Conference and Seminar Proceedings

Monday 27th July 2015

Welcome and Opening Remarks -

• Mr. Nic Donnelly, New Zealand
• Prof. Chris Rizos, Australia
• Mr. Victor Khoo, Singapore
• Ms Sharafat Gadimova, Austria
  

Session 2: Time Dependence and Transformations

Prof. Chris Rizos, Australia
[Presentation]

Time-dependent heights: Earth tides, Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA), Subsidence, Episodic vertical displacements (e.g. earthquakes, volcanos, landslides); Transformations.

Session 3: Case Studies I

Mr Basara Miyahara, Japan
Case study of Japan
[Presentation]

Current vertical datum of Japan, Maintenance of datum utilizing COR (monitoring of displacements by CORS, revision of heights in case of earthquakes), Orthometric height determination with a hybrid geoid model.

Mr. Simon CW Kwok, Hong Kong
Modernization of Height System in Hong Kong
[Presentation]

Hong Kong vertical reference system, Hong Kong Principal Datum (HKPD), Modernizing the vertical height system by (1) a comprehensive re-levelling of the bench mark network, (2) re-adjustment of the levelling measurement with reference to the HKPD, (3) densify a network of points covering the whole territory of Hong Kong with levelling, GNSS and gravity observations, and (4) creation of a Geoid Model for GNSS heighting in Hong Kong.

 Afternoon Tea

Session 4: Airborne Gravity for an improved vertical datum and ICG

Mr Nic Donnelly, New Zealand
Airborne Gravity for an improved vertical datum
[Presentation]

Contribution of airborne gravity to the geoid/quasigeoid, planning an airborne gravity survey, flying airborne gravity, data processing, calibration lines, assessment of results, using New Zealand as an example

Ms Sharafat Gadimova, Austria
Presentation of International Committee on GNSS (ICG) at UN
[Presentation]

The presentation will highlight the latest developments in the ICG and the future role of ICG in a multi-constellation GNSS. The outline of the ICG's Programme on GNSS applications, focusing on capacity-building in the use of GNSS-related technologies in various rapidly growing fields of science and industry will be provided.

 Seminar Dinner

Tuesday 28th July 2015

Session 5: GNSS Heighting and Episodic Vertical Displacements

Mr. Richard Loo and Mr. Victor Khoo, Singapore
GNSS Heighting and Application to Singapore
[Presentation]

The presentation will introduce the height datum used in Singapore, describe the computation of geoid model, usage of GNSS in heighting and the importance of the height datum.

Mr Nic Donnelly, New Zealand
Incorporation of episodic vertical displacements into vertical reference frames
[Presentation]

Types of vertical displacement, impact on vertical reference frames, data collection, managing the relationship between geometric and vertical reference frames, user requirements for vertical deformation modelling, incorporating a deformation model into a vertical reference frame

 Afternoon Tea

Case Studies II

Mr Graeme Blick, New Zealand
Case Study New Zealand
[Presentation]

New Zealand’s levelling datums, New Zealand Quasigeoid 2009, New Zealand Vertical Datum 2009, relationships between levelling and quasigeiod-based reference frame, the role of the vertical reference frame in earthquake recovery, user requirements for the vertical reference frame, proposed new vertical reference frame for New Zealand

Dr. John Dawson, Australia
Case Study Australia
[Presentation]

The Australian Height Datum (AHD). Maintenance of AHD using GNSS, a new national geodetic adjustment and refinement of AUSGeoid - Australia’s combined gravimetric–geometric quasi-geoid model. The use of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) to develop a national deformation model to support height system maintenance.

Closing Remarks – FIG Commission 5, IAG