Abstract
Abstract. The Asian Association on Remote Sensing (AARS) organizes a web contest (WEBCON) of photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences in the annual meeting of Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS) every year. The purpose of WEBCON is to promote the development of web and other forms of internet services of the internet related to geo-information sciences and to attract more students and young scientists participating in the related fields of study and applications. Since 2011, WEBCON has become one of the major events in ACRS and successfully increased the interest in the research, development and applications of photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences among students and young scientist. The success of WEBCON is an excellent example of promoting the profession of spatial information to young people.
Highlights
INTRODUCTIONThis type of geographic information platform and service has significantly increased the awareness, publicity, and usability of geo-spatial data and their applications
The primary objective of the contest is two-fold. It aims to promote the development of web materials which may give us a future vision of the internet related to spatial information sciences
The topics presented by the participating teams comprise different aspects of geo-spatial information sciences and their applications and services
Summary
This type of geographic information platform and service has significantly increased the awareness, publicity, and usability of geo-spatial data and their applications. Vaporwares are not uncommon in the information industry, the nature of web-GIS and virtual globe types geospatial systems has seemed to make them easy to adopt and gain a solid user base among technical and non-technical people (Butler, 2006; Miller, 2006), in particular, students and young scientists since these new generations are more eager to try and accept new concepts and technologies. As the development of Google Earth API has been put into abeyance and its support is discontinued in the spring of 2016, an obvious question is “What comes next?” or “What can we do to keep up the good trend?”
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