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Fédération Internationale des Géomètres Internationale Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure |
FIG Newsletter – August 2018 |
Dear Colleague,
Welcome to the August issue of FIG Newsletter. The call for papers for
FIG Working Week 2019 is out. Please have a look and submit your abstract -
note the deadlines!
FIG Office has sent a copy of the minutes from the General Assembly 2018 to
all members together with the Annual Review 2017 and the two new
publications which you can read more about in this newsletter. If you have
not received your letter we might have a wrong postal address to your
organisation. Please contact FIG office at fig@fig.net
to update or wait for an email from us with a link to your online update
page.
Article of the Month
Each month on the FIG web site we publish a paper called the Article of the Month.
August 2018: Alternative Approach and toolkits for Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services of Wetlands: An Application to Farlington Marshes, UK by Brett (Venezuela) and Boateng, (United Kingdom) . This article has passed the FIG peer review and was presented at the FIG Congress 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey. This paper attempts to develop an alternative holistic approach to a methodology for the economic valuation of the ecosystem goods and services of wetlands.
FIG Working Week 2019 - Call for Papers
The FIG Working Week will be the major event in 2019 in the global community of surveying and geospatial professionals. It is organised by FIG - International Federation of Surveyors and VGCR - Vietnam Association of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing. The main objective of the FIG Working Week is to bring together experts from academia, governments/public administration and industry to report on recent developments, trends and research results.
he theme of the conference is Geospatial information for a smarter life and environmental resilience. Focus will be on tackling the climate changes by working towards a smarter life both through the development of smart cities and also in rural areas. Spatial information, big data, surveying, BIM, land administration and much more are essential factors in this development.
Are you interested in presenting at FIG Working Week? Do you have an inspiring story to tell and interesting findings to showcase? Please check the Call for Papers.
Please note the deadlines: 1 November (abstracts, regular papers) and 1 October (full paper, peer review)
Do not miss this premier event of 2019. Read more at: www.fig.net/fig2019
FIG Foundation Grants for 2019
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Details of the FIG Foundation Academic Grant and PhD Scholarship
2019 competitions are now available. Please check the two introduction videos in which Mike Barry, board member of FIG Foundation, and Eva-Maria Unger, Chair of FIG Young Surveyors inform about how to apply. http://fig.net/news/news_2018/foundationgrants_2019.asp |
FIG Activities and visits
Celebration of 250 year anniversary of the Surveying Profession in Denmark
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2018 marks the 250th anniversary of the Danish Surveying
Profession. In 1768, the Danish King Christian VII appointed the
first two Danish surveyors. This means that surveying
is one of the oldest recognised professions in Denmark. The Association of Danish Surveyors,
DDL, together with Aalborg University that educates surveyors in
Denmark and the Danish Geodata Agency had invited to a day of
celebration at Aalborg University. |
Commission 7 annual meeting
24-26 September 2018, Bergen, Norway
Africa Regional Network Workshop 2018
17-19 October 2018 in Gaborone, Botswana
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Jakoba Kgopolelo President of Botswana Institute of
Geomatics invites African land professionals to the Africa Regional
Network 2018, a prestigious event where Geospatial professionals
across the continent of Africa will be gathered to discuss pertinent
issues in their profession cutting across many industries. http://fig.net/news/news_2018/08_arn_botswana_invite.asp |
FIG Young Surveyors African Meeting
16 October Gaborone, Botswana
The FIG Foundation invites Young Surveyors to apply for
funds to participate in the 1st Young Surveyors African Meeting (YSAM) and
the 2018 FIG-African Regional Network Meeting taking place in Gaborone,
Botswana, on the 16th and 17th-19th of October respectively.
Deadline is 7 September 2018 at 17:00 GMT.
FIG Young Surveyors North America Meeting
17-18 October 2018, Maryland US
Flyer:
http://fig.net/organisation/networks/ys/activities/events/2018_FIGNSPS_YSN_Flyer.pdf
Web site:
https://www.nsps.us.com/page/YSMeeting
Commission 5&6/10 grants to Young Surveyors - Geo PreVi 2018
29-30 October 2018, Bucharest Romania
Geo PreVi 2018 Symposium “Geodesy for Smart Cities” will take place in
Bucharest, Romania 29-30 October. The technical program is mainly organized
by help of FIG Commission 5, 6 and 10 dealing with Positioning and
Measurement, Engineering Geodesy and Construction Economics and Management.
The organizing committee will support young surveyors from Romania and
abroad.
More information:
http://fig.net/organisation/comm/5/index.asp
Participate in Survey on the value of geoinformation
The working group „Geoinformation and Geodata Management” of the German
Society for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management (DVW) would
like to carry out a comparing investigation to the „Value of
Geoinformation”. Therefore a questionnaire was developed with particular
focus on Open Geo Data. Goal of this questionnaire is to monitor experiences
from open geo data providers. Within 7 questions only the content, access
and use of the provided geo data are being checked. The questionnaire is now
available following this link:
https://lfg.fb1.frankfurt-university.de/546466?lang=en
All replies will be treated in strictest confidence. The information given
will only be used for monitoring and assessment purposes and will be
published as open data.
Publications
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FIG PUBLICATION NO. 70: Africa Regional Network 2015-2018
FIG Report
Author: Chair of FIG Africa Regional Network and FIG Vice President Diane
Dumashie
http://fig.net/resources/publications/figpub/pub70/figpub70.asp
FIG PUBLICATION NO. 71:
FIG Guidance on Professional Competencies for Quantity
Surveyors / Construction Economists / Cost Engineers
FIG Guide
Author:
SeeLian Ong, Chair of FIG Commission 10 2015-2018
http://fig.net/resources/publications/figpub/pub71/
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FIG Annual Review 20172017 was again an exciting and busy year for FIG. The Annual Review highlights some of the activities and achievements throughout the year.http://fig.net/news/news_2018/05_FIG_Annual_Review_2017.asp |
FIG Congress 2018 – Report
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The Congress, organised by FIG and the Turkish Chamber of Survey and Cadaster Engineers (CSCE), took place 6 – 11 May 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Events
04-09 September 2018 , Baku, Azerbaijan
Eurasian GIS Congress 2018 - Selcuk University
Web site
18-20 September 2018, Suva, Fiji
The Fiji GNSS CORS workshop supported by FIG Asia/Pacific Network (AP CPN)
and FIG Commission 5
24-26 September 2018, Melbourne, Australia
The International Symposium and Workshops on “A Smart Sustainable
Future for All 2018”. Organised by the University of Melbourne’s Centre for
Spatial Data Infrastructure and Land Administration (CSDILA) and Centre for
Disaster Management and Public Safety (CDMPS), in co-partnership with The
World Bank. Web site
24-28 September 2018, Bergen - Norway
FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting and International Seminar on "Cadastre in a
digital world - Nordic and Global Perspectives" Organised by FIG Commission
7
Web site
Invitation
1-5 October 2018, Delft, The Netherlands
1-5 October: ISPRS Technical
Commission IV Symposium 2018 (BGC Geomatics) Web
site
1-2 October: 13th 3D GeoInfor Conference. Web site
2-4 October: 6th International Workshop on 3D Cadastres,
organised by FIG 3D Cadastre Working group, Web
site
4-5 October: 3rd International Conference on Smart Data and
Smart Cities Web site
10-13 October 2018, Athens Greece
1st International Conference TMM_CH: Transdisciplinary
Multispectral Modelling and Cooperation for the Preservation of Cultural
Heritage.
https://tmm-ch2018.com/
15-18 October 2018, London, United Kingdom
The Year in Infrastructure Organised by Bentley.
Web site
16 October 2018, Gaborone, Botswana
1st FIG Young Surveyors African Meeting (YASM)
17-18 October 2018, Gaborone, Botswana
FIG Africa Network Workshop
http://fig.net/organisation/networks/capacity_development/africa/events/2018_gaborone/index.asp
16-18 October 2018,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
InterGeo. Organised by DVW.
Web site
17-18 October 2018, College Park, Maryland, United States
FIG Young Surveyors North America Meeting
Flyer
Web site:
https://www.nsps.us.com/page/YSMeeting
23-25 October 2018 RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia
The10th Multi-GNSS Asia (MGA) Conference, supported by FIG Commission 5
Web site:
https://2018.mgaconference.com.au/
29-30 October, Bucharest, Romania,
GEOPREVI 2018, Geodesy for Smart Cities, Joint Seminar of FIG Commission 5,
6 and 10
Web site: https://geoprevi.xyz/
5-7 November 2018, Las Vegas, USA
Trimble Diemnsions
Web site:
https://www.trimbledimensions.com/
7-11 November 2018, in Athens, Greece
FIG/UNECE/UIA/CEEC conference: “Impact of Megatrends and Solutions for the
Built Environment and Real Estate”
Incl FIG Hand-Over event.
More information yet to come.
7-9 November 2018, ChengDu China
CHINTERGEO 2018 - China Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information
Technology Equipment Exhibition.
Web site:
http://www.chintergeo.com/en/index.html
26-30 November 2018 Suva,
Fiji Pacific Islands GIS and RS User Conference 2018: Transforming Pacific
Resources and Infrastructure Management using GIS & RS
Web site
Flyer
3 December 2018, Helsinki, Finland
Smart Land Administration Seminar, a Slush Side Event, organised by National
Land Survey of Finland (NLS), Aalto University, the Finnish Location
Information Cluster, and the World Bank. The side event is held in
conjunction with SLUSH (www.slush.org).
More information
2019
FIG Working Week 2019
Web site
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