News from Corporate Members
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Three new corporate members joined FIG in Jakarta, October
2004
FIG Council approved membership application from three new
corporate members at its meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, 8 October 2004.
These new members are:
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received one of this year's ESRI "Special Achievement in GIS". The award was
given to FIG during the ESRI Users' Conference in San Diego in August 2004.
Jack Dangermond, President of ESRI, Markku
Villikka, FIG and Mike Weir, ESRI at the award ceremony.
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Eimar Arabia Real Estate Development Co. Ltd from
Saudi Arabia joined FIG as a corporate member in December 2003 in
membership category D. The company has been established to provide
the complete range of professional services to the real estate
market. Whether your objective is investment, or development for
commercial, residential, leisure or industrial purposes; whether you
are the managing director of a business looking for a new
headquarters, a factory or a retail outlet, |
Eimar Arabia can help by offering any one, or a
combination of the following services:
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Project Management
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Real Estate Marketing
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Property Management
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Consultancy & Research
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Valuation
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| GEO:connexion Ltd, publisher of GEO:connexion Magazine and
GEO:connexonUK Magazine joined FIG as a corporate member in December 2003.
GEO:connexion is a business-to-business magazine for geotechnology industry
professionals within Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Published 10 times
per year, its monthly circulation is 14,000 copies. Geo:connexion is FIG
corporate member in membership category E. |
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SICAD Geomatics joins FIG in Paris
Dr.-Ing. Holger Schade from SICAD GEOMATICS gets his membership
certificate from Prof. Holger Magel, FIG President in Paris. |
SICAD Geomatics GmbH & Co. (www.sicad.de)
from Germany joined FIG as a Corporate Member in membership category
B during the FIG Working Week in Paris in April 2003. Focal points
for the FIG co-operation are Dr.-Ing. Holger Schade, who also
made a keynote presentation in Paris and Robert Klarner,
Manager of Communication. Since 1979 SICAD has been
an important pacemaker for geographical information systems. It is
significantly involved in the development and optimization of
spatial data processing - aiming at producing a computer that can
actually "see". More than 1000 customers around the globe are
already reaping the benefits of the expertise and unique experience
of SICAD GEOMATICS. |
The SICAD product family offers open, up-to-date GIS core
technology for use in technical applications for all important sectors. In
addition, SICAD offers outstanding standard applications with a wide
distribution that both ensures users an exceptionally high degree of
security and also guarantees constant refinement and further development.
SICAD enjoys particular acceptance by GIS users in the area of geodata
management. We are especially committed to a professional approach and to
the use of geodata via the internet.
SICAD is characterized by its worldwide distribution. This
is underscored by its more than 4,000 installed systems in 17 language
versions and a total value in excess of over 500 million euro. No matter
whether our customers are in Germany, Europe, Russia or Asia, we and our
partners are on hand to provide on-site consulting and support.
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GEOEXPERT is
an association of French surveying companies, the aim of which is to
work together in the international market. It considers that the
French experience in land policies is very rich, but poorly
represented in the world. The French chartered surveyor has both
high technical engineering standards, and the experience of a
successful private-public partnership. The association works as a
coordinating body and has no commercial activity, as such.
Rafic Khouri, Secretary General of
GEOEXPERT receives his membership certificate at the FIG General
Assembly in Paris in April 2003. |
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Intergraph joins FIG as a Corporate Member in Platinum
Level
Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions is a leading geospatial
solutions provider for markets including local, state and federal
government; transportation; utilities; communications; locations-based
services; photogrammetry; remote sensing; cartography; and military and
intelligence. These solutions can be deployed on the desktop, Web, or with
mobile technology. Central to these innovations is Intergraph Mapping and
Geospatial Solutions’ industry-proven mapping and geospatial technology,
including the GeoMedia®, Digital Cartographic Studio® (DCS), Modular GIS
Environment (MGE), G/Technology, FRAMME TM, InService and
TerraShare TM platforms. As a founding and strategic member of
the Open GIS Consortium (OGC), Intergraph continues to be committed to
open systems solutions and data interoperability.
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President Magel at Leica Top Event 2003 in Bregenz in
January 2003
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January 30-31, 2003, the second Leica Top Event, a sort of a
customer club took place at Bregenz/Austria. The two days meeting
with some 50 participants from all segments of professional
surveying was grouped into two sections. One were company and
product presentations and second was a visit to the Leica factory at
nearby Heerbrugg / Switzerland. The highlight of the Top Event was
the very lively speech of the FIG President Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Holger Magel, Munich.
Programme of the LEICA TOP EVENT 2003. President Holger Magel made a keynote
presentation at the Leica TOP EVENT 2003 January 30, 2003. |
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ESRI has upgraded its membership in FIG
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Environmental
Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) has upgraded its
membership in FIG to the platinum level starting in 2003. The FIG
contact person in ESRI is Mike Weir, Surveying Industry
Manager. Jack Dangermond, President and Founder of ESRI is
further Honorary Chair of the FIG Foundation. |
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1,000 cities in developing countries to receive software
and training in Geographical Information Systems - UN-HABITAT receives a
grant of US$ 15 million from ESRI
UN-HABITAT, the UN agency responsible for helping
governments to address the problems of human settlements and rapid
urbanization, received a grant of US$ 15,000,000 from the Environmental
Systems Research Institute (ESRI) the leading developer of Geographic
Information Systems software (GIS).
This ambitious international grants initiative has been
given by ESRI to UN-HABITAT's Global Urban Observatory, an international
capacity building network established to help meet the goals of the
Habitat Agenda, which was endorsed at Habitat II in 1996. More recently,
the General Assembly mandated UN-HABITAT to monitor the implementation of
the Millennium Development Goal, target 11, which is committed to
improving the lives of 100 million slum dwellers by 2020.
"Most local authorities in the developing world have
outdated information about the state of their cities. Few of them have the
technologies to collect and analyze data about basic infrastructure and
the current status of housing," said Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, the
Executive Director of UN-HABITAT at the launch of the initiative. "If we
are going to improve the living conditions of the urban poor, city
authorities must be provided with the necessary tools, technology and
training. We are grateful to the software developer ESRI for this generous
grant. It will enable cities in Africa and Asia to produce accurate and
accessible information. This is the basic right of every citizen and is
also essential for good urban governance."
The goal of the grant program is to provide GIS technology
and training for up to 1,000 cities in developing countries so that they
can participate in the collection of urban indicator information. Urban
indicators include information about poverty, environmental degradation,
lack of urban services, degeneration of existing infrastructure, and the
lack of access to land and adequate shelter. Cities can use GIS for the
collection and analysis of urban indicator data to facilitate better urban
management and the formulation of participatory development policies.
The GUO grant program will be implemented in a phased
approach. Initially, in 2003, grants will be awarded to provide GIS
technology and training to 350 cities that currently do not have access to
the technology. The grants to the cities will consist of a package of GIS
software, technical support and upgrades, and training. They are valued at
approximately $15,000 each, making the entire program worth about $15
million dollars.
"I believe that GIS technology can truly make a positive
contribution in improving the general quality of life for the impoverished
people of the world," comments ESRI President Jack Dangermond. "We
at ESRI are honored to offer this support to the UN-HABITAT Global Urban
Observatory program."
© UN-HABITAT, February 5, 2003
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