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Geometer Dreams
Peter Byrne has written a book about his forty years as a
surveyor. Writter as vignettes, the shortest being just one
line, together with some longer essays and reflections,
Geometer Dreams is about people, their interactions and the
circumstances they met. The story settings range from the
Pilbara district of Western Australia to the Blue Mountains of
New South Wales, from Borneo through Zimbabwe to Brazil and the
United Nations.
Michael D. Breen has written a review of Geometer Dreams.
Read the review and find
more information about the book here
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Surveying and Mapping
This book provides an introduction, at academic level, into
the field of surveying and mapping. The book has been written
for the third-year course Surveying and Mapping, in the bachelor
program of Civil Engineering at Delft University of Technology.
This book covers a wide range of measurement techniques, from
land surveying, GPS/GNSS and remote sensing to the associated
data processing, the underlying coordinate reference systems, as
well as the analysis and visualization of the acquired
geospatial information.
The book is freely available as an
OPEN Textbook by the TU Delft
library
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Mission Earth
The book Mission Earth is aimed at interested
nonprofessionals who want to learn more about our
planet, but also at experts in natural sciences. Readers are
taken on a journey through time from the first surveys in
ancient times to the satellite era, which is providing us with a
global view of our home planet. Using illustrative examples, the authors convey how deeply global positioning and navigation
with satellites pervade our daily life, and what fundamental
contributions geodesy makes to understanding the Earth system
and determining the effects of climate change.
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Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration - Providing Secure Land Rights at
Scale
This Special Issue of the open access Land Journal provides
an insight, collated from 26 articles, focusing on various
aspects of the Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration (FFPLA)
concept and its application. It presents some influential and
innovative trends and recommendations for designing,
implementing, maintaining and further developing FFP solutions
for providing secure land rights at scale.
Guest Editors: Prof Stig Enemark, Dr
Robin McLaren, Prof Christiaan Lemmen
Read
more
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Land Governance and Gender
The book is edited by Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, and delivers new
conceptual and empirical studies surrounding the design and
evaluation of land governance, focusing on land management
approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure
and land-based gender concerns.
The book is available:
- Open
Access eBook
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Hardback - to purchase - please use this discount code:
CCFIG25 to get 25% discount on the hardback
(valid until 31 December 2022 for individual orders up to a
maximim of 10 copies per customer)
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VALUATION OF UNREGISTERED LAND - A PRACTICE MANUAL
This manual presents a practical approach for the valuation
of unregistered land. It is designed to aid implementation of
Valuation of Unregistered Lands: A Policy Guide, prepared by
GLTN for UN-Habitat (McDermott, Myers and Augustinas, 2018), in
combination with the International Valuation Standards (IVS) of
the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC).
To read the full manual,
click here.
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URBAN-RURAL LAND LINKAGES: A CONCEPT AND FRAMEWORK FOR
ACTION
This reports objective is to provide a framework for the GLTN
and for those at local and national levels who use GLTN tools.
This report is not a land tool. Rather, it provides structured
guidance on how to address landspecific problems within the
intersection of urban and rural development. It consists of
action-oriented steps and recommendations that should be pursued
in urbanrural interdependent development. This report expands on
current knowledge of urban-rural linkages in the context of land
tenure challenges.
To read the full report,
click here.
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The future of BIM: Digital transformation in the UK
construction and infrastructure sector
A new Insight Paper from RICS providing a useful insight into
the progression of the BIM movement in the UK, charting the
continued development and transition of standards to ISO, and
the original work of the UK BIM Task Group extending out to the
wider built environment industry, exemplified by the significant
collaborative effort in developing the UK Guidance for the BS EN
ISO 19650 series and the UK BIM Framework as a whole.
More information
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Real Estate Registration and Cadastre. Practical Lessons and
Experiences
A new e-book drafted by Gavin Adlington with contributions by
Rumyana Tonchovska, FAO of the UN, Tony Lamb and Robin McLaren
will be launched during the World Bank Land and Poverty
Conference in March 2020. The publication is already available
online as a first draft and will be made into an e-book after
the conference. It will be available for free and can be used as
a basis for training, taking one chapter at a time, or for a
workshop lasting two or three days, or just for reading about
experiences and lessons learned in other projects and programs.
The text of this book is written to be enjoyable to read in a
‘conversational’ mode to explain what we did and why, and it is
interspersed with specific stories and anecdotes that actually
happened and that teach good lessons and experiences from
multiple countries. The audience for the book is those who would
lead or be involved in such projects or programs, including
senior staff in government agencies, team leaders from financing
partners or bilateral donor agencies and consultants (local or
international) working in the sector.
The full book was presented at the FIG e-working 2021, see
the proceedings
here.
gadlandreg.com
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Cadastre Principles and Practice
by Roger Fisher and Jennifer Whittal
A new reference texst for the professional land surveyor and
others in the property industry
Explaining the principles of cadastral law and interpretation
in practice, this is the first publication of its kind in over
45 years. It is a comprehensive text for aspiring and practicing
professional land surveyors, those in the real property
business, and those involved in land administration. Written for
the South African practice environment, it will also be of
interest to an international audience.
More
information
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10 Vital Considerations for software implementation: How to ensure
success of your new land administration system
By Thomson Reuters, FIG Corporate Member
The implementation of a new land administration system is no
small investment for modern governments in both developed and
developing countries. The operation as a whole depends on the
strength of the new system and the users’ ability to wield it to
its fullest potential.
The risk of adopting a new system can be minimized by
evaluating it against the 3S Decision-Making Framework. Ensuring
that the governments’ prospective solution is secure, scalable
and sustainable enables the tempering of the challenges
associated with change and positions the organization for both
short- and long-term successes.
The publication include 10 considerations allowing modern
governments to gauge the security, scalability and
sustainability of the solution being evaluated.
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