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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
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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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
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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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
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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Organizational Structure
General Assembly
Council President and 4 Vice-Presidents
Fig Office Director 2 assistants
ACCO Advisory Committee of Commission Officers
Com1 Practice
Com3 Spat.Inf.Man
Com5 Posit.Map
Com7 CadLandMan.
Com9 Valuation
Com2 Education
Com4 Hydrography
Com6 Eng.Surveys
Com8 Spat.Plan.Dev.
Com10 Quantity Surv..
Chairman, vice-chairs, national delegates, work
plan, working groups, seminars etc
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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
Members

• 109 countries represented in 2005
• 230,000 individuals in member associations

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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

Members

• Membership categories
• 94 members from 81 countries
• 15 affiliates
• 14 correspondents
• 82 academic members from 52 countries
• 27 corporate members
• 8 honorary presidents
• 31 honorary members

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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
Members

• professional societies representing one or
  more of the surveying disciplines in their
  respective countries
• 81 countries represented 94 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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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

Affiliates

• groups of surveyors undertaking professional
  activities but not fulfilling criteria for
  membership
• currently 15 members

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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

Correspondents

• individual in a country where no association
  exists that is eligible to join FIG
• currently 14 correspondents

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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

Academic members

• organisation, institution or agency which
  promotes education or research in one or more
  of the disciplines of surveying
• first academic members in 1999, now 82 academic
  members from 52 countries
• membership fee 180 in 2005
• Surveying Educational Database with more than
  260 institutions and more than 450 courses

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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

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
• 27 corporate members in 2005

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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

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
• 8 Honorary Presidents
• 31 Honorary Members

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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

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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Organizational Structure
General Assembly
Council President and 4 Vice-Presidents
Fig Office Director 2 assistants
ACCO Advisory Committee of Commission Officers
Com1 Practice
Com3 Spat.Inf.Man
Com5 Posit.Map
Com7 CadLandMan.
Com9 Valuation
Com2 Education
Com4 Hydrography
Com6 Eng.Surveys
Com8 Spat.Plan.Dev.
Com10 Quantity Surv..
Chairman, vice-chairs, national delegates, work
plan, working groups, seminars etc
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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

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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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

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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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
Commission 1 - Professional Practice Chair
Klaus Rürup, Germany Chair Elect Yaacoub Saade,
Lebanon

• 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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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

Commission 2 - Professional EducationChair
Pedro Cavero, SpainChair Elect Bela Markus,
Hungary

• 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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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

Commission 3 - Spatial Information
Management Chair Gerhard Muggenhuber,
AustriaChair Elect Chryssy Potsiou, Greece

• 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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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
Commission 4 HydrographyChair Adam Greenland,
United KingdomChair Elect Andrew Leyzack, Canada

• The marine environment
• Hydrographic surveying
• Data processing and management
• Nautical charts and bathymetric maps - analogue,
  digital and electronic

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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

Commission 5 - Positioning and Measurement
Chair Matt Higgins, AustraliaChair Elect
Rudolf Staiger, Germany

• 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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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

Commission 6 - Engineering Surveys Chair Svend
Kold Johansen, DenmarkChair Elect Alojz
Kopacik, Slovakia

• 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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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

Commission 7 - Cadastre and Land Management
Chair Paul van der Molen, The NetherlandsChair
Elect András Osskó, Hungary

• 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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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

Commission 8 - Spatial Planning and Development
Chair Diane Dumashie, United KingdomChair
Elect Simon Adcock, Australia

• 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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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
Commission 9 - Valuation andthe Management of
Real Estate Chair Stephen Yip, Hong Kong SAR,
ChinaChair Elect Kauko Viitanen, Finland

• 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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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

Commission 10 - Construction Economics and
Management Chair Philip Shearer, United
KingdomChair Elect Andrew Morley, 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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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
Under-represented groups in surveyingChair
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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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
Standards Network 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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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
Administration

• General Assembly ? combined to FIG annual
  working weeks
• Council
• ? 4 year term of office
• ? President, 5 Vice-Presidents and
  a Congress Director
• ? current German Council 2003-2006
• ? new Governance in fully operation 2007

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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
Council 2003-2006

• President Prof. Holger Magel (Germany)
• Vice Presidents
• ? Dr. Andreas Drees (Germany)
• ? Dr. Ralf Schroth (Germany) ? Mr.
  T. N. Wong, Hong Kong SAR, China
• ? Mr. Ken Allred, Canada ? Prof.
  Stig Enemark, Denmark
• Congress Director Mr. Thomas Gollwitzer
• ACCO Representative Mr. Matt Higgins
  (Australia), 2005-2006

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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

Administration

• Advisory Committee of Commission Officers
  ACCO
• ? commission chairs and vice-chairs
• ? vice-presidents
• Permanent office
• ? Director and 2 assistants
• ? Located in Copenhagen at the Surveyors
  House hosted by DdL

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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
Information delivery

• Annual Review
• monthly e-Newsletter
• commission newsletters
• publications
• congress and working week publications
• web site www.fig.net

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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
Working Weeks and Congresses

• Munich, Germany, XXIII Congress 8-13 October
  2006 www.fig2006.de
• Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China 12-17 May
  2007 www.fig.net/fig2007
• Stockholm. Sweden 14-19 June 2008
  www.fig.net/fig2008
• Israel, 2009
• Sydney, Australia, XXIV Congress April/May
  2010

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Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

Regional Conferences

• Accra, Ghana 8-11 March 2006
  www.fig.net/accra
• to be decided

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Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres International
Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

FIG Office in Copenhagen