FIG Article of the Month

Article of the Month in 2010

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 2010 - Stig Enemark, FIG President 2007-2010: From Cadastre to Land Governance in Support of the Global Agenda - The Role of Land Professionals and FIG. The paper facilitates an understanding of how the cadastral concept has evolved over time into the broader concept of Land Administration Systems in support of sound Land Governance. The role of land professionals and FIG is underlined in this regard. The paper also represents the essence of a range of papers presented by the author as President of FIG over the term of office 2007-2010.
November 2010 - Clarissa Augustinus, UN-HABITAT: Social Tenure Domain Model: What It Can Mean for the Land Industry and for the Poor. This article is an invited paper presented at the FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010. The paper is written by Dr. Clarissa Augustinus from UN-HABITAT, with whom FIG has had an outstanding cooperation for many years. Therefore - in addition of being an excellent presentation on social tenure domain model - this paper also recognises the long-term cooperation between UN-HABITAT and FIG. Clarissa Augustinus is a social scientist who has had large impact in the land surveying world.
Handouts of this presentation as a .pdf-file.
October 2010 - David Mitchell, Australia: Reducing Vulnerability to Natural Disasters in the Asia Pacific through Improved Land Administration and Management. This paper is a peer reviewed paper prepared for the FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010 and draws on the lessons from recent major disasters and existing literature on land issues. Handouts of this presentation as a .pdf file.
September 2010 - Anthony ARKO-ADJEI, Ghana and Jitske de JONG, Jaap ZEVENBERGEN and Arbind TULADHAR, The Netherlands: Customary Tenure Institutions and Good Governance. This paper is a peer reviewed paper prepared for the FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010. At the Congress it was presented by Prof. Jaap Zevenbergen in an invited session about land governance in Africa. It gives good information about customary tenure and good governance in Ghana, and could be of interest to other African countries. Handouts of this presentation as a .pdf file.
August 2010 - Mike Pinkerton, New Zealand: Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Mainstream Land Surveying. This paper has been prepared and presented at the FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010. This paper provides a good introduction for those who are thinking about the question whether to invest in laser scanning. Handouts of this presentation as a .pdf file.
July 2010 - John Hannah, New Zealand: The Difficulties in Using Tide Gauges to Monitor Long-Term Sea Level Change. The article is a peer reviewed paper and was presented at the XXIV FIG Congress in Sydney 11-16 April 2010 in the session on Vertical Reference Frame. Handouts of this presentation as a .pdf file. John Hannah is a Registered Professional Surveyor and is a former President of the NZ Institute of Surveyors.
June 2010 - Mohamed El-Sioufi: Climate Change and Sustainable Cities: Major Challenges Facing Cities and Urban Settlements in the Coming Decades. The paper was presented as a keynote presentation at the XXIV FIG Congress in Sydney 11-16 April 2010 in the plenary session on "The Big Challenges". Dr. El-Sioufi is Head of the Shelter Branch at the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT.
May 2010 - Abbas Rajabifard, Australia: Spatially Enabled Government and Society - the Global Perspective. The paper was presented as a keynote presentation at the XXIV FIG Congress in Sydney 11-16 April 2010 in plenary session on spatially enabled society. Dr. Rajabifard is the President of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association. He is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration at the Department of Geomatics, the University of Melbourne. At the FIG Congress in Sydney FIG and GSDI signed a memorandum of understanding.

April 2010 - Warwick Watkins and Pedro Harris, Australia: Spatially Enabled Government in New South Wales, Australia. This paper is based on the keynote presentation of Warwick Watkins, Surveyor General of New South Wales, that he presented at the 2nd plenary session on Spatially Enabled Society at the FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney. The article gives an introduction to the advanced conceptual approach to SDI as used by the Land and Property Management Authority in New South Wales, Australia.

March 2010 - Chryssy Potsiou, Greece (edit.), Yerach Doytsher, Israel, Paul Kelly, Australia, Rafic Khouri, France, Robin McLaren, United Kingdom and Hartmut Mueller, Germany: Rapid Urbanization and Mega Cities: The Need for Spatial Information Management. This paper has been prepared for the XXIV FIG International Congress in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April, 2010 and will be presented in the Commission 3 Key Note Session "SIM in Support of Mega City Management". The paper gives an introduction to FIG publication no. 48 – “Rapid Urbanization and Mega Cities: The Need for Spatial Information Management” that will be launched in Sydney.
February 2010 - Jude Wallace, Australia: Land Acquisition in Developing Economies. This paper is based on the keynote presentation that Jude Wallace gave at the 7th FIG Regional Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, 19-22 October 2009. This invited paper addresses the issue of land acquisition in emerging economies that will be further explored in the FIG publication to be launched at the FIG Congress in Sydney in April 2010.
January 2010 - Teo Chee Hai, FIG Vice President, Malaysia - Building the Capacity: Professionalism and Ethics. This paper has been prepared and presented as a keynote presentation at the 7th FIG Regional Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, 19-22 October 2009. Handouts of the Powerpoint presentation are available at: http://www.fig.net/pub/vietnam/ppt/ps03/ps03_teo_ppt_3785.pdf.