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Work Plan 2015-2018
Terms of Reference
Mission statementThe mission of Commission 3 is to:
GeneralMost of the objectives, topics and scope of the previous term will be continued. Therefore the 3 previous working groups are confirmed in the new term and a new working group is established about crowdsourcing and VGI. Commission 3 delegates have expressed their interest in continuing organizing Commission 3 annual meetings and workshops focused on the specific and identified current topics. Commission 3 will continue to address the phenomena of rapid urbanization and its impact focusing on identifying new solutions for the survey of spatial data and general principles. As new projects, Commission 3 will:
Summarizing, the topics of general interest of Commission 3 are:
Working GroupsWorking Group 3.1 – SIM InfrastructurePolicy Issues SIM has the role of an integrator of components for a Spatial Information Infrastructure especially for urban areas within the information society. SIM is a facilitator for IT based services for planners, administration as well as for citizens. Chair Hartmut Müller, Germany Specific topic(s)
Workshop(s) Participations in FIG Working Weeks and other major Commission events with dedicated technical sessions and/or workshops as appropriate. Beneficiaries Surveyors, associations engaged with spatial data, local and regional municipalities and users of spatial data and spatial information. Working Group 3.2 – Technical aspects of SIMPolicy issues The on-going development of tools, techniques and policies for spatial management of urban areas, in particular cities/megacities but also rural, forest and coastal areas leads to the need for collection, management and integration of various spatial data, such as: optical and SAR satellite and aerial images, images derived from various kinds of UAV, images derived from the Internet, orthophotos, point clouds derived from LiDAR and terrestrial laser scanners, global DTMs, etc. These data and the need for their management in real time or in a short time, in order to monitor growth and change across the urban environment and to forecast areas of risk, leads to the development of specific techniques for Big Data management. The on-going development of 3D and 4D spatial or city models, using photogrammetric or computer vision techniques, demands the development of interoperable formats and tools for the exchange of geometric and semantic 2D/3D data and information. The improvement and enrichment of data and spatial product quality control methods and techniques is an important issue as the variety of data collection sources and information management and integration procedures become wider. Chair Ioannidis Charalabos, Greece Specific topic(s)
These technical aspects will be dealt in relation to legal, social, economic, educational, and policy implications. Workshop(s) Participations in FIG Working Weeks and other major Commission events with dedicated technical sessions and/or workshops as appropriate. Publication(s) FIG-publication on “Management of big data” by the end of the 4-years period –to be published for the FIG Congress 2018. Timetable Special sessions on Technical Aspects of SIM at the Annual Meetings of Commission 3 and FIG Working Weeks. Beneficiaries Surveyors, private and public firms and associations engaged with spatial data, and users of spatial data and spatial information. Working Group 3.3 – 3D Cadastre (Joint Working Group with Commission 7)Policy issues The results of the previous term (2010-2014) of the working group provide a solid basis for the next 4-year phase of the working group. The concept of 3D Cadastres is here to stay and the number of implementations is increasing, quite often with ambition to become LADM (ISO 19152:2012) compliant. In 3D, it is even more important to connect land administration to other registrations via SDI: buildings, tunnels, cables/pipelines, terrain elevation, etc. (physical and legal 3D objects should be aligned). The main objective of the working group is to establish an operational framework for 3D-Cadastres. The operational aspect addresses the following issues:
A description of issues that have to be considered (and to what level) before whatever form of 3D-cadastres can be implemented. These will provide 'best practices' for the legal, institutional and technical aspects. Chair Peter van Oosterom, The Netherlands Special topic(s) Topics to be dealt within the activity of the working group are:
Options for realization of a 3D cadastre model will include:
Additional emphasis on the following topics:
Workshop(s) Participations in FIG Working Weeks with 3D Cadastre sessions and other major Commission events above all with Commission 7. Publication(s) Maintain the website and FIG publication on 3D-Cadastre Timetable 2015-2018: Maintain website and interest-group www.gdmc.nl/3DCadastres (inc. literature) 2015: Analyse and complete second questionnaire status 3D Cadastres 2014-2018 2015-2017: 3D Cadastres session at FIG working weeks 2016: Organize 5th workshop on 3D-Cadastres 2017-18: FIG-publication on 3D-Cadastres 2018: Conduct third questionnaire status 3D Cadastres 2018-2022 2018: Presentation of the results FIG-congress Beneficiaries Surveyors, land developers, national cadastral agencies, land registry administrations, local and regional municipalities. Working Group 3.4 – Crowdsourcing and VGI supporting SDIPolicy issues As of 2010, 90% of the data that existed in the world were created within the previous two years, while personal location data has been singled out as one of the five primary 'big data' streams in the 2011 McKinsey report. By 2020, the volume of existing data will increase by fifty-fold, where a large percentage of this volume will be associated with geospatial data. The term Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) encapsulates the idea of using the internet to create, share, visualize, and analyse geographic information and knowledge, envisioned via the use of numerous computing devices and platforms. This neogeography revolution has started to fundamentally transform how geographic data are acquired, maintained, analysed, visualized, and consequently – used. Thus, it has the potential to influence common practices, since it captures a broad knowledge of the environment we live in, in all aspects of life, encompassing new services to take place, applications and processes to be developed – all of which are location based. Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), as well as Spatial Information Management (SIM) can benefit greatly from the use and integration of this type of data. The diversity of research disciplines that explore the potential of VGI – data and working methodologies - arguments its current usability relevance: ranging from transportation network analysis, to air pollution and air quality and to natural disaster decision-making systems. VGI is becoming more and more a legitimate and reliable spatial, environmental and sustainable infrastructure on local, as well as on global scales, thus it encompasses vast geospatial potential that can contribute significantly, and is highly relevant to various geoscience research areas. Consequently, it transforms and changes the surveyor's role, as well as the established working methodologies and protocols; new ideas, concepts and practices are to be developed and envisioned. The emphasis of Working Group 4 will be on the investigation and identification of processes and protocols aimed at handling 'big geodata', crowdsourced and contributed by the public, on collection, processing, interpretation, administrative, and analysis levels, all of which with the focus of contributing to the surveyors role. Working Group 4 will search and learn new means and technologies on how to exploit and make use of crowdsourced VG data and derived information to geoscientific disciplines that make use of mapping, GIS, and Geo-SDI systems and procedures. Since VG data is relatively easy to acquire, and consequently simple to access and make use of, Working Group 4 will aspire to motivate and work with scholars and professionals from developing countries, where it is believed that this working methodology can contribute utmost. Also, Working Group 4 will aim to have joined and mutual interests with other FIG Commissions, specifically Commission 2 (on Professional Education) and Commission 8 (on Spatial Planning and Development), where it is believed that this neogeography revolution can bring new ideas. Chair Sagi Daylot, Israel Specific topic(s)
Workshops Participations in FIG Working Weeks and other major Commission events with dedicated technical sessions and/or workshops as appropriate. Co-operation with Other Commissions and organisations
Co-operation with United Nation Organisations, Sister Associations and other Partners
Calendar of EventsMay 2015 – Sofia (in conjunction with FIG WW 2015); November 2015 – Malta (annual workshop in conjunction with Commission 7); April – June 2016 – Christchurch, New Zealand (in conjunction with FIG WW 2016); November 2016 – Hungary or Greece (annual workshop); May/June 2017 – Finland, Helsinki (in conjunction with FIG WW 2017); November 2017 – location TBD (annual workshop); April/May 2018 – Istanbul, Turkey (in conjunction with FIG Congress 2018); November 2018 – location TBD (annual workshop). WorkshopsCommission 3 is planning to organize, in addition to its activity during the annual FIG Working Weeks or Congress, also four annual Workshops during the 2015-2018 term. Commission OfficersCommission Chair Vice Chair of Administration Vice-Chair and Chair of Working Group 3.1 Vice-Chair and Chair of Working Group 3.2 Vice-Chair and Chair of Working Group 3.3 Vice-Chair and Chair of Working Group 3.4 |
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