Work Plan 2007-2010
Commission 5
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Title
Positioning and Measurement
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Mr. Rudolf Staiger, Chairperson of Commission 5 |
Terms of reference
- The science of measurement (instrumentation, methodology and guidelines)
- The acquisition of accurate and reliable survey data related to the
position, size and shape of natural and artificial features of the earth and
its environment and including variation with time.
Mission statement
- Focus on modern technologies and technical developments and assist
individual surveyors, through guidelines and recommendations, to choose and
utilise those methods, technologies and instruments that are most
appropriate to different applications.
- Follow technical developments through collaboration with other FIG
commissions and other international organisations; participation in
appropriate meetings; and the preparation of appropriate publications.
- Support research and development and stimulate new ideas in the fields of
expertise represented within the commission.
- Collaborate with manufacturers on the improvement of instrumentation and
associated software.
- Present and promote the work of the commission and its working groups on
an on-going basis at FIG working weeks and other relevant technical meetings
and in appropriate FIG and other media.
General
This work plan covers the development, use and integration of technologies
for positioning and measurement and the associated standardisation, best
practice and fundamental reference frame issues. Many of the issues are global
in nature and Commission 5, working with like-minded Sister Associations, is
well placed to deal with them. FIG Council has also asked the Commissions to
cooperate with United Nations Agencies to address global problems such as
sustainable development and humanitarian needs. The disciplines covered by
Commission 5 are at the heart of delivering solutions for the spatial aspects of
these important global problems. Specific activities aimed at developing
countries include examination of Low Cost Surveying Technologies, assistance
with implementation of modern Geodetic Reference Frames and associated
infrastructure and contribution to appropriate Continuing Professional
Development programs.
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 5.1 - Standards, Quality Assurance and Calibration
Policy Issues
- Influence the development of standards affecting positioning and
measurement instruments and methods, in collaboration with the FIG task
force on standards and through participation in the relevant technical
committees (TCs) of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and other
appropriate bodies.
- Acceptance controls, quality assurance and certification and their impact
on the surveying profession.
- Checking and calibration of measuring instruments.
- Assist other Commission Working Groups to implement Standards from ISO
TC211 as appropriate.
Chair
David Martin
FRANCE
E-mail: martin@esrf.fr
Specific project(s)
- Transform the existing recommendations on the Use and Calibration of EDM
(FIG-Publication 7/1994) in a digital document and make it available on the
FIG-Website
- Actualise the above mentioned EDM-Standards
- Present and promote the use of standards and guidelines to the surveying
community.
- Establish guidelines and recommendations for instruments taking into
account latest development in surveying technology.
- Guidelines and Recommendations for the ISO Guide to Uncertainty of
Measurements.
- Review Standards coming from ISO TC211 for relevance to Positioning and
Measurement.
- Contribution to the new GPS related Work Item of ISO TC 172 SC6, in
cooperation with Working Group 5.4.
Workshop(s)
- Participation in FIG Working Weeks and other major Commission events (see
events section below) with dedicated Technical Sessions and/or Workshops as
appropriate.
Publication(s)
- Recommendations for the Use and Calibration of EDM
- FIG Working Weeks will include Technical Papers on specific issues and
presented by Working Group Members and other invited experts
- Guidelines for instruments taking into account latest development in
surveying technology.
Timetable
- Draft publications will be presented at FIG Working Weeks during the term
of this plan and according to a timetable to be developed by the Working
Group Chair.
- Working group final report: dedicated session, FIG Congress, 2010.
Beneficiaries
- FIG member associations, manufacturers and users of survey equipment,
governments, standardisation organisations, decision makers, GIS developers
and users, surveying businesses, individual surveyors.
Working Group 5.2 - Reference Frame in Practice
Policy issues
Policy Issues include the following:
- Work to bring together all organisations involved in defining or using
reference frames to develop common approaches and avoid duplication. Such
organisations include FIG, the International Association of Geodesy (IAG),
ISO, groups of national mapping agencies, other influential national
agencies (such as the US Department of Defence’s National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which is responsible for WGS84.) and
alliances of commercial organisations (such as Open GIS Consortium and the
European Petroleum Survey Group).
- Continue the existing co-operation with IAG on the African Reference
Frame Project (AFREF) as well as facilitate similar actions on other
continents such as South America and Asia.
- Provide background technical information on relevant issues written in a
way that is accessible to the surveying practitioners.
- Develop an inventory of approaches to reference frame issues in
different countries (including transformation methodologies) that is
accessible to surveying practitioners.
- Examine the concepts of dynamic and semi-dynamic datums.
- Examine how surveying practitioners are changing how they access the
reference frame, through less emphasis on networks of ground monuments and
more emphasis on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) base stations.
- Examine global positioning services such as OmniSTAR and StarFire and
their use for positioning in a national reference frame.
- Examine the increased use of GNSS for height determination as well as
the use of geoid models for connection to local height datums.
- Examine the role that the satellite missions GRACE, GOCE and CHAMP will
have on global geoid models
- Examine the increasing role of aerial and space based imagery in the
realisation of reference frames.
- Liaise with Commission 4 to review and revise (where required) FIG
Publication 37, Vertical Reference Surface for Hydrography
Chair
Mikael Lilje
SWEDEN
E-mail: mikael.lilje@lm.se
Specific project(s)
- Initiate, contribute and facilitate meeting(s) of all organisations
involved in defining or using (regional) reference frames to develop common
approaches and avoid duplication.
- Continue development of Technical Fact Sheets that briefly explain basic
concepts, practical applications and issues and which summarise the
activities of organisations with specific responsibilities in the field.
- Ensure terminology used in above publications conform to and give
substance to the relevant Standards coming from ISO TC211. .
- Ensure that the working group web page is running and updated.
Workshop(s)
- Participation in FIG Working Weeks and other major Commission events (see
events section below) with dedicated Technical Sessions and/or Workshops as
appropriate.
- Seminars and meetings involving key organisations involved in defining or
using (regional) reference frames will be convened at a venue, time and date
to be confirmed by the Working Group Chairs.
- Symposium on Applications of Permanent GPS/GNSS Networks. WG 5.2 and WG
5.3 event.
Publication(s)
- Web page
- FIG Working Weeks will include Technical Papers on specific issues and
presented by Working Group Members and other invited experts.
- Technical Fact Sheets as outlined above.
- Working group final report will be presented at FIG Congress, 2010. .
Timetable
- Draft publications will be presented at FIG Working Weeks during the term
of this plan and according to a timetable to be developed by the Working
Group Chairs.
- Working group final report: dedicated session, FIG Congress, 2010.
Working Group 5.3 - Integrated Positioning, Navigation and
Mapping Systems
Policy issues
While this is a new focus, it includes the topics covered by the previous
Working Groups 5.3 and 5.4 (during 2002 to 2006) and extends to cover technology generally.
- Issues associated with ongoing and rapid developments in Integrated
Positioning, Navigation, and Mapping systems, including performance and
applications of such systems and guidelines for their use.
- Ensuring FIG input to planning associated with programs of GPS
Modernisation and GNSS Development.
Co-Chairs
Andrew Hunter and Naser El-Sheimy CANADA
E-mail: ahunter@ucalgary.ca
Specific project(s)
- Report on the development, possibilities and limitations of new
technologies.
- Prepare guidelines for practitioners on making the best use of systems to
achieve the results required for particular applications.
- Develop FIG input to GPS Modernisation and GNSS Development.
- Collaborate with other Commissions and other international organisations
(including IAG and ISPRS) and with equipment, software and service
providers.
- Continue commitment to relevant inter-disciplinary events including the
series of Symposia on Mobile Mapping (joint with IAG and ISPRS).
Workshop(s)
- Participation in FIG Working Weeks and other major Commission events with
dedicated Technical Sessions and/or Workshops as appropriate.
Publication(s)
- Guidelines on making the best use of emerging systems.
Timetable
- Draft publications will be presented at FIG Working Weeks during the term
of this plan and according to a timetable to be developed by the Working
Group Chair.
- Working group final report: dedicated session, FIG congress, 2010.
Beneficiaries
- FIG member associations, manufacturers and users of survey equipment,
governments, standardisation organisations, decision makers, GIS developers and
users, surveying businesses, individual surveyors.
Working Group 5.4 - GNSS –
Global Navigation Satellite Systems
Policy issues
- Cooperation with all organisation involved in the field of GNSS e.g. IAG
and ISO.
- Maintaining contact with GNSS receiver and equipment manufactures to
provide state-of-the-art information to the users.
- Cooperation with Commissions 3, 4, 6 and 8 regarding GNSS integration
into GIS respectively GNSS for disaster risk management as well as GNNS
applications in hydrography and engineering surveys.
- Providing technical GNSS background information on relevant issues for
surveying practitioners via web pages, tutorials and workshops.
- Development of recommendations regarding procedures to check GNSS
equipment.
- Contribute to FIG input to GPS modernisation and GNSS development.
- Prepare the surveying profession for GNSS-mass-markets (e.g. Location
Based Services, traffic applications,…) as well as required technologies
(e.g. assisted GPS, car navigation technology).
Chair
Study Groups
Study Group 5.4.1 - Cost-effective GNSS
- Analysis of current “low-cost” GNSS markets (e.g. LBS, traffic) including
additional necessary technologies like e.g. odometers, mobile phones
- Recommendations for surveyors to infiltrate these markets
- Development of methods to use “low-cost” GPS for precise applications
- Report on cost-effective GNSS
Study Group 5.4.2 - GNSS networks (together with WG 5.2)
- Analysis and review of GNSS network technologies for practitioners
- Analysis of the importance of site calibrations of permanent networks
- Analyse and compare different commercial and non-commercial GNSS
networks
- Organise Workshops(s) on GNSS networks
Study Group 5.4.3 - Precise GNSS
- Develop and publish methods for GNSS heighting
- Develop and publish investigations regarding the GNSS/tachometer
combinations
- Contact with GNSS equipment manufacturers
- Provide newest technical background information to the practitioners
- Develop input to discussions on GPS modernisation and GNSS development,
e.g. through the UN mandated International Committee on GNSS (ICG).
Study Group 5.4.4 - GNSS Calibration and check (together with WG 5.1)
- Development of procedures and recommendations for checking GPS equipment
- Recommendations for the calibration of GPS antennas and permanent GPS
sites
- Cooperation with standard organisations (e.g. IS0)
- Organisation of scientific workshops and tutorials for practitioners
- Discussion with GNSS equipment manufacturers about procedures
Workshop(s)
- Participation in FIG Working Weeks, Regional Conferences as well as other
major Commission 5 events in special technical sessions
- GNSS tutorials (fundamentals and practice relevant information, possibly
including practical training) e.g. at Working Weeks and Regional Conferences
in cooperation with local organizers, especially for “surveying
practitioners”
- International Workshop on GNSS for Practitioners (engineering geodesy
companies, state survey, cadastral administration) together with all Working
Groups of Commission 5 and partners like IAG or the Institute of Navigation
where appropriate.
- Specialised International Workshops on GNSS calibration (antenna, site,
multipath) and on GNSS networks (together with WG 5.2).
Publication(s)
- Technical Papers at Working Weeks, Regional Conferences and Commission 5
Symposia and Workshops
- Recommendations for Calibration of GPS antennas and Check of GPS
Measurement Systems (together with WG 5.1 and relevant institutions like
e.g. ISO).
- Report on possibilities of cost-effective GNSS techniques for developing
countries.
Timetable
- Report and recommendations should be presented (and published) on next FIG
Congress 2010.
Co-operation with Other Commissions
Commission 6.
Co-operation with United Nation Organisations, Sister
Associations and other Partners
Commission 5 is the lead Commission for FIG’s Memorandum of Understanding
with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. GNSS will be the focus
of cooperative activities from 2007 to 2010.
Commission 5 is also committed to cooperation with Sister Associations,
especially those with which FIG has a Memorandum of Understanding. Commission 5
has specific liaison interest with the International Association of Geodesy (IAG)
and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). The
Commission 5 Steering Committee will ensure that Working Group activities and
Commission 5 events further these goals of cooperation with Sister Associations.
Commission 5 is also committed to the new Cooperation Agreement with the US
based Institute of Navigation (ION) and will undertake activities as agreed with
ION, especially in relation to GNSS.
Commission Officers
Commission Chair
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Staiger
FH Bochum
Fachbereich Vermessung und Geoinformatik
Lennershofstrasse 140
44801 Bochum
GERMANY
Tel. + 49 234 32 10547
Fax + 49 234 32 14735
E-mail: rudolf.staiger@fh-bochum.de |
Chair Elect, 2009-2010
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Mr.
Mikael Lilje
National Land Survey
SE-801 82 Gävle
SWEDEN
Tel. + 46 26 633 742
Fax: +46 26 610 676
E-mail: mikael.lilje@lm.se |
Vice Chair of Administration
Rob Sarib
Mr. Robert Sarib
Manager Survey Services
Land Information Division – Surveyor General’s Office
Dept. Planning & Infrastructure
PO Box 1680
DARWIN NT 0801
Australia
Tel. + 61 8 8995 5360
Fax + 61 8 8 8995 5365
Email: robert.sarib@nt.gov.au
Chair of Working Group 5.1
David Martin
Alignment and Geodesy Group
ESRF
6 rue Jules Horowitz
BP220
38043 Grenoble Cedex
FRANCE
Tel. + 33 4 76 88 22 45
Fax + 33 4 76 88 23 13
E-mail: martin@esrf.fr
Chair of Working Group 5.2
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Mikael Lilje
Head of Reference Frame Section
Geodetic Research Division
Lantmäteriet
SE-801 82 Gävle
SWEDEN
Tel. + 46 26 633 742
Fax + 46 70 208 95 71
E-mail: mikael.lilje@lm.se |
Co Chairs of Working Group 5.3
Andrew Hunter and
Dr. Naser El-Sheimy
Department of Geomatics Engineering
The University of Calgary T
2500 University Dr. N.W. Calgary
Alberta
CANADA T2N 1N4
Tel. + 1 403 220 7377 / 7587
Fax + 1 403 284 1980
E-mail : ahunter@ucalgary.ca
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naser@geomatics.ucalgary.ca
Vice Chair and Chair of WG 5.4 - GNSS
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Dr.-Ing.habil. Volker Schwieger
University Stuttgart
Institute for Applications of Geodesy to Engineering
Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse 24D
D-70174 Stuttgart
GERMANY
Tel. + 49 711 685 84064
Fax + 49 711 685 84044
E-mail:
volker.schwieger@iagb.uni-stuttgart.de |
10 March 2007 |
