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OMAN 1994
Survey Engineer, seconded to PDO (Petroleum Development Oman). Duties as Senior Surveyor were to oversee the junior staff in the general survey duties of the oilfields and ensure the quality of the survey work. Tasks included field QC, data processing, CAD map updating and administration.

On a second tour, assigned to PDO's main offices in Muscat on a GIS (Geographic Information System) project. The project objective was to create a spatially referenced database of all of the oil and gas pipelines in the country. The first phase required researching the topographical and engineering drawing archives to find the relevant pipeline drawings, both digital and paper, creating an inventory of the data and producing a scope of work for the following phases of the project.

  McElhanney GeoSurveys (Canada)
 


BRASIL 1991
Extensive GPS control network in Brasil. The survey was conducted in two phases over a year's duration, with about 500 survey monuments covering an area of 250,000 square kilometers. Initially my duties were to supervise reconnaissance and monumentation to ensure site suitability for GPS.


When the GPS component began, I played a major role in the logistics of the survey due to my familiarity with the project area and the crews, and my growing command of Portuguese. As the survey progressed and moved into new regions, I traveled ahead to arrange accommodation and food for the crews and facilities for my field office. Survey design often required dynamic planning to cope with access difficulties from bad roads, difficult terrain and heavy rains. In remote field situations data was pre-processed to confirm it's quality as an aid to planning the consequent survey.
  Nortech Surveys (Canada)
   


AUSTRALIA 1985
Nortech Surveys (Canada) and their Australian partner GeoSpectrum (Australia) contracted on conventional and GPS projects after graduating University.

On an inertial/lazer automated profile recorder project on the Australian east coast I worked as a field assistant and data processor.


As a GPS operator  I worked on the first GPS project in Australia to use Trimble GPS receivers. Resulting from this project I published an article:

"GPS Surveying in Australia Using the Trimble 4000S"
 The Australian Surveyor, Dec 1986, Vol 33, No 4


My first projects with Geo-Spectrum after graduating University, were conventional surveying (EDM/Transit) for photogrammetric mapping control in Australia. This familiarized me to the field aspects of photogrammetric control and provided a grounding in geodetic surveying and computations.

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