Fight Song by Rachel Platten

Like a small boat
On the ocean
Sending big waves
Into motion
Like how a single word
Can make a heart open
I might only have one match
But I can make an explosion

And all those things I didn't say
Wrecking balls inside my brain
I will scream them loud tonight
Can you hear my voice this time?

This is my fight song
Take back my life song
Prove I'm alright song
My power's turned on
Starting right now I'll be strong
I'll play my fight song
And I don't really care if nobody else believes
'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me

Losing friends and I'm chasing sleep
Everybody's worried about me
In too deep
Say I'm in too deep (in too deep)
And it's been two years
I miss my home
But there's a fire burning in my bones
Still believe
Yeah, I still believe

And all those things I didn't say
Wrecking balls inside my brain
I will scream them loud tonight
Can you hear my voice this time?

This is my fight song
Take back my life song
Prove I'm alright song
My power's turned on
Starting right now I'll be strong
I'll play my fight song
And I don't really care if nobody else believes
'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me

A lot of fight left in me :)

This song is dedicated to all the Ph.D. candidates (including me )who wants to turn on the spirit of our research :)Believe in yourself.. you can do it! 

Dari Malaysia ke Prague ..

Pada 12 – 19 hb Julai 2016, saya telah menghadiri XXIII ISPRS Congress 2016 di Prague, Republic Czech bagi membentangkan kertas kerja yang bertajuk ‘Modelling the Carbon Stocks Estimation of the Tropical Lowland Dipterocarp Forest using LiDAR and Remotely Sensed Data’di bawah bahagian WG VII/6 –Remote Sensing Data Fusion. Congress di bawah seliaan International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ini diadakan selama empat tahun sekali dan merupakan antara persidangan yang terbesar di dalam bidang geospatial dan remote sensing. Seminar ini pertama kali diadakan di Austria pada tahun 1913, dan kini pada tahun 2016 dengan julungkalinya diadakan di Prague sebagai tuan rumah. 

                                                          Ketika presentation dijalankan.

                                Turn pukul 4.30 -6.30 (waktu Prague) Presenter kedua

                                           15 minit presentation including Q&A

Bergambar bersama SV, Prof Madya Dr.Zulkiflee Abdul Latif

Done presentation...Alhamdulillah...

Ya Allah..aku mohon padamu..Permudahkanlah perjalanan PhD ku ini.. Mohon padamu Ya Allah..kuatkanlah semangat untukku terus berjuang ..berikanlah aku kesihatan tubuh badan yang baik.. Mohon padamu Ya Allah...engkau lembutkan lah hati penilai untuk menilai dah menerima kertas kerja ku Ya Allah..Engkau permudahkanlah urusan penilai untuk meniali kertas kerja ku Ya Allah..Ya Rabbal Alamin... Semoga engkau perkenankan doa hamba mu ini..

GIS and Remote Sensing Journal List with Impact Factors

The following list provides impact factors for relevant GIS and Remote Sensing scientific journals.

2013 Impact Factor ,  (5-year Impact Factor for 2013 ,  5-year Impact Factor for 2011) 

Journal Name

** Remote Sensing

4.77 (6.07, 5.28) Remote Sensing of Environment
2.90 (4.20, 3.44) ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
2.93 (3.39, 3.30) IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2.54 (2.81, 2.33) Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
2.83 (2.96, 1.68) IEEE Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
2.62 (2.73, -) Remote Sensing
2.07 (2.11, 1.73) Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
1.81 (1.91, 1.85) IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
1.36 (1.72, 1.62) International Journal of Remote Sensing
1.43 (1.56, 0.70) Remote Sensing Letters
1.09 (1.46, 1.08) Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing
1.48 (1.40, 1.02) GIScience & Remote Sensing
1.38 (1.31, 1.49) The Photogrammetric Record
0.89 (1.03, -) Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
0.53 (-, -) Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

** GIS

1.48 (1.95, 1.85) International Journal of Geographical Information Science
? (?) The Geographical Journal
? (?, 2.12) Geoforum
1.12 (1.41, -) Journal of Geographical Sciences
0.73 (0.79, 0.49) Chinese Geographical Science 
1.0  (?, ?) Transactions in GIS
1.56 (1.95, 1.71) Computers & Geosciences
0.41 (1.03, -) Journal of Spatial Science
2.06 (2.24, 1.43) International Journal of Digital Earth
1.29 (1.18, 1.08) GeoInformatica
Journal of Geographical Systems
Geocarto International
Journal of Geographic Information System
Geo-spatial Information Science
GeoJournal
Geographical Research
Geography Compass
GeoJournal
International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research
Paper discussing impact factor of GIS Journals:
** C. Caron, S. Roche, D. Goyer, A. Jaton (2008). GIScience Journals Ranking and Evaluation: An International Delphi Study, Transactions in GIS, 12(3), pp. 293-321. [pdf]

** Broader Relevance

3.53 (4.02, 4.54) Public Library of Science One (PLOS One)
3.89 (4.26, 4.06) Progress in Physical Geography
7.24 (7.25, 6.63) Global Ecology and Biogeography
4.54 (4.28, 3.17 ) Environmental Modelling & Software
3.19 (3.85, 3.16) Journal of Environmental Management
1.68 (2.07, 1.95) Canadian Journal of Forest Research
1.68 (2.15, 2.11) European Journal of Forest Research
2.67 (3.10, 2.74) Forest Ecology and Management
1.87 (2.13, 1.99) Forestry
1.52 (1.81, 1.43) Forest Science
4.46 (4.41, 3.76) Geophysical Research Letters
8.22 (8.60, 8.04) Global Change Biology
3.58 (4.04, 3.83) Landscape Ecology
31.48 (34.46, 32.45) Science
11.67 (13.93, 11.92) Nature Geoscience
3.89 (4.44, 3.34) Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
2.60 (3.18, 3.10 ) Landscape and Urban Planning
1.74 (2.16, 1.89) Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
2.08 (2.52, 2.48) Neural Networks
4.37 (4.31, 3.37) IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
4.21(5.78, 5.54) Ecography
2.36 (2.54, 2.71) Ecological Modelling

What i have done in past 1 year for my PhD studying ??

The times flies too fast. Week by week past like a blink of an eyes..What i have done in these previous time? Does it adequate enough to graduate on time, within the time frame? There are a lot of obstacle facing by me in my PhD journey such as below:

1. Far from my supervisor ( i m living at the northern part of Malaysia,Perlis, while my sv at Northern part of Malaysia,Shah Alam), It would take 7 hours travel hours to meet with my sv.

2. I m a wife  and have one child. I have to take care of my husband, wait until my lovely daughter to fell asleep, then i can continue my work. But i have a whole day 8.00am till 5.00 to focus on my phd while my little daughter sent to the nursery.

3.Cost of travelling, collect data and meet an expert. I have to travel to KL, if i want to meet some expert in my courses.

4.Sometime, my daughter fell sick, fever, chicken pox, and many more, it would craving my time to be sacrifice...

5.My husband would sometime become one of the obstruction as well ,he would ask me to watch movie with him, everyday, so i had decided to move all my work station at another room. phewww..

But, overall. i think that i can manage well all those problem with strong determination that i will get my PhD no matter what happen.

Luckily, i have done this part :

1.Data collection have done.

2. Acquired a grants that will support my PhD.

3.Defense research proposal

4.Start doing the writing..writing and reading..

Hopefully god would ease my way, on getting my PhD on time :)

Tree tagging

With all the DR's 

Royal Belum Forest Reserve data collection

Paper Submission Target - Chapter Two

Here is the target journal that i would like to submit my paper.. "Frontiers of Earth Science"  for my chapter two of PhD thesis. The details about this academic journal is such as below..The deadline of mine : end of September 2014..(must put in the milestone so that i would be more discipline ).

Aims & Scope

FESCI publishes original, peer-reviewed, theoretical and experimental frontier research papers as well as significant review article of more general interest to earth scientists. The journal features articles dealing with observations, patterns, processes, and modeling of both inner spheres (including deep crust, mantle and core) and outer spheres (including atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere) of the earth, It aims at promoting communications and sharing knowledge among the international earth science communities. There will be thematic issues periodically featuring particular areas of earth science. The scope of this journal covers a broad range of earth science topics, including, but not limited to, physical geography, geology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, climatology, ecology, biology, global change, hydrology, environmental pollution, biochemical cycles, natural resources management, ecosystems and sustainability, land use/cover/change, environmental assessment and monitoring, remote sensing, instrumentation technology, data acquisition/processing/assimilation algorithm development, application and modeling, as well as socioeconomic drivers and societal consequences of changing planet and its environment. Critical reviews and discussions of recently published research papers are also encouraged.

Paper Submission Online

Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal at Paper Submission. Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, it will undergo language copy editing, typesetting, and reference validation in order to provide the highest publication quality possible.

So,now..have to collect all the relevant information regarding my topic, and having fun writing a literature review :)

Grant..Grant...Grant..


If phd without a fund, it would burden a lot :p

my next target to submit the grants is under MOSTI Science Fund, where the due are such as below:

Please note that all MOSTI R&D Fund applications will be processed in the series of quarterly cycles. The 2014 MOSTI R&D fund application cycle is as scheduled: Cycle Due Date of submission to RMI Due Date of Submission to MOSTI* Date of Evaluation Date of Result Announcement 1/2014 23/03/2014 31 Mac 2014 1 April – 9 Jun 2014 10 Jun 2014 2/2014 22/06/2014 30 Jun 2014 1 Julai - 8 September 2014 9 September 2014 3/2014 21/09/2014 30 September 2014 1 Oktober - 9 Disember 2014 10 Disember 2014 4/2014 21/12/2014 31 Disember 2014 1 Januari 2015 – 11 Mac 2015 12 Mac 2015

* Only applications with completed documentation will be processed & evaluated in the cycle.
* Any application received after each deadline will be processed in the next cycle.

1. APPLICATION PROCESS
Note:
i) The application is via e-science system
ii) New applicant MUST register as a user before proceed to the application
iii) The applicant later will receive the password via email
iv) Click SAVE button and SUBMIT button once have completed the application
*Print out and submit to the respective faculty with the Internal Screening form for recommendation from faculty (PJI)

Application for ScienceFund must be made online through the website http://ernd.mosti.gov.my/eScience/frmLogin.aspx
 Please refer to the ScienceFund Guidelines and eScienceFund User Manual for further instructions.

2. APPLICATION SUBMISSION
Application can be submitted throughout the year.

PREPARATION FOR PhD DEFENSE RESEARCH PROPOSAL

The due is on next month, which is on September 2014, so need to finish up the proposal...This is the manual preparation for UiTM PhD student.

1. BEFORE PROPOSAL DEFENCE:
   1. Prepare six (6) copies of research proposal and send to Faculty Head of Postgraduate Studies.
   2. Research proposal must be screened for plagiarism using Turnitin software.  The similarity index must be less than 30%. The proposal must be attached with the Attendance Confirmation Form and the Turnitin Originality Report with both endorsed by the Main Supervisor. You are also required to attached a copy of the IGS Research Skills Certificate or the exemption letter.
   3. Research proposal and all required documents must be submitted to the Faculty two (2) weeksbefore the DRP.
   4. Attached is the Research Proposal format for your attention.
2. ON PROPOSAL DEFENCE DAY:
   1. Students are given 30-40 (PhD) and 15-20 (MSc) minutes to present and answer questions from Panel of Assessors.
   2. Please make five (5) copies of PowerPoint handouts (refer attachment) for Panel of Assessors during the defence session.
   3. The PowerPoint presentation will be a brief summary of the complete Research Proposal sent earlier to the Faculty.
   4. Please bring the original copy of the IGS Research Skills Certificate or the exemption letter on the DRP registration day. Students without the certificate or letter will not be allowed to defend their proposal.
   5. Complete student information on the DRP Assessment Form (four (4) copies) to be submitted to the DRP secretariat.
3. ATTACHMENT:
   1. Defence of Research Proposal Schedule
   2. Attendance Confirmation Form
   3. Format of Contents of Research Proposal
   4. Format of Title Page
   5. Format of PowerPoint for Presentation
   6. DRP Assessment Form
   7. DRP Correction Verification Form