FIG Commissions

Work plans – Commission 3

Spatial Information Management

Jes Ryttersgaard, Chairperson of Commission 3

• Management of land, property and hydrographic information and the related processes, procedures and resources
• Spatial data infrastructure - data models, standards, availability and legal aspects; management of spatial knowledge
• The impacts on organisational structure, business models, professional practice and administration
• Management of spatial information supporting sustainable development.

• "Towards a digital earth" (an Al Gore statement) - how to change raw data into understandable information.
• Criterion of success: to initiate activities so interesting that colleagues will regard the commission as one base in their professional lives.
• Progress activities mainly through three working groups which will participate in the planning of workshops and short seminars held during and outside FIG working weeks; submit progress reports to those events; and present the final outcomes of their work as reports, statements and/or publications.

Title

Spatial information management: Technical approaches

Policy issues

• Forecast: 4-Dimensions
• Accessibility and visualisation of spatial data and information
• From mapsheets to seamless spatial information.
• Interoperability: multi source, multi scale and multi system.
• Quality Control/Quality Assurance (QC/QA): management and technical aspects using standards and regulations for QC. How to "lie" with information filtering.

Chair

Dr. Chryssy Potsiou (Greece).

Specific projects

Presentations at the commission annual meetings.

Workshop(s)

12– 15 October 2000, Athens, Greece.

Publication(s)

• Progress reports in the six-monthly Commission 3/7 newsletter.
• Workshop proceedings (by the host).

Timetable

• Workshop proceedings to be published by the host no later than three month after the event.
• Working group final report to FIG congress, 2002.

Beneficiaries

Organisations and surveyors dealing with spatial information

Title

Spatial data infrastructure

Policy issues

• Spatial data infrastructure.
• Standardisation, in collaboration with the FIG task force on standards.

Chair

Prof. Bernd Teichert (Germany).

Specific projects

Presentation of the findings of three discussion papers on SDI challenges and one comparative paper/framework at the commission annual meeting in Austria, April 2001.

Workshop(s)

Budapest, 21-23 October 1999.

Publication(s)

• Progress reports in the six-monthly Commission 3/7 newsletter.
• Findings (as an FIG publication).

Timetable

• Workshop proceedings to be published by the host no later than three month after the event.
• Findings, 2001.

Beneficiaries

Governments, NGOs.

Title

Facilitating spatial information and knowledge management for decision support in Urban Management in Countries in Transition and Developing Countries.

Policy issues

To create Best Practice Guidelines for 'Spatial information and knowledge management for decision support in Urban Management' based on a set of 6 case studies that would be included in the Habitat's 'Best Practices in Improving the Living Environment' database. This activity has been agreed in the Memorandum of Understanding for 2000-2003 between UN Habitat and FIG in 2000.

Chair

Robin McLaren (UK) and Robert Mahoney (UK).

Specific projects

The initial planning stage will identify an initial maximum of 6 Case Studies for investigation. These will be limited to the African continent and will cover best practice in a wide number of Urban Management areas where spatial information & knowledge would be supportive. For example:

• Economic Development;
• Social Services;
• Environmental Management;
• Infrastructure, Communications, Transportation;
• Housing;
• Land Use Management;
• Urban Governance;
• Disaster & Emergency;
• Urban & Regional Planning;
• Technology, Tools and Methods.

The adopted Case Studies will be analysed to identify and classify the lessons learned.

A joint Habitat / FIG Best Practice workshop will then be run to analyse the Case Studies and generate consensus on the derived Best Practice.

The results of the workshop will be publish as a set of Best Practice Guidelines; as hardcopy and also as entries in Habitat's 'Best Practices in Improving the Living Environment' database.

Workshop(s)

• Co-ordination Habitat/FIG meeting, June 2000
• Joint Habitat/FIG Workshop on spatial information and knowledge management in Urban Management in Developing Countries and Countries in Transition February 2001

Publication(s)

• Associated set of Case Studies and Best Practice Guidelines; as hardcopy and also as entries in Habitat's 'Best Practices in Improving the Living Environment' database

Timetable

• Co-ordination Habitat / FIG meeting June 2000
• Initiate Case Study analyses July 2000
• Joint Habitat / FIG workshop Feb 2001
• Publish Best Practice October 2001

Beneficiaries

UN, Governments, NGOs, FIG member associations, individual surveyors.

• Maintain and develop the commission home page, linkages to other relevant home pages and new pages or other networks for special projects, to keep commission delegates, other FIG members, users of surveying services and the public involved in and informed about the work of the commission.
• Annual meetings: Budapest, Hungary 21 - 23 October 1999; Athens, 12 - 15 October 2000; Austria, April 2001..
• Ensure on-going publication of the Commission 3/7 six-monthly newsletter, under the editorial control of Bo Lauri and nominate two members of the editorial board.
• Participate in the FIG task force on sustainable development (Commission 3 participant: Karin Haldrup) and the FIG task force on standards (Commission 3 participant: Hans Knoop).
• Participate in the Commission 2 working group on virtual academy and distance learning (Commission 3 participant: Bela Marcus).
• Participate in the joint Commission 1/3 working group on access to relevant data with particular regard to the implications of intellectual property and copyright (Commission 3 participants: Jaap Zevenbergen, John Exintavelonis and Harlan J. Onsrud).

Chair
Jes Ryttersgaard
Rentemestervej 8
2400 Copenhagen
Denmark
Email JR@kms.min.dk
Tel 45 35 87 50 22
Fax 45 35 87 50 51

Vice-Chair
Gerhard Muggenhuber
Schiffamtgasse 1-3
Postfach 50
1025 Vienna
Austria
Email geomugg@surfeu.at
Tel + 43 1 211 76 4700
Fax + 43 1 211 76 4701

Secretary
Tor Valstad
Oslo kommune
Plan- og bygningsetaten
Trondheimsveien 5
0560 Oslo
Norway
Email: torvalstad@hotmail.com
Tel + 47 22 66 26 31
Fax + 47 22 66 24 94

Working Group 3.1

Chair
Dr. Chryssy Potsiou
National Technical University of Athens
Photogrammetry Laboratory
9 Iroon Polytechnion Street
15 780 Zografos
Greece
Email chryssy.potsiou@gmail.com

Tel + 30 1 471 0817
Fax + 30 1 772 2677

Working Group 3.2

Chair
Prof. Dr-Ing. Bernd Teichert
Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft
FB Vermessungswesen/Kartographie
Friedrich-Liszt Platz 1
01069 Dresden
Germany
Email teichert@htw-dresden-de
Tel + 49 351 462 3179
Fax + 49 351 462 2191

Working Group 3.3

Chair
Robin McLaren
Know Edge Ltd
33 Lockharton Avenue
Edinburgh EH14 1AY
UK
Email Robin_McLaren@compuserve.com
Tel + 44 131 443 1872
Fax + 44 131 443 1872

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