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Webinar

Applying RICS standards: precision tools for surveying and engineering

Event organised by ICE

Date
05 November 2024
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Overview

Join us for a comprehensive webinar on the latest RICS global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) guidance for land surveying. Since the late 1980s, GNSS has revolutionised surveying, becoming more compact and technologically advanced, with multiple satellite constellations enhancing its capabilities. Today, GNSS is widely used for various tasks, including establishing control, setting out, and deformation monitoring.

The new edition of the RICS GNSS guidance notes offers updated, practical operational guidelines designed for a global audience of surveyors and clients. It covers cutting-edge topics like multi-GNSS constellations, precise point positioning (PPP), and Snake map projections.

The guidance also includes crucial information on traditional survey techniques, coordinate reference systems, survey errors, map projections, and quality control. Precision reference tables provide potential accuracies for different processing techniques, baseline lengths, and occupation times.

In this webinar, we’ll break down the key points from the guidance and show how to apply them effectively when planning GNSS surveys. Don’t miss this opportunity to stay updated with the latest in GNSS surveying practices!

Speaker

Dr Christopher Pearson

Dr Christopher Pearson

Newcastle University

research associate

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Dr Christopher Pearson

Christopher is the lead author of the RICS GNSS guidance notes having been part of the Geospatial Engineering group at Newcastle University for over 10 years.

He has conducted GNSS research on multiple projects including with numerous engineering industry partners onshore and offshore.

He currently teaches on the civil engineering and geospatial engineering undergraduate degree courses, specialising is surveying and GNSS.

He holds a BSc in Surveying and Mapping Science and PhD in Geodesy from Newcastle University.