Education

• Ph.D., University of New South Wales (1983).
• Dipl.Kulturingenieur ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Zürich, Switzerland (1968).

Teaching

• Surveying Instruments.
• Surveying Techniques.
• Electronic Distance Measurement.
• Precise Surveys in Industry and Engineering.
• Analysis of Deformation Surveys of Structures and Terrain.
• Mining Surveying.

Research Interests

Electronic Distance Measurement (EDM)

• Field and laboratory calibration of electronic distance meters.
• Improved refractive index formulae.

Surveying Robots

• Development of an improved one-station system for the monitoring of terrain and structures.
• Analysis software for monitoring systems.
• Further development of local scale parameter method in EDM.

Professional Interests and Industrial Consulting

• UNSW surveying instrument collection.
• Precision heighting (EDM height traversing and precise levelling).
• Slope Monitoring in Mines and Analysis of Surveying Networks.
• Problems in relation to: Electronic Distance Measurement, Calibration of Distance Meters, Refractive Index of Air, High Precision Measurements, Surveying Robots, Precision Alignment Surveys.
• Settlement and Deformation Measurements.

Publications

A list of Jean Rüeger's publications is available.