Height Datum Unification - PhD in Geodesy Estonia (2013)

Recently I was made available to access a PhD work completed at one university in Estonia  in 2013. The thesis entitled "Precise hydrodynamic levelling using pressure gauges with application to improvement of the Estonian national levelling network" submitted by Dr Aive Liibusk to Estonian University Life Sciences, Tartu. The examining committee was consists of Prof Markku Poutanen from Finnish Geodetic Institute and the work was join supervised by Prof Artu Ellmann (of Tallinn University of Technology) and Assoc Prof Harli Jurgenson (of Estonian University of Life Sciences).

The research was part of efforts contributed in modernizing and unification of height datum in Estonia. The main contribution was the implementation of a special technique of hydrodynamic heighting connecting levelling from mainland to distant island of tens of kilometer away using pressure gauges.

Read journal paper about this study in marine geodesy - link (2013).