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The 105th OGC TC/PC Meeting was held in New Zealand during 4th to 7th Dec. 2017, Prof. Jimmy and Dr. How attended the event as the representative of OGC principle member. During this event, Prof. Jimmy presented “the GeoAI development and policy in Taiwan” in GeoAI ad-hoc meeting, “Application on Disaster Prevention in Taiwan and Vietnam”in Emergency Disaster Management DWG; Dr. How provided a joint presentation with OGC staff Gobe to report “The semantic (SRIM API) implementation fromTestbed-13”in GeoSemantic DWG. In addition to that, a potential domain working group for artificial intelligence was also proposed by Dr. Kim, AIST, Japan during the GeoAI ad-hoc meeting, GISFCU has committed to contribute efforts on drafting the charter of GeoAI DWG in following months.

During 23 th to 27th this Oct., Dr.How represented GIS.FCU to attend the 14th GEO Plenary in Washington D.C., accompanied with Dr.Lin from National Center for High Performance Computing(NCHC) and Dr.Chiou from Taiwan Forestry Research Institute. There were more than 700 representatives and delegates from 105 countries and 150 international organizations. Various topics related to global observation and the perspective and contribution from Taiwan had been discussed, including water resource management, flood management, forestry resource and disaster management, OpenDataCube applications. Some networks with OGC, CEOS, GeoScience, and International Flood Initiative has been connected as well during this event!

The 1st International Workshop on Humanities History Research had been successfully held on 21-25 September 2017 in University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

GIS.FCU director Jimmy Chou and Dr. Frank Fang joined the Cross-strait Symposium on Soil and Water Conservation 2017 during August 17th to 23 th in Chengdu, Sichuan. Director Chou invited to be keynotes speech on “Application of Spatial Information Technology in Intelligent Disaster Prevention Monitoring.” Dr.Fang was present “Record of Observation on landslide in Taiwan after Morakot Disaster – Taking Shenmu Observatory as an Example.

GIS.FCU has been involved in geotechnology for decades, the products of ESRI always play significant roles in project execution. This year, Prof. Jimmy leaded managers from technical and management dept., integration and decision dept., spatial information and environment planning dept. attended the 2017 ESRI International User Conference in San Diego.

2017 International Symposium on Remote Sensing (ISRS) had been successfully held on May 17- May 19, 2017 in Nagoya, Japan. ISRS aims at bringing together the researchers, scientists, engineers, and students in all theories and applications of Remote Sensing. Director Dr. Tien-Yin Chou, Dr. Mei-Ling Yeh, and Dr. Feng-Cheng Lin attended this conference and published two papers: The architecture and implementation of citizen-probe for smart city. The study and implementation of linked data mechanism for FORMOSAT-II historical imagery metadata in Taiwan. We shared the results of MOST projects in 2017 and demonstrated the applications of our research. After ISRS, we 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.

After the 101th Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) TC/PC Meeting held in FCU, Taiwan in December 2016, Delft University of Technology in Netherlands held the OGC TC/PC Meeting in March, 2017. Director Dr. Jimmy Chou of GIS.FCU served as Taiwan’s delegation to attend the meeting during March 20-24, 2017.The keynote speeches were focused on the strategy discussion on 3D City Model and the development of geospatial information standard in Netherlands. The main topic of Domain Working Group (DWG) and Standard Working Group (SWG) sessions was the international development on open geospatial information.

Professor/Dr Tien-Yin Chou and Assistant Professor/Dr Thanh-Van Hoang have been invited to attend in OGC Vietnam Workshop: “Capacity Building on Open Geospatial Standards for Information Sharing”, hosted by FIMO (Center of Multidisciplinary Integrated Technologies for Field Monitoring University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University) and Vietnam Climate Innovation Center, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, from Feb 23 to Feb 24, 2017.