Geodesy Section News
As has been the case in the previous years, the Geodesy
Section of the Canadian Geophysical Union had a series of important activities
during the Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Meeting 2005, held in
The Geodesy Section undertook the organization of two
Annual Meeting sessions, one on Geodesy
and the other one on Gravity and Geocomputations. There were a total of 15
geodesy papers plus 4 posters spread out in these two sessions.
There were six student papers competing for
the $500 prize awarded by the Geodesy Section sponsored by the Geodetic Survey
Division of NRCan. The winner was Miss. Azadeh Koohzare, a PhD student from the
Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering,
- Azadeh
Koohzare: Compilation of a map of vertical crustal
movements in
- Raymond Tsoi: GPS Based Navigation
for Future Geopotential Missions
- Elena Rangelova: On the Time Dependence of the Gravimetric Geoid
in
- Chen
Xu: Gravity
Field Recovery from a Time-Variable Satellite Ground Track Pattern
- Robert Kingdon: Corrections
for the improvement of the Canadian height system
- Mohamed El-Habiby: On the Evaluation of Geodetic Integrals Using the Wavelet
Transform
Other geodetic
papers were recognized during the CGU Annual Meeting. Mr. R. Tsoi (see above) won the Shell Canada Outstanding Student
Poster Paper (non-Hydrology), and Dr.
Dragert was one of the co-authors of the paper that won the
"Best Student Paper" award written by
Mr. Thompson entitled Quantitative characterization of seismic tremors in the
Northern Cascadian Margin.
The Ninth Geoid Workshop that took place on
12 May 2005 . This year, the main
topic of the Workshop
was a discussion on the adoption of the Canadian Gravimetry Geoid 2005 as the
new vertical reference for Canada
Past and Future
Meetings related to Geodesy:
- The Scientific Assembly of the
International Association of Geodesy Dynamic
Planet will take place in
Participants of the 9th
Geoid Workshop,