The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association and the Taiwan Association of Disaster Prevention Industry (TADPI) have announced the GSDI 15 Conference, to be held in Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China) in December 2016, with strong support from Ministry of the Interior (MOI). The theme of the conference is “Spatial enablement in the smart homeland”.
Taiwan is a beautiful country that also experiences frequent natural disasters from earthquakes, tropical storms, flooding and landslides. Because of these threats to the environment and population, the disaster prevention industry in Taiwan has developed advanced technology, including ICT applications for spatial data, and a policy of open data to help people prepare for disasters and to facilitate start-ups with opportunities to create innovative products and services for disaster prevention.
The people and communities of Taiwan will share their experience with the world at the forthcoming conference. The GSDI Association is pleased to offer TADPI the opportunity of the GSDI 15 World Conference to achieve this aim. Many other GSDI members are also involved in research and applications relating to smart city and smart territory implementation.
The GSDI 15 World Conference will take place at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center from 28 November to 2 December 2016. Potential subject areas for the Call for Abstracts and Papers (to follow shortly) include:
Smart homeland themes:
Smart cities, smart territories and smart environments
Open data and open government
Open data repositories
Land information systems
Observatories (environmental, citizen, health, urban)
Disaster management, reduction and mitigation themes:
Emergency management (logistics and telecommunications)
Risk modelling and assessment
Protecting critical infrastructure
Earthquake mitigation challenges
Flooding and landslides – risk assessment, mitigation and management
Innovation in disaster management technology
Examples of disaster management best practice
Spatial data infrastructure (SDI) development themes:
Location-based services for enabling smart environments
VGI, crowdsourcing, and citizen science roles
SDI in the cloud – challenges and solutions
Indoor SDI and personal SDI developments
Technology themes:
CyberGIS
3D/4D spatial data visualisation and analytics
Earth observation
Sensor web/internet of things (IoT) and linked data
UAVs and remote sensing
Geospatial big data management and analytics
TADPI is a non-profit organisation that facilitates members from the government and private sectors in cross-disciplinary cooperation and risk management and reduction. The ultimate goals of TADPI members are to provide turnkey solutions for disaster prevention and management to create smart, resilient and sustainable cities worldwide.
Contact Roger Longhorn, GSDI Secretary-General, rlonghorn@gsdi.org
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