IAG President Beutler visits FIG Office
Prof. Gerhard Beutler, newly elected President of the
International Association of Geodesy and Prof. Christian Tscherning,
Secretary General of IAG visited the FIG Office 29 September 2003 in
conjunction to the Executive Committee meeting of IAG in Copenhagen. The
purpose of the visit was to discuss with Prof. Holger Magel, FIG
President and Markku Villikka, Director of FIG office the future
co-operation between the two associations and the implementation of the
memorandum of understanding.
In the discussion it was noted that IAG and FIG have many common issues
and fields of activities where joint action is needed. Prof. Beutler
described the new structure of IAG, which more information is available at:
http://www.iag-aig.org/. Matt
Higgins, Chair of FIG Commission 5 and focal point to IAG had prepared a
document how FIG and its commissions can co-operate with the IAG commissions
in the new structure. It was agreed that IAG and FIG will co-operate at the
2nd FIG Regional Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 3-7, 2004 and at
the IAG Scientific Assembly in Cairns, Australia in August 2005. Prof. Magel
also invited President Beutler to make a keynote presentation at the FIG
Working Week in Athens in May 2004. Matt
Higgins’ report is available here.
Among the issues of common interest were the educational topics
especially in developing countries. IAG will send its representative Prof.
Charles Merry to the Round Table on Surveying/Geomatics Education to be held
in Marrakech in December 2003. Other topics discussed were the role of the
Joint Board of Spatial Information Societies, which will be discussed at the
next meeting in Istanbul in 2004 and the joint co-operation with the United
Nations and its agencies. |
