Article of the Month in 2007

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 2007 - Teo Chee Hai, Malaysia: Changing the Game: Sustaining the Profession.  This paper presented at the 6th FIG Regional Conference 2007 in San José, Costa Rica, 12-15 November 2007.
   
• November 2007 - Diane Dumashie, United Kingdom: Land, Sea and People: Equitable Access to Coastal Resources. This article was presented as a keynote paper at the 6th FIG Regional Conference 2007 in San José, Costa Rica, 12-15 November 2007.
   
• October 2007 - Frances Plimmer, United Kingdom: Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications. This paper was also presented in a technical session during the FIG Working Week 2007 in Hong Kong SAR, China, May 2007
   
• September 2007 - Thomas Kalbro, Sweden: Private Compulsory Acquisition and the Public Interest Requirement. This paper was presented at the FIG Commission 9 Seminar in Helsinki, Finland in September 2007
   
• August 2007 - Volker Schwieger, Germany: High-Sensitivity GNSS – The Low-Cost Future of GPS?! This paper was also presented in a technical session at the FIG Working Week 2007 in Hong Kong SAR, China, May 2007
   
• July 2007 - Rob Mahoney, Peter Dale and Robin McLaren, United Kingdom: Land Markets – Why are they required and how will they develop? This paper was also presented in a technical session at the FIG WW2007 in Hong Kong SAR, China, May 2007
   
• June 2007 -  Peter Byrne and Gail Kelly, Australia: The ABC of x,y,z - 21 Principles for Consideration by Surveyors and Other Geospatial Professionals. This paper was also presented in a technical session at the FIG WW2007 in Hong Kong SAR, China, May 2007
   
• May 2007 - Paul Kelly, Chair of FIG Commission 3 Working Group 3.2: Role of Spatial Data Infrastructures in Managing Our Cities. This paper was presented as keynote address at the FIG Commission 3 2007 Annual Meeting and Workshop “Spatial Information Management Toward Legalizing Informal Urban Development”, Sounio, Athens, Greece, 28-31 March 2007
   
• April 2007 - Stig Enemark, FIG President: Integrated Land-Use Management for Sustainable Development. This article was also presented at a FIG Commission 3 Workshop in Athens, Greece, March 28-31, 2007
   
• March 2007 -  Paul van der Molen and Arbind Tuladhar, International Institute for Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation: Corruption and Land Administration. This article was also presented as a paper in a technical session during the 23rd FIG Congress in October 2006 in Munich, Germany.
   
• February 2007 - Javier Ventura-Traveset, Ankit Raj Mathur and Felix Toran, European Space Agency (ESA), EGNOS Project, and Hans-Peter Plag, University of Nevada, USA: Provision of Emergency Communication Messages through Satellite Based Augmentation Systems for GNSS: The ESA ALIVE Concept.
   
• January 2007 - Dr. Lars Reuterswärd, Director of the Shelter and Sustainable Human Settlements Development Division of UN-Habitat: Urban-Rural Interrelationship in Land Administration – Urban Perspective. This paper is written and presented as a keynote presentation at the XXIII FIG Congress in Munich, Germany, 8-13 October 2006.