RICS

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is the world's largest professional society of surveyors with over 130 000 members. Over 3000 of our members specialise in geomatics, as chartered members and technical members. RICS has recently launched an AssocRICS technical membership route for hydrographic surveying (IHO cat-b level).

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Title RICS AssocRICS Hydrographic Surveying Description a new technical route to RICS technical membership focussed on hydrographic survey. This route allows 'direct entry' for all hydrographic surveyors with IHO 'cat-b' level qualifications and for those with a related academic qualification and 5 years experience. PDF Click here to download PDF Category Association Education & training New Yes

Title Assessment of atmospheric errors on GPS in the Arctic Description GPS is used throughout the world for navigation and positioning. Growing interest in the Arctic region predominantly due to a reduction in ice coverage suggested that an investigation should be carried out on region-specific errors in GPS for high accuracy users. PDF Click here to download PDF Date Submitted 09 Feb 2012 Category Global Information Systems Satellite Navigation Survey Equipment Association Ecology Economic Development Environmental Management Government/Association Navigation & Position Fixing R&D Organisations

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Title Improving the Accuracy of ASTER data for Glacial change in Antarctica Description Through collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) the research was applied to a test site located on the western Antarctic Peninsula at Pourquoi Pas Island. This encompassed a glacier system, extending over an area of 86 km2, and providing a variety of terrain types over which to investigate the approach. In addition to an ASTER DEM, a high-accuracy DEM, derived from aerial photography captured at the same time as the ASTER data, was available for the site. This provided a strong basis for the validation exercise, as any systematic offsets between the datasets will be due to registration deficiencies rather than terrain change. PDF Click here to download PDF Date Submitted 09 Feb 2012 Category Global Information Systems Remote Sensing Space Technology Survey Equipment Dynamic Positioning Earth Sciences Publications R&D Organisations