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List of articles of the month
- May 2008 -
Dr. Mathias Lemmens, Christiaan Lemmen and Martin Wubbe, the Netherlands -
Pictometry: Potentials for Land Administration. This paper was
originally prepared for and presented at the 6th FIG Regional Conference in
San José, Costa Rica 12-15 November 2007.
- April 2008 - Prof
Ian P. Williamson, Australia - Using Cadastres to Support Sustainable
Development. This paper was presented for the first time at the Spanish
IX National Congress of Surveying Engineers TOP-CART 2008 in Valencia, Spain
18-21 February 2008.
- March 2008 -
Neil D. Weston,
Gerald L. Mader, Tomás Soler, USA: Opus Projects – A Web-Based Application
To Administer And Process Multi-Day Gps Campaign Data. This
paper was presented at the FIG Working Week
2007 in Hong Kong SAR, China, May 2007.
- February 2008 -
Stephen T. Mague and
Robert W. Foster, USA: Where's the Shoreline? Sources of Historical High Water
Lines Developed in the Context of Massachusetts Coastal Regulations. This paper
was presented at the 6th FIG Regional Conference in
San José, Costa Rica, 12-15 November 2007.
- January 2008 - Grenville Barnes,
USA: Developing
Cost-effective and Resilient Land Administration Systems in Latin America.
This paper was presented at the 6th FIG Regional Conference 2007 in San
José, Costa Rica, 12-15 November 2007.
- December 2007 - Teo Chee Hai,
Malaysia: Changing the
Game: Sustaining the Profession.
This paper presented at the 6th FIG Regional Conference 2007 in San
José, Costa Rica,
12-15 November 2007.
- November 2007 -
Diane Dumashie, United
Kingdom: Land, Sea
and People: Equitable Access to Coastal Resources.
This article was presented as
a keynote paper at the 6th FIG Regional Conference 2007 in San
José, Costa Rica,
12-15 November 2007.
- October 2007 - Frances Plimmer,
United Kingdom: Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications. This
paper was also presented in a technical session during the FIG Working Week
2007 in Hong Kong SAR, China, May 2007
- September 2007 - Thomas Kalbro,
Sweden: Private
Compulsory Acquisition and the Public Interest Requirement. This paper
was presented at the FIG Commission 9 Seminar in Helsinki,
Finland in September 2007
- August 2007 - Volker Schwieger,
Germany: High-Sensitivity
GNSS – The Low-Cost Future of GPS?! This paper was also presented in a technical session at the FIG Working
Week 2007 in Hong Kong SAR, China, May 2007
- July 2007 -
Rob Mahoney, Peter Dale
and Robin McLaren, United Kingdom: Land Markets –
Why are they required and how will they develop? This paper was also presented in a technical session at the FIG WW2007 in
Hong Kong SAR, China, May 2007
- June 2007 - Peter
Byrne and Gail Kelly, Australia: The ABC of x,y,z - 21 Principles for Consideration by Surveyors and Other Geospatial
Professionals. This paper was also presented in a technical session at the FIG WW2007 in
Hong Kong SAR, China, May 2007
- May 2007 - Paul Kelly, Chair
of FIG Commission 3 Working Group 3.2: Role of Spatial Data Infrastructures
in Managing Our Cities. This paper was presented as keynote address at
the FIG Commission 3 2007 Annual Meeting and Workshop “Spatial Information
Management Toward Legalizing Informal Urban Development”, Sounio, Athens,
Greece, 28-31 March 2007
- April 2007 - Stig
Enemark, FIG President: Integrated Land-Use Management for Sustainable
Development. This article was also presented at a FIG Commission 3
Workshop in
Athens, Greece, March 28-31, 2007
- March 2007 -
Paul van der Molen
and Arbind Tuladhar, International Institute for Geoinformation Science and
Earth Observation: Corruption and Land Administration. This
article was also presented as a paper in a technical session during the 23rd
FIG Congress in October 2006 in Munich, Germany.
- February 2007 -
Javier
Ventura-Traveset, Ankit Raj Mathur and Felix Toran, European Space Agency
(ESA), EGNOS Project, and Hans-Peter Plag, University of Nevada, USA:
Provision of Emergency Communication Messages through Satellite Based
Augmentation Systems for GNSS: The ESA ALIVE Concept.
- January 2007 -
Dr. Lars Reuterswärd, Director of the Shelter and Sustainable Human
Settlements Development Division of UN-Habitat: Urban-Rural Interrelationship
in Land Administration – Urban Perspective. This paper is written and
presented as a keynote presentation at the XXIII FIG Congress in Munich,
Germany, 8-13 October 2006.
- December 2006 -
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel, FIG President: Changing FIG – Model for a
Changing World. Farewell speech at the Handover Ceremony on 2 December
2006 in Münster, Germany.
- November 2006 - Mr.
Keith Clifford Bell, World Bank: World Bank Support for Land Administration
and Management: Responding to the Challenges of the Millennium Development
Goals. This paper is written and presented at the XXIII FIG Congress in
Munich, Germany, 8-13 October 2006.
- October 2006 - Ms.
Nsame Nsemiwe, Zambia: Gender Dimensions of Land Customary Inheritance under
Customary Tenure in Zambia. This paper is based on the paper written and
presented by Ms. Nsame
Nsemiwe at the XXIII FIG Congress in Munich, Germany, 8-13
October 2006. The FIG Council has decided to award the Congress Prize to
two papers presented by Ms. Nsemiwe. The other paper is
"Negotiating the Interface: Struggles Involved in the Upgrading of
Informal Settlements -a Case Study of Nkandabwe in Kitwe, Zambia".
- September 2006 -
Dr. Michael
Sutherland and Dr. Sue Nichols, Canada: Issues in the Governance of Marine
Spaces. This paper is the introduction chapter of FIG publication no. 36
“Administering Marine Spaces:
International issues”. This publication is result of FIG Commissions 4
& 7 Working Group 4.3 and published by FIG in September 2006.
- August 2006 - Ms.
Gabriele Dasse, Germany: Enhancing the Representation of Under-Represented
Groups in FIG. This paper is based on the FIG publication no 35 ”Enhancing
the Representation of Under-represented Groups in FIG”, Copenhagen 2006.
- July 2006 - Mr. Gerhard Muggenhuber, Austria and Mr. Rob Mahoney, United Kingdom -
Changing Minds in an Evolving Society
- June 2006 - Mr. Markku
Markkula, Finland - Creating Favourable Conditions for Knowledge Society
through Knowledge Management, eGovernance and eLearning. This paper has
been prepared and presented as a keynote presentation at the FIG Workshop on
e-Governance, Knowledge Management and e-Learning in Budapest, Hungary, 27-29
April 2006. This workshop was co-organised by FIG Commissions 2,3 and 7.
- May 2006 - Chief
Kumbun-Naa Yiri II, Ghana - Customary Lands Administration and Good Governance
– The State and the Traditional Rulers Interface. This paper has been
written for the 5th FIG Regional Conference – Promoting Land Administration
and Good Governance in Accra, Ghana, March 8-11, 2006.
- April 2006 - Surv.
(Chief) Innocent N. Egbuh, Nigeria - Charting Nigerian Waters for Safer
Navigation. This article has been presented at the 5th FIG Regional
Conference – Promoting Land Administration and Good Governance to be held in
Accra, Ghana, March 8-11, 2006.
- March 2006 - Dr.
Babette Wehrmann, Germany - Cadastre in Itself Won’t Solve the Problem: The
Role of Institutional Change and Psychological Motivations in Land Conflicts –
Cases from Africa. This
article has been prepared for the 5th FIG Regional Conference - Promoting Land
Administration and Good Governance, Accra, Ghana, March 8-11,
2006.
- February 2006 - Dr. Isaac Bonsu Karikari, Ghana - Ghana’s Land Administration Project (LAP)
and Land Information Systems (LIS) Implementation: The Issues. This
article has been prepared for the 5th FIG Regional Conference - Promoting Land
Administration and Good Governance to be held in Accra, Ghana, March 8-11,
2006.
- January 2006 - Tony S. Haroen, Chairul B. Achmad and Wenny Rusmawar, Indonesia - Cadastral
Reconstruction in Aceh: A Newborn Concept of Adjudication. This article
has been presented for the first time at the South East Survey Congress in
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, 21-25 November 2005. It is published
as the Article of the Month to show respect to the memory of the victims of
the tsunami disaster in December 2005.
- December 2005 - FIG President Univ. Professor Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel
- About Surveyors’ Commitment, Role and Education for Society and Sustainable
Development. Keynote Address at the Opening Ceremony of the 8th SEASC 2005
on 22 November 2005 in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam.
- November 2005 - Adam
J. Kerr, United Kingdom - Hydrography and Disaster Management. This paper
has been for the first time presented at the FIG Forum at the Intergeo 2005 in
Düsseldorf, Germany, 4 October 2005.
- October 2005 -
Chris Rizos,
Matthew B. Higgins and S. Hewitson, Australia - New Global Navigation
Satellite System Developments and Their Impact on Survey Service Providers and
Surveyors. This article is based on a paper in Proceedings of SSC2005
Spatial Intelligence, Innovation and Praxis: The national biennial Conference
of the Spatial Sciences Institute, September 2005. Melbourne: Spatial Sciences
Institute. ISBN 0-9581366-2-9
- September 2005 -
Mette Fosgaard Kragh, Denmark - New Danish Regional Development Plans – An
Effort of Combining Economy and Spatial Aspects for Urban and Rural Areas.
This article was for the first time presented at the FIG/GSDI Conference in
Cairo, Egypt, 16-21 April 2005.
- August 2005 - Ian
P. Williamson, Australia - Opportunities for Surveyors in Modern Land Markets.
This paper was for the first time presented at the FIG/GSDI Conference in
Cairo, Egypt, 16-21 April 2005.
- July 2005 - Dorine
A. J. Burmanje, Chair of the Board Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping
Agency, The Netherlands - Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration
in Europe. This paper has been prepared and presented as a keynote
presentation in a plenary session ”Co-operation between Land Administration
and SDI” at the FIG/GSDI Conference in Cairo, Egypt, 16-21 April 2005. It is
based on material presented during a UN/FIG/PC IDEA Conference in
Aguascalientes, Mexico in November 2004.
- June 2005 - Richard
Wonnacott, South Africa - AFREF - Background and Progress towards a Unified
Reference System for Africa. This paper has been prepared and presented at
the FIG Working Week / GSDI-8 Conference in Cairo, Egypt, April 16-21, 2005.
- May 2005 - Daniel Roberge,
Canada: After the Tsunami – How the Surveying Profession Can Participate in
the Reconstruction. This paper has been prepared and presented at the FIG
Working Week / GSDI-8 Conference in Cairo, Egypt, April 16-21, 2005. It is
also a contribution to the discussion how professional associations can
contribute to risk and disaster management. At its meeting in Cairo the Joint
Board of Geospatial Information Societies decided to establish an ad hoc
working party on risk and disaster management, chaired by Prof. Bengt Rystedt
from ICA
- April 2005 - Stig Enemark, Denmark and John Parker, Australia: The Development of Land
Information Policies in the Americas
- March 2005 - John Brock,
Australia: Who Were the First Surveyors?
Four Surveyors of the Gods: In the XVIII Dynasty of Egypt – New Kingdom c.
1400 B.C.
- February 2005 - David J. Powell, FRICS, MAE, Chairman of the Geomatics Faculty of the
R.I.C.S., United Kingdom: Boundary Dispute Resolution in England & Wales –
Surveyors and Lawyers Working Together to Resolve Problems
- January 2005 - Univ.
Prof. Dr-Ing. Holger Magel, FIG President: Surveyors and Politics – the Need
for Dialogue. This summary is based on the purely orally given lecture of
Univ. Prof. Holger Magel, President of FIG at the RICS as the “Christmas
Lecture” of the Geomatics Faculty, December 2, 2004.
- December 2004 - Klaus
Deininger, World Bank: Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction: Key Issues and Challenges Ahead. This paper was presented for the first
time at the UN, FIG, PC IDEA Inter-regional Special Forum on The Building of
Land Information Policies in the Americas in Aguascalientes, Mexico 26-27
October 2004
- November 2004 - Teo
Chee Hai, Malaysia: Mutual Recognition of Surveying Qualifications within the
ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services. This paper has been for the first
time represented as a keynote presentation at the 3rd FIG Regional Conference
in Jakarta, Indonesia 6 October 2004.
- October 2004 -
Marie Christine Robidoux,
C.L.S., LL.M., Calgary Alberta, Canada: Geomatics and Traditional Knowledge –
Liidlii Ku’e First Nation. This report was originally prepared for FIG
Foundation and submitted in October 2003. It has been updated in August 2004.
- September 2004 - Helge Onsrud, Senior Advisor, Statens kartverk Norway: Land Administration in
Europe. This article is
based on a keynote presentation that the author gave at the FIG Working Week
in Athens in May 2004.
- August 2004 - Prof.
Dr.-Ing. Theo Kötter, University of Bonn, Germany: Risks and Opportunities of
Urbanisation and Megacities. This paper was for the first time presented
as a keynote presentation at the plenary session of the FIG Working Week 2004
in Athens, Greece 25 May 2004.
- July 2004 - Prof. Gerhard
Beutler, President President of the International Association of Geodesy, IAG,
Switzerland: Revolution in Geodesy and Surveying. This paper was for the
first time presented as a keynote presentation at the plenary session of the
FIG Working Week 2004 in Athens, Greece 24 May 2004.
- June 2004 - Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Holger Magel, FIG President: Breathing the Olympic Spirit - The Mission of FIG
in the 21st Century. This paper was for the first time presented as the
opening speech at the FIG Working Week 2004 in Athens, Greece, 23 May 2004.
- May 2004 - Dr.-Ing. Ralf
Schroth, FIG Vice President, Germany: Direct Geo-Referencing in Practical
Applications. This paper was for
the first time presented at the ISPRS workshop WG 1/5 about Theory,
Technology and Realities of Inertial/GPS Sensor Orientation in Castelldefels/Barcelona,
Spain, 23 September 2003. It has been partly revised for the FIG Article of
the Month published in May 2004
- April 2004 - Alick R.
Mwanza, Zambia: White Collar Malpractices in Cadastral Surveying and their
Effects on Secure Land Tenure and Sustainable Development.
This paper has been produced with the financial support of the FIG Foundation.
- March 2004 - Joel
Bailey, Amanda Lewis and Frances Plimmer, United Kingdom: Locating the
“Country” in Town and Country Planning: the Urban Bias in English Planning.
This paper has been produced with the financial support of the FIG Foundation.
- February 2004 - Mr. Svein Tveitdal, Director, Division of Environmental Conventions and
Division of Environmental Policy Implementation, UNEP: Urban-Rural
Interrelationship: Condition for Sustainable Development. This paper was
first presented at the 2nd FIG Regional Conference for Africa and the Arab
Countries in Marrakech, Morocco, December 2-5, 2003.
- January 2004 - Prof.
Neville Ying, Professor of Business Develoment & Director, Labour Studies at
the Mona School of Business, University of West Indies, Jamaica: Contact a
Land Surveyor - Speech for the 75th Anniversary Function for Land Surveyors
Association. This paper was first presented as a keynote speech at the occasion of the 75th
Anniversary Function for the LSAJ in Kingston, October 31, 2003.
- December 2003 - Iain
Greenway, Chair, FIG Standards Network: Standards – Are They Relevant in a
Surveyor’s World? This article was for the first time presented at the FIG
Working Week and 125th Anniversary in Paris, France 13-17 April, 2003. It has
been updated in November 2003 for the FIG series Article of the Month.
- November 2003 - Prof. Heinz Rüther, South Africa: The Situation of Geomatics Education in
Africa – An Endangered Profession. Keynote paper at the 2nd FIG Regional
Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, December 2-5, 2003 and background paper for
the Special Round Table on Surveying/GIS Education in Africa, Marrakech,
December 2, 2003.
- October 2003 - Mr. Bogdan Ney and Mr. Andrzej Sambura, Poland: IT Developments Enabling
Customer-Oriented Cadastre. Originally represented at the 2nd Cadastral
Congress, September 19-21, 2003 in Krakow, Poland
- September 2003 -
Mr. Gerhard
Muggenhuber, Chair of FIG Commission 3: Spatial Information for Sustainable
Resource Management
- August 2003 - FIG
President Univ.-Prof. Dr-Ing. Holger Magel: "Survey and GIS – Bridging the Gap".
Originally presented as the Opening Speech at the ESRI “Survey and GIS Summit
– Bridging the Gap 2003” in San Diego, California, USA, 6 July, 2003
- July 2003 - Prof.
Stig Enemark: "Capacity Building for Developing - Sustainable Land
Administration Infrastructures". Originally presented at the UN ECE WPLA /
FIG Workshop in Athens in May 2003.
In his article Prof. Enemark argues that "when a project is established to
create land administration infrastructures, it is critical that capacity
building is a mainstream component of the project. The capacity building
aspect should be addressed up front, not as an add-on.
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