Source: Amos & WEF (2003) “Preparation of a new ....” NZ Surveyor The paper described that free-air gravity anomalies were computed; from IGSN71-corrected gravity observations by subtracting the value of normal gravity at the … [Continue reading]
WEF’98 “Do we need a gravimetric geoid …”
Posted on July 8, 2017 ·
It's now a long break period. Students are on their vacation until the new academic session in September. So its time to catch-up with some readings. Found an old paper by WEF (1998) "Do we need a gravimetric geoid or a model of the AHD to transform … [Continue reading]
Planetary Geodesy
Posted on July 2, 2017 ·
Planetary Geodesy has became topic of interest among geodesist and actively pursued in the past thirty years. Torge 2001 (Geodesy 3rd Edition) has listed the following reading as reference materials on lunar and planetary geodesy; Bills, BG and SP … [Continue reading]
Gottfried Konecny (b.1930)
Posted on June 30, 2017 ·
Gottfried Konecny graduated with his first degree in Munich. Then he went to OSU under Fulbright scholarship and work under Prof Fred Doyle and graduated with MSc. Later, he continued doing his PhD in Munich. After completed his doctorate he went to … [Continue reading]
Klaus Linkwitz (1948-2017)
Posted on June 30, 2017 ·
The following info on Prof Linkwitz was taken from his website in Stuttgart University; Klaus Linkwitz was born in Bad Oeynhausen and after school, military service as Luftwaffenhelfer, captivity and internship 1948 studied geodesy in Stuttgart … [Continue reading]
Ernst Heinrich Knickmeyer
Posted on June 30, 2017 ·
Not much info found about Knickmeyer. Only the following were gathered after google searching; Knickmeyer, Ernst Heinrich, Prof.-Dr.Ing., A, Univ. of Applied Scis, Brodaer Str. 2, D-17033 Neubrandenburg, Germany. Department of Civil … [Continue reading]
Lothar Grundig (b.1944)
Posted on June 29, 2017 ·
Lothar graduated with thesis Datenverwaltungs konzepte für typische Aufgaben aus der Ingenieurgeodäsie (Data management concepts for typical tasks of engineering geodesy) Stuttgart 1987 (Habilitation) . The following taken from a FIG paper - Korea … [Continue reading]
Hilmar Ingensand (b.1947)
Posted on June 28, 2017 ·
Among those whom graduated from German universities in 80's is Prof Dr Hilmar Ingensand. He graduated in 1985 with a PhD from Bonn. His thesis is "Ein Beitrag zur Entwicklung und Untersuchung hochgenauer elektronischer Neigungsmeßsysteme für kontinu- … [Continue reading]
German Geodetic Dissertation 1985 -1989
Posted on June 28, 2017 ·
Following were geodetic dissertation submitted at German universities during period 1985-1989. H Ingensand (1985) Ein Beitrag zur Entwicklung und Untersuchung hochgenauer elektronischer Neigungsmeßsysteme für kontinu- ierliche Messungen. B … [Continue reading]
German Geodetic Dissertation (1981-1984)
Posted on June 27, 2017 ·
Following were geodetic dissertation submitted at German universities during period 1981-1984. G W Hein (1981) Untersuchungen zur terrestrischen Schweregradiometrie (Habilitaion) D Fritsch (1982) Entwurf digitaler zweidimensionaler … [Continue reading]
