Message from Editor for Volume 19, No. 5 May 2023 (Open Access with DOI)

Abstract

This issue is a special issue on selected papers from “Int. Conf. on Geomatics and Geospatial
Technologies”. I would like to thank Dr. Khairul Nizam Tahar, a Member of the Editorial Board of the
International Journal of Geoinformatics, and other reviewers for their meticulous work in arranging the
reviews, editing, and coordinating with authors and the IJG office. This contains 11 papers in very
interesting research areas of geoinformatics applications. A few of the papers are from GPR (ground
profiling radar) for subsurface sensing. GPR can be very useful for locating buried objects, subsidence
analysis, and exploration of heavy materials and pipelines. It can also be used for archeology and also
various civil engineering applications.

This issue also contains papers from hyperspectral remote sensing and finding Ganoderma disease in oil
palm plantations. There are papers to extract plant geometry using multispectral data which is a very
popular research area and yields a good modeling approach for inventory and also the health of plants.
There is a paper e-Scooter Shared Station planning using MCDM approach. There is an interesting paper
on the accuracy assessment of a detailed survey using the iPhone 13 Pro Max LiDAR sensor. These kinds
of novel ideas are very enriching and innovative.
I feel these papers will be a valuable collection of knowledge and also the proposed methods may be
tested in other areas by future researchers to justify their use in real life.
My sincere thanks to all the authors for their hard work in research and also for making this special
issue. It is my dream that in every country people join hands and do group research to find indigenous
solutions to local problems with tools that are easily available. With best wishes to all readers and
contributors of papers.