Ordnance Survey GPS consultation workshop invitation
RICS and Ordnance Survey would like to invite you to take part in a
consultation workshop on Tuesday 15 March at RICS headquarters in London.
Ordnance Survey is continually developing its use and management of GPS
technology and the next, highly significant development is the amalgamation
of Ordnance Survey's local Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) GPS base stations into
a single network capable of generating national RTK corrections for GPS
users anywhere in the country. This means that GPS positional accuracy can
be improved to around 20 mm.
Ordnance Survey intends to make this network available to a wide range of
users across the country and this consultation workshop is your opportunity
to learn more about Ordnance Survey's strategy, see an early demonstration
of the service and give your feedback.
The GPS consultation workshop will provide an open forum for discussion,
enabling Ordnance Survey to fully consider your views on a national GPS
correction framework. We are particularly interested in feedback on
potential uses and how maximum uptake can be achieved to ensure that, when
launched, the service fully meets your needs.
This free workshop will run from 10.00 am to 4 pm, with lunch at 12.00 noon.
To reserve your place, or for further details, contact Rebecca Harty at
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<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or call 023 8030 5650. Please
register by Monday 7 March.
RICS Geomatics Evening Lecture Series 2004-05 Spring
Thursday 3rd March 2005 - joint lecture with RSPsoc - Tsunami special
Title: Mapping, disaster response and the Tsunami - on the ground
experiences
Speaker: David Spackman, MapAction
Location: RICS Great George Street
Time: 17.15 for 18.00, lecture finish 1900hrs
Immediately following the Tsunami Disaster and at the request of the United
Nations Disaster Assessment Centre (UNDAC), an eleven-person team of highly
trained, highly skilled volunteers from MapAction deployed to Colombo, Sri
Lanka. Arriving in the early hours of December 29th, they were one of the
first foreign NGOs to arrive. Within hours, MapAction had set up as part of
the newly formed Sri Lankan Government's Centre for National Operations
(CNO) and was producing its first maps for the Sri Lankan Government and for
the International Aid Agencies, showing real-time information of the
affected areas and its population. This is essential to assist logistics
within the country and to help all provide aid more effectively and
efficiently. MapAction employ satellite imagery, GPS and other high tech
methods to achieve the accuracy and timeliness sought by international aid
agencies.
David will speak on the difficulties of working in a hostile post disaster
environment, where humanitarian considerations are all.
<http://www.aidforaid.org.uk/index.html> MapAction
<http://www.aidforaid.org.uk/srilanka-diary.html> Sri Lankan diary
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4155403.stm> BBC MapAction news
<http://www.aidforaid.org.uk/news.html#respond> Project Respond
Thursday 14th April 2005 - Hydrography
Title: Similarities in Hydro technology with other areas of Geomatics
Speaker: Andy McNeill FRICS Chief Surveyor Fugro NV
Location: RICS Great George Street
Time: 17.15 for 18.00
Fugro NV is located in Aberdeen and is part of Fugro's Offshore Survey
Division which employs around 4000 people worldwide.
Fugro NV operates a fleet of seven permanently equipped survey and
construction support vessels. Operations are conducted primarily on the
North West European Continental Shelf, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean, and West
Africa regions and on telecom cable route surveys across the Atlantic and
Indian Oceans.
The Survey Division operates a fleet of more than 20 survey vessels, a fleet
of underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) and the STARFIX high
accuracy Differential GPS positioning services.
Andrew McNeill is Chief Surveyor for the Marine Survey Division of Fugro NV.
He has worldwide responsibilities in Fugro for coordination of training,
survey practice and survey software development.
Andrew is a Topographic Science graduate from Glasgow University. After
graduation in 1983 he joined Brown & Root Survey in Aberdeen, transferring
to Subsea Offshore in 1993 after their acquisition of Brown & Root's Survey
Division. During his time at B&R / Subsea, he held various positions in
offshore survey and later software development & management, and finally
taking up the role of Chief Surveyor.
He joined Fugro-UDI in 1998 as Chief Surveyor and Manager of the Geomatics
Department provide data management & technical development support to
Fugro-UDI's operations. He was appointed Chief Surveyor of Fugro's Marine
Survey Division in 2003.
He is a member of RICS, ICES & The Hydrographic Society and was chairman of
the Hydrographic Society's Scottish Region from 1999 to 2004
Thursday 12th May 2005 - GIS
Title: Fitting another piece into the Geography Jigsaw
puzzle...."Understanding the impediments to building sustainable capacity
for geomatics in developing countries: perspectives of locally based
practitioners"
Speakers: Neil Stuart and Duncan Moss, Institute of Geography, School of
Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
Location: RICS Great George Street
Time: 17.15 for 18.00
All lectures are open to members and non-members, tea/coffee is served in
the RICS bar from 17.15 until 18.00hrs, lectures usually last 1 hour, and
the RICS bar is then open. The lectures may count towards CPD/LLL RICS
requirements. All lectures are recorded for inclusion on future CPD cd-rom
products.
James Kavanagh BSc(Hons) MRICS C.Geog MInstCES
Product Manager, Land Group (Geomatics, Environment, MWM, Rural, P&D)
Faculties & Forums
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