Antarctic Geodesy Field Report 2006-2007 - N Brown and A Woods

• Other Authors: AADC (owner), AADC, DATA OFFICER (distributor), AADC, DATA OFFICER (custodian), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (hasAssociationWith), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher), Australian Antarctic Division (sponsor), BROLSMA, HENK (collaborator), BROLSMA, HENK (hasPrincipalInvestigator), Brolsma, H. (originator), CONNELL, DAVE J. (author)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: biota; imageryBaseMapsEarthCover; inlandWaters; oceans; planningCadastre; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION > CONTOUR MAPS; GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TERRAIN ELEVATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TOPOGRAPHICAL RELIEF MAPS; OCEANS > TIDES; TIDES > TIDAL HEIGHT; Geodesy; Survey; Bunger Hills; Richardson Lake; Grove Mountains; Wilson Bluff; Dalton Corner; Beaver Lake; Mawson; Davis; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Australian Antarctic Division; Prince Charles Mountains; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/antarctic-geodesy-field-a-woods/2816832

Progress Code: completed Statement: See the report for further information. The values provided in spatial coverage are approximate only. Prior to departure, Nick Brown and Alex Woods met with Henk Brolsma from the Mapping Group at the Australian Antarctic Division, who listed several survey tasks to be undertaken, on behalf of the mapping group, while in Antarctica. Most of the work was completed, including lake level surveys in the Vestfold Hills, determination of the height of a new barometer at the Davis skiway for the bureau of meteorology and surveys of the infrastructure developments at Davis and Mawson station. A number of the requested survey tasks were not performed for a variety of reasons. The tide gauge at Davis was not calibrated as the sea ice was gone on arrival to station making it difficult to setup a GPS over the water. In addition, the tide gauges at Davis and Mawson were not downloaded as the Mawson tide gauge was already downloaded by a scientist named Kym Newbery and the wintering scientist at Davis, David Correll, intended on downloading the Davis tide gauge when the sea ice had reformed. Observation of ground control features, using GPS, at deep field location was not performed due to time constraints and weight limits on aircraft preventing the transport of personnel and equipment. Further, technical difficulties were encountered with the Thales kinematic GPS unit which prevented its operation in the cold. The malfunctions noticed with the kinematic GPS unit will be reported to Thales and investigated further. Taken from sections of the report: In recent years, Geoscience Australia (GA) has increased its capability on the Antarctic continent with the installation of Continuous Global Positioning System (CGPS) sites in the Prince Charles Mountains and Grove Mountains. Over the course of the 2006/07 Antarctic summer, Alex Woods and Nick Brown from Geoscience Australia (GA) collaborated with Dan Zwartz of the Australian National University (ANU) to install new CGPS sites at the Bunger ...