FIG Commission 3
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Minutes of the Annual Meeting in
Marrakech
Date of Meeting: Wednesday, December 3, 2003; 14:00 - 15:30
Place of Meeting: Hotel Sheraton - Restaurant Garden
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 18 participants introduced themselves and gave a short report on
their actual work on Commission 3 relevant issues.
4. Report of Commission Chair
(Gerhard Muggenhuber)
- Surveyors Reference Library: FIG is collecting lot of information
((knowledge management) which shall be provided through the web in a
structured form.
- Marrakech statement: Land, environment and water is part of
interest for the rural-urban issues; Based on a structure for the
statement proposed by Rob Mahoney paper will be elaborated in a joint
commission approach to be published for UN-HABITAT-Forum in Sept.
2004. FAO and UN are involved in compiling this paper; time frame was
shortened from 9 to 6 month;
- Summer School in Szekesfehervar (August 2003;
http://geoweb.cslm.hu/giss/);
FIG Com 2 (Bela Markus), Com 3 (Gerhard Muggenhuber & Reinfried
Mansberger) and Com 7 (Paul van der Molen) were involved; one group
produced a CD on EU-relevant topics (Contact
Gerhard Muggenhuber to order
it)
- Gerhard Muggenhuber visited the SIM- conference in Cyprus
- GSDI became an organisation; close cooperation with FIG: joint
conference of FIG and GSDI is planed for 2005 in Cairo
- FIG-WW-Athens (Athens Greece, May 22th - 27th, 2004) Chryssy gave
an overview about the preparations and invited all participants to the
conference in Athens. More information:
http://www.fig2004.gr
- General Assembly will elect two Vice Presidents of FIG and Vice
Chairs for each Commission; the call for candidates is extended to Jan
20th.2004.
5. Activity Reports of FIG3 Commission Working-Group Chairs and Task
Forces
- WG3.1: No oral report (Chair Kari Strande and Vice Chair Peter
Larrakker could not attend the conference in Marrakech); Kari
provided a ppt.file.
- WG3.2, No oral report (Chair Keith Murray and Vice Chair Martin
Scheu could not attend the conference in Marrakech)
- WG3.3 (Chair: Chryssy Potsiou) incl. WG on "Cost effective
surveying" (Report by Chryssy)
- Implementing 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)
;
- Cooperation with ECE/WPLA (Producing Guidelines on Land Tenure
-- joint with Peter Dale; first update will be in Moscow in Feb.
2004)
- Joint working group: Cost effective surveying: organised but not
still working;
- Joint WG2.4: No report (Chair Bela Markus and Vice Chair
Muhammed Timoulali could not attend the conference in Marrakech)
- Inter-COM-Activity Com7 + Com3 "3D-Cadastre": No report (Delegate
of COM3 Yerach Doytsher could not attend the conference in Marrakech).
At FIG WW Athens several sessions will focus on that topic.
- Bob Forster was nominated by the participants of the Annual
Meeting as Commission 3 delegate for the joint FIG Working Group "Risk
Management".
6. Incoming events
- FIG Working Week, Athens, Greece,
May 22-27, 2004
- FIG 3rd Regional
Conference, Jakarta, October 3-7, 2004
- FIG Working Week, Cairo, Egypt, April 16-21, 2005
7. Any other business
- Gerhard Muggenhuber thanks all the participants for their
attendance and their contributions.
Participants:
Jan BARES, Peter BARTAK, Jiri CÁLEK, Michel CLAASSEN, Faycal CHRAIBI,
Robert W. FOSTER, James KAVANAGH, Rafic KHOURI, Enikö KOVACS, Hartmut
MÜLLER, Reinfried MANSBERGER, Faycal EL MASDAOUDI, Gerhard MUGGENHUBER,
Bettina PETZOLD, Rob MAHONEY, Chryssy POTSIOU, Miodrag ROIC, Szalbolcs
MIHALY, Dan SCHNURR, Christoph TWAROCH
Marrakech, Dec. 2003; Reinfried Mansberger |