Surveying at Uni Melbourne

Surveying program at The University of Melbourne was at one time famous. Many big names like Ian Williamson, Clive Fraser and Frank Leahy were re-known figures teaching surveying there. Then the program was re-named as Geomatics. Now all of them already retired and the Surveying program was re-organized as Geomatics under Department of Infrastructure Engineering, Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne.

The undergraduate programs offered is no longer BSc Surveying or BSc Geomatic but change to Bachelor of Design (Spatial Systems Major) and Bachelor of Science (Spatial Systems Major). Among the geodesy lecturers still there are Allison Kealy, Philip Collier and Cliff Ogleby. The IE Dept is head by Prof Abbas Rajabifard.

The website of IE can be accessed - here.

Infrastructure Engineering website (Melbourne Uni)

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Report on Geodesy and Geoinformatics - Poland

Report on Geodesy and Geoinformatics (formerly known as Report of Geodesy) is a journal worked by the academic staff of the Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Warsaw University of Technology Poland.

The journal is now published by de Gruyter and can be access online (open access). The most recent issue is Volume 101 (2016). See content - here. Vol 100 was published as a special issue of 25th anniversary of the ROGG (see content - here).

Report of Geodesy and Geoinformatics

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Nerem (1995) & IAG 119 (1998)

In the course of reading WEF (2010) two interesting references as follows were came across and downloaded;

Nerem RS, C Jekeli & WM Kaula (1995) "Gravity field determination and characteristics: retrospective and prospective". Paper was published in Journal of Geophysical Research 100(B8):15053-15074.

Geodesy on the Move, IAG Symp 119 edited by Forsberg, M Feissel and R Dietrich.

Both publications were not available at PSZ and thankful to uq for helping.

WM Kaula (b.1976; d.2000)
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WEF 2010 - two important suggestions

WEF presented a paper entitled "Satellite and airborne gravimetry: their role in geoid determination and some suggestions". The paper deals among others on the effort of incorporating the data from these two platforms for geoid computation particularly for Australia.

There are two suggestions put forward by him -first  the requirement of collecting airborne gravimetry data over coastal and estuarine zones and second to have airborne gravity exercise covering Antartica.

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Geodetic BVP - some notes

The following notes on GBVP are extracted from reading of WEF 2010 - "Satellite and airborne gravimetry";

Stokes (1849) first showed how to solve a free bvp in potential theory to compute the geoid from gravity anomalies ... [ why we call it free bvp? … what are other types of bvp? ]

Hotine (1968) described other adaptation as a solution of a fixed boundary-value problem. The solution is in the form of Hotine’s integral for the determination of the geoid from gravity disturbances.

The approaches of bvp have seen been extended to the computation of the geoid from airborne gravimetry and airborne gradiometry as discussed by Schwarz (1996) and Schwarz and Li 1996. The former appeared in lecture notes of Como IAG Summer School while the latter (what can airborne contribute to geoid determination?) appeared in JGR Solid Earth.

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Jamuan Minum Petang G&G

Satu majlis ringkas jamuan minum petang bersama warga G&G diadakan petang ini. Majlis bermula pukul 3 petang dihadiri oleh beberapa staf dan pelajar pasca siswazah G&G. Menu yang  dihidang ialah spaghetti carbonara dan roti john yang disediakan oleh pelajar sendiri. Berikut beberapa foto yang diambil ketika majlis tersebut.

Foto 1

Foto 2

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Geoid School Meeting

Another meeting on geoid school was held today starts at 2.30 pm. It was attended by the regular committee. A representative from UTM Space was in the meeting as well. She came for giving updates on financial matter. Things discussed were mainly on progress about the tasks delivered to committee members.

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Bengkel Semakan Kurikulum

Hari ini satu lagi bengkel diadakan iaitu yang ketiga berturut hari. Bengkel semakan kurikulum yang nama penuhnya Semakan Kurikulum Bidang Tujahan Abad ke-21. Bengkel ini diadakan secara ad-hoc ekoran arahan pihak TNCA yang menerima arahan dari KPT.

Sebahagian peserta Bengkel Kurikulum Tujahan

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Bengkel Proposal Penyelidikan

Fght mengadakan siri bengkel kedua selepas bengkel yang semalam. Bengkel yang selanjutnya ini ialah Bengkel Proposal Penyelidikan. Tujuan bengkel ialah untuk menyediakan bank proposal penyelidikan dengan sasarannya kepada staf yang belum menjadi PI dalam mana-mana gran.
Bengkel dimulakan dengan presentation oleh dua profesor. Presentation pertama oleh profesor yang memegang jawatan Pengarah satu RA dan presentation kedua oleh Dr Ho yang menjadi champion gran penyelidikan antarabangsa.

Kehadiran hari ini hampir serupa dengan yang semalam iaitu sekitar 50%.

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Bengkel Penulisan Jurnal

Fght mengadakan Bengkel Penulisan kepada semua staf akademik hari ini. Bengkel diadakan di Blok T06. Objektifnya adalah supaya semua staf dapat menyediakan deraf penulisan untuk diterbitkan dalam mana-mana jurnal. Bengkel telah dikendalikan oleh TDPI dan dimulai dengan pembentangan oleh dua wakil staf yang masing-masingnya aktif dalam penulisan Geomatik dan Penilaian.

Kehadiran kelihatannya sekitar 50% sahaja. Pada akhir program staf diminta menghantar laporan status penulisan masing-masing kepada pentadbiran melalui ketua RG.

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Jurnal Exploration Geophysics

Jurnal Exploration Geophysics diusahakan penerbitannya oleh Csiro Publishing Australia. Ia merangkumi juga tajuk graviti yang menyangkut dengan bidang geodesi. Beberapa terbitan oleh Prof Featherstone dan rakan beliau di Curtin turut boleh ditemui dalam jurnal EG.

Jurnal EG boleh diakses dari sumber berikut - link.

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The 2nd GGHS 2016 - Thessaloniki

Gravity, Geoid & Height Systems Symposium (GGHS) is to be held once in every four years (as continuation of the past Gravity and Geoid events).  The 2nd GGHS is set to take place this September in Thessaloniki Greece. It will be hosted by Aristotle University Thessaloniki (AUTH) and the organizing committee is led by Dr Vergos.

The 2nd GGHS 2016 - Thessaloniki

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Before GGHS were GG .... (1996 to 2008)

GGHS is the continuation of IAG symposium series as follows;

2008: Chania GG& Earth Observation
2004 : Porto GG& Space Missions
2000: Banff: GG& Geodynamics
1996: Tokyo: GG& Marine Geodesy

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1st GGHS 2012 - Venice

Besides IGFS there is another international symposium organized by IAG - GGHS. GGHS stands for Gravity, Geoid and Height Systems is the activity of Commision 2 of IAG. The first GGHS was held on Oct 9 -12, 2012 in Venice. It was hosted by Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS). The proceedings of the 1st GGHS was published by Springer as IAG Symposia Vol 141.

IAG 141

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Gravity and Geoid - 3rd IGGC (Thessaloniki)

The 3rd IGGC was held in Thessaloniki Greece in 2002. It was hosted by Geodesy Dept of Thessaloniki University. The organizing committee was led by Professor Tziavos. This was the last meeting under the name of IGGC. Starting 2006 the event was re-named as IGFS with its first symposium at Istanbul.

The proceeding of the 3rd IGGC was available online before but now it is no longer available.

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Gravity and Geoid - 2nd IGGC (Trieste)

The 2nd IGGC was held in Trieste in 1998. Papers presented at this symposium were published in joutnal Bolletino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata (BGTA) Vol 40 No 3-4, Issue Sept-Dec 1999.
The paper "Difference between geoid undulation and quasigeoid height in Hungary" by Josef Adam of BUTE is still available (source).

All other papers from 2nd IGGC are available online at BGTA website - source.

Bolletino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata

(Vol 4, Sep-Dec 1999)

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Gravity and Geoid - 1st IGGC (Graz)

The 1st symposium of IGGG was held in Graz in 1994. It was hosted by Geodesy Dept TU Graz led by Professor Hans Sunkel and his team. The proceedings was published by Springer as IAG Symposia Vol 113.

One of the papers "Europian gravimetric geoid: satus report 1994" by Denker, Behrend & Torge is still available online (source).

IAG 113

Unfortnately this publication is not available at PSZ.

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Before IGFS it was IGGC

International Gravity Field Service (IGFS) event is held once in four years. The 1st in 2006 and followed subsequently in 2010 and 2014. The next up-coming one should be in 2018. Prior to IGFS the similar meeting was known as IGGC meeting organized by International Gravity and Geoid Commission (IGGC). There were three IGGC symposiums - the 1st in Graz (1994), the 2nd in Trieste Italy (1998) and the 3rd in Thessaloniki (2002).

The proceedings of the 1st was published by Springer. The 2nd published as journal and the 3rd was published by University of Thessaloniki.

Among the papers available from Trieste meeting is "study of the gravity field spectrum in Canada in view of cm-geoid determination" by Kotsakis & Sideris (source).

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3rd IGFS 2014 - Shanghai

The 3rd IGFS was held in Shanghai China on 30th June to July 6, 2014. The event was held at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory hosted by Chinese Academy of Science. More than 120 papers were submitted to the symposium. The Scientific Committee were chaired by Riccardo Barzhargi of Italy.

The 3rd IGFS website can be accessed here. The program and presentation list can be download here.

The proceedings is to be published by Springer.

3rd IGFS General Assembly Shanghai Poster

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2nd IGFS 2010 - Fairbanks Alaska

After the successful of the 1st IGFS the 2nd Symposium followed in 2010 in Fairbanks Alaska. It was hosted by Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska on September 20-22. The Scientific Committee is led also by Rene Forsberg (as the 1st IGFS).

The 2nd IGFS website is here and info on papers presented are here.

Among the papers presented is "The DTU10 Global Gravity field and mean sea surface - improvements in the Arctic" by Ole Andersen - (dtu10).

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Turkey Geoid Models

In Turkey the task of computing its national geoid is under the purview of Geodesy Department, a division under the General Command of Mapping. They have put up efforts publishing a number of geoid since mid-70's. The first Turkey geoid was determined in 1976 (Turkey Geoid 1976). It was determined using astrogeodetic method. Then in 1991 they came up with Turkish Geoid 1991 (TG-91) computed using LSC of the remove-restore method. In 1994 another new geoid was computed - Turkish Astrogeodetic Geoid 1994 (TAG-94). Another geoid computation up-dating effort was done in 1999 with the creation of updated Turkish Geoid (TG-99A). TG-99A  was computed also by LSC approach. All publications describing about Turkey Geoid 1976, TG-91, TAG-94 and TG-99A were written in Tukish.

The most recent geoid of Turkey is Turkish Geoid 2009 (TG-09). It was also computed using LSC approach of remove-restore procedure. In addition to TG-09 a Turkish Hybrid Geoid Model 2009 (THG-09) was also created. THG-09 was computed using FFT technique using EGM08, DNSC08 sea gravity anomalies as well as terrestrial gravity data. The work on THG-09 was published in Studia Geophys Geodaetica (Kilicoglu et. al, 2011).

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Physical Geodesy Research at Czech

Research works in physical geodesy in Czech Republic are still gaining momentum. This is expected as there are a number of well known geodesist are of Czech origin who are still actively contributing their works. Among them are Milos Pick, Petr Holota and Pavel Novak.

Below are some of the PhD research topics in physical geodesy offered for year 2016-17 at University of West Bohemia (CZU) as shown at their website;

Application of potential theory for determination of the Earth's gravity field.
Comptation of precise local gravity field model for height transformation in the Czech Republic.
Determination of temporal variations of the Earth's gravity field from available local gravity data or global geopotential models.
Forward modelling in geodesy.
Gravity field field mapping through combination of heterogenous gravity field data.
Parameterization of the Earth's gravity field through combination of heterogenous gravimetric and gradiometric data.
Variational methods for solving problems of potential theory in physical geodesy.

Some of PhD geodesy topics at Czech universities

Petr Holota
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