FIG Working Week 2016

Recovery from Disaster conference

FIG Working Week, 2-6 May 2016, Christchurch, New Zealand, is an exciting week-long conference that brings the international community of surveying professionals together to share innovative science with policymakers and stakeholders. Scientists, policy- and decision-makers, students, and stakeholders are invited to join the discussions on issues affecting the international surveying and spatial community today and in the future.

The overall theme is Recovery from Disaster. New Zealand is a (relatively) geologically active country with a history of seismic events and post-earthquake Christchurch is an ideal location from which to consider this theme. Many inhabitants throughout the World face various kinds of disasters, apart from earthquakes as in Christchurch, such as flooding, storms, tsunamis, drought and the after effects of conflicts etc. Surveying and spatial professionals are key actors, on the land, in the sea, in the air and in space, in making an important contribution to improve, simplify and to shorten the disaster mitigation, rehabilitation and reconstruction phase.

For more information, please visit http://www.fig.net/fig2016/