International Federation of Surveyors
Fédération Internationale des Géomètres
Internationale Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
CALL TO ACTION... In this newsletter you will find several calls to
action - first and foremost a new FIG Publication on Climate
Responsible Land Governance and Disaster Resilience: Safeguarding Land
Rights. This guide is an outcome of the FIG Regional Conference 2024 in
Nepal and includes a Call to Action that can be used not only in
Asia but all over the world.
Another call to action is the upcoming FIG Working Week 2025 that will
take place in Brisbane, Australia. If you have not registered yet it is
time to do so to attend the many varied technical sessions, the
inspirational plenary sessions and for FIG members to attend the
General Assembly.
FIG Commission 9 has entered a Memorandum of Understanding with IVSC
which now calls for more action on the valuation scene.
Your call to action: read on...
FIG General Assembly 2025 6-10 April in Brisbane, Australia
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Members are encouraged to attend the FIG General
Assembly which will take place on 6 and 10 April
2025 in Brisbane, Australia in connection with the FIG
Working Week 2025. We do hope to see many members represented. |
FIG Working Week 2025 - Sneak Peak into the programme
Conference days: 7-9 April | FIG General Assembly: 6 and 10 April | Pre-events: 4-5 April
FIG and Geospatial Council of Australia have the honour to invite you to the FIG Working Week 2025 held jointly with the national event Locate25.
This spectacular event will be held in Brisbane Convention & Exhibtion Centre (BCEC) in the capital city of Queensland, Australia. The dynamic city of Brisbane shows seamless blends of urban sophistication with cutting-edge technology and research, making it the perfect location for geospatial and surveying experts and its related professions.
Plenary sessions
In the morning of each of the three conference days the plenary sessions include current topics by highly respected presenters:
Plenary session 1 : Monday 7 April 2025 11:00-13:00 Seeks to set the tone of the 3 days conferencing in the context of the power of Geography and geospatial ecosystem. This encompasses the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, as well as the human activity/ populations and effects, resources and economic activities.
Plenary session 2: Tuesday 8 April 2025 9:00 - 11:00 Continuing the climate focus, it seeks to create and define what is a resilient relationship between land, climate change and people. As professionals leading in the land, marine and built environment, it is imperative that we rethink core assumptions, challenge established norms, and ensure future-proof practices and standards.
Plenary Session 3: Wednesday 9 April 2025 9:00 - 11:00 Will consider the professional standards, competencies and appropriate skills to ensure competent professionals in a digital generation. We need to ensure that our skills, training and development keeps us relevant, particularly in relation to transformation and technology that is essential across all our survey and geospatial disciplines.
You will meet:
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Greg Scott, Australia PVBLIC Foundation Executive Director of the SDG Data Alliance Geography and the Geospatial Ecosystem: Enabling Opportunities for a Digital Generation |
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Allison Craddock,
USA Member of the Geodynamics and Space Geodesy Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Where am I? Unlocking the Power of Geodesy with International Collaborations |
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Dr Li Pengde, China Head of UN-GGKIC |
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Linda Foster,
USA ESRI |
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Melissa Harris, Australia CEO Geoscience Australia |
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Stamatis Kotouzas Senior Land Administration and Geospatial Specialist, World Bank |
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Siobhan McDonnell, Australia University of Canberra Rethinking gender and climate change: implications for land use planning and resettlement |
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Viliami Folau, Tonga Deputy CEO and Director of Surveying at the Ministry of Lands, Survey, Planning and Natural Resources Resilience through Land Management: Linking Land, Climate and People |
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Professor Matt King, Tasmania Director of the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science Ice Sheets and Future Shorelines: The Necessary Geodetic Revolution |
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Professor Anthony Yeh, Hong Kong Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong, HKSAR China Big Data and Smart Cities |
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Michael Manikas, Australia General Manager at DLG SHAPE |
NEW FEATURE: An Inspiring Ignite Presentation at the end of each plenary sessions getting to know more of the Geospatial Map of Australia:
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Lisa Bush, Australia Geoscience Australia From silos to synergy: Building Australia’s first national geospatial information ecosystem with the Digital Atlas of Australia |
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Geoff Smith, Australia Chief Executive Officer, Australian Spatial Analytics Unlocking enormous potential: the neurodiverse geospatial workforce revolution |
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Andrew Dowding, Australia Winyama - Founder and Managing Director Digital Mapping for Cultural Knowledge: Building Indigenous Data Sovereignty |
The detailed technical programme with a large and broad selection of sessions will be published soon.
Register now and plan your trip
Organising FIG Working Week alongside the national event Locate25 will give a unique opportunity for the international and national surveying, geospatial, valuation and related professions to team up, connect, learn and collaborate.
Register here
Book accommodation -
special rates are available at several surrounding hotels
Do you need visa? Check the
requirements and who is eligible for the different kinds of visas
More information on the FIG Working Week website: www.fig.net/fig2025
Congratulations to the Grant Winners:
FIG Foundation Young Surveyors Grant Winners
Ripro
Ukrainian Young Surveyor Grant Recipient
NEWS FROM FIG
FIG CONGRESS 2026, A site visit Cape Town
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FIG President Diane Dumashie travelled to Cape Town for a three-day site visit, where she met with the leaders of the FIG Congress 2026 Local Organising Committee (LOC). Read more |
Memorandum of Understanding between FIG Commission 9 and the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC)
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On 26 February the chair of FIG Commission 9, Peter Ache together with FIG President Diane Dumashie signed an MoU with IVSC, represented by Nicholas Talbot. Read more |
She’s measuring more than land; she’s shaping the future
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| A social media campaign promoting Women in Surveying has been started. Look out for the campaign. You can follow the campaign and help spread out the word through your social media. Read more |
NEW PUBLICATION
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FIG PUBLICATION NO. 83: |
NEWS FROM COMMISSIONS AND NETWORKS
Workshop - 14 March 2025 12:00pm (CET) Online:
Next-Generation Sustainability: Advancing the Future with Geospatial Intelligence
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Will you attend the FIG Working Wek 2025 in Australia? Then attend this Geospatial Leadership Training and Global Forum which takes place 1-3 April in Melbourne. Read more |
The New Era of Real Estate Modeling: Insights into Current Practice, AVMs, AI, and Future Challenges
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Conference and Workshop - 21-23 May 2025 in Pafos, Cyprus explores the future of real estate modeling, focusing on the pivotal role of Automated Valuation Models (AVMs) and AI-driven innovations in transforming the valuation profession. Read more |
Build Back Better the Self-Made Cities
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A joint conference with UNECE WPLA, FIG Commissions 3 and 9, EGoS
and World Bank.
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Young Surveyors 2nd Americas Regional Meeting - Grant applications from FIG Foundation
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The FIG Foundation is sponsoring four Young Surveyors to participate in the 2nd FIG Young Surveyors Americas Regional Meeting in 2025 Apply for FIG Foundation grant to attend. Read more |
ARTICLE OF THE MONTH
TThe article of the Month in February 2025 is written by Fritz Staudacher: Albert Einstein and Heinrich Wild: The Beginning of two Great Global Careers. The article describes until now unknown relations between Nobel Price winner Albert Einstein and Heinrich Wild, the most important designer of geodetic and photogrammetric instruments of the last century. Read the article
FUTURE EVENTS
Workshop - 14 March 2025 12:00pm (CET) Online:
The Nexus between SDG's and Professional Education in Geospatial
World. This online Workshop is organised by FIG Commission 2 and the Task
Force on FIG and the SDGs. Speakers wil be Rosario Casanova, Dimo Todorovski
and Paula Dijkstra.
Register here
1-4 April 2025, Melbourne, Australia
Global Geospatial and Land Community at Melbourne Connect, organised by the
Centre for SDIs and Land Administration-CSDILA at University of Melbourne.
Geospatial Leadership Training and Global Forum on Advancing Land and
Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation to address climate actions, resilience
and sustainability challenges, as a dialogue on shaping the Future
Generation of Sustainability Agenda.
Website
FIG Working Week 2025
6-10 April 2025, Brisbane Australia
Web site: www.fig.net/fig2025
7-9 April 2025, Karlsruhe, Germany
6th Joint International Symposium on Deformation Monitoring
(JISDM) organised by FIG, IAG and ISPRS.
Web site: https://jisdm2025.gik.kit.edu/
9-11 April 2025, Lviv, Ukraine
Geoforum 2025 the XXVІII International Scientific and Technical Conference
dedicated to the anniversary of the professional holiday of geologists,
land-surveyors and cartographers of Ukraine. Supported by FIG.
More
information
21-23 May 2025 in Pafos, Cyprus
The New Era of Real Estate Modeling: Insights into Current Practice, AVMs,
AI, and Future Challenges Organised by FIG Commission 9
More information
18-20 June 2025, Athens Greece
& Workshop on "Building Back Better the Self-made Cities, Improving the
Geospatial Data Ecosystems & Formalizing the Informal Settlements" organised
jointly by UNECE WPLA, FIG Commissions 3 & 9, EGoS and World Bank.
Web site
7-9 October 2025, Frankfurt Germany
Intergeo 2025, organised by DVW, Germany.
Web site: https://www.intergeo.de/en/welcome-to-intergeo
15-17 October 2025, Brno, Czech Republic
9th International Conference on Engineering Surveying (INGEO 2025 ),
supported by FIG Commission 6 (Engineering Surveys) Web site: https://www.ingeoconference.com/
17-18 October 2025, 17-18 October 2025, Minneapolis, Minnesota
USA
FIG Young Surveyors 2nd Americas Regional Meeting 2025.
Empowering tomorrow's surveyors skills for a dynamic industry.
More events: Check the events page
Save the dates
FIG Congress 2026, Cape Town, South Africa: 24-29 May 2026 -
www.fig.net/fig2026
FIG Working Week 2027, Stavanger, Norway: 23-27 May 2027 -
www.fig.net/fig2027
FIG Working Week 2028, Paris, France - Celebrating FIG 150th Anniversary
24-28 June 2028
Kind regards,
Ms. Louise Friis-Hansen
Director
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International Federation of Surveyors |
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FIG Working Week 2025, 6-10 April, Brisbane, Australia Web site: www.fig.net/fig2025 |
FIG Working Week 2027, Stavanger, Norway
FIG Working Week 2028, Paris, France - Celebrating FIG 150th Anniversary
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