Phil Collier

BSurv (Hons), PhD (Melb), RS

Senior Lecturer

Research

Dynamic network adjustment, geodetic coordinate transformations, maritime boundary and continental shelf delimitation, marine cadastre, integrated geodesy, high precision GPS.

Teaching

Satellite Positioning and Geodesy; Introduction to Surveying (BPD)

Marine Cadastre Project home page

Biography

Having completed his PhD in 1988, Philip spent four years in industry undertaking geodetic and GPs surveys and being involved in the execution and analysis of high precision deformation surveys.

He returned to the University of Melbourne in 1992 as a Research Fellow and has since been involved in a number of ARC and industry funded research projects.

In more recent times he has been engaged as a consultant to a number of government and private sector organisations on a wide variety of geodetic projects.

Examples of recent work include:

• Development of the AGD66 and AGD84 national transformation grids and the GDAit transformation software to support transition to Australia's new geocentric datum (GDA94)
• Development of the MarZone software for the automated delimitation of Australia's maritime boundaries and legal limit of the continental shelf.
• Development of the DNA (or DynaNet) dynamic adjustment software.

Other research interest include: high precision GPs surveying for deformation monitoring, applications of least squares collocation, and numerical and statistical analysis of survey data.