FIG Young Surveyors
African Meeting
16 October Gaborone, Botswana
The FIG Foundation invites all Young Surveyors to
apply for funds to participate in the 1st Young Surveyors
African Meeting (YSAM) and the 2018 FIG-African Regional Network
Meeting taking place in Gaborone, Botswana, on the 16th and
17th-19th of October respectively.
Please provide the required documents to
youngsurveyors.africa@gmail.com. The latest date to
submit your application is the 7th of September, 2018 at
17.00GMT.
On 12th of September, 2018, the selection will be made and
announced by the FIG Foundation. Please note that the FIG
Foundation grant will support travel and accommodation costs.
All other costs are the responsibility of the successful
recipient of a grant
Apply here
Best Wishes, Young Surveyors African Meeting Organising
Committee
FIG Young Surveyors at ESRI User Conference
9-13 July 2018, San Diego, CA, United States
On the first day of the
Esri UC, Monday 9 July, we will kick-off the
FIG Young Surveyors Network Sessions at 12:00 o’clock in
Room 25C. We will start with an introductory presentation by
Brent Jones, Global Manager Land Records and
Cadastre Esri. We
will introduce FIG YSN in that session and Raquel Perez
will present on the Esri Young Professionals Network.
Then we will start with our very first session –
Surveyors Across Borders: How Geospatial Education Differs.
The goal of this session is to learn how the
surveying/geospatial/GIS education is handled in different
countries and what the major differences between them are.
Several
#YoungSurveyors will present on the educational system of
their country, we will work on new ideas and learn from each
other. So join us in this session!
These links contain the other session descriptions:
Disaster Mapping: Surveyors' Perspective
New Geospatial Technology for Surveyors
Building a Surveying Career in the Geospatial World
A big thank you to
Esri,
Esri
Young Professionals Network and
URISA
who assisted in the process of making this happen.
FIG Young Surveyors North America Meeting
17-18 October 2018, College Park, Maryland, United
States
NSPS and the FIG Young Surveyors Network are pleased to invite
you to the 2018 NSPS/FIG Young Surveyors North American Meeting.
There will be sessions on the NGS 2022 Datum update, leadership,
business, and technology.
The FIG Foundation would like to invite all Young Surveyors
to apply for funds to participate in the meeting.
To apply, please fill in the form at the link below and all
of its required fields. Please remember, to submit all
additional documents to nspsyoungsurveyors@gmail.com before the deadline
17 August 2018.
Apply here
FIG Young Surveyors Asian Pacific Meeting 2018 in Japan
The Japan Young Surveyors Network, in collaboration with the FIG
Young Surveyors Network, are happy to invite you to the Young
Surveyors Network Asian Pacific Meeting in Japan held on the
15th – 16th June 2018.
Asian Pacific young surveyors meet up in Japan and improve our
network. The FIG Foundation supports the meeting to invite
developing countries Young Surveyors to come.
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more
Congratulations to the FIG Foundation Grant recipients for FIG
2018!
We want to thanks everybody who applied for the FIG Foundation
Grant to attend the 4YSC and FIG Congress in Istanbul, Turkey.
We have received over 200 applicants from around the world and
we have awarded the Grand to the followoing Young Surveyors:
- James Quick, United Kingdom
- Cemre Sahinkaya, Turkey
- Mudit Kapoor, India
- Ana Julia Herrera Gonzalez, Costa Rica
- Jean-Pierre Habiyaremye, Rwanda
The FIG Foundation would like to invite all Young Surveyors
(defined as 35 years old or younger, or within 10 years of
graduation with a Bachelors or Masters degree in
surveying/geomatics) to apply for funds to participate in the
4th FIG Young Surveyors Conference and the XXVI FIG Congress to
be held in Istanbul, Turkey, 4-11 May 2018.
To apply, please fill out the form at the link below and all
of its required fields. Please remember, to submit all
additional documents to fig.ysn.funds@gmail.com on
or before the DEADLINE OF 27 JANUARY 2018.
Failure to do so will result in your application not being
considered.
The FIG Foundation Grant will cover:
- travel costs (e.g. airfare, train, bus),
- accommodations, meals,
- he FIG Congress registration fee,
- the FIG Young Surveyors Conference registration fee,
- the FIG Foundation Dinner, and
- the FIG Gala Dinner.
NB-Previous FIG Foundation Grant recipients are NOT eligible
to apply.
Apply here
5th FIG-YS European Meeting 2017 Helsinki, Finland
On the 28th of May 2016 the 5th FIG Yougn Surveyors European
Meeting and FIG Working Week 2017 took place in Helsinki,
Finland.
The theme of the Working Week “Surveying the world of
tomorrow – From digitalization to augmented reality“ reflects
the continuous development around us. Tomorrow is only a short
step away or maybe here already today.
In total 50 enthusiastic young surveyors from 20 different
countries gathered to share and explore the world of tomorrow
with fellow peers with focus on two key themes: The evolution:
'Then, now and Beyond' and Delivering the Digital Dream.
You can find the full 5th YSEM report
here. (17mb)
FIG Charity Run 2017
4th FIG Young Surveyors European Meeting
Report FIG Young Surveyors North American Meeting
On the 10th of February 2016 the 2nd FIG Young Surveyors
North American Meeting (FIG YSNAM) took place in Minneapolis,
Minnesota USA. Young Surveyors from the region were invited to
join this event. The meeting was hosted by and held in
conjunction with the Minnesota Society of Professional Surveyors
(MSPS) Annual Conference.
The theme of the meeting was ‘The Future of Surveying…
YOU!!!’. Key industry leaders were asked to inspire the
participants about the future ahead of them. Also the
participants learned more about FIG, FIG Young Surveyors Network
and NSPS Young Surveyors.
The event attracted 60 participants from 6 countries and 23
different states of the USA. For many participants it was their
first young surveyor event. In this report the different
organizations related to the Young Surveyors are summarized and
the results of the meeting are described.
The full report of the event can read
here.
2nd FIG Young Surveyors North American Meeting
It is on!!! 2nd FIG Young Surveyors North American Meeting
(FIG YSNAM)!!! It is a great honor to announce the 2nd FIG Young
Surveyors North American meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
on February 10, 2016 and we want to invite you
to join us in the second celebration of this encounter. The
meeting will be held in conjunction with the Minnesota Society
of Professional Surveyors (MSPS) Annual Conference.
Please find below
Programme
Registration form:
https://goo.gl/Ib...vayI
We are excited and look forward to seeing you!!!
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Three Young Surveyors
participated in the CLGE/FIG YSN Students’ Contest
and won in their category. The President of CLGE,
Maurice Barbieri,
Switzerland made the
announcement during INTERGEO
in Stuttgart, Germany, September 2015. The
categories were
- Geodesy and Topography – sponsored by
Trimble
- GIS, Mapping & Cadastre – sponsored by Esri
- Galileo, EGNOS, Copernicus – sponsored by
European Global Navigation
Satellite Systems Agency
The winning projects are
Assessment of the Possibility to Measure
Deformations of Rock Walls by Pawel Wiacek,
Poland
Land Fragmentation on Fionia and the Southern
Archipelago by Casper Samsø Fibæk, Denmark
Cycle Slips Detection in Quad-Frequency Mode:
Galileo’s Contribution to an Efficient Approach
under High Ionospheric Activity by Laura Van de
Vyvere, Belgium
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The 3rd Young Surveyors European Meeting was held in sunny
Sofia, Bulgaria on the 16 May 2015. About 50 keen young
professionals from 20 countries gathered together to share and
explore new ideas, address pressing issues and focus on the
future development for the European YS Network.
We are pleased to invite you to the 3rd FIG Young
Surveyors European Meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria. The
meeting takes place Saturday 16 May 2015 prior to the
FIG Working Week 2015.
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