The International Geodetic Student Organisation (also known as IGSO) is an international, independent, non-political, non-profit organisation run by and for

geodesy Geodesy or geodetics is the science of measuring and representing the Figure of the Earth, geometry, Gravity of Earth, gravity, and Earth's rotation, spatial orientation of the Earth in Relative change, temporally varying Three-dimensional spac ...

students and young geodesists.

Aim

The aims of the IGSO are: * to bring organisations of geodesy students of all countries together * to represent geodetic students in public * to organise connections between the member associations * to establish and to strengthen the co-operation with the authorities These aims are organised and realised by the International Geodetic Students Meeting (IGSM) and the General Assembly.

Structure

The members of the IGSO are associations of universities representing geodetic students. The IGSO consists of these institutions: *The General Assembly. *The International Geodetic Students Agency (the General Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Actuary) *The auditors of account. The structure of the IGSO and the realisation of the IGSM 2004 was presented at the ISPRS meeting 2006.

Meetings and Activities

Every year the IGSO organises an ''International Geodetic Students Meeting'' (IGSM) in a different country. These meetings allow students to exchange experiences from geodesy and to get to know other countries' customs and culture.

History

The first IGSM was organised in the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

by geodesy students from the

TU Delft The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft; ) is the oldest and largest Dutch public university, public Institute of technology, technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. It specializes in engineering, technology, computing, design, a ...

. The IGSO was founded later during the fourth IGSM in

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Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

. Past and future meetings:

Partners

The IGSO is a partner organisation of the ''

International Federation of Surveyors International Federation of Surveyors ( abbreviated FIG, after the ) is the UN-recognized global organization for the profession of surveying and related disciplines. It was established in 1878,

(FIG)''

References

External links

*{{official, http://www.igso.info/ International student organizations International geodesy organizations Organisations based in Zurich Student organizations established in 1991 1991 establishments in the Netherlands International geographic data and information organizations