The Call for Papers is announced both for peer-reviewed papers and non-peer reviewed papers.
It is our pleasure to invite you to the largest and most prestigious conference of surveying and geospatial professionals in 2026, held in Cape Town, South Africa. We expect around 1,200-1,500 surveying, geospatial, construction management, spatial planning, and valuation experts from Africa and all over the world. The Congress is held jointly with the national association, the South African Geomatics Institute (SAGI). As the premier global survey event of the year, FIG Congress 2026 is supported and endorsed by the Department of Land Reform and Rural Development (DLRRD) and the South African Geomatics Council and will register CPD points for participants.
The International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) is a United Nations and World Bank recognised non-governmental international professional organisation and is a member of the International Science Council (ISC). FIG was founded in 1878 and represents national associations of surveying, cadastre, valuation, national mapping professionals, geospatial experts and quantity surveyors working in both the public and private sectors, in the scientific, research and academic community, as well as from technology innovators and industry from more than 120 countries around the world. As a participant at the FIG Congress 2026, you will join colleagues from academia, government, commercial and professional practice to network, learn and contribute together.
Our member organizations measure, position, map, locate, appraise and value, estimate and cost, plan, construct, develop and manage the land, the seas and any man-made structures with a vision to extend the usefulness of surveying for the benefit of society, environment and economy.
Each year, FIG convenes a conference in cooperation with a national member association, elected by the FIG General Assembly. Every four years the larger Congress is held with elections for the new term including a new President. FIG Congress 2026 will be held from 24-29 May 2026 in Cape Town, South Africa.
FIG conferences are distinct in drawing together surveying experts – interpreted in the broadest sense as persons and organisations involved with, or interested in:
The SDGs will be central to all sessions, highlighting how surveyors work with and find solutions towards these goals and beyond. Surveyors must be heard as the next global development agenda for post-2030 is prepared in the next few years.
 
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