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The project
coordinator is Dr Bert Veenendaal whose work has been at the forefront
of teaching and learning in the area of Geographic Information Systems.
During his time at Curtin University, Bert has attracted over $400
000 in funding. Some of the grants has received are as follows:
His work with the Leap 2000 grant has attracted much interest from both within the division as well as other divisions such as the Public Health and Social Sciences. The LEAP project Team memebers include a team leader and co-leader for each core technology component identified. The core technology components are: |
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| Mike Stewart |
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Qualifications:
BSc (Hons) (Liv), PhD (Edin) Memberships: MISAust Position: Associate Professor and Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies (Research) Appointed: 1994 Teaching: Extraterrestrial positioning, hydrographic surveying, advanced techniques in GPS, maritime positioning Research Interests: GPS/GLONASS precise positioning, deformation monitoring, integrated positioning systems Biography: A/Professor Stewart has been with the Department since October 1994, when he took up an appointment as Lecturer, and was later appointed to Senior Lecturer in 1997. He was promoted to the position of Associate Professor during 2000. He holds an Honours degree from the University of Liverpool and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He wrote the first academic integrated GPS/GLONASS software package in Australia and now leads, at Curtin, the premier research group in the country in GPS/GLONASS algorithm development. He is currently coordinating research in the fields of GPS deformation analysis, GPS systematic error analysis and mitigation, GPS meteorology and the development of terrestrial laser scanning techniques for stability monitoring. He also chairs the International Association of Geodesy's Special Study Group 1.182 on 'Multipath Mitigation'. A/Professor Stewart has attracted over $750,000 to the Department in research funding from government and industry sources and has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers in the past five years. He also teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in introductory and advanced techniques in GPS, hydrographic surveying and navigation. |
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| Bert Veenendaal |
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Qualifications:
BCSc (Hons1), MSc (Manit), PhD (Curtin) Memberships: MAURISA Position: Senior Lecturer and GIS Course Coordinator Appointed: 1986 Teaching: Geographic information systems, geographic data analysis, spatial data handling Research: Geographic information science, distributed GIS, spatial analysis, spatial data handling, Biography: Dr Bert Veenendaal holds a Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours) degree and a Master of Science degree from the University of Manitoba in Canada, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Curtin University of Technology. He has been instrumental in the development of the teaching and research program in Geographic Information Science since its inception in 1988 at Curtin. He is an active member of the Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association Inc. (AURISA) and is the current Chairman of the Western Australian chapter. Dr Veenendaal has several awards, scholarships and grants to his credit, together with over 40 publications in his areas of interest. He is also the recipient of the prestigious 1998 AISIST Award as well as a Curtin Innovative Practice Teaching 2000 award. Currently, he is project coordinator for the 2001-2003 Learning Effectiveness Alliance Program (LEAP), which is focused on flexible learning environments in technology-based disciplines. |
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| Graciela Metternicht |
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Qualifications:
BSc (Santa Fe), PGDipCart, MSc (ITC), PhD (summa cum laude) (Gent) Memberships: MMSIA, MIEEE Position: Associate Professor and Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies (Coursework) Appointed: 1996 Teaching: Digital cartography, remote sensing for natural resource mapping, change detection, GIS applications for land degradation Research Interests: Animated cartography, remote sensing applications for environmental mapping, land use change detection, GIS and fuzzy modelling applications for land degradation studies, high resolution digital video for agricultural applications, spatial decision support systems for land use planning Biography: Following completion of her PhD in Geography (summa cum laude) from the State University of Gent, Belgium (in cooperation with ITC, Netherlands), A/Professor Metternicht joined the Department as Lecturer in Cartography in July 1996. Her current research projects, which have attracted over half a million dollars in funding from the ARC and industry sector, principally involve the application of remote sensing technology for change detection, the assessment and monitoring of vegetation degradation in agricultural landscapes, and land degradation mapping and hazard prediction. She has also recently been appointed Principal Investigator by the European Space Agency for a research project involving land degradation mapping and hazard prediction using data of the ENVISAT-1 satellite. In 1998, she received the Dean's Medallion for Research from the Faculty of Engineering at Curtin for her well-rounded research achievements, and was also awarded a grant from the Australian Academy of Science to undertake research at the Institute for Remote Sensing Applications in Beijing, China. A/Professor Metternicht has over 55 publications in her areas of interest, is the Editor of the International Cartographic Association Newsletter and a member of the ICA commission 'Mapping from Satellites'. |
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| Tony Snow |
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Qualifications:
BAppSc (WAIT), PGradDipSurv&Mapp (Curtin), LS Memberships: MIEMS Position: Senior Lecturer and Mine Surveying Course Coordinator Appointed: 1989 Teaching: Engineering surveying, mine surveying, applied field surveying Research Interests: Deformation surveying, GPS and mine planning Biography: Mr Snow holds a BSc degree in Surveying from the West Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Surveying and Mapping from Curtin University. He is also a registered Licensed Surveyor in the state of Western Australia and holds a current Practising Certificate. Tony is a current member of the Land Surveyors' Licensing Board of WA and a committee member of the WA Division of the Institute of Engineering and Mine Surveyors. He has extensive experience working in the surveying industry in the areas of cadastral, engineering and mine surveying both in Australia and overseas. His current research interests are in the areas of deformation surveying and the use of GPS in the mining industry. |
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| Derek Lichti |
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Qualifications:
BTech (Hons) (Ryerson Polytechnic), MSc, PhD (Calgary), EIT (AB, Can) Memberships: SPIE, RSPAA Position: Senior Lecturer Appointed: 1999 Teaching: Digital photogrammetric systems, digital remote sensing, measurement analysis, survey networks, industrial photogrammetry Research Interests: Sensor modelling and calibration, biomedical photogrammetry, GPS-assisted aerotriangulation, laser scanning Biography: Dr Lichti joined the Department in 1999 following completion of his PhD from the University of Calgary, Canada. His research interests lie in ground-based laser scanning for deformation monitoring, close range metrology with digital cameras for structural and biomechanical applications and airborne digital photogrammetry. He has produced several software packages in support of his research, including a self-calibrating bundle adjustment. He is the author of more than 25 publications in these areas. He is consultant to several Western Australian photogrammetry and surveying companies. |
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| Rob Corner |
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Qualifications:
BSc (Exeter), MSc, PhD (Curtin) Position: Senior Lecturer and Cartography Course Coordinator Appointed: 2000 Teaching: Digital computing and LIS/GIS Research: Application of remote sensing, GIS and GPS to site-specific agriculture and natural resource mapping Biography: Dr Robert Corner holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of Exeter, a Master of Science in Surveying and Land Information and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Curtin University of Technology. He has been a member of staff at Curtin since July, 2000. Prior to joining the Department, Robert spent nine years with the CSIRO Division of Soils (now CSIRO Land and Water), most recently as a member of the Precision Agriculture Research Group. Whilst with that group he was responsible for writing (under a Grains Industry grant) GIS-based software for the calculation and interpretation of achievable grain yields. His career prior to service with CSIRO included 15 years in the surveying, mapping and GIS disciplines including periods as a hydrographic surveying consultant, a research officer with the West Australian Department of Agriculture and several years as a Surveyor/Engineering Surveyor in the UK and the Middle East. Robert's PhD, which he completed in 1999, involved research into Knowledge Representation in Geographic Information Systems, and led to the production of the Expector soil attribute mapping software. |
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