Activate the national delegate, the correspondent and
the academic member network in order to work together,
identify the needs in our common fields of interest, and
exchange experience and knowledge for the common benefit
Organize Commission 3 annual meetings and workshops
focused on the specifically identified needs and topics
Provide and certify optional peer review for authors of
focused papers submitted for Commission 3 Workshops. Papers
of authors not wishing peer review are equally welcome in
the proceedings.
In particular, FIG Com3 has so far focused on the topic:
“Rapid Urbanization and the Importance of Spatial Information in
Managing Mega Cities”, and has prepared a research study on that
topic by 2010. For that purpose Commission 3 has coordinated
international research through
Three specific annual Workshops focused on the following
topics:
“Spatial Information in Environmental Management of
Mega Cities” January 2008, Valencia, Spain
“Spatial Information for Management of Sustainable
Urban Areas” February 2009, Mainz, Germany
Three Working Groups to systematically support the
international research.
Work Plan
Terms of reference
Management of spatial information on land, property and hydrographical
facts (including related processes, procedures and resources);
Spatial data infrastructure – data models, standards, availability and
legal aspects;
Management and transfer of knowledge and skills needed for SIM;
Impacts on organizational structure, business models, professional
practice and administration;
Management of spatial information supporting environment protection,
sustainable development and poverty reduction.
Mission Statement
FIG Commission 3 will:
Increase awareness about successful SIM approaches in the “e-Society” by
showing good practice like available, reliable and accessible spatial
information for better decision-making
Support the use of spatial information and SIM-tools by surveyors and by
all participants in decision-making to serve the goals of good governance.
Share good practice on managerial processes and infrastructure required
for handling data, using information and distributing knowledge.
Share good practice and develop high-level methods and techniques for
merging and managing updated spatial information at various levels according
to market requirements.
Encourage the use of spatial information within e-government and
e-commerce.
Implement the FIG Work Plan through working groups (WGs), Joint-WGs,
annual meetings, workshops, and seminars held during and/or outside FIG
working weeks and regional conferences; publications; and progress reports
about these events.
Present the final outcomes of Commission work through the web.
Cooperate and coordinate with the related United Nations committees and
other geo-spatial information societies and organizations active in the
field, such as ISPRS, ICA, IAG, GSDI, EUROGI, UN/ECE WPLA, UN/ECE Committee
on Housing and Land Management.
Increase the contribution of the surveying profession to the
implementation of the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Interactive Information Flow between providers, partners and customers
(PPP).
POLICY ISSUES
SIM is a facilitator for IT based services for
administration as well as for citizens. By thus SIMS will have even the role
of an integrator of components for a Spatial Information Infrastructure within
an Information society.
Services and workflows for decision makers and citizens in
participatory democracy
Government – business – customers: relations and activities
Integration and cooperation in a distributed environment
Individual vs. business in SIM
Mobile society
SIM and LBS in an e-Government context
CHAIR:
Kari Strande
Norway
E-mail: kari.strande[at]statkart.no
CO-CHAIR:
Peter Laarakker Netherlands
e-mail:
peter.laarakker[at]kadaster.nl
Working Group 3.2 - Spatial Data Infrastructure
FOCUS
Requirements for data, information, tools and workflows as components of
local, national and global spatial data infrastructures (SDI).
Institutional arrangements, information policy and legal frameworks needed
to create and share data, information and tools within and between levels of
government
Respective roles of government, private sector, professional bodies and
community groups in creating and managing SDI
Technical innovation needed to enable use of SDI, including spatial data
capture, management, visualisation and access
Implementing international best practice standards in SIM at all levels,
including use of ISO/TC 211, OpenGeospatial® Consortium, etc.
Sharing experience, developing visions for the future, identifying
productive roles for surveyors and other spatial professionals and informing
relevant forums of the role of SIM
CHAIR:
Mr. Paul Kelly, Director
Spatial Strategies Pty Ltd
Australia
Email:vspatials[at]smartchat.net.au
CO-CHAIR: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Müller, Fachhochschule Mainz
Germany
E-mail:
mueller[at]geoinform.fh-mainz.de
Working Group 3.3 - Multi Dimensional Aspects in Spatial
Information Management
Review, evaluation and further development of technologies and
technological trends for multi dimensional spatial information management in
general and data models, visualization and data fusion techniques in
particular.
Caused by increase of capabilities of spatial database management systems
(SDBMS), as well as the awareness for the necessity for 3D geospatial
information within the surveying and the engineering communities, some novel
approaches in modeling, visualization and fusion of spatial data have recently
gained the attention of both academic and commercial communities. Commission 3
will focus on the topics related to this definition such as (but not limited to)
Methods for measuring and gathering 3D spatial information and databases
3D data model for building information systems (built on top of SDBMS)
Algorithms for detection of relations between spatial objects in 3D
Fully www based approach to visualization of spatial data in 2D and 3D
Event oriented approach to modeling changes in spatial information
systems
Continuous temporal approaches for handling 2D and 3D spatial
information systems
Accuracy aspects of spatial information vs. needs & budgets of the
public and private sectors
CHAIR:
Prof. dr. sc. Miodrag Roic Croatia
E-mail:
mroic[at]geof.hr
