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SUMMARY:What's wrong with Geodesy? - does it really have a bad name?
DTSTART:20100913T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T020325Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Chris Rizos\, University of New South Wales\, Sydney\, A
 ustralia\nChris is great at presenting a provocative point of view and he 
 loves controversy. Here is a hint at his speach ...\nThis gives me licence
  to discuss "modern geodesy" as an "earth observation" science & applicati
 ons\, and to discuss the positioning/navigation/sat mission technologies t
 hat underpin it. How modern geodesy has a new lease of life through the IA
 G services and GGOS. Then I can speak about how over many years universiti
 es have removed reference to geodesy courses in their "geomatics" programs
 ... because they were hard? or not so relevant? But that we still really a
 re deeply involved with geodesy if we look below the surface at ultra-prec
 ise navigation/kinematic positioning\, laser scanning/LiDAR\, POD\, refere
 nce frames & coordinate transformations\, and so on. That it is now more r
 elevant than ever to follow the credo "from the whole to the part" as prea
 ched by classical geodesy. That GNSS is perhaps the base technology that h
 as led to a renaissance in geodesy in direct and indirect ways\, and that 
 there is a continuum from "GNSS geodesy" to "precise GNSS positioning". Pe
 rhaps the final message would be that we may no longer educate "geodesists
 "\, but that more than ever we need a good foundation of geodetic theory a
 nd practice.\n\nAcronyms\nIAG = International Association of Geodesy ... h
 ttp://www.iag-aig.org/index.php\nGGOS = Global Geodetic Observing System .
 .. www.iag-ggos.org/\nLiDAR = Light Detection And Ranging\nPOD = Precise O
 rbit Determination\nGNSS = Global Navigation Satellite System (= GPS + oth
 er systems)
LOCATION:GC C2 413
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