Article of the Month in 2025

FIG publishes each month the Article of the Month. This is a high-level paper focusing on interesting topic to all surveyors. This article can be picked up from an FIG conference or another event or it can be a paper written directly for this purpose.

  • April 2025 a peer review paper from the FIG working Week 2025 by Hamid Hosseini, Behnam Atazadeh and Abbas Rajabifard, Australia Artificial Intelligence for Querying Land and Property Data from Cadastral Plans The paper is a studie of an AI-based approach to efficiently retrieve land and property information from cadastral plans. This includes data extraction from plans using computer vision and communication with plans using natural language processing (NLP). A prototype chatbot employing generative pretrained transformer (GPT) as the core large language model (LLM) was developed for data querying from plans.
  • March 2025 A position paper from FIG Commissions 2 and 7 The Teaching Essentials for Responsible Land Administration (TERLA) It addressed the challenge of teaching the daunting and complex domain of land governance at a country-level. It looks back on that foundation work, unpacking lessons, but also draws on the insights of those valuators and educators deeply engaged with its application to case forward.