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.
- November 2025 A paper written by Dan Norin, Sweden,
Anders Østeraas, Norway, Martin Lidberg, Sweden, Tor Erik Bakke, Norway
and Mikael Lilje, Sweden Extensive review
of the national boundary between Sweden and Norway The paper
outlines the Sweden–Norway national boundary and its historical
background. It focuses on the 2020–2024 joint boundary review, including
restoration, measurement, and documentation of boundary markers. The
work reflects long-standing, peaceful cooperation between the two
countries.
- July 2025 Keynote speacker from FIG Working Week
2025, Linda Foster, USA GIS and the
Geospatial Ecosystem: Creating the World You Want to See This
presentation explores how the Accelerated technological innovation is
presenting an opportunity for geospatial professionals to transform some
of the world’s most pressing challenges and create the world they want
to see.
- June 2025 A peer 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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