URBAN INFORMATICS FOR SMART CITY

The title：URBAN INFORMATICS FOR SMART CITY

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    Urban informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems in the urban context, aiming at improving the living standards of mankind. Currently, worldwide cities face complex and pressing problems, including but not limited to housing, aging, traffic and environmental pollution. Urban sciences and technologies also face great challenges like spatial discovery and prediction, dynamic spatial information extraction, three-dimensional spatial data infrastructure and uncertainties in spatial big data. To meet the practical and scientific challenges establishes urban informatics as a potential independent discipline and a basis for developing smart and sustainable cities.

    This presentation firstly introduces the scientific structure of urban informatics, as well as the real-world and scientific problems urging the development of this discipline. The presentation then presents the research and developments of the Lab for Smart City and Spatial Big Data Analytics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University to solve the urban problems and support smart cities. By integrated developments of theories, methods and technologies in GIScience, remote sensing, satellite positioning, spatial big data analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI), urban planning, urban geography, and urban and regional studies, we have drawn a range of solutions to various aspects of smart cities: Smart Governance, Smart Mobility, Smart Environment, Smart Living, Smart Economy and Smart People. The solutions are built on a 3D Geodatabase Framework and are generic to considerable extents and can be applied and customized to different cities in the world.

Introduction：

    Prof Shi is Chair Professor in Geographic Information Science (GISci) and remote sensing, Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Urban Informatics, Head for Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, and Director of Laboratory for Smarty City and Spatial Big Data Analytics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.  He obtained his doctoral degree from University of Osnabrück in Vechta, Germany in 1994.

    Prof Shi’s current research interests are in the areas of GISci, remote sensing and urban informatics, with focusing on analytics and quality control for spatial big data, object extraction and change detection from satellite images and LiDAR data, integrated indoor mapping technology, 3D and dynamic GISci modelling, and Smart City applications .

    Prof Shi served as President of Commission II for International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2008-2012), President for Hong Kong Geographic Information System Association (2001-2003). He also serves as an editorial board member for a number of international journals. He has published more than 250 journal articles and 15 books. He received a number of prestige awards, including an award from International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and Natural Science Award from the State Council, China.  

http://www.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk/academic_staff/John.Shi/index.htm

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