As earlier announced in GIM International, the 24^th FIG Congress in Sydney will be held from 11^th to 16^th April 2010. A first for an FIG Congress, the Call for Papers is open for both peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed submissions.
FIG 2010 will gather together international professionals and academics from many land-professional disciplines: land survey, land and real-estate appraisal, GIS, spatial planning, positioning and measurement, environmental awareness, engineering surveying and project management. FIG 2010 will be the major FIG Congress summarising the results of activities on the part of FIG, its Council, commissions and working groups over the period 2007-2010.

The Congress is the main event for all ten FIG technical commissions. Proposals for papers are therefore invited on all topics of interest to the commissions, a complete list of which is available at the FIG website.

Abstracts are invited for the 24^th FIG International Congress to be submitted by 22^nd September 2009. The abstract shall not exceed 250 to 500 words in length, and describe the objectives, results, conclusions and significance of your work. The abstract shall include the names and affiliations of all authors. Should you wish to present a peer-review paper at Congress 2010, you are requested to submit your full paper also by 22^nd September 2009. If you have problems with online submission, the abstract may also be sent in electronic form to the FIG office, (see left-hand column).

In submitting a paper the author(s) agree that FIG has the right to publish the paper in the conference proceedings (at the conference and on the FIG website); in the FIG Surveyors Reference Library; and in the FIG online journal (if selected for this purpose) without any other agreement or compensation. The copyright on the paper remains with the author(s). The number of abstracts submitted is limited to a maximum of two per author.