Geodesy & Geomatics Engineering
Mourning the passing of professor emeritus Dave Wells
GGE
Posted: December 4, 2024 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Alumni News , Students , Faculty
Please join me in offering condolences to the family and friends of professor emeritus Dr. David (Dave) Wells, who passed away on Nov. 22. Dave was a professor in the department of geodesy and geomatics engineering at UNB. His contributions to the field of ocean mapping and geodesy were monumental. He played a key role in developing a comprehensive curriculum for global positioning and ocean mapping-work that led to the creation of the internationally recognized Guide to GPS Positioning, a...
Mourning the passing of professor emerita Dr. Susan Elizabeth Nichols
GGE
Posted: September 26, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty , Students , Alumni News
Please join me in offering condolences to the family and friends of professor emerita Dr. Susan (Sue) Elizabeth Nichols, who passed away on Sept. 2, 2024. Originally from Middleton, N.S., Sue graduated from Acadia University in 1974 with a bachelor of science (honours) in mathematics. She then studied physical geography at the University of British Columbia from 1974 to 1975 before earning her land survey diploma in 1978 from the Nova Scotia Land Survey Institute in Lawrencetown. In 1983,...
Mourning the passing of honorary degree recipient Gottfried Konecny
GGE
Posted: September 6, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Students , Faculty , Alumni News
Please join me in offering condolences to the family and friends of honorary degree recipient Gottfried Konecny, who passed away on July 25, 2024. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Gottfried was educated in Germany and the United States. He held advanced degrees from the Technical University of Munich and Ohio State University. He came to UNB in 1959 as an assistant professor in the department of civil engineering. He helped found what was then known as the department of surveying engineering,...
GGE: More than Surveying
GGE
Posted: March 28, 2022 3:05:00 PM ADT
Category: Faculty
Sponsored by International Business and Entrepreneurship Centre, the annual Data Challenge event encourages UNB students, in a competition setting, to test their analytical and processing skills, working with a set of real-world data. Last fall, 12 teams participated in the data analytics competition to select one of six global burden of disease data sets and arrive at a correct interpretation of the data and provide predictions drawn from the set. They had to then present their process in a...
GGE celebrates Professor Richard Langley's 40 years at UNB
GGE
Posted: December 21, 2021 3:00:00 PM AST
Category: Faculty
2021 marked a special milestone for one of GGE's most distinguished Professors. Dr. Langley, whose impressive career has spanned four decades at UNB, was recognized by his department with a small gathering of current and former department faculty, staff, and special guests. Hyun Ho Rho, Wolfgang Faig, Marcelo Santos, David Coleman, Angus Hamilton, Michelle Ryan, Nasrin Eshraghi Ivari, Stefan Rosenberg, back row, left to right: Lorry Hunt, Yun Zhang, Anna Szostak-Chrzanowski, Terry Arsenault,...
Angus Hamilton: GGE’s World War II Vet
GGE
Posted: November 25, 2021 1:00:00 PM AST
Category: Faculty
Emeritus Professor Angus Hamilton, a former chairman of the Department of Geodesy & Geomatics Engineering (formerly known as Surveying Engineering), participated in the Golden Club's remembrance meeting on 10 November, the day before Remembrance Day. At 99, Professor Hamilton is one of the oldest veterans from World War II. He served with the Canadian and Royal Air Forces as a radar technician and wrote a book -- For King and Country -- about his wartime experiences. Professor Hamilton...
Recent research highlights from GGE
GGE
Posted: September 24, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty
UNB's department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering (GGE) has recently been featured by UNB Research for exciting new research projects. Learn more about work being done by Dr. Ian Church, of UNB's Ocean Mapping group, on the Arctic Seafloor Mapping Data Processing and Dissemination project and the Hydrospark three-dimensional visualization project. GGE is proud of the research being done by our professors and encourages everyone to learn more about these...
Thesis oral examination
Lydia Noble
Posted: April 29, 2021 9:30:00 AM ADT
Master of Science in Engineering | Nasrin Eshraghi Ivari The thesis titled, "Data Stream Affinity Propagation for Clustering Indoor Space Localization Data" will be defended by Nasrin Eshraghi Ivari on Wednesday, May 5 at 10 a.m. via Teams. Join the presentation. Faculty members and graduate students are invited to attend this presentation. Abstract In the age of Internet of Things, the ability to find spatio-temporal patterns of people and devices moving in indoor spaces has become crucial...
Professor Emeritus Angus Hamilton's 99th Birthday
Dr. John McLaughlin
Posted: April 16, 2021 8:45:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni News , Faculty
A Toast to Angus Hamilton Angus receiving a birthday toast from Dr. John McLaughlin On the occasion of his ninety-ninth birthday on April 18, it is my privilege and pleasure to propose this toast to Angus Hamilton, Professor Emeritus. Since its founding in 1960, the Department of Surveying Engineering (now the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering) recruited a group of world class scholars who provided the intellectual, professional and entrepreneurial drive, which set it on the...
Dr. Yun Zhang Delivers an Invited Talk at Western University, Ontario, Canada
Greg Smith
Posted: March 17, 2021 8:50:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty
GGE professor Dr. Yun Zhang was invited by the Department of Geography and Environment of the Western University, Ontario, Canada, to deliver a talk at the department’s Speaker Series event on March 5. The title of Dr. Zhang’s talk was "Big Technology Waves and New GIS and Online Mapping Technologies." The talk was delivered through Zoom to the department’s faculty members and students. The fast-growing Spatial Big Data and the fast-changing Big Technology Waves have...
Dr. Shabnam Jabari receives funding from NBIF
Greg Smith
Posted: March 2, 2021 2:00:00 PM AST
Category: Faculty
Dr. Shabnam Jabari from the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering at UNB Fredericton, recently received funding from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation through the New Brunswick Priority Occupation Student Support Fund program. The funding will be combined with her Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grant to support two new Ph.D. students. The students will work on developing 3D city models. Most developed countries are now building “smart...