News & Events: School Surveying
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3 June 2008 -- Officials from the Chinese Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China in Sydney, Counsellor BAI Gang and Consul GUO Liang, visited the UNSW Image Analysis Lab to thank the CRCSI/UNSW/Lands InSAR Team for their wonderful efforts in supporting the earthquake rescue operation in China by working closely with their Japanese collaborators. Prof Graham Davies, the Dean for the UNSW Faculty of Engineering, hosted their visit. The Chinese official Xinhua News Agency, China Central Television (CCTV), Australian New Express Daily, and UNSW have sent journalists to report the event. The Australian Broadcast Corporation organised a radio interview with the Team in the morning as well. Their work had been reported earlier by The Sydney Morning Herald based in Sydney and The Science Times based in Beijing. These results have been shared with a number of agencies in China, including the China Earthquake Authority, the National Disaster Reduction Center of China, and the Expert Group for Earthquake Rescue and Disaster Mitigation under the State Council, as well as numerous research institutions.
12.5.2008 M8.0 Sichuan Earthquake mapped by satellite radar interferometry - Our InSAR team has joined the race, together with other InSAR teams from e.g. Oxford University, Stanford University, Harvard University and the US Geological Survey, in order to generate the first ground displacement map for the quake using satellite radar interferometry. Our team has worked around the clock as soon as the Japanese ALOS satellite successfully acquired imagery in the early morning of 20th May and released our results at noon on 21st May to the Chinese authorities. We are one of the first to get such results, thanks to the close collaboration with Japan's Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center (ERSDAC) and Kochi Women’s University. Details of our results are available from the webpage http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/LinlinGe/Earthquake/.
A/Prof Linlin Ge briefing Mr Bai and Prof Davies on the latest results of the Sichuan Quake
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Mr Bai presents the quadrupod with man-faced marks to the Team to symbolise the close collaboration between UNSW, China and Japan
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22 April 2008 -- Two graduate students, Omer Mubarak & Anthony Cole, were selected winners
of the U.S. Institute of Navigation's student scholarship to attend
the world's premier GPS/GNSS conference, the 21st International Technical
Meeting of the Satellite Division of the US
Institute of Navigation, ION-GNSS2008, Savannah, Georgia, 16-19
September. These are the 24th & 25th US ION student prize/scholarships
awarded to members of the SNAP Lab (the first being in 1988 to Bertrand
Merminod, and the 2nd & 3rd to Shaowei Han in 1995 and again in
1996, the 4th to Lao-Sheng Lin in 1997, the 5th to Linlin Ge in 1999,
the 6th & 7th to Liwen Dai and Horng-Yue Chen in 2000, the 8th &
9th to Clement Ogaja and Chon Satirapod in 2001, the 10th & 11th
to Michael Moore and Hung-Kyu Lee in 2002, the 12th & 13th to Steve
Hewitson and Volker Janssen in 2003, the 14th, 15th & 16th to Ravi
Babu, Jean Li and Binghao Li in 2004, the 18th & 19th to Michael
Chang and Jack Wang in 2005, and the 20th to Asghar Tabatabaei in 2006, the 21st, 22nd & 23rd to Bilal Amin, Weidong Ding and Faisal Khan in 2007). 13 papers authored or co-authored by staff
or students of the SNAP Lab were accepted for either
oral presentations or as alternates within their sessions.
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April 2008 -- Final year undergraduate students
doing survey work at the new site for a Survey Camp at Berry, led by Dr Bruce Harvey.
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7 April 2008 -- One of the highlights of the School
Year is the Graduation & Prizegiving Dinner which takes place
on the evening of the graduation ceremony itself... It was held at the Le Montage Reception Centre, Lilyfield, Sydney. Dr. Craig Roberts was the MC, and the guest speaker was Mr. Dan Paull (CEO, PSMA, and alumnus of the School). This year Mr. Jason Phipps won the University Medal for superior academic performance.
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Some of the 2008 graduating class ....
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Adrian White receiving the Gold Medal from the Surveyor General Mr. Warwick Watkins. |
Approximately 110 people attended.
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The following prizes & scholarships were awarded to
students and graduates of the School... download
the Program ...
CO-OP Scholarship Winner: Peter SHEPHERD
RTA Scholarship Winner: Apurva IYER
The Association of Public Service Surveyors Prize,
awarded to: Nicholas WOODWARD
The George Bennett Millennium Prize, awarded
to: Nicholas WOODWARD
Sinclair Knight Merz Prize, awarded to: David CONWAY
AAMHatch Prize in Surveying & Spatial Information
Systems, awarded to: Ryan FIFIELD
E.G. Masters Memorial Prize, awarded to: Jason PHIPPS
Board of Surveying and Spatial Information Medal,
awarded to: Adrian WHITE
The Consulting Surveyors NSW Prize in Land Development,
awarded to: Michael TRIFIRO
The Institution of Surveyors NSW Inc. Prize,
awarded to: Jason PHIPPS
Spatial Sciences Institute Prize for Photogrammety
& Remote Sensing, awarded to: Jason PHIPPS
R.S. Mather Memorial Prize, awarded to: Jason PHIPPS
The Civilcad Prize, awarded to: Luke SPITZER
1 April 2008 -- First SurvSoc BBQ for the year, students,
staff & members of the profession attended, with a special
welcome to our first year students, and new SurvSoc shirts!... photo
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14 March 2008 -- Three students received Deans Awards at the ceremony: Nicholas Woodward, Joel Haasdyk and narelle Underwood...
L to R: Nicholas Woodward (Stage 1), Mark Dimmock (for sponsor Parsons Brinckerhoff), Prof. Richard Henry (DVC - Academic), Joel Haasdyk (Stage 2), Prof. Dianne Wiley (Dean, Faculty of Engineering), Narelle Underwood (Stage 3), Prof. Chris Rizos (HoS, SSIS) |
Joel Haasdyk, Narelle Underwood, Nicholas Woodward
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February 2007 -- Workshop on "RTK GPS/GNSS for the Modern Surveyor", run by Dr Craig Roberts.
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| 30 January 2008 -- The School received on loan from the DLR (German Aerospace Agency) a specially-designed Septentrio GeNeRx receiver for the tracking of the prototype Galileo satellite GIOVE-A. It was installed on the roof of the Electrical Engineering Building and has been operated continuously since 4 February, streaming tracking data back to Germany as well as logging it into the SydNet CORS network database. This is the only GIOVE-A receiver in Australia operated by a university or Australian agency...for more photos see http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/sydnet/hardware/generx/gallery/ |
Receiver unpacked and ready to be setup on EE Bld roof |
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