A laboratory of GIS hardware and software was commissioned at Zhongshan earlier in the year. During their stay, Brian and Martin also visited ZengCheng, a new town development and gave a presentation to the Bureau of Planning. During their stay they will work on GIS relatred projects over the next few months with Dimei Tang who arrived earlier in the year. Meanwhile Yuxiang Dong has returned to China having spent the last 12 months in the School of Surveying. The Industrial Metrology Research Unit have been carrying out the final tests of the prototype of their positioning system which forms part of the Brite EuRam Computer Integrated Road Construction project.
Preliminary results show that the equipment has easily met the required accuracies for the project.
The School of Surveying celebrated 50 years of land surveying courses on the 24th July 1999 with a reunion at the Barking Campus. The event was celebrated by over 200 former students and staff. To accompany the reminiscences there was a display of photographs over the 50 years and a small exhibition of equipment from the past. A booklet has been produced to mark the celebration with contributions from Dick Rogers, Arthur Allan, Jim Smith and Allan Brimicombe together with some reprinted articles. The UEL site is managed by the Educational Media Consultancy .