Tenzer now at HKPU

Dr Robert Tenzer is now an academic staff at HKPU.

Robert Tenzer website at HKPU

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Persaraan KPU.

Ketua Pengarah Ukur dan Pemetaan (KPU) Dato' Sr Hasan Jamil telah menamat tugas beliau sebagai KPU. Beliau mula bersara selepas hari terakhir di Jupem pada 28 Jun lalu. Serentak itu beliau juga mengakhiri tugas sebagai Pengerusi Lembaga Juruukur Tanah Berlesen (LJT).

Penghargaan sebagai KPU

Penghargaan sebagai Pengerusi LJT

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Majlis Hari Raya G&G

G&G mengadakan majlis jamuan hari raya aidil fitri pada hari ini. Majlis bermula jam 12.30 tgh hari bertempat di Lab G&G. Selain sambutan aidil fitri majlis ini juga diadakan sempena kejayaan Dr Yusop menamat pengajian PhD dan akan berangkat pulang ke negara asal beliau Nigeria. Majlis juga meraikan bakal haji PM KHO.

Dr Yusop memberi ucapan

Foto kenangan

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Undangan Majlis Prof Halim

Sempat menghadiri undangan majlis perkahwinan anak Prof Halim Setan di Shah Alam. Hadir bersama di majlis tersebut ialah Prof Shahrum Ses dan Rusli Othman.

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IAG 146 Refag Luxembourg 2014 (2017)

IAG 146 "REFAG 2014" is the latest IAG Symposia proceedings published recently by Springer. It is the proceedings of the IAG Commission 1 Symposium held in Luxembourg in October 2014. The proceedings was edited by Tonie van Dam from University of Luxembourg. Series editor was Rizos (UNSW) and Pascal Willis as Associate Editor. REFAG stands for Reference Frames for Applications in Geoscience.

There were six sessions covered in the symposium;

1. Theory and concepts (Zuheir Altamimi)
2. Geodetic measurement techniques (Tom Herring)
3. Regional reference frames (Richard Wonnacott)
4. Celestial to terrestrial frames transformations (Johannes Boehm)
5. Usage and applications of reference frames in Geosciences (Tonie van Dam)
6. Georeferencing in practice (Mikael Lilje)

IAG 146 - REFAG 2014 (published in 2017)
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Planetary Geodesy

Planetary Geodesy has became topic of interest among geodesist and actively pursued in the past thirty years. Torge 2001 (Geodesy 3rd Edition) has listed the following reading as reference materials on lunar and planetary geodesy;

Bills, BG and SP Synott (1987) Planetary Geodesy. Rev Geophys, 25:833-839

Kaula, WM  (1993) Higher order statistics of planetary gravities and topographies. Geophys Res Letters 20:2583-2586

Nerem, RS (1995) Terrestrial and planetary gravity fields. Rev of Geophys., Suppl 494-476.

Baca "Planetary Geodesy - past discoveries".  caltech edu - link.

Sebuah buku tentang Planetary Geodesy

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Geodesist Rudolf Sigl (1928-1998)

Rudolf Sigl adalah geodesist ulung berasal German. Beliau lahir pada 1928 dan mendapat akademik dari TU Munich. Tamat Dip-Ing pada 1951, PhD pada 1954 dan Habilitation pada 1956. Beliau memperolehi didikan dari Max Kneissl (1907-1973) [Rector of  TUM 1958-1960]. Sigl memula kariernya di Institute of Astronomical & Physical Geodesy TU Munich.

Rudolf Sigl

(1928-1998)

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