SDB Day 2019

The International Forum on Satellite-Derived Bathymetry 2019

Esteemed speakers and guests from hydrographic offices, marine industry, service providers and research institutes around the world will gather for Australia’s first SDB Day in May 2019.

Satellite Derived Bathymetry (SDB) is a method for providing high-resolution water depth data in shallow water environments. These waters are notoriously difficult and expensive to access. The method combines satellite imagery with advanced algorithms to provide affordable and accurate data, and all within a relatively quick turnaround time.

The forum addresses the urgent need for both users and producers of SDB to jointly discuss capabilities, standards, data integration and handling uncertainties in its application.

The Institution of Surveyors NSW (ISNSW) Annual Conference (formerly Australia Day Seminar) is the premier ISNSW event. Held annually, this two-day conference attracts over 400 surveyors from metropolitan and regional areas of New South Wales.

The conference content will address pressing issues common to surveyors working in New South Wales, and offers a quality, value for money education and networking experience covering a range of topics.

Throughout history, surveyors have remained the pioneers of discovery shaping our world to its current existence by exploring the unknown on earth and in space. Fast forward to 2013 when the signing of the Budapest declaration created a common worldwide celebration for those leaders, past and present.

Global Surveyors’ Day is a way to globally recognise the ground-breakers, pioneers, individuals and the industry that has shaped our history and continues to be the foundation of our communities.

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The Country Surveyors Association of NSW Annual Easter Conference will be held on 22 and 23 April 2002, in association with Consulting Surveyors NSW, at the Remington Hotel, Orange, and online.

The program includes an update from the NSW Surveyor General; other legislative, regulatory, training and cybersecurity updates; and case studies covering a variety of topics, eg. ‘Sealing the Silver City and Cobb Highways’ and ‘NT Surveying Tales & Section 19 Leases under Aboriginal Land Rights Act’. Other topics to be covered include mining lease surveys, seismic surveys, and the REAP scheme.

There will be a technical tour, dinner at the Borrodell Vineyard, and presentations from media personalities Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Pip Courtney.

The full two-day registration includes Friday and Saturday evening meals. A Partners Program is additional. 5 CAD and 10 SP points apply.

The FIG Congress — the largest and most prestigious conference of surveying and geospatial professionals — will this year be held in Poland.

The organisers are expecting an attendance of 1,000 to 1,500 surveying and geospatial experts from all over the world.

This year the local host is the Association of Polish Surveyors, and the conference theme is ‘Volunteering for the future – Geospatial excellence for a better living’. Geospatial excellence and all related professions and topics are now seen in a much broader context and as public goods and beneficial for the well-being and betterment of the entire society.

The sub themes are:

• Surveyor 4.0
• The surveying profession in and after COVID times
• Open access to data
• Surveying competence for other disciplines

The FIG Congress 2022 will give passionate professionals the opportunity to:

• Learn globally, with participation from around 80 to 90 countries
• Learn across silos, from other countries, industries and professional roles – with sessions and representation from a broad range of surveyors and geospatial experts
• Have influence on careers, organisations and communities

The Association of Public Authority Surveyors, NSW (APAS) annual conference for 2023 will be held at Opal Cove Resort in Coffs Harbour, from 20 to 22 March 2023.

The theme for the event will the ‘Pirates of the Cadastre’. The program is being developed, with a call for abstracts currently in place (as of June 2022).

Important dates and deadlines to note, are:

• Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 23 September 2022
• Draft paper deadline: Friday, 18 November 2022
• Final paper deadline: Friday, 20 January 2023