{"title":"Developing the profession in a developing world","authors":"P. Dale","doi":"10.1080/00050326.1998.10441864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00050326.1998.10441864","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222452,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Surveyor","volume":"276 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124449068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sub-metre height determination using a combination of satellite and zenith distance measurements","authors":"George P. Gerdan","doi":"10.1080/00050326.1998.10441854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00050326.1998.10441854","url":null,"abstract":"The Global Positioning System (GPS) has proven to be a tool suitable for determining coordinates of features to an accuracy suitable for mapping applications. The pseudorange observable is generally used in such applications due to its unambiguous nature, providing metre level position estimates in a few seconds. However, in periods of poor satellite geometry and in high multipath environments, position errors can increase to several metres. The height component is particularly vulnerable to an increase in error under such circumstances and errors greater than ten metres are commonly encountered. The accuracy and reliability of the height component can be improved by simultaneously integrating zenith distances with the satellite measurements. An abney level can be used to provide rapid zenith distance measurements without significantly increasing equipment costs.","PeriodicalId":222452,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Surveyor","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122799426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Calculation of 3D Control Surveys","authors":"B. Harvey, David Elford, C. Turner","doi":"10.1080/00050348.1998.10558731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00050348.1998.10558731","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222452,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Surveyor","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131214454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Reviews: The Wreck of the Sydney Cove","authors":"M. Jeffreys, T. Proust, A. Brown-May","doi":"10.1080/00050348.1998.10558734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00050348.1998.10558734","url":null,"abstract":"G. and J. M. Scurfield, The Hoddle Years: Surveying in Victoria, 1836–1853. Published by The Institution of Surveyors Australia, 1995. 144 pp., illus., $29.95 paperback $49.95 hardback Available fr...","PeriodicalId":222452,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Surveyor","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115465859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The digital earth : Understanding our planet in the 21st century","authors":"A. Gore","doi":"10.1080/00050348.1998.10558728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00050348.1998.10558728","url":null,"abstract":"The hard part of taking advantage of this flood of geospatial information will be making sense of it. turning raw data into understandable information. Today, we often find that we have more information than we know what to do with. The Landsat program, designed to help us understand the global environment, is a good example. The Landsat satellite is capable of taking a complete photograph of the entire planet every two weeks, and it's been collecting data for more than 20 years. In spite of the great need for that information, the vast majority of those images have never fired a single neuron in a single human brain. Instead, they are stored in electronic silos of data. We used to have an agricultural policy where we stored grain in Midwestern silos and let it rot while millions of people starved to death. Now we have an insatiable hunger for knowledge. Yet a great deal of data remains unused.","PeriodicalId":222452,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Surveyor","volume":"123 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133457781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Changing Nature of Professionalism: The Importance of Organisational Learning and Practical Management","authors":"T. Kennie","doi":"10.1080/00050348.1998.10558727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00050348.1998.10558727","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned first, with the changing nature of professionalism in the surveying profession and second, in response to such changes, the results of two recent projects sponsored by the Royal Institution of Chartered. Surveyors (RICS). The paper focuses on some of the characteristics associated with being considered as a ‘professional’ and how these have shifted over time. A number of new trends are also becoming apparent as surveying professionals seek to maintain, and in some Instances, extend their influence across the professional services sector. First, it is becoming recognised that ‘lifelong learning’ for both surveying professionals and surveying organizations is of critical importance to the future development of the profession. Second, it is also being recognised that business and commercial skills are becoming of increasing importance to professional surveyors in both private and public sector organisations. The evolution of both sets of ideas in the context of surveying in the United...","PeriodicalId":222452,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Surveyor","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116883430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cadastre and land management: The activities of commission 7 of The International Federation of Surveyors - FIG","authors":"D. Grant, I. Williamson","doi":"10.1080/00050326.1998.10441851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00050326.1998.10441851","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As a delegate to the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), I have a responsibility to the Institution of Surveyors Australia to report all actions of the FIG 7. I have prepared this paper in collaboration with Prof. Ian Williamson, Chairman of FIG Commission 7, to bring readers up to date with FIG 7 actions.","PeriodicalId":222452,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Surveyor","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123706485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Would a registry map hang comfortably in a round, mud hut?: A Register of Title for Zimbabwe's Communal Areas: Philosophical and Technical Considerations","authors":"M. Törhönen, D. Goodwin","doi":"10.1080/00050326.1998.10441852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00050326.1998.10441852","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents findings of a research project which investigated the granting of title in Communal Areas in Zimbabwe. The research took place between May and June 1996, and, very broadly, it considered the problematic interaction between customary African land tenure, and modern land management systems. The land issue is probably the most thorny with which the present Government of Zimbabwe has had to grapple in the sixteen post-independence years. This paper recognises the dilemmas and compromises inherent in granting individual titles in communal lands, it summarizes and comments on recommendations made py the Land Tenure Commission, and it attempts to clarify options for issuing a form of title in Communal Lands.","PeriodicalId":222452,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Surveyor","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116975608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distortion Modelling and the Transition to GDA94","authors":"P. Collier, V. Argeseanu, F. Leahy","doi":"10.1080/00050326.1998.10441838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00050326.1998.10441838","url":null,"abstract":"As users and managers of spatial information face the adoption of the new Geocentric Datum of Australia (GDA94), the need for a simple, comprehensive and unique transformation process has emerged as an urgent requirement. Such a transformation process must incorporate distortion modelling in order to take full advantage of the new datum, thereby offering the potential to improve the accuracy of existing spatial data. This paper presents the need for distortion modelling and an investigation and evaluation of various options.","PeriodicalId":222452,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Surveyor","volume":"541 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123369884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"William Throsby Bridges and Australian Military Mapping","authors":"J. Lines","doi":"10.1080/00050326.1998.10441836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00050326.1998.10441836","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The rightful recognition of the man responsible for initiating the national military mapping programme as it evolved, has been a matter of conjecture bordering on folklore. This short paper is a synthesis of all the hard copy believed to be available from a variety of sources, and identifies Major-General Bridges as deserving the title of “Father” of Australian military mapping.","PeriodicalId":222452,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Surveyor","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129517907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}