DEPARTMENT OF GEOMATICS ENGINEERING PROGRESS REPORT 2004/2005 UCGE Number 50036 PROGRESS REPORT 2004/2005 DEPARTMENT OF GEOMATICS ENGINEERING Schulich School of Engineering May 2005 UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Telephone: (403) 220-5834 Fax: (403) 284-1980 Website: www.geomatics.ucalgary.ca Cover Photo: A corner reflector deployed at Reindeer Station, on the east channel of the Mackenzie River, to improve backscatter correlation from Radarsat-1 and Envisat and to provide geo-referencing for the resulting interferograms. Photo By: Dr. Matthew Tait Admitted to the Degree of BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Christopher Kawika Ashton (With Distinction) (Internship) Kyle Arthur Beck Michael Andrew Broadbent (Internship) Luke Alan Dixon Lindsay Ann Forrester (With Distinction) (Internship) Matthew William Forsyth Michael John Fraser (With Distinction) (Internship) Jerrad Matthew Gerein Jonathan David Hooper (Internship) Colin Brian Huber (With Distinction) (Internship) Andrea Maria Latos (Internship) Byron Dean Laurie Warren Alexander Lippitt Aaron Robert Lloyd (Internship) Nghia Thanh John Luu Sachin Kumar Mahendru Vivianne Lai On Mansour (Internship) Benjamin Jamieson Matthews Jesse William Mauch Donald Albert Lester McKee (With Distinction) Andrew Jordan Nastiuk (With Distinction) Irwindeep Singh Natt (Internship) Jeffrey Allan Olsen Sara Jane Prescot (Internship) Johnathon Rasmussen (With Distinction) Lesley Anne Sick (Internship) Robert Daniel Staniforth Nathan Jozef Sikkes Charles Li-Hsing Teng Michael Andrew Thompson (Internship) Natasha Cecile Tippett (Internship) John Ka Lung Tong (Internship) Jason Chi-Yang Wong (Internship) Michael John Wollersheim (With Distinction) Diana Ying Di Yang (With Distinction) (Internship) (Internship) Ernest Siew-Pui Yap (Internship) Kambiz Yazdani (Internship) Admitted to the Degree of MASTER OF ENGINEERING Joseph John Angelo Admitted to the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE Yong Won Ahn Scott Alan Crawford Diep Thi Hong Dao Sameet Mangesh Deshpande Haiying Hou Victoria A. Hoyle Alan Wing Lun Ip Zhi Jiang Suen Man Lee Ping Lian Bijoy Paul Anoop Manohar Pullivelli Todd A. Richert Anastassia Salytcheva Jayanti Sharma Landra Karolyi Trevis John Robert Alexander Watson David Bruce Wright Admitted to the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Mudiyanselage Chaminda Basnayake Walid M. Nour-Eldin Abdel-Hamid Paulo Roberto S. Alves Kongzhe Chen Kai-Wei Chiang Shin Eun Hwan Oleg Alexander Mezentsev Michel Fawzy Morgan TABLE OF CONTENTS HIGHLIGHTS 2004/05 ······················································································· 1 MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN ·········································································· 2 AWARDS & RECOGNITION ············································································ 3 PERSONNEL······································································································ 5 Faculty ····································································································· 5 Faculty Changes······················································································· 9 Professors Emeritus················································································ 11 Adjunct Professors ················································································· 11 Support Staff ·························································································· 11 Research Associates/Assistants ······························································ 12 Post Docs ······························································································· 13 Guest Lecturers ······················································································ 13 Visiting Scientists··················································································· 14 ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND STUDENT AWARDS································· 15 Geomatics Engineering Advisory Committee (GEAC)··························· 15 Geomatics Engineering Liaison Committee············································ 16 Student Awards Night & 25th Anniversary ············································ 17 UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES······································································· 20 Enrollment ····························································································· 20 Common Core Curriculum ····································································· 22 Undergraduate Curriculum in Geomatics Engineering···························· 23 Geomatics Engineering Student Society (GESS) ···································· 24 ENGO 500 Projects and Guest Presentations·········································· 25 Engineering Internship Program····························································· 27 Geomatics Engineering Career Day························································ 28 Survey Camp·························································································· 29 GRADUATE STUDIES ···················································································· 30 Enrollment ····························································································· 30 Convocants····························································································· 33 Grad Seminars························································································ 34 Graduate Specialization Areas································································ 36 RESEARCH······································································································ 37 Research Statistics·················································································· 37 Major Research Areas ············································································ 39 PUBLICATIONS ······························································································ 45 Books and Chapters················································································ 45 Refereed Journals··················································································· 45 Proceedings···························································································· 50 Scholarly Presentations and Seminars····················································· 59 Technical Reports and Notes ·································································· 62 Technology Transfer ·············································································· 63 Other······································································································ 63 ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE·············································· 67 Page 1 HIGHLIGHTS 2004/2005 During 2004-2005, the Geomatics Engineering program 2004 marked the 25th Anniver- continued to flourish. A total of 37 students received their sary of the Department of Geo- BSc degree, 18 students their MSc degree, 1 student their matics Engineering at the Uni- MEng, and 8 students received their PhD. Undergraduate versity of Calgary. The enrolment reached 57, 50 and 44 in each successive year of Department was established in the undergraduate program, in addition to 26 students who 1979, as a result of the fore- entered the Internship Program. Demand for our BSc, MSc sight and persistence of the and PhD graduands remains exceptionally strong, particu- surveying profession in west- larly given the growth in the geomatics sector in Alberta. ern Canada. It has since grown into one of the largest geomat- This year brought a change to leadership in the Department. ics programs world-wide by On July 1st, Dr. Naser El-Sheimy completed his term as In- offering a broad-based under- terim Department Head , and Dr. Elizabeth Cannon began a graduate program combined five-year term. with an outstanding graduate program specializing in five The number of full-time faculty streams. members grew to 19, with the addition of three new faculty member in 2004/2005: Dr. Alexander Braun joined the Department in October, coming from the Laboratory of Space Geodesy and Remote Sensing and the Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State Univer- sity; Dr. Bo Huang joined us as an Associate Professor in July from the Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singa- pore; and Dr. Kyle O’Keefe completed his PhD at the University of Calgary and became a new Assistant Professor in July. The 2004-2005 fiscal period was another very successful year from a research excellence point of view. Faculty members have continued to secure major research funding. Total direct research funding exceeded $3.6 million, which is approximately $192,000 in average research funding per faculty member. Numerous awards were received by students and faculty members which are detailed on the following Elizabeth Cannon thanks Naser El-Sheimy for being Interim Head, July 1 2003 to June 30, 2004 pages. Several faculty members continued to serve in leadership positions on various boards and in learned societies. A highlight for the year was the Department’s 25th Anniversary Celebrations which were held in October, and which provided a strong focal point to draw students, faculty, alumni and external sup- porters to the University. A Celebration Banquet was held on October 28 with 275 faculty, staff, alumni, donors and supporters in attendance, and on October 29 an Open House showcased the De- partment’s facilities and research programs. About 20% of