International Federation of Surveyors
Fédération Internationale des Géomètres
Internationale Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
Dear Colleagues,
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Article of the Month – September 2008
On the FIG web site we publish each month a paper called the Article of the Month. This is a high-level paper focusing on interesting topics to all surveyors. It can be picked up from an FIG conference or another event. The Article of the Month in September 2008 is written by Mr. David Martin from ESRF from France. His paper “Review of Standards, Best Practice, Testing and Calibration in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)” has been prepared and was presented at the FIG Working Week in Stockholm, Sweden, 14-19 June 2008. www.fig.net/pub/monthly_articles/september_2008/september_2008_martin.html
FIG Working Week 2009 - Surveyors Key Role in Accelerated Development, Eilat, Israel, 3-8 May 2009
The call for papers for FIG Working Week 2009 has now been announced. Deadline for peer review papers and non peer review abstracts is 10 November 2008. Submit your non peer review abstract online at: www.fig.net/abstractdb/submit.asp?id=10 by 10 November 2008. or your peer review paper by sending it to the FIG Office by 10 November 2008.
Read more: Call for papers: www.fig.net/fig2009/call.htm
Online submission of non peer review abstracts: www.fig.net/abstractdb/submit.asp?id=10
Conference web site: www.fig.net/fig2009 (online registration opens 15 October 2008).
News from last month:
International Seminar and State and Public Land Management and FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting - Verona, Italy, 9-15 September 2008
Read more: www.fig.net/news/news_2008/verona_september_2008.htm
FIG Vice President Paul van der Molen visits Tanzanian Institution - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 11 August 2008
Read more: www.fig.net/news/news_2008/tanzania_august_2008.htm
FIG Task Force on Institutional and Organisational Development – Questionnaire Results
This Task Force, set up at the 2007 FIG General Assembly, has been progressing its work. The Task Force has now provided a summary of the responses to its on-line questionnaire (which has now been closed) and its outline plan for further work. All comments on this document are welcome, particularly those received by 30 September 2008. Comments should be directed to the Task Force Chair, Iain Greenway, email: iain.greenway@btinternet.com.
Report of the questionnaire results: www.fig.net/tf/organisation/questionnaire_results_2008.pdf
Publications:
Publicación de la FIG No 43 - Declaración de Costa Rica - Gestión de zonas costeras a favor de los pobres. Declaración de principios de la FIG, 2008.
Read more: www.fig.net/pub/figpub/pub43_span/figpub43.htm
Call for papers for FIG Commission Events:
FIG/CIREA/HKIS Seminar on Appraisal and Property Protection - 18-19 October, Beijing, China P. R.
Seminar on Appraisal and Property Protection is organised by FIG Commission 9, CIREA and HKIS and supported by FIG Commission 8.
Web site: www.fig.net/commission9/beijing_2008
Register at: https://www.fig.net/registrations/regform.asp?eventid=60
Deadline for abstracts has passed but proposals are still accepted. Deadline for registrations has been extended to 20 September 2008
Commission 3 Workshop on Spatial Information for Sustainable Management of Urban Areas. Mainz, Germany, 3-5 February 2009
Deadline for short abstract submission (full paper refereed channel) and for extended abstract submission (abstract refereed channel) is 6 October 2008.
Read more: www.i3mainz.fh-mainz.de/FIG-Workshop/
Call for papers: www.fig.net/events/2009/com_3_february_2009.pdf
Navigating the Future of Surveying Education - Workshop on Educational Management and Marketing, Vienna, Austria, 26-28 February 2009
Organised by FIG Commission 2 WG 2.3.
Deadline for extended abstracts: 15 October 2008. Read more: http://fig09.ovg.at/
Forthcoming events:
European Surveyors Congress Strasbourg 2008 – The Perspectives: The Role of Surveyors in the European Economy and Society, Strasbourg, France, 17-19 September 2008
Co-sponsored by FIG.
Read more: www.geometre-strasbourg2008.eu/
10th Congreso Internacional Topografia, Catastro y Geodesia, San José, Costa Rica, 18-20 September 2008
Co-sponsored by FIG.
Read more: www.colegiotopografoscr.com/congreso2008.htm
Seminar on Appraisal and Property Protection, Beijing, China P.R., 18-19 October 2008
Organised by Commission 9, CIREA and HKIS and co-sponsored by Commission 8.
Deadline for abstracts has passed but proposals are still accepted. Deadline for registrations has been extended to 20 September 2008.
Read more: www.fig.net/commission9/beijing_2008/
Register at: https://www.fig.net/registrations/regform.asp?eventid=60
INGEO 2008 – 4th International Conference on Engineering Surveying. Co-sponsored by FIG Commission 6. Bratislava, Slovakia, 23-24 October 2008
Second invitation: www.fig.net/events/2008/INGEO%202008/ingeo_2announcement.pdf
Read more: web.svf.stuba.sk/kat/GDE/Welcome.html
Exhibition on the Evolution from Local Measures to the Meter, Braine-l’ Alleud, Belgium, 9 January – 7 February 2009
Organised by the International Institution for the History of Surveying and Measurement, Permanent Institution of FIG Web site: www.fig.net/events/2009/history_2009.htm
Commission 3 Workshop on Spatial Information for Sustainable Management of Urban Areas. Mainz, Germany, 3-5 February 2009
Deadline for short abstract submission (full paper refereed channel) and for extended abstract submission (abstract refereed channel) is 6 October 2008.
Read more: www.i3mainz.fh-mainz.de/FIG-Workshop/ Call for papers: www.fig.net/events/2009/com_3_february_2009.pdf
Navigating the Future of Surveying Education - Workshop on Educational Management and Marketing, Vienna, Austria, 26-28 February 2009
Organised by FIG Commission 2 WG 2.3.
Deadline for extended abstracts: 15 October 2008.
Read more: http://fig09.ovg.at/
Joint FIG / World Bank Conference – Land Governance in Support of the MDGs, Washington DC, USA, 9-10 March 2009
Conference is organised by FIG and the World Bank – attendance by invitation only.
Read more: www.fig.net
Surveyors Key Role in Accelerated Development, Eilat, Israel, 3-8 May 2009
Submit your non peer review abstract online at: www.fig.net/abstractdb/submit.asp?id=10 by 10 November 2008 or your peer review paper by sending it to the FIG Office by 10 November 2008.
Read more: Call for papers: www.fig.net/fig2009/call.htm
Online submission of non peer review abstracts: www.fig.net/abstractdb/submit.asp?id=10
Conference web site: www.fig.net/fig2009 (online registration opens 15 October 2008).
9th Conference on Optical 3-D Measurement Techniques, Vienna, Austria, 1-3 July 2009
Co-sponsored by Commission 5 and 6.
Read more: http://info.tuwien.ac.at/ingeo/optical3d/
10th South East Asian Survey Conference (SEASC’09), Bali; Indonesia, 4-7 August 2009
Co-sponsored by FIG.
Contact: dkirana@bakosurtanal.go.id
7th FIG Regional Conference, Hanoi, Vietnam, 19-22 October 2009
Read more: www.fig.net/vietnam
FIG XXIV Congress and XXXIII General Assembly, Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010
Read more: www.fig2010.com
For additional FIG and FIG Commission events see always up-to-date information at: www.fig.net/events/events.htm
Job opportunities (latest updated 18 August 2008)
Read more: www.fig.net/jobs/jobindex.htm
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