2nd IGFS 2010 - Fairbanks Alaska

After the successful of the 1st IGFS the 2nd Symposium followed in 2010 in Fairbanks Alaska. It was hosted by Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska on September 20-22. The Scientific Committee is led also by Rene Forsberg (as the 1st IGFS).

The 2nd IGFS website is here and info on papers presented are here.

Among the papers presented is "The DTU10 Global Gravity field and mean sea surface - improvements in the Arctic" by Ole Andersen - (dtu10).

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Turkey Geoid Models

In Turkey the task of computing its national geoid is under the purview of Geodesy Department, a division under the General Command of Mapping. They have put up efforts publishing a number of geoid since mid-70's. The first Turkey geoid was determined in 1976 (Turkey Geoid 1976). It was determined using astrogeodetic method. Then in 1991 they came up with Turkish Geoid 1991 (TG-91) computed using LSC of the remove-restore method. In 1994 another new geoid was computed - Turkish Astrogeodetic Geoid 1994 (TAG-94). Another geoid computation up-dating effort was done in 1999 with the creation of updated Turkish Geoid (TG-99A). TG-99A  was computed also by LSC approach. All publications describing about Turkey Geoid 1976, TG-91, TAG-94 and TG-99A were written in Tukish.

The most recent geoid of Turkey is Turkish Geoid 2009 (TG-09). It was also computed using LSC approach of remove-restore procedure. In addition to TG-09 a Turkish Hybrid Geoid Model 2009 (THG-09) was also created. THG-09 was computed using FFT technique using EGM08, DNSC08 sea gravity anomalies as well as terrestrial gravity data. The work on THG-09 was published in Studia Geophys Geodaetica (Kilicoglu et. al, 2011).

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Physical Geodesy Research at Czech

Research works in physical geodesy in Czech Republic are still gaining momentum. This is expected as there are a number of well known geodesist are of Czech origin who are still actively contributing their works. Among them are Milos Pick, Petr Holota and Pavel Novak.

Below are some of the PhD research topics in physical geodesy offered for year 2016-17 at University of West Bohemia (CZU) as shown at their website;

Application of potential theory for determination of the Earth's gravity field.
Comptation of precise local gravity field model for height transformation in the Czech Republic.
Determination of temporal variations of the Earth's gravity field from available local gravity data or global geopotential models.
Forward modelling in geodesy.
Gravity field field mapping through combination of heterogenous gravity field data.
Parameterization of the Earth's gravity field through combination of heterogenous gravimetric and gradiometric data.
Variational methods for solving problems of potential theory in physical geodesy.

Some of PhD geodesy topics at Czech universities

Petr Holota
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Geoid Modelling by LS Modified Hotine – TTU PhD 2016

Sebuah tesis PhD berkaitan geoid modelling telah diselesaikan di Tallinn Technical University. Tesis ditulis oleh Silja Mardla dengan tajuk “Regional Geoid Modelling by the Least Squares Modified Hotine Formula Using Gridded Gravity Disturbances”. Tesis diselia oleh Prof Artu Ellmann dan turut menjadi pemeriksa ialah Prof Sjoberg dari KTH. Menariknya Silja Mardla adalah anak kepada Presiden Estonia (ibu beliau ialah Presiden Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid b.1969, menjadi presiden pada usia 46 tahun).

PhD TTU (2016)

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Summer School - Airborne Gravity for Geodesy

A summer school program "Airborne Gravity for Geodesy" was organized by  US National Geodetic Survey. The school was held on May 23-27 in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Airborne Gravity for Geodesy

More info available here - NGS.

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Precision Surveying (Ogundare, 2015)

Sebuah buku teks untuk geomatik "Precision Surveying: The Principles and Geomatics Practice" telah berada di pasaran. Buku ditulis oleh Ogundare terbitan Wiley pada Julai 2015. Buku berharga GBP100 atau USD140 boleh diperolehi di Kinokuniya pada harga Rm640.

Ogundare adalah graduan PhD dari UNB pada 1996 di bawah seliaan Chrzanowski. Prof Chrzanowski menulis Forward buku ini dan menyebut yang Ogundare merupakan 'one of my best graduate students at UNB about twenty years ago'. Chrzanowski seterusnya menyambung "He was a hard working, young scientist, eager to learn, and very thorough in his work".

Ogundare kini mengajar di British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada.

Precision Surveying

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Laporan Tahunan Jupem 2015

 

Laporan Tahunan Jupem 2015.

Source - link.

Sebuah jalanraya Kashmir

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