AIT SUSTAINABILITY
REPORT
2023
TRAINING PROGRAM ON GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES AND DATA ANALYTICS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN AREAS IN BELT AND ROAD REGION
AIT Research Theme: Technology, Policy and Society AIT Unit: SET/RSGIS Project Duration: 1 August 2023 to 31 December 2025 Project Partners: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Visayas State University, Philippines Department of Agricultural Land Management, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Lao PDR Expected Social Impact: ⏵ Competence
development: the participants will develop fundamental to intermediate level understanding of traditional and recent advances in geospatial technologies.
⏵ The participants will approach a spatial related
problem with confidence, knowledge, and skill. ⏵ Further, the training program will definitely extend
ANSO’s world influence. Description: Over the past few decades, and particularly in the last one, geospatial technologies have evolved significantly. As the innovations and advancement of technologies improve and digital devices become more affordable, there is also an explosion of huge amounts of archived and real-time geospatial data. This data is gathered through multitudinous sources viz., satellites, sensor networks, Internet of Things systems, and the hyper-connectivity of our society. It is diversified, containing rich information across different geographic scales and resolutions. However, a massive challenge also exists on how this data has been exploited and explored to understand and solve problems to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
With global unprecedented increasing trends of urbanization across the world in developed, developing, and underdeveloped countries, the population is aggregating in urban areas. According to the United Nations (UN) statistics, in the 1950s only 30% of the world’s population lived in urban areas, which has increased to 55% in 2018, and it is expected that by 2050, every two out of three people are likely to live in urban areas. The major goal of this training is to work together to strengthen geospatial skillset at all levels - local, national, regional, and global and to fully realize the potential of geospatial knowledge services by developing novel, practical, and scalable solutions to problems related to achieving selected SDGs related to urban studies and applications. It will expand the opportunities available to the participants, assist them in developing their skills in geospatial technologies, enable them to use these toolsets for achieving SDGs, and advance the process of global economic integration.
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