About FIG
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Who are the members of FIG?
FIG draws its membership from practitioners working in communities with
both the public and private sectors, from the scientific, research and
academic community, as well as from the spatial technologies and services
community. FIG functions with the goodwill, resources and contribution of
its memberships and their corp of volunteers from around the world.
Members of FIG consist of:
- member associations – national associations
representing one or more of the disciplines of surveying
- affiliates – groups of surveyors or surveying
organizations undertaking professional activities but not fulfilling the
criteria for member associations
- corporate members – organizations, institutions or
agencies which provide commercial services related to the profession of
surveyor
- academic members – organizations, institutions or
agencies, which promote education or research in one or more of the
disciplines of surveying. An individual may be appointed as a
correspondent in a country where no association or group of surveyors
exist that is eligible to join FIG as a member.
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