Working Group 5.3 - Geodetic and Positioning Infrastructure
Policy issues
- Examine the positioning services using CORS.
- Examine various positioning techniques using GNSS
- Examine existing automated positioning software via WWW
- Real time networks
- GNSS products and advancements
- Provide FIG input during planning and implementation phases
associated with programs of GPS Modernisation and GNSS Development.
Chair
Specific project(s)
- Report on the development, possibilities and limitations of new
technologies (e.g. via web pages) for surveyors regarding GNSS
infrastructure and Positioning techniques.
- Prepare guidelines for practitioners on making the best use of systems
to achieve the results required for particular applications.
- Realising tutorials and workshops on topics of interest and related GNSS
positioning techniques.
- Facilitating Special Sessions in FIG Events (FIG Congress, FIG Working
Weeks, and FIG Regional Conferences) as well as other special events when
appropriate.
- Develop FIG input to GPS Modernisation and GNSS Development.
- Provide a yearly summary on milestones achieved with regard to GNSS
infrastructure (constellations, signals etc.).
- 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 Machine Guidance and Control (joint with IAG and
ISPRS).
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)
- Guidelines on making the best use of emerging systems.
- Guidelines for practitioners on making the best use of systems to
achieve the results required for particular applications.
- Yearly summary on milestones achieved with regard to GNSS infrastructure
(constellations, signals etc.).
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 and outcomes will be presented at dedicated
session, FIG Congress, 2014.
Beneficiaries
- FIG member associations, manufacturers and users of survey equipment,
governments, standardization organizations, decision makers, GIS developers
and users, surveying businesses, individual surveyors.
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