At its meeting on 17 January 2020, FIG Council approved Carlson Software as FIG Corporate Member and Real Estate Administration of Montenegro as affiliate ...
Suelynn Choy who represented FIG reports from the meeting that took place 9-13 December 2019 in Bangalore, India. &...
During the second half of 2019 two Young Surveyors regional events were held - in Europe and in Africa. ...
FIG Vice President Dr Diane Dumashie attended the CASLE Golden Jubilee Conference held in London, on 12th and 13th September 2019.
On 15-16 December 2019, experts met in the city of Deqing, China, for a meeting on geospatial information, ecological environment and sustaina...
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| Meeting the President | General Assembly 2019 |
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Prof. Dr. Rudolf Staiger was elected President at the General Assembly in May 2018
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The General Assembly 2019 took place during FIG Working Week 2019 in Hanoi, Vietnam on 22 and 26 April. At the General Assembly FIG President Staiger presented the Council Work Plan for the term 2019-2022. |
| FIG Members | Article of the Month |
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FIG has five different levels of membership and two levels of honorary membership. Through different membership categories 121 countries are represented in FIG. The membership categories are: - Member Associations |
FIG publishes each month the FIG Article of the Month. This is a high-level paper focusing on interesting topic to all surveyors. The Article of the Month January 2020 is written by Edi Meier, Inma Gutiérrez, Marco Baumann, Max Bosshard and Rainer Heeb, Switzerland Detection of Service Pipes and the Risk of Collapsing Sinkholes at the Lake of Constance in Switzerland Using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). The paper describes how Ground Penetrating Radar is used to document the present underground condition of the water front of the harbour promenade in Arbon (Lake of Constance) in Switzerland. This nondestructive method gives as a result images of the subsurface structures as well as of installations like service pipes. Read more... |
