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7th FIG Regional Conference - Hanoi, Vietnam, 19-22 October 2009
7th FIG Regional Conference - Spatial Data Serving People - Land Governance and the Environment - Building the Capacity will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam, 19-22 October 2009. The topics of the conference are selected to address the issues at the top of the regional and local agenda, and at the same time giving a platform for international discussions. The key topics will be in the areas of land administration and environmental management. The conference thereby provides an excellent opportunity for FIG member associations and surveyors all over the world to meet and share experiences and achievements. Please notice that FAO will organise a two-day regional conference on Voluntary guidelines for responsible governance of tenure of land and other natural resources as part of the FIG regional conference. Please notice the registration fee for full participants is 300 EUR until 15 August 2009 including lunches, dinners and a day technical tour to Ha Long Bay, a famous natural heritage site and geological reserve in Vietnam.

Conference web site: www.fig.net/vietnam
Call for papers as a .pdf file
Themes and topics: www.fig.net/vietnam/themes.htm
Submit your abstract now online at: www.fig.net/abstractdb/submit.asp?id=11. Deadline for abstracts has passed 29 June 2009 but late coming proposals are still considered. Please submit your abstract as soon as possible.
Online registration is now open at: https://www.fig.net/registrations/regform.asp?eventid=63  
Please register now, early bird registration fee is available until 15 August 2009.
FIG Congress 2010 - Facing the Challenges – Building the Capacity will be held in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010. Final Invitation and Call for Papers brochure will be sent to the members in early June and is available as a .pdf file at: www.fig.net/fig_2010/fig2010_final_invitation.pdf (20 pages, 1.26 MB).
Online registration will be opened in early June 2009. You can register your interest already now at: www.fig2010.com.
Call for papers is available at: www.fig.net/fig_2010/call.htm. Please notice that deadline for abstracts and full papers for peer review is 22 September 2009.
Abstracts can be submitted online at: www.fig.net/abstractdb/submit.asp?id=12
The organisers have also announced the FIG 2010 Congress Prize, read more:
www.fig.net/fig_2010/prize.htm.
  • Article of the Month - July 2009

    In the FIG Article of the Month series high-level papers focusing on interesting topics to all surveyors are published. The paper can be picked up from FIG conference or another event. The Article of the Month in July 2009 is "Facing the Global Agenda – Focus on Land Governance". It is written by Prof. Stig Enemark, FIG President from Denmark. This paper is based on the keynote presentation that Prof. Stig Enemark, FIG President gave at the FIG Working Week in Eilat, Israel, 3-8 May 2009.

Click picture for bigger format. The Forum was organised by the UN sponsored Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure (PCGIAP) together with Islamic Republic of Iran’s Deeds and Properties Registration Organization, FIG, GSDI and the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration, University of Melbourne. The aim was to discuss to discuss land administration issues and the role of cadastre to support e-government in the Asia and Pacific region. The Seminar was Chaired by Prof Ian Williamson and co-chaired by Associate Professor Abbas Rajabifard.

Over 410 people from 15 countries and 4 international organisations attended the forum. Read more...
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 The FIG Working Week 2009 took place in Eilat, Israel from 3rd to 8th of May 2009. The theme of this year’s conference was “Surveyors’ Key Role in Accelerated Development” which is a hot topic worldwide but especially in Israel that is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. The conference gathered more than 500 delegates – with exhibitors and accompanying persons about 650 participants from 65 countries to Eilat, the southernmost edge of Israel at the Red Sea. Among participants 60 students and more than 50 accompanying persons. The technical programme included almost 250 presentations in about 60 technical sessions and workshops. The conference was hosted jointly by the Association of Licensed Surveyors in Israel, ALSI and FIG in co-operation with the Survey of Israel. Read more...

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  • FIG General Assembly 2009 - Minutes

The minutes of the FIG General Assembly 2009 are available on the FIG web site. You can download the minutes without appendices as a pdf-file: www.fig.net/admin/ga/2009/ga_minutes.pdf (18 pages) and the full set of the minutes (with all those appendices that were not circulated with the agenda papers) as a .pdf-file at: www.fig.net/admin/ga/2009/ga_minutes.pdf (103 pages - 15.5 MB). The FIG Office has circulated a hard copy of the minutes to all FIG members. The hard copy version of the minutes (30 pages – 2.5 MB) can also be downloaded from the web at: www.fig.net/admin/ga/2009/ga_minutes_ma.pdf.

FIG Annual Review June 2008 is available on the web and as a hard copy. You can download it from here as a .pdf file (32 pages, 3.80 MB) from here. Hard copies have been sent to members together with the General Assembly minutes. Further copies can be ordered from the FIG Office, email: fig@fig.net.
FIG Commissions 5 and 6 and Siberian State Academy of Geodesy (SSGA) will organise Workshop on “Innovative Technologies for an Efficient Geospatial Management of Earth Resources” for the first time in Russia on Lake Baikal in the settlement of Listvyanka on 23-30 July 2009. Workshop web site and registration: http://www.s-tur.com/geo/
Revised Invitation as a .pdf file and more information on the web. Paper guidelines and paper template.
  • Request for FIG members to contribute to Standards and Education Survey

The Outreach Group of ISO Technical Committee on Geographic Information is carrying out a short survey on survey education courses and the use of standards. They have asked that FIG members, particularly those associated with universities, participate in the survey. The survey can be found at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=BVgOs2PKMCCIzEWFtCePrw_3d_3d and the results to date can be found at a report. More information can be obtained from John Stuiver, email, John.Stuiver@wur.nl.

The Surveying Education Database (SEDB) on Professional Education is in full operation. Universities and institutions are able with their user-ID and password to make changes directly to the database. Any academic department offering graduate and post-graduate courses in any surveying discipline can place a standard entry on the SEDB.

The Surveying Education Database is a major benefit for being an  Academic Member of FIG. Academic Members of FIG can add a picture and additional information to their standard entries.

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