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Surveying program at The University of Melbourne was at one time famous. Many big names like Ian Williamson, Clive Fraser and Frank Leahy were re-known figures teaching surveying there. Then the program was re-named as Geomatics. Now all of them already retired and the Surveying program was re-organized as Geomatics under Department of Infrastructure Engineering, Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne. The undergraduate programs offered is no longer BSc Surveying or BSc Geomatic but change to Bachelor of Design (Spatial Systems Major) and Bachelor of Science (Spatial Systems Major). Among the geodesy lecturers still there are Allison Kealy, Philip Collier and Cliff Ogleby. The IE Dept is head by Prof Abbas Rajabifard. The website of IE can be accessed -  here . Infrastructure Engineering website (Melbourne Uni) - - - - -

Report on Geodesy and Geoinformatics (formerly known as Report of Geodesy) is a journal worked by the academic staff of the Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Warsaw University of Technology Poland. The journal is now published by de Gruyter and can be access online (open access). The most recent issue is Volume 101 (2016). See content -  here . Vol 100 was published as a special issue of 25th anniversary of the ROGG (see content -  here ). Report of Geodesy and Geoinformatics - - - - -

In the course of reading WEF (2010) two interesting references as follows were came across and downloaded; Nerem RS, C Jekeli & WM Kaula (1995) "Gravity field determination and characteristics: retrospective and prospective". Paper was published in Journal of Geophysical Research 100(B8):15053-15074. Geodesy on the Move, IAG Symp 119 edited by Forsberg, M Feissel and R Dietrich. Both publications were not available at PSZ and thankful to uq for helping. WM Kaula (b.1976; d.2000) - - - - -

WEF presented a paper entitled "Satellite and airborne gravimetry: their role in geoid determination and some suggestions". The paper deals among others on the effort of incorporating the data from these two platforms for geoid computation particularly for Australia. There are two suggestions put forward by him -first  the requirement of collecting airborne gravimetry data over coastal and estuarine zones and second to have airborne gravity exercise covering Antartica. - - - - -

The following notes on GBVP are extracted from reading of WEF 2010 - "Satellite and airborne gravimetry": Stokes (1849) first showed how to solve a free bvp in potential theory to compute the geoid from gravity anomalies ... [ why we call it free bvp? … what are other types of bvp? ] Hotine (1968) described other adaptation as a solution of a fixed boundary-value problem. The solution is in the form of Hotine’s integral for the determination of the geoid from gravity disturbances. The approaches of bvp have seen been extended to the computation of the geoid from airborne gravimetry and airborne gradiometry as discussed by Schwarz (1996) and Schwarz and Li 1996. The former appeared in lecture notes of Como IAG Summer School while the latter (what can airborne contribute to geoid determination?) appeared in JGR Solid Earth. - - - - -

Satu majlis ringkas jamuan minum petang bersama warga G&G diadakan petang ini. Majlis bermula pukul 3 petang dihadiri oleh beberapa staf dan pelajar pasca siswazah G&G. Menu yang  dihidang ialah spaghetti carbonara dan roti john yang disediakan oleh pelajar sendiri. Berikut beberapa foto yang diambil ketika majlis tersebut. Foto 1 Foto 2 - - - - -

Another meeting on geoid school was held today starts at 2.30 pm. It was attended by the regular committee. A representative from UTM Space was in the meeting as well. She came for giving updates on financial matter. Things discussed were mainly on progress about the tasks delivered to committee members. - - - - -