News from Commission 5
Commission 5 Annual Meeting was held in Stockholm, Sweden
during the FIG Working Week 2008, 14-19 June 2008. Read more:
FIG Congress in Munich, Germany, 8-13 October 2006
Surf your way to the new Commission 5 Position and Measurement
website - "Reference Frame in Practice" -
http://www.fig.net/commission5/wg52/.
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FIG Working Week in Cairo, 16-21 April 2005
Report on the UN/USA International Meeting on the Use
and Applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) - Hosted
by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, Vienna, Austria,
13 to 17 December 2004
Report of the meeting on the use and applications of Global
Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) hosted by the United Nations Office
for Outer Space Affairs (UN OOSA) and also supported by the State
Department of the USA. The meetings arise from recommendations of the UN
Committee on the Peaceful Use of Outer Space (COPUOS), as ratified by
the General Assembly of the UN. Matt Higgins, Chair of Commission 5
attended the 2004 meeting representing FIG.
FIG Working Week in Athens, 22-27 May 2004
Prof.
Rudolf Staiger from Germany was appointed by the General Assembly
in Athens as the Chair Elect of Commission 5 for 2004-2006. He will be
the chair of the commission 2006-2010. He is Professor at the
Fachbereich Vermessungswesen,
Labor für Geodätische Messtechnik at the University of Essen.
The Workshop Programme and Presentations are available
at:
http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/SAP/gnss/joint2003/presentations/index.html
Report of the FIG Regional Conference and Minutes of the Steering Committee of Commission 5
- December 2-5, 2003, Marrakech, Morocco
FIG Working Week and 125th Anniversary - Paris 13-17 April 2003
Commission 5 gets a new Vice Chair of Administration
Mr Robert Sarib, Manager of Survey Services from Dept. Infrastructure,
Planning & Environment from Darwin, Australia has been appointed to Vice Chair
of Administration of Commission 5. Rob can be reached by email:
robert.sarib@nt.gov.au
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