International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE) 2013
September 17, 2013
The
8th International Symposium on Digital Earth 2013 (ISDE2013) jointly
organized by the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE),
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
(UNIMAS) was held with great success at the Borneo Convention Center
Kuching (BCKK), Kuching, Sarawak on 24 to 29 August 2013.
The symposium
warmly received about 500 delegates consisting of 231 authors from 35
countries, participants from 160 world-wide organizations, 18 keynote
speakers from 13 countries, 40 exhibitors from the international digital
earth related industry, local media partners and handy volunteers.
We are here! Picture of all delegates in 8th International Symposium on Digital Earth 2013.
The inaugural ceremony was officially
conducted by the Padawan Municipal Council Chairman, Mr. Lo Khere Chiang
in a symbolic traditional “gong” display and witnessed by Prof. Dr.
Mazlan Hashim, the General Chairman of ISDE2013, Prof. John Richards,
the President of ISDE, Prof. Dr. Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, Dean of the
Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, UNIMAS, and
Assc. Prof. Dr. Abdul Halim Abdul Raof from UTMSPACE, UTM on 24 August
2013.
It is on! Padawan Municipal Council chairman Lo Khere Chiang officiating the ISDE2013 at BCKK Great Hall.
BCCK hosted 231 speakers for oral and
poster presentations covering diverse topics under the theme of
‘Transforming Knowledge into Sustainable Practice’ such as earth
observation technologies, digital earth vision and innovation, ICT
technologies, empowering the community and engaging society, rural
informatics forum, hazard and pollution, digital city and green cities,
digital heritage, health and biodiversity, marine and coastal
environment, adapting to global and climate changes, sustainability
issues in forestry and managing water environment for sustainable
development. 18 keynote speakers from 13 countries presented the
state-of-the-art digital earth topics like building a global earth
observation system, next generation digital earth: Earth observation
today, national earth observation program for digital earth, big data
and digital earth, transparency and accountability on digital earth, and
from digital earth to data cities in this 4-day symposium.
Welcome
to Halifax! Guo Huadong hands over the ISDE flag to the new conference
chair and Saint Mary's University professor Hugh Millward as a symbol to
announce Halifax, Canada as a host for the 9th ISDE in 2015 with John
Richards, President of ISDE on the left.
In the evening of the second day of the
symposium, the symposium dinner to welcome all participants was held at
Great Hall A+B, BCKK hosted by Prof. Dr. Mazlan Hashim.
All delegates
were served with a delicious dinner and wonderful entertainment by a
traditional Sarawak dance performance.
In conjunction with this
symposium, a workshop for scientific publication was conducted by Taylor
and Francis. Delegates who were interested in getting insights in
publishing in impact journals were attracted by this workshop.
The
closing ceremony was held in Great Hall A+B with announcements of the
next ISDE Summit in 2014 to be held in Nagoya, Japan hosted by Prof.
Fukui, of the winners of the international student paper contest and of
the host for next 9th International Symposium of Digital Earth in 2015 to be held in Halifax, Canada.
