Working Group 3.2:

Technical Aspects of SIM

Chair: Prof.  Charalabos IoannidisGreece, E-mail: cioannid@survey.ntua.gr 

International Federation of SurveyorsFédération Internationale des GéomètresInternational Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “Spatial Data Infrastructures & Spatial

Information Management 2013” 13-16 November 2013, FON University,

Skopje

Policy issues

New tools, techniques and policies to baseline and integrate the social, economic and environmental factors

Spatial management of urban areas in general and cities in particular

Monitoring the growth and change across the urban environment and to forecast areas of risk

Meet traditional needs such as Land development, Tenure and Value applications in an interoperable and integrated way within a city-wide SDI

Access to spatial data from wide range of sources, to integrated spatial information from the SDI

Technical Aspects

Data collection, recording and updating, low-cost methods and tools for environmental monitoring

Renewable and innovative technologies for data collectionphotogrammetry, LiDAR, crowd sourcing, PDAs, cell-phones, etc.

Visualization of information Standardization of information and metadata 2D, 3D, 4D spatial data recording and management to support

the legal integration of informalities, the decision making, the risk-assessment and disaster management in areas with informal settlements

Integration and update of spatial data-bases regarding ownership rights, value of real estate property, and state applied regulations and restrictions on the use rights, tools, and Land Information Systems

Deliverables

FIG-publication (a joint publication together with WG 3.1) on:

New Trends in Spatial Information: Geospatial Crowdsourcing and Volunteered Geographic

Information (VGI)

Possible Uses within the Surveying, Mapping and Geo-Science Communities

 To be published at the FIG Congress 2014

Draft Outline1. Introduction2. Technical Innovation in Management of Spatial Data

2.1 Global Challenges2.2 Quality of the Geospatial Collected Data – Fit for Purpose3. Geospatial Data Infrastructure – SDI / GSDI3.1 Needs, Requirements and Problems in Implementation 4. Crowdsourcing: Geospatial Data Collection4.1 Public Willingness to Participate 4.2 Technical Aspects4.3 Benefits, Limitations and Concerns4.4 Reliability of Crowdsourced Geospatial Data5. Implementation of Geospatial Crowdsourcing5.1 Work methodologies5.2 Crowdsourcing and SIM5.3 Crowdsourcing in Land Administration and Cadastre6. Crowdsourcing Potential and Applicability6.1 The Surveying Community within the Crowdsourcing Era6.2 Prospects of Framework7. Conclusions8. Recommendations

Applied Methodology & Time schedule

Activation of contributors to deliver papers on specific topics in our Workshops and Meetings (Completed)

Collection of information from Internet research(Completed)

Participation in a COST European Network Exploring Research into Geospatial Information Crowdsourcing project (3 members of the WG3.2) (On going)

Personal interviews and questionnaire distribution to Surveyors on the potential, the benefits & the risks of introducing of crowdsourcing in the Surveying Profession

(On going) Synthesis of the collected information

(To be completed by February 2014)