FIG Commission 5 - Positioning and Measurement

 

"FIG Commission 5 focuses on meeting the highest level of accuracy for Positioning and Measurement. It provides the tools, techniques and procedures to educate and train surveying professionals everywhere. Appropriate methodology for data collection and processing are required to be successful in an era of global, integrated geospatial data."


What we do

For the term 2023-2026 FIG Commission 5 will be working on:

 

PDF: Work Plan
VIDEO: Chair of the commission Ryan Keenen takes you through the work plan


Chair of FIG Commission 5:
Ryan Keenan, Australia

Join Commission 5 on LinkedIn

 

Learn more about how Commission 5 is working with the SDG's


NEWS

UPCOMING EVENTS

FIG Working Week 2024

19-24 May 2024 in Accra, Ghana

www.fig.net/fig2024

Reference Frames in Practise Seminar

The Technical Seminar on Reference Frames in Practice was held in Orlando 27-28 May 2023 as a pre-event to the FIG Working WEek 2023. The main focus was on reference frames in general with a specific focus on UN initiatives, global and regional frames as well selected national case studies.

Prorgramme

 

Commission 5 at FIG Working Week 2023

FIG Working Week 2023 took place 28 May - 1 june 2023 in Orlando, Florida.
Commission 57 had organised several sessions in the tehcnical programme, pre-events, and held its annual meeting during the conference days. At the General Assembly the Work plans of all commissions were presented

> Work plan
> Video presentation of work plan
> Proceedings/Technical programme
> Report from the conference

 

Cost Effective Precise Positioning with GNSS

FIG Publication 74

Most surveyors today are aware that data acquisition, management, analysis, presentation and controlling systems are becoming more elaborate and automated. On the other side the results to be provided need to be produced with less cost, so in a costeffective way.  To read more click here.

 

 

More News from FIG Commission 5

 
 

Publications

 

Work Plans

   

Proceedings

 

Working Groups

 

Key Documents

Events


Meet the officers

Commission Chair

 Dr. Ryan Keenan, Australia
Contact: FIGCommission5 [at] fig.net

Working Group Chairs:

Chair of Working Group 5.1 Standards, Quality Assurance and Calibration
Dr. David Martin
E-mail: david.martin[at]esrf.fr
 
Chair of Working Group 5.2 3D Reference Frames
Dr. Nic Donnelly
Email: ndonnelly[at]linz.govt.nz
 
Co-Chair of Working Group 5.2
Mr. Chris Pearson
Email: chris_pearson[at]trimble.com
 
Chair of Working Group 5.3 Vertical Reference Frames
 Mr. David Avalos-Naranjo
Email: david.avalos[at]inegi.org.mx
 
Chair of Working Group 5.4 GNSS
Dr. Eldar Rubinov
Email: erubinov[at] frontiersi.com.au
 
Co-Chair of Working Group 5.4
Dr. Safoora Zaminpardaz
Email: safoora.zaminpardaz[at]rmit.edu.au
 
Chair of Working Group 5.5 Multi-Sensor-Systems
Dr. Amir Khodabandeh
Email: akhodabandeh[at]unimelb.edu.au

Chair of Working Group 5.6 Cost Effective Positioning
Dr. Li Zhang
E-mail: li.zhang[at]iigs.uni-stuttgart.de

Commission Chair
Dr. Ryan Keenan
E-mail: ryan[at]positioninginsights.com.au OR figcommission5[at]fig.net
 
Vice Chair of Administration
Dr. Kevin Ahlgren
E-mail: kevin.ahlgren[at]noaa.gov

Delegates and Correspondents:

Each member association has the right to nominate a delegate to each of the ten technical commissions. In addition Affiliates, Academic Members and Corporate Members  are welcome to nominate a correspondent to each commission.

Interested? If you are interested to become a national delegate from your country, please contact your member association. The contact information of national delegates is updates by the FIG office. Any changes in contact information should be sent to the FIG Office.


Achievements

Most surveyors today are aware that data acquisition, management, analysis, presentation and controlling systems are becoming more elaborate and automated. On the other side the results to be provided need to be produced with less cost, so in a costeffective way. Read the publication    
 
Since the dawn of civilisation, people have found it necessary to measure and map their domain. During very early times this concern was limited to the immediate vicinity of their home; later it expanded to the distance of markets; and finally, with the development of means of transportation and communication people became interested in the whole world. Read the publication    
 

Terms

Term 2019-2022
Term 2015-2018
Term 2011-2014
Term 2007-2010
Term 2003-2006

Working Groups

Term 2019-2022 

WG 5.1 Standards, Quality Assurance and Calibration
WG 5.2 3D Reference Frames
WG 5.3 Vertical Reference Frames
WG 5.4 GNSS
WG 5.5 Multi-Sensor-Systems
WG5.6 Cost Effective Positioning

Work Plan

 

FIG Publications

FIG Pub. no. 74: Cost Effective Precise Positioning with GNSS

FIG Pub. no. 64: Reference Frames in Practice Manual

FIG Pub. no. 49: Cost Effective GNSS Positioning Techniques  2nd edition

 

FIG Proceedings

List of FIG Conference Proceedings
FIG Surveyors Reference Library

Newsletters

July 2018
July 2017

Events

Reference Frame in Practise Semiar
held in conjunction with SIRGAS
9-13 November, Bolivia

All events

Reports to General Assembly

Report, May 2020
Report, Hanoi, Vietnam. 2019
Report, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018
Report, Helsinki, Finland, 2017

All reports