Article of the Month in 2025
FIG publishes each month the Article of the Month. This is a high-level paper
focusing on interesting topic to all surveyors. This article can be picked up
from an FIG conference or another event or it can be a paper written directly
for this purpose.
- June 2025 A pper review paper from FIG Working Week
2025 in Brisbane by Paul Denys, Yuxi Jin, Jett Gannaway, Hamish Gibson,
New Zealand Measuring GNSS RTK
Positioning Errors The paper investigates how reduced signal
availability (satellite geometry) in challenging environments affects
RTK coordinate accuracy.
- April 2025 a peer review paper from the FIG working
Week 2025 by Hamid Hosseini, Behnam Atazadeh and Abbas Rajabifard,
Australia Artificial Intelligence for
Querying Land and Property Data from Cadastral Plans The paper is a
studie of an AI-based approach to efficiently retrieve land and property
information from cadastral plans. This includes data extraction from
plans using computer vision and communication with plans using natural
language processing (NLP). A prototype chatbot employing generative
pretrained transformer (GPT) as the core large language model (LLM) was
developed for data querying from plans.
- March 2025 A position paper from FIG Commissions 2
and 7 The Teaching
Essentials for Responsible Land Administration (TERLA) It addressed
the challenge of teaching the daunting and complex domain of land
governance at a country-level. It looks back on that foundation work,
unpacking lessons, but also draws on the insights of those valuators and
educators deeply engaged with its application to case forward.
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