Using celestial navigation techniques, we aim to reduce the observations by Wills (of Crossing Australia Fame), and calculate a clock error offset, to get a better location of known campsites.
Gave the lecture today. It went well. I was pretty happy. The class seemed to understand quite a bit, and were a little interested. Yay! Joe told us yesterday that webraft wasn't working, and he didn't care where we hosted out research websites. I will host mine on here (link to ecr), and have a link to my journal here!
Enough for now...subdivision calls :(
Yay! it's the last week of semester. Next week is SWOT VAC! I have 4 assignments to go though. Subdivision, Management, Research Justification and Research Website. I aim to have finished subdivision by tomorrow evening, so i can print it out and check the right scale for everything.
it's getting late, so must be bedtime.
Today was a slow day. I spent all day on subdivsion, marking GeoSci1A pracs, and finishing Eng management assignment. Eng Management is such a stupid topic. I don't know why Geomatics doens't just create their own verison, that would be so much better...
Using the Presentation Frank gave in the past to the faculty, about field trips etc. I have put together a basic lecture for the Computational Methods in Geomatics class. At this stage it is about 50 slides, so maybe too big. Will need to look at the content and verify with Frank what he wants me to do with it. Latitudes at the same point as last night, but have discovered a really cool celestial navigation site:
http://home.t-online.de/home/h.umland/
It has an online text book that this dude wrote and stuff :)
Did up to Return camp 11 tonight (Feb 25). Starting lecture presentation for Comp Methods lecture during the next week. Latitudes seem fine so far. Changing clock offset to get smallest sum of squares residual value for average latitude, to calculate clock error for each position.
Well, here it is. My first post. I am *hopefully* going to be able to use this as a journal for my final year project, but I don't yet know if we are going to be allowed to use an outside university server....
For the last few days, I have been reducing latitude observations from time and sextant readings using celestial navigation techniques. I am doing this in order to work out the clock error in a chronometer (eventually)
