Prof. Sr Dr Mazlan Hashim is an expert in remote sensing technology applications within the natural resources management, environmental management, conservation and in mapping various national strategic applications. His research interest is in the rigorous development and innovation of diverse satellite remote sensing and geospatial applications for natural resources and environmental management, including in tropical ecology and biodiversity. He has led several national and international collaborative studies as Principal Investigator in remote sensing and geospatial technology applications, with a total accumulative of RM 33.9 million from national, international and contract research grants. He has published his research works in more than 250 indexed publications with h-index of 25, 1832 citations (Web-of-Science) and has 5 patents –granted, filed and disclosed.
He serves as an Editorial Board member for various international journals such as Scientific Reports; International Journal of Digital Earth; International Journal of Image and Data Fusion; International Journal of Geoinformatics; and Malaysian Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS.
He received various awards at both national and international levels for his outstanding R&D&I in the field of geospatial sciences and its applications. Amongst others, he is one of the recipients of the Eduard Dolezal award 1996 by International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), Eco-fellow Frontier award 2003 by Global Research Fund and Ministry of Environment, Japan and Top Research Scientists Malaysia 2016 by Academy of Sciences Malaysia. Conferred as Fellow of Academy of Sciences Malaysia in May 2018.
Currently, Prof Mazlan Hashim is the Senior Director of Research Institute of Sustainable Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He held several positions as Visiting Professor/Scientist at Arabian Gulf University (2015); Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan (2011-2019); Univ. of Cambridge, United Kingdom (2010); National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan (2002- 2004), Peking University, China (1990); and Tohoku University, Japan (1989).
Prof Mazlan Hashim is continuously inspiring young researchers to impactful research, putting scientific findings to actions, humanizing it to benefit related industry and society, apart from contributions to new knowledge. He has successfully supervised as the main supervisor for 16 completed PhD and 36 M. Sc (full research), respectively.
Title: Prospects of Earth Observation Systems for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The United Nations provides 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as a new global policy for guiding the method countries together transform and manage their economic, social, and environment. The pattern of people as well as the planet for the next 15 years (2030 agenda). Attaining these goals presents the entire nations and the world-wide policy community through a set of essential development challenges, which are almost generally geographic. Several of these issues impacting on sustainable development could be examined, modelled, and mapped in a geographic context using Earth Observations (EO) as a prospect to SDGs. Employing the EO technology offer the integrative framework essential for consensus, global collaboration, and evidence-based decision-making. Although, despite the significant advancement in EO systems, there are still gaps such as lacking awareness, comprehending and acceptance, specifically at the level of decision-making, the critical and integrative role of EOs and related technologies. This presentation highlights the role of EOs in contributing to SDGs, as it is not sufficiently been explained by the policy practice of sustainable development or by the EOs professional bodies. The global EOs community has an exclusive opportunity to integrate geospatial information to the global developmental agenda. Precisely in contributing data resources on monitoring and measuring the potentials out of the 17 SDGs, and 169 related targets, via the world-wide indicator framework, which supports the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. In addition, this presentation reviews some case studies of EOs that if used by stakeholders, it will fast track the achievement of the SDGs.