THE HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF SURVEYORS

Code	:	2024015
Event Name	:	Advances in Digital Twin Technologies for Smart Cities
CPD Code	:	Formal Events
Speaker	:	Prof SHI Wenzhong, John Director, Smart Cities Research Institute The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Professor John Shi is currently the Director of Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute of PolyU, Chair Professor in Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing. He is Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences (UK), Fellow of The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, and Fellow of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He earned his doctoral degree from Germany in 1994. Professor Shi also serves as President of International Society for Urban Informatics and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Urban Informatics. His research covers urban informatics for smart cities, geographic information science and remote sensing, artificial-intelligence-based object extraction and change detection from satellite imagery, intelligent analytics and quality control for spatial big data, and mobile mapping and 3-D modelling based on LiDAR and remote sensing imagery. He has published over 300 research articles in journals indexed by Web of Science and 20 books. He is among the world’s top 2% cited researchers had owns over 40 patents. Professor Shi has won State Natural Science Award, China’s highest award for fundamental research, in 2007; Distinguished Scholar Prize by CPGIS and Smart 50 Awards (US) in 2021; Gold Medals in 2021 & 2023 International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva; Founder’s Award by International Spatial Accuracy Research Association in 2020; Science and Technology Progress Award in Surveying and Mapping (Grand Award) in 2017; and Wang Zhizhuo Award by International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in 2012.
Event Date	:	2024-01-25
Event Time	:	7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Registration Closing Date	:	2024-01-24
CPD Hour(s)	:	1.5
Divisional PQSL Hour(s)	:	1.5
Venue	:	1) Surveyors Learning Centre, Room 1207, 12/F, Wing On Centre, 111 Connaught Road Central, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong 2) By online media - ZOOM
Division	:	LSD
Organizer	:	Land Surveying Division
Fee	:	HK$ 150 for members; HK$ 180 for non-members
Priority	:	First-come-first-served
Language	:	English supplemented by Cantonese
Details	:	Urban informatics is the emergent transdiscipline integrating urban science, computer science, and geoinformatics, aiming at developing more efficient and sustainable cities. Under the framework of urban informatics, this speech introduces three recent advances in the digital twin technologies for smart cities: a) the multi-platform and multi-sensor mobile mapping system for generating city digital twins; b) the quality control technologies for photorealistic 3-dimensional models for ensuring the quality of the city digital twins; and c) the smart city platform for data management and analytics of city digital twins. The speech concludes with an outlook of the future trend of city digital twins, as well as the latest development in the urban informatics community.
Remarks	:	For Face-to-Face: Prior online registration is required. Walk-in registration will not be entertained. Eating and drinking is not allowed at the Surveyors Learning Centre. For ZOOM: The event will be conducted online via ZOOM. Upon successful registration, the ZOOM link for joining the CPD event will be available in the CPD/PQSL profile under the "Member Area" of the HKIS website. On-line registration is not applicable for non-HKIS members. To register, please complete the CPD registration form (https://www.hkis.org.hk/en/pdf/Standard_Reservation_Form2020.pdf) and return with payment to the HKIS Secretariat. Please install the Zoom Application in advance at https://www.zoom.us/download. For Mobile phones, iPads & Android, install the ZOOM Cloud Meetings app from App Store or Play Store. For PC and Mac, download and install the Zoom Client for Meetings.
Payment	:	HKD 150
Face-to-Face/Zoom	:

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