Workshops
Join our hands-on workshops led by industry experts. Enhance your skills through practical learning experiences and interactive sessions.
Take your first step into the world of LiDAR and geospatial analysis with the LiDAR360 Fast Track Workshop at MERCon 2026. Learn industry-standard workflows with practical demonstrations, real datasets, and interactive sessions led by field experts.
Start your LiDAR journey with practical learning covering point cloud visualization, classification, terrain models, feature extraction, forestry analysis, and data export.
Workshop Highlights
- Point Cloud Visualization
- Classification
- Terrain Models
- Feature Extraction
- Forestry Analysis
- Data Export
This workshop is designed to equip researchers with practical, up-to-date skills for writing high-quality research papers aligned with international conference and journal standards. With increasing expectations on clarity, reproducibility, visual quality, and ethical use of AI tools, effective research communication has become as critical as technical novelty. Aligned with the requirements of major engineering and computing conferences, the workshop provides a hands-on, end-to-end guide to research paper preparation from structuring ideas to producing camera-ready manuscripts using professional tools.
Target Audience
- Undergraduate and postgraduate students
- Early-career researchers, PhD candidates, academics, and industry researchers
Modern Research Paper Writing Techniques
- Paper structure, problem formulation, contributions
- Common reviewer expectations and rejection reasons
Conference Template Usage
- IEEE/ACM/Springer templates
- Page limits and camera-ready compliance
LaTeX for Research Writing
- Equations, references, BibTeX
- Overleaf and local workflows
Figure and Table Generation
- MATLAB, Python, TikZ, vector graphics
- Reproducibility and formatting standards
Online Research Tools
- Reference managers, collaboration tools
- Plagiarism checking and version control
Responsible Use of AI
- AI-assisted writing and limitations
- Conference/journal AI policies and ethical boundaries
From Draft to Submission
- Submission checklists
- Responding to reviewers