PSM Presentation

Today all final year students (4Sghu) have  their PSM presentation. Eleven sessions were arranged six in the morning followed by another five in the afternoon. Out of that ten sessions were successfully held with one been postponed to a later date due to unavailability of both panels. The panels have to attend other programs which were scheduled much earlier.

Session at Geomatic Computer Lab

Lotfi is presenting

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Coordinates Magazine

Coordinates magazine issue covers highlights on UAV for cadastral.

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Visit by Dr Albert Chong

Dr Albert Chong, a Senior Lecturer from USQ Australlia came to FGHT UTM for a short visit. Dr Chong is an expert in close range photogrammetry. He came for discussion sessions with postgraduate students at 3D Measurement Lab. I took the opportunity to have short chit chat with him and also giving him the flyer on Geoid School to be distributed at USQ.

Photo with Dr Albert Chong of USQ

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3Sghu Internship Seminar

The seminar presentation of 3Sghu Internship (Industrial Training) were held today morning. The seminar run in parallel session at different rooms in Fght. Each student selects one of their LI projects as topic of their presentations.

Students presenting in session 1

Four students did their LI at two LS companies in Batu Pahat and one in Muar.

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Students presenting in session 2

Two students did their LI at two LS companies in Melaka and the other two at Jurukur Teras Seremban.

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PSM's technical paper submission

We are now in the last week of lecture for this semester. As for PSM tasks students were struggling to get their technical paper done. They were supposed to submit the paper last Wednesday. But the extension were given because many of them get involved in Hydrography Seminar held last week at UTM KL.

This year the format of PSM technical paper was changed. For the first time the technical paper need to be written following Jurnal Teknologi format. So they have to submit 'journal' paper within 8-13 pages. As 4 pm today about 70% of the students have submitted their work.

Sample of the 'journal' version of PSM

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FIG Week 2016 - Vice President Election

FIG Week 2016 berlangsung di Christchurch NZ pada 2 - Mei lalu. Antara agendanya ialah pemilihan dua VP yang baru untuk tahun 2017-2018. Seramai empat calun diketengahkan untuk pemilihan. Mereka adalah Yerach Doytsher (Israel), Orhan Ercan (Turki), Sunil Lalloo (Trinidad & Tobago) dan Mikael Lilje (Sweden). Perwakilan telah memilih Mikael Lilje (b.1967) & Orhan Ercan sebagai VP. Mereka menggantikan Pengfei Cheng (China) dan Bruno Razza (Itali) yang telah tamat tempoh.
FIG kini dipimpin oleh Chryssy Potsiou (Greece) sebagai Presiden dan dua VP yang masih kekal Prof Dr Rudolf Staiger (U of Applied Science, Bochum) dan Dr Diane Dumashie (RICS UK).

Orhan Ercan PhD Yildiz 1997, FIG VP 2017-2020
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Mesyuarat Panel Penilai Soalan

Sebagaimana biasa menjelang akhir semester semuanya akan sibuk dengan persediaan untuk peperiksaan akhir. Antara jadualnya yang perlu ialah mesyuarat untuk menilai soalan peperiksaan. Pada kali ini Mesyuarat Panel Penilai Soalan untuk program Geomatik diadakan di 3D Measurement Lab.

Template yang digunakan sebagai panduan CO

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Gravimeter at Jupem

Terrestrial gravity survey for geodetic purpose in Malaysia has been actively done by Jupem. They have doing the job for over thirty years may be more. The gravity survey were carried out in three categories of order - first, second and third order. Jupem has two set of gravimeters both are LaCoste & Romberg instruments. One is the G series and the other Graviton. Unfortunately both gravimeters are no longer in working condition. Both need repair and Jupem has no budget at the moment.

The G series gravimeter - an old generation

New generation of LaCoste & Romberg Graviton EG gravimeter

Briefing by Jupem's staff on how to use gravimeter

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A re-look at Jupem's Gravity Data

After cutting short the presentation on "Gravity and Figure of the Earth" the gravity workshop at Jupem was continued with a session to familiarization the gravity terrestrial data available at Jupem. Emphasis was given on the metadata aspects such as the coordinate systems used, type of height info given and etc.

Discussion on Jupem's terrestrial gravity data

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Special Lecture "Gravity and Figure of the Earth"

During the Gravity Workshop at Jupem a special lecture entitled "Gravity & Figure of the Earth" was arranged. The lecture was slotted as the opening session of the workshop and was expected to take about 45 minutes. A total of about 30 slides was prepared for the lecture. Somehow the lecture was cut short after four or five slides only. The audience seem not ready for such a heavy content of talk.

Delivering lecture on "Gravity and Figure of the Earth"

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GWG Team 2 Jupem's Gravity Workshop

A one-day workshop on gravity was held today as an activity of Geodetic Working Group (GWG) Team 2. The workshop was held at Bahagian Ukur Geodetik (BUG) Jupem and attended by staff from Physical Geodesy Section of BUG. Three postgraduate students from G&G Fght were also there to help.

A group photo taken after the workshop ended

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Bengkel iOBE

Bengkel iOBE diadakan pada petang tadi di Makmal GIS I. Program diadakan sebagai persediaan mengguna pakai modul OBE secara online untuk permarkahan semua subjek pada semester ini.

Surat panggilan hadir Bengkel iOBE

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Dr Dudy short stays

Dr Dudy came to UTM again after one month. He is here for two nights stay. A small get together session was arranged attended by a number of postgraduate students. The event took place just after the vce lecture.

Tea time with Dr Dudy

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Lecture - VCE

The lecture for deformation survey class today covers topic on VCE. Among the contents were the review of conventional methods of determining geodetic observation variance and their limitations. The lecture then proceeds with discussing the new methods in vce with some examples on its implementation. The lecture today was also attended by a few postgraduate students.

Intoduction to VCE

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