When compiling reading materials on geoid in Australia we surely encountered papers jointly written by Kearsley and Govind. For instance “Geoid evaluation in Australia – status and problems” paper presented at Geoid Symposium 1990 (source – springer). Another paper is Kearsley & Govind (1991) “Geoid evaluation in Australia” published in Australian Surveyor. Dr Ramesh Govind is now a Senior Lecturer at Division of Geomatics, Uni of Cape Town.
He is in the process of establishing a global analysis centre at UCT for undertaking high precision, multi-technique space geodesy data computation and analysis – contributing to international programs – through the international services for Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR), the French DORIS system, GNSS, and VLBI (using radio astronomy measurements). Read here – spacelab uct.
Short bio of Govind taken from UCT source;
Govind, who was born and grew up in Durban, left South Africa for exile in 1982 after completing a degree in surveying from the University of Natal. He moved to Australia, where he completed a master’s degree in space and gravimetric geodesy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, followed a few years later by a PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado. After his PhD, he returned to Australia and contributed to the space geodesy effort there.
Ramesh Govind
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