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Global Surveyors Day 2025
21 March, 2025
Happy Global Surveyors Day 21 March
Global Surveyors Day is celebrated around the world.
Global Geomatics
Engineer 2025
This year's was Mrs IRENE BARCLAY, the first woman in the UK to become a RICS Chartered
Surveyor, making her the first woman to receive this worldwide
recognition since the GSD was held in 2018.
Mrs. Barclay (1894-1989) was
licensed to practice surveying in 1922. For 48 years she headed the
Secretariat of the and developed her work in the field of and
emphasizing the importance of the profession in the social sphere.
International Surveyors Day 2025, a virtual global event scheduled
for March 21, 2025 as well as our Bahamas Geospatial Awareness Campaign
2025
Surveying the World, Shaping the Future
Beijing iSpatial Co., Ltd have sent the following information and
photos. Thank you!
Deqing Geospatial Information Town celebrating the Global
Surveyors’ Day By Hans Ni, CEO of Beijing iSpatial Co., Ltd & FIG
Corporate member
Related organizations of Deqing Geospatial Information Town
celebrate the 2025 Global Surveyors’ Day focusing on the theme
“Surveying the World, Shaping the Future” from 17 March to 22 March 2025
in Deqing, China. The activities include organizing primary and
secondary school students to visit Deqing Geographic Information Science
and Technology Museum, study at Deqing Youth Academy of Geospatial
Information Sciences and participating in hiking with their surveyors’
parents.
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Deqing Geospatial Information Town, Huzhou city, Zhejiang province,
China is located in the hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta, about 1
hour from Shanghai and 13 minutes from Hangzhou (the capital city of
Zhejiang province, China) by high-speed rail. The total planned area of
the town is 4.69 square kilometers, with a distinctive feature of
integrated development of geospatial information industry. At present,
more than 430 enterprises have gathered around, making it an industry
park with the most concentration of geospatial information related
enterprises in China. On 20 May 2022, the United Nations Global
Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Centre (UN-GGKIC) was officially
launched, as the first specialized technical centre initiated by the
United Nations Secretariat operated in China. In January 2025, the World
Geospatial Information Home (WGIH) was established in the Town, so as to
attract geospatial information-related associations and societies from
all over the world to set up their representative offices in Deqing
Geospatial Information Town for promoting pragmatic cooperation in the
field of geospatial information industry.
Mongolia
Representatives from Mongolia have sent the following information
and photos. Thank you!
Mongolian Association of Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
(MAGPC)
In celebration of this year's Global Surveyors Day, MAGPC
successfully organized its traditional casual discussion meeting and
darts & billiards tournament. This year, the meeting and discussion were
notable for the wide participation of university students. During the
meeting, young surveyors made a presentation on mapping the lake bottom
and modern SLAM technology. Pictures from the celebration of the Global
Surveyors' Day 2025 in Mongolia.
Do you celebrate Global Surveyors Day?
You can send information about your celebration to
FIG@fig.net and we will publish
here your way of celebrating Gloabl Surveyors Day.
Louise Friis-Hansen
20 March 2025
