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 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.
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.
