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TACKLING THE GLOBAL CHALLENGES

FIG represents the interests of surveyors worldwide
FIG was founded in 1878 and is a United Nations and World Bank recognized non-governmental organization of national member associations, cadastral and mapping agencies and ministries, universities and corporates from over 120 countries. FIG covers the whole range of professional fields within the global surveying community, hereunder surveying, cadastre, valuation, mapping, geodesy, hydrography, geospatial, and quantity surveyors and provides an international forum for discussion and development aiming to promote professional practice and standards.
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Main FIG Conferences

FIG WORKING WEEK 2025
6-10 April

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FIG Congress 2026
24-29 May 2026
Cape Town, South Africa

FIG Working Week 2027
23-27 May 2027
Stavanger Norway

FIG Working Week 2028 and
150th Anniversary
June 2028 Paris France

Other FIG Events

FIG Commission 9
Build Back Better the self-made cities in Athens, Greece

The New Era of Real Estate Modeling: Insights into Current Practice, AVMs, AI, and Future Challenges  Pafos, Cyprus
Library

FIG Publication No. 83

FIG Publication no. 83 - FIG Policy Statement: Climate Responsible Land Governance and Disaster Resilience: Safeguarding Land Rights

FIG Regional Conference 2024 held in Nepal addressed the most challenging issue of our time, the climate crisis. A call to action promotes the engagement and role that surveyors can have in contributing to the climate change agenda Read more...

FIG Publication No. 64 2nd ed.

FIG Publication no. 64 2nd edition - FIG Guide: Reference Frames in Practice Manual

This publication is published by FIG Commission 5, Positioning and Measurement, Working Group 5.2 Reference Frames and is an update 2024 to the original publication 64 from 2014 Read more...

FIG Publication No. 82

FIG Publication no. 82 - FIG Report: Mapping the World a Better Place

FIG Volunteer Community Surveyor Program VCSP - FIG Young Surveyors Network and UN-Habitat - Global Land Tool Network GLTN Read more...

FIG Publication No. 81

Enhancing Surveying Education through Blended Learning

FIG Commission 2 - Professional Education FIG Report 2023
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FIG 2024 Proceedings

"Your World Our World: Resilient Environment and Sustainable Resource Management for All” FIG Working Week 2024 Proceedings

FIG Peer Review Journal

Since 2008 it has been possible to offer a conference paper for a peer-review, an opportunity that about 10% of presenters take advantage of. The accepted papers that have been presented at a major FIG conference are included in the FIG Peer Review Journal.
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FIG Surveyors Reference Library

The library is a shortcut to all papers from FIG Congresses, Working Weeks and other FIG events, as well as so-called recommended papers that are specially selected by the ten FIG commissions. Read more...

FIG Article of the Month, April 2025 - A peer review paper for the FIG working Week 2025 by Hamid Hosseini et.al. from Australia, Intelligence for Querying Land and Property Data from Cadastral Plans  Read more here
Most Recent News
FIG Annual Review 2024

With this Annual Review you can get a short introduction to some of the FIG activities that took place during 2024.    ...

FIG General Assembly - results of the voting

At the general assembly there were several votings for a chang of Internal Rules, Commission Chairs Elects and the destination for FIG Working...

Two New Publications. The Land Administration Domain Model - and overview, and LADM in the Classroom

The overview publication, FIG Publication no 84, is a guide to LADM, and the extended version includes examples and cases.

New Publication: A CALL TO ACTION: Climate Responsible Land Governance and Disaster Resilience. Safeguarding Land Rights

This publication is a result of the FIG Regional Conference 2024 in Nepal. Read the full CALL TO ACTION and outcome of the sessions and discus...

Global Surveyors Day 2025

Happy Global Surveyors Day - the day is celebrated around the world - Joint the online celebration    ...

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FIG is dedicated to promote the SDG’s
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What is VCSP?

... the Volunteer Community Surveyor Programme
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Latest Releases

> Annual Review 2024
> FIG Pub 83 - A CALL TO ACTION: Climate Responsible Land Governance and Disaster Resilience: Safeguarding Land Rights
> FIG Pub 64 2nd ed - Reference Frames in Practice Manual
> History of Surveying
> FIG Pub 82 - Mapping the World a Better Place - VCSP

FIG Young Surveyors Network
 
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Meeting the President General Assembly 2025

Dr. Diane Dumashie was elected President at the General Assembly in September 2022

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Interview with Diane in Spatial Source, December 2024: Challenges and opportunities in 2025

The General Assembly  2025 will be held on 6 and 10 April 2025 in Brisbane, Australia as part of the FIG Working Week.

Council Work Plan for the term 2023-2026.

FIG Members Article of the Month

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
- Affiliates
- Corporate Members
- Academic Members
- Correspondents
- Honorary Presidents
- Honorary Members

Members

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 in April 2025 a accepted peer review paper for the FIG working Week 2025 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. Read the article

Other Newsletters

Commission 2 Newsletter
January 2025

Commission 7 News Brief
Quarter 4 2024

Commission 8 Newsletter
February 2024

Commission 10 Newsletter
November 2023

News from FIG Council

FIG Council invites members to the General Assembly 2025 that will take place on 6 and 10 April 2025 in Brisbane, Australia

FIG Council establishes new network. Read more