Work Plan 2007-2010
Commission 3
Original work plan in .pdf-format.
Title
Spatial Information Management (SIM)
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Dr. Chryssy Potsiou, Chairperson of Commission 3 |
Terms of reference
- Management of spatial information about land, property and marine data
(data, tools, methods, policies, processes, procedures);
- Spatial data infrastructure – data collection, analysis, visualization,
standardization, and dissemination (technical, organizational, personnel,
administrative, financial, policy, and legal aspects);
- Management and transfer of knowledge and skills for SIM (educational,
professional development and capacity building aspects);
- Impacts on organizational structure, business models,
public-private-partnerships, professional practice and administration;
- Management of spatial information supporting good governance
(sustainable development, social and economic growth and poverty reduction,
environment protection, democracy, freedom, participation in decision
making, social security).
Mission Statement
- Increase awareness about successful SIM approaches in the “e-Society” by
showing good practice like available, reliable and accessible spatial
information for better decision-making.
- Support the use of spatial information and SIM tools by surveyors and by
all participants in decision-making to serve the goals of good governance.
- Share good practices on managerial processes and infrastructure required
for handling data, using information and distributing knowledge.
- Share good practices and develop high-level methods and techniques for
merging and managing updated spatial information at various levels according
to market requirements.
- Encourage the use of spatial information within e-government and
e-commerce.
- Implement the general FIG Work Plan through working groups (WGs), Joint-WGs,
Task Force, annual meetings, workshops, and seminars held during and/or
outside FIG Working Weeks (WWs) and Regional Conferences; publications; and
progress reports about these events.
- Present the final outcomes of Commission work through the web.
- Cooperate and coordinate with the related United Nations committees and
other geo-spatial information societies and organizations active in the
field, such as the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote
Sensing (ISPRS), the International Cartographic Association (ICA), the
International Association of Geodesy (IAG), the Global Spatial Data
Infrastructure Association (GSDI), the European Umbrella Organisation for
Geographic Information (EUROGI), the United Nations Economic Commission for
Europe, Working Party on Land Administration (UN/ECE WPLA), the United
Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Committee on Housing and Land
Management and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat).
- Increase the contribution of the surveying profession to the
implementation of the UN Millennium Development Goals.
General
Commission 3 and its Working Groups (WGs) focus on contribution of spatial
information for sustainable development. The main output of Commission 3 will be
a publication on the topic: “Spatial Information toward Managing Mega Cities”,
to be delivered by 2010. For that purpose Commission 3 will organize three
specific annual Workshops under the sub-topics:
- Spatial Information Management toward Legalizing Informal Urban
Development”, 28-31 March 2007, Athens, Greece (http://www.psdatm.gr/fig_Commission
3_wpla.htm)
- Spatial Information in Environmental Management of Mega Cities, January
2008, Valencia, Spain
- Seminar 2009 (Topic and venue to be decided)
Commission 3 delegates will organize additional specific Workshops and
meetings either during the FIG Working Weeks and Regional Conferences and/or
independently, according to the needs.
In addition, Commission 3 will contribute to joint activities:
- FIG Task Force (involving Commissions 3, 7, 8, 9, 10) for the
preparation of the FIG/UN-Habitat Seminar on “Improving Slum Conditions
through Innovative Financing. Bridging the gap between affordable shelter
that is inadequate and adequate shelter that is unaffordable” in Stockholm
in June 2008, and
- FIG Task Force (involving Commissions 3, 7, 8, and 9) for cooperation
between FIG and UN-Habitat in the framework of the Global Land Tools Network
(GLTN); especially in the field of raising awareness in SIM tools and in
providing low cost methods, tools and policies toward promoting sustainable
development, environmental monitoring of unplanned urban development, and
sustainable urbanization. Commission 3 will also provide for this Task Force
methods and tools as facilitators among professionals in a well-understood
context of planning, development and control.
FIG Commission 3 delegates have expressed their strong interest in:
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Activating the national delegate, the correspondent,
and the academic member network in order to work together, identify the
needs in our common fields of interest, and exchange experience and
knowledge for the common benefit
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Organizing Commission 3 annual meetings and workshops
focused on the specifically identified needs and topics. Commission 3 will
provide and certify optional double blind peer review for authors of papers
submitted for Commission 3 Workshops. Papers of authors not wishing peer
review will be equally welcome in the Commission 3 Workshop proceedings.
Commission 3 delegates consider that the close cooperation and coordination
among delegates coming from the public and private sectors and from the FIG
academic members is of great and equal value for all.
Commission 3 delegates have identified the following
sub-topics to be of interest:
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e-Governance for the citizen, democracy, and
transparency
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Web Services and Metadata
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SIM Infrastructure
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State of the Art of Spatial Data Infrastructure
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Technical aspects, integration of information, 3D / 4D
applications of SDI, visualization of information, seamless information
management
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Standardization of Information (technical, legal,
semantics and ontology)
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Geo-data policy issues with a focus on pricing and
access policies for National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), equal
opportunities and access to spatial information
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SIM applications for environmental protection, disaster
management and risk assessment, social and economic growth, cultural
heritage documentation and development, informal/unplanned development
management, quantifying and localizing cultural diversity, coastal zone and
marine data management, real estate markets, valuation and taxation, real
estate finance and development
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Educational aspects in SDI and SIM, e-learning
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Transferring / sharing knowledge focusing on “low-cost”
methods and tools for spatial information collection and management.
In addition to the specific activities above, the
Commission will support and contribute to FIG Task Forces and the Standards
Network. The Commission will also respond to the FIG Council to address new
issues as they emerge.
Working Group 3.1 - e-Government and e-Citizen
Interactive information flow and communication between
providers, partners and customers Public Private Partnerships (PPP).
Policy Issues
SIM is a facilitator for IT based services for
administration as well as for citizens. By thus SIMS will have even the role
of an integrator of components for a Spatial Information Infrastructure within
an Information society.
- Services and workflows for decision makers and citizens in
participatory democracy
- Government – business – customers: relations and activities
- Integration and cooperation in a distributed environment
- Individual vs. business in SIM
- Mobile society
- SIM and Location Based Services (LBS) in an e-Government context
Chair
Specific projects and outputs
Based on cooperation with other WGs and other Commissions WG 3.1 will:
- Report on good practice of Spatial Information within e-Government in
order to support citizens in participatory democracy, providing equal access
to information for all with transparency, and to reduce corruption caused by
inefficient land governance in Mega Cities
- Facilitate experience exchange in e-Government toward sustainable
development and environmental management of Mega Cities
- Provide recommendations to the way forward within SIM in e-Government
development; low cost approaches for upgrading informal settlements
- Provide links to information and publish minutes of workshops
- Facilitate network and meeting places for local authorities for their
e-Government development and experience exchange
- Contribute to the Commission 3 annual meetings and specific Workshops
- Contribute to the publication on the topic: “Spatial Information toward
Managing Mega Cities”, to be delivered by 2010.
- Contribute to the FIG Task Force for the preparation of the FIG-UN
Habitat Seminar on “Improving Slum Conditions through Innovative Financing.
Bridging the gap between affordable shelter that is inadequate and Adequate
shelter that is unaffordable”
- Contribute to the deliverables that Commission 3 will provide to the FIG
Task Force in the framework of the UN-Habitat Global Land Tool Network.
A detailed work plan with milestones will be published on the website of
Commission 3.
Workshops
- Athens, 28-31 March 2007
- Norway, sub-Working Groups meetings
- FIG WW Hong Kong, 12-17 May 2007
- FIG Regional Conference, Costa Rica, 12-15 November 2007
- Valencia, January 2008
- Workshop and FIG Working Week, Stockholm, 14-19 June 2008
- Commission 3 Workshop, 2009
- Workshop and FIG Working Week, Eilat, Israel, 3-8 May 2009
- FIG Regional Conference, 2009
- FIG Congress, Sydney, Australia, 9-16 April 2010
Beneficiaries
Surveyors, planners, politicians, and citizens accessing and contributing
to e-Government on a national as well as on a local level. Contributing to
better access to general users of spatial data, and to better tools and more
participation in local authorities.
Working Group 3.2 - Spatial Data Infrastructure
Requirements for data, information, tools and workflows as components of
local, national and global spatial data infrastructures (SDI).
Policy issues
- Institutional arrangements, information policy and legal frameworks needed
to create and share data, information and tools within and between levels of
government
- Respective roles of government, private sector, professional bodies and
community groups in creating and managing SDI
- Technical innovation needed to enable use of SDI, including spatial data
capture, management, visualisation and access
- Implementing international best practice standards in SIM at all levels,
including use of ISO/TC 211, Open Geospatial Consortium, etc.
- Sharing experience, developing visions for the future, identifying
productive roles for surveyors and other spatial professionals and informing
relevant forums of the role of SIM
Chair
Specific projects and outputs
Based on cooperation with other working groups and commissions this WG
will:
- Support discussion on the role of local and regional SDI in managing mega
cities; low cost and realistic policies and infrastructure for unplanned
urban sprawl management and control
- Identify institutional, policy and legal frameworks that can be
incorporated in SDI to address mega city issues related to sound land
governance
- Identify specific technical innovations in SIM that can improve
management of mega cities
- Contribute to the Commission 3 annual meetings and specific Workshops
- Contribute to the publication on the topic “Spatial Information toward
Managing Mega Cities”, to be delivered by 2010.
- Contribute to the FIG Task Force for the preparation of the FIG-UN
Habitat Seminar on “Improving Slum Conditions through Innovative Financing.
Bridging the gap between affordable shelter that is inadequate and Adequate
shelter that is unaffordable”
- Contribute to the deliverables that Commission 3 will provide to the FIG
Taske Force in the framework of the UN-Habitat Global Land Tool Network(GLTN)
Workshops
- Athens, 28-31 March 2007
- FIG Working Week, Hong Kong SAR, 13-17 May 2007
- FIG Regional Conference, San José, Costa Rica, 12-15 November 2007
- Valencia, January 2008
- Workshop and FIG Working Week, Stockholm, Sweden, 14-19 June 2008
- Commission 3 Workshop, 2009
- Workshop and FIG Working Week, Eilat, Israel, 3-8 May 2009
- FIG Regional Conference, 2009
- FIG Congress, Sydney, Australia, 9-16 April 2010
Beneficiaries
- Surveyors, government, associations engaged with spatial data and users
of spatial data and spatial information.
Working Group 3.3 - Multi Dimensional Aspects in Spatial
Information Management
Review, evaluation and further development of technologies and
technological trends for multi dimensional spatial information management in
general and data models, visualization and data fusion techniques in
particular.
Some novel approaches in modeling, visualization and fusion of spatial data
have recently gained the attention of both academic and commercial communities,
due to an increase of capabilities of Spatial DataBase Management Systems (SDBMS),
as well as the awareness in the necessity for 3D geospatial information within
the surveying and the engineering communities.
- Methods for measuring and gathering 3D spatial information and databases
- 3D data model for building information systems (built on top of SDBMS)
- Algorithms for detection of relations between spatial objects in 3D
- Fully www based approach to visualization of spatial data in 2D and 3D
- Event oriented approach to modeling changes in spatial information
systems
- Continuous temporal approaches for handling 2D and 3D spatial
information systems
- Accuracy aspects of spatial information vs. needs & budgets of the
public and private sectors
Specific projects and outputs
- Support discussion on the role of local and regional SDI in managing
mega cities; low cost and realistic policies and infrastructure for
unplanned urban sprawl management and control
- Expansion and development of existing data models
- Increase the involvement of surveyors in development of data models
- Disseminate accumulated knowledge and experience
- Provide new methods and tools for city-wide environmental monitoring of
unplanned urban development
- Contribute to the Commission 3 annual meetings and specific Workshops
- Contribute to the publication on the topic “Spatial Information toward
Managing Mega Cities”, to be delivered by 2010.
- Contribute to the FIG Task Force for the preparation of the FIG-UN
Habitat Seminar on “Improving Slum Conditions through Innovative Financing.
Bridging the gap between affordable shelter that is inadequate and Adequate
shelter that is unaffordable”
- Contribute to the deliverables that Commission 3 will provide to the FIG
Task Force in the framework of the UN-Habitat Global Land Tool network (GLTN)
Chair
Workshops
- Athens, 28-31 March 2007
- FIG Working Week, Hong Kong SAR, 13-17 May 2007
- FIG Regional Conference, San José, Costa Rica, 12-15 November 2007
- Valencia, January 2008
- Workshop and FIG Working Week, Stockholm, Sweden, 14-19 June 2008
- Commission 3 Workshop, 2009
- Workshop and FIG Working Week, Eilat, Israel, 3-8 May 2009
- FIG Regional Conference, 2009
- FIG Congress, Sydney, Australia, 9-16 April 2010
Beneficiaries
Surveyors, governments, associations engaged with spatial data and users of
spatial data and spatial information.
Workshops
- 37th CIPA International Workshop on the “e-volution of Information
Technology in Cultural Heritage - Where Hi-Tech Touches the Past: Risks and
Challenges for the 21st Century”, held on 30 October - 4 November 2006,
Cyprus.
- (http://www.vast2006.org or
http://www.cipa2006.org)
- FIG Commission 3 2007 annual meeting and workshop in Athens, Greece, on
28-31 March 2007, in parallel to the joint Workshop of the UN/ECE Committee
on Housing and Land Management and the UN/ECE Working Party on Land
Administration on “Informal Settlements”.
- The topic of the FIG Commission 3 Workshop is:
- “Spatial Information Management toward Legalizing Informal Urban
Development”.
- (
http://www.psdatm.gr/fig_com3_wpla.htm )
- FIG Commission 3 2008 annual meeting and Workshop in Valencia, Spain, in
January 2008, on environmental and cultural heritage documentation issues,
in parallel to the International Congress of Cartography and Surveying and
the National Spanish Congress TOP-CART 2008. FIG Com2 organizes a Workshop
in Valencia at the same time. Plans are made for some joint sessions of
Commission 2 and Commission 3 on educational issues and other sub-topics of
common interest.
- The topic of FIG Commission 3 2008 annual meeting and Workshop is:
“Spatial Information in Environmental Management of Mega Cities”
- FIG Commission 3 annual meeting and Workshop of 2009. Topic, venue
(declared interest for hosting the workshop by the Association of Nigeria),
and dates remain to be decided.
- XXI CIPA International Symposium on “AntiCIPAting the Future of the
Cultural Past”, to be held in Athens, 1-6 October 2007 (Co-sponsored by
Commission 3)
(
http://www.survey.ntua.gr/hosted/cipathens_2007/ )
- Workshop on “Improving Slum Conditions through Innovative Financing.
Bridging the gap between Affordable shelter that is inadequate and Adequate
shelter that is unaffordable” during the FIG WW 2008 in Sweden as a
Follow-up of the Commission 3 annual Workshops in Athens (2007) and in
Valencia (2008)
- A specific Workshop on “3D and 4D Spatial Information Management”,
during the FIG WW 2009, in Eilat, Israel (proposed by Prof Y. Doytsher) (to
be confirmed)
- Commission 3 delegates may organize a specific Workshop on “Pricing of
Spatial Data and Services”, (proposed by Dr J.A. Zevenbergen, the
Netherlands) (to be confirmed)
Commission 3 will always provide and certify optional double blind peer
review of papers if requested by the authors. Since the experience and knowledge
sharing among all participants, professionals of the public and private sectors
and academics, is considered to be of great value for the common benefit of all
countries, all papers (reviewed or not) will be included at the proceedings of
the workshops. Commission 3 has established a group of reviewers for the
responsibilities of the Athens Workshop in 2007. The composition of the
reviewers group may vary according to the specific topics and availability of
the reviewers.
Prof Yerach Doytsher, Israel, will be the director of the peer review process
for the Commission 3 specific Workshops.
Cooperation with UN/ECE WPLA and UN/ECE Committee on
Housing and Land Management
Cooperation on Spatial Information Management
toward Legalizing Informal Urban Development with UN-ECE-WPLA and
UN-ECE-Committee on Housing and Land Management.
The FIG Commission 3 2007 annual meeting and
Workshop will be followed by joint FIG Commission 3 and UN/ECE Working Party on
Land Administration, and Committee for Housing and Land Management sessions, on
March 2007, under the general topic: “Informal Settlements and National Economy
-The Value of Good Land Administration and Land Management”.
Cooperation with UN-HABITAT
Commission 3 delegates will support the cooperation between FIG and UN
Habitat (Land and Tenure Section) in the framework of the Global Land Tools
Network (GLTN)
Cooperation with Professional Organisations
Commission 3 supported the 37th CIPA International Workshop on the
“e-volution of Information Technology in Cultural Heritage - Where Hi-Tech
Touches the Past: Risks and Challenges for the 21st Century”, held on 30 October
- 4 November 2006, Cyprus. Prof Hartmut Mueller, Germany, represented Commission
3 in that event. Web site: http://www.vast2006.org or http://www.cipa2006.org.
Commission 3 delegates will contribute to the XXI CIPA International
Symposium on “AntiCIPAting the Future of the Cultural Past”, to be held in
Athens, 1-6 October 2007 (http://www.survey.ntua.gr/hosted/cipathens_2007/)
Cooperation with ISPRS
Commission 3 may organize some joint sessions with ISPRS
Commission 2, WG 6 (http://www.commission2.isprs.org/wg6/) during the Workshop
and annual meeting 2008 in Valencia, Spain (to be decided).
Cooperation on international standards on spatial data with ISO
and OPENGIS
Commission 3 supports the FIG inter-commission activity in this
field. Commission 3 representative to the joint WG on standards Network, chaired
by I. Greenway, is Ms Helen Murray, from Ireland.
List of the International Partners of Commission 3
Professional Associations
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International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS),
especially with ISPRS-Commission IV-Spatial Information Systems and Digital
Mapping (http://www.commission4.isprs.org)
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International Committee for Architectural Photogrammetry (CIPA)
(cipa.icomos.org)
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International Cartographic Association (ICA)
http://www.icaci.org
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International Geographical Union, Commission on Geographical
Information Science (http://www.hku.hk/cupem/igugisc)
United Nations and other international partners
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
www.fao.org
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UN-Cartographic section:
www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm
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United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Working Party
on Land Administration (UN/ECE WPLA - www.unece.org/env/hs/wpla/welcome.html)
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United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Committee on
Housing and Land Management (UN/ECE CHLM)
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United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN/ECA)
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ISPRS-COM4 and www.oeepe.org
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Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the
Pacific (PCGIAP)
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European Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information (EUROGI)
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Permanent Committee on SDI for the Americas (PC-IDEA)
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GSDI, including a FIG-Commission 3-position paper for GSDI-conference
Budapest
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International Standards Organization, Technical Committee 211
(ISO-TC-211)
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Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC - www.opengeospatial.org)
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High Level Commission for the Legal Empowerment of the Poor
Inter Commission
Activities
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FIG Commission 3 will contribute in a seminar to be held
during the FIG Working Week 2008 in Stockholm about “slum upgrading”.
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Inter-commission activity with FIG Commission 7 on 3D
Cadastre
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FIG Commission 9 WG 9.2 - Improving Slum Conditions through
Innovative Financing and in WG 9.5 – GIS analyses in Real Estate Market
Analyses and Valuation. Involvement is planned by Commission 3 delegate: Mr.
Tassos Labropoulos (taslab@central.ntua.gr)
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Commissions 3, 4 and 8 are discussing the possibility of
organizing Joint Workshops.
Other Activities
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Active involvement of regions
Commission 3 will continue to be actively involved with underrepresented
regions like Africa, Latin America, Middle East, and Asia by exchanging
information. Commission 3 will try to reduce conference fees in order to
enable or to encourage regional participation and try to raise money for
funding participation of groups like students. Commission 3 will also
encourage participation by using e-mail and web.
Commission 3 will support the Workshop on “Good Land Administration and
its Role in Economic Development”, to be held on the 27-28 of June 2007, in
Ulanbaatar, Mongolia. Commission 3 chair is invited to present the
highlights of the Athens 2007 annual meeting and Workshop on “Spatial
Information Management toward Legalizing Informal Urban Development”, for
the benefit of the country and the region.
Calendar of Events
2006
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30 October - 4 November, Cyprus, 37th CIPA International Workshop
on the e-volution of Information Technology in Cultural Heritage - Where Hi-Tech
Touches the Past: Risks and Challenges for the 21st Century. Co-sponsored by FIG
Commission 3.
2007
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28-31 March, FIG Com3 annual meeting and Workshop, Athens,
Greece
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12-17 May, FIG XXX General Assembly and Working Week Hong
Kong, China
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1-6 October, XXI CIPA International Symposium, Athens, Greece
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12-15 November, FIG Regional Conference, San Jose, Costa Rica
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27-28 June 2007, Ulanbaatar, Mongolia
2008
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January, Commission 3 annual meeting and Workshop, Valencia, Spain
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14-19 June, FIG Working Week and XXXI General Assembly,
Stockholm, Sweden
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3-11 July, XXI Congress of the International Society for
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Silk Road for Information from Imagery.
Beijing, China P. R.
2009
- 3-8 May 2009 FIG Working Week and XXXII General Assembly, Eilat, Israel
2010
- 9-16 April, 2010, FIG XXIV Congress and XXXIII
General Assembly Sydney, Australia
Commission
Officers
Commission
Chair
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Dr Chryssy A Potsiou
Lecturer
School for Rural and Surveying Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
9 Iroon Polytechniou st, National Technical University Campus,
15780 Zografos
GREECE
Tel. + 30 210 7722688 or 7722651
Fax + 30 210 7722677
E-mail: chryssyp@survey.ntua.gr
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Vice Chair of Administration
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Mr. Gerasimos Apostolatos
Surveyor Engineer, Technical Governmental Consultant
29, Ag. Filotheis str.
Filothei, 15237
GREECE
Tel. + 30 210 6825 905
E-mail: gapos@tee.gr |
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Deputy Chair
Dr. Panos Lolonis
Head of the Planning Office
KTIMATOLOGIO S.A. (Hellenic Cadastre S.A.)
Tel. + 30 210 6505 636
Fax + 30 210 637 727
E-mail: plolonis@ktimatologio.gr
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Director of the Commission 3 Peer Review Procedure
Prof Yerach Doytsher
The Abel Wolman Chair in Civil Engineering
Dean, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Technion City
Haifa 32000
ISRAEL
ITel. + 972 4 829 4001 (Office)
Fax + 972 4 829 5641 (Office)
E-mail: doytsher@technion.ac.il
Vice Chair and Chair of WG 3.1 -
e-Government and e-Citizen
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Ms. Kari Strande
Statens Kartverk
Advicer International Affairs
N-3507 Hønefoss
NORWAY
Tel. + 47 32 118 101
Fax + 47 32 118 182
Mobile: + 47 9099 6515
E-mail: kari.strande@statkart.no
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Vice Chair and Chair of WG 3.2 - Spatial Data Infrastructure
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Mr. Paul Kelly, Director
Spatial Strategies Pty Ltd
AUSTRALIA
Tel. + 61 437 274 449
E-mail:
spatials@smartchat.net.au
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Co-Chair
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Müller
Fachhochschule Mainz
FBI - Geoinformatik und Vermessung
Holzstr. 36
55116 Mainz
GERMANY
Tel. + 49 6131 2859 674
Fax + 49 6131 2859 699
E-mail:
mueller@geoinform.fh-mainz.de |
Vice Chair and Chair of WG 3.3 - Multi Dimensional Aspects in Spatial Information
Management
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Prof. dr. sc. Miodrag Roic
Faculty of Geodesy
Institute of Engineering Geodesy and Spatial Information Management
Kaciceva 26
HR-10000 Zagreb
CROATIA
Tel. + 385 1 4639 229
Fax + 385 1 4828 081
E-mail: mroic@geof.hr |
5 March 2007 |
