Working Group 5.3 Integrated Positioning, Navigation and
Mapping Systems
Policy issues
Policy Issues include the following:
- 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.
Chair and Members
Chair
Chair of Sub-Group 5.3.1: Mobile Mapping Systems
- Dorota Grejner-Brezinska (USA)
Chair of Sub-Group 5.3.2: Sensor Integration Techniques
- Cameron Ellum (Canada)
- Ms Allison Kealy (Australia)
Chair(s) of Sub-Group 5.3.3: GPS Modernization and GNSS Development
- Chair: Larry Hothem (USA)
- Vice Chair: Georgia Fotopoulos (Canada)
- Rob Radovanovic (Canada)
Core and Reference Members
- Dr. Mike Chapman (Canada)
- Dr. Günther Retscher (Germany)
- Dr. Maria Marsella (Italy)
- Dr. Ron Li (USA)
- Dipl.-Ing. Harald Sternberg (Germany)
- Dr. Ahmed El-Rabanny (Canada)
- Michael R. Craymer (Canada)
- Prof. Wolfgang Augath (Germany)
- Dr. Alain Geiger (Switzerland)
- Dr. Marc Cocard (Switzerland)
- Dr. Zuofa Li (USA)
- Prof. Orhan Altan (Turkey)
- Dr. Yang Gao (Canada)
- Prof. Vladimir Sedlák (Slovakia)
- Prof. Thomas A. Wunderlich (Austria)
- Dr. Ahmed El-Mowafy (UAE)
- Dipl.-Ing. H. Sternberg (Germany)
- Dr. Mohamed El-Touky (Egypt)
- Carmen Bonillo (Spain)
- Prof. Fritz K. Brunner (Austria)
- Dr. Jacek Grodecki (USA)
- Mr. Oliver Schiele (Germany)
- Dr. Mohamed Mostafa, Canada
- Anna Jensen (Denmark)
- Martti Pietikäinen (Finland)
- Bengt Eurenius (Sweden)
- Cedric Seynat (Australia)
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).
- Pursue "hot topics" using Ad-Hoc Sub-Groups as
appropriate.
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.
- 4th International Conference on Mobile Mapping Technology,
Mid-August, 2003, Kuming, China
- Symposium on Applications of Permanent GPS/GNSS Networks. WG 5.2
and WG5.3 event.
Publication(s)
- Guidelines on making the best use of emerging systems.
- Summary Reports on "hot topics" as they develop.
- Report on FIG's input to GPS Modernisation and GNSS Development.
- Working group final report will be presented at FIG Congress,
2006.
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, 2006.
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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