IGSM 2004 - Survival Guide

Table of Contents

Greetings from the General Secretary 2 Greetings from the Head of the Department 3 Organising IGSM 2004 4 Dresden is Greeting Espoo! 5 Programme 6 Excursions 10 General information Addresses 12 Phone Numbers 13 Map of Otaniemi 13 Bus Timetables 14 Map of Tapiola 15 Map of Kamppi 15 Basics in Finnish 16

IGSM2004 Contacts [email protected] http://www.tky.hut.fi/igsm2004/

IGSM2004/Maanmittarikilta ry P.O. Box 1200 02015 HUT Finland Greetings from the General Secretary

Hello IGSM!

So… Welcome you all to IGSM2004, it is first time when we Finns have got this wonderful happening to arrange. This is also the first time in the whole Nordic Countries (which are Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland) and I really hope that this IGSM is not going to be the last one in Finland or either in the Nordic Countries.

But what was the history for this IGSM now? In 2001 in Newcastle some people asked or in fact we were almost forced to arrange IGSM already in 2003. But we didn’t know what to do, Newcastle was first IGSM for so many Finns that we decided not to take IGSM2003. But when IGSM2002 in Slovenia approached, we decided to take the next one for us! And show how we live, how we feel and what we can do!

And now we are here. I can say that everything has been wonderful. It has been nice and very educational to arrange this year’s IGSM. But of course it has been also quit tiring. We started to organise the meeting so early that it must be tiring. But like I said: whole thing has been reward- ing. We really have enjoyed the arrangement. So that is why I can say on everybody’s behalf that hope to see you all smiling and you all will enjoy here, in our country, in Espoo and especially in IGSM2004! It is a great honour to arrange this meeting for you all surveyors.

I hope that from now on it wouldn’t be anymore so hard to get next the IGSM to be arranged. Because it is dumb to fear the arrangement of IGSM. I hope that every school who will arrange IGSM in future would feel nice and especially could enjoy the arrangements!

Welcome once more to Finland, I hope you will see and live much nice and new!

Mika Eskelinen IGSO General Secretary

2 Greetings from the Head of the Department

Dear IGSM delegates,

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Department of Surveying at the Helsinki University of Technology. I hope you enjoy the meeting and get good memories from Finland.

The Department of Surveying at HUT is the only source of university level education of surveyors in Finland. Until 1972 the surveyor’s examination was almost the same for all students. All studied both mapping and land management. In 1972 the study system divided into classes was abandoned, and the students were allowed to take their majors and minors according to their own plans. Since then the tendency to specialisation has increased.

In 1993 the Degree Programme was divided into two options to which the students were taken in directly: Surveying and Mapping Technology, and Property Economics and Law. The main reasons were that the tasks and know how in these options were quite different. By dividing the degree programme we could better concentrate on the most important knowledge in both fields.

Our experiences were good and in 2000 we divided the Degree Programme of Surveying into two independent programmes with two options: Real Estate Economics (options Land Management and Law, and Real Estate Management) and Geomatics (options Geoinformatics and Surveying Engineering). The annual intake is now 40 for Geomatics and 50 for Real Estate Economics. The number of applicants is double the student places and the employment after graduation seems to be good.

The number of professors in the Department of Surveying is eight. The number of master’s degrees annually taken has been about 40 and the number of doctor’s degrees about three (seven in 2003). Most of the lectures are still held in Finnish although in Geoinformatics they are in English. The PhD-studies are widely arranged in English in the whole Department. In 2005 the degrees are going to be reorganised according to the Bologna agreement, which means that the Bachelor and Master levels are taken into use. After that it is most likely that also the Master level can easily be studied in English in all of our subject areas.

I hope I will meet you later as a student or teacher here in our Department.

Kauko Viitanen Head of the Department of Surveying

3 Organising IGSM 2004

We started to plan IGSM 2004 after we came from Slovenia where we agreed to host it but the serious planning we started last fall. There are about 15 people in our main organising team who have been working really hard for the last 10 months to get everything ready for you. Ev- erybody in the organising team had different areas of responsibility. To manage our resources the most efficient way we divided our efforts to smaller groups. We had an excursion group, a lecture group, an accom- modation group, a webpage group, a T-shirt group, a sponsor group, a registration group, a logo group, just to name few. Many of us worked in several of the small groups. It is easier to pass ideas with four people instead of all fifteen. Of course every now and then we had meetings with the whole organising team where all the groups were telling what they had done. This is the reason of our changing titles in the webpage. There are also many other students who helped in and during the progress.

One big decision that our organising team made was to lower the participation fee from 100 to 80 euros. Reason for this decision was that Fin- land is the most remote country to host IGSM so far and we tought that more people would like to come here if the fee would be little bit lower than before. This way the more expensive traveling costs will not auto- matically raise the travel budjet so dramatically. Past years seniors have paid the same participation fee as students but this year we decided to raise seniors participation fee for 120 euros. We talked about this with some of the seniors and students last year and they tought that it would be justified to raise fee a litle bit for a seniors, because after all this is a student meeting. I am happy that many seniors decided to take part of the igsm this year despite the higher fee.

At this point it seems that we will manage the whole meeting with a budget just under 22000 euros. Half of that we will get from the participation fees. Other half we got mostly from different sponsors and the rest was thanks to excellent finansing in IGSM 2002 and IGSM 2003. I hope we will also have some money left after the meeting to pass on to Turkey, but right know I can´t say how much. It was not easy to get sponsors for the event. What we learned was that finding sponsors is really a hard work and you should start to contact them as soon as possible.

Nearly all the students who wanted to partisipate in IGSM 2004 were accepted to enjoy the meeting. Some students could not attend this meeting because their visa applications were denied. We did our best to make it possible for all of these students to accompany the IGSM meeting. For example invitation letters were sent to all of the students who

4 requested it from us for various reasons and to certain countries we sent the letters of invitation directly to the Finnish consulate. Hopefully those who could not come this year will have better luck following years.

I hope you all enjoy the meeting and your time in Finland

Seija Vinblad, IGSO Treasurer

Dresden is greeting Espoo!

For those who haven't been there and the forgetfuls who have been there a short time warp back to last year: IGSM 2003 took place from 9th to 14th of June at the Dresden University of Technology. The meeting saw participants from 12 European countries coming together, listen- ing to lectures, going on field trips ranging in diversity from the Geo Research Centre Potsdam to a visit of a silver mine near Dresden. Most important of all, we as organisers and the participants had a good time learning to know each other, and finding out that we all are in many ways very much the same people, despite all national borders. Another interesting experience you will probably also share as well, was when the ordinary people we learnt to know during the days of the meeting ap- peared in their smartest outfits for the final banquet - quite amazing the difference in some cases ;-)

Dresden's delegation to Espoo is unfortunately rather small this year, due to most of the organisers being in the final stages of their study. Still, we send you all the best wishes for days of learning and fun in Espoo - we are sure the 17th IGSM will be one of the best ever.

To refresh your Dresden memories, take a look at the webpage www.igsm2003.de which contains a list of participants with email addresses, selected lectures held on the meeting and finally some pictures of the meeting itself available for downloading.

Auf Wiedersehen !

Chris Faber

5 Programme

Monday, 7th June 2004

10.00 – 19.00 Participants arrive 18.00 – 19.00 Dinner at Aarnivalkea School 20.00 – Welcome party in Smökki, Otaniemi

Tuesday, 8th June 2004

7.00 – 8.00 Breakfast at Aarnivalkea School 8.30 All delegates present at lecture hall E 9.00 – 11.00 Opening Ceremony, Main building of Helsinki University of Technology, lecture hall E

Chair: Ms Katri Nuuja, Secretary of IGSM 2004 Organising Committee

9.05 Mr Mika Eskelinen, IGSO General Secretary 9.10 Ms Tanja Karpela, Minister of Culture 9.25 Mr Olavi Nevanlinna, Vicerector, Helsinki University of Technology 9.40 Mr Olavi Louko, Director of the Section of Environmental and Technical Services, City Of Espoo 9.55 Prof. Kauko Viitanen, Head of the Department of Surveying, HUT 10.10 Mr Markku Villikka, Director, FIG Office 10.25 Ms Tiina Kauppinen, Surveyors Guild

11.30 – 12.30 Lunch at Aarnivalkea School

Please check the up-to-date and more detailed programme available at Aarnivalkea School.

6 13.00 – 15.30 Lectures, lecture hall E

13.00 Prof Henrik Haggrén Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, HUT Photogrammetric 3D modelling 13.25 Mr Petri Rönnholm Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, HUT Fusion of digital images and laser point clouds 13.50 Mr Seppo Mäkinen Finnish Maritime Administration Positioning in Hydrographic Surveyin 14.15 Break 14.25 Mr Henry Kvarnström Topographic Service Military Mapping in Finland 14.50 Ms Hanne Junnilainen & Mr Jaakko Järvinen Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, HUT Surveying in Archeology: Finnish Jabal Harûn Project in Petra, Jordan

16.30 – 17.00 Dinner at Aarnivalkea School 18.00 – 22.00 Helsinki Explorer 22.00 – Party at X, Helsinki

Wednesday, 9th June 2004

7.30 – 8.30 Breakfast at Aarnivalkea School 9.00 – 11.30 Lectures, lecture hall E

9.00 Prof Martin Vermeer Institute of Geodesy, HUT “Geodesy, fringe science?” 9.25 Ms Annu-Maaria Nivala & Mr Mikko Hämäläinen Department of Geoinformatics and Cartography, Finnish Geodetic Institute Mobile Use of Geo-databases in Europe

7 9.50 Mr Pasi Häkli Department of Geodesy and Geodynamics, Finnish Geodetic Institute Virtual Reference Station concept in real time GPS positioning 10.15 Break 10.25 Mr Pekka Savolainen FM-Kartta Oy New mapping sensor technologies from private company's point of view 10.50 Mr Christian Järnefelt The Student Union of HUT Teekkari Culture

11.30 Group Photograph at HUT 12.00 – 13.00 Picnic Lunch in Otaniemi 13.30 – 15.30 Lectures, lecture hall E

13.30 Mr Jukka Krisp Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, HUT Research at the HUT: Case study on modelling and visualizing ecological barriers 13.55 Mr Risto Ilves National Land Survey Aerial Image Production in the National Land Survey of Finland 14.20 Break 14.30 Prof Markku Poutanen Department of Geodesy and Geodynamics, Finnish Geodetic Institute Geodetic Research at FGI 14.55 The Finnish Sauna 15.20 Mr Kaj Björnström BearTrackers Oy Mobile applications for GPS-based animal tracking

17.00 – 18.30 Dinner at Aarnivalkea School

8 19.00 – Different choices of programme 1) Party and possibility for sauna, in OK20, Otaniemi, from 19.00 - 2) Linnanmäki amusement park, from 18.00 - Open until 21.00, at own expense. 3) Bar night, in Helsinki

Thursday, 10th June 2004

7.00 – 8.00 Breakfast at Aarnivalkea School 8.00 – 18.00 Excursions •Helsinki •Hämeenlinna •Lohja & Fiskars •Porvoo 19.00 – 20.00 Dinner at Aarnivalkea School 20.00 – Sauna & Sea Party in Rantsu, Otaniemi

Friday, 11th June 2004

7.30 – 8.30 Breakfast at Aarnivalkea School 9.00 – 10.00 Group work, HUT Main Building, classrooms 10.30 – 12.00 General Assembly, lecture hall E 12.30 – 14.00 Lunch at Aarnivalkea School 15.00 – 17.00 Traditional football match & Sports, Silkkiniitty park (next to Aarnivalkea School) 17.00 – 18.30 Preparing for the Banquet 18.30 Transportation to the Banquet 19.00 – 00.30 BANQUET, Rake-sali, Erottajankatu 4, Helsinki

Saturday, 12th June 2004

7.00 – 9.00 Breakfast at Aarnivalkea School 9.00 – 14.00 Participants leaving

9 Excursions

Porvoo Porvoo is Finland’s second oldest town. Old Porvoo is famous for its narrow lanes and brick-coloured riverside warehouses. In the Empire-style part of the town, the low wooden houses belong to the classical town plan where the streets form squares. It is here that the home of Finland’s greatest poet, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, provides one of Porvoo’s most popular tourist at- tractions.

Our tour begins from Haikko, which is a beautiful and charming old Manor House that has comfort- ably modern Spa Hotel in a green park by the sea. We have our lunch there before we take a riverboat to Porvoo. It is very popular way to travel in the sum- mertime because at the same time you can enjoy the beautiful views and there sure are plenty of those. In Porvoo we have the opportunity to visit in the Old Town with a beautiful architecture and an old church. Our guide will take us to a new modern part of Porvoo as well. Before we travel back to Espoo we have spare time to do small shopping and for example just relax for a while by the river.

Helsinki On this excursion we visit many interesting sights in Helsinki. Among others we visit The Arabia Centre which is situated by the Arabia factory in Helsinki. We watch porcelain being manu- factured and visit Iittala glassware showroom and the Arabia museum and gallery. In the afternoon we take a guided cruise that shows the shores of the Helsinki and sights of the town from the sea and, of course, the beautiful acrhipelago of Helsinki.

10 Lohja, Fiskars and Tammisaari In this excursion we visit three destinations in southern Fin- land. The first excursion takes place at Lohja, a small town situated about 50 km from Espoo. In Lohja we discover the Tytyri limestone mine. In the mine we have a guided tour and a chance to explore the mine 110 metres below ground.

The second destination is the idyllic Fiskars-village, which is an international center of craft, design and art and a home for many artisans. In a guided tour we learn about the history of Fiskars and see the sights and the craft shops. On our way back to Espoo, we make a stop in Tammisaari. Tammisaari is a beautiful small town by the sea.

Hämeenlinna On this excursion we head North, approximately 100 km from Helsinki. Hämeenlinna is a small city founded around a 700- year-old castle next to lake Vanajavesi. Parts of the city center and Aulanko nartural park form the National Urban Park of Hämeenlinna, one of only two Urban Parks in the whole World. Häme castle is a unique cultural and historical sight and Aulanko park is a nationally valu- able game reserve. They will be on our list of places to visit among many other interesting sights.

11 General Information

OPENING HOURS AND ADDRESSES Aarnivalkea School Aarnivalkeantie 9, 02100 Espoo

Helsinki University of Technology Otakaari 1, 02015 HUT

Grocery Stores 9-21 (mon-fri) 9-18 (sat) 12-21 (sun)

Tapiola Pharmacy Kauppamiehentie 6 8-21 (mon-fri) 9-19 (sat) 10-20 (sun)

Tapiola library (kirjasto) 11-20 (mon-thu), 9-18 (fri)

Alko Kauppamiehentie 1, Heikintori shopping centre 9-20 (mon-fri), 9-18 (sat) (Alko has a monopoly in Finland on the retail sale of alcoholic bever- ages containing over 4.7 per cent of alcohol by volume.)

Esso gas station (snack & shop) is open 24 hours. Nightclubs and pubs are usually open until 2 – 4 am.

Tapiola Health Centre (Terveyskeskus) Länsituulentie 10 8-16 (mon-fri)

12 IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS Country code for Finland +358 IGSM2004 Helpline (24 h) 041 700 3501 Emergency Number 112 Police 100 22 Poison Information center 09-4711 Taxi Espoo 0100 7300 Taxi Helsinki 0100 0700 Airport taxi 0100 4800 Number Service 02 02 02 or 118

INTERNET AND EMAIL Use facilities at Tapiola library and HUT/Department of Sur- veying

MAP OF OTANIEMI

13 BUSSES IN THE EVENING (MONDAY-FRIDAY)

From Tapiola centre to Helsinki 17: 02106 08105 15109 21106 27110T 40109 41106 57105 57110T 18: 10109 19106 25110T 37109 55110T 56105 19: 07109 19106 22110T 37109 52110T 56105 20: 07109 16106 22110T 34109 52110T 55105 56106 21: 04109 16106 17110T 46106 47110T 55105 22: 04109 16106 17110T 33109 46106 47110T 23: 15110T 16106 45110T 46106 00: 15106 45106 45110T

From northern Tapiola to Helsinki 17: 18103 38103 58103 18: 18103 43103 19: 43103 20: 42103 21: 42103

From Helsinki (Kamppi) to Tapiola 21: 10103 12110T 14105 17106 29109 42110T 47106 59109 22: 10103 12110T 14105 17106 29109T 42110T 47106 23: 02110T 09109 17106 32110T 47106 49109T 00: 12195N 17110T 29109 32110T 42194N 47106 01: 12195N 14*109 17106T 32110T 42*194T 47106T 54*109 02: 12194N 03: 00*100N 55*100N (*) fridays only After 2 am extra fee (4 euros )

More timetables Local traffic information 0100 111 aikataulut.ytv.fi Long-distance bus traffic 0200 4000 www.matkahuolto.fi Trains 0600 41902 www.vr.fi Helsinki-Vantaa Airport 0200 14636 www.helsinkivantaa.fi

14 MAP OF TAPIOLA

MAP OF KAMPPI, HELSINKI

15 SOME USEFUL WORDS AND SENTENCES IN FINNISH

Moi / Hei Hello Moi moi Bye-bye Kyllä / joo Yes / yeah Ei No Kiitos Thank you Ole hyvä! Please / Here you are Anteeksi Excuse me / Sorry Apua! Help! Hyvä Good Hyvää huomenta / iltaa / yötä! Good morning /evening /night! En ymmärrä. I don´t understand. Kuinka paljon tämä maksaa? How much is this? How much does this cost? Anteeksi, minä en puhu I am sorry, I don´t speak suomea. Finnish. Puhutko englantia? Do you speak English? Menettekö Tapiolaan / Do you go to Tapiola / Otaniemeen/ Helsingin Otaniemi / Helsinki centre? keskustaan? Voitteko viedä meidät Can you drive us to Helsinki Helsingin keskustaan? centre? Asun Tapiolassa. I live in Tapiola. Voitteko viedä meidät Can you drive us to Tapiola, Tapiolaan? please? Yksi iso olut, kiitos. One big beer (0,5 l), please. Yksi 1 Kaksi 2 Kolme 3 Neljä 4 Viisi 5 Kuusi 6 Seitsemän 7 Kahdeksan 8 Yhdeksän 9 Kymmenen 10