Reference Frames in Practice seminar, April 2019
The Technical Seminar on Reference Frames in Practice was
held in Hanoi on 20-21 April 2019. The main focus was on
reference frames in general with a specific focus on UN
initiatives and reference frame examples in the Asia-Pacific
region. A BELS+ Training was also completed on the second
day of the seminar. The Seminar was organized by FIG
Commission 5, in conjunction with the International Association
of Geodesy (IAG), the United Nations International Committee on
GNSS (UN ICG), UN Global Geospatial Information Management –
Asia Pacific (UN-GGIM-AP), BELS+, and the Vietnam Association of
Geodesy, Cartography, and Remote Sensing (VGCR). The seminar was
held in the InterContinental Landmark 72 Hotel in conjunction
with the FIG Working Week 2019 at the Vietnam National
Convention Center.
There were 43 participants including presenters from around
the world representing 20 different countries. Countries
represented included Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium,
Fiji, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Pakistan,
Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain,
Uganda, United States, and Viet Nam. Attendees represented
a mix of academic, government, and commercial institutions.
Report on GeoPrevi 2018 International Symposium-Geodesy for
Smart Cities
29-30 October 2018 Bucharest, Romania
Geo PreVi 2018 Symposium “Geodesy for Smart Cities” took
place in Bucharest, Romania on 29-30 October. The technical
program was mainly organised by FIG Commission 5, 6 and 10. More
than 120 participants from 14 countries attended this seminar.
FIG Commission 5 supported several young surveyors from
Romania and abroad. Mr. Mudit Kapoor from India (Indian
Institute of Technology Roorkee) as well as Mr Gheorghe Tintari
and Ms. Loredana Stoica from Romania received the grants.
References Frame in Practice Seminar - Operational
Aspects of GNSS CORS
18-20 September 2018, Suva, Fiji
In conjunction with FIG Asia Pacific Capacity Development
Network partners namely the Fijian Government - Ministry of
Lands and Mineral Resources, Pacific Geospatial and Surveying
Council (PGSC), the UN GGIM AP, FIG Commission 5, and the
Pacific Geospatial & Surveying Partnership Desk – Pacific
Community, a Reference Frame in Practice Seminar on Operational
GNSS CORS will be held in Suva, Fiji 18-20 September 2018. The
objectives of this event are to provide technical advice on the
operational aspects of GNSS CORS infrastructure, to build a
sustainable and modernised geodetic reference frame and datum,
and also develop the capacity of surveyors in the discipline of
geodetic surveying. Presently there will be over 20
presentations comprising of local and international speakers,
with almost 100 delegates registered! FIG and development
partners wish to thank Lecia Geosystems for their support.
Commission 5 grants to Young Surveyors - Geo PreVi 2018
Geo PreVi 2018 Symposium “Geodesy for Smart Cities” will take
place in Bucharest, Romania 29-30 October. The technical program
is mainly organized by help of FIG Commission 5, 6 and 10
dealing with Positioning and Measurement, Engineering Geodesy
and Construction Economics and Management. Web site:
https://geoprevi.xyz/
The organizing committee will support young surveyors from
Romania and abroad.
- Young surveyors from outside Romania that
will submit an article and give a presentation can
be granted by maximum 400 € to support travelling,
accommodation and registration fee. If you are interested
please send your application including a CV, the title and
the abstract of the presentation as well as a motivation
letter to Volker Schwieger volker.schwieger@iigs.uni-stuttgart.de and
Li Zhang li.zhang@iigs.uni-stuttgart.de .
Additionally you have to register at the mentioned website.
We will award minimum two grants.
- Romanian young surveyors that will
submit an article and give a presentation will be granted
for the registration fee of 30 € on-site. Please apply by
sending a CV, the title and the abstract of the presentation
to Ana Cornelia Badea
anacorneliabadea@gmail.com and Aurel Negrila
negrilaa@yahoo.co.uk.
We will award up to fifteen grants.
Commission 5 Newsletter - July 2018
Read the latest
Newsletter from Commission 5 that also includes report from
the FIG Congress 2018.
Commission 5 at FIG Congress 2018
Istanbul, Turkey 6-11 May
The commission chairs of the term 2019-2022 were elected at
the General Assembly held in conjunction with the FIG Congress
in Istanbul. Mr.
Dan Roman from United
States was elected at chair of FIG
Commission 5. His term starts 1.1.2019.
FIG
Commission 5 was actively involved during the FIG Congress 2018
in Istanbul, Turkey.
Report on the Technical Seminar on Reference Frames in Practice held in
conjection with the FIG Congress
The Technical Seminar on Reference Frames in Practice was
held in Istanbul on 4-5 May 2018. The main focus was on
reference frames in general, kinematics and dynamic datums which
reflects geodetic priorities for all regions suffering from
natural disasters such as earthquakes. Participants mostly come
from countries where there is a strong need to model deformation
to maintain their accurate spatial reference frames. So, this
Seminar has been a good platform to share knowledge and
resources for their mutual benefits.
The Seminar was organised by FIG Commission 5, in conjunction with
the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), the United Nations
International Committee on GNSS (UN ICG) and the Turkish Chamber of
Survey and Cadastre Engineers (HKMO).
Forthcoming FIG Commission 5 events
GEOPREVI 2018, Geodesy for Smart Cities, Joint Seminar of
FIG Commission 5, 6 and 10 Symposium
Bucharest, Romania, 29-30 October
The GeoPreVi 2018 is a scientific event of the Faculty of
Geodesy - Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest
and will be organized this year in cooperation with FIG
Commissions 5, 6 and 10, Romanian Surveyors Union and Romanian
Association of Private Surveyors.
GeoPreVi 2018 is continuing the previous year collaboration with
FIG. This year, International Symposium GeoPreVi 2018 is
inspired by the theme Digital Geodesy for Smart Cities focusing
on general topics like reference frames, positioning, surveying
and Building Information Modelling.
We are sure that GeoPreVi 2018 will create the professional
frame and environment for discussions, exchanging knowledge and
experience among surveyors, geodesists and other professionals.
Still it is one more opportunity to enhance the awareness
regarding our profession in Romania, Europe and worldwide.
International Symposium GeoPreVi 2018 gives to the participants
the opportunity to present papers, debate and communicate in a
professional and scientific manner highlighting their own
contribution finding out technical solutions and new researches
in order to identify the social, technical and environmental
benefits.
The Faculty of Geodesy, that merges the traditions and
excellence in Romanian surveying academic education, together
with its outstanding event initiators and co-organizers
professional associations, members of The International
Federation of Surveyors - the premier international organization
that is supporting the interests of surveyors worldwide and
covering the whole range of professional fields within the
global surveying community have agreed to focus to very
important challenges of the nowadays Romanian society such as
positioning and measurement, engineering surveys, construction
management.
For more information, please visit
https://geoprevi.xyz/
10th Multi-GNSS Asia (MGA) Conference
23-25 October 2018 at RMIT University in Melbourne,
Australia.
The Multi-GNSS Asia (MGA) is an international cooperative
initiative endorsed by the United Nation International Committee
on GNSS to promote cooperation and utilisation of satellite
positioning, navigation and timing services in Asia and Oceania.
With the 2018 MGA Conference theme “Creating Solutions, Driving
Innovation, Connecting Industry”, the event will present an
informative program showcasing the latest advancements in GNSS
technology and applications, innovative satellite positioning
and navigation solutions, as well as connecting industries to
explore new business cooperation in GNSS services, products and
applications. MGA aims to expand the impact of navigation
satellite technology right across our economy. Also, the program
will include a facilitated networking event, open forums to
discuss future collaborations and a young professionals and
students event.
For mroe information, please visit:
https://2018.mgaconference.com.au/
The deadline, the 1st October, for papers to be
peer-reviewed for the FIG Congress Istanbul Turkey in May next
year is approaching
The FIG Commissions 5 and 6 have an agreement with the Chief
Editor of the Journal of Applied Geodesy: after the Working Week
the best peer-reviewed scientific papers can be published in a
special issue of this journal.
We hope to give researchers and scientists from all around
the world an additional motivation to attend the FIG Congress,
and at the same time the opportunity to publish their valuable
research results in a well-known Journal.
The process will be as follows:
- you have to include your paper into the FIG
peer-review process
- the paper is successfully accepted and rated by the
reviewers as well as and presented at the Working Week
- the commission officers will decide on the base of the
reviewer ratings about the scientific quality of the
paper
- the authors of the best papers will be contacted by the
Commission chairs, if they are willing to publish in the
Journal
- the peer-review process of the Journal of Applied
Geodesy will start
Ivo Milev
Chair Commission 6 |
Volker Schwieger
Chair Commission 5 |
One day meeting on “Regional Challenges, Benefits and
Opportunities of Exchanging Geodetic Data”
The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) ,
FIG Asia Pacific Capacity Development Network, and the UN
Global Geospatial Information Management for Asia and the
Pacific Working Group 1 are jointly hosting a one day meeting on
“Regional Challenges, Benefits and Opportunities of Exchanging
Geodetic Data” on 16 October 2017, at the Kumamoto City
International Centre in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.
This meeting with United Nation Asia Pacific country member
delegates will workshop -
- the social, technical, environmental and economic
benefits and opportunities of accessing and sharing geodetic
data;
- open geodetic data and access policies;
- geodetic data / licencing agreements; in particular the
UN-GGIM Compendium on Licensing Geospatial Information;
- the state of play of geodetic data sharing in Asia;
- geodetic data that should be shared and accessible; and
- examine solutions to challenges, impediments and the way
forward.
For more information about this meeting please navigate to -
https://gsi-intl.github.io/ggim-ap-kumamoto/
Please note this meeting will be convened prior to the UN
GGIM AP Plenary Meeting 17-19th October 2017 -
http://www.un-ggim-ap.org/meetings/pm/6th/201707/t20170704_389286.shtml
Chair of the Asia/Pacific Regional Network, Rob Sarib would
appreciate to get comments or information about geodetic data
sharing from our Commission 5 Delegate. For example – case
studies from different countries, challenges, the benefits of
data sharing, open data, policies etc. You support would be
appreciated.
Read more about the FIG Asia/Pacific Network:
http://www.fig.net/organisation/networks/capacity_development/asia_pacific/index.asp
Reference Frame in Practice Seminar
29-30 July 2017, Kobe, Japan
The Reference Frames in Practice (RFIP) series has been in
operation since May 2012 and this year’s seminar was convened in
Kobe (Japan) on 29-30 July 2017. The seminar venue was the
Kobe Chamber of Commerce - Port Island, and was hosted by GSI -
Geospatial Information Authority of Japan. A special
thanks to Mr. Basara Miyahara and his team at GSI for their
great hospitality.
Like previous seminars this RFIP was well attended. It
attracted 68 delegates from 19 different countries. From a
program perspective, there were 21 quality presentations which
included 4 presentations from the event sponsors who provided a
manufacturers perspective on the issues and challenges relating
to geodetic reference frames.
The seminar’s objective was to provide fundamental geodetic
reference frame background, concepts and examine the associated
data and analysis techniques, each with a focus on practical
implementation and application.
Newsletter - July 2017
Commission 5 Newsletter July 2017 - incl. Commission 5
report from FIG Working Week 2017 in Helsinki, Finland
Cost Effective Positioning and Geo Data Seminar
20 April 2017, Novosibirsk, Russia
The Seminar was organized by FIG Commission 5. It was held within the
frame of the XIII International Exhibition and Scientific Congress
"Interexpo GEO-Siberia 2017" in Novosibirsk. The primary objective of
the Seminar was to shape a vision for the future of cost-effective
positioning technologies. The seminar was aimed at bringing developers
of precise low-cost solutions, surveyors, and other potential users
together.
Commisson 5 at the FIG Working Week 2017 in
Helsinki, Finland 29 May - 2 June
Commission 5 had its annual meeting during the FIG
Working Week 2017 in Helsinki, Finland 29 May - 2 June
2017
Commission chairs 2015-2018 at their meeting during the FIG
Working Week, 29 May-2 June in Helsinki, Finland: Remy Boudon(comm. 6) Volker
Schwieger (comm. 5), See Lian ONG (comm. 10), Angela Etuonovbe
(comm. 4), Steven Nystrom (comm. 9), Kwame Tenadu (comm. 8),
Enrico Rispoli (comm. 3), Gerda Schennach (comm. 7), Fahria Masum(comm. 2), Brian J.
Coutts (comm. 1)
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