FIG Commission 3
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Minutes of the Meetings
in Athens
Meeting 1:
Date: Sunday,
May 23, 2004; 15:00
- 16:30
Place: Hotel Intercontinental -
Room Theta
Meeting
2:
Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2004; 17:45 - 18:45
Place: Hotel Intercontinental -
Room VIP
Minutes
1. Welcome address; Opening
Chair of Commission 3, Gerhard Muggenhuber, welcomes all participants
of the Annual Meeting and he welcomes specially the Honorary President
of FIG Bob Foster and FIG Council Member Bettina Petzold.
2. Adoption of Agenda
Adopted.
3. Introduction of Participants
All 29 participants
introduced themselves and gave a short report on their actual
work on
Commission 3 relevant issues.
4. Report of Commission Chair
(Gerhard Muggenhuber)
- General Assembly elected
Stig ENEMARK and Ken ALLRED as Vice
Presidents of FIG.
Jean-Marie
BECKER was appointed as a
Honorary Member of FIG.
- Two nominations for Commission 3 Chair (period
2006-2010): Chryssy POTSIOU and Rob MAHONEY. Both
candidates are well qualified for this position. The Commission Chair
appeals to both candidates to proceed their cooperation in Commission
3 independent on the outcome of the election.
(Ann.: Chryssy POTSIOU was appointed as
incoming COM3 Chair during the second meeting of the General Assembly,
26 May, 2004)
- Surveyors Reference Library: All papers of the
FIG conferences will be included to the data base (maybe indication of
high quality papers). Quries on keywords and authors will be enabled.
- Marrakech statement: First draft will be
discussed with the president of FIG, Holger MAGEL, during the FIG
Working Week in Athens. The Marrakech Declaration will be
published at the
UN-HABITAT-Forum in Sept. 2004. FAO and UN are involved in compiling
this paper.
- New possibility to finance Commission specific
projects: grants can be applied at the FIG Office.
- The 4th volume of the Electronic Newsletter of
COM3 will be distributed at the end of this year. All delegates,
colleagues and friends of COM3 are requested to send COM3 relevant
information (papers, presentations, project descriptions, etc.) to
COM3 Chair, Gerhard MUGGENHUBER,
or to COM3 Vice Chair on Administration and Information,
Reinfried MANSBERGER.
- Venues for the COM3 Annual Meetings in 2005 and
2006 will be discussed during the Annual Meeting of Commission 3 in
Jakarta. Proposals for venues welcomed (Please send your proposals to
COM3 Chair, Gerhard MUGGENHUBER,
or to COM3 Vice Chair on Administration and Information,
Reinfried MANSBERGER.
- Chair of COM 8, Diane DUMASHI and Gerhard agreed a
closer cooperation
between the two
commissions in the
future. A first meeting of interested person on a joint activity took
place in Athens.
(Ann.:
Outcomes
of the mentioned meeting, as reported by Rob Mahoney: Com 8
is going to put together a typical theoretic
example / model of Urban sprawl issues. All aspects of professional
involvement will then be asked to contribute as to how their
professional skills could be used to address the issues.
All COM3 working groups are covered
by the work and will have the opportunity to participate. COM8
is heading for a publication for Munich. COM3
will contribute and peer review / input as appropriate).
5. Activity Reports of FIG3 Commission Working-Group Chairs and Task
Forces
- WG 3.1: Report
given by Kari STRANDE, Chair of WG).
Open pdf-file for more
information.
- WG 3.2: No
oral report (Chair Keith MURRAY
and Vice Chair Martin SCHEU could not attend
the conference in Athens).
Helen MURRAY gives a feedback on the international conference
"Impacts of Improving the Positional
Accuracy of GI Databases", held in Malahide,
near Dublin, Ireland. The event was sponsored by EuroSDR, Dublin
Institute of Technology [DIT], FIG and was co-organised by Ordnance
Survey [GB].
A written summary about the conference was prepared by Keith
Murray.
- WG 3.3 (Chair: Chryssy POTSIOU)
incl. WG on "Cost effective surveying" (Report by Chryssy)
- Updating and collecting information
for the Working Group - website (Development and state of the art of
SIM and establishing a FIG metadata base about SDI /
http://www.fig.net/figtree/commission3/wgroups/WG3_3/index.htm);
All delegates are requested to provide information to the website.
Please send relevant material to
Chryssy POTSIOU.
- Cooperation with ECE/WPLA (Producing Guidelines on Land
Administration - joint with Peter DALE
(Honorary president of FIG); The first
draft is finished and will be revised within the next weeks.
- Joint WG
5.4
(Com3+Com5+Com7): Cost effective surveying:
It is intended to publish a "Guideline for Cost Effective Mapping"
until the FIG Congress in Munich 2006.
Some discussion on the name of the Working Group and on the content
of the guideline.
- Joint WG 2.4: No report (Chair Bela
MARKUS
could not attend the COM3 meeting. Due to his new
job at UN-ECA in Addis Abbeba, Vice Chair Muhammed
TIMOULALI was not able to
participate at the conference).
(Ann.: Bela MARKUS was appointed as incoming
COM2 Chair during the second meeting of the General Assembly, 26 May,
2004)
- Inter-COM-Activity Com7 + Com3 "3D-Cadastre": No report (Delegate
of COM3 Yerach Doytsher could not attend the second
meeting of COM3 to report about activities).
6. Incoming events
- FIG 3rd Regional
Conference, Jakarta, October 3-7, 2004
Deadline for abstracts
extended (see Conference Homepage).
- FIG Working Week, Cairo, Egypt, April 16-21, 2005
This conference will be a joint event with GSDI
- FIG 4th Regional Conference (Latin and South
America), September-November, 2005. Venue to be decided.
- FIG XXIII
Congress and XXIX General Assembly, Munich, Germany, October
15-20, 2004
7. Any other business
- Gerhard Muggenhuber thanks all the participants for their
attendance and their contributions.
Participants (at least at one meeting):
Jan BARES (Czech Republic), Jiri
CÁLEK
(Czech Republic), Rahmi
ÇELIK (Turkey),
Trinh Anh CO (Vietnam), Yerach DOYTSHER
(Israel), Robert W. FOSTER (USA),
Richard GRAIG (UK), Jens HOLLÄNDER (Denmark), Joanna
HUIDEGAARD (Denmark),
Paul KELLY (Australia), Rafic KHOURI
(France), Sourigna KONGKHAM (Laos),
Peter LAARAKKER (The Netherlands), Rob MAHONEY
(UK), Reinfried MANSBERGER (Austria),
Robin McLAREN (UK), Georgi MILEV (Bulgaria),
Gerhard MUGGENHUBER (Austria) ,
Hartmut MÜLLER (Germany),
Helen MURRAY (Ireland), Charles PEARSON
(USA),
Bettina PETZOLD (Germany), Chryssy
POTSIOU
(Greece), Szalbolcs MIHALY (Hungary),
Dan SCHNURR (UK), Kari STRANDE(Norway),
Mani Xay THONG CHANH (Laos),
Le Quy THUC (Vietnam), Tor VALSTAD
(Norway).
Athens, May
2004; Reinfried Mansberger |