Subject:
FIG e-Newsletter October 2012 - CORRECT VERSION
|
|
International
Federation of Surveyors Fédération
Internationale des Géomètres Internationale
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure FIG e-Newsletter |
Dear Colleague,
Welcome to the
FIG e-Newsletter, which brings you latest information about FIG and its
activities. The information referred here is in full length available on the
FIG web site. Thus the e-Newsletter is produced to inform you what has happened
recently and what interesting things are going to take place in the near
future. The FIG e-Newsletter is circulated monthly by e-mail. The referred
articles are in English and written in a way that you are able to extract them
to your national newsletters or circulate to your members and networks.
Article
of the Month
Each month on the FIG web site we
publish 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 October 2012 is
written by C.J. (Kees) de ZEEUW,
The Netherlands: Land administration for
people, profit and planet. This paper was presented at FIG Working
Week in Rome, 8 May 2012 and describes twelve trends relevant for land
administration systems. These trends are related to actual and future user
demand in society. Trends, developments and proposed concepts are explained and
examples are given of land administration products, services and business
approaches recently developed at Kadaster in the Netherlands.
http://www.fig.net/pub/monthly_articles/october_2012/oct_2012_dezeeuw.html
Second Session of the United Nations Committee
of Expert on Global Geospatial Information Management,
New York, 13-15 August 2012
|
|
UNCE-GGIM was established to be the official United
Nations consultative mechanism on place, locality and geography. UNCE-GGIM
plays a leading role in setting the agenda for the development of global
geospatial information, while promoting its use to meet key global
challenges. In his opening remarks, United Nations Under-Secretary-General
for Economic and Social Affairs, Mr. HongBo
WU said that understanding and analysing geospatial information
has become a key driver of competition and underpins new waves of
productivity growth, innovation and services. |
World
Bank Annual Conference on Land and Poverty 2013 - Call for Papers
Washington, 8-11 April 2013
|
Every year, the
World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty brings together representatives
from governments, the development community, civil society, academia, and the
private sector to discuss issues of concern to communities, land
practitioners and policymakers worldwide. The conference aims to foster
dialogue and sharing of good practices around the diversity of reforms,
approaches and experiences that are being implemented in the land sector
around the world. |
8th FIG Regional Conference 26-29 November 2012
in Montevideo, Uruguay
|
|
The
eighth FIG Regional Conferences which will be held 26 - 29 November 2012 in
Montevideo, Uruguay in collaboration with Asociación de Agrimensores del
Uruguay (AAU). The theme of the conference is "Surveying towards Sustainable Development",
emphasizing the importance of sustainability in the region and the key role
surveying plays in ensuring sustainable futures. This Regional Conference
offers a three-day technical programme, a Uruguayan dinner and on 29 November
a one day technical tour to Colonia's historic quarter, a World Heritage
Site. |
|
|
|
FIG Working Week 2013 6-10 May in Abuja, Nigeria
|
|
FIG Working Week 2013 will take place
in Abuja, Nigeria 6-10 May 2013. The city of Abuja is the new capital of
Nigeria taking over from the coastal city of Lagos in 1991. It is the first
time in the history of FIG that a Working Week will take place in Sub-Saharan
Africa. The International Conference Centre (ICC) Abuja is the Conference
venue together with the Nicon Luxury Hotel and is situated within the Central
Business District. |
Preparations for the FIG Working Week 2013 - FIG Office
visits Abuja Nigeria, 15-19 October 2012
|
|
FIG Working Week 2013 is not far away and the very
active members of Nigerian Institution of Surveyors are working intensely to
organise an exciting and successful Working Week. FIG Office visited Abuja to
coordinate the preparations and also got a chance to meet the Surveyor
General of the Federation and SURCON. |
World Bank Annual Conference on Land and Poverty 2013 - Call for Papers
Washington, 8-11 April 2013
|
Every year, the
World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty brings together representatives
from governments, the development community, civil society, academia, and the
private sector to discuss issues of concern to communities, land
practitioners and policymakers worldwide. The conference aims to foster
dialogue and sharing of good practices around the diversity of reforms,
approaches and experiences that are being implemented in the land sector
around the world. |
Denmark releases its digital raw material - Meeting with The
Danish National Survey and Cadaster 11 September 2012
|
|
The Danish National Survey and Cadaster, KMS has
initiated an agreement that improves and links public registers of basic data
and makes data available to the private sector for free. Once the public
authorities have tidied up, merged all data and stopped parallel
registration, annual savings in administration is estimated to amount to DKK
260 mio (35 Mio EUR) in 2020. Basic data includes private addresses,
companies' business registration numbers, or the cadastral numbers of real
properties. |
NSDI and INSPIRE Days and Cartography and Geoinformation
Conference
25-29 September 2012, Zagreb, Croatia
|
|
The Conference was supported by FIG, and held in the
Hotel International in Zagreb. A wide range of topics and distinguished
keynote speakers guaranteed interesting presentations. One of the presenters
was Dr. Chryssy Potsiou, FIG Vice President. |
IV International Training Course in Topography for Young Surveyors
17-28 September 2012, Madrid, Spain
|
|
Fifty young surveyors from 17 countries participated in
this year’s training course. Areas of study included topographical and
geometric surveys, production of large-scale orthoimages, GNSS surveys,
geodetic reference systems, RTK, photogrammetric and LIDAR surveys,
geo-referencing of cadastral maps, remote sensing and structural monitoring
and deformation surveys. |
Sixth World Urban Forum, 2-7 September, 2012,
Naples, Italy
|
|
The theme for the Forum was “the urban future”.
In his opening speech, UN-Habitat Executive Director Dr. Joan Clos said the
Forum provided UN-HABITAT with the perfect chance to listen to what the
stakeholders had to say and that it is the responsibility of his agency to
relay to governments what the participants wanted done. FIG Young Surveyors
Network through Kate Fairlie and Eva-Maria Unger actively participated in the
Forum. |
Second Session of the United Nations Committee of Expert on
Global Geospatial Information Management,
New York, 13-15 August 2012
|
|
UNCE-GGIM was established to be the official United
Nations consultative mechanism on place, locality and geography. UNCE-GGIM
plays a leading role in setting the agenda for the development of global
geospatial information, while promoting its use to meet key global
challenges. In his opening remarks, United Nations Under-Secretary-General
for Economic and Social Affairs, Mr. HongBo
WU said that understanding and analysing geospatial information
has become a key driver of competition and underpins new waves of
productivity growth, innovation and services. |
FIG
Foundation Grant and Scholarship
|
|
The
FIG Foundation will be providing scholarships of up to 4,000 EUR to PhD students. Deadline:
1 November 2012 |
Job
vacancies
http://www.fig.net/jobs/jobindex.htm
Forthcoming
events
8-9
November,Sofia, Bulgaria
Annual
international symposium Modern Technologies, Education and Professional
Practice in Geodesy and related fields including Commission 6 meetings.
Organised by Union of Surveyors and Land Managers in Bulgaria, co-sponsored by
FIG Commission 6
22-23
November 2012, Hong Kong
The First International FIG Workshop on
Monitoring High Rise and Tall Engineering Structures: Development and
Practices. Co-organised by Hong Kong Polytechnic University, SAR Hong Kong China,
FIG commission 6, Engineering Surveys and The University of Nottingham Ningbo
China.
Web site: http://www.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk/highrise2012
Call for paper: https://www.softconf.com/d/highrise2012
26-29
November, Montevideo, Uruguay
8th FIG Regional Conference.
Web site: www.fig.net/uruguay
Registration: www.agrimensores.org.uy/8RegionalConference/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=211
30
November - 4 December, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The
FIG Commission 7 Annual meeting 2012 and International Symposium. Co-organized
by FIG Commission 7, the Consejo Federal de Catastro de Argentina (CFC) and the
Federación Argentina del Agrimensores (FADA).
For more information and registration: http://fig2012-c7.jimdo.com
Contact: [log in to unmask]
10-14 December, Athens,
Greece
The
Annual FIG Commission 3 workshop/conference, jointly with the 2012 WPLA
workshop.
Web site: http://bit.ly/FIG3_Athens2012
Call for paper: http://www.fig.net/events/2012/com3_athens_dec_2012_call-for-paper.pdf
13-15 December, 2012,
Enschede, The Netherlands
The 8th International Conference on Geo-information for Disaster
Management - Gi4DM 2012.
Web site: http://www.gi4dm.net/2012
8-11 April, Washington DC,
USA
Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty. Supported by FIG
including a joint programme.
Web site: http://go.worldbank.org/RTWVJ2OA20
Call for papers: http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTPROGRAMS/EXTIE/0,,contentMDK:23278105~pagePK:64168182~piPK:64168060~theSitePK:475520,00.html
Environment
for Sustainability. FIG Working Week and General Assembly.
Web site: http://www.fig.net/fig2013
Call for papers: http://www.fig.net/fig2013/call_for_papers.pdf
For
additional
FIG and FIG Commission events see always up-to-date information at: www.fig.net/events/events.htm
Subscribe
to the FIG e-Newsletter
The
monthly e-Newsletter is mailed to all members, commission delegates and all
interested partners. FIG offers the e-Newsletter to all members of member
associations and other interested in FIG. If you don't already get your copy you
can order it now at: www.fig.net/pub/subscriptions/getnewsletter.htm. If you
want to cancel your subscription please send an email to the FIG office, email:
[log in to unmask].
Kind regards,
|
|
International Federation
of Surveyors |
Ms. Louise Friis-Hansen
FIG Office Manager
International
Federation of Surveyors
Kalvebod Brygge 31-33
DK-1780 Copenhagen V
Tel. + 45 38861081
Direct: + 45 33185584
Fax: + 45 38860252
[log in to unmask]
www.fig.net
|
|
|
|
Subscribe monthly FIG e-Newsletter at: www.fig.net/pub/subscriptions/getnewsletter.htm
Join FIG at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2669121&trk=group-name