News & Events: School Surveying
and Spatial Information Systems ... 2005-2004
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23 November 2005 -- The School hosted a visit
by 14 members of the State Bureau of Surveying & Mapping,
P.R. China.
9 November 2005 -- Final Year Thesis Conference
This year 17 projects were presented covering areas
as diverse as tsunami early warning systems, ecologically sustainable
developments, an account of surveyors in the armed services, mine
subsidence, through to RTK for cadastral surveying. (Details
of the program schedule click here.) Summaries
of each student project have been placed on the School's website.
The presentations were followed by some informal drinks and nibbles
with the students, staff and visitors.
The School would like to extend its thanks to all
the students for their efforts producing an interesting seminar
explaining the outcomes of well-researched thesis topics. We would
like to also thank the parents of the students, and members of
the profession who attended. Special thanks go to those members
of the profession who co-supervised students, or supported our
students through the loan of equipment or offers of advice to
student questions. Both the School and our students value your
support. The School is therefore seeking suggestions for thesis
topics that can be offered to next yearÕs final year undergraduate
students. It might be a project that youÕve always wanted to do,
but never had the time, or a new technology that you would like
to investigate. Our students will have the time and skills to
devote to a project that could be of benefit to your business.
Please email your ideas
to us.
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7-8 November 2005 -- Annual Research Seminars
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For over 30 years, UNSW has been organising an annual seminar
series that highlighted Australian research in surveying,
geodesy, GPS and other spatial information disciplines.
In 2004 the School hosted the International
Symposium on GPS/GNSS. As a result the seminars
did not run that year. The ARS was originally a conference
showcasing postgraduate research at UNSW. However this year's
ARS was organised by the Postgraduate
Student Society. Check out the web
site . C.R. Kennedy / Leica Geosystems was
the Gold Sponsor for this year's ARS. 12d Solutions,
ACS(NSW) and the NSW Dept. of Lands also sponsored
prizes.
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photo gallery ...
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9 November 2005 -- Undergraduate Thesis Conference
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4 November 2005 -- UG students from the School of Electrical
Eng. & Telelcommunications, and the School of Computer Science
& Eng., demonstrated
final year thesis projects supervised by staff of the School
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gallery
4 November 2005 -- 'NSW Awards for Excellence in
Surveying & Spatial Information'
Adam Veersema won the University Student Project
of the Year Award for his final year thesis project "RTK-GPS
for Cadastral Boundary Surveying in NSW".
Highly Commended was Andrew Hammond's project"
'View-from-Seat' System for UNSW's Sir John Clancy Auditorium".
Chris Mcalister was also an entrant in the University
Student Project of the Year Award, for her project "Reliability
Analysis of GPS Geodetic Control Networks".
Adam & Andrew graduated this year with B.E. (SSIS),
having undertaken these projects as final year thesis topics in
2004. Chris will graduate in 2006 upon completion of her MEngSc.
Binghao Li, a PhD student in the School, was an
entrant in the category Extra Dimension, with his project
"Indoor Positioning using Wireless LAN".
The winner of the Sir Thomas Mitchell Excellence
in Surveying & SI Award was Paul Summers, a past graduate
of UNSW. Paul designed a program to interact in real time with
robotic and manual survey instruments that were being used to
monitor 3-dimensional deformation.
31 October 2005 -- The School hosted a group
of high school students, who visited UNSW as part of a Faculty
of Engineering sponsored event.
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28 October 2005 -- At the invitation of Prof
John Trinder and Dr Linlin Ge, Mr Leong Keong KWOH, Director of
the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP),
the National University of Singapore, visited the School. Linlin
introduced the SchoolÕs research on InSAR and discussed possible
collaboration with the CRISP. (Mr Kwoh did his Masters Degree
with the School in 1988). Linlin has invited him back in 2007
for the SchoolÕs 50th anniversary.
Mr Kwoh and Linlin then went to the University of
Sydney as guests of Associate Prof Roland Fletcher for a working
lunch.
14 October 2005 -- Craig Roberts, Bruce Harvey
and Brian Donnelly led the first year undergraduate students on
a "bush excursion", to brush up their map-reading skills...
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22-26 August 2005 -- Chris Rizos, Bill Kearsley,
Craig Roberts, Jinling Wang, Linlin Ge and Samsung Lim attended
the Dynamic Planet
Conference, Cairns, Australia. Postgraduate students Jack
Wang and Michael Chang also attended. Seven papers & posters
were presented by staff or students of the School. Craig and Chris
were members of the Local Organising Committee. Chris was Chairman
of the LOC.
Brief report ... photo
gallery
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Paul Tregoning, Matt Higgins, Chris Rizos, Les Fehlhaber,
Peter Morgan, Craig Roberts, Ramesh Govind, John Manning
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Chris Rizos, Warren Enstch (Fed. Member
of Parliament for seat of Leichhardt), Ramesh Govind (Geoscience
Australia)
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29 July 2005 -- This was the first time that the School
had organised an "industry Day" for the benefit of the
our students (as well as TAFE students). The objective of the
Industry Day was to expose our undergraduate and postgraduate
students to a broad range of spatial information industries, so
as to enhance their career development. This event permits industry
to showcase the diverse range of tasks carried out by contemporary
surveying and spatial information businesses, and to discuss employment
opportunities with our students and visitors. Download
the program of talks here. Feedback has been received
on how to make this event even more successful next year.
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Students chatting with representatives
of industry
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18-22 July 2005 -- Life at Morpeth Survey Camp...
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1 July 2005 -- Farewell dinner function for Jean Rueger
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2 June 2005 -- The School of Surveying & SIS is pleased
to announce that two of its graduate students, Michael
Chang and
Jack Wang, were selected winners of student prizes to attend
the world's premier GPS conference, the 18th International
Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S.
Institute of Navigation, Long Beach, California, 13-16
September. ( Each prize covers the accommodation, registration
and airfare of the student to attend the conference.) These are
the 17th and 18th U.S. ION student prizes to researchers of the
School. The first was in 1988, and since 1999 every year has produced
at least one prize winner. In 2004 three postgraduate students
were winners. This is an exceptional record, exceeded by only
one other university department in the world: the Department of
Geomatics Engineering at the University of Calgary.
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23-26 May 2005 -- Bruce Harvey travelled to Hong
Kong, to participate in an oral PhD examination / defense
on Laser Scanning + Photogrammetry by a student from the
HK Polytechnic University.
He also met up with some of the School's alumni in Hong
Kong (see photo) at a dinner together.
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Ken Ching, Mark Tse, Eric Lok, George
Leung & Helena Chan, with Bruce Harvey
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29 April 2005 -- School jointly hosted a seminar with
Leica Geosystems, featuring speakers with connections to UNSW:
Marco Leupin (former Surveyor General of Switzerland) and Martin
Nix ... photo
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21 April 2005 -- SurvSoc BBQ for students & staff,
supported by the Institution of Surveyors NSW's "Young Surveyors
Group" ... photo
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19 April 2005 -- One of the highlights of the School
Year is the Graduation Dinner which takes place on the evening
of the graduation ceremony itself.
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Mark Gordon awarding the Institution
of Surveyors NSW Prize to Adam Veersema (who made a clean
sweep of all graduate prizes)
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The following prizes & scholarships were awarded to
students and graduates of the school at the Graduation Dinner
on 19 April 2005...
CO-OP Scholarship Winners: Lucy CHEN,
Henry MORRIS & Chris LARMOUR
RTA Scholarship Winner: Ryan George FIFIELD
The Surveyor-General's Scholarship for Women
in Surveying Winner: Nadine Rachael KELLY & Alexandra
Emily LYLE
The George Bennett Millennium Prize, awarded
to: Thomas BARKER
Sinclair Knight Merz Prize, awarded to:
Walter JOHANSEN
AAMHatch Prize in Surveying & Spatial Information
Systems, awarded to: Michael KADZIELA
E.G. Masters Memorial Prize, awarded to:
Andrei POUTILOV
Best Tutor Prize for 2004, awarded to:
Steven HEWITSON & Michael Hsing-Chung CHANG
Board of Surveying and Spatial Information Medal,
awarded to: Adam VEERSEMA
The Consulting Surveyors NSW Prize in Land Development,
awarded to: Adam VEERSEMA
The Institution of Surveyors NSW Inc. Prize,
awarded to: Adam VEERSEMA
Spatial Sciences Institute Prize for Photogrammety
& Remote Sensing, awarded to: Adam VEERSEMA
R.S. Mather Memorial Prize, awarded to:
Adam VEERSEMA
The Civilcad Prize, awarded to: Adam VEERSEMA
17 April 2005 -- AAMHatch flew a sortie over the UNSW campus
using their airborne laser scanner to collect data from which
a 3D model of the campus will be generated.
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7 April 2005 -- The School hosted several
groups of high school students, who visited UNSW as part of a
Faculty of Engineering sponsored event.
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Two students received Dean's Awards for outstanding
academic achievement at a ceremony on 6 April: Kate Fairlie and
Walter Johansen.
Bruce Harvey (SSIS, UNSW), Kate Fairlie (Dean's Awardee), Walter
Johansen (Dean's Award), Chris Rizos (SSIS, UNSW)
11 March 2005 -- Three first year students received Co-op
Scholarships at the ceremony: Christopher Lamour, Henry Morris,
Lucy Chen ... photo
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Bruce Harvey (SSIS, UNSW), Christopher Lamour (Year 1 Co-op scholar),
Henry Morris (Year 1 Co-op scholar), Craig Roberts (SSIS, UNSW),
Peter Cornish (Hard & Forester, Co-op sponsor), Max Padovan (Max
Padovan & Associates, Co-op sponsor) Lucy Chen (Year 1 COOP scholar),
Fiona Mossman (Max Padovan & Associates, Co-op sponsor)
8-10 March 2005 -- Chris Rizos attended the Munich
Satellite Navigation Summit, where he participated as a member
of Panel 7 "Galileo & Friends". ...
photo
gallery .... download
report ...
7-8 February 2005 -- The School ran a very successful
two-day short course for 35 people on the topic "Advanced
RTK: Concepts & Operations" ... Craig Roberts, Thomas
Yan and Chris Rizos gave lectures, and several agents for GPS
companies demonstrated their wares
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22 January - 2 February 2005 -- Chris Rizos
attended the U.S. ION National Technical Meeting, where he presented
two student-authored papers and co-chaired a session, and then
visited the Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng. & Geodetic Sc.,
The Ohio State University and presented two lectures.
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Clyde Goad, Dorota Brzezinska, Chris Rizos
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Chris in the snow! 29 January 2005, Columbus,
Ohio
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18 January 2005 -- The School hosted a visit by selected
high school students of the Indigenous Australians Engineering
Summer School ... Craig Roberts, Bill Kearsley, Brian Donnelly
and Yincai Zhou gave demonstrations of, and talks about various
surveying and imaging technologies.
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School's Xmas Party, celebrated on 17 December 2004, at
the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Coogee ... also farewelled former Head
of School Bill Kearsley.
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6-10 December 2004 -- The School hosted a
delegation of 23 surveyors from the Association of Authorised
Land Surveyors Malaysia, and ran a workshop "GNSS Developments
and the Land Surveyor". Staff who participated in this
were Chris Rizos, Craig Roberts, Bruce Harvey and Thomas Yan.
6-8 December 2004 -- Over 340 participants
from 29 countries attended the "International Symposium on
GPS/GNSS" hosted by the School of Surveying & Spatial
Information Systems. The technical program consisted of oral sessions,
interactive poster sessions, tutorials (held on Sunday 5th December)
and a trade exhibition.
This symposium was the largest in the Asian region
in 2004 dedicated to satellite-based positioning technology and
applications. The Conference Convenor was Jinling Wang, Chair
of the Scientific Committee was Chris Rizos, and the Chair of
the Exhibition & Publicity Committee was Craig Roberts.
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here to download papers & to visit the Photo Gallery
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4 December 2004 -- During the "International Symposium
on GPS/GNSS" the School played host to many international
researchers in the GNSS field. They included, Guenter Hein, Gerard
Lachapelle, Yang Gao, Dorota Brzezinska, Ron Hatch, Hans-Juergen
Euler, Susan Skone, Wu Chen, Sang Jeong Lee, Changdon Kee, Herbert
Landau, Per Enge, Gethin Roberts, to name a few. Visit
the Photo Gallery...
The School also hosted longer visits by A/Prof.
Dorota Brzezinska, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Eng. &
Geodetic Science, Ohio State University, U.S.A., 5-16 December
... who gave a 2-day workshop "Integrated
Navigation Systems for Mobile Imaging" on 13-14 December
... and by A/Prof. Yang Gao, Dept. of Geomatics Eng., University
of Calgary, Canada, 4 December to 6 January ... who gave a one
day workshop "An
Introduction to Precise Point Positioning" on 15 December
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29 November 2004 -- Two undergraduate students were recipients
of the Faculty of Engineering "Taste of Research" scholarships,
and over the summer break worked on InSAR-related projects with
Linlin Ge.
Adrian Robert Johnston's project was "Differential Radar Interferometry
for Ground Displacement Monitoring", and Mark Taylor's project
was "Radar Interferometry for Terrain Mapping".
25 November 2004 --The Award for Excellence and Eminence
in Spatial Information (the highest award of the Spatial
Sciences Institute) was presented to John
Trinder.
Professor John Trinder has been a teacher, lecturer and leading
researcher in the Spatial Sciences for over 40 years.
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South Wales began as a lecturer in 1965 and led to professorial
level - appointed Head of the School of Geomatics from 1990
to 1999, providing leadership, direction and inspiration to
hundreds of students who in turn now lead the profession in
Australia, in Asia, and around the world. He is still a visiting
professor and still provides guidance and inspiration to a
number of PhD students. John Trinder has played a major role
in research, professional development and the leadership of
professional societies since the early 1970s. His academic
publications number around 150 and he has materially advanced
the state of research and development in Australia and abroad.
He has led working groups and commissions in the International
Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) for
20 years from 1972 to 1992. In 1992 he was elected to the
Board of ISPRS as Treasurer, became Secretary General in 1996
and President in 2000, serving as President from 2000 to 2004.
He is presently the First Vice President of ISPRS. During
the past 10 years John Trinder has also made a significant
contribution to Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry association
work in Australia. He was a member of the committee that ran
the 10th Australasian Remote Sensing Conference in Sydney.
He served as a Board member and Director of RSPAA from 1998
to 2002. He also served on the IGARSS 2001 committee which
ran the largest Spatial Science related conference to be held
in Australia. (John Trinder sent his regards by video as he
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17 November 2004 -- The Australian Research Council (ARC) has
approved funding of $900,000 over the next 3 years (2005-2007),
for 5 projects: ARC-Discovery project "Designing Next Generation
GNSS Receivers Using the Software Approach" (C. Rizos, A.
Dempster, and others), ARC-Linkage (LIEF) "A Signal Simulator
Facility for GNSS Receiver Design and Testing" (C. Rizos,
J. Wang, and others), ARC-Discovery (APD) "Real-Time GPS/INS
Integration for High Precision Long Baseline Kinematic Positioning"
(H.K. Lee), and two ARC-Linkage (APAI) grants "Network Design
and Management of a Pseudolite and GPS Based Positioning System"
(J. Barnes, C. Rizos, and others), "Monitoring & Predicting
Near Real Time Ionospheric Activities with Multi-Satellite Data"
(J. Wang, S. Jin, and others).
5 out of the 7 ARC grants awarded in the surveying/geomatics
discipline in the whole of Australia in the most recent ARC round
were won by school researchers!
Click here for summary descriptions ...
10-11 November 2004 -- Chris Rizos, Joel Barnes, Jinling
Wang & Linlin Ge attended the first annual conference of the
Cooperative Research Centre
for Spatial Information, in Melbourne, Australia. The
School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems has a significant
involvement in the CRC for Spatial Information.
8 November 2004 -- Final
Year Thesis Conference.
6 September 2004 -- The School congratulates Michael
Chang for winning a Student Sponsorship from the IEEE
Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society to participate in
IGARSS2004, in Anchorage, Alaska, 20-24 September ... Michael
made his presentation on 23 September, and won First Prize!
New staff join the School of Surveying & Spatial
Information Systems:
30 August 2004 -- Associate Professor Andrew
Dempster, the new Director of Research for the School, with
research interests in GNSS receiver design ...
9 August 2004 -- Dr. Yong
Li, Research Associate to work on Project 1.3 of the CRC
for Spatial Information ...
22 June 2004 -- Dr. Samsung
Lim, Senior Lecturer in GIS-related courses, with research
interests in GIS, geodesy & algorithms ...
26 July 2004 -- Chris
Rizos becomes the new Head of School.
Former Head Bill Kearsley
is appointed Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Surveying
& Spatial Information Systems.
12 May 2004 -- Three
graduate students of the School: Ravi Babu, Jean Li and Binghao
Li, were selected winners of the U.S. Institute of Navigation's
student scholarships to attend the world's premier GPS conference,
the 17th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division
of the US Institute of Navigation,
Long Beach, California, 21-24 September. This is an excellent
result.
These
are the 14th, 15th and 16th US Institute of Navigation student
prizes/scholarships to members of the SNAP group (the first being
in 1988 to Bertrand Merminod, and the second and third to Shaowei
Han in 1995 and again in 1996, the fourth to Lao-Sheng Lin in
1997, the fifth 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, the 12th & 13th to Steve Hewitson and Volker
Janssen).
5 May 2004 -- Adrian White and Sandra Hoffman, two undergraduate
students win Dean's Awards.
30 April 2004 -- Annual
Awards Dinner.
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