FIG Article of the Month

Article of the Month in 2004

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.

December 2004 - Klaus Deininger, World Bank: Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction: Key Issues and Challenges Ahead. This paper was presented for the first time at the UN, FIG, PC IDEA Inter-regional Special Forum on The Building of Land Information Policies in the Americas in Aguascalientes, Mexico 26-27 October 2004
November 2004 - Teo Chee Hai, Malaysia: Mutual Recognition of Surveying Qualifications within the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services. This paper has been for the first time represented as a keynote presentation at the 3rd FIG Regional Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia 6 October 2004.
October 2004 - Marie Christine Robidoux, C.L.S., LL.M., Calgary Alberta, Canada: Geomatics and Traditional Knowledge – Liidlii Ku’e First Nation. This report was originally prepared for FIG Foundation and submitted in October 2003. It has been updated in August 2004.
September 2004 - Helge Onsrud, Senior Advisor, Statens kartverk Norway: Land Administration in Europe. This article is based on a keynote presentation that the author gave at the FIG Working Week in Athens in May 2004.
August 2004 - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Theo Kötter, University of Bonn, Germany: Risks and Opportunities of Urbanisation and Megacities. This paper was for the first time presented as a keynote presentation at the plenary session of the FIG Working Week 2004 in Athens, Greece 25 May 2004.
July 2004 - Prof. Gerhard Beutler, President President of the International Association of Geodesy, IAG, Switzerland: Revolution in Geodesy and Surveying. This paper was for the first time presented as a keynote presentation at the plenary session of the FIG Working Week 2004 in Athens, Greece 24 May 2004.
June 2004 - Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel, FIG President: Breathing the Olympic Spirit - The Mission of FIG in the 21st Century. This paper was for the first time presented as the opening speech at the FIG Working Week 2004 in Athens, Greece, 23 May 2004.
May 2004 - Dr.-Ing. Ralf Schroth, FIG Vice President, Germany: Direct Geo-Referencing in Practical Applications. This paper was for the first time presented at the ISPRS workshop WG 1/5 about Theory, Technology and Realities of Inertial/GPS Sensor Orientation in Castelldefels/Barcelona, Spain, 23 September 2003. It has been partly revised for the FIG Article of the Month published in May 2004
April 2004 - Alick R. Mwanza, Zambia: White Collar Malpractices in Cadastral Surveying and their Effects on Secure Land Tenure and Sustainable Development. This paper has been produced with the financial support of the FIG Foundation.
March 2004 - Joel Bailey, Amanda Lewis and Frances Plimmer, United Kingdom: Locating the “Country” in Town and Country Planning: the Urban Bias in English Planning. This paper has been produced with the financial support of the FIG Foundation.
February 2004 - Mr. Svein Tveitdal, Director, Division of Environmental Conventions and Division of Environmental Policy Implementation, UNEP: Urban-Rural Interrelationship: Condition for Sustainable Development. This paper was first presented at the 2nd FIG Regional Conference for Africa and the Arab Countries in Marrakech, Morocco, December 2-5, 2003.
January 2004 - Prof. Neville Ying, Professor of Business Develoment & Director, Labour Studies at the Mona School of Business, University of West Indies, Jamaica: Contact a Land Surveyor - Speech for the 75th Anniversary Function for Land Surveyors Association. This paper was first presented as a keynote speech at the occasion of the 75th Anniversary Function for the LSAJ in Kingston, October 31, 2003.