Permanent Secretary for Lands and Mineral Resources, Josefa Caniogo says the current surveyor’s regulations are outdated as they are based mainly on surveys carried out with survey instruments which were in use at the time the current regulations first came into force some four decades ago.
While opening the Fiji Institute of Surveyors Survey Congress in Rakiraki, Caniogo acknowledged the contribution of the Institute for the review of the surveyor’s regulations as the reviewed regulations will allow surveyors to use Global Positioning Systems for cadastral survey.
He adds it is important to keep abreast with the skill set to enable you to professionally use the modern technology to the optimum.
Caniogo says with evolving methodologies and technologies, survey practice is constantly changing and thus necessitating frameworks to regulate the practices and address these emerging changes.
He has called upon surveyors to collaborate with geo-spatial scientists, as technology evolves.
He says this would allow them to not only capture, compute and create spatial information but enable various layers of information in different systems to be integrated and inter‑operable.
The Fiji Institute of Surveyors Congress 2019 theme is The Application of Modern Day Technology to All Aspects of Surveying in Fiji.
The conference ends today.
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