Webinar Series by ISPRS WG III/9
Environmental & Health Concerns: Geospatial Technology
ISPRS WG III/9 (Geospatial Environment and Health Analytics) Webinar
Date/Time: February 25, 2026, 2 PM, GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
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Program
Introduction of Webinar Theme “Environmental & Health Concerns: Geospatial Technology” and Webinar Moderation:
Dr Muralikrishna Iyyanki, Chairman ISPRS WG III/9, Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=-bLu37QAAAAJ
Speaker:
- Dr. Pinliang Dong
Dr. Patricia Mwangi is currently serving as Faculty in the Dept of Spatial and Environmental Planning, School of Engineering and Architecture at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. Dr Patricia is a Geospatial Engineer with over ten years of working experience. She completed her PhD from Kenyatta University and her research focused on modelling the spatial relationship between built-up volume densities and surface urban heat islands. Her research interests are related to urbanization, land use and land cover changes and their effects on climate.
Topic: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of NO2 and LST in Nairobi City
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Dr. Y. Nithiyanandam
Dr Plnliang Dong is Pmfessor1 and Department Chair~Geography and tile Environment. University of North Texas (UNT), Denton. TX, USA. Dr. Dong's research interests include geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing. Dr. Dong teaches Intermediate GIS, Advanced GIS, Advanced GIS Programming, Introduction to Remote Sensing, and Special Problems. He advises rsearch in GIS, remote sensing, and applications in geographic and
environmeintal siences. Recent graduate theses include selecting optimal residential Iocations using GIS, vegetation mapping using NASAs EO-1 hyperspectral image data, development of a GIS toolkit for wiIdIife tracking, and smalI-area population estimation using high resolution satellite images and LiDAR data.
Topic: LiDAR Applications in Urban Environmental Studies