News

As part of the 3D GeoInfo 2019 conference, and the 2th BIM/GIS Integration Workshop, we are organising a special issue in Transactions in GIS.

We are pleased to have been visited by a group of master students studying at the Stuttgart Technology University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule für Technik) in Germany. The visit was accompanied by Prof Alias Abdul Rahman (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia - UTM).

The Schlumberger Foundation is accepting new applications for the 2020–2021 Faculty for the Future Fellowships from September 5th to November 7th, 2019. The program’s long-term goal is to generate conditions that result in more women pursuing scientific careers by lowering the barriers women face when entering STEM disciplines, thus reducing the gender gap.

3D GeoInfo is the flagship conference of the international 3D city modelling community, with the 2018 edition held in Delft. This year we are quite fortunate to be able to host it in Singapore, together with the Singapore Land Authority, in the last week of September.

Master of Urban Planning student Jialin Li successfully defended her thesis The Implementation of Big Data Analysis in Regulating Online Short-Term Rental Business: A case of Airbnb in Beijing. The abstract follows:

The ISPRS Geospatial Week 2019 was held in Enschede, the Netherlands. As part of the ISPRS WG IV/10 (Advanced Geospatial Applications for Smart Cities and Regions), we have been involved in the organisation of the ISPRS Workshop on Advanced Geospatial Applications for Smart Cities and Regions (SmartGeoApps 2019).