Year’s countdown night fireworks and Chinese Professional Baseball League’s major games.
The overseas inspection trip to Japan is from May 7th to May 10th, 2016. The main place is the Nishiseto Expressway, commonly known as the Setouchi Shimanami Kaido Expressway, links Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, with Imabari, Ehime Prefecture…
2016 International Symposium on Remote Sensing (ISRS) had been successfully held on Apr. 20th – 22th, 2016 in Jeju, Korea. ISRS aims at bringing together the researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students in all theories and applications of Remote Sensing. Dr. Feng-Cheng (Francis) Lin attended this conference and published two paper: One-The study of Geo-Tagging by Chinese geospatial description using ontology technology; Another- Mapping environmental perception with crowdsourced CityProbe mobile app and weights of evidence model. Dr. Lin shared the results of MOST projects in 2016 and demonstrated the applications of our research. After ISRS, Dr. Lin exchanged the ideas of Remote Sensing and GIS-related technology, so that GIS.FCU can know each other with scholars and researchers from Taiwan, Japan, and Korea…
GIS.FCU and Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) hold a workshop to share the research ideas at Tsukuba Headquarter of AIST in Apr 14th, 2016. The international cooperation between both parties has remained for 6 years and seeking for further opportunities of the cooperation…
In the 2016 Dajia Mazu pilgrimage event, the number of downloads of the iOS and Android APPs exceeded 330,000, including more than 154,000 times for iOS and more than 178,000 times for Android, representing a 43% growth over 2015. The number of visitors on “Heavenly Divine Mother Pilgrimage Satellite Positioning Service Network” exceeded 600,000, representing a growth of 20% over 2015. This highlights that not only the Dajia Mazu pilgrimage event is getting bigger year after year, but the participants’ ages are gradually going down, so that the growth rate of APP downloads is twice the growth rate of website browsing.
