NCTU Geodesy Visit (2006)

In December 2006 I have visited National Chiao Tong University, Hsinchu,Taiwan. Hsinchu is about 90 km from Taipei and it took about one hour drive to reach NCTU. I was there for two weeks working at Space Geodesy Laboratory hosted by Prof Cheinway Hwang. The Space Geodesy Lab is a division under Civil Engineering Department, NCTU and is headed by Prof Cheinway. Dr Cheinway is an expert in physical geodesy particularly on geoid computation, satellite altimetry and marine gravity.

Department of Civil Engineering, NCTU

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ISG 2006 Shah Alam

I have attended the ISG 2006 held at Sheraton Hotel Shah Alam hosted by Uitm Dept of Surveying Science. ISG 2006 stands for International Symposium & Exhibition on Geoinformation held on September 2006. My participation is through presentation of a paper entitled "The adjustment of regional levelling network using in-house developed software".  The paper described about the implementation of least-squares adjustment for levelling network using MoreFix. I have developed MoreFix as a result of many years of effort writing the software using Fortran.

Presenting paper at ISG 2006 session 4D

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1st IGFS Turkey (2006)

In 2006 besides Wuhan Hotine-Marussi there is another geodesy symposium organized by IAG - The first international symposium of the International Gravity Field Service (IGFS) was held August 28 - September 1, in Istanbul Turkey. This was the first symposium of the International Gravity Field Service (IGFS) of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), and it continues the series of symposia of the former International Gravity and Geoid Commission. IGFS is a new unified "umbrella" IAG service with its overall goal is to coordinate the servicing of the geodetic and geophysical community with gravity field-related data, software and information.

Assoc Prof Bihter Erol (source)

A total of 78 papers have been submitted to appear in this symposium proceedings. The proceedings can be downloaded from here - igfs. Rene Forsberg (President of IGFS) and Bihter Erol (member of LOC) played major role in organizing IGFS 2006.

Only online version available

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IAG 133 - Observing Our Changing Earth (Perugia 2007)

IAG 132 "Observing Our Changing Earth" is the proceedings of the IAG General Assembly held in Perugia Italy in July 2007. The proceedings was edited by Michael Sideris. The 2007 Assembly attracted over 400 geodesists from 49 countries, including 120 students.

This volume contains the proceedings of these five Symposia, which are listed below:

Symp GS001: Reference Frames [Convener: H. Drewes; Co-convener: A. Dermanis]
Symp GS002: Gravity Field [Convener: C. Jekeli; Co-conveners: U. Marti, S. Okubo, N. Sneeuw, I. Tziavos, G. Vergos, M. Vermeer, P. Visser]
Symp GS003: Earth Rotation and Geodynamics [Convener: V. Dehant; Co-convener: Chengli Huang]
Symp GS004: Positioning and Applications [Convener: C. Rizos; Co-convener: S. Verhagen]
Symp GS005: The Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) [Conveners: M. Rothacher; Co-conveners: R. Neilan, H.-P. Plag]

IAG 133 (Published in 2009)

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IAG 132: VI Hotine-Marussi Symposium (2006)

IAG 132 "VI Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Geodesy" is the proceedings  of the IAG Symposium held at Wuhan China in 2006. The proceedings was edited by Xu Peiliang (Kyoto University), Jingnan Liu (Wuhan University) and Dermanis (AUT Thessaloniki). Series editor is Fernando Sanso. The VI Hotine-Marussi Symposium was organized by the Inter Commission Committee on Theory (ICCT) with Xu Peiliang is the President of ICCT.

Xu Peiliang (Kyoto University - link; researchgate)

PhD Geodesy, Wuhan 1989; joined Kyoto U in 1997

The VI Hotine-Marussi Symposium was unique in the senses that:
(i) this is the first Hotine-Marussi symposium to go beyond mathematical geodesy; (ii) this is the first time for a Hotine-Marussi symposium to be held outside Europe; and (iii) this is the first time that a Hotine Marussi symposium was organized by an IAG entity instead of by Prof. F. Sanso and his group, as was traditionally the case.

IAG 132 (Published in 2008)

The symposium covers the following topics - satellite gravity and geodynamics; reference frame, gps theory, algorithms and applications; statistical estimation: methods and applications; GBVPs inverse problem theory;

Among the papers published in IAG 132;
Variance Component Estimation by the Method of Least-Squares  by P.J.G. Teunissen, A.R. Amiri-Simkooei.

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LSGI HKPU (2005)

I visited LSGI at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU) for the first time in Dec 2005. The visit was on a special program as visiting researcher and the trip there was coincided with another big event at LSGI - The 2005 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS (GNSS2005) which took place in Hong Kong, 8-10 December 2005. My trip to HKPU was joined also by another colleague Mr Rusli Othman.

This research visit was mainly utilized to discussed with Prof Chen Yonqi on geodetic deformation analysis in line with the on-going IRPA research on the same topic. The opportunity also was taken to access HKPU Main Library to look for past papers in Manuscripta Geodaetica which were not available at PSZ Utm.

Photo taken at HKPU in-front GNSS 2005 banner

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IAG 131 - Geodetic Deformation Spain (2005)

IAG 131 "Geodetic Deformation Monitoring: From Geophysical to Engineering Roles" is the proceedings of IAG Symposium held in Jaen Spain in 2005. The proceedings was edited by Fernando Sanso and Antonio J Gill (University of Jaen). The Symposium has been organized by the Geodesy Research Group of the Jaén University (Spain). About eighty people from more than twenty countries have attended the symposium. Fifty-five papers have been presented in the oral and poster sessions. The opening address was on the topic "Recent Crustal Movements, Geodetic Tasks, History, Present and Future" by H.G. Henneberg (University of Zulia, Venezuela).

A J Gil (researchgate)

Gil is also active in geoid research particularly in GeoMed2 project

IAG 131 (Published in 2006)

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