Survey Earth in a Day on Solstice Day

The first Survey Earth in a Day event will become an annual social surveying education experiment, with a mission not only to learn more about the Earth's surface but also monitor its changes over time, as a global community. The results will change the knowledge currently available of the shape of the Earth and thus provide new information about our planet's surface for the benefit of all humanity. Help the surveying industry and the surveyors in your region of the world by representing your area, as the challenge will be to re-measure the entire globe in one single day!
Any geospatial professionals with access to survey-grade GPS equipment who are considering contributing to a world record attempt are invited to join.

ahhh I see.. perhaps if GIM would have placed a link to Land Surveyors United this would have made more sense, as you kinda have to know that this is a community event to realize its importance. Way to go Land Surveyors United http://landsurveyorsunited.com bigtime - 19/06/2012 - 00:25

Thanks Craig. Land Surveyors United Network administrators are indeed aware of this. The actual point of the project is to bring professional surveyors from all areas of the world to participate in a social experiment in which everyone can participate. read this entry for more background on International Surveyors Week and Survey Earth in a Day..thanks for the input! http://landsurveyorsunited.com/profiles/blogs/happy-international-surveyors-week-2012 Jobber - 19/06/2012 - 00:22

Folks, Great idea for publicity but can I say from a geodesy perspective that this happens all day, every day and has done since 1989. It’s called the IGS (International GNSS Service) and it provides products that we all use if we need it, such as precise orbits, troposphere products, ionosphere products, clock products – all of which are used for precise point positioning services (PPP – CSRS - Canada) and AUSPOS (Australia) also uses this service. Both these services are free and you can use them. In fact my Head of School Chris Rizos sits on the governing board of the IGS and is the current President of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG). Further, VLBI, SLR and DORIS also monitor the earth fulltime and provide the framework (International Terrestrial Reference Frame) for global datums (The IGS is a subset of the ITRF). The IGS is further densified by CORS networks such as CORSnet-NSW, GPSNet in Victoria, the Japanese have 1300 CORS sites, Europe, Malaysia, New Zealand, Germany, USA etc etc etc….. So whilst I agree this is an exciting idea and perhaps a good promotional opportunity, geodesists have been doing this for a while now and it underpins and indeed enables a lot of other science. Global sea level rise measurements would be impossible without the stable framework provided by geodesy. I would say this is more an example of crowd sourcing with all the associated idiosyncrasies. Ok ok … lecture over. BTW… 4th contact just finished on the Transit of Venus… sniff sniff… bye bye Venus. See you again in 2117. Craig Craig Roberts - 06/06/2012 - 07:34

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this is going to be amazing surveyor - 01/06/2012 - 21:17