Article of the Month in 2003

FIG publishes each month the Article of the Month. This is a high-level paper focusing on interesting topic to all surveyors. This article can be picked up from an FIG conference or another event or it can be a paper written directly for this purpose.

• December 2003 - Iain Greenway, Chair, FIG Standards Network: Standards – Are They Relevant in a Surveyor’s World? This article was for the first time presented at the FIG Working Week and 125th Anniversary in Paris, France 13-17 April, 2003. It has been updated in November 2003 for the FIG series Article of the Month.
   
• November 2003 - Prof. Heinz Rüther, South Africa: The Situation of Geomatics Education in Africa – An Endangered Profession. Keynote paper at the 2nd FIG Regional Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, December 2-5, 2003 and background paper for the Special Round Table on Surveying/GIS Education in Africa, Marrakech, December 2, 2003.
   
• October 2003 - Mr. Bogdan Ney and Mr. Andrzej Sambura, Poland: IT Developments Enabling Customer-Oriented Cadastre. Originally represented at the 2nd Cadastral Congress, September 19-21, 2003 in Krakow, Poland
   
• September 2003 - Mr. Gerhard Muggenhuber, Chair of FIG Commission 3: Spatial Information for Sustainable Resource Management
   
• August 2003 - FIG President Univ.-Prof. Dr-Ing. Holger Magel: "Survey and GIS – Bridging the Gap". Originally presented as the Opening Speech at the ESRI “Survey and GIS Summit – Bridging the Gap 2003” in San Diego, California, USA, 6 July, 2003
   
• July 2003 - Prof. Stig Enemark: "Capacity Building for Developing - Sustainable Land Administration Infrastructures". Originally presented at the UN ECE WPLA / FIG Workshop in Athens in May 2003.
  In his article Prof. Enemark argues that "when a project is established to create land administration infrastructures, it is critical that capacity building is a mainstream component of the project. The capacity building aspect should be addressed up front, not as an add-on.