Airborne Gravimetric Project in Sabah Marine Areas

Jupem has actively pursuing airborne gravimetric project in Malaysia for the past ten years. The project began in 2003 in Sarawak and Sabah and in 2004 in Peninsular M'sia. The most recent airborne gravimetry project was for the marine areas of Sabah. A paper describing the project was written recently by Dr Majid Kadir together with his team whom get involved in implementing the project.

Paper published in J of GS (Feb 2017)

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Bengkel Pembelajaran Abad Ke-21

Pagi ini telah diadakan Bengkel Pembelajaran Abad Ke-21 di DK 1. Bengkel jadualnya bermula pada jam 9 pagi. Namun kehadiran yang belum ramai maka tertangguh hampir setengah jam. Antara topik yang disampaikan adalah Pengenalan Pembelajaran Abad Ke-21 (oleh TDA) dan i-CGPA (oleh Penyelaras PG).

Suasana awal sebelum bengkel bermula

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Tenzer now at HKPU

Dr Robert Tenzer is now an academic staff at HKPU.

Robert Tenzer website at HKPU

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Persaraan KPU.

Ketua Pengarah Ukur dan Pemetaan (KPU) Dato' Sr Hasan Jamil telah menamat tugas beliau sebagai KPU. Beliau mula bersara selepas hari terakhir di Jupem pada 28 Jun lalu. Serentak itu beliau juga mengakhiri tugas sebagai Pengerusi Lembaga Juruukur Tanah Berlesen (LJT).

Penghargaan sebagai KPU

Penghargaan sebagai Pengerusi LJT

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Majlis Hari Raya G&G

G&G mengadakan majlis jamuan hari raya aidil fitri pada hari ini. Majlis bermula jam 12.30 tgh hari bertempat di Lab G&G. Selain sambutan aidil fitri majlis ini juga diadakan sempena kejayaan Dr Yusop menamat pengajian PhD dan akan berangkat pulang ke negara asal beliau Nigeria. Majlis juga meraikan bakal haji PM KHO.

Dr Yusop memberi ucapan

Foto kenangan

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Undangan Majlis Prof Halim

Sempat menghadiri undangan majlis perkahwinan anak Prof Halim Setan di Shah Alam. Hadir bersama di majlis tersebut ialah Prof Shahrum Ses dan Rusli Othman.

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IAG 146 Refag Luxembourg 2014 (2017)

IAG 146 "REFAG 2014" is the latest IAG Symposia proceedings published recently by Springer. It is the proceedings of the IAG Commission 1 Symposium held in Luxembourg in October 2014. The proceedings was edited by Tonie van Dam from University of Luxembourg. Series editor was Rizos (UNSW) and Pascal Willis as Associate Editor. REFAG stands for Reference Frames for Applications in Geoscience.

There were six sessions covered in the symposium;

1. Theory and concepts (Zuheir Altamimi)
2. Geodetic measurement techniques (Tom Herring)
3. Regional reference frames (Richard Wonnacott)
4. Celestial to terrestrial frames transformations (Johannes Boehm)
5. Usage and applications of reference frames in Geosciences (Tonie van Dam)
6. Georeferencing in practice (Mikael Lilje)

IAG 146 - REFAG 2014 (published in 2017)
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Planetary Geodesy

Planetary Geodesy has became topic of interest among geodesist and actively pursued in the past thirty years. Torge 2001 (Geodesy 3rd Edition) has listed the following reading as reference materials on lunar and planetary geodesy;

Bills, BG and SP Synott (1987) Planetary Geodesy. Rev Geophys, 25:833-839

Kaula, WM  (1993) Higher order statistics of planetary gravities and topographies. Geophys Res Letters 20:2583-2586

Nerem, RS (1995) Terrestrial and planetary gravity fields. Rev of Geophys., Suppl 494-476.

Baca "Planetary Geodesy - past discoveries".  caltech edu - link.

Sebuah buku tentang Planetary Geodesy

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Geodesist Rudolf Sigl (1928-1998)

Rudolf Sigl adalah geodesist ulung berasal German. Beliau lahir pada 1928 dan mendapat akademik dari TU Munich. Tamat Dip-Ing pada 1951, PhD pada 1954 dan Habilitation pada 1956. Beliau memperolehi didikan dari Max Kneissl (1907-1973) [Rector of  TUM 1958-1960]. Sigl memula kariernya di Institute of Astronomical & Physical Geodesy TU Munich.

Rudolf Sigl

(1928-1998)

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Gottfried Konecny (b.1930)

Gottfried Konecny graduated with his first degree in Munich. Then he went to OSU under Fulbright scholarship and work under Prof Fred Doyle and graduated with MSc. Later, he continued doing his PhD in Munich. After completed his doctorate he went to Canada and work in UNB for twelve years. Later he went for sabbatical in Houston, Texas. There he work again with Doyle and was also involved with Nasa moon space program. There he worked on the selection of landing sites on the moon in the Apollo programme. Then he moved back to German teaching at Hannover.
Konecny contribution to SpaceLab mission - read this (source - spacelab).

The Metric Camera is a DLR experiment in imaging technology. The Metric Camera is considered to be the first civil spaceborne experiment dedicated to photogrammetry; it was proposed and managed by Gottfried Konecny (PI) of the Institute of Photogrammetry and Surveying at the University of Hannover, Germany. At the start of the 1980s, spaceborne imagery for topographic applications could not be provided by Landsat imagery [Landsat-4 was launched July 16, 1984; TM (Thematic Mapper) provided a resolution of 30 m, and MSS (Multispectral Scanner) of 80 m, with both sensors on a swath of 185 km].

Read his career here - geospatial world.

Prof Emiritus Gottfried Konecny

(source - leibniz universitat hannover)

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Klaus Linkwitz (1948-2017)

The following info on Prof Linkwitz was taken from his website in Stuttgart University;

Klaus Linkwitz was born in Bad Oeynhausen and after school, military service as Luftwaffenhelfer, captivity and internship 1948 studied geodesy in Stuttgart and Munich. Since 1953 he has worked in practice in numerous engineering projects and surveying expeditions, especially in Central Asia - at this time pronounced pioneering achievements. His focus was in Afghanistan, where he worked as a project manager in road and tunnel construction.

In 1960, Mr. Linkwitz earned his doctorate with his dissertation on the topic "Error Theory and Compensation of Route Networks According to the Theory of Elastic Systems". In 1964 he was appointed Full Professor and Director of the IAGB at the then TH, now University of Stuttgart. He held this position for more than 31 years and has made the institute world-famous for his work on engineering geodesy, photogrammetry, balancing and special applications in construction.

Klaus Linkwitz was instrumental in the planning of the Olympic Roofs Munich 1972 with the Institute, where he developed new methods for their mathematical form finding and analysis: the so-called force density method. For geodesy in Stuttgart Klaus Linkwitz has earned great merits, from 1984 to 1995, he initiated the Collaborative Research Center 228 "High-precision navigation - Integration of geodetic and navigational methods". As spokesman Klaus Linkwitz has led this SFB, in addition to the geodesist colleagues Ackermann, Grafarend and Hartl with colleagues Gilles, Mehring, Sorg and Tiziani representatives of the faculties of physics, mechanical engineering and process engineering, thanks to its integrating effect to great success. Through his work within the SFBs, Klaus Linkwitz was able to give geodesy an interdisciplinary national and international significance. Mechanical engineering and process engineering were involved, thanks to its integrating effect led to great success. Through his work within the SFBs, Klaus Linkwitz was able to give geodesy an interdisciplinary national and international significance. Mechanical engineering and process engineering were involved, thanks to its integrating effect led to great success. Through his work within the SFBs, Klaus Linkwitz was able to give geodesy an interdisciplinary national and international significance.

Likewise, he did not shy away from the effort to build connections with fellow foreigners. Two honorary doctorates (ETH Zurich and TU Donetsk / Ukraine) demonstrate the diverse commitment. With the clarity of his language and the elegance of his argument, Prof. Linkwitz was always able to convince in the numerous committees and fields in which he was represented. Outside the university, the chairmanship of the German Geodetic Commission (DGK) from 1980-1987 should be mentioned.

Klaus Linkwitz was retired in 1996. He also lectured as an emeritus in the field of form finding of surface structures at the University of Stuttgart and was invited to guest lectures in many countries.

Klaus Linkwitz

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Ernst Heinrich Knickmeyer

Not much info found about Knickmeyer. Only the following were gathered after google searching;

Knickmeyer, Ernst Heinrich, Prof.-Dr.Ing., A, Univ. of Applied Scis, Brodaer Str. 2, D-17033 Neubrandenburg, Germany.

Department of Civil Engineering Neubrandenburg College Neubrandenburg Germany (source Bull Geodaetica 68(2) 1994.

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Lothar Grundig (b.1944)

Lothar graduated with thesis Datenverwaltungs konzepte für typische Aufgaben aus der Ingenieurgeodäsie (Data management concepts for typical tasks of engineering geodesy) Stuttgart 1987 (Habilitation) .

The following taken from a FIG paper - Korea Conference (source);

Prof Dr-Ing Lothar Gründig graduated Dipl.-Ing in Geodesy 1970, 1975 Dr.-Ing, 1987 habilitation at Stuttgart University. Since 1988 Professor of Geodesy, Adjustment and Engineering Surveying at the Technical University of Berlin.

At Researchgate his name spells Gruendig (source)

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Hilmar Ingensand (b.1947)

Among those whom graduated from German universities in 80's is Prof Dr Hilmar Ingensand. He graduated in 1985 with a PhD from Bonn. His thesis is "Ein Beitrag zur Entwicklung und Untersuchung hochgenauer elektronischer Neigungsmeßsysteme für kontinu- ierliche Messungen". Translated into english "A contribution to the development and investigation of highly accurate electronic tilt measurement systems for continuous measurements".

Ingensand is a Professor of Geodetic Metrology at Institute of Geodeys and Photogrammetry ETH Zurich since 1993. Prior to that he was a Development Engineer at Leica Heerbrugg AG Swiss. He is Emeritus at ETH since 2013.

Hilmar Ingensand (b.1947)

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