What's wrong with Geodesy? - does it really have a bad name?
Event details
| Date | 13.09.2010 |
| Hour | 16:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Chris Rizos, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| Location |
GC C2 413
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Chris is great at presenting a provocative point of view and he loves controversy. Here is a hint at his speach ...
This gives me licence to discuss "modern geodesy" as an "earth observation" science & applications, and to discuss the positioning/navigation/sat mission technologies that underpin it. How modern geodesy has a new lease of life through the IAG services and GGOS. Then I can speak about how over many years universities have removed reference to geodesy courses in their "geomatics" programs... because they were hard? or not so relevant? But that we still really are deeply involved with geodesy if we look below the surface at ultra-precise navigation/kinematic positioning, laser scanning/LiDAR, POD, reference frames & coordinate transformations, and so on. That it is now more relevant than ever to follow the credo "from the whole to the part" as preached by classical geodesy. That GNSS is perhaps the base technology that has led to a renaissance in geodesy in direct and indirect ways, and that there is a continuum from "GNSS geodesy" to "precise GNSS positioning". Perhaps 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 and practice.
Acronyms
IAG = International Association of Geodesy ... http://www.iag-aig.org/index.php
GGOS = Global Geodetic Observing System ... www.iag-ggos.org/
LiDAR = Light Detection And Ranging
POD = Precise Orbit Determination
GNSS = Global Navigation Satellite System (= GPS + other systems)
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- Prof. Bertrand Merminod