Call for Papers
The overall theme of the Working Week is “From the Wisdom of
the Ages to the Challenges of the Modern World”.
The technical programme will include a broad professional and
scientific programme: during 3 consecutive days, offering up to
10 parallel sessions and workshops. This will allow more than
500 presentations in the entire broadness of the surveying
profession. The carefully prepared Technical Programme will
offer both specially invited high profile presentations and
papers that are selected through the open call for papers
procedure.
FIG Working week 2015 is the main event for all ten FIG technical
commissions. Therefore proposals for papers are requested in all
topics of interest of the following commissions:
1. Professional Standards and Practice
- FIG commission 1
2. Professional Education - FIG
commission 2
3. Spatial Information Management -
FIG commission 3
4. Hydrography - FIG commission 4
5. Positioning and Measurement - FIG
commission 5
6. Engineering Surveys - FIG
commission 6
7. Cadastre and Land Management -
FIG commission 7
8. Spatial Planning and Development
- FIG commission 8
9. Valuation and the Management of Real Estate
- FIG commission 9
10. Construction Economics and Management
- FIG commission 10
Papers are also invited for the Permanent
Institution of FIG: History of Surveying and Measurement
YS network would like to see contributions from young surveyors
in all 10 commissions.
In the open call for papers non-peer
review and peer review papers are invited from following
detailed topics selected by FIG Commissions:
- International boundaries;
- Professional ethics;
- Women in Surveying;
- Engaging the private practitioner; and
- Mutual recognition.
- From professional surveying education towards educating the land
professional
- Maintaining the chain of professional education
- Becoming an active Commission
- Pimp my FIG: challenging workshops, rich conferences and
enlightning congresses
- Educational standards and accreditation
- Attracting new generations and students to surveying programmes
- Innovation in surveying curricula
- Life-long learning - educational and training services
- Good educational practices
- Building capacity for training and education
- VGI collection, dissemination, analysis, maintenance and
visualization
- Utilization of VGI and crowdsourcing with SDI, SIM and
environmental information
- 3d Cadastre
- Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) at all levels – local,
regional, national and global
- e-Governance and SDI in supporting decision making – theory,
applications and best practice
- Integration of spatial data – cadastre, land use, real estate,
utilities, environment, socio-economic information, etc.
- 3D/4D geospatial models, algorithms, standards and applications
- Business models, public-private partnerships and economic
aspects of SDI
- SIM meeting challenges – natural and environmental risk
prevention and disaster management, waste management, etc.
- SDI interoperability aspects – standards, technical tools,
metadata, portals and clearinghouses
- Web and mobile GIS – challenges, services and real-time
capabilities
- Geospatial visualisation (2D/3D/4D)
- Hydrographic surveying and mapping
- Hydrographic standards and guidelines
- Hydrographic education, training, and professional development
- New and emerging science and technologies for hydrography (e.g.
sensors, systems, AUVs, electromagnetic wave propagation etc.)
- Maritime and marine spatial information management (including
data processing and management of hydrographic data, data
structures, marine spatial data infrastructures, marine information
systems)
- Hydrography and society (Offshore surveying in support of
energy, environment, submarine telecommunications, ports and
harbours, economies, national and international political
objectives)
A special session on the topic: “Atmospheric application of GNSS” is
planned and abstracts on this theme are welcome. Please note in the
comments of your abstract submission if your submission is specifically
intended for this subject.
Hereto the following themes are in focus:
- Standards, best practice guidelines, quality assurance and
calibration for survey (including geodetic) measuring instruments
- National or geospatial reference systems and associated
infrastructure
- Vertical reference frames, geoid and gravity
- GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, Multi-GNSS), including CORS
networks
- Terrestrial and airborne laser scanning
- Cost-effective surveying (GNSS and other survey methods)
- Multi-Sensor-Systems (INS-GNSS, Mobile Mapping, etc.)
- Ubiquitous positioning techniques and applications -such as RFID,
WiFi, AGPS, mobile phones, MEMS inertial sensors, Locata
- Positioning and metrology – technique, methodology, adjustment and
analysis
- Deformation measurement
- Engineering surveys in managing natural disasters
- Precise height measurements for engineering
- Recent industrial surveying and sensing technologies and
applications
- Laser scanning applications
- Machine control and guidance with surveying technologies
- Integrating new technologies in land administration and cadastre
- Modern communication in land administration systems
- Land policy and reform to support sustainable use of land
- Pro poor land management and its role in public administration
- Land management for state and public land
- Multi-dimensional cadastre
- Land rights reflecting societies’ needs
- Land administration in pre- and post-conflict and post disaster
areas
- Environmental challenges in megacities
- Disaster and environmental management
- Urban and rural land use planning
- Planning policies and environmental improvement
- Informal settlement issues in spatial development, planning and
governance
- Planning and managing urbanisation
- Public-private partnerships in planning and land development
- Contributing to Global water management utilization – Action and
planning
- Tax Bases for Real Estate Taxation
- Mass Appraisal Techniques
- Large Scale Acquisitions of Land (“Land Grab”)
- Trends of real estate valuation
- Valuation methods for properties where no markets exist for them
- Valuation profession and valuation standards
- Real estate finances and investments
- Compulsory purchase and compensations in land acquisition and takings
- Real property practises and sustainable cities
- Quantity Surveying and Cost Management
- Project Procurement and Tendering (Bidding)
- BIM - Building Information Modelling - the hottest one,
- Construction standards and regulations including proposed
International Construction Measurement Standards (ICMS)
- Construction economics and global construction trend
- Innovative house building and affordable housing
- Sustainable construction and development
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