| Article of the Month in 2024FIG 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. 
 
		November 2024 A Position paper from the Commission 
		9 written by Peter Ache, Grazyna Wiejak-Roy, James Kavanagh, Eva 
		Katharina Korinke, Bastiaan Reydon.
		Viewpoint on Transparency in Real 
		Estate Markets The paper thus provides an excellent basis for 
		clearly and definitively defining and measuring the concept of 
		"transparency in the real estate market," as is fitting for geodesists.
		 
 
 
 
		August 2024 is written by Markus Schaffert and Torger Steensen, 
		Germany: Demographic transition 
		in aging neighborhoods: a GIS-based analysis from Germany's countryside. 
		The paper was awarded the Survey Review Prize, and has passed through 
		the reviewing and revision stage overseen by FIG, before being judged by 
		members of the Editorial Board of Survey Review. The research examined 
		the challenges faced by municipalities in Germany's aging single-family 
		house neighborhoods, particularly in rural areas, due to limited 
		demographic data  
 
		July 2024 is written by Peter Bauer et al. 
		(Austria): Interactive 
		planning of GNSS monitoring applications with Virtual Reality The 
		paper was awarded the Survey Review Prize, and has passed through the 
		reviewing and revision stage overseen by FIG, before being judged by 
		members of the Editorial Board of Survey Review. The research examined 
		the mapping and analyses of existing polling units in the study area to 
		provide scientific criteria for citing new polling units. 
 
		June 2024 We are excited to present to you the 
		opening speech by the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo 
		Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for this article of the month, delivered at the FIG 
		Working Week 2024. The address elaborates over the theme of the Working 
		Week: "Your World, Our World: Resilient Environment and Sustainable 
		Resource Management for All". Read more here 
 
		May 2024 is a video recordings from the FIG Working 
		Week 2023 plenary session Victoria Stanley, Senior Land Administration 
		Specialist at the World Bank. Victoria Stanley talks about how the World
		Bank see land as integral to addressing 
		climate change. Read more 
	and watch the videos 
 
		April 2024 are video recordings from the FIG 
		Working Week 2023 plenary sessions. Juliana P. Blackwell, NOAA and 
		Simone M. Lloyd, GISP, explains the mission to understand and predict 
		changes in climate, weather, ocean and coasts.
		Read more 
	and watch the videos 
 
		March 2024 are video recordings from the FIG Working Week 2023 plenary sessions 
		of the four Platinum Corporate Members of FIG, Bentley, Esri, Leica and 
		Trimble held a plenary presentation at the FIG Working Week 2023. Please 
		dive into their considerations and thoughts for the future from their 
		company perspective Read more 
		and watch the videos   
 
		January/February 2024 is written by Dimitrios BOLKAS, Matthew O’BANION, Jeffrey CHIAMPI, 
		and Jordan LAUGHLIN, USA:
		Collaborative Virtual Reality 
		for Surveying Education. The article is a peer-reviewed paper 
		published and presented at the FIG Working Week 2023 in Orlando, 
		Florida. This paper presents virtual reality implementations following 
		two different pedagogical frameworks, the first assessment results of 
		collaborative learning and evaluate the role of collaborative virtual 
		reality to enhance student learning and support surveying education. 
		 
 
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