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Hagen Graeff, President of DVW at the Opening Ceremony of
Intergeo 2003.
FIG Honorary Presidents
Karl-Olof Ternryd (on the left), Juha
Talvitie and Heinz Draheim at the opening ceremony.
Organising Committee of FIG and Intergeo 2006. |
FIG was well represented to
this year's Intergeo which took place at the Hamburg Congress and
Exhibition Centre September 17-19, 2003. During the show FIG Council had
an informal meeting with main focus on the FIG Best Practice Report to
be further discussed at the 2nd FIG Regional Conference in Marrakech
December 2-5, 2003. FIG was also exhibiting in a joint stand with DVW
and thus already promoting the FIG Congress 2006 which will be organised
together with the Intergeo 2006 in the new Munich Conference Centre. As
normally also a meeting with FIG Corporate Members was included in the
programme as well as the first meeting of the organising committee of
FIG/Intergeo 2006.
In the technical programme there were two FIG Forums:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Schroth, FIG Vice President was chairing a
panel discussion on the topic "Wie gefragt ist deutsche Expertise im
Ausland?" (What is the demand for German surveying expertice on
international market?) with panellists: José-Luis Colomer Alberich,
Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya (Spain), Gerhard Muggenhuber,
Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen and FIG Commission 3 Chair
(Austria), Dr. Eberhard Guelch, Fa. Inpho (Germany) and Prof. Manfred Ehlers, Universität Vechta (Germany).
The second panel discussion was about"(Wie) Bereiten deutsche
Hochschulen auf Tätigkeiten und Arbeitsplätze im Ausland vor?" (Do the
German universities prepare graduates to abroad?), moderated by Dr. Werner Mayr (Germany) and with panellists: Prof.
Ian Dowman
University College London (UK), Prof. Stig Enemark, Aalborg
University (Denmark), Dr. Hartmut Rosengarten, Fa. Z/I Imaging
GmbH (Germany), Dr. Karsten Jacobsen, Universität Hannover
(Germany) and Prof. Martien Molenaar, International Institute for
Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) (Netherlands). Both
sessions attracted about 40 interested participants. |
