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
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.
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