Article of the Month in 2005

FIG publishes each month the Article of the Month. This is a high-level paper focusing on interesting topic to all surveyors. This article can be picked up from an FIG conference or another event or it can be a paper written directly for this purpose.

• December 2005 - FIG President Univ. Professor Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel - About Surveyors’ Commitment, Role and Education for Society and Sustainable Development. Keynote Address at the Opening Ceremony of the 8th SEASC 2005 on 22 November 2005 in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam.
   
• November 2005 - Adam J. Kerr, United Kingdom - Hydrography and Disaster Management. This paper has been for the first time presented at the FIG Forum at the Intergeo 2005 in Düsseldorf, Germany, 4 October 2005.
   
• October 2005 - Chris Rizos, Matthew B. Higgins and S. Hewitson, Australia - New Global Navigation Satellite System Developments and Their Impact on Survey Service Providers and Surveyors. This article is based on a paper in Proceedings of SSC2005 Spatial Intelligence, Innovation and Praxis: The national biennial Conference of the Spatial Sciences Institute, September 2005. Melbourne: Spatial Sciences Institute. ISBN 0-9581366-2-9
   
• September 2005 - Mette Fosgaard Kragh, Denmark - New Danish Regional Development Plans – An Effort of Combining Economy and Spatial Aspects for Urban and Rural Areas. This article was for the first time presented at the FIG/GSDI Conference in Cairo, Egypt, 16-21 April 2005.
   
• August 2005 - Ian P. Williamson, Australia - Opportunities for Surveyors in Modern Land Markets. This paper was for the first time presented at the FIG/GSDI Conference in Cairo, Egypt, 16-21 April 2005.
   
• July 2005 -  Dorine A. J. Burmanje, Chair of the Board Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency, The Netherlands - Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration in Europe. This paper has been prepared and presented as a keynote presentation in a plenary session ”Co-operation between Land Administration and SDI” at the FIG/GSDI Conference in Cairo, Egypt, 16-21 April 2005. It is based on material presented during a UN/FIG/PC IDEA Conference in Aguascalientes, Mexico in November 2004.
   
• June 2005 - Richard Wonnacott, South Africa - AFREF - Background and Progress towards a Unified Reference System for Africa. This paper has been prepared and presented at the FIG Working Week / GSDI-8 Conference in Cairo, Egypt, April 16-21, 2005.
   
• May 2005 - Daniel Roberge, Canada: After the Tsunami – How the Surveying Profession Can Participate in the Reconstruction. This paper has been prepared and presented at the FIG Working Week / GSDI-8 Conference in Cairo, Egypt, April 16-21, 2005. It is also a contribution to the discussion how professional associations can contribute to risk and disaster management. At its meeting in Cairo the Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies decided to establish an ad hoc working party on risk and disaster management, chaired by Prof. Bengt Rystedt from ICA
   
• April 2005 - Stig Enemark, Denmark and John Parker, Australia: The Development of Land Information Policies in the Americas
   
• March 2005 - John Brock, Australia: Who Were the First Surveyors?
  Four Surveyors of the Gods: In the XVIII Dynasty of Egypt – New Kingdom c. 1400 B.C.
   
• February 2005 - David J. Powell, FRICS, MAE, Chairman of the Geomatics Faculty of the R.I.C.S., United Kingdom: Boundary Dispute Resolution in England & Wales – Surveyors and Lawyers Working Together to Resolve Problems
   
• January 2005 - Univ. Prof. Dr-Ing. Holger Magel, FIG President: Surveyors and Politics – the Need for Dialogue. This summary is based on the purely orally given lecture of Univ. Prof. Holger Magel, President of FIG at the RICS as the “Christmas Lecture” of the Geomatics Faculty, December 2, 2004.