What is FIG?

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What is FIG?

• Established in 1878 in Paris by 7 member
  associations (Belgium, France (OGE), Germany,
  Italy, Spain, Switzerland and UK)
• Federation of national associations
• Only international body representing all
  surveying disciplines
• UN-recognised non-governmental organisation (NGO)

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Who are surveyors?

• Surveyors are professional people whose
• academic qualifications and postgraduate
• training enable them to advise
• on the management and use of land and property
• whether rural or urban
• and developed or undeveloped

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Who are surveyors?

• Surveyors understand
• the legislation governing land and property
• the trade markets
• supporting services
• economics of construction, management,
  maintenance, acquisition and disposal

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Members

• 112 countries represented in 2002
• 230,000 individuals in member associations

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Members

• Membership categories
• 88 members from 75 countries
• 11 affiliates
• 16 correspondents
• 51 academic members
• 21 corporate members
• 7 honorary presidents
• 29 honorary members

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Members

• leading professional societies representing one
  or more of the surveying disciplines in their
  respective countries
• 75 countries represented 88 associations
• over 230,000 individuals
• new statutes encourage to have whole profession
  represented
• allow more than one member per country
• currently 13 countries have more than one member
  association

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Affiliates

• groups of surveyors undertaking professional
  activities but not fulfilling criteria for
  membership
• currently 11 members from 10 countries

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Correspondents

• individual in a country where no association
  exists that is eligible to join FIG
• currently 16 correspondents

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Academic members

• organisation, institution or agency which
  promotes education or research in one ore more of
  the disciplines of surveying
• first academic members in 1999, now 51 academic
  members from 31 countries
• membership fee US 180 in 2002
• Surveying Educational Database with more than 220
  institutions and almost 400 courses

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Corporate Members

• organisation, institution or agency which
  manufactures or distributes instruments,
  equipment or supplies or which operates or
  provides commercial services in support of the
  profession
• 21 corporate members in 2002

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Honorary presidents and honorary members

• past presidents who have rendered outstanding
  service to FIG
• individuals who have materially assisted the
  development and promotion of the surveying
  profession at international level
• 7 honorary presidents
• 29 honorary members

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Permanent institutions

• International Office of Cadastre and Land Records
  OICRF, the Netherlands
• FIG Multi-Lingual Dictionary, Germany
• International Institution on the History of
  Surveying and Measurement, UK

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Commissions

• Professional Practice
• Professional Education
• Spatial Information Management
• Hydrography
• Positioning and Measurement
• Engineering Surveys
• Cadastre and Land Management
• Spatial Planning and Development
• Valuation and the Management of Real Estate
• Construction Economics and Management

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Commission administration

• chair
• vice-chair(s)
• vice-chair of administration
• delegates - each member to nominate one delegate
  to each of the commissions
• annual meetings
• workshops and seminars
• working groups

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Commission 1 Professional Practice

• Chair Klaus Rürup, Germany
• Ethical principles and codes of professional
  conduct
• Guidelines relating to the provision of services
• Standards of business practice and total quality
  management
• Changes affecting the operation of surveying
  practices, their management and their
  professional structures
• International legislation affecting the
  profession including the liberalisation of trade
  in services
• The role of surveyors in the public sector.

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Commission 2 Professional Education

• Chair Pedro Cavero, Spain
• Education and teaching methods
• Continuing professional development and training
• The interaction between education, research and
  practice
• Encouragement of the exchange of students and
  personnel between member countries.

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Commission 3 Spatial Information Management

• Chair Gerhard Muggenhuber, Austria
• Management of land, property and hydrographic
  information and the related processes, procedures
  and resources
• Spatial data infrastructure - data models,
  standards, availability and legal aspects,
  management of spatial knowledge
• The impacts on organisational structures,
  business models, professional practice and
  administration
• Management of spatial information supporting
  sustainable development.

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Commission 4 Hydrography

• Chair Adam Greenland, United Kingdom
• The marine environment
• Hydrographic surveying
• Data processing and management
• Nautical charts and bathymetric maps - analogue,
  digital and electronic

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Commission 5 Positioning and Measurement

• Chair Matt Higgins, Australia
• The science of measurement
• The acquisition of accurate, precise and reliable
  survey data related to the position, size and
  shape of natural and artificial features of the
  earth and its environment.

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Commission 6 Engineering Surveys

• Chair Svend Kold Johansen, Denmark
• Acquisition, processing and management of
  topographic and other related information
  throughout the life cycle of a project
• Setting out methods in engineering projects
• Validation and quality control for civil
  construction and manufacturing
• Deformation monitoring, analysis and
  interpretation
• Prediction of deformation in engineering
  projects, mines and areas of geological hazard.

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Commission 7 Cadastre and Land Management

• Chair Paul van der Molen, The Netherlands
• Land management and administration
• Cadastral reform and multi-purpose cadastres
• Parcel-based land information systems and
  computerisation of cadastral records
• Cadastral surveying and mapping
• Land titling, land tenure, land law and land
  registration
• Urban and rural land consolidation
• National and international boundaries
• Land and marine resource management.

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Commission 8 Spatial Planning and Development

• Chair Paul Lohmann, The Netherlands
• Regional and local structure planning
• Urban and rural land use planning
• Planning policies and environmental improvement
• Urban development and implementation
• Public-private partnerships
• Informal settlements and urbanisation in
  developing countries
• Environmental impact assessment.

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Commission 9 Valuation and the Management of
Real Estate

• Chair Stephen Yip, Hong Kong SAR, China
• Valuation - the estimating of value of real
  estate by valuers and appraisers, for various
  purposes, including market value, property
  taxation, eminent domain, claims of damage or
  impact on value by some cause or event, and
  acquisitions for public use or public policy
• Investment Market Value and Investment Planning
• Development Finance, Land Use Feasibility
  Planning
• Management of Property, as a single asset or by
  management companies
• Management of property systems to ensure
  efficient use of public and private resources
• Management of public sector property

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Construction Economics and Management

• Chair Philip Shearer, United Kingdom
• Construction technology and information
  technology
• Construction economics and measurement
• Construction management and environmental
  management
• Construction law and contract administration

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Joint Commission Working Group on
Under-represented groups in surveying

• Chair Gabriele Dasse, Germany
• enhancing professional development opportunities
  for women and young surveyors
• encouraging equal opportunities for individual
  members within FIG, not depending on gender or
  native language or other cultural characteristics
• facilitating professional contacts for women and
  young surveyors, as well as for linguistic
  minorities, within the FIG community

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Joint Commission Working Group on Standards

• Chair Iain Greenway, United Kingdom
• appoint experts to the work items of ISO
  Technical Committee 211 (geographic
  information/geomatics) and ensure that FIG is
  represented at plenary meetings of TC211
• gain liaison status and appoint experts to other
  appropriate technical committees of ISO and of
  other standards bodies, to assist in the creation
  of workable and current standards
• create explanatory material and guidance notes on
  the implications of standards for surveyors
• propose guidelines which can be translated into
  standards as technologies and methodologies mature

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Cultures and Languages of FIG

• To identify and clarify the cultural and
  linguistic issues facing members
• To promote the establishment of a set of guiding
  principles to assist with the implementation of
  this.
• To encourage multicultural approach in
  establishment of a wider political Advisory Board
  which ensures that cultural issues are recognised
  and reports to the General Assembly and the
  Council.
• To encourage the increased participation of more
  countries in the work of FIG by recognising the
  importance of cultural issues and linguistic
  differences.

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Administration

• General Assembly
• combined to FIG annual working weeks
• Council
• 4 year term of office
• President, 5 Vice-Presidents and Congress
  Director
• current US Council 1999-2002
• next Council from Germany 2003-2006
• new Governance in fully operation 2007

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Administration

• Advisory Committee of Commission Officers ACCO
• commission chairs and vice-chairs
• vice-presidents
• Permanent office
• Director and personal assistant
• Located in Copenhagen at the Surveyors House
  hosted by DdL

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Information delivery

• Annual Review
• Bulletin, 4 issues
• commission newsletters
• publications
• congress and working week publications
• web site www.fig.net

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Next Meetings

• Paris, France, 14-18 April 2003
• Athens, Greece, 23-28 May 2004
• Cairo, Egypt, 7-12 May 2005
• Munich, Germany, XXIII Congress,
  August/September 2006
• Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, July 2007
• Israel, 2009

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