Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology and Heritage

Book “Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology, and Heritage” published by CRC Press.

Handbook of Space Eng (2009)

Image on the cover is Transit – one of the most important early satellites at the beginning of Space Age.

Contents;

Section 1 – All Sky Survey (total of nine chapters)

Section 2 – The sky: a cultural perspective

Section 3 – Introduction to the space age

Section 4 – The landscape of space (11 chapters)

Section 5 – Spacecraft forensics and mystery solving (4 chapters)

Section 6 – Environmental effects and the material record (9 chapters)

Section 7 – Preservation of space objects and case studies (4 chapters)

Section 8 – Space policy and preservation (4 chapters)

Section 9 – The future and space archaeology (3 chapters)

Section 9 – The mind and the Cosmos (4 chapters)

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Geodesy History Period – In Brief

When we read books or lecture notes on geodesy usually there is a chapter on history of geodesy. The history is described way back to a certain period suited the materials organized by respective author. An example taken from one source (may be V & K, 1987) divide the history into four eras as follow;

1. Period from Thales till the end of Roman Empire**. Thales (624 BC to 546 BC) was the founder of science in Ancient Greece – the first scientist in history. Link – https://www.famousscientists.org/thales/
2. The Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the beginning of the era of rationalism till the mid-eighteen Century (1740-50). Up to the period acceptance of Newton Gravitational Law.
3. Next two hundred years up to WW2 – Einstein theory of gravitation.
4. Last recent developments from WW2 to current.

** The Roman Empire (RE) began when Augustus Caesar (27BCE-14CE) became the first emperor of Rome. RE lasted about 500 years, ended (in the West) when the last Rome emperor, Ramulus Augustulus, was deposed by the German King Odoacer (476 CE).

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IAG 138 Refrag (French 2010)

IAG 138 Reference Frames for Application in Geoscience is the proceedings of the REFRAG Symposium held in Marne-La-Vallee, French in October 2010.

IAG 138 (Published in 2013)

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Abdallatef Mohamed MSc Project (2013)

I have managed supervising Abdalatef A M Mohamed (b.1977) for his project leading to a MSc in Geomatic Eng. Abdallatef is from Libya and he enrolled in MSc Geom Eng taught course program. Abdalatef thesis was entitled "Development of geodetic deformation analysis software based on iterative weighted similarity transformation technique". He submitted and defended his thesis in July 2013.

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GWG Team 2 Meeting - Jupem (2013)

A meeting for Geodetic Working Group Team 2 (GWG T2) was held at Geodesy Section, Jupem in July 2013. GWG T2 is the working group on gravity and geoid modelling. This is the first meeting called with the intention to get to know the members of the group. During the meeting I took the opportunity presenting a talk entitled "Geoid determination: A review".

A discussion with GWG Team 2 group members after the talk

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Completed PSM Topics (2012/13)

The title of PSM of the four students who have finished their work by June 2013 were;

Norehan binti Md Yaacob "The evaluation of related gravity field obtained from recent Global Gravitational Model - Case study: Klang Valley region".

Nor Atiqah binti Zulhisham "The assessment of variance components estimation for 2D network least-squares adjustment".

Tan Tian Chaun "The adjustment of geodetic network using robust technique of iterative weighting".

Mohd Nasrul Hafiz bin Mohd Noordin "Pembangunan peta web bagi UTM menggunakan ArcGis Online"

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Progress Report – Geomatics Eng Calgary

The annual report of Department of Geomatics Engineering U of Calgary is named as progress report. The contents include among others – personnel; undergraduate studies; graduate studies; research & publications; equipment and facilities.

Report 1992/93 to 1994/95

(Head of Dept Klaus-Peter Schwarz – 1992/93; 93/94 and 94/95)

Report 1996, 1997 & 1998

Head of Dept – Gerard Lachapelle (1996/97 & 1997/98)

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