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  • AHS Awards 2014/2015 Invitation

    13 Mar 2015 10:59 | Admin (Administrator)

    An invitationn for nominations for the 2014/2015 AHS Awards will soon be posted on the web site. Please read and the Awards panel look forward to receiving your nominations to recognise our industry colleagues.

  • Planning for new Datums for Australia

    12 Mar 2015 08:44 | Stephen Duffield
    At the ICSM Permanent Committee on Geodesy (PCG) meeting in February there was much discussion and agreement for the implementation of a new datum (static) for Australia.  The preliminary name is "GDA 2020" with a proposed initial release in January 2017, with implementation by jurisdictions to follow (date/s to be determined).

    There is nothing official on the new datum yet as it hasn't been approved by ANZLIC (the peak government body for spatial information in Australia and New Zealand).  The PCG are working towards getting this approval by July so until then there won’t be any formal statement.  The establishment of an implementation working group will follow to coordinate promotion and implementation of the new datum.

    The new datum will be accompanied with new tools to enable users to transform datasets to/from GDA94 and any ITRF epoch (just as there are now eg 14 parameter transformation) and it is expected that software providers will increasingly implement these transformation capabilities.

    There has been a one page write-up earlier this year that is in the Feb/Mar Position magazine on page 48.  Some of the senior state geodetic managers did not want this article to be published until after our Permanent Committee on Geodesy meeting in February as the article could then be more informed rather than making assumptions about how the new datum will be implemented that are simply misleading.

  • Summer 2014-15 edition of Map Matters, the newsletter of the Australia on the Map Division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society is issued

    03 Mar 2015 16:56 | Stephen Duffield

    The 25th edition of the Map Matters, the newsletter of the Australia on the Map Division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society is issued.

    Download the newsletter by clicking on the link below:

    Map Matters Issue no. 25

  • NOAA World Hydrography Day e-publication

    20 Aug 2014 15:42 | Stephen Duffield

    Every year, the international hydrographic community celebrates World Hydrography Day on June 21. The 2014 theme established by the IHO is "Hydrography - More than Nautical Charts". To further the discussion, NOAA's Office of Coast Survey invited the public to contribute articles that illustrate the theme. 

  • World Hydrography Day, 21 June

    21 Jun 2014 00:23 | Stephen Duffield

    At the 60th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UN/GA), under the Agenda item on the Oceans and the law of the sea, Resolution A/60/30 was adopted on 29 November 2005. This resolution includes the statement, “Welcomes the adoption by the International Hydrographic Organization of the 'World Hydrography Day', to be celebrated annually on 21 June".

    For more information about World Hydrography Day 2014, click here.

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