FIG Commission 5 - Positioning and Measurement

"FIG Commission 5 focuses on meeting the highest level of accuracy for Positioning and Measurement. It provides the tools, techniques and procedures to educate and train surveying professionals everywhere. Appropriate methodology for data collection and processing are required to be successful in an era of global, integrated geospatial data."

What we do

For the term 2019-2022 FIG Commission 5 will be working on:

Standards, Quality Assurance and Calibration (WG 5.1)
3D Reference Frames (WG 5.2)
Vertical Reference Frames (WG 5.3)
GNSS (WG 5.4)
Multi-Sensor-Systems (WG 5.5)
Cost Effective Positioning (WG5.6)

Working Group 5.1 – Standards, Quality Assurance
and Calibration
Working Group 5.2 – 3D Reference Frames
Working Group 5.3 – Vertical Reference Frames
Working Group 5.4 – GNSS
Working Group 5.5 – Multi-Sensor-Systems
Working Group 5.6 – Cost Effective Positioning

General

FIG Commission 1

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Work Plan
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- Term 2015-2018 []
- Term 2011-2014 []
- Term 2007-2010 []
- Term 2003-2006 []
News
Commission Delegates
FIG Young Surveyors Network
FIG Standards Network

For the full work plan, please visit Work Plan 2019-2022
(Original work plan .pdf-format )

FIG Working (from home) Week 2020 - Proceedings

May 2020

During the conference days a range of articles highlighting the hot-topics, the ground breaking research, and the hidden gems in the proceedings was published.

Commission 5 broadly supports each of the subthemes by providing the applications and technology to enable smart surveyors in accomplishing their work. Read the article.

FIG Working Week 2020 and FIG Commission 5

February 2020

Commission 5 is planning 10 sessions. See all sessions.

Report to the General Assembly

March 2020

FIG Commission 5 has prepared a written report to the General assembly.

Report

The full agenda is available

The General Assembly has been cancelled and postponed to 2021.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Reference Frame in Practise Semiar
held in conjunction with SIRGAS
9-13 November, Bolivia

FIG Working Week 2021
the netherlands

June 2019

Applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems Workshop

May 2019

Commission 5 at FIG Working Week 2019

November 2018

Reference Frames in Practice seminar, April 2019

More News from FIG Commission 5

	Publications		Work Plans

	Proceedings		Working Groups

	Key Documents		Events

Meet the officers Commission Chair Mr. Daniel R. Roman, United States Chief Geodesist Contact: FIGCommission5 [at] fig.net
Working Group Chairs: Standards, Quality Assurance and Calibration (WG 5.1) David Martin, France 3D Reference Frames (WG 5.2) Nic Donnelly, New Zealand Vertical Reference Frames (WG 5.3) David Avalos-Naranjo, Mexico GNSS (WG 5.4) Suelynn Choy, Australia Multi-Sensor-Systems (WG 5.5) Allison Kealy, Australia Cost Effective Positioning (WG5.6) Leonid A. Lipatnikov, Russia		Delegates and Correspondents: Each member association has the right to nominate a delegate to each of the ten technical commissions. In addition Affiliates, Academic Members and Corporate Members are welcome to nominate a correspondent to each commission. Commission Delegates and correspondents Interested? If you are interested to become a national delegate from your country, please contact your member association. The contact information of national delegates is updates by the FIG office. Any changes in contact information should be sent to the FIG Office.

Achievements
	Most surveyors today are aware that data acquisition, management, analysis, presentation and controlling systems are becoming more elaborate and automated. On the other side the results to be provided need to be produced with less cost, so in a costeffective way. Read the publication

	Since the dawn of civilisation, people have found it necessary to measure and map their domain. During very early times this concern was limited to the immediate vicinity of their home; later it expanded to the distance of markets; and finally, with the development of means of transportation and communication people became interested in the whole world. Read the publication

Terms Term 2019-2022 Term 2015-2018 Term 2011-2014 Term 2007-2010 Term 2003-2006 Working Groups Term 2019-2022 WG 5.1: Standards, Quality Assurance and Calibration WG 5.2: 3D Reference Frames WG 5.3: Vertical Reference Frames WG 5.4: GNSS WG 5.5: Multi-Sensor-Systems WG 5.6: Cost Effective Positioning All working groups	FIG Publications FIG Pub. no. 74: Cost Effective Precise Positioning with GNSS FIG Pub. no. 64: Reference Frames in Practice Manual FIG Pub. no. 49: Cost Effective GNSS Positioning Techniques 2nd edition	FIG Proceedings List of FIG Conference Proceedings FIG Surveyors Reference Library Newsletters July 2018 July 2017	Events Reference Frame in Practise Semiar held in conjunction with SIRGAS 9-13 November, Bolivia All events Reports to General Assembly Report, May 2020 Report, Hanoi, Vietnam. 2019 Report, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018 Report, Helsinki, Finland, 2017 All reports