NZ Vertical Datum (PhD Victoria 2016)

Recently, a PhD thesis entitled "Airborne gravity across NZ - for an improved vertical datum" was written by Jack McCubbine of Victoria University, Wellington. The thesis was  supervised by Dr Euan Smith, Dr Fabio Caratori and Dr Matt Amos, and submitted to the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Science. McCubbine obtained MMath from Exeter in 2012.

McCubbine PhD (Victoria Uni, Wellington)

Contents of the thesis;

- Heights and reference surfaces; the disturbing potential; gravity anomalies and geoid heights; vertical datums in NZ; terrestrial gravity in NZ; global gravity models (ggm); airborne gravity across NZ; combining data sets using LSC; computation of a new gravimetric quasigeoid; summary, research outcomes and recommendations for future work.

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MSc Airborne Gravimetry NZ (2016)

Another contribution of airborne gravimetry project in NZ is a MSc thesis entitled "Investigating the optimal integration of airborne, ship-borne, satellite and terrestrial gravity data for used in geoid determination". The thesis was written by Rachelle Winefield, a Geodetic Surveyor at LINZ. The thesis was submitted to Victoria University of Wellington in 2016. Rachelle graduated with MSc in Geophysics with merit.

Rachelle obtained BSurv from Otago in 2006. She also graduated with BA (Linguistic) from Massey 2007-2012. Rachelle work as Geodetic Surveyor with LINZ since 2007. (source - linkedin)

Rachelle Winefield (linkedin)

Senior Geodesists at LINZ (researchgate)

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Geodesists Ramesh Govind

When compiling reading materials on geoid in Australia we surely encountered papers jointly written by Kearsley and Govind. For instance "Geoid evaluation in Australia  - status and problems" paper presented at Geoid Symposium 1990 (source - springer). Another paper is Kearsley & Govind (1991) "Geoid evaluation in Australia" published in Australian Surveyor. Dr Ramesh Govind is now a Senior Lecturer at Division of Geomatics, Uni of Cape Town.

He is in the process of establishing a global analysis centre at UCT for undertaking high precision, multi-technique space geodesy data computation and analysis – contributing to international programs – through the international services for Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR), the French DORIS system, GNSS, and VLBI (using radio astronomy measurements). Read here - spacelab uct.

Geodesists Ramesh Govind

Short bio of Govind taken from UCT source;

Govind, who was born and grew up in Durban, left South Africa for exile in 1982 after completing a degree in surveying from the University of Natal. He moved to Australia, where he completed a master's degree in space and gravimetric geodesy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, followed a few years later by a PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado. After his PhD, he returned to Australia and contributed to the space geodesy effort there.

source - link and researchgate

PhD thesis "Absolute sea level monitoring in Australia: the geodetic fixing of tide gauge benchmarks using the GPS" U of Colorador Boulder 1994

MSc thesis "Orientation of the Australian Geodetic Datum in Earth Space by gravimetry" UNSW 1983

BSc thesis "Geodetic height system" University of Kwa-Zulu, Natal 1981

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PSM Proposal Presentation 2017

PSM presentation sessions were held today. There were eleven sessions - six in the morning and the rest in the afternoon. This year the presentation sessions were ran smoothly with all panels participated positively.

Before the presentation

After the presentation

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MH370 in Positioning Journal (2017)

A paper entitled "Geological insights from the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370" written by  University of Tasmania team of researcher. The paper was published in Position IT magazine Nov 2017 issue (source).

Position IT Nov 2017 (geomatics journal magazine)

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Test Mghu

Test 1 for Mghu Adv Eng Survey was held today. Attendance was full with one student came about fifteen minutes late.

Held at the postgraduate room C03

(after long break at UQ)

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Buku Surveying Instruments and Technology (2017)

Buku terbitan CRC Press tahun 2017.

Surveying

Contents;

Chapter 1 Introduction.

Surveying Profession and Instruments: Historical Perspective; Existing Books and Why We Decided to Write Our Book; Structure of the Book

Chapter 2 Levels.

Optical Levels; Laser Levels; References

Chapter 3 Theodolites.

Historical Prototypes of Modern Theodolites; Optical Theodolite; Electronic Theodolite; Basic Operation Principle of a Theodolite; Main Parts of a Theodolite; Bibliography

Chapter 4 Electronic Distance Measurer (EDM).

Physical Fundamentals of Surveying Electronic Distance Measurers (EDMs); Time Interval Measuring Methods Applied in EDMs; Semiconductor Photodetectors and Light Sources of EDMs; EDM Optical Schemes; Bibliography

Chapter 5 Total Stations.

Total Station Configuration; Additional Appliances of a Total Station Telescope; Robotic Total Stations; Checking and Adjusting Total Stations; References

Chapter 6 Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS).

Fundamental Principles of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS); Coordinate Systems; Types of GNSS; Differential GPS and SBAS; GNSS Receivers; GNSS Applications; References

Chapter 7 Obtaining and Processing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Data for Surveying and Mapping.

Obtaining Surveying Data Using Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs); UAV Photogrammetry; UAV Mapping Project Management Considerations; UAV Mapping Project Cost Considerations

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Nasa Societal Reading Sources

Nasa has a lot of reading materials on various aspect of their activities. For instance a collection of articles on societal impact of space flight in context which contain 34 chapters can be access online.

Chapter 1: Has spaceflight had an impact on society? an interpretative framework.
Chapter 2: What are turning points in history, and what were they for the space age?
Chapter 3: In search of a red cosmos: space exploration , public culture and Soviet society.

More about it can be access here ... source: history-nasa.

NASA (Published in 2015
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