Subject [March 2022] Monthly VTC of UN Open GIS Initiative
Name Secretariat
Date 2022-03-17 Views 167
Monthly VTC of UN Open GIS was held on Wednesday, 16 March 2022 at 3:00 PM (Rome time) 9:00 AM (New York time).

[Meeting Agenda]

1. Opening by Co-Chairs (Prof. Ki-Joune Li, Prof. Maria Brovelli and Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom)

2. Introduction of new members

3. Open Q&As and discussions

- Application of LiDAR technology (Pablo)

4. FOSS4G 2022 (Overall UN Open GIS update, UNVT, Mobile GIS solution, UNMISS GeoStory; extension of deadline 14 March 2022)

5. Update on progress of Pilot Projects & New Initiatives:

. UNMISS Story Map (Zahurul/Debasish/Akbar, Timur/Gakumin, Eddy)

. Mobile GIS Solutions (Gakumin, Zeeshan, Rodwell)

. Demo: OpenDroneMap: short presentation on 3D modeling or Digital twin (Stephen, Davide, Catalina, Stephen Mather, Taro)


. Presentation: UN Mappers(Maria, Italy)

. Presentation/Demo: Blender SW test-report(Pekka, Finland) *file attached.

. Presentation: ZFXY: a 3D spatio-temporal tiling scheme proposal for optimized data access (Hidenori, Japan)

. Presentation: From Point Cloud to 3D City model (Ki-Joune, S.Korea)

. Presentation/Demo: UNIFIL GIS Services (Simon Burgess, UNIFIL)

. LiDAR data processing using AI (IT tracasa, Spain)


6. Working Group (WG) report:

. WG-2 Capacity Building report (Ivan, Susan, Diego)

. WG-3 Geo-Analysis report (HaeKyong, Timur)

. WG-4 Data Collection report (Ki-Joune, Anandavel/Charles, Taro, Hidenori)

. WG-5 Geo-AI report (Tomaz, Zhongxin, Maria)


7. Any other business (AOB)