2024 Conference Resources

Sustainable Management of Coastal Areas Through Remote Sensing & GIS

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Conference Highlights

The 2024 Conference brings together more than 150 participants from around the world. 16 Pacific Island countries and territories were represented and PGRSC National Focal Points had the opportunity to highlight in-countires activities around GIS and Remote Sensing.

The 2024 conference was honored to host a serie of special sessions including NOAA workshop and DataTerra session.

Several discussion sessions have taken place with fruitful exchanges about topics of interest for the community.

Key indicators

150 Participants from 22 countries and 16 Pacific Island Countries and Territories represented

56 Presentations

4 workshops, National Focal Points lightening talks and 14 thematic sessions

Conference proceedings are available as PDF file.

Version 1.4

Last update: 23 November 2024 – 03:00pm

Day 1 Presentations

	————————-	————————————————- Monday 25.11.24 ———-
	————————-	Session 1 – Opening – Session Leader: Bradley Eichelberger
	Filimoni Vosarogo	Official Opening – Chief Guest & Minister for Lands & Mineral Resources, Hon. Filimoni Vosarogo
	Surendra Prasad	Welcome USP, Head of School for Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean & Natural Science (SAGEONS) – Prof. Surendra Prasad
	William Romine	Welcome US Embassy, Deputy Affairs Officer – Mr. William Romine
	Salote Viti	Welcome PGRSC Chair Address – Ms. Salote Viti
	Wolf Forstreuter	PGRSC Conference Overview
	————————-	Conference Photo
	————————-	Morning Coffee
	————————-	Session 2 – Organisations and Companies – Session Leader: Kasaqa Tora
	Lena Haloumova	The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing for Pacific Island Countries
	Peter Kinne	Developing Space Capacity and Capability in the Pacific
	Rémi Andreoli	Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem, Access to Copernicus Sentinel data and beyond
	Angela Manchester	Remote Sensing Update: Hexagon
————————–	————————–	Session 3 – RS-Data – Session Leader: Salote Viti
	Mathilde Souchon	PIURN – Pacific Islands Universities Regional Network
	Jean Massenet	Community of Oceania Geospatial, an initiative benefiting to PICTs
	Jean Massenet	COG-25 Talanoa session
	————————-	Session 4 – Maritime – Session Leader: Maria Kottermair
	Vani Koroisamanunu	Harnessing Geospatial Knowledge to Advance Sustainability in the Pacific
	Alan Clinton	Predictive Models v. U.S. Constitution: The Secret Sauce
	Chan-Su Yang	Application of Optical Satellites for Wave Monitoring
	Rose Pearson	Topography driven floodplain and coastal erosion setback delineation
	Peter Kinne + Rémi Andreoli	Discussion Session 01 “Building Pacific Space Industry”
	Brad Eichelberger + Open	Discussion Session 02 “Sustainable Management for Coastal Areas”
1_05_01	————————-	Opening Cocktail

Day 2 Presentations

	————————-	————————————————- Tuesday 26.11.24 ————————————————
	————————-	Session 1 – Women in GIS and Remote Sensing – Session Leader: Open
	Neha Naidu	Women in GIS
	Jacqueline Singh	Empowering Pacific Women through Geospatial Science: The Journey of the Pacific Geospatial Women Network.
	Several presenters	Women lightening talks
	Open	Discussion Session 03 ” Women in GIS and Remote Sensing”
	————————-	Morning Coffee
	————————-	Session 2 – Remote Sensing Data Handling – Session Leader: Halalilika Etika
	Pankajeshwara Sharma	A Usable Encryption Solution for File-Based Geospatial Data within Database File System
	Angela Manchester	Enhanced Compression Wavelet
	Pankajeshwara Sharma	A cloud-based solution for trustless indigenous data sovereignty: Protecting Maori biodiversity mangement data in Aotearoa New Zealand
	Won-Jun Choi	Detection of Abnormal Water Temperature in the Korea Waters from Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Products
	————————-	Lunch
	————————-	Session 3 – Mapping – Session Leader: Dolores Leneuoti
	Raviky Talae	Vanuatu Climate Futures Portal Road Inundation Mapping Tool
	Richard Russell	PIX4D – PIX4Dmatic, PIX4DSurvey and PIX4Dcloud benefits, features and use cases
	Markus Bucy	Disaster Intelligence Capacity Building in Pacific Island Countries
	Lu’isa Taunga	Sustainable Coastal Management in Tonga: Harnessing Remote Sensing and GIS for Low-Lying Coastal Communities (National Disaster Risk Management Office)
	Richard Russell	Trinity Pro – 3D Mapping and Digital Twin Modelling of Kuala Lumpur City Centre3D Mapping and Digital Twin Modelling of Kuala Lumpur City Centre
	Simon Nitz	A fun look at using GPS tracking on a feline companion
	————————-	Afternoon Coffee ———————————————————
	————————-	Session 4 – Utility – Session Leader: Johnie Tary Nimau
	Pascal Dumas	Shoreline monitoring and management using GIS and remote sensing to improve resilience in the Pacific islands against coastal erosion
	Sree Juwel Kumar Chowdhury	Recent Spatio-Temporal Alterations in Coastal Areas of Funafuti, Tuvalu
	Frank Pichel	A Partnership for Rapid Aerial and Streetview Data Collection and Utilisation in Tuvalu
	Discussion	Discussion Session 04 “Embarrassing Questions”
	————————-	Open
	————————-	Talanoa Session, Kava & Music

Day 3 Presentations

	————————-	Session 1 – Forestry – Session Leader: Rémi Andreoli
	Kasaqa Tora	Leveraging Geospatial Technology for Improved Protected Arera Management and Awareness through Regional platforms such as Pacific Islands Protected Area Portal (PIPAP)
	Shyam Lodhia	MACBLUE: Mapping Extents of Seagrass Ecosystems Using Supervised Classification and Cloud Computing
	Elke Windschitl	Biggest Bang for Your Buck_ Using NASA Earth Observations to maximize island-ocean ecosystem benefits following invasive mammal eradication (ID_52) (1)
	Elenoa Biukoto	Mapping and Monitoring Invasive species using qfield – Forestry Invasive Training
	Halalilika Etika	GIS for Effective Land Administration – Tonga
	————————-	Morning Coffee
	————————-	Session 2 – UAV – Session Leader: Oroititi Bakatenuateaba Katangateman
	Matt Smith	How to map data from geospatial APIs (as a non coder)
	Solomon Chant	Moana Data Service – sustainable LiDAR and imagery sourced locally.
	Dolores Leneuoti	Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing Developments in Tuvalu
	Greg Lauer	Rapid GIS data collection using 360 cameras – Case studies in Nauru and Thursday Island
	Rémi Andreoli	Impact of climate change on critical Pacific coastal areas: Anew way to improve local strategies
	————————-	Lunch
	————————-	Session 3 – Open – Session Leader: Yoann Roncin
	Nicholas Metherall	Case studies in marine habitat mapping using QField and earth observations for MACBLUE and RBBP through Digital Earth Pacific (DEP)
	Oroititi Katangateman	Disaster Risk Management: Marine and Mapping
	Awnesh Singh	Enriched waters South of Fiji: cruise validation of ocean colorfor future coastal waters satellite monitoring
	Bradley Eichelberger	Integrating GPS-enabled Technologies and Workflows into Fishery Surveys
	Richard Russell	Virtual Surveyor – From Drone Photos to Topographic SurveysFrom Drone Photos to Topographic Surveys.
	Richard Russell + Wolf Forsteuer	Discussion Session 05 “UAV or Satellite Image Data?”
	————–	Afternoon Coffee
	————————-	Session 4
	Focal point update	Update of all focal points
	PGRSC AGM	PGRSC AGM 2024 (Details see Apendix)
	————————-	Through the Fiji Night Clubs

Day 4 Presentations

	————————-	————————————————- Thursday 28.11.24 USP —————————
	————————-	Session 1 – LiDAR – Session Leader: Wolf Forstreuter
	Yoann Roncin	Connecting Through Cartography: Sharing Reference Resources in French Polynesia
	Jumpei Takami	Introduction of Synthetic Aperture Radar for Disaster Management and Forest Inventory Monitoring
	Richard Russell	Trinity Pro – LiDAR update
	Andy Burrell	Topographic and Bathymetric LiDAR in the Coastal Zones (ID_50)
	————————-	Morning Coffee
	————————-	Session 2 – Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing Applications Session Leader: Shyam Lodhia
	Jumpei Takami	Recent Activities of UNOOSA (UN-SPIDER) in Tongatapu Island with Space-based Integrated Disaster Management Platform
	Johnie Nimau	Hazard Exposure and Losses to Extreme Wave Levels Exacerbated by Climate-induced Sea-Level Rise in Vanuatu Islands Contexts
	Rodney Yoshida	Using GIS in Palau for mapping & various project.
	Tingneyuc Sekac	Geospatial Technology for Climate-Resilient Road Infrastructure Management and Planning in the Inland Regions of Papua New Guinea
	Laxmi Thapa	Activities of ISPRS SC for Students and Summer School
	————————-	Lunch
	————————-	Session 3 – Open – Session Leader: Fiona Meke
	Simon Nitz	FOSS4G GIS Stack at Whanganui District Council NZ
	Pankajeshwara Sharma	MapSafe: A complete tool for achieving geospatial data sovereignty
	Hannah Marley	Spatial climate & hydrology insights_ Tools to reduce uncertainty and empower decision-making (ID_51) (1)
	Nicholas Metherall	Mineral Resource Extraction Detection (MRED) using machine learning approaches to detect mineral extraction and potential impacts on qoliqoli marine ecosystems in Fiji (Digital Earth Pacific)
	————————-	Afternoon Coffee
	————————-	Session 4 – Maritime – Session Leader: Brad Eichelberger
	Bill Rua	GIS Applications in Development Planning of Rural Communities
	Tobias Fischer	Automated Shoreline Monitoring in French Polynesia’s Atolls: A Case Study on Tetiaroa
	Fiona Meke	The use of GIS in coastal marine research
	————————-	Closing Coctail

Social Events
Opening Cocktail

Kava Session

Pub Crawl

Closing Cocktail