AFITA (The Asia-Pacific Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture) 2018 this year was held at Victor Menezes Convention Center, which hosted by IIT Bombay (part of IITB Diamond Julibee Celebration) from October 24 – October 26. Dr Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, Honourable Vice President of India was extremely delighted to address a speech at the Opening of AFITA 2018.
Dr. How was invited by AIST to delegate a talk to IEEE Proceeding on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineer during September 26 to September 28.
GIS.FCU incubator company “EasyMap Digital Technology Inc.” independently developed the product called EM’FFECT which has UAV near-force defense system and participated in the largest safety fire equipment exhibition in Essen, Germany.
Director Jimmy Chou was invited to join 2018 Location Powers “Our Urban Environment”- “Data, Interoperability and our Urban World” in Singapore from September 25 to September 26. This event was held by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Singapore Land Authority. There were many experts and scholars of academia and industry from America, Europe and Asia. They introduced how to use the International standard for information sharing in their professional fields. In addition, Director Jimmy Chou talked this topic “Implementing Smart Cities; Standards, Interoperability and Deep Learning for Disasters Monitoring”, and got many good feedbacks.
The 108th OGC Technical Committee meeting that hosted by Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart was held in Stuart, Germany. CHIH-WEI KUAN(Will) presented the harvest of GIS.FCU about AI face recognition and river monitoring case at the conference by the remote.
A delegation 11 Professors from FCU led by Dean Lin Liang Tay, the Dean of College of Construction and Development, go to Vietnam to attend and co-host the International Conference on Building Smart Cities in Vietnam – Vision and Solutions which take place on Sept 05, 2018.
The GIS Research Center of Feng Chia University (GIS.FCU) organized the Taiwan delegation again to visit the new southbound country for exchanges. Director Jimmy Chou, along with Assistant Director Huang of Computational Intelligence Technology Center, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan Association of Disaster Prevention Industry (TADPI), Taipei Computer Association, EasyMap Digital Technology, Focus Intelligence Technology, SkyEyes GPS Technology, Geosense Digital Technologies, Geo Informatics, Kiwi Technology, GeoThings, DHTech Engineering Consultant and other industrial representatives to visit Bangkok, Thailand from June 25 to 29, 2018 to participate into exchange and visit of the water conservancy and disaster prevention industry.
The team led by Director Jimmy Chou of GIS Center of Feng Chia University once again participated in the five-day OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) Technical Committee Meeting (TC/PC, Technical/Planning committees). GIS.FCU shared Taiwan experiences with international geospatial standard experts in various field discussion sessions such as EDM (Emergency Disaster Management), Big Data, Agriculture, Sensor Things API, and Geo AI.
The International Symposium on Remote Sensing (ISRS) 2018 Organizing Committee was hold at Alpensia Resort Convention Center in PyeongChang, Gangwon Province, Korea, from May 9th-11th, 2018. There are various global issues including environmental problems, disaster, national security and etc., and our society requires the earth information in an accurate and fast manner for these issues recently.
Dr. How and Chief Engineer Kuan Chih-Wei attended OGC Testbed-14 kick-off meeting from 2nd to 6th this April at the headquarter of USGS, Reston, VA. In this testbed, GIS.FCU derived funding support from sponsors and will focus on the implementation and discussion on various fields, such as machine learning, OpenAPI, CityGML(3D) and Augmented Reality. During the kickoff meeting, all threads were broken down to small team discussion, representatives from GIS.FCU were required to discuss and clarify the goals and scope for the next half year with other participants and sponsors. Furthermore, separated topic weekly teleconferences will be held for tracing the implementation progress as well as keep working on project scope discussion.
