Saturday, 10 November 2007 |
Saturday, 10 November 2007
09:00-17:00
Venue: Gardenias Salon, Hotel Ramada Plaza Herradura |
FIG Council Meeting
|
Sunday, 11 November 2007 |
Sunday, 11 November 2007
09:00-17:00
Venue:
Gardenias Salon, Hotel Ramada Plaza Herradura |
ACCO Meeting
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Sunday, 11 November 2007
14:00-18:00
Venue: Girasol Salon, Hotel Ramada Plaza Herradura |
Pre-Conference Seminar sponsored by Trimble
This seminar will demonstrate Trimble positioning
technologies and show how they allow surveying businesses to manage
the exchange of data between the field and the office more
effectively
[paper]
[slides] |
Monday, 12 November 2007 |
Monday, 12 November 2007
09:30-10:30
Venue: Salon La Paz |
Opening Ceremony
Commissions: All
-
Greetings by Ing Freddy
Bolaños, Representing the Executive Director of CFIA
- Address by Ing Juan Manuel Castro
Alfaro, President of CFIA/CIT
-
[paper]
-
Adress by Prof Stig Enemark, FIG
President
[paper]
[slides]
- Address by the
Costa Rican Minister
of Housing Mr Fernando Zumbado
-
FIG Fanfare
- Opening of the 6th FIG Regional Conference
- End of the Opening Ceremony
|
Monday, 12 November 2007
10:30-11:00
Venue: Vestibulo Norte |
Coffee Break |
Monday, 12 November 2007
11:-12:30
Venue: Salon La Paz |
Plenary Session I – Coastal Zone Management
Commission: All
Chair: Mr Rob Mahoney (United Kingdom)
Mr Alexander Gonzalez (Costa Rica)
The Handling of the Zona Marítimo Terrestre (ZMT) of Costa Rica
Geodesy, Basic Tool for its Suitable Administration (2569)
[paper]
[slides]
Dr Diane D. Dumashie
(UK)
Land, Sea, and People: Equitable Access to Coastal Resources (2484)
[paper]
[slides] Dr Michael Sutherland
(Trinidad and Tobago)
Coastal Zone Management as Strategy for Pro-poor Land Management and
Administration (2510)
[paper]
[slides] |
Monday, 12 November 2007
12:30-14:00
Venue: Vestibulo Sur |
Lunch |
Monday, 12 November 2007
14:00-15:30
Salon La Paz B Oeste |
TS 1 – Coastal Zone Management
Commission: 3, 4, 7, 8
Chair:
Dr Michael Sutherland (Trinidad and Tobago)Mr Teo Chee Hai
(Malaysia):
Surveys for Shoreline Monitoring Programme (2402)
[paper]
[slides]
Mr Christodoulos Psaltis and Dr
Charalabos Ioannidis (Greece):
An Algorithm for Monitoring Informal Constructions - An Application
in Coastal Areas (2441)
[paper]
[slides]
|
Monday, 12 November 2007
14:00-15:30
Salon La Paz B Este |
TS 2 – GNSS CORS Fundamentals
Commission: 5
Chair: Dr
Rudolf Staiger (Germany)
Dr-Ing Volker Schwieger (Germany):
GNSS CORS Infrastructure and General Principles (2477)
[paper]
[slides]
Mr Mikael Lilje
(Sweden) and Mr Rob Sarib (Australia):
Linking GNSS, CORS and Reference Frames (2466)
[paper]
[slides]
Mr David Martin (France):
Standards and Best Practice for GNSS and CORS (2467)
[paper] [slides]
Mr Matt Higgins (Australia):
GNSS, CORS and Positioning Infrastructure - Business and the Future
(2468)
[paper] [slides] |
Monday, 12 November 2007
14:00-15:30
Salon La Paz B Oeste
|
TS 3 – GIS Applications
Commission: 3
Chair: Ms Kari Strande (Norway)
Mrs Luz Angela Rocha (Colombia):
Guidelines for Designing WEB Maps. An Academic Experience (2406)
[paper]
[slides]Mr Michael Edwards, Ms Margaret Winslow and
Dr Reginald Blake, (United States):
Evaluating Pine Barren Ecosystem with the Integration of Optical
Remote Sensing and GIS (2394). This paper was not presented during
the conference.
[paper] [slides] |
Monday, 12 November 2007
15:30-16:00
Vestibulo Norte |
Coffee Break |
Monday, 12 November
2007
16:00-17:30
Salon La Paz |
TS 4 – Workshop on Pro-Poor CZM – Preparation of FIG Publication
Commission: 3, 4, 7, 8
Chair: Mr Rob Mahoney (United Kingdom)
|
Monday, 12 November
2007
16:00-17:30
Salon La Paz B Oeste |
TS 5 - Operational GNSS and CORS Infrastructure
Commission: 5
Chair: Dr Volker Schwieger (Germany)
Ms Sonia Maria
Alves Costa, (Brazil):
SIRGAS Operations and the Regional LOCAL CORS Network Scene (2520)
[paper]
[slides]
Prof Cárdenas Contreras Andrés, Ing Raul Ernesto Martinez Cano and Ing Jorge Ivan Ramirez
Sanabria (Colombia):
Control Geodesico y Sig de un Tramo del Sistema Ferroviario de
Colombia (2430)
[paper]
[slides]
Mr Dave Doyle (USA):
Improved Access to an Accurate Geodetic Reference Frame in the
Caribbean/Center America Region (2470)
[paper] [slides]
Dr Neil Weston (USA):
NGS and OPUS Activities (2471)
[paper]
[slides]
Mr Neal Toso (United
States):
Overview of Various GNSS CORS Networks (2479)
[paper] [slides]
|
Monday, 12 November
2007
16:00-17:30
Salon La Paz C Oeste (West) |
TS 6 – Land Administration
Commission: 7
Chair:
Mr Murat Meha (Kosovo)
SESSION CANCELLED
|
Monday 12 November
2007
19:00-22:00
Venue: CFIA Auditorium (bus transfer) |
Welcome Reception
Commission: All
Dress Code: Casual |
Tuesday, 13 November 2007 |
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
09:00-10:30
Salon La Paz |
Plenary Session II – Land Administration
Commission: All
Chair: Dr Chryssy Potsiou (Greece)
Mr Daniel Acuña Ortega (Costa Rica)
From the Inscription of Planes to the Land Administration in Costa
Rica a Relation between the Exercise of the Topography and the
Administration of the Territory in Costa Rica (2555)
[paper]
[slides]
Mr Francisco J.
Proenza (Italy)
Information Systems and Land Administration (2504)
[paper] [slides]
Mr Grenville Barnes (USA)
Developing Resilient and Responsive Land Administration Systems in
Latin America (2486)
[paper]
[slides] |
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
10:30-11:00
Vestibulo Norte |
Coffee Break |
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
11:00-12:30
Salon La Paz |
TS 7 - World Bank Projects in Latin America
Commission: 7
Chair: Mr Grenville Barnes (USA)
Ing Hector Alvarado (Guatemala):
The New University Land Administration Study Program in Guatemala:
Advances and Perspectives (2438)
[paper]
[slides]
Mr Malcolm Childress
World Bank Land Administration Projects in Latin America
[paper] [slides] |
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
11:00-12:30
Salon La Paz C B Oeste (West) |
TS 08 – Positioning and Measurement
Commission: 5
Chair: Mr Rob Sarib (Australia)
Dr Volker Schwieger (Germany):
Positioning within the GSM Network (2407)
[paper]
[slides]
Mr Carlos Rodriguez
(Puerto Rico):
Virtual Machines for GPS Real Time Networks (2393)
[paper]
[slides]
Mr Joe Sass (United
States):
Low Cost, High Accuracy, GNSS Survey & Mapping (2426)
[paper]
[slides]
Dr Ivo Milev (Germany)
DGNSS Based Multisensor Navigator for Railway State Monitoring
(2523)
[paper]
[slides] |
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
11:00-12:30
Salon La Paz C Este |
TS 09 – Natural Resources and Risk Management
Commission: 8
Chair: Mr Andrew Morley (United Kingdom)
Prof Linda L. Vélez-Rodríguez (Puerto Rico):
Tidal Stations and Bench Marks: Tools for Spatial Information
Managements (2399)
[paper]
[slides]Mrs Judith
Salas-Miranda and Mrs Angelica Ladino-Parra (Colombia):
Desarrollo conceptual y metodológico de un sistema de información
geográfica para el ordenamiento territorial nacional (2513)
[paper]
[slides]
|
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
12:30-14:00
Vestibulo Sur |
Lunch |
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
14:00-15:30
Salon La Paz B Oeste |
TS 10 – Sustainability in Land Administration
Commission: 7
Chair:
Dr Charisse Griffith-Charles (Trinidad And Tobago)
Dr Charisse Griffith-Charles (Trinidad And Tobago):
The Relative Efficacy of Deed and Title Registration Procedures for
Facilitating Land Transactions (2444)
[paper]
[slides]
Mr Mathias Lemmens,
Mr Christiaan Lemmen and Mr Martin Wubbe (The
Netherlands)
Pictometry: Potentials for Land Administration (2521)
[paper]
[slides] Mr András Osskó (Hungary):
Questions on Sustainable Land Administration (2416)
This paper was not presented during the conference.
[paper] [slides]
Ms Lorena Romero Payes, Mr Marlon
Bueso Campos, Mr Hugo Orellana Paz and Mr Marvin
Turcios (Guatemala):
Fortalecimiento de las capacidades administrativas de asociaciones
de productores en el manejo y prestación de servicios de irrigación
en el valle de la fragua, Zacapa, Guatemala. 2007 (2443)
[paper]
[slides]
Prof Murat Meha (Kosovo (UNMIK)):
A Review of Reconstruction of Cadastre Based on Pilot Projects in
Kosova (2412)
[paper]
[slides]
Mr Martin Wubbe
and Prof Paul van der Molen (Netherlands)
E-Government and E-Land Administration - As an Example: The
Netherlands (2480)
[paper]
[slides]
|
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
14:00-15:30
Salon La Paz B Este |
TS 11 – Spatial Data Infrastructure
Commission: 3
Chair: Dr Chryssy Potsiou (Greece)
Ms Kari Strande (Norway)
eNorway and Norway Digital as Tools in Good Governance, Risk and
Environment Management (2493)
[paper]
[slides]Mr Jan van Hemert (Netherlands):
The Development of a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (N.S.D.I.)
in General and especially in Costa Rica (2425)
[paper]
[slides]
Mrs Luz Angela Rocha (Colombia):
The Academic Role on a SDI in a Local Level (2405)
[paper]
[slides]
|
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
14:00-15:30
Salon La Paz C Oeste |
TS 12 – Good Governance in Land Development
Commission: 7, 8
Chair: Mr Leiv Bjarte Mjøs (Norway)
Mr Ricardo Lozano Botache (Colombia):
Factores que inciden en el precio de las tierras de uso agricola
(2400)
[paper]
[slides]Mrs Iyenemi Ibimina Kakulu (Nigeria):
Distortion of Land Value Trends and Growth Patterns in Rural
Communities in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria (2461)
[paper]
[slides]
|
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
15:30-16:00
Vestibulo Norte |
Coffee Break |
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
16:00-17:30
Salon La Paz B Oeste |
TS 13 – Administering Marine Spaces
Commission: 4, 7
Chair: Mr Gordon Johnston (United Kingdom)
Ms Miriam Miranda, Mr Daniel Acuña and Mr Alexander
González (Costa Rica):
Programa de Regularización de Catastro y Registro: Instrumentos para
la Regularización de la zona marítimo terrestre en Costa Rica (2453)
[paper]
[slides]
Mr Bob Foster
and Mr Stephen Mague (United States):
Where's the Shoreline? Sources of Historical and Contemporary High
Water Position Developed in the context of Massachusetts coastal
regulations (2413)
[paper]
[slides]
Dr George Cole (United States):
Delineation of Coastal Boundaries Using Tidal Datums (2415)
[paper]
[slides]
Dr Michael
Sutherland (Trinidad and Tobago)
International Issues in Administering Marine Spaces (2512)
[paper]
[slides]
|
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
16:00-17:30
Salon La Paz B Este |
TS 14 – Curriculum Development
Commission: 2
Chair: Prof Pedro Cavero (Spain)
Mr Jonathan Regehr,
Mr Garreth Rempel and Mr Bjorn Radstrom (Canada),
Dr Rafael Murillo M. (Costa Rica), Mr Jorge Arango
(Colombia) and Dr Jeannette Montufar (Canada):
Building Advanced Spatial Thinking Capacity into Transportation
Engineering Education and Research (2429)
[paper]
[slides]
Mr Mehmet Zeki Coskun (Turkey):
Surveying Education in ITU (Istanbul Technical University) and
Comparison with USA Universities (2454)
[paper] [slides]
Dr. Böder Volker
and Dr Delf Egge (Germany)
Hydrographic Education (Category A) at the Newly Founded HafenCity
University, Hamburg (HCU) (2464)
[paper]
[slides] |
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
16:00-17:30
Salon La Paz C Oeste |
TS
15 – Empowerment of the Poor
Commission: 7
Chair: Mr Martin Wubbe (The Netherlands)
SESSION CANCELLED
|
Tuesday 13 November 2007
19:00-22:00
Pueblo Antiguo Old Town – (bus transfer) |
Costa Rican Cultural Evening
Commission: All
Dress Code: Casual
|
Wednesday, 14 November 2007 |
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
09:00-10:30
Salon La Paz |
Plenary Session III – Capacity Building
Commission: All
Chair: Mr. Ken Allred (Canada)
Mr. Daniel Hernandez (Costa Rica):
Developing of curriculum of Surveying in Costa Rica
Formation, Accreditation, and Professionel Certification (2572)
[paper]
[slides]Prof Pedro Cavero (Spain)
Curriculum Development in Latin America
[paper] [slides] |
Wednesday, 14 Nov.
2007
10:30-11:00
Vestibulo Norte |
Coffee Break |
Wednesday, 14 Nov.
2007
11:00-12:30
Salon La Paz B Oeste |
TS 16 – Capacity Building in LAS
Commission: 2
Chair: Prof Pedro Cavero (Spain)
Ms Gloria Rudas-Cuellar (Panama)
El Programa Nacional de Tierras de Panamà – Una Experiencia
[paper]
[slides] |
Wednesday, 14 Nov.
2007
11:00-12:30
Salon La Paz B Este |
TS 17 – Development of the Profession
Commission: 1
Chair: Mr Matt Higgins, Australia
Mr Ken Allred (Canada):
The Surveying Profession (2500)
[paper]
[slides]
Mr Teo Chee Hai
(Malaysia):
Changing the Game: Sustaining the Profession (2401)
[paper]
[slides]
Mr Casey Brennan and Ms Erika Wilson
(United States):
NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey’s Efforts and Opportunities in the
Field of Training and Education (2414)
[paper]
[slides]
|
Wednesday, 14 Nov.
2007
11:00-12:30
Salon La Paz C Oeste |
TS 18 – Land Development
Commission: 8, 9
Chair: Prof Kauko Viitanen (Finland)
SESSION
CANCELLED |
Wednesday, 14 Nov.
2007
12:30-14:00
Vestibulo Sur |
Lunch |
Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:00-15:30
Salon La Paz
|
TS 19 – Education Workshop
Commission: 2
Chair: Prof. Pedro Cavero (Spain)
Workshop discussing key educational issues in the region |
Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:00-15:30
Salon La Paz B Oeste |
TS 20 – Environmental Monitoring
Commission: 3, 8
Chair: Mr Makis Apostolatos (Greece)
SESSION
CANCELLED |
Wednesday, 14 Nov. 2007 14:00-15:30
Salon La Paz B Este |
TS 21 – Economic Benefits of Hydrography
Commission: 4
Chair: Mr Andrew Leyzack (Canada)
[introduction]
Mr Gordon Johnston (United Kingdom):
The Economic Benefits of Hydrography and Ocean Mapping (2452)
[paper]
[slides]
Mr Serge Lévesque
and Mr Alexis Cardenas (Canada):
Marine Geospatial Software: Generating Economic Benefits from
Hydrographic Data and its Management (2445)
[paper]
[slides]
Capt Hugo
Gorziglia (Monaco):
The Value of Hydrographic Information and its Influence (2522)
[paper]
[slides]
|
Wednesday, 14 Nov. 2007
Vestibulo Norte |
Coffee Break |
Wednesday,
14 Nov. 2007
16:00-17::30
Salon La Paz |
Closing Ceremony
Commissions: All
-
Report on the
Regional Conference 2007
by Arq Eugenia
Morales, Sub Director CFIA
- Closing Remarks by Ing
Juan Manuel
Castro Alfaro, President of CFIA/CIT
-
Closing Address and Summary of the Regional Conference by Prof Stig Enemark, FIG President
- Appreciation to the 6th FIG Regional
Conference by Prof Stig Enemark, FIG President
-
FIG Fanfare
- Closing of the Regional Conference 2007
|
Wednesday, 14 Nov. 2007
19:00 |
Farewell Dinner at the Ramada Herradura Hotel
Dress Code: Business Suit |
Thursday, 15 November 2007 |
Thursday, 15 Nov. 2007
8:30-18:30
Meeting Point: Lobby Hotel Ramada Plaza Herradura at 8:15 |
Technical and Social Tour to Poás Volcano, lunch at Colinas del Poás
Restaurant, and Coffee Tour in Café Britt Coffee Plantation
Bus leaves at 8:30 so be precise!!
Recommandations: Light jacket, comfortable shoes, binoculars
and camera
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© International Federation
of Surveors, FIG, 2007 |