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The German
Council took over the administration of FIG January 1, 2003
- The Handover took place during the Intergeo 2002 in Frankfurt, 16
October, 2002
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Gerhard Muggenhuber (on the left), Thomas Gollwitzer, Ralf Schroth,
Holger Magel, T.N. Wong and Andreas Drees. |
The FIG Council 2003-2006 started its work 1 January
2003. The new Council is chaired by Prof.
Holger Magel, President of
FIG (Germany). The members of the Council are Vice President, Dr.-Ing.
Andreas Drees
(Germany), Vice President Dr.-Ing.
Ralf Schroth, Vice
President Bettina Petzold
(Germany) and Vice President
T.N. Wong (Hong Kong
SAR, China). The remaining members of the new Council are Congress
Director Thomas
Gollwitzer (Germany) and Gerhard Muggenhuber (Austria) as
the representative of the Commission chairs. |
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President Robert W. Foster gives the FIG chain to the
new President Prof. Holger Magel from Germany. Mr Foster is assisted by
Mr. Hagen Graeff, President of DVW. |
The handover ceremony between the US and
German Councils took place at opening of the Intergeo 2002 in Frankfurt,
Germany 16 October 2002. The biggest tradeshow on surveying business
attracted more than 15,000 visitors and the exhibition space was bigger
than ever exceeding 10,000 square metres (net). The conference and
opening ceremony attracted abut 700 delegates and invited guests.
The handover ceremony included performances of the Band of US Army and
cheerleaders from the Frankfurt Galaxy.
Read more about the
handover with
picture gallery on the FIG web site. |
Working Group 3 of FIG Commission 3 - Spatial Information Management
- has finalised its report Land Information Management for Sustainable
Development of Cities - Best Practice Guidelines in City-wide Land
Information Management which is now available on the FIG web site. The
report was officially launched at the FIG 2002 Congress in Washington, DC
in April 2002. The report is an FIG contribution to the UN-HABITAT Best
Practices Database and of its learning and technical co-operation tools
with good practices, policies and enabling legislation in LIM.
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FIG Commission 7 Working Group (1998-2002) Reforming the Cadastre
has published its report on Benchmarking Cadastral Systems. The report
compiled and edited by Daniel Steudler and Jürg Kaufmann includes
contributions from 9 case studies from different countries. The report
was launched at the FIG General Assembly in Washington, DC in April
2002. The report is available on the FIG web site as .pdf-file
(429 KB). Hard copies can be asked from the FIG Office. |
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Cadastre 2014 - A Vision for a Future Cadastral System
was first published by FIG Commission 7 in 1998. The report written by
Jürg Kaufmann and Daniel Steudler with the Working Group 1 of FIG
Commission 7 has now got its second edition and is available from the
FIG Office. The second edition was made possible by the support of
Leica Geosystems Ltd., a corporate member of FIG. Requests for the
report should be made to the FIG Office, email: fig@fig.net.
The report is also available on web: http://www.swisstopo.ch/fig-wg71/cad2014/cad2014/index.htm |
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FIG Multilingual Technical Dictionary
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The FIG Multilingual Dictionary can now be ordered via
Internet. Already
10 revised editions have been published and 5 volumes are under
preparation. The Multilingual Dictionary is a result of work carried
out by the FIG Multi-Lingual Dictionary Board - a permanent
institution of FIG - for many years. The responsible organisation for
editing is Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie in Germany. The
terms and definitions as used in surveying and mapping are published
in German with equivalent technical terms in English and French. You can obtain the volumes or to get more information from the
Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Aussenstelle Leipzig, Karl-Rothe-Strasse
10-14 D-04105 Leipzig, Germany, Tel. + 49 341 5634 - 330, Mrs.
Kollenda, fax + 49 341 56 34 - 415, email: kollenda@leipzig.ifag.de
or from the web site: http://www.ifag.de/Kartographie/Shop/index.html. |
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The 2nd International Conference on Engineering Surveying – INGEO 2002
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The 2nd International
Conference of Engineering Surveying INGEO 2002 was held in November
11–13, 2002 in the Congress Centrum of Slovak Savings Bank in
Bratislava. The conference was organised by the Department of Surveying
(DS) of the Faculty of Civil Engineering (FCE) of the Slovak University
of Technology (SUT) in Bratislava under the auspices of the Dean of the
FCE SUT Bratislava, Prof.
Dušan Petráš, PhD. |
The co-operation bodies of the conference were: FIG Commission 6 WG
6.2 – Engineering Surveys for Industry and Research; the Chamber of
Surveyors and Cartographers and the Slovak Union of Surveyors.
Specialists from the 9 various countries in the world, who work at
universities, research centres, in geodetic and building organizations
as well as in industry, have participated in proceedings. Total number
of participants was 76, out of which 36 participants were from foreign
countries and 40 participants from Slovak Republic.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Engineering
Surveying was aimed at a discussion about actual problems of engineering
surveying, about conclusion of knowledge and results, which were
acquired by the using of new modern technologies.
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The Second International Symposium in Surveying (Education and
Professionalism) at the University of Puerto Rico in
Mayagüez, October 3-5,
2002
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FIG representatives at the Symposium in Mayagüez: Prof.
John Parker (left), President Robert Foster, Prof. Stig Enemark and
Prof. Pedro Cavero. |
The Second International Symposium in Surveying
(Education and Professionalism) was organised at
the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez October
3-5, 2002. With the participation over 150 people
from several countries including USA,
Latin-America, and Europe, the conference was declared a success by
Mr. Robert W. Foster, President of FIG.
After an opening address by Mr.
Foster, 18 technical presentations followed in the topics of education,
research and professional practice. A panel composed of officials from
different participating institutions and a student debated motions and
resolutions on Saturday. The Assembly of over a hundred participants
approved the
following motions and resolutions October
5, 2002.
More pictures from the Symposium.
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GIS 2002 and Commission 3 Annual Meeting in
Istanbul, 23-26 September 2002
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Prof. Jüri Randjärv, Jan de Graeve and Jim Smith at the Struve
monument outside Tartu Observatory. |
From 25 to 28 September 2002 the Association of Estonian
Surveyors, Estonian Land Board, Estonian Agricultural University and Tartu
University held a conference in Tallinn and Tartu on “Struve Arc 150”. 50
delegates from 10 countries attended- namely Norway, Sweden, Finland,
Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Belgium and
UK. Essentially it was commemorating the 150th anniversary of the
completion of the Struve Geodetic Arc that ran from near North Cape in
Norway to the Black Sea, but was an ideal opportunity to discuss the arc
in detail and to progress the efforts of the International Institution for
the History of Surveying & Measurement to have selected points in each
country recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Monument. |
13 of the 15 technical papers were published in a special
booklet. In addition to the technical presentations the group visited the
remaining Struve survey stations marking the terminals of the Simuna
baseline and the starting point of the whole arc in Tartu (formerly Dorpat)
observatory. At the latter point the Rector of Tartu University, Professor
Jaak Aaviksoo, unveiled a special plaque at the point set by Struve
on the meridian through the observatory. Four resolutions were passed, see
attached report.
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Commission 7 Annual Meeting and Symposium on
Land Re-distribution in
Southern Africa, Pretoria, South
Africa, November 4-9 2002
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FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting was held in
Pretoria, November 2002. This two day
seminar focused on land redistribution in southern Africa
and was held in conjunction to the annual meeting of Commission 7. This seminar
was part of Working Group 2 on ‘instruments for land
distribution’, chaired by Mikko Uimonen, and is included in the Commission 7
Work Plan 2002-2006.
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New chairs were elected to the ten technical Commissions at the
General Assembly in Washington, DC. |
At the FIG General Assembly Association four new
member associations were adopted: Association des Géomètres et Topographes du
Burkina (AGT-B), Asociación de Agrimensores del Uruguay (AAU), Association
of Authorised Land Surveyors Malaysia and Ordré
National des Géomètres du Cameroun (OGEC). In addition Nepal and Mexico joined as affiliate
members. |
The FIG Working Week 2007 was admitted to Hong Kong, China and the
Working Week 2003 that was planned to be held in Israel was postponed to
year 2009. The venue for Working Week 2003 will be confirmed by the Council
in June 2002.
Mr. T. N. Wong from Hong Kong, China was elected as a Vice President of FIG for 2003-2006. He
is the first Vice President that is directly elected by the General Assembly
following the new statutes and will be a
member of the German lead Council. The 10 FIG technical Commissions got new
officers who started their work at the end of the Congress. The new work
plans will be published on this site within short.
Memoranda of Understanding were adopted with UN-FAO, UN-HABITAT, ISPRS, ICA and
IFHP.
The FIG Foundation managed to collect almost US$ 50,000 in conjunction to
the Congress which allows to give the first grants before the end of this
year.
The minutes with all appendices are now available on
this site.
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FIG Congress 2002 in Washington, D.C. April 19-26,
2002 attracted almost 4,000 surveyors from almost 90 countries - in the
FIG programme more than 450 papers were presented in more than 110
sessions
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The Opening ceremony of the FIG Congress in
Washington gathered a full house. |
The XXII FIG International Congress was held in
Washington, D.C. USA April 19-26 2002. The Congress attracted almost
4,000 participants from almost 90 countries. The technical programme
included the FIG technical programme with more than 450 presentations
in more than 110 sessions. In addition in the domestic programme
almost 160 papers were presented. Further there were several workshops
organised by ACSM and ASPRS. The report from the conference with pictures.
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The FIG Congress Prize 2002 was given to Mr George Oner
Ogalo from Kenya for his presentation "GPS
in Cadastres: A Case Study of Kenya".
The papers from the FIG
Technical Programme are now available on this web site. You are
also able to view the extended abstracts. Proceedings
(DC-Rom and extended abstract) can be ordered from the FIG Office, price US$
50 including postage.
The FIG Standards Network (Joint
Commission Working Group WG1.1 under Commission 1) is continuing the work
of an FIG Task Force which was established in 1998 in response to concerns
from the Commissions, the Council and the General Assembly that standards
were becoming increasingly important in the work of surveyors, and that
the issue was not being addressed sufficiently by FIG.
The Network's terms of reference are as follows:
- Building and maintaining relations with the secretariats of
standardisation bodies;
- Proposing priorities on FIG's standardisation activities, including
advising the Council on priorities for spending;
- Setting up necessary Liaison relationships with standardisation
bodies;
- Ensuring that lead contacts to Technical Committees etc are in
place;
- Maintaining an information flow on standardisation to FIG members,
including through the FIG website and FIG Bulletin, and more directly
to relevant Commission Officers;
- Maintaining the Guide on
Standardisation, and related material on the FIG website;
- Working with other NGOs, within the framework of the MOUs signed by
the Council; and
- Advising FIG's officers and members on standardisation activities as
necessary.
The Network sees itself as at the hub of FIG standardisation activity,
making the necessary linkages and providing the necessary advice to
commissions and others.
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