PAPERS PRESENTED BY B.P. (Bruce) LAMBERT

DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF NATIONAL MAPPING

The following are a series of papers (published with permission) by Lambert discussing not only the past and present activities of the Division but also looking to using future technology.

Papers

• 1956 : The National Geodetic and Topographic Survey - presented at the Conference of the Institution of Engineers (Australia), Canberra, April 1956. This paper was given just before the National Mapping Office in the Department of the Interior was transferred to the Department of National Development on 2 July 1956 as the Division of National Mapping.

• 1956 : The Geodimeter and its Uses, The Australian Surveyor, 16, 4, 213-229.

• 1958 : Modern techniques of geodetic and topographic surveying - The Australian Surveyor, 17, 1, 30-41.

• 1960 : The Twelfth General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) was held at Helsinki, Finland, in July and August, 1960. Then Director of National Mapping, Bruce Phillip Lambert attended but was only able to be present for sessions of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) which focussed on Geodetic Survey. Lambert’s paper Notes on Tellurometer Surveys in Australia, was later published in Bulletin Geodesique 1962, No.66, pp.320-323 and is available via this link.

  Lambert also compiled a report Notes on Technical Proceedings of the International Association of Geodesy and other Associated matters. His report has four Appendices, covering aspects most relevant to National Mapping at the time, being Triangulation and Trilateration, Precise Levelling, Electronic Distance Measurement using Ground Instruments and Specifications for Fundamental Geodetic Networks. For Lambert, this 1960 meeting resulted in either confirming that Australia’s approach to its geodetic responsibilities was already consistent with world’s best practice, or could be made so by undertaking specific work programs. In addition, without loss of accuracy, future geodetic work could be simplified using new technology and a judicious approach. The outcome is now history!

• 1962 : A Figure of the Earth for Australia - Paper originally presented at the 1962 Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science and published in The Australian Surveyor, Vol.19, No.3, pp.178-185.

• 1963 : The Australian geodetic survey – an interim report on the utilisation of electronic distance measuring equipment - In Report of Proceedings, Conference of Commonwealth Survey Officers (8th : 1963: Cambridge), 72-75.

• 1964 : The role of Laplace observations in geodetic survey - The Australian Surveyor, 20, 2, 81-96.

• 1965: Report on Aerodist Surveys carried out by the Australian Division of National Mapping since 1963 - International Association of Geodesy, Electromagnetic Distance Measurement Symposium, held In Oxford under the auspices of Special Study Group No. 19, 6-11 September 1965.

• 1966 : Mapping under pressure – The Australian Surveyor, Mar. 1966, 21, 1, 711-716. -- Paper originally given to the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology, Geneva.

• 1967 : The Geodetic Survey of Australia – In Proceedings and Technical Papers, United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Far East (5th : 1967 : Canberra, E/CONF.52/L.1

• 1967 : Air photography and topographic mapping in Australia – In Proceedings and Technical Papers, United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Far East (5th : 1967 : Canberra, E/CONF.52/L.1

• 1967 : The Use of Aerodist for filling in between Tellurometer Traverse Loops - Conference of Commonwealth Survey Officers.

• 1968 : The Johnson Geodetic Survey Station - The Australian Surveyor, June 1968, 22, 2, 93-95.

• 1969 : Geodetic survey and topographical mapping in Australia - The Australian Surveyor, 22, 7, 515-528.

• 1970 : Geodetic Surveying in Australia – In Proceedings and Technical Papers, United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Far East (6th : 1970 : Tehran, E/CONF.57.3.pdf

• 1971 : Super-wide Angle Photography and Orthophotomapping in the Australian Federal Mapping Programmes - In Proceedings 50 Years Wild Heerbrug, 1921-1971, 68-72.

• 1973 : Geodetic Activities in Australia to 1973 – In Proceedings and Technical Papers, United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Far East (7th : 1973 : Tokyo, E/CONF.62.4.pdf

• 1973 : The impact of satellites on mapping - The Australian Surveyor, 25, 4, 303-315.

• 1976 : Topographic mapping in Australia : Development 1945-1975 – In Technical Papers, Australian Cartographic Conference (2nd : 1976 : Adelaide), Section 13, 1-14.

• 1977 : Australian geodetic surveys, past, present and future - The Australian Surveyor, 28, 6, 331-339.

• 1985 : The National Mapping Council of Australia Forty Years On - The Australian Surveyor, 32, 8, 681-684.