FIG Congress 2018

Call for Papers

In the open call for paper non-peer review and peer review papers are invited from following the detailed topics selected by FIG Commissions:  

Commission 1 – Professional Standards and Practice

• Professional ethics
• International boundaries
• Women in Surveying
• Mutual recognition of qualifications or professional status

Commission 2 – Professional Education

• Cross border education of smart surveyors 
• Accreditation and Quality Assurance
• 3-D and BIM in the curriculum
• Teaching the new surveyors: smart surveyors, para surveyors and the crowd
• Innovative learning and teaching
• Demand for and supply of Professional Education

Commission 3 – Spatial Information Management (SIM)

• SDI at all levels – local, regional, national and globalE-Governance and SDI in supporting decision making – theory, applications and best practice for the collection, dissemination, analysis, applications, maintenance and visualization of data
• SIM as basis for land planning
• VGI as smart system to serve the world of tomorrow
• Integration of SDIs – cadastre, land use, utilities, environment, socio-economic
• SDI interoperability – standards, technical tools, metadata, portals
• 3D/4D Cadastre
• Crowdsourcing for innovation land and spatial information management
• 2D/3D/4D geospatial models, algorithms, visualization, standards and applications
• Web and mobile GIS – challenges, services and real-time capabilitiesBusiness models and SDI, public-private partnerships and economic aspect
• The importance of NSDI

Commission 4 - Hydrography

• Hydrographic standards and guidelines
• Hydrographic Education, Training and Professional Development.
• New and emerging science and technologies for hydrography (e.g. sensors, systems, AUVs, electromagnetic wave propagation etc.)
• Maritime and marine spatial information management (including data processing and management of hydrographic data, data structures, marine spatial data infrastructures, marine information systems)
• Hydrography and society (Offshore surveying in support of energy, environment, submarine telecommunications, ports and harbours, economies, national and international political objectives)
• Bathymetric mapping, sea level monitoring
• Marine spatial information management including data processing and management of hydrographic data
• Data structures
• Darine spatial data infrastructures
• Marine information systems

Commission 5 – Positioning and Measurement

• Standards, best practice guidelines, quality assurance and calibration for measuring instrumentsNational or geospatial reference systems and associated infrastructure
• Vertical reference frames, geoid and gravity
• GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, Multi-GNSS), including CORS networks
• Terrestrial and airborne laser scanning, 3D data acquisition
• Cost-effective surveying (GNSS and other survey methods)
• Multi-Sensor-Systems (INS-GNSS, Mobile Mapping, etc.)
• Ubiquitous positioning techniques and applications -such as RFID, WiFi, AGPS, mobile phones, MEMS inertial sensors, Locata
• Positioning and metrology – technique, methodology, adjustment and analysis
• Earthquake prediction
• Vertical geodetic networks

Commission 6 – Engineering Surveys

• Deformation measurement
• Engineering surveys in managing natural disasters
• Precise height measurements  for engineering
• Recent industrial surveying and sensing technologies and applications 
• Laser scanning applications
• Machine control and guidance with surveying technologies
• mobile Lidar
• UAV applications

Commission 7 – Cadastre and Land Management

• Land Registration models in urban and rural areas
• From digital to smart – the new paradigm in land management
• Role of smart devices for data capture in land registration Ownership of data in smart communities
• The internet of things providing added value in registration of tenure in urban areas
• New technologies for remote and in-situ data acquisition on land rights / social media and third party data capture / crowdsourcing
• The role of the private and public sector in society driven land registration systems
• Security of tenure in smart societies
• Global indicators for land tenure in different cultures Smart procedures for smart land management
• Cadastre 4.0 – Transparency, Participation, Collaboration
• Impact of new technologies on land rights and cadastral systems validation of third party data in society driven data acquisition
• Public trust in smart land registration systems / fraud prevention by publicity
• The role of blockchain technology for security of tenure and systems
• Voluntary guidelines in technology driven land registration Land policy and reforms to support the SDGs
• Compensation for value changes from rural and urban land policy
• Multi-dimensional and multi-temporal cadastre
• Data protection and data security / rights of individuals
• The land owner as equal partner in land registration 

Commission 8 – Spatial Planning and Development

• Environmental challenges in megacities
• Urban and rural land use planning
• Planning policies and environmental improvement
• Informal settlement issues in spatial development, planning and governance
• Planning and managing urbanisation
• Public-private partnerships in planning and land development
• Contributing to Global water management utilization – Action and planning
• Rural development and land consolidation

Commission 9 – Valuation and the Management of Real Estate

• Tax Bases for Real Estate Taxation
• Mass Appraisal Techniques
• Large Scale Acquisitions of Land (“Land Grab”)
• Trends of real estate valuation
• Valuation methods for properties where no markets exist for them
• Valuation profession and valuation standards
• Real estate finances and investments
• Real estate markets
• Compulsory purchase and compensations in land acquisition and takings
• Real property practises and sustainable cities

Commission 10 – Construction Economics and Management

• Quantity Surveying and Cost Management
• Project Procurement and Tendering (Bidding)
• BIM - Building Information Modelling - the hottest one
• Construction standards and regulations including proposed International Construction Measurement Standards (ICMS)
• Construction economics and global construction trend
• Innovative house building and affordable housing
• Sustainable construction and development