Seamerges funded Salt Workshop (2004)

The Satellite Altimetry (Salt) Workshop at ITB was the third in series of workshop programs organized under Seamerges. The first one was on Geodynamic GPS hosted by Chulalongkorn Univesity followed by InSAR held at Faculty of Geoinformation UTM Skudai. The lecture and lab sessions during Salt Workshop were handled by Dr Marc Naidje from DEOS Delft TU. There were four participants from UTM i.e., PM Kamaludin, myself, Asrur and Kee Tuan Chuan (both were research students). All the expenditures on air-ticket and accommodation were fully paid by Seamerges.
Seamerges = South East Asia: Mastering Environmental Reasearch with Geodetic Space Techniques - (link)

Salt Workshop at ITB (photo with Asrur)

This photo was taken at the Computer Lab of ITB Geodesy Dept. Notice that the floor is really clean and shining (very well maintained).

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Tangkuban Parahu

Another main attraction to visitors of Bandung is Tangkuban Parahu. It is a famous crater located quite a distance from city but it is really a must visit site. And the tour organized by Salt Seamerges include tour to Tangkuban Parahu.

The crater on the foreground

At the height of 1830 meter above MSL

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Tour of Kampung Naga

On the way back from Papandayan volcano the the participants were taken to a short tour to Kampung Naga. Kampung Naga is a traditional village inhabited by a group of local community whereby their unique life culture were observed and preserved. The establishment of Kampung Naga and the preservation of its community daily life culture have become attraction to tourist.

The Kampung Naga signage

Traditional houses made of bamboos at Kampung Naga

Houses at Kampung Naga

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Technical visit to Papandayan volcano (2004)

As part of the program arranged by ITB during SALT course was the visit to Papandayan volcano. Papandayan is about 70 km from Bandung city and is one of the active volcanoes in Indonesia. The most recent eruptions of Papandayan were recorded in November-December 2002. The monitoring of ground deformation of Papandayan as impacted by volcanic activity was carried out actively by geodesist from ITB, from Directorate of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation, Indonesia (DVGHM) and also by research group from UNSW.

Read paper on ground deformation of Papandayan detected by GPS survey (2005) [no longer available] and low-cost GPS-based volcano deformation monitoring at Mt. Papandayan written by Jannsen et al (2002).

Papandayan volcano as seen from parking area at the ground

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The signage at Papandayan

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Satellite Altimetry Training Course ITB (2004)

I was given the opportunity to took part in a short course "Satellite Altimetry Training Course" The (Salt) course was held at Institute of Technology Bandung for a two-weeks period. This was my first visit to ITB then. At that time Prof Joneil Kahar is still working at Geodesy Dept ITB.

Some of the participants of the Salt short course (with Prof Kahar right in the middle)

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IAG 129 - Gravity, Geoid & Space Mission (2004)

IAG 129 - Gravity, Geoid & Space Mission is the proceedings of the IAG International Symposium on Gravity Geoid & Space Mission held in Porto Portugal 2004 (GGSM2004). The proceedings was edited by Christopher Jekeli (OSU) as Chairman of Commission II IAG - Gravity Field, Luisa Bastos and Joana Fernandes (both of Porto Universidade). Prof Fernando Sanso is the Series Editor.

GGSM 2004 is the continuation of the previous mid-term meetings of IAG on 3G (Gravity, Geoid & Geodynamic). The two previous meeting were the International Symposia on Gravity, Geoid, and Marine Geodesy (Tokyo, 1996), and Gravity, Geoid, and Geodynamics (Banff, 2000).

The space mission component in GGSM 2004 were included with the special focus on the CHAMP, GRACE, and GOCE satellite missions. Attention was also directed toward projects addressing topographic and ice field mapping using SAR, LIDAR, and laser altimetry, as well as missions and studies related to planetary geodesy.

IAG 129 (Published in 2005)

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FIG & IAG Symposium Nottingham (2004)

In summer 2004 another big event was organized by FIG together with IAG. The event was 1st FIG International Symposium on Engineering Surveys for Construction Works and Structural Engineering. Nottingham, United Kingdom, 28 June – 1 July 2004. The person in-charge in organizing this symposium is Professor Gethyn Robert of the IESSG Nottingham University.  I attended this symposium and managed to have a poster presentation.

Photo taken infront of IESSG Building, Nottingham University

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Sedikit mengenai Santorini

Penganjuran FIG Symposium on Deformation di Santorini adalah bertepatan sekali dari segi tarikan dan juga teknikal. Dari segi tarikan peserta ia diadakan di sebuah dewan klasik di lokasi yang betul-betul menjadi tumpuan pelancung. Manakala di segi teknikalnya pula Santorini adalah kawasan yang telah mengalami kesan letupangunung berapi yang mana telah dipantau oleh banyak pihak dengan kaedah geodetik.

Santorini Airport (waktu awal pagi jam 6)

Untuk sampai ke Santorini penerbangan dari Athens mengambil masa sekitar 50 minit. Untuk ke pusat bandar Thira pula kira-kira 25 minit dari airport. Antara tarikan utama Santorini adalah hampir semua bangunan di bandar terbesar Thira dicat dengan warna putih dan biru. Thira juga mempunyai kereta kabel dari pelabuhan (tepi laut) untuk ke kawasan puncak. Sebagai alternatif pengunjung perlu berjalan mendaki bukit atau pun menunggang keldai kecil dengan sedikit bayaran untuk sampai ke puncak bandar Thira.

Hampir semua bangunan di Bandar Thira bercat putih

Kereta Kabel Thira

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LS friends at Santorini Symposium

The FIG Deformation Symposium at Santorini was also attended by licensed surveyors (LS) from Malaysia. We met two LS - Tuan Haji Wan Ariffin (from Kota Bharu) and Tuan Haji Abdul Rahman Jusoh (from Ipoh). These two LS came to Santorini packed with food stuffs from home like rice, sardines, and maggi. I spend some times with them and was very lucky because they also invited me to have rice and sardine together with them at their hotel room.

Two Licensed Surveyors from Malaysia met at Santorini Symposium

(Tn Hj Wan Ariffin & Tn Hj Abdul Rahman Jusoh)

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FIG Santorini Proceedings 2003

The 11th FIG International Symp on Deformation Measurements at Santorini was organized by Prof Statis Sthiros of Patras University. The hardcopy proceedings was published by Geodesy Lab of Patras University.

The proceedings of Santorini Deformation Symposium

Stathis Stiros (PhD Geology Athens 1992)
source - link
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FIG Deformation Symposium Santorini (2003)

The FIG International Symposium on Deformation Measurement was held at every two or three years period. The 11th Symposium was held at Santorini, Greece and it was organized by Professor Statis Sthiros of Patras University. The last two deformation symposiums prior to Santorini was held in Orange California (2001) and Olsztyn Poland (1999).

I attended the Santorini Symposium together with my colleague Prof Halim Setan.

Photo taken with Dr Adam Chrzanowski at Santorini Symposium

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