Article of the Month in 2009

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 2009 - Volker Schwieger, Germany, Mikael Lilje, Sweden, Rob Sarib, Australia - GNSS CORS - Reference Frames and Services. This paper has been prepared and presented at the 7th FIG Regional Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, 19-22 October 2009.
   
• November 2009 - Keith Bell - Trends in Land Administration and Management with Particular Reference to World Bank Support for Projects in the East Asia Region. This paper has been prepared and presented as a keynote presentation at the 7th FIG Regional Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, 19-22 October 2009.
   
• October 2009 - Isaac Boateng - Spatial Planning and Climate Change Adaption in Coastal Regions: The Case of Vietnam. This paper has been prepared for presentation at the 7th FIG Regional Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, 19-22 October 2009 and offers an interesting view to one of the key themes of the conference.
   
• September 2009 - Habtemicael Weldegiorgis - Cadastral System in Eritrea: Practice, Constraints and Prospects. This is a peer reviewed for the FIG Working Week in Eilat, Israel, 3-8 May 2009. This paper has received a grant from the FIG Foundation to allow the author to attend the conference and present his paper.
   
• August 2009 - Paul van der Molen - Cadastres and Climate Change. This is a peer reviewed paper that has been prepared and presented at the FIG Working Week in Eilat, Israel, 3-8 May 2009.
   
• July 2009 - Stig Enemark - Facing the Global Agenda – Focus on Land Governance. This paper is based on the keynote presentation that Prof. Stig Enemark, FIG President gave at the FIG Working Week in Eilat, Israel, 3-8 May 2009.
   
• June 2009 - Rudolf Staiger - Push the Button – or Does the “Art of Measurement” Still Exist? This paper has been prepared and presented as a keynote presentation in Plenary Session 3 – GNSS, Geo-sciences and Surveying at the FIG Working Week 2009 in Eilat, Israel, 7 May 2009.
   
• May 2009 - Jude Wallace - Making Land Markets Work for All. This paper was prepared and presented for the first time in session MKT1: Potential and Challenges for Land Markets at the FIG and World Bank Conference on Land Governance in Support of the MDGs: Responding to New Challenges, Washington DC, USA, 9-10 March 2009.
   
• April 2009 - Silke Boos and Hartmut Müller, Germany - SDI Developments in the World’s Currently Existing Mega Cities. This paper has been prepared as part of FIG Commission 3 WG 3.2 (Spatial Data Infrastructure) project. Interim reports of the project have been presented at the Commission 3 Workshop “Spatial Information for Sustainable Management of Urban Areas” in Mainz, Germany, 2-4 February 2009 and will be presented at the FIG Working Week in Eilat, Israel, 3-8 May 2009. Final report will be presented at the FIG Congress in Sydney, Australia in April 2010.

• March 2009 - Haim Srebro, Israel - A Status Report of the Activity of the Survey of Israel. This paper has been prepared for the presentation at the FIG Working Week 2009 in Eilat, Israel, 3-8 May 2009.

• February 2009 - Kauko Viitanen, Finland and Ibimina Kakulu, Nigeria - Global Concerns in Compulsory Purchase and Compensation Processes. This paper has been prepared and presented at the FIG Working Week in Stockholm, Sweden 14-19 June 2008.

• January 2009 - Prof. Bela Markus, Hungary - Thinking about e-Learning. This paper was prepared and presented as a keynote presentation at the FIG International Workshop 2008 ”Sharing Good Practices: E-learning in Surveying, Geo-information Sciences and Land Administration” in Enschede, the Netherlands, 11-13 June 2008.