Sunday, September 2, 2018

Deformation Analysis - Biacs & Teskey (1990)


A paper by Biacs and Teskey " Deformation analysis of survey networks with interactive hypothesis testing and computer graphics". The paper was published in CISM Journal 1990.



CISM Journal ACSGC 1990 pp. 403-416

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Saturday, September 1, 2018

Flat Earth and Amazon (2008)


A book "Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South Ameria" was published by U of Chicago Press in 2008.


Brief highlight

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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

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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Monday, August 13, 2018

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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Friday, August 10, 2018

Leica GPS System 500


Leica what year?


Leica GPS System 500

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Thursday, August 9, 2018

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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Wednesday, August 8, 2018

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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