CALL FOR PAPERS

General

FIG Congress 2018 is the main event for all ten FIG technical commissions.

The overall theme of the Congress is:

Embracing our smart world where the continents connect:
enhancing the geospatial maturity of societies

A few years ago, we identified the need for providing reliable, evidence-based open and/or low-cost data which describe a “spatially enabled” society. But today we realize that we have an additional task to ensure that these data and tools are used intelligently by the society and governments and through that to ensure the transition from the stage of a “spatially enabled” society to the stage of a “spatially mature” society: a society that is able to use the available spatial information and tools in a smart way in order to achieve sustainable prosperity for all.

Since the time that surveyors have identified the need for enabling the society spatially a huge technological reform took place. This includes the massive creation and consumption of data (structured or not structured); the extended use of affordable smart devices (everyone now can afford to buy a smart device and download spatial data); the increasingly high downloading speeds; the Internet of Things; cognitive computing for all to improve human decision-making; and the provision of personalized information and the Internet of Me. We now realize that societies are to a great extent spatially enabled. The challenge for land surveyors and geospatial experts is that we will develop our skills properly in order to increase the usability of these spatial data, to process this available information and to develop fit for purpose tools to enable societies to “uncover” the missing information and reduce inequalities.

What should be done to increase our skills?

We need to be able to:

combine authoritative and non-authoritative data,
establish FFP infrastructures,
interpret & process data (inform once and use it several times and for various purposes),
increase the “usability” of spatial data, systems and land tools,
establish a mechanism for a consistent and repeatable update of information to compare & monitor the “geospatial maturity” of our society: the ability to retrieve the right information and use it to optimize activities required to achieve the SDGs.

The theme of our FIG2018 Congress “Embracing our smart world where the continents connect: enhancing the geospatial maturity of societies” finds its meaning in the joint effort for the “Geospatial Transformation of the World” and is aligned with the above definition of “geospatial maturity” of societies.

We aim to share the gained experience and knowledge in the surveying profession- our progress in developing, retrieving and using spatial information and land tools intelligently- among the various cultures and societies, and to enhance the ability of all people and governments to use information and tools properly to optimize activities required to achieve the SDGs.

Topics of interest

Therefore proposals for papers are requested in all topics of interest of the following commissions:

1. Professional Standards and Practice - FIG Commission 1
2. Professional Education - FIG Commission 2
3. Spatial Information Management - FIG Commission 3
4. Hydrography - FIG Commission 4
5. Positioning and Measurement - FIG commission 5
6. Engineering Surveys - FIG Commission 6
7. Cadastre and Land Management - FIG Commission 7
8. Spatial Planning and Development - FIG Commission 8
9. Valuation and the Management of Real Estate - FIG Commission 9
10. Construction Economics and Management - FIG Commission 10

Papers are also invited on the areas of the FIG Task Force on Real Estate Market Study, Standards Network, and on the History of Surveying and Measurement (Permanent Institution of FIG).

Specific Topics of FIG Congress 2018

In the open call for papers non-peer review and peer review papers are invited from following
the detailed topics selected by FIG Commissions:

Commission 1 – Professional Standards and Practice

Professional ethics
International boundaries
Women in Surveying
Mutual recognition of qualifications or professional status

Commission 2 – Professional Education

Cross border education for smart surveyors
Innovative learning and teaching
Demand for and supply of professional education
Accreditation and quality assurance

Commission 3 – Spatial Information Management (SIM)

SDI at all levels – local, regional, national and globalE-Governance and SDI in supporting decision making – theory, applications and best practice for the collection, dissemination, analysis, applications, maintenance and visualization of data
SIM as basis for land planning
VGI as smart system to serve the world of tomorrow
Integration of SDIs – cadastre, land use, utilities, environment, socio-economic
SDI interoperability – standards, technical tools, metadata, portals
3D/4D Cadastre
Crowdsourcing for innovation land and spatial information management
2D/3D/4D geospatial models, algorithms, visualization, standards and applications
Web and mobile GIS – challenges, services and real-time capabilitiesBusiness models and SDI, public-private partnerships and economic aspect
The importance of NSDI

Commission 4 - Hydrography

Hydrographic standards and guidelines
Hydrographic Education, Training and Professional Development.
New and emerging science and technologies for hydrography (e.g. sensors, systems, AUVs, electromagnetic wave propagation etc.)
Maritime and marine spatial information management (including data processing and management of hydrographic data, data structures, marine spatial data infrastructures, marine information systems)
Hydrography and society (Offshore surveying in support of energy, environment, submarine telecommunications, ports and harbours, economies, national and international political objectives)
Bathymetric mapping, sea level monitoring
Marine spatial information management including data processing and management of hydrographic data
Data structures
Darine spatial data infrastructures
Marine information systems

Commission 5 – Positioning and Measurement

Standards, best practice guidelines, quality assurance and calibration for measuring instrumentsNational or geospatial reference systems and associated infrastructure
Vertical reference frames, geoid and gravity
GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, Multi-GNSS), including CORS networks
Terrestrial and airborne laser scanning, 3D data acquisition
Cost-effective surveying (GNSS and other survey methods)
Multi-Sensor-Systems (INS-GNSS, Mobile Mapping, etc.)
Ubiquitous positioning techniques and applications -such as RFID, WiFi, AGPS, mobile phones, MEMS inertial sensors, Locata
Positioning and metrology – technique, methodology, adjustment and analysis
Earthquake prediction
Vertical geodetic networks

Commission 6 – Engineering Surveys

Deformation measurement
Engineering surveys in managing natural disasters
Precise height measurements for engineering
Recent industrial surveying and sensing technologies and applications
Laser scanning applications
Machine control and guidance with surveying technologies
mobile Lidar
UAV applications

Commission 7 – Cadastre and Land Management

Land Registration models in urban and rural areas
From digital to smart – the new paradigm in land management
Role of smart devices for data capture in land registration Ownership of data in smart communities
The internet of things providing added value in registration of tenure in urban areas
New technologies for remote and in-situ data acquisition on land rights / social media and third party data capture / crowdsourcing
The role of the private and public sector in society driven land registration systems
Security of tenure in smart societies
Global indicators for land tenure in different cultures Smart procedures for smart land management
Cadastre 4.0 – Transparency, Participation, Collaboration
Impact of new technologies on land rights and cadastral systems validation of third party data in society driven data acquisition
Public trust in smart land registration systems / fraud prevention by publicity
The role of blockchain technology for security of tenure and systems
Voluntary guidelines in technology driven land registration Land policy and reforms to support the SDGs
Compensation for value changes from rural and urban land policy
Multi-dimensional and multi-temporal cadastre
Data protection and data security / rights of individuals
The land owner as equal partner in land registration

Commission 8 – Spatial Planning and Development

Environmental challenges in megacities
Urban and rural land use planning
Planning policies and environmental improvement
Informal settlement issues in spatial development, planning and governance
Planning and managing urbanisation
Public-private partnerships in planning and land development
Contributing to Global water management utilization – Action and planning
Rural development and land consolidation

Commission 9 – Valuation and the Management of Real Estate

Tax Bases and Real Estate Taxation Systems
Mass Appraisal Techniques
Large Scale Acquisitions of Land (“Land Grab”)
Trends in Real Estate Valuation Techniques
Valuation methods for Unregistered Land an Limited Property Markets
Valuation Profession and Valuation Standards
Real Estate Finance, New Credit Technologies and Investments
Compulsory Purchase and Compensations in Property Acquisition and Takings
Real Property Practices and Sustainable Cities

Commission 10 – Construction Economics and Management

Quantity Surveying and Cost Management
Project Procurement and Tendering (Bidding)
BIM - Building Information Modelling - the hottest one
Construction standards and regulations including proposed International Construction Measurement Standards (ICMS)
Construction economics and global construction trend
Innovative house building and affordable housing
Sustainable construction and development