FIG Working Week, 29 May - 2 June 2017, Helsinki, Finland,
was
an exciting week-long conference that brought the international community
of surveying and spatial professionals together experienced a mix of
interesting plenary and technical sessions and workshops, a trade
exhibition and a variety of side events and social functions. The week
given a unique opportunity to discuss key challenges of our time within
the surveying profession with fellow peers.
The overall theme of the Working Week is “Surveying the world
of tomorrow – From digitalisation to augmented reality”. We
have been witnessing the first beginning of a development leading
towards services which not only describe the visible world around us but
also simultaneously bring up other information connected to our place of
interest. One step is to become digitalized and to use the digital
information; the next step is to combine information and be able to
collect the data intelligently and to take further steps into the
intelligent use of digital information. The theme was chosen to
highlight the opportunities and open a view into a future where the large amount of information we produce is, again, put into a more
efficient use.
