The Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI) and the Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute (SCRI) successfully hosted a Distinguished Lecture on 11 September 2024, titled "Digital Twins and Urban Informatics," featuring Professor Michael Goodchild, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
In this lecture, Prof. Goodchild discussed the relevance of urban informatics as a promising field for the application of digital twins. While various definitions of digital twins share some common features, there is a lack of consensus on what precisely constitutes a digital twin. He highlighted the term can be misleading if the inherent uncertainties associated with any representation of a real system are not adequately addressed. Prof. Goodchild also examined the challenges of quantifying uncertainty and explored the implications of digital twins in urban informatics, including questions of purpose, governance, and ethics.
| Research Units | Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute | Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics |
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