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Internationale Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
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Welcome to this FIG 2nd quarter newsletter. The past months have been busy with the FIG Working Week 2025 that took place in Brisbane, Australia. Please read in this newsletter a report from both the Conference and the General Assembly. The conference was a success with positive participant evaluations, excellent atmosphere in Brisbane, and a good financial result. You will find a statement from FIG, too, because unfortunately, and unexpectedly, the national association GCA went into voluntary administration in May 2025. Not even the positive financial result from the conference could help their situation that has been underway for several years. Currently, neither FIG nor FIG Foundation have received our fees from the conference, which we are afraid will be absorbed by the general GCA deficit.
Looking forward we have now opened the abstract submission for the large FIG Congress 2026 in Cape Town South Africa. It is now more than ever important that you will support FIG by attending this special congress that includes election for the new President and Vice Presidents. The local organisers in South Africa are already now well underway with the preparations giving you enough time to prepare your participation.
FIG President attended the World Bank Conference, you will find other upcoming events, awards, FIG Foundation grants, commission updates and more. Even though this newsletter covers a full quarter, we will return to monthly publication of the newsletter. Finally, please say hello to Henni, our new colleague at the FIG Office.
FIG General Assembly 2025 Report
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On 6 and 10 April 2025 the FIG General Assembly was held as part of
the FIG Working Week 2025 and included election for Commission
Chairs Elects, change of statutes and election of the host and
destination for FIG Working Week 2029. |
FIG Working Week 2025 Report: G'day to Brisbane and Aussie-land
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1400 national and international participants met in the beautiful
city of Brisbane for the FIG Working Week 2025 filled with lots of
activites, technical programme, tours and networking opportunities
FIG Statement June 2025 on GCA and FIG Working Week |
FIG CONGRES 2026 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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It is our pleasure to invite you to the largest and most prestigious conference of surveying and geospatial professionals in 2026, held in Cape Town, South Africa. The FIG Congress is the major event held every four years and includes elections of the new FIG President and two Vice Presidents.
The overall theme of the congress is: The Future We Want - The SDGs and
Beyond
Read more and submit your abstract |
NEWS FROM FIG
Welcome to Henni in FIG Office
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Henni A Kanstrup started working in
FIG on 1 June 2025. Henni has the title of
Communication, Project and Events Coordinator and will
in her work in the FIG office use her good communication
skills, experience with organisation of events and other
kinds of projects.
Henni comes from a position as International Project Coordinator at the International Department at Zealand Business College where she has been for the past 5 years and until recently, when the international activities were scaled down significantly. She has a bachelor of arts in Humanities in Musicology and English from the University of Copenhagen and is currently finalising a Technological Diploma in Project Management from the Technical University of Denmark. Previously she has been flight attendant, project coordinator at the Royal Danish Library, and course administrator. She is excited to work more closely together with surveyors and geospatial experts as she has a special interest in astronomy and space. She has a telescope in her garden for astrophotography! In her spare time she is board member of IDA Space, a volunteer group under the Danish Society of Engineers, organising events and lectures for peers. |
The Power of Partnerships: The World Bank 2025 Land Conference
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The FIG president and community took part in driving global land governance forward by connecting, collaborating, and strengthening capacity at the conference Read more |
FIG at Geospatial World Forum in Madrid
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FIG Vice President Winnie Shiu represented FIG at GWF in a plenary session on Accelerating the Future Geospatial Ecosystem through Collaborative Efforts of Professional Societies. Read more |
FIG FOUNDATION NEWS
The FIG Foundation will sponsor and award Young Surveyor Grants in support of the FIG Young Surveyors 4th African Regional Meeting
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A total of 4 grants will be awarded. Deadline to sumit application is 31 July 2025 Read more |
Congratulations FIG Foundation grant winners
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4 recipients will be attending FIG Young Surveyors 2nd Americas Regional Meeting Read more |
FIG Foundation was represented at the IGSM 2025, Rabat, Morocco
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Young Surveyor Ángel Collado attended the IGSM 2025 and gave a presentation about the Foundation’s work with young professionals. Read more |
NEW PUBLICATIONS AND NEWSLETTERS
Commission 8 Newsletter May 2025
Commission 7 News Brief Quarter 2 2025
Commission 3 - Nigeria:
NIS-FIG Commission 3 Activities in Nigeria
FIG Annual Review 2024
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With this Annual Review you can get a short introduction to some of the FIG activities that took place during 2024. Read more |
Publication 83: A CALL TO ACTION: Climate Responsible Land Governance and Disaster Resilience. Safeguarding Land Rights
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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
discussions .
Read more
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Publication 84: The Land Administration Domain Model: An Overview and LADM in the Classroom
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The overview publication, FIG Publication no 84, is a guide to LADM,
giving
overview of LADM. The publication is intended for anyone wishing to
learn more about LADM: why is it needed, how is it designed, what is
it and what are the benefits. This overview publication has an
extended version titled ‘LADM in the Classroom’ with a focus to
training and higher education.
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The extended book introduces the reader to the Land
Administration Domain Model (LADM) through examples. It starts by
giving the reader an overview of core LADM concepts then proceeds to
illustrate how data about different people-to-land relationships can
be organized using LADM. Each example represents a scenario that can
be encountered in a Land Administration System. The scenarios used
in examples are derived from the Land Administration System of the
hypothetical town of Watteriver together with its surrounding rural
areas. Each case, representing a particular scenario, is presented
both conceptually and using a simplified representation of a
database in which data are stored concretely. A demonstration
dataset, accompanying GIS project, and reusable slides are available
online - details in the book. |
Commission Meetings
Commission 7 Annual meeting and FIG Joint Land
Administration Conference
3-5 November 2025 in Florianaplis Brazil
Submit your abstract
and more information
Flyer in English
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| Portugise
FIG Commission 8 Annual Meeting ”Responsible Knowledge Transfer and Innovation in Land and Spatial Governance” held during the 6th edition of Romanian Surveying Week. Commission 2 will host a Roundtable on education topics.
Awards and Prizes
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open awards and prizes
hereunder FIG Young Surveyors 4th African Regional Meeting, Sarah Sayce
Award 2025, the EAASI Outstanding Thesis Award and the Abel Prize.
ARTICLE OF THE MONTH
June 2025: A peer review paper presented at the 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.
Read the article
May 2025: A position paper from FIG Commission 10 by Asst.
Professor Ts. Sr Dr. Nadzirah Hj. Zainordin and Ts. Sr Khoo Sui Lai Digital
Transformation in Quantity Surveying: Paving the Way for Smart Cities and
Professional Evolution.
The paper explains the role of Quantity Surveyors in the era of Digital
Construction.
Read the article
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. Read the article
FUTURE EVENTS
14-25 July 2025: Bari, Matera, Latina, Italy and Timisoara,
Romania
XVI International Training Summer School Gorizia (European Capital of
Culture 2025, Venezia and Trieste) on Monday 22 July 2025. Cost will be
€600.00 (six hundred/00 euro). The general logistical program is published
on the website. For more information contact Piero
Grimaldi.
Flyer
Website
7-9 October 2025, Frankfurt Germany
Intergeo 2025, organised by DVW, Germany.
Web site: https://www.intergeo.de/en/welcome-to-intergeo
15-17 October 2025, Brno, Czech Republic
9th International Conference on Engineering Surveying (INGEO 2025 ),
supported by FIG Commission 6 (Engineering Surveys) Web site: https://www.ingeoconference.com/
17-18 October 2025, 17-18 October 2025, Minneapolis, Minnesota
USA
FIG Young Surveyors 2nd Americas Regional Meeting 2025.
Empowering tomorrow's surveyors skills for a dynamic industry.
21-25 October 2025: Timisoara,
Romania 6th edition of Romanian Surveying Week (RSW) with the theme
"Geospatial technologies for sustainable development of agriculture and
built environment " organized by Romanian Surveyors Union, in partnership
with the Faculty of Civil Engineering from Polytechnical University
Timișoara (FCPUT) and the Faculty of Agriculture from University of Life
Science ”King Mihai I” from Timișoara (ULST), and in collaboration with FIG
Commissions 2 and 8.
During the RSW the FIG Commission 8 Annual Meeting ”Responsible Knowledge
Transfer and Innovation in Land and Spatial Governance” will be held.
FIG Commission 2 will host a Roundtable on education topic.
Event website coming soon.
3-5 November 2025: Florianapolis, Brazil
FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting and FIG Joint Land Administration Conference
held together with the ONU-Habitat Brasil Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM)
and the 13th International FIG Workshop on LADM and 3D-LA including
Commission 8 annual meeting, all hosted by the Universidade Federal de Santa
Catarina (UFSC).
Submit your abstract and
more information
Flyer in English
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| Portugise
More events: Check the events page
Save the dates
FIG Congress 2026, Cape Town, South Africa: 24-29 May 2026 -
www.fig.net/fig2026
FIG Working Week 2027, Stavanger, Norway: 23-27 May 2027 -
www.fig.net/fig2027
FIG Working Week 2028, Paris, France - Celebrating FIG 150th Anniversary
24-28 June 2028
Kind regards,
Ms. Louise Friis-Hansen
Director
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International Federation of Surveyors |
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FIG Congress 2026 Cape Town, South Africa Web site: www.fig.net/fig2026 |
FIG Working Week 2027, 23-27 May 2027, Stavanger, Norway
FIG Working Week 2028, 24-28 June 2028, Paris, France - Celebrating FIG 150th Anniversary
FIG Working Week 2029, Halifax, Canada
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