Konvokesyen ke-58 UTM

Majlis Konvokesyen ke-58 di adakan dua hari pada 29 dan 30 April 2017. Antara graduan pasca ijazah G&G yang menerima degree masing-masing adalah Amir Hamzah Othman, Jespal Singh, Adzlan Ainee (MSc) dan Nazirah (PhD).

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Test Sghu 4803

Test 1 for Sghu4803 was held this morning starts at 11.30 am. It was planned originally to be conducted last week but postponed due to one of the students unable to come. All of them were at the test this morning.

Full attendance

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Lawatan LI 3Sghu (Larkin Perdana)

Minggu lawatan LI 3Sghu tahun ini ditetapkan pada 16-23 April. Namun pada tarikh tersebut kedua-dua pelajar LI di Syarikat Nizam Ali yang perlu dilawat berada di tapak projek luar kawasan. Maka lawatan mereka ditunda lewat ke hari ini.

Pelajar LI Syarikat Nizam Ali

Mereka mengisi borang lawatan LI

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Penyeliaan LI (Polaris Survey)

Pada petang ini temubual diadakan dengan seorang pelajar LI 3Sghu Nur As Saffa Bt Russhakim. Beliau menjalani LI dengan Polaris Survey yang berpejabat di Tkt 16 Komtar JB. Urusan temubual diatur untuk diadakan di Fght. Beliau datang mengikut jadual yang ditetapkan pada pukul 2 ptg.

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Biased Solution of KTH Geoid

The development of KTH method was end up with three different solutions - biased solution, unbiased solution and optimum solution.

The explanation on why it referred to as biased solution was described in LE Sjoberg & A Hunegnaw Journal of Geodesy 74:232-238.

Look at eq(2) pg 233; then eq(5) pg 234; (5) is the equation for biased solution; by comparing them both will explain why (5) became biased.

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New Springer Geodesy Publication

What in store in geodesy springer ...

Regarding the IAG Symposia Series published by Springer, the IAG & Springer (Schuh, Hermann Drewes and Franz Kuglitsch) had a meeting with the Springer publishing editor responsible for the IAG Series in November where they decided the following two improvements:

1. The Series will, firstly, be published immediately as eBook, and, secondly,

2. change its name to “IAG Topical Collection” (in order to avoid the words “Symposium” and “Proceedings” in the sub-title that imply a lower image in ranking).
The procedure is a peer review as before, but it will be published online a few days after the acceptance by the IAG Editor-in-Chief Jeff Freymueller.

Existing two generations of Springer Geodesy - 1999 & 2001

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Sesi Pembentangan Progress Pengajian

Pagi ini diadakan sesi pembentangan progres pengajian MSc melalui penyelidikan. Sesi bermula sekitar jam 9.20.  Berlaku sedikit kelewatan kerana ambil masa untuk menyedia pasang sistem LCD. Seramai 11 pelajar sepatutnya membuat pembentangan. Namun cuma yang membuat pembentangan. Seorang dari mereka dimaklum sudah tidak lagi menerus pengajian kerana tarik diri. Manakala seorang lagi berada di ITB melakukan penyelidikan di sana.

Pelajar MSc dari Jupem KL (Nurhafizul)

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Majlis Apresiasi Fght 2017

Majlis yang dinama Apresiasi mula diadakan pada tahun lepas. Tahun ini merupakan siri kedua majlis tersebut. Ia diadakan dengan dua fungsi - merai pesara dan menyampai sijil kepada mereka yang memperolehi APK peringkat Fght.

Menerima sijil dari Timbalan Dekan

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Majlis Merai Bakal Pesara

Fght mengadakan satu majlis yang dinamakan "Majlis Apresiasi" pada petang ini. Satu daripada tujuan majlis tersebut adalah untuk merai  staf yang bakal bersara tahun ini. Setakat April seramai lima staf telah dan akan bersara. Mereka termasuklah Prof Hakim, PM Maizan, PM Buang, Puan Rogayah dan En Ghazali Khalid.

Group photo di Foyer T06

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Coordinates Magazine - Galileo

The latest issue of Coordinates highlights on Galileo GNSS.

Galileo 'Initial Services'

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Sghu4803 - The Fredericton Approach (FA)

Continuing lecture on the datum stability analysis using the approach of Fredericton. It is the final lecture of this topic. Attendance was 10/18. Some of the absentees were away participating in a rowing event and attending an IJM function.

Small class 10/18

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IAG 144 - IGFS Beijing (2017)

IAG 144 - IGFS 2014 is the proceedings of The 3rd International Gravity Field Service (IGFS) General Assembly which was successfully held in Shanghai, China from June 30 to July 6, 2014. The proceedings was Shuanggen Jin (of Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) & Riccardo Barzaghi (Politecnico di Milano). The series editor was Chris Rizos (also as IAG President). The symposium was organized by the International Gravity Field Service (IGFS), Commission 2 of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), and Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The symposium attracted 130 participants from 25 countries and the proceedings contain 24 peer-reviewed papers presented under six sessions;

1. Gravimetry and Gravity Networks (Convener - Sylvain Bonvalot & Dan Roman)
2. Global geopotential models and vertical datum unification (M Sideris & Jiancheng Li)
3. Local geoid/gravity modelling (Urs Marti & R Barzaghi)
4. Satellite gravimetry (Roland Pail & Shuanggen Jin)
5. Mass movements in the Earth system (Rene Forsberg & Shuanggen Jin)
6. Solid Earth investigations (Carla Braitenberg & Rene Forsberg)

IAG 144 (published in 2017)

Among the papers on geoid modelling were;

- A New Gravimetric Geoid Model for the Area of Sudan Using the Least Squares Collocation and a GOCE-Based GGM by Walyeldeen Godah and Jan Krynski.

- New Geoid of Greenland: A Case Study of Terrain and Ice Effects, GOCE and Use of Local Sea Level Data by Rene Forsberg and Tim Jensen

- New Geoid Model in the State of São Paulo by G.N. Guimarães, A.C.O.C. de Matos, and D. Blitzkow

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