Buku "The Shape and Size of the Earth" 2019

Sebuah buku paling kini "The Shape and Size of the Earth" tulisan Dino Boccaletti. Terbitan Springer 2019.

A Historical Journey from Homer to Artificial Satellites

Contents;

The Greco-Roman World

The Roman World from the End of the Republic to the End of the Empire

The Middle Ages

From the Age of the Great Transoceanic Discoveries to the New Measurements of the Earth

The Shape and the Size of the Earth in the Eighteen Century

From the French Revolution to the Artificial Satellites

Epilogue - Impressions of a Journey

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Wild and Leica 2008

Wild which later became Leica has long history of surveying instrument range of products. Some were shown in the following ad.

product history 1921 to 1999 (total station)
GPS 1984 to 199?

Smart Station 2004 to 2008

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Leica GPS System 500

Leica what year?

Leica GPS System 500

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A New Canadian Geoid Model 1999

A paper by Fotopoulos, Kotsakis & Sideris "A new Canadian geoid model in support of levelling by GPS'. Published in Geomatica 53(4):53-62.

Geomatica Vol 53, 1999

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Plane & Geodetic Surveying (Aylmer Johnson)

A surveying book written by Cambridge Senior Lecturer - Alymer Jonhson (b.1951). The book was published by CRC Press in 2014. Dr Johnson taught surveying at Cambridge for over thirty years

front cover

back cover

The contents - twelve chapters as follow;

Introduction; General principles of surveying; Principal surveying activities, Angle measurement; Distance measurement; Levelling; Satellite surveying; Geoids, ellipsoids and co-ordinate transformation; Map projections, Reduction of distance measurements; Adjustment of observations; Trigonometric heighting.

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Eicker PhD - Gravity field and radial basis functions

What is radial basis functions and how it is been used in geoid computation? One need to read a phd thesis entitled "Gravity field refinement by radial basis functions from in-situ satellite data" for an answer. The thesis was submitted by Annettee Eicker in 2008.

Publication of Bonn University

The thesis is downloadable from Bonn Uni - source. And from DGK.

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Geoid computation using Ring Integration Method at UNB (1992)

Geoid computation by Ring Integration Method was introduced by AHH Kearsley of UNSW in mid-80s. In UNB a MSc thesis on such topic has been worked and submitted by Tsen in 1992.

Arthur Tsen's MSc thesis (1992)

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Geomatics: Does the name make a difference? (2000)

Hannah of Otago Uni and a co-author from Calgary U wrote an interesting paper about name change from Surveying to Geomatics. Hannah concludes that such name change is not really helps in the case of his Department at Otago U.

Geomatica 54(2):147-156 

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IAG 143 - 150 Years of IAG (Potsdam 2013)

IAG 143 is the proceedings of IAG Symposium 150 Years of IAG. The Symposium was held in Potsdam  in September 2013. IAG143 was edited jointly by Rizos and Pascal Willis.

IAG 143 (Published in 2016)

Trimble Robotic Total Station 2004

A new product from Trimble - 5600 Servo, Autolock and Robotic Total Station - the first total station with on-board color graphical Windows CE capabilities.

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Trimble R-Track Technology 2004

Trimble GPS 2004 - below is what claimed by Trimble in their advertisment;

Since the first EDM and the first GPS RTK surveying system, Trimble has been helping surveyors get the job done better and faster. In 2004 Trimble introduced the Trimble R7, Trimble R8 and Trimble NetRS receivers with R-Track Technology - the first survey receivers capable of using the coming civilian signal (LC2) from a whole new generation of GPS satellites.

Trimble R7, R8 and Trimble NetRS

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Land Surveying in 18th & 19 Century (Dublin) 2011

A PhD thesis entitled “Land surveying in 18^th and early 19^th - Century Dublin” was written by Finnian O’Cionnaithmm at Dept of History, National U of Ireland. The thesis examined in April 2011 and was about 400 pages long. The research examined in detail the history and also include technology, methods, processes and cartographic style of Dublin’s land surveyors. 

The period covered by this research, 1690-1810, was a time of transformation in the surveying profession.

Finnian O'Cionnaithmm (linkedin)

Contents;

Chp 1 - The profession of land surveying in the eighteenth century

Chp 2 – The science of eighteenth-century surveying

Chp 3 - The art of eighteenth-century land surveying

Chp 4 - Urban surveying in eighteenth-century Dublin

Chp 5 - Engineering surveying in eighteenth-century Dublin

Recent addition;

Read recent developments about history book published by O'Cionnaithmm (universityobserver and dublincity)

Book by Finnian
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