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Height Reference System Modernization
Documents
1. Rational
- CGRSC (2004) Report to the Canadian Council on Geomatics (CCOG) on the Modernization of the Canadian Height Reference System (Report [PDF, 736.4 kb, viewer])
2. Stakeholder Consultation
- Stakeholder Consultation for the Development of the Canadian Height Reference System Modernization Implementation Plan
- Final Report [PDF, 3.7 Mb, viewer]
- Consultation Results Presentation [PDF, 212.3 kb, viewer]
- Implementation Plan Presentation [PDF, 217.1 kb, viewer]
- CGRSC (2006) Report to the Canadian Council on Geomatics (CCOG) on the Height Modernization Consultation Results (preliminary)
- Presentation [PDF, 727.2 kb, viewer]
3. Publications and reports
- Height Reference Systems in North America and Gravity ( Report [PDF, 2.5 Mb, viewer] )
- Referencing and Time Tagging Heights in Canada ( Report [PDF, 9.0 Mb, viewer] )
- Canadian Height Reference System Modernization: Rational, Status and Plans ( Paper [PDF, 510.3 kb, viewer] )
- A Gravimetric Geoid Model as a Vertical Datum in Canada (Paper [PDF, 4.1 Mb, viewer])
- Demystifying the vertical datum in Canada: A Case Study in the Mackenzie Delta (Report [PDF, 2.1 Mb, viewer])
- Earth Gravity and Height Systems (Report)
- The Canadian Gravimetric Geoid Model 2005 (CGG2005) ( Paper [PDF, 1.2 Mb, viewer] )
4. Other national height modernization discussions
- USA
- The NGS 10-year plan 2007-2017
- Gravity for the Redefinition of the American Vertical Datum (GRAV-D)
- Proceedings of the 2010 Federal Geospatial Summit on improving the National Spatial Reference System
- New Zealand
- Iceland
5. References
- Heights
- Burkholder, E. (2002) Elevations and the Global Spatial Data Model (GSDM).
- Mäkinen, J. (2004) Some remarks and proposals on the re-definition of the EVRS and EVRF.
- Meyer, T.H., D.R. Roman, and D.B. Zilkoski (2005) What Does Height Really Mean? Part I: Introduction, Surveying and Land Information Science, Vol. 64, No.4, pp. 223-234.
- Meyer, T.H., D.R. Roman, and D.B. Zilkoski (2005) What Does Height Really Mean? Part II: Physics and Gravity, Surveying and Land Information Science, Vol. 65, No.1, pp. 5-15.
- Meyer, T.H., D.R. Roman, and D.B. Zilkoski (2006) What Does Height Really Mean? Part III: Height Systems, Surveying and Land Information Science, Vol. 66, No.2, pp. 149-160.
- Meyer, T.H., D.R. Roman, and D.B. Zilkoski (2006) What Does Height Really Mean? Part IV: GPS Orthometric Heighting, Surveying and Land Information Science, Vol. 66, No.3, pp. 165-183.
- Smith, D.A. and D.R. Doyle (2006) The Future Role of Geodetic Datums in Control Surveying in the United States, Surveying and Land Information Science, Vol. 66, No.2, pp. 101-106.
- Global Vertical Datum
- Bursa, M., S. Kenyon, J. Kouba, Z. Sima, V. Vatrt, and M. Vojtísková (2004) A Global Vertical Reference Frame Based on Four Regional Vertical Datums, Stud. Geophys. Geod., 48, pp. 493-502.
- Bursa, M., J. Kouba, V. Vatrt, V. Vítek, and M. Vojtísková (1999) Topex/Poseidon Altimetry and Dynamics of the Ocean-Atmosphere System, Studia geoph. et geod. 44, pp. 1-12.
- Bursa, M., J. Kouba, M. Kumar, A. Müller, K. Radej, S.A. True, V. Vatrt, and M. Vojtísková (1999) Geoidal Geopotential and World Height System, Studia geoph. et geod. 43, pp. 327-337.
- Geoid Modelling
- Ellman, A. and P. Vanícek (2007) UNB application of Stokes-Helmert's approach to geoid computation, J. of Geodynamics, 43, pp. 200-213. (link)
- Vanícek, P., J. Huang, P. Novak, S.D. Pagiatakis, M. Véronneau, Z. Martinec and W.E. Featherstone (1999) Determination of Boundary Values for the Stokes-Helmert Problem, J. of Geodesy, 73, pp. 180-192.
- Martinec, Z. (1998) Boundary-Value Problems for Gravimetric Determination of a Precise Geoid, Lectures Notes in Earth Sciences, 73, Springer.
- Vanícek, P. and Z. Martinec (1994) The Stokes-Helmert Scheme for the Evaluation of a Precise Geoid, Manus. Geod., 19, pp. 119-128.
