Special Sessions may address one or more Tracks, but they should be organised under a unified theme. Special Sessions are intended to allow projects or any other group of authors to present their own work.
Special Sessions papers should be reviewed by the Special Sessions organisers. These papers will be part of the Conference Proceedings.
Special Sessions proposals should be submitted via a specific template, available below. Proposers should provide information on the Title, Proposer and Abstract in English or Chinese by March 20, 2023.
After completing, send an email to the Conference Office: [email protected]
There are currently eleven special sessions: 01. Roles of geospatial technology in reducing disaster and environmental risks Convener: Takashi Oguchi Professor, The University of Tokyo, Center for Spatial Information Science Yuei-An Liou Professor, National Central University, Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research
This session discusses how geospatial technology including remote sensing and geographic information systems contributes to the reduction of disaster and environmental risks. In disaster-prone regions like Taiwan and Japan, people face various natural hazards such as ground shaking and tsunamis due to earthquakes, as well as floods, landslides, and debris flows due to heavy rainfall. The latter is expected to intensify in the near future because global warming will increase extreme weather events. Global warming will also lead to environmental deterioration in many places. To reduce future disaster and environmental risks, geospatial technology should be effectively utilized. This session deals with a wide range of relevant topics including the outcomes of various application studies. This session is co-organized by the Commission on Hazard and Risk of IGU (International Geographical Union).
02. The Applications of UAS for Environmental Monitoring Convener: Wen-Cheng Liu, Department of Civil and Disaster Prevention Engineering, National United University, Distinguished Professor and Vice President Wei-Che Huang, Department of Civil and Disaster Prevention Engineering, National United University, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The unmanned aerial systems (UAS) known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) or drones, have recently emerged as new equipments in environmental monitoring and management such as hydrology, flooding, landslide, earthquake, fire, water pollutant and many others natural and man-made disasters. The systems also widely utilized in forestry, precise agriculture, architecture, wildlife, engineering and construction, and so on. Although initially devised to support military operations, the civilian and scientific applications of UAS have attracted increasing attention in recent years, experiencing great growth in their commercial, governmental and amateur use. This special session expects to collect papers related to applications of UAS for environmental monitoring.
03. Intelligent marine technology and applications in maritime industrial development Convener: Ming-An Lee, National Taiwan Ocean University Sheng-Long Kao, National Taiwan Ocean University
Intelligent Ocean combines Satellite Telemetry, Automatic Ship Identification systems, the Internet of Things Virtual Reality, and other Special Decision Support technologies. Now, it is rapidly developing in the world. In addition to land, sea, air transportation, and international logistics, intelligent ports, smart ships and smart logistics with the space B5G, satellites, and satellite ground stations have become nationally established policies, and intelligent oceans are the focus of the maritime industry. The major purpose is collecting the global dynamics and hydro meteorological information of vessels. In Taiwan's western wind farms, these issues can provide an efficient global view and promote the concept of sustainable management for the merchant shipping industry and fishing boats to enter the wind farm waterway combined with the Artificial Intelligence algorithms, this issue will contribute to the application of intelligent shipping and satellite telemetry in disaster prevention and treatment in the future. This topic aims to provide a discussion platform to discuss various topics related to intelligent ocean and intelligent shipping.
04. Progress on Offshore Wind Power and Marine Energy & Riverine and Coastal Disaster Prevention Convener: Chih-Chieh Young, National Taiwan Ocean University, Department of Marine Environmental Informatics/ Center of Excellence for Ocean Engineering Chia-Cheng Tsai, National Taiwan Ocean University, Bachelor Degree Program in Ocean Engineering and Technology/Center of Excellence for Ocean Engineering
Taiwan is facing two critical issues nowadays. The first one is the challenge of energy shortage and the other is increased riverine and coastal disasters (in terms of intensity and frequency) owing to global changes. The purpose of this session is to share recent research progress and results by Center of Excellence for Ocean Engineering, NTOU with the main focus on key technology in "Offshore Wind Power and Marine Energy" and "Riverine and Coastal Disaster Prevention". The topics include
1. Developments and applications of numerical models; 2. Applications of artificial intelligence and deep learning; 3. Wind turbine safety and durability evaluation; 4. Simulations of scour for foundation stability assessment of offshore wind farms; 5. Planning of the marine ranches; 6. Planning of shipping channels in the offshore wind farm; 7. Risk and vulnerability assessment with consideration of flooding, land subsidence, and coastal erosion; 8. Developments of forecast and early warning systems. 05. Research of watershed runoff routing and management Convener: Kwan Tun LEE, National Taiwan Ocean University, Department of Harbor and River Engineering Pin-Chun HUANG, National Taiwan Ocean University, Department of Harbor and River Engineering
Research addressing issues in advancing the quantitative aspect of hydrology, as well as the integrated management of watersheds is invited. Novel theoretical methods, field survey data, and numerical studies are encouraged to be presented. Themes encompassed in this session include:
1. Surface water analysis 2. Unsaturated (vadose) water analysis 3. Urban hydrologic analysis 4. Channel flow analysis 5. Hydrological modeling 6. Flood routing and prediction method 7. Flood risk management and mitigation 06. Applications of information-intelligence-based disaster risk management in Taiwan Convener: Wei-Sen Li, National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, Secretary-General
Information-intelligence refers to the collection, integration, analysis and application of various information related to people, things, things, places, etc., which can be used for management and decision-making in various fields, including disaster risk management. Taiwan is at the risk of multiple natural disasters such as earthquake zone, typhoon zone and volcanic zone, so disaster risk management has become an important issue for Taiwan. Information-intelligence can be applied to disaster risk management in Taiwan, improving the efficiency and accuracy of disaster risk management, and helping the government and the public to better deal with various natural disasters.
07. Hydrology and Sediment Transport in the Watershed, Reservoir, and River Basin Convener: Jihn-Sung Lai, National Taiwan University, Hydrotech Research Institute Fong-Zuo Lee, National Chung Hsing University, Department of Civil Engineering
The special session focuses on the following topics, watershed hydrology sediment transport, reservoir and river basin management, and climate change issues. In the watershed, precipitation and runoff modeling are important research topics related to the factors of land use, climate change, and other hydrological balance. Sediment yield estimation is essential to understand how sediment is eroded and transported through rivers and reservoirs and the impact of sediment on the environment. For the reservoir and river basin issues, sediment management is a critical topic related to sediment transport, geomorphology, water resource, and water quality, etc. The research related to climate change is also encouraged to submit herein, which may have a significant impact on hydrology and sediment transport, including changes in precipitation, evaporation, runoff, sediment yield, etc. The goal of this special session is to ensure that water and sediment can be studied in a way both sustainable and beneficial to society and the environment.
08. Initiative of Long-Term Social-Ecological Research in Taiwan Convener: Teng-Chiu Lin, National Taiwan Normal University, School of Life Science Jr-Chuan Huang, National Taiwan University, Dept. of Geography Su-Fen Wang, National Changhua University of Education, Dept. of Geography Chaolun Allen Chen, Academia Sinica, Biodiversity Research Center
The socio-ecological system (SES) is an important perspective of thinking about human-environment interactions, and is regarded as a mechanism, model, approach, strategy and method that can assist ecosystem governance through adaptive co-management for sustainability. Different from single-discipline-oriented reseach which typically focuses on a specific subsystem, due to different professional perspectives, SES attempts to link natural and social subsystems via ecological service and land cover change for co-management or governance. Therefore, socio-ecological system research places special emphasis on socio-ecological coupling. This self-organizing process of adaptive co-management of SES has the potential to promote the socio-ecological system resilience. This session welcomes any socio-ecological research and will discuss possible future directions together.
09. Remote Sensing Applications on Marine Science and Marine Management Convener: Yi Chang, National Sun-Yat-sen University, Graduate Institute of Marine Affairs Kuo-Wei Lan, National Taiwan Ocean University, Department of Environmental Biology and Fisheries Science
Remote sensing is a widely used tool for investigating marine environment and the management of marine resources. Researchers are able to use satellite data to determine sea water temperature/current changes that are being used to track biota ranging from fish, whales, and turtles. This spatial session will widely discuses remote sensing technologies and gives examples of the application to the various disciplines.
10. IAG’i Symposium Convener: Liou, Yuei-An, Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, Professor
The International Association of Geodesy (IAG) is an annual platform for sharing developments in fields such as remote sensing, geographic information systems, and global navigation satellite systems. The association was formally established by three founding academic societies: the Japanese Geographic Information Systems Association (GISA), the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies (KAGIS), and the Taiwan Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (TGEO). Since 2016, the annual conference has been held in turn by the three founding societies: in Japan in 2016, Korea in 2017, and Taiwan in 2018. The upcoming 2023 special conference will expand to include several sister societies or academic departments, such as the Institute of Geography at Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) and the Mongolian National Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (MNSPRS), for special lectures and collaborative discussions.
11. Application of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (AIoT) Technology in Disaster Management Thomas Chin-Tung Cheng, 興創知能股份有限公司, General Manager Lydia Hsiao-Mei Lin, 台灣人工智慧協會 執行長/國立台北科技大學互動系 教師
IoT monitoring devices/sensors and integration with AI algorithms/analysis for earth observation will become more and more popular and important. Natural disasters or man-made air and water pollution have become increasingly serious, which has caused huge social impacts, and even caused risky and serious losses to enterprises, making them interrupting their business operations and unable sustainable. How to apply low-cost and low-power IoT devices/sensors to obtain wide-region and long-term continuous observation data has become one of the important trending technologies for future earth observation. After obtaining a large amount of time series data through IoT monitoring, the AI algorithm will be used to predict or forecast the disaster trend. When a situation exceeding the threshold value is found, early warning information can be provided in real-time, so that the disaster management authority can have emergency responses immediately. However, earth observation data obtained by IoT, and AI-assisted decision-making can provide information to find out the abnormal phenomena and change detection of the field environment. AIoT is an innovative technology of earth observation to provide efficient disaster emergency response and decision-making solutions, especially for disaster management.
12. Use artificial intelligence and digital technology to solve pressing global issues Convener: Liou, Yuei-An, Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, Professor
This session plans to enable participants to have a deeper understanding of artificial intelligence and sustainability science through cross-field discussions. With the exchanges and encouragement of all parties, innovative research guidelines that are in line with human well-being will be proposed. In response to climate change that may cause floods and drought disasters, we will discuss issues related to water resources, river management, typhoon analysis, and protection of water conservancy facilities, achieve disaster prevention and mitigation goals, guarantee social and economic construction achievements, and form support for extreme climate countermeasures. We hope to improve Taiwan's earth observation research level, publish results in SCI to expand the exchange of theory and practice with experts and scholars from other countries, and increase the competitiveness of the country and improve the academic status. Hope that through this session we can enhance the exchange and cooperation research opportunities between Taiwan and researchers from all over the world, and to expand the influence of our country's research.