Working Group 5.3 - Integrated Positioning, Navigation and
Mapping Systems
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.
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