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Report from XXth EUREF Symposium in Gävle Sweden, June 2 – 5, 2010

FIG Commissions 5 and 6 Workshop on “Innovative Technologies for an Efficient Geospatial Management of Earth Resources” - Blue Bay Recreation Centre, Zyryanovsky Region, Kazakhstan, 3-7 September 2010
FIG Commission 5 and 6 Workshop on “Innovative Technologies for an Efficient Geospatial Management of Earth Resources3-7 September 2010 will be the first FIG event to be held in Kazakhstan. This workshop is organised by FIG, Agency of RK for Land Resources Management, D. Serikbaev East Kazakhstan State Technical University, and Siberian State Academy of Geodesy (SSGA). Read more about the workshop in the invitation brochure and on the workshop web site: http://www.ektu.kz/ 

Commission 5 at the FIG Congress 2010 in  Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010

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Mikael Lilje

Commission 5 had its annual meeting during the FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010. The General Assembly appointed Mr. Mikael Lilje from Sweden as the Chair of Commission 2 for 2011-2014.


Commission 5 Newsletter, March 2010

Read about the highlights from FIG Commission 5 2009 activities as well as a report on 1st Asia Oceania Regional Workshop on GNSS, report on "AuScope" VLBI Project Status and Report on Cost Effective GNSS. Please also notice the Call for Ideas for FIG Commission 5 Work Plan 2011-14.


Commission 5 Newsletter, November 2009 - Report on FIG Regional Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, 19-22 October 2009

This Commission 5 Report provides an overview of activities at the 7th FIG Regional Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam. FIG Commission 5 coordinated several technical sessions during the Conference in the areas "Global and Regional Observing Systems and Services", "GNSS CORS Infrastructure and Standards", and "Asia Pacific Reference Frame". Please read the report at view the pictures from the conference.


FIG attends IAG 2009 ”Geodesy for Planet Earth” - Buenos Aires, Argentina, 31 August – 4 September 2009
The International Association of Geodesy (IAG) organised the “Geodesy for Planet Earth” conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the end of August. FIG was invited and represented by Mikael Lilje, Chair Elect of Commission 5 (Sweden) and Rob Sarib, Vice Chair of Administration (Australia). This scientific symposium is a biannual IAG event and attracted approximately 500 delegates from 65 different countries. There were 500 technical / scientific papers submitted and 280 of them were delivered as oral presentations. The technical program was run in two parallel sessions with numerous business meetings held in the evenings outside the ordinary technical program. Read more...

FIG Commission 5 and 6 and SSGA Workshop on “Innovative Technologies for an Efficient Geospatial Management of Earth Resources” - Listvyanka, Russian Federation, 23-30 July 2009
Click picture for bigger format. FIG Commissions 5 (Positioning and Measurement) and 6 (Engineering Surveys) together with the Siberian State Academy of Geodesy (SSGA) organised a Workshop on “Innovative Technologies for an Efficient Geospatial Management of Earth Resources” on Lake Baikal in the settlement of Listvyanka, Russian Federation 23-30 July 2009. Read more...
Proceedings available on Commission 6 web site.

2nd International Conference on Machine Control & Guidance, 9-11 March 2010, Bonn, Germany

The 2nd International Conference on Machine Control & Guidance to be held in Bonn, Germany, 9-11 March 2010 is co-sponsored by FIG Commission 5 and 6.
Web site: www.mcg.uni-bonn.de 
First invitation and call for papers as a .pdf file.


Commission 5

FIG Commission 5 deals with activities concerning the science of measurement acquisition of accurate, precise and reliable survey data related to the position, size and shape of natural and artificial features of the earth and its environment. The Commission is organised with one Steering Committee and four Working Groups.


Chair of FIG Commission 5
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
FIG Commission 5 Webmaster
FIG Office
International Federation of Surveyors, FIG
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