FIG President Stig Enemark attends the Survey & Engineering
GIS Summit, San Diego, USA, June 2007
San Diego, USA, 16-19 June 2007
![](http://w.fig.net/news/archive/news_2007/CIMG2677.JPG) President Stig Enemark giving his keynote at the Survey&Enginering GIS Summit |
![](http://w.fig.net/news/archive/news_2007/CIMG2718.JPG) Jack Dangermond giving his keynote at the ESRI User Conference |
President Stig Enemark was invited to attend the
Survey&Engineering GIS Summit, San Diego, USA, 16-19 June 2007 as keynote speaker. The Summit was held in
conjunction with the 27th Annual ESRI International User Conference that attracted more
about 15.000 visitors from throughout the world.
The Summit was the 5th of its kind where surveyors come together to discuss,
share, and learn about applications of GIS to land surveying. This particular
conference was for the time expanded to include engineering. The Summit attracted around 400
participants from 22 countries but mainly from the US Surveying and Engineering profession.
The Summit included more than forty sessions dealing with a range of surveying topics
and provided the opportunity to learn about using GIS for managing operations and products
and services to clients. Proceedings are available at
http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/survey07/index.html.
President Enemark also gave a keynote address at the ESRI Education User
Conference that was held in parallel to the Survey Summit. Another keynote address was
presented by Curt Summer, Secretary General of ACSM. Proceedings from this
Conference is available
http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/educ07/index.html
Most participants of the Survey&Engineering Summit also attended the
following ESRI International User Conference. The highlights were the opening session with
a keynote presentation from Jack Dangermond, president of ESRI, showing how GIS
has a profound effect on our society through the use to design and manage our resources and
help improve our world. Another keynote was presented by Professor Wangari Maathai,
Nobel Prize Winner and Founder of the Green Belt Movement, and internationally
recognized for her persistent struggle for democracy, human rights, and environmental
protection. This powerful keynote showed how making the world a better place can start with
just one person, one idea, and the will to transform this idea into a solution. The
mission of the Green Belt Movement, founded 1977 in Kenya, is to help communities to
worldwide to protect the environment and promote good governance and cultures of peace.
As a result more than 40 million trees have been planted across Africa that have
improved the environment and living conditions for hundreds of thousand of people.
The User Conference included about 300 technical sessions with around 1000 presentations. In addition a huge exhibition offered variety of GIS
solutions and services. A highlight at the exhibition was a presentation of the NILS project (the
National Integrated Land System) developed by the US Bureau of Land Management that provides a
parcel based information system for management state land and their natural
resources. Another highlight was the Map Gallery exhibition where users from throughout the
world display their techniques of GIS solutions and creative mapmaking. Proceedings of the
User Conference is available at
http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc07/index.html.
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Stig Enemark´s keynote presentation at the Survey&Engineering Summit: “The Changing Role of Surveyors in Support of the Global Agenda” •
Stig Enemark´s keynote presentation at the ESRI Education User Conference:
“The Surveying Curriculum of the Future”. |