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Happy Global Surveyors' Day
21 March 2023
Global Surveyors’ Day is a way to globally recognize the
ground-breakers, pioneers, individuals and the industry that has shaped
our history and continues to be the foundation of our communities.
We asked the question:
How will you be celebrating the Global Surveyors' Day?
and have received contributions from:
EVENTS ON INTERNATIONAL SURVEYORS DAY
FGF Celebrates Surveyors Day in Paris
FIG President Diane Dumashie was invited to Paris by FGF to celebrate
Surveyors Day on 21 March 2023.
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Young Surveyors Network Nigeria
Young Surveyors all over Nigeria celebrated Global Surveyors Day on
the 21st of March, 2023. There were a series of activities by YSN
members at national, zonal, and state branches. These activities
included road walks, training, media talk, awareness about the
profession to the public, etc.
Read report
Surveyors Day in Mongolia
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It has become a tradition to celebrate the Global Surveyor’s
Day on March 21 every year in Mongolia. The organization of the
event is conducted by Mongolian Association of Geodesy,
Photogrammetry and Cartography (MAGPC) and Alumni of Geodesy at
Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST). This year
the main organizers of the event were MAGPC and MUST Alumni of
2003.
The event is organized in a form of networking meeting with
interviews, discussions on sector’s current development, future
tendencies, new technologies etc. Furthermore, older generations
shared their stories and gave valuable advices for younger
generations to encourage and fire up their
After the networking event, the darts and billiard games were
held.
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Hungary celebrated the Surveyors
Hungarian Society of Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing (MFTTT)
(Member of FIG and CLGE) organised an all-day Conference on Global
Surveyors’ Day 21st March 2023 in on-line form.
The Conference was supported by the National Cultural Fund of HUNGARY
and the Department of Surveying and Geodesy of the Budapest University
of Technology and Economics. The Patron of the Conference: Dr. István NAGY, Minister of
Agriculture of HUNGARY.Chair of Programme Committee: Gyula IVÁN, Vice Secretary General of
MFTTT.
Focus of this Conference:
"The role and challenges of surveying, mapping, geoinformatics and
remote sensing in the fourth industrial revolution".
The fourth industrial revolution is the fusion of existing
technologies. However, this fusion is not only technical, but also has
enormous social, economic and environmental implications, mainly due to
the digitalisation of systems, which is driving companies to develop
entirely new business models (e.g. Facebook, cryptocurrencies, etc.). It
is also leading to the emergence of interdisciplinary solutions whose
consequences are still to be assessed (e.g. artificial intelligence).
Our profession cannot escape their impact. We need to find solutions
and methods, both technical, developmental and educational, to respond
to our new role and to the challenges of the fourth industrial
revolution.
Presentations were organised into 5 technical sessions:
- Commemorate the Global Surveyors of the Year 2023
- Fusion of Technologies
- Artificial Intelligence
- Applications
- Services, Developments.
See full programme
The Conference was highly successful. Permanently approximately 200
participants attended to the sessions, during the whole time. It was an
international conference, since two speakers (UN FAO Europe and Central
Asia Regional Office and PhD. researcher from Budapest University of
Technology and Economics) presented in English.
Thank you for all speakers and participant to attend to this
Conference.
Presentations are available on this link (Hungarian):
https://www.mfttt.hu/mftttportal/index.php/letoltes/eloadasok/cat_view/93-foldmerk-vilagnapja-2023-marcius-21
Surveyors Day
How will you be celebrating the Global Surveyors' Day?
It is the hope that this day is being celebrated around the world. It
can be celebrated in many different ways, and it is up to the national
surveyors to find their best way to celebrate the day.
FIG wishes all the best for all these events and activities, hoping
that this will help emphasise the many contributions by surveyors and
the surveying profession in all aspects of life.
If you are celebrating this day or have organised activities for the
promotion of the work of the surveyors in your country or region, we
encourage you to submit and share your Global Surveyors Day
activities at surveyorsday.com
and to upload photos to the FIG Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/internationalfederationofsurveyors
You can also send photos and a short description to FIG: fig@fig.net
INVITATION
Dear Colleagues, dear friends,
As every year since 2018, the 21 March will be celebrated as
Global Surveyors' Day 2023.
This year,
Fédération des Géomètres Francophones, in collaboration with the
Council of European Geodetic Surveyors (CLGE) and
FIG, is honoured to coordinate the celebration which will take the
form of an hybrid event, organized in 2 sessions, the first one at 8:00
AM CET (for audiences in the Asia-Pacific, Europe, Eastern-Africa,
Middle East and Near East regions) and the second one at 8:00 PM CET
(for audiences in the Western Africa, Europe, South America, North
America and the Caribbean regions).
The event will be organised from in the premises of the Conseil
régional de l'Ordre des géomètres-experts de Paris (1
rue de Chazelles, 75017 Paris, France) in partnership with the two
French surveying associations : the
Ordre des géomètres experts (OGE) and the
Association francophone de topographie (AFT) If you want to join us
in Paris (limited number of places), please register without delay at
f.lebourdais [at] geometre-expert.fr.
Certificates of attendance can be issued for both face-to-face and
online modes. If you wish to provide such certificates (1.5 hours) to
the participants of your respective organisations, please contact us in
this sense at
f.lebourdais [at] geometre-expert.fr.
We look forward to welcoming you on March 21, in Paris and online!
Marc Vanderschueren
Président de la FGF
Louise Friis-Hansen
March 2023
