CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite you to submit abstract for FIG Working Week 2024 in Accra,
Ghana. The overall focus will be on Resilient Environment and
Sustainable Resource Management, hereunder the role of geospatial
technologies, innovations, and connectivity. Share your research and
insights on how these tools become major assets in ensuring a resilient
environment and sustainable natural resource management for all. Join us
in exploring the intersection of technology and sustainability.
The Call for Papers is announced both for peer review papers and non-peer
review papers.
The theme
Your World, Our World:
Resilient Environment and Sustainable Resource Management for all
Submit your abstracts and contribute to the global dialogue on
building a sustainable future.
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.
Partnership relationships and working models will be explored.
Our deliberations and outcomes will be underpinned by working in
partnership with and between FIG members as well as revitalising our
global partners to mobilize the means and action required to tackle this
Agenda as led by FIG commission technical sessions.
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
Read more about the theme
Specific Topics of FIG Working Week 2024
FIG Working Week is the main event of the year, and it covers themes
within all ten FIG technical Commissions, Networks and Permanent
Institutions. Many topics are multi-disciplinary and relevant in both
developing and developed world contexts. We encourage submissions of
cross-disciplinary nature cutting across many disciplines/subject areas.
Proposals for papers non-peer review and peer review are requested in
all topics of interest of the following:
Professional Standards and Practice – FIG Commission 1
Geospatial Data infrastructure; Policy, Standards and Practices
- The Aging Profession/Renewal of the profession (and also the
profession itself) – make the profession younger.
- Diversity/inclusion within surveying, and also in the provision
of surveying services to the community
- Ethics of protecting our planet and the role of surveyors
regarding the collection of data, analysis and dissemination of
information to decision-makers and stakeholders
- Defining and assessing what the big global carbon, biodiversity
and land policy issues are that are relevant for surveyors
- Gaps and opportunities for the development of the future of the
surveying profession, including technical opportunities.
Professional Education – FIG Commission 2
Frontiers in Education and Training: Keeping pace with the radically
changing technological landscape through targeted professional
educational interventions.
- Innovations in surveying education
- Blended learning: good practices and lessons learned
- Alternative teaching methodologies, activate students in the
classroom
- Surveying Education and Environment in Sustainable Development
- Jointly with other Commissions, identification and documentation
of existing areas of work where surveyors are already contributing
their professional expertise through actions and studies that
address the global climate agenda by using the radically changing
technology landscape.
Spatial Information Management – FIG Commission 3
Big Data applications and emerging challenges
- Spatial data collection and management, including contributed,
crowdsourced and user-generated geodata, ubiquities and emerging
technologies
- Standards and ethics related to the use and dissemination of
spatial data
- Spatial data handling and processing, including data-mining and
knowledge recovery, AI and ML models
- Spatial data usage, including nD cadaster, smart cities, land
and city planning, and environmental knowledge, also for the
prediction and prevention of disasters
- Spatial intelligence / Space technologies / Digital
transformation / Innovation
- Empowering communities through geospatial data know-how and best
practice
- Geospatial data linking cadastre, land tenure and land use,
including for SDG reporting.
- Linking earth systems science approaches to global mapping with
surveying national mapping approaches to strengthen the
implementation of in-country climate actions.
- Integrating cloud computing services with geospatial
technologies, tools, and innovations such as UAV photogrammetry,
LiDAR, and InSAR as well as GIS to provide real-time information to
stakeholders and investors to assess the benefits and risks of
sustainable natural resource management.
- Measurement of earth systems, including through the use of big
land use data, for the management of competition over land and
natural resources from global to local scales.
Hydrography – FIG Commission 4
Safeguarding the Blue Economy in the face of changing climate and
environmental degradation
- Strengthening water governance, administration, management and
data to ensure sustainability
- The surveying and Fit for Purpose land administration of
wetlands, rivers, lakes, peatlands.
- The surveying and Fit for Purpose land administration of coastal
erosion and sea level rise and
- Conquering new frontiers of Hydrography
- Hydrographic applications in blooming the blue economy
- Hydrographic datums and reference framework
- Hydrographic education and continual professional development
- Marine environment protection and marine space administration
- Understanding and planning prevention and mitigation strategies
for the impact of hurricanes and cyclones
- Assessment of the plastic pollution in the water bodies
- Hydrospatial domain and marine administration.
- Hydrographic standards and guidelines.
- Sustainable oceans and hydrography
Positioning and Measurement – FIG Commission 5
Datum and Reference systems modernization
- Dynamic Datums and working with resultant data (for both
surveyors and geospatial experts)
- Novel Low-Cost Positioning Sensor Systems and their Applications
- GNSS Reference Stations and Networks
- Scanning the World around us
- Combining Positioning and Measurement Systems
- Linking earth systems science approaches to global mapping with
national mapping approaches to strengthen the implementation of
climate actions at the local level
Engineering Surveys – FIG Commission 6
Structural Digital Twinning frameworks, applications and
technologies in Engineering Surveying
- New sensing technologies in surveying: Image assisted and
scanning total stations, IoT Sensors, Laser scanners; Radar/SAR;
Unmanned aerial or underwater vehicles (UAV & UUV) etc.
- Applications of augmented (AR), virtual reality (VR), and
extended reality (XR) in Engineering Geodesy
- Deformation monitoring and analysis of engineering structures
and environment; Mines and other geo-resources (including energy);
Landslides and other geohazards and other disasters also for
disaster management
- Dynamic monitoring of civil engineering structures: bridges,
high-rise buildings, towers, wind turbines etc.
- The use of geospatial technologies, tools, and innovations such
as UAV photogrammetry, LiDAR, and InSAR as well as GIS to provide
real-time information to stakeholders and investors to assess the
benefits and risks of sustainable natural resource management.
Cadastre and Land Management – FIG Commission 7
Sustainable land administration for inclusive development
- Framework for Effective Land Administration, Fit-for-Purpose
Land Administration and linkages to the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs), 3D and for increasing security of tenure for land
restoration, carbon (e.g. preventing deforestation), and protecting
biodiversity.
- Implementing the Framework for Effective Land Administration
(FELA)
- Digital transformation of cadastre and land registries,
including issues of data quality and cybersecurity concerns
- 3D/4D Land administration – including technical aspects on data
capture and boundary issues
- Land Administration Domain Model (LADM), BIM and Standards –
including marine cadastres
- Women and vulnerable groups access to land, and participation in
land administration systems (linked to other FIG initiatives)
- Capacity building and awareness raising for cadastres and land
management
- Legal, policy, financing and institutional issues in land
administration
- Defining and assessing what the big global carbon, biodiversity
and land policy issues are that are relevant for surveyors
- The surveying of wetlands, rivers, lakes, peatlands using Fit
for Purpose land administration approaches.
- Ways to link national cadastre, tenure, valuation systems more
closely to national climate plans to cut emissions and adapt to
climate impacts, such as Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)
plans, National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPS).
- Strengthen land administration and management systems for
climate actions
Spatial Planning and Development – FIG Commission 8
Leveraging land and marine spatial planning for greater resilience
- The surveying of wetlands, rivers, lakes, peatlands
- The surveying of coastal erosion and sea level rise
- The involvement of surveyors in climate crisis prevention.
- Ways to link national cadastre, tenure, valuation systems more
closely to national climate plans to cut emissions and adapt to
climate impacts.
- Participation and Bottom-Up Implementation of Spatial and Land
Use Planning Objectives
- Digital Transformation and Spatial Intelligence – including
Digital Twins, Smart solutions, Digitising change intervention
processes of spatial decisions
- Land Management Tools for Spatial Governance - Evaluation of
land management tools such as expropriation/compulsory purchase,
land banking, land consolidation, land readjustment, pre-emption
rights and others
- Land value change and spatial interventions including for
climate actions
Valuation and the Management of Real Estate – FIG Commission 9
Financing Local Government services through mass appraisal and
land-based taxation
- Definition and measurement of transparency in the real estate
market, good cases
- How to valuate sustainable development actions on real estate
- Valuation and taxes - an important partnership and how it works
well
- Automated Valuation Modelling, Demystifying the unknown,
Approaches und Cases
- Regulations and standards for good valuations, prerequisites for
good mass valuations
- Acces of real estate market data via the internet for use by
professionals and citizens
Construction Economics and Management – FIG Commission 10
Scaling up Smart construction approaches
- Digital twins and building information model: what is the
difference?
- What is the role of Construction Economics and Management as we
build back better after a disaster?
- Green buildings and construction and management
FIG Task Forces
All task forces are cooperating with the commissions and are seeking
contributions which align with all 10 commissions in the following
areas:
- FIG Climate Compass Task Force
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Sea level rise and coastal zone management;
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Carbon loss through land use change – deforestation, urban
sprawl into agricultural areas, soil sealing, cropland expansion
into natural & semi-natural areas and avoiding, reducing and
restoring the land;
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Biodiversity loss through land use change and the need to set
aside 30% of the earth’s land surface and oceans as protected
areas (Global Biodiversity Framework, 2022);
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Desertification, land degradation and land restoration;
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Natural disasters and ‘building back better’;
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Degradation of wetlands, rivers, lakes, peatlands;
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Break down in earth’s global systems;
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Measurement of complex earth systems for the management of
competition over land and natural resources from global to
local;
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Implementing existing national climate plans of the 193
countries that have Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)
plans, which is a climate action plan to cut emissions and adapt
to climate impacts. Countries also have National Biodiversity
Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs). Often these plans do not
take into account land and water tenure issues.
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70% of people do not have government documents for their
land. Tenure security is critical for sustainable land
management as people will not invest in their land if they have
no tenure security;
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Weak land and water governance, administration, management
and data undermine sustainability;
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Weak waste disposal and land use controls
- Task Force on FIG and the SDGs
In close cooperation with all commissions
- Diversity and Inclusion Task Force
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Identification of gaps in workforce development experienced
by the research and education sector, government or industry,
and ideally case studies of solutions to make headway to tackle
these challenges
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Case studies showcasing how organisations or groups have made
progress in changing the impacts of systemic biases and
individual unconscious biases in the workplace to produce better
outcomes for people and culture
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Case studies showcasing how organisations or groups have
identified and reduced how unconscious bias impacts on the data,
processes and outputs we create as surveyors and geospatial
professionals
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Case studies of innovative ways of showing the relevance of
the profession to future generations
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Case studies of countries or communities that have
established initiatives to involve and promote youth to seek
careers in geospatial and surveying, e.g. Get Kids in Survey,
SheMaps, etc.
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Case studies, reports, etc. about creating opportunities and
increasing equity for traditionally marginalised groups in our
industry, such as women, youth, people with disabilities,
migrants, First Nations people's, etc.
- Task Force on the Role of FIG in international Trends and Future
Geospatial Information Ecosystem
FIG Permanent Institutions
The Permanent Institution of History for Surveying and Measurement
invites contributions on the history of surveying and measurement, and
the techniques and instrumentation involved.
FIG Networks
FIG Young Surveyors Network would like to see contributions from
young surveyors in all 10 Commissions.
Papers are also invited on the areas of the FIG Networks:
- FIG Standards Network
- Regional Capacity Development Network
- Africa
- Asia/Pacific
- AAmericas
Submit your abstract
This Call for Papers is announced both for peer review papers and
non-peer review papers. The submission of abstracts will be in English.
Prizes
Survey Review Prize
The Survey Review Biennial Prize is sponsored by Survey Review, a
learned journal covering the fields of positioning and measurement,
engineering survey, cadastre and land management, and spatial
information management.
The Survey Review prize will, again this year, be offered to the
author and presenter of an outstanding selected peer-review paper.
Papers submitted by young surveyors will be prioritized. (under the age
of 35 or within 10 years of qualifying). In the abstract submission form
you can tick a box indicating that you want your paper to be taken into
consideration for the Prize.
The paper will be clearly marked in the proceedings as the Survey
Review prize paper and will be presented onsite in a suitably high
profile session. Survey Review Ltd will fund the prize of € 2,000.
Payment will be made to the individual once the paper has been
presented. If the paper is jointly authored and presented, the prize
value remains € 2,000 and can be paid to one of the individuals, or
shared between them at their choice.
The abstract of the paper will be in included in the FIG proceedings,
but the full text of the paper will appear on the SR publisher's
website, to which the FIG proceedings will link. There will be permanent
free access to the paper on the Survey Review publisher’s website. FIG
will also use the paper as a FIG Article of the Month in the FIG
newsletter. For more information on Survey Review see:
www.tandfonline.com/loi/ysre20
navXperience Award
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NavXperience and FIG would like to announce
that the best peer review paper in the field of Positioning and
Measurement (FIG Commission 5) will be chosen for the
NavXperience award. The award winner will receive an award of €
600. The condition is that the author/presenter will attend the
Working Week in presence |
You are encouraged to submit an abstract. Abstracts will be reviewed
and if your abstract is accepted, you will be asked to submit a full
paper and a video presentation. The video presentation must not be
longer than 4 minutes. All abstracts, papers, presentation handouts and
videos will be included in the final proceedings of this conference.
The sessions will be designed so that they fit best to the topic,
this can be e.g., presentation sessions, discussion panels, interview
sessions, open discussion sessions or a mixture of different types. A
selection of onsite participating authors from the open Call for Papers
will be invited to take actice part in a session. All onsite authors
connected to a session are encouraged to participate actively and engage
in the discussions. Online participating authors will have their papers
and video presentation included in the final proceedings as
inspirational material for a session, but the video presentation will
not be played in a session.
Important Dates
The deadlines are as follows:
Non peer review
Submission of:
- Abstracts: 1 November 2023
- Full paper: 8 January 2024
- Video presentation: 15 April 2024
Peer review
Submission of:
- Abstract AND full paper: 2 October 2023
- Video presentation: 15 April 2024
HOW TO BECOME AN AUTHOR
1 SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT
If you would like to have your paper included in the
proceedings, start by submitting an abstract. You will need the
following: title, abstract, keywords and biographical
information.
View
our Step-by-Step Guide to submitting an abstract.
Submit your
abstract here.
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2 GET ACCEPTED
After we receive your abstract, it moves to the evaluation
step. We welcome the submission of abstracts until 1 November.
Abstracts will be reviewed by the beginning of December.
See important
deadlines here.
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3 REGISTER
Once your abstract is accepted, you must register to ensure
that your paper will be included in the proceedings.
Submit your
registration here.
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4 SUBMIT FULL PAPER & VIDEO PRESENTATION
Once your abstract is accepted, you must submit your max. 15
pages paper to fig@fig.net
View our Paper Guidelines
View our Guide to prepare a video presentation
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5 PUBLICATION OF PROGRAMME
Your paper and video presentation will be included in a
session as background material and will be available before the
Working Week starts.
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6 ATTEND THE WORKING WEEK
Enjoy the Working Week and connect with fellow
participants.
A selection of authors from the open call will be
invited as presenter/panelist in sessions.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
The Scientific Committee of the Technical Programme:
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The Scientific Committee of the Peer Review Papers:
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- Mr. Timothy Burch,
United States
- Mr. Dimo Todorovski, Netherlands
- Mr. Sagi Dalyot, Israel
- Dr. Malavige Don Eranda Kanchana Gunathilaka,
Sri Lanka
- Dr. Ryan Keenan, Australia
- Prof. Dr. Werner Lienhart, Austria
- Dr. Rohan Bennett, Australia
- Mr. Kwabena Asiama, Ghana
- Mr. Peter R. Ache, Germany
- Ms. Mercy Iortyer, Nigeria
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Chief Editor:
- Volker Schwieger, Germany
Members:
- Timothy Burch, United States
- Dimo Todorovski, the Netherlands
- Werner Lienhart, Austria
- Hartmut Müller, Germany
- Ryan Keenan, Australia
- Rohan Bennett, Australia
- Marije Louwsma, the Netherlands
- Eranda Gunathilaka, Sri Lanka
- Heidi Falkenbach, Finland
Review team of more than 100 reviewers. For the list of
reviewers, please visit:
fig.net/resources/publications/prj/index.asp
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Non Peer Reviewed Papers
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Peer Reviewed Papers
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1
November 2023
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2
October 2023
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Deadline for authors to submit non peer reviewed
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Deadline for authors to submit full papers
for peer review. |
1
December 2023
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11
December 2023
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Confirmation to authors of
acceptance of non peer reviewed abstracts.
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First notification to authors of acceptance of
peer reviewed papers.
For accepted papers, authors will also be notified of any
modifications required by the reviewers.
Authors of papers not accepted for peer review will be offered
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8
January 2024
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Deadline for authors to submit revised
full
paper for 2nd round of peer review (depending on proposed
corrections from reviewers). |
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3
February 2024
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Second notification to authors of acceptance of
peer reviewed papers with the possibility of further
modifications from the 2nd round of peer review. |
All Papers (peer
reviewed and non peer reviewed)
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8 January 2024
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Deadline for
non-peer review authors to register (including payment)
Deadline for all non-peer review authors to submit full papers |
19
February 2024
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Deadline early bird
Deadline for peer review authors to register |
28
February 2024
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First draft of the technical
programme will be published on the web. |
19
April 2024
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Deadline for normal registration.
Deadline for submission of video presentation |
19-24 May 2024
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WORKING WEEK - ACCRA GHANA |
FURTHER INFORMATION
Any inquiries on call for Papers, abstracts, peer review process,
technical programme or video presentation, please contact the FIG Office
(Email: fig@fig.net, tel +45 9391
0813).
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