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THE GEODESY LABORATORY AND ITS RESEARCH FACILITIES
The Western Australian Centre for Geodesy's Laboratory is located in room 2.14 (second floor)
of the Spatial Sciences (building 207), Curtin University
of Technology, Bentley Campus, Perth, Western Australia.
[Campus Map]
Clockwise from top left:
research students in the Geodesy Laboratory;
geodesy group weekly meeting; coffee break in the Geodesy Library;
a short course being run in the Geodesy Laboratory.
The award of three Australian Research Council RIEFP (now LIEFP) grants, with
supplementary funds from Curtin University of Technology, have allowed the establishment
and continued enhancement of the Geodesy Laboratory and its facilities.
The Geodesy Laboratory provides up-to-date research facilities including:
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An I-Site 350 terrestrial laser scanner and processing software;
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Three Trimble 4000SSi dual-frequency GPS (Global Positioning System)
receivers, two Trimble 4000ST single-frequency GPS receivers, and
Trimble GPSurvey and Trimvec processing software;
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Ten Leica geodetic GPS receivers through a consortium with four
other Australian universities (four of these receivers are located
in the Geodesy Laboratory), and SKI Pro processing software;
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Two Ashtech GG24 GPS+GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System)
receivers, and WinPrism processing software;
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One Boeing inertial navigation system, which is integrated with GPS
via a Kalman filter algorithm;
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The GPS1005 OpenSource Receiver.
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One Scintrex CG3M digital micro-gravity meter (with high temperature
option), and in-house reduction and processing software;
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Dead-reckoning navigation components including, a KVH digital inclinometer,
a KVH gyro-stabilised compass, a KVH fibre optic gyroscope, and a Numetrics
digital odometer;
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Computer hardware including Sun UNIX work-stations, Pentium-based personal computers,
notebook computers, and laser printers, scanner and other peripherals;
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In-house computer software for the geodetic reduction and processing of
satellite and gravity data, which has been developed as part of the Group's
research
programs;
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A
library, comprising over 2000 books, journals and reports on geodesy;
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Modern facilities for short courses and workshops in geodesy;
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There is also access to a further one million dollars
worth of geodetic surveying equipment through the
Department of Spatial Sciences.
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