Measuring the Changes: SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME
Engineering geodesy for multi-technique local survey tiesEGMT
EquipmentEQP1EQP2
GeodeformationsGDF1GDF2
GNSSGNSS1GNSS2
LaserscanningLSS
ModellingMOD1MOD2MOD3MOD4
Monitoring of structuresMST1MST2MST3
MultitechniquesMTT
RadarRDR1RDR2
Poster sessionPST1PST2
May 12
Monday		 May 12
Monday
08:00-09:00
 REGISTRATION
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09:00-10:30
 PLENARY SESSION - Opening Ceremony & keynote speeches
Opening Ceremony
    Matias Ramos - President of the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC)
    Fernando Santo - Portuguese Association of Engineers
    Adam Chrzanowski - International Federation of Surveyors (FIG)
    Chris Rizos - International Association of Geodesy (IAG)
    Mendes Vitor - Portuguese Section of the Int. Union of Astronomy, Geodesy ang Geophysics
    Carlos Pina - LNEC / Head of the Concrete Dams Department
    João Casaca - Scientific Committee
    Maria João Henriques - Organizing Committe

Keynote Speeches
May 12 A. Chrzanowski & C. Whitaker ACTIVITY OF THE FIG WORKING GROUP 6.1 ON DEFORMATION MEASUREMENTS – PROGRESS REPORT 2006-2008
C. Rizos GEODESY & ENGINEERING –DEFORMATION STUDIES AT LARGE SCALES FROM A GEODETIC VIEWPOINT
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10:30-11:00
 Coffee break
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11:00-12:30
 PARALLEL SESSION (Room #1) - Multitechniques (MTT)
Chair: Stathis Stiros
May 12 E. Davis et al. DEFORMATION MONITORING THROUGH MULTI-PLATFORM INTEGRATION
A. Szostak-Chrzanowski et al. DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF MULTI-SENSOR DEFORMATION DETECTION SYSTEMS
A. Guarnieri et al. COMBINED TECHNIQUES FOR THE STABILITY CONTROL OF HISTORICAL STRUCTURES
J. Boavida et al. DAM MONITORING USING COMBINED TERRESTRIAL IMAGING SYSTEMS
J. Van Cranenbroeck et al. POINT ATTITUDE DETERMINATION USING INCLINOMETER AND GPS FOR HIGH RISE BUILDING MONITORING PROJECTS
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11:00-12:30
 PARALLEL SESSION (Room #2) - Engineering geodesy for multi-technique local survey ties
Chair: João Agria Torres
May 12 Z. Altamimi IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL TIES FOR THE ITRF
H. Kutterer et al. CHALLENGES OF INTER-TECHNIQUE TIE SURVEYS – AN ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE
A. Woods INDIRECT DETERMINATION OF THE INVARIANT REFERENCE POINT (IVP) OF SLR AND VLBI OBSERVING SYSTEMS
P. Sarti et al. TERRESTRIAL SURVEYING APPLIED TO LARGE VLBI TELESCOPES AND ECCENTRICITY VECTORS MONITORING
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12:30-14:00
 LUNCH
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14:00-15:30
 PARALLEL SESSION (Room #1) - Modelling (MOD1)
Chair: Alojz Kopáčik
May 12 H. Neuner AN EVALUATION OF METHODS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF VARIANCE CHANGES IN DEFORMATION ANALYSIS
A. Eichhorn et al. AUTOMATED ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF TECHNICAL SURVEYING PROCESSES WITH KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS
J. Casaca et al. BAYESIAN ESTIMATION IN DAM MONITORING NETWORKS
I. Neumann et al. COMPARISON OF MONTE CARLO AND FUZZY TECHNIQUES IN UNCERTAINTY MODELLING
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14:00-15:30
 PARALLEL SESSION (Room #2) - GNSS (GNSS1)
Chair: Chris Rizos
May 12 V. Gikas & S. Daskalakis COMPARATIVE TESTING AND ANALYSIS OF RTS VERSUS GPS FOR STRUCTURAL MONITORING USING CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS UPON SINUSOIDAL EXCITATION
E. Tekdal et al. STRUCTURAL DEFORMATION MONITORING ANALYSIS USING GEODETIC TECHNIQUES AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE AT BOLU PASS OF TRANSPORT EUROPEAN MOTORWAY
J. Günther et al. DEVELOPMENTS TOWARDS A LOW-COST GNSS BASED SENSOR NETWORK FOR THE MONITORING OF LANDSLIDES
M. Haberler-Weber & R. Weber ANALYSIS OF DEFORMATIONS IN THE AUSTRIAN REFERENCE NETWORK
C. Whitaker et al. NAVD88 ORTHOMETRIC HEIGHT DETERMINATION UTILIZING THE CALIFORNIA REAL TIME GPS NETWORK AND VARIED OCCUPATION TIME INTERVALS
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15:30-16:00
 Coffee break
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16:00-17:30
 PLENARY SESSION - Equipment (EQP1)
Chair: João Casaca
May 12 D. Inaudi & B. Glisic OVERVIEW OF FIBRE OPTIC SENSING APPLICATIONS TO STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING
C. Fonfria et al. AUSCULTATION AND MONITORING IN REAL TIME
L. Manetti et al. 3-DEMON MONITORING PLATFORM: EXAMPLES OF APPLICATIONS IN STRUCTURAL AND GEOTECHNICAL MONITORING PROJECTS
C. Werner et al. GAMMA’S PORTABLE RADAR INTERFEROMETER
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17:30-19:00
 Tools for Measuring the Changes : the Exhibitor’s session
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19:00-.....
 Ice Breaker Party
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May 13
Tuesday		 May 13
Tuesday
09:00-10:30
 PARALLEL SESSION (Room #1) - Monitoring of structures (MST1)
Chair: Antonio Gil
May 13 J. Henriques & A.P. Falcao TOPOGRAPHIC MONITORING OF A WATER TANK IN THE WIDENING WORKS OF EIXO NORTE-SUL HIGHWAY IN LISBON
A. Tavares de Castro & M. J. Henriques MONITORING PLANIMETRIC DISPLACEMENTS IN CONCRETE DAMS
F. Ribeiro et al. COMPARISON BETWEEN GEODETIC TECHNOLOGY AND PLUMB LINES IN MONITORING OF DISPLACEMENTS ON ITAIPU DAM
A. Szostak-Chrzanowski et al. MONITORING AND DEFORMATION ASPECTS OF LARGE CONCRETE FACE ROCKFILL DAMS
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09:00-10:30
 PARALLEL SESSION (Room #2) - Geodeformations (GDF1)
Chair: Manuela Vasconcelos
May 13 S. Cacoń & B. Kontny MONITORING AND DEFORMATION ANALYSIS OF ROCK BLOCKS
G. Újvári et al. DETECTION OF LANDSLIDE PRONE AREAS ON THE BASIS OF GEOLOGICAL, GEOMORPHOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS, A CASE STUDY
J. Catalao et al. USE OF GEOID, LEVELING AND GPS FOR VERTICAL DEFORMATION MONITORING
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10:30-11:00
 Coffee break
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11:00-12:30
 PARALLEL SESSION (Room #1) - Modelling (MOD2)
Chair: Maria João Henriques
May 13 A. Dermanis DERIVATION OF ENGINEERING-RELEVANT DEFORMATION PARAMETERS FROM REPEATED SURVEYS OF SURFACE-LIKE CONSTRUCTIONS
M. Lösler & M. Hennes AN INNOVATIVE MATHEMATICAL SOLUTION FOR A TIME-EFFICIENT IVS REFERENCE POINT DETERMINATION
M. Talich PRACTICAL ADVANTAGES OF USING THE MECHANICS OF CONTINUUM TO ANALYSE DEFORMATIONS OBTAINED FROM GEODETIC SURVEY
A. Eichhorn et al. INVESTIGATION OF DYNAMIC THERMAL EFFECTS WITH NON-PARAMETRIC AND PARAMETRIC DEFORMATION MODELS
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11:00-12:30
 PARALLEL SESSION (Room #2) - Geodeformations (GDF2)
Chair: Rui Fernandes
May 13 G. Mentes INVESTIGATION OF DIFFERENT POSSIBLE AGENCIES CAUSING LAND-SLIDES ON THE HIGH LOESS BANK OF THE RIVER DANUBE AT DUNAFÖLD-VÁR, HUNGARY
M. Zalesky et al. MONITORING OF A LARGE SLIDE AND SLOPE RECLAMATION IN A FORMER OPEN-PIT MINE
T. Bayrak QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT ON THE INFLUENCE OF RAINFALL ON KUTLUGUN LANDSLIDE
A. Ebeling et al. DEFORMATION MONITORING AT AN INDUSTRIAL SITE USING COMBINED DGPS AND TOTAL STATION DATA
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12:30-14:00
 LUNCH
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14:00-15:30
 PARALLEL SESSION (Room #1) - Radar (RDR1)
Chair: Xiaoli Ding
May 13 M. Caro Cuenca & R. Hanssen SUBSIDENCE AND UPLIFT AT WASSENBERG, GERMANY DUE TO COAL MINING USING PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY
J. Sousa et al. PS-INSAR MEASUREMENT OF GROUND SUBSIDENCE IN GRANADA AREA (BETIC CORDILLERA, SPAIN)
S. Heleno et al. PSINSAR DETECTION OF GROUND MOTION IN THE LISBON REGION
Z. Li et al. USING SMALL BASELINE INTERFEROMETRIC SAR TO MAP NONLINEAR GROUND MOTION IN NORTHERN TIBET
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14:00-15:30
 PARALLEL SESSION (Room #2) - Monitoring of structures (MST2)
Chair: Wolfgang Niemeier
May 13 A. Veiga Pinto & M. J. Henriques CONTRIBUTION OF THE APPLIED GEODESY TO THE PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS AND TO THE REHABILITATION OF FILL STRUCTURES
V. Gikas & S. Sakelariou HORIZONTAL DEFLECTION ANALYSIS OF A LARGE EARTHEN DAM BY MEANS OF GEODETIC AND GEOTECHNICAL METHODS
S. Pytharouli & S. Stiros DAM CREST SETTLEMENT, RESERVOIR LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS AND RAINFALL: EVIDENCE FOR A CAUSATIVE RELATIONSHIP FOR THE KREMASTA DAM GREECE
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15:30-16:00
 Coffee break
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16:00-16:30
 Poster Session (PST1) (Hall)
U. Wegmüller et al. SLOPE STABILITY MONITORING USING SPACE-BORNE REPEAT-PASS SAR INTERFEROMETRY
D. Grejner-Brzezinska et al. GPS/INS/PL/TLS INTEGRATION SUPPORTING NAVIGATION OF GEOPHYSICAL SENSORS FOR UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE DETECTION AND DISCRIMINATION
P. Zvanut MEASURED SETTLEMENTS OF THE PESNICA HIGH EMBANKMENT
Y. Fujii & Y. Shinde FOUR DIMENSIONAL MONITORING OF DEFORMATION AS DEDUCED FROM REPEATED GPS CAMPAIGNS
N. Deng et al. DAM DEFORMATION ANALYSIS USING THE PARTIAL LEAST-SQUARES METHOD
V. Sedlak et al. MONITORING STATIC DEFORMATION OF THE BULK DAM IN THE EAST SLOVAKIA
C. Zhao et al. STUDY OF LAND SUBSIDENCE AND GROUND FISSURE ACTIVITIES IN XI’AN CITY WITH INSAR
A. Gil et al. GPS NETWORK FOR LOCAL DEFORMATION MONITORING IN THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS OF MOROCCO
J. Zalesky, et al. STABILITY OF HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
G. Roberts et al. MONITORING THE DEFLECTIONS OF LARGE SUSPENSION BRIDGES IN THE UK BY GPS
W. Niemeier & B. Riedel CONCEPT FOR RISK ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF THE UPPER BIO BIO REGION IN CENTRAL CHILE STRUCTURES
A. Szostak-Chrzanowski et al. STUDY OF A LONG-TERM BEHAVIOR OF LARGE EARTH DAM COMBINING MONITORING AND FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS RESULTS
S. Stiros et al. GEODETIC MONITORING OF THE THERA (SANTORINI) CALDERA
B. Kontny & R. Bednarek HORIZONTAL MOVEMENTS OF THE TECTONIC UNITS OF EUROPE BASED ON DATA OF EPN SERVICE
D. Dominici et al. AN INTEGRATED MONITORING SYSTEM FOR THE MONUMENTAL WALLS OF AMELIA
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16:30-18:00
 PLENARY SESSION - Radar (RDR2)
Chair: Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska
May 13 C. Toth et al. RECOVERY OF SENSOR PLATFORM TRAJECTORY FROM LIDAR DATA USING REFERENCE SURFACES
M. Arikan & R. Hanssen STRUCTURAL DEFORMATION OF THE HIGH-SPEED LINE (HSL) INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE NETHERLANDS; OBSERVATIONS USING SATELLITE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY
X. Ding et al. EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON MONITORING GROUND DEFORMATIONS WITH CORNER REFLECTOR INSAR
R. Hanssen & F. Van Leijen MONITORING DEFORMATION OF WATER DEFENSE STRUCTURES USING SATELLITE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY
A. Wiesmann et al. MEASURING DEFORMATION AND TOPOGRAPHY WITH A PORTABLE RADAR INTERFEROMETER
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18:00-....
 Social Dinner
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May 14
Wednesday		 May 14
Wednesday
09:00-10:30
 PARALLEL SESSION (Room #1) - Modelling (MOD3)
Chair: Witold Prószyński
May 14 X. He et al. EXTRACTION OF DEFORMATION SIGNALS OF A SLOPE WITH KALMAN FILTERING TECHNIQUE
M. Yetkin et al. OPTIMAL DESIGN OF DEFORMATION MONITORING NETWORKS BY USING PSO ALGORITHM
J. Lima & J. Casaca SMOOTHING GNSS TIME SERIES WITH ASYMMETRIC MOVING AVERAGES
R. Fernandes et al. PROCESSING METHODOLOGY FOR THE COMPUTATION OF AFREF SOLUTIONS
J. Van Cranenbroeck GNSS RTK NOISE REDUCTION IN POSITION DOMAIN USING CAUSAL FIR FILTERING FOR GEOTECHNICAL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS
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09:00-10:30
 PARALLEL SESSION (Room #2) - Monitoring of structures (MST3)
Chair: Gethin Roberts
May 14 M. J. Henriques et al. MODELLING THE BEHAVIOUR OF A LARGE SPAN GLULAM ARCH OF ATLÂNTICO PAVILLION
J. Valle Melon et al. EVALUATION OF THE CONVENTIONAL SURVEYING EQUIPMENT APPLIED TO DEFORMATION ANALYSIS OF HERITAGE BUILDINGS. A CASE STUDY: THE TOWER OF SANTA MARÍA LA BLANCA CHURCH IN AGONCILLO (LA RIOJA, SPAIN)
G. Georgopoulos & E. Telioni ESTIMATION OF THE VERTICAL DEFORMATIONS OF THE STYLOBATE OF ANCIENT TEMPLES – THE CASE OF THESEION
C. Yigit et al. MONITORING OF TALL BUILDING’S DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR USING PRECISION INCLINATION SENSORS
A. Mesquita Machado METROPOLITANO DE LISBOA - TERREIRO DO PAÇO TUNNEL: EXTENSION OF THE BLUE LINE LISBON UNDERGROUND; GEODETIC MONITORING OF AN ACCIDENT SITE
M. Yalçinkaya et al. DETERMINING DISPLACEMENTS ON TUNNEL BY GEODETIC AND 3D FINITE ELEMENT METHODS
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10:30-11:00
 Coffee break
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11:00-12:30
 PARALLEL SESSION (Room #1) - Laserscanning (LSS)
Chair: Adam Chrzanowski
May 14 T. Kremen et al. CHECKING OF CRANE RAILS BY TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING TECHNOLOGY
B. Koska et al. MONITORING OF LOCK CHAMBER DYNAMIC DEFORMATION
O. Monserrat et al. USE OF A POINT CLOUD CO-REGISTRATION ALGORITHM FOR DEFORMATION MEASURING
L. Tournas & M. Tsakiri DEFORMATION MONITORING BASED ON TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNER POINT CLOUD REGISTRATION
F. Gielsdorf et al. DEFORMATION ANALYSIS WITH 3D LASER SCANNING
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11:00-12:30
 PARALLEL SESSION (Room #2) - GNSS (GNSS2)
Chair: Luísa Bastos
May 14 P. Psimoulis et al. IDENTIFICATION OF MULTIPLE OSCILLATION FREQUENCIES WITH GPS, BASED ON EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE AND ANALYSIS IN THE FREQUENCY AND THE TIME DOMAIN
L. Li & H. Kuhlmann DETECTION OF DEFORMATIONS AND OUTLIERS IN REAL-TIME GPS MEASURMENTS BY KALMAN FILTER MODEL WITH SHAPING FILTER
G. Roberts et al. MONITORING THE DEFORMATIONS OF A MOTORWAY VIADUCT USING KINEMATIC GPS
C. Rizos et al. HOW FAR COULD GPS GO IN MONITORING STRUCTURAL RESPONSE TO WIND EVENTS?
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12:30-14:00
 LUNCH
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14:00-15:30
 PARALLEL SESSION (Room #1) - Equipment (EQP2)
Chair: Nuno Lima
May 14 A. Reiterer et al. DEFORMATION MONITORING USING A NEW KIND OF OPTICAL 3D MEASUREMENT SYSTEM: COMPONENTS AND PERSPECTIVES
H. Woschitz & F. Brunner MONITORING A DEEP-SEATED MASS MOVEMENT USING A LARGE STRAIN ROSETTE
L. Danisch et al. FUSION OF GEODETIC AND MEMS SENSORS IN INTEGRATED MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OF DEFORMATIONS
W. Niemeier et al. NEW DIGITAL CRACK-MONITORING SYSTEM FOR OBJECTIVE DOCUMENTATION OF THE WIDTH OF CRACKS IN CONCRETE STRUCTURES
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14:00-15:30
 PARALLEL SESSION (Room #2) - Modelling (MOD4)
Chair: Gyula Mentes
May 14 W. Gambin et al. THE CONCEPT OF NETWORK ROBUSTNESS BASED ON STRAIN ANALOGY AS SEEN IN THE LIGHT OF CONTINUUM MECHANICS
Z. Wisniewski SPLIT ESTIMATION OF PARAMETERS IN FUNCTIONAL GEODETIC MODELS
R. Duchnowski GEODETIC APPLICATION OF R-ESTIMATION: LEVELLING NETWORK EXAMPLES
G. Bourmas & M. Tsakiri COMPARING A UNIVARIATE TIME SERIES APPROACH WITH NEURAL NETWORKS TO PREDICT DEFORMATION OF SOIL MASS
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15:30-16:00
 Coffee break
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16:00-16:30
 Poster Session (PST2) (Hall)
May 14 W. Kamiński THE CONCEPTION OF MONITORING THE SUPERFICIAL DEFORMATION LOCATED ON THE UNSTABLE FOUNDATION WITH THE USAGE OF GPS TECHNOLOGY
S. Stiros et al. GROUND RUPTURES AND SEISMIC FAULTING AT DEPTH: THE CASE OF THE KALAMATA, GREECE, 1986 EARTHQUAKES
N. Deng et al. INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS OF COMMONLY USED NON-PARAMETRIC MODELS OF DAM DEFORMATION IN CHINA
E. Lambrou et al. SPECIAL MARKING OF 3D NETWORKS’ POINTS FOR THE MONITORING OF MODERN CONSTRUCTIONS
M. Talich & J. Havrlant APPLICATION OF DEFORMATION ANALYSIS AND ITS NEW POSSIBILITIES
C. Silva et al. REDUCTION OF THE DIMENSIONALITY OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF AGRICULTURAL SCENES
W. Roadarmel et al. DEEP, SUB-SURFACE DEFORMATION MEASUREMENTS OBTAINED USING COMBINED GEOMECHANICAL MODELING AND INVERSION TECHNIQUES WITH SURFACE MICRO DEFORMATION MEASUREMENTS
A. Silva et al. SOFTWARE TO OPTIMIZE SURVEYING NETWORKS
B. Teskey et al. A WEB-BASED SYSTEM FOR DEFORMATION MONITORING
P. Grzempowski & S. Cacon ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS IN DEFORMATION ANALYSIS
P. Mateus TESTING: AN APPLICATION FOR MOTORIZED TACHEOMETERS
Y. Poku-Gyamfi & T. Schüler ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GHANA’S GEODETIC REFERENCE NETWORK
S. Madeira et al. LOW COST MOBILE MAPPING SYSTEM FOR URBAN SURVEYS
J. Van Cranenbroeck & I. Bennewith REAL TIME AND POST-PROCESSING MONITORING SOLUTIONS WITH THE NEW LEICA GMX901 L1 GPS RECEIVER
L. Bastos & J. Silva USE OF GPS BASED DRIFTERS IN THE STUDY OF COASTAL CURRENTS
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16:30-17:00
 Closing Ceremony
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17:00-18:00
 Meeting of the Working Group 6.4 Task Force 5 Fibre Optic Sensors (Room #2)
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May 15
Thursday		 May 15
Thursday
08:00-20:00
 TECHNICAL VISIT
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May 16
Friday		 May 16
Friday
15:00-17:00
 Presentation/demonstration of PPM and of SAA technology, made by Measurand Geotechnical (Room #2)
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