3rd IAG Symposium on Geodesy for Geotechnical and Structural
Engineering and 12th FIG Symposium on Deformation Measurements
Baden, Austria, 22-24 May 2006
by Günther Retscher, Vienna
Chairman of the Organizing Committee
The 3rd IAG symposium on “Geodesy for Geotechnical and Structural
Engineering“ was held jointly with the 12th FIG symposium on “Deformation
Measurements” in Baden, Austria, from May 22-24, 2006. It was organized by
the Research Group Engineering Geodesy of the Institute of Geodesy and
Geophysics of the Vienna University of Technology (Prof. Heribert Kahmen)
together with Prof. Adam Chrzanowski from the Department of Geodesy
and Geomatics Engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton,
Canada. The meeting was cosponsored by the IAG Sub-Commission 4.2 and the
FIG Working Group 6.1. The conference was attended by 140 participants from
35 countries from all over the world. About 121 papers were presented in 23
technical sessions and one poster session. Main topics of the conference
were sensors and sensor fusion, wireless sensor networks, geodesy on large
construction sites, geodesy in the open pit, oil and gas industry,
landslides and crustal movements, monitoring of structures (dams, tunnels,
etc.), modelling of deformations, navigation and mobile mapping as well as
InSAR. After welcome addresses from Prof. Kahmen, Prof. Chrzanowski, Prof.
Brunner representing the Austrian Geodetic Commission and a
representative of the city of Baden in the opening ceremony, the keynote
speech was given by Prof. Chris Rizos from the University of New
South Wales, Sydney, Australia. It was entitled “From Idea to Reality:
The Case Study of a New Deformation Monitoring Technology”. A second
presentation in the opening ceremony was given by Joël van Cranenbroeck
from Leica entitled “Driving Burj Dubai Core Walls with an advanced Data
Fusion System”. The following technical sessions were run in two
parallel streams. On the first day one session on “Large Construction Sites”
and “Landslides / Crustal Movements” as well as two sessions each on “GPS /
Pseudolites” and “Open Pit / Gas / Oil” were held. On the second day eight
sessions were held, i.e., one on “Instrumentation and Analysis of
Deformations”, two on “Monitoring of Structures” and “Laserscanning” as well
as three sessions on “Modelling of Deformations”. The third day saw a
session on “Monitoring of Dams”, “Monitoring of Tunnels”, “Monitoring of
Bridges”, “Optical 3D Systems”, “Navigation of Construction Processes”,
“Navigation / Mobile Mapping” as well as two sessions on “InSAR” followed by
the closing ceremony. On the first two days of the conference four companies
(i.e., Leica and Rost, Trimble and Geodäsie Austria, 3D Laser Mapping and
Walter de Gruyter) participated in the technical exhibition. On the third
day a poster session with 17 presentations was held parallel to the
technical sessions. The social events included a Ice Breaker Party on the
first day of the conference and a typical dinner at a Wine Tavern
(“Heuriger”) on the second day.
The conference proceedings was published on CD Rom. It can be ordered for
a prize of Euro 40 (+ Euro 15 for postage and packing for delivery in
Europe) by sending an e mail to conf@pop.tuwien.ac.at. Further information can also be found on the
website of the conference at
http://info.tuwien.ac.at/ingeo/sc4/baden/. Due to the great success of
the conference it was decided to organize the next conference in two years.
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