Kursus V-Stars (2001)

Tugas rasmi semasa di Melbourne ialah menghadiri kursus V-Stars selama lima hari. Kursus dianjurkan oleh Vision Metrology Services, Dept of Geomatics, University of Melbourne. Pengendali utama ialah Danny Brizzi.

Sijil V-Stars

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Souvenir MEL

Pertama kali melawat Melbourne pada Ogos 2001 kerana tugas rasmi di Melb Uni. Sebelum balik singgahlah kedai souvenir mencari sesuatu untuk dibawa balik. Matawang AUD memanglah tinggi. Pen souvenir pun dah mencecah AUD9 untuk empat batang.

Souvenir from Melbourne

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Tesis pelajar (2000-2001)

Pada sesi 2000/01 seramai tiga pelajar menyiapkan tesis tahun akhir seperti mana nama dan tajuk berikut;

Abdul Rashid Jusoh - Pembangunan Sistem Pangkalan Data Maklumat Inventori Makmal Ukur Kejuruteraan & Kadaster Menggunakan Perisian Microsoft Access 2000.
Khairulnizam M Idris - Analisis Deformasi Jaringan Simulasi Di Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Low Chee Seng - Penghasilan Perisian Pengoptimuman Rekabentuk Jaringan Kawalan Dengan Penggunaan Visual Basic 6.0
Projek tesis Low Chee Seng diselia secara bersama dengan Prof Halim Setan.

Nota: Khairulnizam kini bertugas sebagai Pensyarah Kanan di FGHT manakala Abdul Rashid dan Low Chee Seng tiada maklumat yang diketahui mengenai karier mereka.

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Parameter Estimation & Hypothesis Testing (Koch, 1999)

A book written by Karl-Rudolf Koch (Institute of Theoretical Geodesy, TU Bonn) published in 1999 as second edition.

Koch (1999) - Parameter Estimation

Contents:

Introduction - 1) Vector and matrix algebra; 2) Probability theory; 3) Parameter estimation in linear models; 4) Hypothesis testing, interval estimation and test for outliers.

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FIG Deformation Symposium Olsztyn (1999)

The 9th FIG Symposium on Deformation Measurements was held in Olsztyn Poland, in September 1999 hosted by the Institute of Geodesy, Warmia and Masuria University. Chairman of WG 6.1 (Prof Adam Chrzanowski) thanks Olsztyn for organizing the 9^th symposium. They managed to organized the event even in short notice arrangement. Originally the symposium was supposed to be held in Melbourne or Venezuela as what was decided during the last symposium in Hong Kong but both could not made it.

Proceedings of the 9th FIG SoDM

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Bomford Prize IAG Birmingham 1999 (Veronique Dehant)

IAG Birmingham 1999 Bomford Prize was awarded to Veronique Dehant, of Royal Observatory of Belgium for his work on nutation - observation and theory.

Due to the gravitational attraction of the Moon and the Sun and also the planets, the Earth deforms and undergoes polar motion, variations of the length-of-day and nutations. The amplitudes of these induced deformations and forced motions are additionally modified by the ocean and the atmosphere. These nutations can be observed by using Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and can be computed from an Earth model involving physical parameters for the Earth’s interior. The comparison of the observation and the theory leads to a better understanding of the physics of the Earth’s interior, which in turn, allows to readjust the model.

Dehant's work in the nutation field can be described by different steps improving the nutation models and starting from the adopted nutation model by the IAU and the IUGG based on the rigid Earth nutation series of Kinoshita (1977) convolved with the model of Wahr’s (1981) nutation for an ellipsoidal rotating Earth, primarily in hydrostatic equilibrium, with an elastic inner core, a liquid core and an elastic mantle.

Dehant introduced mantle inelasticity in the input model. This work was completed for his PhD in 1986 under supervision of P Melchior.

Dehant V., 1986, "Intégration des équations aux déformations d'une Terre elliptique, inélastique, en rotation uniforme et à noyau liquide.", Ph.D. Thesis, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in French, 298 pp.

Veronique Dehant (read cv - here)
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Levallois Medal IAG Birmingham 1999 - Torben Krarup

A committee consisting of all IAG Past Presidents unanimously recommended to award at this General Assembly the Levallois Medal to Dr.h.c. Torben Krarup. Krarup, since about 1969, is generally recognized as the authority on physical geodesy. The name of "least–squares collocation" is inseparably connected with Torben. This idea goes back to the time when KP Schwarz was the chairman of an IAG Study Group on Mathematical Methods in Physical Geodesy of which Krarup was the most active and inspiring member.

Torben Krarup (1919 - 2005) read obituary here - springer
Dr.tech. h.c. degree in 1982 Graz

Krarup born March 2, 1919 in Odder (Denmark), he studied first mathematics and physics and then geodesy in Copenhagen, finishing 1952. At the Danish Geodetic Institute he was instrumental in geodetic computations, having actively participated in the construction of the electronic computer GIER built at the Geodetic Institute around 1960. So he was a pioneer also in this field.

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