

31 October 2008, 7:40am
Call for Papers – Reminder deadline for submissions 10 November 2008
FIG invites you to the FIG Working Week 2009, which will take place in Eilat, a resort city at the southernmost edge of Israel, on the shores of the Red Sea. The Working Week be held on 3-8 May 2009, at the 5*deluxe Herods & Dan Eilat Hotels. We expect to host 700 participants from all over the world.
The professional theme of the Working Week is “Surveyors Key Role in Accelerated Development”, which addresses many of the issues facing surveyors in the next years. As always, the Working Week will gather international professionals and academia members from the fields of land surveying, land and real-estate appraisal, GIS, spatial planning, environmental awareness, and civil engineering.
All ten FIG technical commissions will attend the conference and papers are therefore requested to all topics of interest of the following FIG commissions:
* Professional Standards and Practice
* Professional Education
* Spatial Information Management
* Hydrography
* Positioning and Measurement
* Engineering Surveys
* Cadastre and Land Management
* Spatial Planning and Development
* Valuation and the Management of Real Estate
* Construction Economics and Management
A special seminar on the history of surveying and measurement to be held on Sunday 3 May 2009.
Links to the call for papers are below.
A detailed list of topics of the FIG Working Week 2009 is available at the link below.
This Call for Papers is announced both for peer review papers and non peer review papers.
Detailed information and important dates are available at the link below.
Detailed information and important dates

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Call, for, Papers, –, Reminder, deadline, for, submissions, 10, November, 2008
FIG, invites, you, to, the, FIG, Working, Week, 2009,, which, will, take, place, in, Eilat,, a, resort, city, at, the, southernmost, edge, of, Israel,, on, the, shores, of, the, RedMore…
Mike Small
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