Scope

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The theme of the conference is “Capacity Building for Sustainable Development” which includes following policy issues and specific topics:

Policy Issues

  • History and preservation of the hydrographic and geodesic heritage
  • Physical and virtual infrastructures - tools and procedures
  • Quality standards
  • Future projects - challenges and opportunities
  • Legal and social welfare and security in life - contributions of surveyors
  • Funding, transfer of technology and professional development

All ten FIG technical commissions will attend the conference and papers therefore requested to all following topics: Professional Standards and Practice; Professional Education; Spatial Information Management; Hydrography; Positioning and Measurement; Engineering Surveys; Cadastre & Land Management; Spatial Planning & Development; Valuation and the Management of Real Estate; and Construction Economics and Management

Specific Topics

Surveying and Geodesy

  • Methods and technologies to develop geodetic networks
  • New surveying technologies
  • Methods and development of precise surveying technologies
  • Application of new technologies in the geodetic studies
  • Norms and standards for geodetic networks
  • Reference frame
  • Navigation systems
  • Methods and new technologies in engineering surveying (in industry, construction, architecture and control of public works
  • Standards of geodetic and surveying measurements.

Cadastre, Land Management and Urban and Rural Planning

  • Urban and rural cadastre
  • 3D GIS and new technologies in the information processing
  • International cadastral standards
  • Valuation and real estate management
  • Cadastre and registries
  • Procedures of large scales urban development
  • Rural development and land use

Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

  • Digital photogrammetry and 3D models
  • New technologies for development, processing and management of 3D topographic maps (including restoring and preserving monuments and historical buildings and constructions)
  • Remote sensing and 3D digital processing
  • Use of modern technologies for development and updating of maps by satellite images
  • Monitoring of natural resources, disasters and environment by remote sensing and GIS
  • Visualization of 3D data
  • International standards for these activities

Digital Cartography and GIS

  • Technological innovations
  • Web-based solutions
  • Modern technologies in information collection and data management
  • GIS for infrastructure networks

Hydrography and Marine Surveying

  • Modern technologies in hydrography
  • Use of new technologies for nautical and electronic charts
  • Development of coastal zone management

Education and Professional Practice

  • Educational methodologies and trends in education
  • CPD and training
  • Interaction between research, education and practice
  • Postgraduate professional development
  • Exchange of students and professionals
  • Professional standards (educational qualification and access to market)

Spatial Data Infrastructures

  • Regulations and development of standards
  • Spatial information management
  • Practical experiences of use and application of SDI
  • Policies of development and standards
  • Systems for data capture, integration, edition and metadata

Environment

  • Use and management of land resources
  • Risk and disaster manegement - studies of potential disaster zones
  • Education on environmetal issues
  • Environmental policies, strategies and activities

Strategies, Integration and Development of Surveying Profession

  • State of the art and strategies
  • Developing joint surveying projects
  • Technical, professional and scientific development of surveyors