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International Federation of Surveyors
Fédération Internationale des Géomètres
Internationale Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
Dear Colleague,
It seems that we are looking into a busy second half of 2023. This
newsletter is filled with exciting events - spanning from annual meetings
for Commissions and the Young Surveyors Network, workshops, conferences and
an online webinar on climate. Each event with specific agendas to make the
world a better place. Check out
what fits to you. This all culminates with the Working Week 2024 in Accra.
This will for sure be a special experience and a unique opportunity for you
to get more acquainted with the country of Ghana, the culture, relevant topics
and friendly hosts. Do you have exciting research or practice to share with
your colleagues? First
step is to submit your abstract. For academics we are offering the
possibility to have your paper peer reviewed by highly qualified colleagues.
Read about the UN-GGIM meeting in August 2023, too, and
two interesting offers, a vacancy and a prize, from ISC.
FIG Working Week 2024 - Call for papers
Join us for the FIG Working Week 2024 in Accra Ghana. The FIG Working Week 2024 is organised in cooperation with the two national associations Licensed Surveyors Association of Ghana (LiSAG) and Ghana Institution of Surveyors (GhIS). Discover the beautiful country of Ghana, get a once-in-a-lifetime experience in Accra together with your colleages from all over the world.
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With the overall theme of the Working Week: |
The 2030 Agenda for sustainable development adopted by all United Nation as Member States in 2015 provides a shared blue print, that at its heart has five key dimensions: people, planet, partnership, peace and prosperity. With less than ten years left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, world leaders have called for a decade of action and delivery for sustainable development, and pledged to achieve the Goals by the target date of 2030, leaving no one behind. FIG Working Week 2024 will build on the FIG vision to ‘Serve society, benefitting people and the planet’ will focus on tackling the global challenges as these specifically relate to the wellbeing of our Planet and natural resources.
Natural resource use relate to all three internationally accepted dimensions of sustainability, which are social justice, environmental health and economic development. Poorest countries suffer directly from an increasing polluted and degraded environment and the result of global politics on resource ownership, use and extraction.
Taking the lead from Agenda 2023 “We are determined to protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change so that it can support the needs of the present and future generations. Sustainable development and climate action are inextricably linked and both are vital to achieving the SDG’s.
Further, the importance of education, capacity building and above all the involvement of the youth will be a key feature of our diversity and inclusion of all. That geospatial technology and policies plays a key role in connectivity and sustainability which with adequate regulations and continuing innovation is becoming a major tool to ensure resilient environment and sustainable natural resource management.
We invite your engagement and submission of papers that provide insights for debate and action in topics that contribute to the advancement of a greener and more resilient world and encourage high quality contributions of researchers and practitioners in the following overall topics:
Land And Mineral Resources
Water, Oceans
Land Management and Governance incl. Urbanisation/RuralGeospatial
Technology and Ethics
Start already now to prepare your attendance in Accra by submitting your abstract.
Deadline for peer review abstract and full paper: 1 October 2023
Deadline for abstract for regular paper: 1 November (NB
Full paper 8 January 2024)
Read the full call for papers
Call for papers in pdf
Follow the Working Week Preparations at: www.fig.net/fig2024
NEWS FROM FIG
13th Session of the UN Committee of Experts on UN-GGIM
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FIG President Diane Dumashie and several members of the FIG
Community attended the 13th Session of the UN Committee of Experts
on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) |
SPECIAL FIG EVENTS
Digital Transformation for Responsible Land Administration
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FIG Commission 2 and 7 are inviting to their joint annual meeting
2-4 October 2023
at the Locatie Punt, Deventer (Overijssel), hosted by the
Netherlands Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster)
and ITC, University of Twente.
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Intergeo 2023 - the latest updates from the surveying and geospatial industry
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Through FIG you can secure your free ticket to the large fair
Intergeo that will take place 10-12 October 2023 in Berlin, Germany.,
Meet FIG at the stand
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The 11th International FIG Workshop on the Land Adminsitration Domain Model/3D Land Administration
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The 11th International FIG Workshop on the Land Administration
Domain Model / 3D Land Administration takes place 11-13 October 2023
in Gävle, Sweden |
Climate Compass Task Force Webinar
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Join the webinar on 11 October: Let's move beyond business as
usual - talking about climate resilience and fit-for-purpose
surveying for land, water and marine. Register now |
FIG Young Surveyors Network Asia and the Pacific 4th Regional Meeting
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The Young Surveyors meeting takes place 9-10 November 2023 in
Seoul, South Korea as part of Smart GEO Expo 2023. The Young
Surveyors are looking forward to greeting you there |
Mitigation Strategies for the SDGs: Harnessing Spatial Information
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FIG Commission
3 Workshop and Annual Meeting 4-6 December 2023, Tel-Aviv,
Israel Held in conjunction with the international Ramon GeoInt360
conference. Special VIP
early bird tickets available until 15 September (tick the FIG3
box when registering). Registration fee is waived for authors of
accepted abstracts(one author per abstract) |
ARTICLE OF THE MONTH
The Article of the Month in August 2023 is a peer reviewed paper presented at the FIG Working Week 2023 and
awarded with the NavXperience Prize.
Johnson
Oguntuase, Uchenna Nwankwo, Stephan Howden, USA : Affordable
GNSS PPP Results as Constraints for Pressure Time Series Offshore.
In this article the authors describe a new water level measurement technique
for tidal datum extension at offshore locations in addressing vandalization
challenges with GNSS buoys.
Read
the article
NEWS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE COUNCIL ISC
FIG is member of ISC and in this newsletter we can announce two news items from them - a vacancy and a scientist prize.
ISC Vacancy: Oceania Programme Manager, New Zealand
The ISC Regional Focal Point for Asia and the Pacific is seeking a part-time (30 h/week) programme manager to assist with the planning and implementation of activities focused on Pacific Island Nation priorities. Applicants must be a New Zealand citizen or resident eligible to work in New Zealand. The deadline for applications is 11 September: https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-vacancies/oceania-programme-manager.
Frontiers Planet Prize
ISC is partnering with the Frontiers Planet Prize for the second year in recognizing and rewarding exceptional scientists working in sustainability science. Three prizes worth a total of CHF 3 million will be awarded to the world’s most innovative sustainability scientists who are able to offer globally scalable solutions which protect and restore planetary health. ISC invites to join their information session on 20 September at 13:00 UTC providing more information on the overall mission, objectives and mechanics of the Planet Prize, the eligibility criteria for scientists, and the role of the ISC in engaging its Members around this scientific initiative. Register for the information session at https://council.science/events/frontiers-planet-prize-information-session/.
FIG WORKING WEEK 2023
FIG General Assembly 2023 - Minutes
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The new work plans and visions for the coming terms were introduced at the General Assembly which also included introduction of new members, a new honorary president and honorary member.
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"Howdy" - FIG Working Week report
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The national host NSPS welcomed participants from near and far to join in the many and varied activities of this years Working Week in Orlando, Florida. Thanks to all who joined and a special thanks to all sponsors and exhibitors.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Check the events page
27-29 September 2023, Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina
5th Congress on Cadastre organised by Geodetic Society of Herceg-Bosnia
More information
2-4 October, Deventer The Netherlands
FIG Commission 2 and 7 Annual Meeting:
More information
10-12 October 2023, Berlin, Germany
Intergeo - Inspiration for a smarter world
Website: https://www.intergeo.de/en/
Register through FIG and get free access to the fair with the FIG voucher
code: IG23-FIG
Register here
11 October 2023, online webinar
Climate Compass Comversations & Consultations series webinar £1: Let's move
b eyond business as usual, talking about climate resilience &
fit-for-purpose surveying for land, water & marine.
Read more and register
11-13 October 2023, Gävle, Sweden
The 11th International FIG Workshop on the Land Administration Domain Model
/ 3D Land Administration
Web site: http://www.gdmc.nl/3DCadastres/workshop2023/
14 October 2023, Hong Kong
HKIS Land Surveying Division (LSD) Annual Conference 2023, “Connecting the
City with Geospatial Intelligence”
Web site: https://www.hkis.org.hk/en/professional_cpd2.html?id=5878
8-10 November 2023, Gyeonggi Provice, Republic of Korea
Smart GEO Expo 2023, hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and
Transport of the Republic of Korea with LX, Land and Geospatial Informatix
Corporation as Secretariat and organizer and supported by LH, Korea Land and
Housing Corporation.
Website:
8-10 November 2023, Kintex 2 Exhibition Center, Republic of Korea
FIG Young Surveyors Network Asia and the Pacific 4th Regional Meeting
Invitation: https://www.facebook.com/events/781184816844824/?ref=newsfeed
21-24 November 2023, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2023 conference on Land Policy in Africa - Protecting Sustainable Land
Governance in Africa for Accelerated Implementation of the African
Continental Free Trade Area organised by Africa Union, ECA, African
Development Bank Group
Concept
note
Call
for papers
4-6 December 2023, Tel-Aviv, Israel
FIG Commission 3 Workshop and Annual meeting “Mitigation Strategies for the
SDGs: Harnessing Spatial Information”; held in conjunction with the 2nd
Ramon International Geospatial Intelligence 360 (GeoInt360) Conference
Website: http://geoint360.com
FIG Commission 3: We encourage you to use the VIP early
bird tickets, available until 15 September at https://secure.eventmagix.com/2023_geoint360
(tick the FIG3 box when registering).
Call
for papers
Kind regards,
Ms. Louise Friis-Hansen
Director
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International Federation of Surveyors |
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FIG Working Week 2025, 1-5 May, Brisbane, Australia Web site: www.fig.net/fig2025 |
FIG Working Week 2027, Stavanger, Norway
FIG Working Week 2028, Paris, France - Celebrating FIG 150th Anniversary
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